User talk:Martian.knight/Archives/2007/May

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2 questions

1. Why do you have to delete my page? 2. How do I get those boxes on the side of a screen that tells developer info and such for video games? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Longshotz (talk • contribs) 11:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Friends

Can we have friends in this? I was just wondering.--Longshotz 14:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I meant like on a list or a way to keep track.--Longshotz 12:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: The Book Group

I removed the stub template because it is a) a pretty obscure article, and b) there isn't that much info about it anyways. Do you think that the template should be replaced? I am a sort of new editor, and just started on the Stubsensor project today, so I'd welcome your opinion. Please post your reply on my talk page. Thanks! Neranei 23:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Signature

I have no idea what I did with my signature, could you please help me program it? You're right about the stub thing, I'll try to find the right marker. Do you know what it is? Thank you so much, since I'm new to this line of work, I appreciate all of the help and advice I get! Are you a part of stubsensor? Thanks! Neranei 23:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I just checked my preferences, and you were right. Thanks! Now people can link to me...Neranei 00:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you so much for your advice. Stubsensor is a wikiproject that basically goes through and looks for stubs that are too long. My computer doesn't run messenger programs, but you can email me. Thank you so much! Neranei 00:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

If you're interested checkout my user page and my talk page to see if you'd like to be adopted.Sam ov the blue sand 00:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Nope no prank here, I would never try such a thing, well I think other users have done more than me. About archiving I like my way so I never get bored with myself. ^_^ But anyways so what do think about adoption? Sam ov the blue sand 01:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm flattered, I'll be happy to help you out with whatever questions\concerns you may have. ;) Yonatan ^talk 01:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Flattered that you asked me to adopt you, of course. I'm interested, what made you be interested in being adopted by me? Yonatan ^talk 01:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... I'm not sure. Are you looking for articles that might interest you to edit (you can use User:SuggestBot for that) or fields in which you could do maintenance work? Yonatan ^talk 04:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Well for vandal fighting there's VandalProof, which is a great program when it works. Unfortunately, for me it keeps on getting annoying errors so I don't use it that often anymore. There's tons of stuff to do: you can add references to pages that need them, disambiguate links (there's a list of links to disambiguation pages and you need to replace them with a link to the correct page), add categories to pages that don't have them or just generally mess around with categories. If you're interested in images, copyright the likes, I can of course help you out getting to know the field but from what I've seen, most users aren't too interested in that. I got interested in that three months ago and now I think I can call myself copyright savvy without sounding too arrogant. You might also like to consider getting AWB, a program that helps you semi-automate somewhat repetitive tasks (I think the requirement is 300 or 500 edits to get access to use the program and same for vandalproof). If this wasn't what you were looking for let me know. Yonatan ^talk 06:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

You're racking up those vandal counts, I don't think my user page has been vandalized as much as yours. :) Yonatan ^talk 06:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Valentina Zeliaeva being removed

I started an entry for Valentina Zeliaeva. I'm not sure why its being removed. There are similar entries about other models currently. Why is this different? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bear91602 (talk • contribs) 06:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC).

Amy Parks article

I changed the 'music career' section because the information is not relevant. It reads like PR for the band, and talks about the band before she was even in it. Read the paragraph and tell me it doesn't need to be removed. Don't tell me I've done something wrong if you haven't even looked at what I've done. 124.177.181.164 07:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Rusty8

Sorry mate if I've come across as rude. About the article - That section is completely 'unencyclopedic' and has no relevance to the article. I would've re-written it if it did have any relevance, but it was describing individual songs and the like and was totally unnecessary. If anything it belongs on a separate page for the band, but it really shouldn't be on the Amy Parks page. 124.177.181.164 09:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Rusty8.

Hey, it looks like someone's done what needed to be done - a page now exists for the band and the information has been reduced on the Amy Parks site, which now links to the Loomset page. Looks all good! By the way, yeah I do have an account, Rusty8, but I can never be bothered logging in. 124.177.181.164 03:51, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Rusty8

Yeah that's the thing, I'm not on the same computer all the time; the computer I use most is used by other people; and my IP changes all the time. I'm not on Wikipedia much, I normally use it as a reference when I can't think of something or need to clarify something. I'll sign this comment as Rusty8 then :) 124.177.181.164 04:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Rusty8

Tablet userbox

=P

I knew you'd hit me with something like this. I told you, I was studying Physics!!! *cough* ~ G1ggy! _Reply 08:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Serena Williams

Im not sure if it was you or somelse who undid my edit on the Serena Williams page, I don't fully understand the "history section of the page edits", but I corrected an error which says she won Wimbledon Women's Doubles in 2001, she did NOT it was in 2002 and the one in 2000 is correct.

Please verify this with an external source to prevent unncessary mistakes.

Sorry if this seems rude and it wasn't in fact you who changed it, but I just wanted to make sure the page remains correct :)

(Timestamping section to force bot to archive)08:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

No driveby reverting please

~~This edit [1] is out of place. Please don't just revert my changes using vandal fighting tools, it is considered inappropriate and rude. --Abnn 01:27, 8 May 2007 (UTC)~~

Cool, just a misunderstanding. Take care. --Abnn 01:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Edits to Felix Fermin

All the edits to baseball infoboxes I make to baseball infoboxes are legit. I see no reason why there was to doubt those edits (I am a member of Wikiproject baseball), as I was simply adding more relevant stats than those that appeared. Remember, assume good faith, and don't just go reverting edits that are are not obvious vandalism.Duckblazer 04:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Fighting game

I updated the relevant part of the Talk page to explain the removal. My rationale is that the content itself was out of place, and a rewrite would just the make off-topic content look prettier. In the 19:55, 25 April 2007 revision, Leileilol did a similar removal of a much larger bit of text by Mrmister001, of equally poor quality and, IMO, irrelevance to the topic.

The two remaining paragraphs of the Criticism section (as of my edit) describe criticisms expressed at the characteristics of the genre of fighting games, which are obviously relevant. I don't think it's a valid criticism of the genre itself that it's poorly represented on PC machines, which is what Mrmister001's bit was about. The content was more suitable for Sega Lindbergh, and even there it would need serious rewriting.

As you can see from the Talk page, I asked for comments regarding the edit well in advance, but since no objections were raised, I went ahead with it (though not as a revert as I originally suggested). Elamaton 08:27, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Jewish mathematicians

Hi Martian, I'd appreciate if you would consider changing your weak endorsement of ther deletion of this. Jews before the creation of Israel were a stateless people- the Kurds, a stateless people have categories by occupation at Category:Kurdish people. If we delete all categories of Jews it would make it seem as if Jews did nothing before 1948 which is obviously not the case! Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 22:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Archiving

I have thought about archiving my talk page, but honestly, I don't know how and I have never looked into it. Can you point me in the direction of how to do it?--Thomas.macmillan 23:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up, I appreaciate it. One question though: Will the bot automatically create the sub-page or do I need to do it first in order for it to work?--Thomas.macmillan 23:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
- The bot archived my talk page but I do not know where it archived to. Can you tell me where the conversations are?--Thomas.macmillan 00:18, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- As you can see here, it definitely did archive. Thoughts?--Thomas.macmillan 00:39, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Red links

What do you mean by a list of red links that need to be fixed? Yonatan ^talk 13:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

There is a list of wanted pages, Special:Wantedpages, which is created by checking how many red links there are linking to a specific page (the ones who are most linked to are the most wanted) but unfortunately it's been disabled on the English Wikipedia by the developers for performance reasons. Other than that I don't know of anything else that's actually working. Yonatan ^talk 23:25, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Ali Imran

I've removed the speedy delete on Ali Imran, and reverted to its good(ish) version. The problem there was that John leo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) had completely replaced the article. I think it still needs liposuction; all the articles on Ibn-e-Safi's genre fiction are very prone to stream-of-consciousness rambles by fans, but not reading Urdu, I can't do fact-checking. Tearlach 11:18, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Quite! Sourcing is the real trouble; as I said, it'd be nice to organise it like James Bond. But it'd need a lot of work from bilingual editors to find and translate what reliable third-party Urdu sources say about Ali Imran etc. Tearlach 00:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

So true, though I think the article suffers from a great lack of notability, particularly on the English wikipedia. --Martian.knight 00:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt, because it's a topic that's tempting to downrate because of Wikipedia's systemic bias (non-English, non-Western, not represented in electronic media). The few third-party English articles I can find suggests he's extremely popular among the huge population of Urdu-readers (perhaps more akin to Erle Stanley Gardner than Ian Fleming) and gets credits in high places (e.g. #6 on the author list for the Indian government's National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language). Tearlach 00:44, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk page spelling correction

Thank you! -- Cat ^chi? 00:01, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Your most welcome, just doing the monotonous rounds... --Martian.knight 00:04, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I would most welcome further such corrections even inside my archives :) -- Cat ^chi? 00:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

We will have to see about that. I mainly watch the recent edits with Lupin's tool so unless it is changed I doubt I will get to se it. Sorry. :S --Martian.knight 00:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

List of most expensive comic books

I see your the first one to stumble upon the article.I was just wondering if you understood the source of where the information came from, because I wanted to try to make that clear to everyone. Rodrigue 00:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Source of Comic book article

The problem was the link did not seem to be accessible withought going through the main page.Here is the link, tell me if it works for you [2] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rodrigue (talk • contribs) 00:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

It's supposed to be wrongly spelt

I'm writing "teh" rather than "the" deliberately. --One Salient Oversight 04:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

No worries! --One Salient Oversight 04:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Random IP vandals

Unfortunately, for the most part, random IPs can only be blocked for a certain amount of time, not permanently. I've seen school IPs blocked for up to six months, but there's no such thing as a permanent IP lock. HalfShadow 04:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I noted you were a moderately new user, so I just thought I'd mention that, since I can't be exactly sure how much you may know. Personally, I find it a somewhat annoying loophole (you effectively can't permanently get rid of random ip vandals), but I see the logic behind it. HalfShadow 04:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Ever seen a commited sockpuppeteer? Whoo, they can get ugly... HalfShadow 04:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Just last month some guy had it out for me. I think he was up to about 40 accounts in a two day period. I can't imagine being that bored or petty... HalfShadow 04:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that happens quite a lot here; most vandalism is pretty juvenile, but sometimes we'll get someone who goes all 'Lex Luthor' and tries to see how far they can push the envelope, and then they get piled on... HalfShadow 04:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Cleveredits. They change something tiny, often keeping it to the same postcount. Yeah, those can either be fun to root out or a pain. Usually both. HalfShadow 05:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Editing other people's comments

Please refrain from edits such as [3] and [4] where you have edited other people's comments. John Reaves (talk) 05:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Consensus and policy say that you shouldn't. John Reaves (talk) 07:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for directing me to that page. I usually write my own warning messages, although it's probably better to use the pre-made ones. --Juansidious 01:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Mmm, I used to write my own but got too lazy now I just use twinkle. Even this earlier message was made using it. My time at school gets pretty boring... --Martian.knight 01:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

QASMT

Hi user:MartianKnight. I saw your edits on this article. Q) Can the redlink Education Queensland be fixed? (If you are still working on this article.)

Q) You added category Education in Queensland then removed it. I tried to do the same thing.

Q) What is the name of the current holder of the position of Minister for Education? (There is no link established to an article for Qld Dept of Education and Training)
These points need to be addressed in the article, but I posted here to see if you have an interest in this matter.

I have not yet joined WikiProject:Schools, (I do minor edits mostly), and not sure which Categories are appropriate here, so — my edits improved the article, maybe you wish to do some more here, or you got a more pressing article to work on. Cheers — Newbyguesses 04:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)