User talk:Opes

From User talk:Jimbo Wales

I wonder if you might consider... I wonder if you might consider simply removing your political/religious/etc. userboxes and asking others to do the same. This seems to me to be the best way to quickly and easily end the userbox wars. Userboxes of a political or, more broadly, polemical, nature are bad for the project. They are attractive to the wrong kinds of people, and they give visitors the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian. I think rather than us having to go through a mass deletion (which is what is likely to happen if the userbox fad doesn't go away), it will be better to simply change the culture, one person at a time. Will you help me?--Jimbo Wales 10:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

From WikiEN-l

[...] The current situation with these things being in the main Template namespace, and promoted as if healthy and normal in the Wikipedia namespace, is that they are damaging to our culture. They are attracting the wrong sort of people, and giving newcomers the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian. That's why they need to go. Not to censor people's self-expression, but to make it clear that as a whole the community considers these things to be divisive and inappropriate. Jimmy Wales (jwales at wikia.com) Mon Feb 20 19:34:13 UTC 2006

From Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs
[...] 'It should be noted that use of such userboxes is strongly discouraged at Wikipedia, and it is likely that very soon all these userboxes will be deleted or moved to userspace soon. Their use and creation is not recommended at this time.Jimmy Wales Mon Feb 20 18:01 UTC

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Tags that I'm collecting

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Stargate stubs?

Some of the episode articles you tagged as stub are ones I don't consider to be stubs. for example, Lost City (Stargate SG-1) has general info, a full synopsis and trivia. I think it could use some tightening, but why do you consider it a stub? --MeekSaffron ^{(Jaffa,Tree!)} 02:03, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

MSUM alumni list

Hey, Opes. I have been trying to maintain the MSUM alumni list as of late. Anonymous users keep putting in non-notable alumni and taking other notable ones out. For some reason, they seem to love removing Kevin Sorbo from the list.

For some time now, it has seemed to me like Alex and I are the most active editors of North Dakota related articles. I am pretty satisfied with the progress I have made to Grand Forks and its related articles. Next, I'm going to work more on Fargo. I have lived in the Red River Valley for my whole life so it is pretty easy for me to work on GF and Fargo articles, but more difficult for me to work on Bismarck and Minot articles. Alex seems to have a better familiarity with the western part of the state. I would welcome any help that you can give in trying to upgrade North Dakota's presence on here. There are many articles that need to be expanded, revised, or even still need to be created. Since you're from Whapeton and are probably quite familiar with that area, I would encourage you to do what you can with those articles. You also seem to be familiar with the Jamestown and Moorhead areas so you would probably have a lot to offer there as well. I would be happy to have you join the ranks of Alex and I in reviewing and expanding ND-related articles. There aren't many North Dakotans on here so we need to stick together and work together.

P.S.-I'm not sure if Alex keeps an eye on my talk page, so you might want to drop him a line on his page. --MatthewUND^(talk) 01:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Welcoming

I chose not to use a template and used a copy-paste message. Emersoni 22:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for sticking up for me in the recent debate over the NDSU/Wisconsin game. I shouldn't have just reverted the anonymous user's edit, but I was in a bit of a hurry and I wasn't aware of how much of a "pinnacle" the win was. I didn't know that my action would result in so much distress on the part of the anonymous user. --MatthewUND^(talk) 02:54, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Arfarmen

I blocked him for 36 hours. thanks for the heads up. If you need anything in the future, don't hesitate to let me know. keep up the good work :-) Alhutch 00:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I really don't know what to do about User talk:METALGOD42088. I think I blocked him about 5 times, but he keeps wanting to come back and write swear words on his talk page. As long as he doesn't vandalize articles, I don't really care what he does (although he did vandalize since his most recent block, I believe).--Alhutch 00:45, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Ma$e

I must admit, I was never much of a Mase fan. His music was good, but my personal taste leans more towards someone like Nas. As far as right now, I thought it was admirable of Mase to come back to hip hop with a clean album...and then he goes and joins G-Unit. Eh.

I personally think approximately 75% of the hip hop artists & acts out there nowadays are producing unlistenable pap, and need to seriously step their games up. --FuriousFreddy 01:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, Nas and Jay apparently ended their animosity. And I'm sure Def Jam is a better label than Columbia for a rapper like Nas. --FuriousFreddy 02:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

i'm a little slow :-)

i was still looking at the talk page and the history when i got your message to disregard. I'm glad to see it got worked out. I'll try to move a little faster next time, but I'm not making any promises ;-) Keep up the good work and I'll see you around the wiki.--Alhutch 01:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

definitely a good idea to go with the third party and avoid big silly revert wars.--Alhutch 01:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA

I don't think you're supposed to add it yet. I believe the candidate has to accept first, and then the candidate adds the request to the main RfA page.--Alhutch 01:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

that seems to be what the instructions say at least. They're not perfectly clear. hope it helps.--Alhutch 01:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd be happy to.--Alhutch 18:47, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm kind of in a hurry to get out the door right now, but I will assess the situation and make some suggestions and/or vote as soon as I can.--Alhutch 18:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I looked through his edits for a while, and I couldn't help but support, along with what you said about him being a major contributor on North Dakota related articles. If I had just gone by the number of edits he had in certain namespaces (Wikipedia, User talk, Talk), I probably would have opposed, but looking at the substance of his contributions, I found them to be very good. And of course the nominator is very trustworthy :-). I hope the RfA succeeds. See you around, Alhutch 20:34, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA...Thanks!!!

I want to thank you so much for your kind gesture in nominating me for administratorship! That was so nice of you and I really appreciate it. You're a good wikifriend (or whatever the term is..haha). Thanks again! --MatthewUND^(talk) 09:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Here here! Opes, you have truly done a service for North Dakota's Wikipedians. Cheers! --AlexWCovington (talk) 16:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again for the nomination, Opes! I'm not too upset about not passing this time. I wouldn't mind trying again...maybe this spring or summer. I will try to get more experience with "wikiprocess" and get out there and communicate with other users more. As far as nominating Alex, I would support him 110%, but I think he might worry about not passing approval due to some of the same reasons that I didn't. Once again, Thanks!--Matthew<UND^(talk) 23:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

METALGOD

glad that got taken care of. it was definitely a waste of resources. Thanks,--Alhutch 03:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject North Dakota

Hi Opes, you might be interested in helping Wikiproject North Dakota off the drawing board. --AlexWCovington (talk) 21:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject North Dakota is official! Sort of. Lot of cleanup needed on the project page and plenty of work to do making a decent to-do list, etc. etc., but it all starts somewhere. Thanks for all your help! --AlexWCovington (talk) 05:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome message

Hi, Opes. Thanks for kindly taking the time to welcome newcomers! :) There's a formatting error in your welcome message, though, which makes them display like this instead of this. Please use the code here instead for your welcomes. Spacing is quite important. ;) Cheers, Sango123 (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Jean-François Porchez

Please do not add speedy tags based on "non-notability" to articles which clearly assert the notability of their subjects, as this one does. I removed the speedy tag in this case. If you find the claims insufficient or suspect, you can take it to AFD. Uppland 07:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I think you need to explain in the AFD debate how you consider Porchez non-notable in his field. That is really the only thing that matters, not if you personally care about him or his work or what "10 million Chinese" think. Do you think most Chinese "give a shit less" about all the baseball, cricket or hockey players with articles around here? Uppland 14:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Wahpeton, Dean Blais

Sorry about not realizing that Wahpeton is the most industrialized city in the state. I guess to me, "most industrialized" is kind of a confusing term. Does it mean that there are more people working in the manufacturing sector in Wahpeton than in any other ND city?

As far as Dean Blais...you're right, I should make an article for him. Actually, it would be good for me to think about working on articles for lots of the more popular coaches from UND past and present. The tough thing is that I'm not very into sports. I'll have to see what I can do though. --Matthew<UND^(talk) 08:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Johan Bojer

You added an ISBN for Johan Bojer. It is unlikely that it applies to the early edition cited there. Suggest you add the actual edition you reference the ISBN for.

Thanks - Williamborg 02:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Left Behind

I don't think you understand. Like I said, I wasn't going to revert again. I was going to put up the appropriate tags on the page. JackO'Lantern 21:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Coco Crisp

I don't need to be lectured by you about what is rude. that info can be added elswehre. Zzz345zzz

My RfA

Thanks for voting! Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!

--Matthew<UND^(talk) 05:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Templates and server load

About [1]: Lead developer User:Brion VIBBER has said there's no obvious server load problem caused by templates.[2][3] It's a myth. — Omegatron 02:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Myhead.jpg

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Forkbeard..

Just wanted your input, would you use sweyn, sven or Sven as a consensus? Ciriii 18:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Where are you?

Where have you gone, Opes? I miss seeing you around. --Matthew<UND^(talk) 21:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Category merged

Hello, please not that Category:User Wikipedia/Stargate was merged to Category:Participants in WikiProject Stargate. Conscious 17:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice to see you on this week!

Still busy, I take it? --AlexWCovington (talk) 06:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

MatthewUND's RfA

I just self-nominated myself for administrator's status on Wikipedia. As an active member of WikiProject North Dakota, I feel that having admin status would allow me the ability to be more useful to the project and to curtail vandalism and other problems. An admin is able to protect pages that are being bombarded with vandalism and to more quickly revert pages that have been vandalized. I've always hoped that we could get an admin to join the WikiProject so we would have someone to turn to in times of need. Since we still don't have an active admin within the project's membership, I decided to nominate myself. I really hope you will visit my request for adminship and support me. Thanks! --Matthew<UND^(talk) 10:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey Opes. Nice to see you around...been too long. Hope things are going well in your life. I'm really not too upset about losing another RfA. I agree that it has become a very subjective and politicized ritual. Sometimes I think those who don't spend all of their wiki-time debating with each other are the editors who really make the biggest contribution to the project. Oh well. I wish you still edited. There are plenty of people on the WPND membership list, but Alex and I still must do about 80% of the quality edits to ND articles. --Matthew<UND^(talk) 21:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject North Dakota Newsletter - Issue 1

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Please help to improve and expand these articles which were recently added to the WPND project: Cities Area Transit | Dakota Territory Air Museum | Fight On Sioux | Fort Totten State Historic Site | Grand Forks Chiefs | It's For You, North Dakota U | List of people from Grand Forks, North Dakota | Log Cabin Museum, Sheyenne, ND | McKenzie Electric Cooperative | North Dakota Democratic-Independent Party | North Dakota Railroad Commission | North Dakota State Cabinet | Old Main (Minot State University-Bottineau) | Pembina State Museum | Politics of North Dakota | Ruth Meiers Hospitality House | Spirit Lake Casino | Stand Up and Cheer (song) | Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation | UND Alma Mater
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Your welcome tag

Cool though some people may describe your welcome template, it would perhaps be cooler if you added the terminating </div> tag so as the rest of the user's talk page no longer has a grey background. Many thanks. ---- WebHamster 00:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Stargate

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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