User:Phils/archive

Welcome to the Wikipedia[edit]

Here are some links I thought useful:

Feel free to contact me personally with any questions you might have. The Wikipedia:Village pump is also a good place to go for quick answers to general questions. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.

Be Bold!

Sam [Spade] 16:53, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

VfD 'this land lyrics'[edit]

Please reconsider your keep vote on Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/This_land_lyrics, there has been an update on the information in the article. See Shimgray's comment near the bottom Thanks! hfool/Wazzup? 02:42, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Zelda - Minish Cap[edit]

Nice work on the Minish Cap article, but could you please use Preview a bit more often? There are so many edits in so little time. Keep up the good work, but try to preview the article to avoid editing it 5 minutes later ;) -- Sander 20:45, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Music[edit]

The reference to the two scores were both from personal experience. Although both scores have been rearranged to adapt to the GBA, or to add backing strings, The fairy fountain theme was first composed for the fairy fountains in A Link to the Past as this VGMusic.com midi of the Fairy theme plays and the shop themes were first composed as the house theme for Ocarina of Time as this midi plays.

Link images[edit]

Phils - You added several images tagged as screenshot or gamecover to the Link (Legend of Zelda) article. Both of these tags assert fair use, so it's important that you cite the source of the images. In other words, you have to say where you copied the art from. Did you scan it? - if so, say that and say what you scanned; did you get it from somewhere else on the web? If so, add the URL - 'etc etc. I'd appreciate it if you could go back and add this information to the respective image pages. →Raul654 20:15, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Fun Czar[edit]

Dear Phils,

if you strongly feel that it's not worth 500 bytes on the Wiki hard disks, try to delete it. I found it interesting - the fun czar was covered in many media including CNN and Foxnews (Bill O'Reilly), and it may be a good idea. If it works, other universities will copy it.

Otherwise, my life does not depend on whether Fun Czar survives in the Wikipedia. ;-)

Best Lubos

Bond[edit]

Thanks, wow. I was going to nominate Thunderball sometime in the near future because this year is the 40th anniversary of it's theatrical release, but I've yet to read the novel and am currently in the process of reading Fleming's novels. The movie/book pages, IMHO, are much better than the actual James Bond article, but this is still good news.

Is supporting the article a no-no because I'm a major contributor? Just curious K1Bond007 18:49, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks also for the nomination. Reading some of the objections on the comments page, I'm not certain whether it would be good form for me to reply. Some of the criticisms (i.e. more information on the books, why did Connery do Never Say Never, etc.) is covered by the individual book and movie articles, since of course K1Bond007 and myself strived to keep this article around the 32K limit. Maybe you could relay this comment? I wonder if it's possible to get the entire Bond article series nominated in total for something? Although the main article is, well, the main article, every Bond book and movie has its own article (even including obscurities like Per Fine Ounce). In any event, thanks for the vote of support! 23skidoo 05:40, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you![edit]

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 06:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The Cantos[edit]

Thank you for your vote on WP:FAC, praise is always welcome. Filiocht 08:54, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

Formatting Question[edit]

Is there a wiki rule, or rule of thumb, about the order in which external references ought to be listed? Should it be chronological (earlier first, or vice versa) or alpha by authors name, or something else? They seem to be haphazard. Just wondering. --Christofurio 00:29, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. And, no, there're no hard feelings about yield curve. I just thought of you because I happened to be looking over the references on the page when I wondered whether they ought to be arranged and decided to ask for an opinion. And, yes, I do plan to resubmit it for featured status soon. --Christofurio 21:23, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

Swastika[edit]

Hi. Could the conditional support here now be made a full support? Cheers, Smoddy 23:48, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your vote of confidence![edit]

Hi Phils, Thank you for voting for me at WP:RFA. It means a lot to me and I look forward to helping out as an admin. Cheers, Banyan Tree 03:31, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you![edit]

Thank you for your support on my RfA. I shall attempt to put the shiny new buttons to good use! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 01:42, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Translations[edit]

I see you signed up as a French-to-English translator. There is a backlog of articles needing translation from French at Wikipedia:Translation into English. If you'd like to sign up to take on one of these, it would be very welcome. If you have any questions about the process, feel free to ask me or User:Jmabel, whose welcome message i borrowed/stolen. Cheers dude --Thewayforward 15:05, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Warren County Canal[edit]

Phils,
Thanks for your support for my article at WP:FAC. I'm very grateful. PedanticallySpeaking 17:55, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations![edit]

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 17:19, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No problem. It's well deserved. Thanks for the congratulations, but let's not tempt fate. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 19:54, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations on your promotion. As I noted in my neutral vote, my only big concern was that your edits were only limited to a few areas. But I believe you will be fine. Take care. Zzyzx11 | Talk 20:13, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations, and you are very welcome. --Merovingian (t) (c) 20:19, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
Conrats from me too. No probs on the support - you will do well. Grutness|^hello? 00:18, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Likewise, congratulations. Slac speak up! 23:38, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My adminship: thanks![edit]

Hi Phils. Thanks very much for your vote for my RfA. I promise to be prudent, wise, sagacious and totally unilateral in all my admin affairs. I should say that I am very pleased at the number of people who supported me – it's very nice to know I'm making a positive impact. Cheers again, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 21:02, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Translation[edit]

Thanks for translating that articles -- Darwinek 10:04, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your translations[edit]

Good work on your recent translations! Just a thought, though - if you do have any translation queries it's best to add them to the other notes part of the article's entry on WP:TIE or on the article's talk page so that they are more visible - people are far less likely to see them and help fix any problems if they are hidden away as HTML comments within the article... Keep up the good work! SteveW | Talk 21:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

De rien - c'est de bon travail. Comme toujours sur Wikipédia, sois audacieux et n'hésite pas de traduire! Please do continue to translate - there's always a long list of articles at WP:TIE if any of them take your fancy. Also, if you do have any more translation queries, feel free to discuss them with me on my talk page. SteveW | Talk 10:29, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

VIP[edit]

Yes I'm unsure myself. I would prtoect if it was all on one article but the battle seems spread out across several. Also seems Zivinbudas to also be using 85.206.195.159 in a way which means that he hasn't violated 3RR. I'm warning both of of them about 3RR so that when/if thye break it we can block with a free conscious. It seem sthat they are on the talk page now. Broken Segue 13:38, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Haham hanuka[edit]

I left out one of the notable frauds he's currently committing on Wikipedia. His user page is an extensive list of random Hebrew and English words, the purpose of which is meant to pull in people from search engines. He also committed this act on the Hebrew Wikipedia, and the admins there explained what he did (translation):

This page contained, until September 30, 2004, a list of words whose purpose was to pull in random surfers from the internet. This list could've caused Wikipedia heavy damage, for search engines do not act with forgiveness towards attempts to cheat them. Because of this, [an admin on Hebrew Wikipedia] was forced to clean out this page, and to lock it.

They didn't take this lightly, and neither should we. --brian0918  19:21, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

To be fair...[edit]

I did vandalize King Jimbo's user page before he vandalized mine. I've never vandalized any page before. But since that user seems to spend all his time inserting lame jokes about "taking over with Wikipedia" everywhere he can think of, replacing his page with Aybabtu.png just seemed to be the only thing to do. ---Isaac R 20:30, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Keeping an eye out[edit]

I'll do just that, though it's likely that even if it does progress beyond mere silliness someone else will catch it first. Good luck at competition. By the way, congrats on your RfA; I hadn't seen you around before and now it seems I see you everywhere, and doing nice work at that. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:15, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Star Trek Image[edit]

In regards to your question at Ranks and insignia of Starfleet, as far as I understand it, pictures drawn by people on their own computer (like stripes and pips) are released to public domain by the users. The screenshots are fairuse based on Wiki image tag rules. The only grey area is the movie rank pins, but these can be found in hundreds of different sources, half of which were published independently without connection to Paramount. I cant prove this without a letter from paramount, obviously, but I image the movie pins were released into the public domain years ago, since they were first created in 1982 and Paramount probably doesnt gets royalties everytime the movie pins appear somewhere like in a book or internet.

I placed your question in its separate comment block. If this answers your question, perhaps you can change to comment to support for the FAC. Thanks in any event! -Husnock 17:49, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

David Helvarg[edit]

Hi Phils: Thank you for explaining that unactionable objection. You crystallise my thoughts but I am relatively new here and I do not always catch the nuances about established practice. I notice that your own view of the article is still an objection—could you please tell me what else needs to change to gain your support? --Theo (Talk) 23:24, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

The Aayla Secura article[edit]

Why did you move it back to List of minor Star Wars Jedi characters? If you read the talk page, you'd see that I stated my reasons for moving the entry to its own page. --Kross 21:36, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Never mind. Sorry for fingering you. :P --Kross 22:33, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

User:Ta bu shi da yu[edit]

I was similarly bothered by his vandalism of the day's featured article. This comes at a particularly troubling time, as his adminship is to be reinstated in two days: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ta bu shi da yu. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:57, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

I agree, I have had nothing but good dealings with the editor. My belief is that his account's password has somehow been compromised; if that is the case, it could be extremely dangerous if the account is given admin rights. --DropDeadGorgias (talk)

Lulu[edit]

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters. A new issue has arisen. FearÉIREANN^(talk) 20:16, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

EA Poe peer review[edit]

You made an objection to the Edgar Allan Poe FAC nomination, but the article has improved since then. Please have another look and comment on the PR page. Thanks. Harro5 06:56, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Mercy beaucoup[edit]

Thanks for fixing my link. Giftlite 23:22, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Our Gang[edit]

I finished citing the entire article, using page-by-page citations. --FuriousFreddy 02:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

fixing Link (Legend of Zelda) for acceptability[edit]

Thank you for attempting to fill in the missing information on the Image: pages for pictures in the Link article. Will you help me find suitable images from zelda.com so we can finally have Link featured on the main page and show the world WP gaming articles aren't all crap? I'd say we can ditch a few promo pictures, like that of Moosh (perhaps replace it with a low-res Wind Waker screenshot showing Medli or Makar) and reduce the amount of pictures to about four or five (which strengthens the case for fair use). We can perhaps replace the lead picture with a Twilight's Princess promo artwork piece, so we have a direct Nintendo source instead of some secondary archive. What do you think? Phils 21:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Certainly I'd say Moosh could go. There, gone. I was going to move him anyway to a page like The Legend of Zelda: Oracle series characters or similar, since I know there's already a Ricky uplodaed... somewhere... I've made a couple of changes now. Most important was to get rid of that awful GIF... blech... anyway, see what you think...

Actually, does the fan source even matter? I mean, Nintendo distributes the works around and the other sites just mirror them. Pre-Twilight Princess Nintendo's own archive was 56K-optimised, but now they have the same wallpaper-size artworks that the other sites have. But yes giving an official link probably better... hmmm... hafta retag my TP Link now... Master Thief Garrett^Talk 10:02, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

FAC[edit]

Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Starfleet ranks and insignia. I'm particularly worried that the article goes into more detail than almost all readers would be interested in reading (not going into so much detail is a FAC criteria). Thus longer sections should be summarized and the detail spun off into daughter articles, allowing readers to zoom to that level of detail if they so choose. Having this much detail in a fancruft FA would set a bad precedent, IMO. --mav 16:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks[edit]

Thanks for your kind words, and vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August ☎ 14:05, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

on Polar Motion[edit]

I see you removed my comments on the IERS diagram. I put that commentary in place because there is so little explanation available and I could not find a better picture. It is practically impossible for novices to understand what is going on. They tend to ignore the slow drift, read in older books (Munk, WH and GJF MacDonald, The Rotation of the Earth: A Geophysical Discussion, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1960.) about the Chandler wobble and assume the displacement is never more than about 5 meters. This is a serious issue because geolocation can be thrown off badly when adminsitrators on spacecraft projects object to including polar motion in software. Pdn 15:05, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Suggest you rephrase comments if you do not like the style.

Hey, just try to find a better chart! That's the IERS, and even the Naval Observatory regards IERS as primary. I will ask the IERS to fix the diagram. Else I will fix the wording I used. It did have content, but I'll agree it was casually phrased. Pdn 15:36, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not such a good idea (bringing picture over) unless you write a script to update it (for example, annually). There is a very big problem with latency in Wikipedia - lots of pages use the word "now" or a verb like "is" when the material will become dated. Better to link to IERS. If you are writing the Webmaster, could you also convey my comments on the needed edits, please? Thanks Pdn 16:23, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Polar motion/Polar drift[edit]

Hi Phil, thanks for the note about these topics - will be happy to get involved and see what I can find out from the references - bit busy right now, but will check it all out later on today. Tell you what you could do in return, is go to WP:PR and have a look at the entry for Hubble Space Telescope :) Cheers - Worldtraveller 09:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've had a read around this. It all seems a bit complicated, and I think the article titles might not reflect the terminology actually used. Here's what seems to be the case:

At the moment polar motion talks about the movement of the rotational axis of the Earth, while polar drift talks about the movement of the magnetic axis - the two seem to be separate phenomena with different causes. In the literature, they both seem to be referred to as polar motion, the phrase polar drift is not very common. So, it might be sensible to have articles at Rotational polar motion and magnetic polar motion
Rotational polar motion is also complicated, because it can refer either to the motion of the pole due to continental drift, or to the motion that occurs entirely separately from continental drift. And the latter part has periodic components as well as a non-periodic (secular) component. The secular component is often referred to as 'polar wander'.

Some interesting links I found are this Canadian web page about magnetic polar motion [1], and this paper about rotational polar motion which gives an idea of how confusing all the terminology is! [2]. I think User:Vsmith is a geologist, I might drop him a line and see what light he can shed on this. Worldtraveller 11:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA: Thanks[edit]

Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Wikipedia. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:49, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

krill[edit]

Dear Phils, I addressed the objections that were raised, thank you very much for the advice - it would be nice if you would take another look at Antarctic krill - best greetings Uwe Kils 03:58, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

thank you everybody[edit]

I would like to express my thanks to everybody helping in the nomination of Antarctic krill. I think 3 1/2 supports and a long long discussion are an unexpected and great outcome for a critter so remote and unknown - you should see how little and poor Antarctic krill is represented in Encarta and Britannica - this is the best reviewed and resourced general article of krill we know of - it is impossible to fullfill all wishes at the same time - this is what we did with our all product peer review stamp to qualify this stage of the article for academic exercises, especially for our dreams of a Virtual university within Wikiversity - good luck to you all Uwe Kils 21:48, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Order_of_Canada[edit]

Ok, I fixed what you wanted to be fixed. Is there anything else you wish for me to fix before I am able to have your support? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 17:38, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Starfleet ranks and insignia[edit]

The article has been improved drasticaly, I think this is a good enough reason to reopen the FA status of this article. To be fair I am notifying all parties involved with the article on old candidacy. If I forgot one of you, its not intentional. Thats all for now Cat ^chi? 1 July 2005 00:15 (UTC)

Thanks for support[edit]

Thanks for supporting African-American literature as a featured article candidate. Best, --Alabamaboy 1 July 2005 00:41 (UTC)

ITN[edit]

The topic is too US-centric. One of the criteria for listing, mentions that it must be have some international interest. I did check the history, though BanyanTree raises a good point on the Iran article, but it does not mean that a US-centric topic should appear on the ITN. I reverted to maintain the status quo. If another topic of international interest is found, please feel free to replace the Iran article. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= July 1, 2005 15:18 (UTC)

Why do I require nine months of contributions out of a potential administrator?[edit]

It's one of the only qualities I can judge potential admins on, since I do not interact much with other people on Wikipedia. I do interact with people on Wikipedia's IRC channel, but IRC conversations do not factor in to my vote on potential admins. Denelson83 5 July 2005 21:42 (UTC)

E0[edit]

Er... well, I took a look at it, and it looks fine to me, but this is really really far away from my area of expertise. Matt really is the one you should talk to, and if he hasn't answered you, try leaving another message or posting on the Wikiproject in cryptography page. CryptoDerk 17:19, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Tooth Enamel[edit]

I wonder if you would consider changing your conditional support vote on Tooth enamel article's featured bid. I believe you were correct about the changes you suggested, and the author has made as many of the changes that he could make. One of the references, the American Dental Association's website, cannot be fleshed out any further, but the ADA, by any measure, is a credible source for such an article. I hope you agree. - Jersyko talk 01:13, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

thanks for supporting me[edit]

Hello, just a quick note to express my gratitude for your support of my RfA. I'm sure I'll become a familiar face on places like the Administrator's Noticeboard and Requests for Adminship, as well as the murkier parts of my new job. "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." (Luke 12:48, NIV) Never was a truer word spoken. I feel empowered, yes, but not in the "oooh cool delete button!" way I was kind of expecting. Already I feel the weight of the responsibility I have now been entrusted with, a weight that will no doubt reduce given time. Thank you for believing in me. :) Garrett^Talk 10:08, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Tom Brinkman[edit]

You were kind enough to support my nomination of Helen Gandy as a featured article and I wonder if you would look at my newest FAC, Tom Brinkman. The voting page is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tom Brinkman/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 14:52, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Michel Foucault[edit]

Pete has asked for an update on the possibility of you acquiring a GDFL pic of this man. Harro5 08:18, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Back Again[edit]

Phils,
I don't think I thanked you for supporting my Tom Brinkman FAC nomination. I'm grateful and pleased to note it was successful. I've got another FAC now, the next congresswoman from Ohio, Jean Schmidt. The FAC page is here. I hope to get it featured by September 6, the day she will be sworn in. I'd appreciate your support. PedanticallySpeaking 17:23, August 23, 2005 (UTC) (P.S. If you are worried about the "fair use" of her picture, when she's sworn, we'll be able to replace it with a nice U.S. government public domain photo.)

Risteard Cooper[edit]

Why did you send me two of the exact same messages?--Play Brian Moore 17:38, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Kammerlader[edit]

Hi. I applogies for 'spamming' your talkpage like this, but some time ago you was helpfull with comments on one of 'my' other articles on old Norwegian rifles and I wondered if you might be interested in helping out peer reviewing the article on the Kammerlader. Thank you for your time. WegianWarrior 11:20, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

French article translation[edit]

Thanks for translating the Espérance article. Keep up the good work. I added the prize list of the team. Regards, Carioca 21:58, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Native Latin speakers?[edit]

Greetings, fellow Latinist. If you have second, please cast your two cents in on the discussion of a category for native Latin speakers who are also Wikipedians. --Flex 13:22, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

French[edit]

Hi, Phils, I'm looking for a native French speaker to look at two phrases which are giving me trouble. Are you willing to help me out? My questions are:

"Ils jouaient avec elle, s’en pouvoir s’en lasser, comme avec la plus fine des orchidées, comme avec le plus féerique des jouets." - They played with her, in a manner which would weary some, as with the finest of orchids, as with the most enchanted of toys. - (I'm not certain about the italicized phrase).
"Sa mère, qui était fort exaltée, s’était, jetée par la fenêtre." - Her mother, who was very exalted, was thrown from the window. - Is this an idiom of some kind? or does it literally mean "thrown from a window"? If so, did she throw herself from a window, as in a suicide, or was she thrown by someone else?
"Lorsque le prince prenait son tub, elle passait de doux moments, armée d’un monocle à tige, à l’admirer. " - When the prince took his bath, she passed sweet moments, armed with a lorgnette, to admire him. - Is a "monocle à tige" a lorgnette, or something else?

Thanks if you can help! - Nunh-huh 07:07, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks so very much, yes, that helps a great deal. I'm going with "They played with her without tiring, as with the finest of orchids, or the most enchanted of toys. ", "Her mother, who was very exalted, threw herself from the window.", and "When the prince took his bath, she passed sweet moments, armed with a monocle on a stick, to admire him." The last is a little odd. Could "monacle à tige" mean "monocle to his rod/staff???" (that is, could "tige" be a reference to the prince's.....how shall we say.... manly member?) It would make sense in context - perhaps more sense than a "monocle on a stick"! (After the "examination", the baroness says « Mon chéri, vous êtes si beau ! Mais comme vous seriez plus beau…..….sans cette chose ! » It's a passage from André Germain, dans La Bourgeoisie qui brûle, propos d'un témoin 1890-1940. Thanks again! - Nunh-huh 12:35, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again. I think a "monocle à tige" sounds like a very strange device, but perhaps they were actually used in that time! Thanks for sharing your expertise with me! - Nunh-huh 00:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Knot polynomials[edit]

Regarding the knot polynomial article: Thanks for the suggestion/invitation - I'll give it a go. --Nicholas Jackson 14:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

new collaboration project[edit]

You'd you be interested in participating in a new Collaboration project that aims at translating good and featured articles in the French Wikipedia to English (much like the Spanish Translation of the Week)? I'm trying to see if there's enough users interested in this project before creating it. Thank you. CG 17:52, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Heya, Phils![edit]

Finally remembered what your Wiki name was. WhiteFire's around here, too, as huwr. Cheers, Guapovia 21:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Your vote on the RFR poll[edit]

Hi, Phils, you voted oppose on the requests for rollback privileges consensus poll, suggesting that people who would like rollback should just become admins instead - that being an admin is "no big deal". While I think that in an "ideal" Wikipedia, this would indeed be the case, I believe that over time standards for becoming an administrator have clearly risen. This is apparent by looking at the RFA system throughout Wikipedia's existence - intially, all one had to do to become an admin was just ask nicely, now we have a complicated procedure. A recent proposal on the RFA talk page for requiring at least 30 minimum support votes and a significant number of existing contributions was given some serious consideration. There is frequent talk of "bad admins slipping through the RFA net", and while you may not agree with that philosophy of adminship it is undeniable that the standards have risen.

Because of this, candidates who pass are already very experienced with Wikipedia. While this in itself is no bad thing, it means that for the month or so before they become admins they are not being given the tools an admin has which would help them to improve Wikipedia, by removing vandalism and performing administrative tasks such as moving pages. The qualities which make a good administrator are not determined by length of stay on Wikipedia or number of friends you have, but by personality and character. Time at Wikipedia only gives familiarity with the way things are done here. However, being at Wikipedia for an extra month doesn't grant any special insight into the ability to determine which edits are vandalism and which are not. This is why I believe that we should hand out rollback to contributors who are clearly here to improve Wikipedia but won't pass the RFA procedure because of their percieved lack of familiarity with policy by some Wikipedians. I think that adminship should be no big deal, like you, however I see just two ways to make sure Wikipedians can quickly and efficiently remove vandalism - either by all those who believe adminship should be no big deal involving themselves much more in RFA, or by supporting this proposal and giving out rollback to good contributors who have not yet been here long enough to become admins. We have to remember that our ultimate aim here is to produce an encyclopedia, and we should balance the idealism of "adminship should be no big deal" with the pragmatism of granting rollback to our best non-admin contributors. I would be very grateful if you would reconsider your viewpoint on this issue. Thanks, Talrias (t | e | c) 13:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Link image reinstated[edit]

This time fair use has been claimed for educational purposes. Lengis 18:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Edgar Sengier[edit]

Thanks for translating Edgar Sengier. — Itai (talk) 02:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Katie Holmes[edit]

Greetings! You commented on the article Katie Holmes when it was on WP:FAC. I've redone the article and hope to renominate it on FAC soon. But in the meantime, I'd be grateful for your comments on WP:PR at Wikipedia:Peer review/Katie Holmes/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 21:05, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Translate[edit]

What is Luxembourgish for "fire brigade"? Thanks. 195.150.224.238 18:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Stagidis[edit]

I agree, it's an obvious case of self-promotion. The author apparently intends to expand the article, but it seems that we gave it enough time to establish notability. I am nominating it for deletion. - Mike Rosoft 14:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Image at the Introduction of the Link (Zelda) article[edit]

I have uploaded the image that you removed from the front of the article without the logo. I personally think that it is better to have an image that shows the character not holding any weapons regardless of an implication of handedness. I would like to know what you think should be done. The new image can currently be seen at the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess article. What I would do is switch the positions of the images from their respective articles. Thank you very much. User:Stardust6000

Thank you for your reply. My rationale behind this image is not just because Link appears with no weapons. For example, if you go to Mario's article you see that it is just Mario, it isn't a picture of Mario throwing a fireball. It provides a profile of just Mario. That is the reason why I think this picture belongs at the front, because it provides a general profile of Link. The other picture I feel belongs elsewhere in the article or in another article. I am going to change the picture, but if you truly dislike it, feel free to remove it. Thank you very much for your time. --Stardust6000 19:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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Good work on the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I. Keep it up. Phils 03:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! If you're interested in improving articles on Luxembourg, you could join WikiProject Luxembourg. As a Luxembourger yourself, we could really use your local knowledge, even if it only means writing a couple of short articles about your home town and area. Bastin 12:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Link (The Legend of Zelda series)[edit]

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Energy: world resources and consumption[edit]

Could you please look at the brand new Energy: world resources and consumption and comment if it is ready to be a featured article? Thank you for your help.
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Re: James Bond[edit]

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OECD obesity graph[edit]

Hi Phils, I would like to inform you that I made a revision to the Image:Bmi30chart.png uploaded by you, which was missing columns for two OECD member states (Greece and Turkey). The original OECD data and graph include these two countries, of course, but these were omitted in your graph. I did my best to keep the same color scheme and overall style. If you don't mind, I would like to hear why these two got omitted in the first place. Regards, Atilim Gunes Baydin 22:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. Happy editing! Atilim Gunes Baydin 03:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Link (The Legend of Zelda)[edit]

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Wikipedia's Expert Peer Review process (or lack of such) for Science related articles[edit]

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