User talk:Arabani

Hello, Arabani! I'm ulayiti, and I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions, and I hope you'll like the place enough to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Scarlet Crusade article

Well I was checking the article out and it looks very clean and organized now, good job. Derktar 18:39, August 27, 2005 (UTC).

About the Warcraft Portal

I see you recently created a Warcraft portal, if you would like any help I would be glad to assist. I'm sure User:UnlimitedAccess, User:Falcorian, User:Havok, and User:Debroglie would also like to help out and if you have time you might leave a note on their talk page. Derktar 03:41, September 13, 2005 (UTC).

I'll be keeping an eye on it too. I created the Portal:Computer and video games. If you want some feedback on it you might consider putting it up for a CVG Peer Review. Jacoplane 07:05, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Icons in stub templates and fair use

I saw your edit to Template:Warcraft-stub and was wondering if you could clarify your reasons for removing the icon from the template. I'm somewhat confused by the reason you gave - "remove icon - not fair use in a stub template" - because it doesn't seem to make much sense: why is it that an icon is not fair use in a stub template but is fair use in an article? Plus removing the icon made the stub notice much less obvious on the Warcraft articles. XD Thanks. --Arabani 00:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Fair use#Policy. —Cryptic (talk) 00:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Battlestar Galactica

The character's name is indeed Nelena Cain, not Helena Cain. I'm reverting your changes. — Phil Welch 04:24, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

My mistake, apparently. I'm looking into it more but I've re-reverted. IMDB shows it as "Helena", although I'm skeptical. — Phil Welch 04:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Google shows ten times more hits for "Helena Cain "battlestar"" than "Nelena Cain "battlestar"". And I'd have to back Arab on these matters, he's a little more than obsessed with BSG... -Falcorian 18:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Cal Userbox

Maybe you should make a new category? I mean, the current one does say "graduated from"... --Falcorian 03:03, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Too much work ... you do it. I'm busy making a custom userbox for you. --Arabani 03:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Yippy! --Falcorian 03:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. [Category:Wikipedians by University: University of California, Berkeley] --Falcorian 04:17, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Question about redirects

Hi. I am just wondering, is there a reason to bypass redirects? To me it looks that redirects are fine, and that more important would be to disambiguate redirects or fix double redirects. Anyway, you made me curious. You can reply here, I will keep your talk page on my watchlist. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:50, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

I've been bypassing redirects as I run into them while randomly browsing Wiki. I don't believe there's any official policy on bypassing redirects - or at least none that I've found. Having said that, I personally think it's cleaner to bypass redirects. Almost all of the redirects I've been bypassing are redirects for alternate spellings, e.g. changing Stokes' theorem (which is a redirect) to Stokes theorem (which is the target article). At least in these cases, there certainly seems to be no harm in bypassing the redirect, and is probably even beneficial (removes the ugly little "redirect from (page name)" at the top of the article and reduces server load (one less page to parse)). So, to conclude my rather lengthy explanation, while there is no official reason to bypass redirects, I personally believe it a) makes articles cleaner and b) (slightly) reduces server load. --Arabani 04:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

OK. Thank you for your explanation. Sometimes redirects make sense, sometimes they are placeholders for articles to come, but I see that you are not concerned with those. So, got it! :) I don't know about reducing the server load, but bypassing them does not hurt most of the time. Thanks again, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Just to jump in, there does not seem to be any official policy on the matter, at least none that the users who read the villiage pump are aware of. Basicly it's "do what you think is right". --Falcorian 18:36, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Great. Thanks! This style of eavesdropping seems to be really helpful. :) Happy New Year ahead! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Nashezbaernon

So that's it, eh? --Falcorian 05:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that is certainly how you spell it (my version, anyway. The real spelling is N'a'shezbaernon) ... although why you bring it up is completely beyond me. --Arabani 06:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Found it in my WTF folder. --Falcorian | Talk 07:47, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

WoW Popularity

Hi Arabani, I guess I missed that discussion. Thanks for keeping an eye out. Junjk 19:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Burning Crusade

I was not trying to vandalize the Burning Crusade site I heard from a reliable source(I cannot remember where this was) that Blizzard could not use Pandaren because of the reason I stated on the site —the preceding unsigned comment is by 69.173.46.73 (talk • contribs) 14 January, 2005 (UTC)

I posted a reply on your talk page. --Arabani 07:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Tables

Did you ever figure out tables and whatnot? I think this part of Bolos could be much better presented in table form... And I really have no clue on tables! --Falcorian | Talk 20:08, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Never mind... I did it my self. :P --Falcorian^(talk) 04:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

World of Warcraft GLBT issue.

Wikipedia attempts to be Comprehensive. The politics involved in how an MMPOG is run is relevent to an article on that MMPOG. This article is expliclty not just about the game play. Restoring the deleted section --Barberio 01:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Vertebral column

I think you should check out Vertebral column. Very interesting... and you could use one! :P --Falcorian ^(talk) 08:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome

Good to see you back! --Falcorian ^(talk) 06:58, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Lies and slander. Or something like that. --Arabani (Talk ∞ Contribs) 07:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Reminder...

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

— Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 02:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Changes at Template:User cal

Hello, we changed the settings for the Cal userbox to allow you to personalize the text. Please check out the talk page for more info. ~ trialsanderrors 21:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Warcraft III Illidan.jpg)

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Heh, you misunderstood

Ned Scott's message had nothing to do with World of Warcraft. It was to do with Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/CAT1-X_Hyperion_Gundam_series, a heavy debate. Nothing to do with WoW. In defense to your revert, I remind you that it is a guideline that characters have real-world impact to be an article. From what it looks like, these characters have had absolutely no impact on the real-world at all, and until this is asserted in the article, it will remain so. I'm going to nominate it for AfD soon. --TheEmulatorGuy 23:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

WoW Portal

Hi, I saw you had created a Warcraft portal, and some days ago I made a WoW Portal, why donæt you go and have a look at it

--Dvyjones 16:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Masterchief halo face.jpg

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Image:Argent Dawn.gif

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Image:Hearthglen.jpg

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Image:Scarlet Crusade Tabard.gif

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Image:Tyr's Hand.jpg

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Image:Argent Dawn.gif

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Image:Hearthglen.jpg

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AfD nomination of Murloc

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hey

Hey Alan, this is Danny. I haven't talked to you in a really long time! How are things going?

By the way, are you still playing World of Warcraft? --Ixfd64 (talk) 09:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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