User talk:Brian0918/Archive 19

• Complaints from Tony Sidaway

The Movement

What do you think of the movement? Reply here. Thanks. --Kin Khan 03:07, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Broad Town Man

I see I am still blocked. How long do we have to wait before this is resolved? Bob Clarke

• You need to provide me with your username and/or the IP that was blocked before I can find you in the block log. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-22 13:05

United States

The U.S. page really needs protection as it is heavily vandalised by anon users. It was removed qwithout explanation. Would you consider either putting it back or discussing this issue on the talk page? Thanks.Gator (talk) 15:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Jesus

Good move. KHM03 16:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:FARC

My apologies for apparently having deleted your reply on the Christmas entry. It was entirely unintentional. Not for the first time, I received no edit warning. Sorry. -- ALoan (Talk) 00:08, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

My bad :( -- ALoan (Talk) 01:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar for you.

Moved to user page.

Barnstar

Thank you so much! My first one. Deb 20:46, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Images

So why did you speedy delete my images? 7 days. Alexander 007 03:22, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

• 7 days is the maximum. A user complained and I responded. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-24 03:25

"A User complained"? Is that a policy? Alexander 007 03:26, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

• It is policy to enforce proper tagging of copyrighted/unknown images, with sources. You can re-upload them with sources. If they are copyrighted, you will have to provide fair use rationale, which only applies if the image is used in an article, which your talk page is not. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-24 03:29

454

I see you reverted the anon who removed "The Vandals loot Rome" from this date article. Looking at our articles on Vandals and History of Rome, it appears the sacking took place in 455, so the anon is probably correct. If you have more information, please correct the latter two article.-gadfium 19:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks.-gadfium 21:14, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Brian0918/Archive 19! A well deserved pressy!--Santa on Sleigh 22:32, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

A bit too trigger happy?

Hey, just letting you know you've just reverted a spelling correction [1] :P enochlau (talk) 23:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm actually a little confused as to why 82.171.39.60 (talk · contribs), the editor who made the spelling correction and about a million other small good changes, was blocked. Is there something that he did that was vandalism? There was no justification given. -Scm83x 00:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

The justification was on the user's talk page. The edits that I initially checked were just plain wrong, so it appeared to be vandalism, but now it appears that the user was meaning well, because some of the edits were positive. I've unblocked. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-25 01:06

Humor

Your brand of Wikipedian humor is impeccable :-) --HappyCamper 01:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Kerry Healey

Hi, I was wondering about this. karmafist 08:40, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I can understand how he's concerned about PR after Seigenthaler, particularly with a potentially sensitive source like that. However, doesn't a deletion of edit histories violate GFDL? I'm not sure to be honest, i'm not an expert, although I assumed that under GFDL all histories of the page needed to be visible. karmafist 17:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks. karmafist 17:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

source?

hi, i found this article which has no source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bali_project , should we take it as a rumor instead of an article? thx HoneyBee 00:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

I won't get discouraged by the negative votes. Thanks for the encouraging words. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 05:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

I'm at a point where concerning Wikipedia adminship I would pull only a demi-Sherman:

"If nominated I will not run; however, if elected I will serve." Caerwine Caerwhine 06:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

LOC photos

Hello Brian. I just want to ask you if there is some template for PD images from Library of Congress. Hundreds of photos from LOC are marked only as a PD-USGov. Should we create PD-USGov-LOC template? - Darwinek 09:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

• Done. Feel free to edit this template PD-USGov-LOC and add images to it. - Darwinek 10:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

User Pages

How did you create your free images page? I'm trying to do something similar but I don't think I'm doing it quite right. Palm_Dogg 01:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for copyediting December 2005 IISc shooting. I am a contributor to this article and appreciate your time spent on this current event.--Kevin Hanse (talk) 01:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

My first vote on the Norton RfA

Sir,

I have, at the RfA, asked you to account for the striking of my first vote, by you, in an edit marked minor. While it is true my reasons were per Blackcap (and he struck his vote later), I provided an additional sentence to justify my vote. At the least, such a questionable striking warranted notice to me. Instead, I happened to wander by, and wonder if I hadn't voted before. I voted anew, and then (on fully reading the record of the vote) saw I had been stricken. I object very strongly, and am most upset. I think the silent, minor marked, striking was an attempt to "game the vote", to be frank, because I can see no other compelling reason to strike my vote (which had an independent reason) without at least notice to me. Xoloz 06:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Let me be clearer: I did provide an alternate rationale in my first vote. Your strike was a grave mistake (grave considering it supported your own side in the debate, and can rightly be called an act of bias.) I expect two remedies: an apology (not yet received), and a promise from you that you will not strike another vote of mine, because we now have a history of conflict (if I should cast an obviously invalid one, find someone else to do it.) If these two things are not forthcoming, I will be forced to regard your every edit to RfAs with suspicion, and revert any strikes you make myself. Please do the honorable thing, so we can put this behind us. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Apology accepted. I would consider excluding "per X", however, I feel that doing so would be less than honest in cases where another user's rationale convinced me. I urge you not to strike any votes on this account, unless "per X" are the only two words in the following vote. In any case, I will assume that you will abide by my suggestion above, and leave my votes for someone else to strike. While I am content to leave this matter settled, any other questionable strike by you to me (or vice versa, actually) would be a very, very bad thing. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Incidentally, regarding the discussion we were having at the Norton RfA, I dispute the notion that my analogy is false. An admin who blocks, or cleans articles, without ever having posted to the Administrator's Noticeboard, any Wikiproject, or AfD is not likely to know what he's doing. Even if you are one of those who feel AfD is broken, admins should at least have experience in the mouth of the beast as it were, so that they are prepared to nagivate the Wiki effectively. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

2006

Hello, I wish you and your family a prosperous and happy New Year 2006! We shall surely remain actively involved in the Project Wikipedia. --Bhadani 17:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Template

Hello Brian. Can you go to WP:TFD and comment or vote about Template:PD-USGov-LOC ? Thank you - Darwinek 11:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

List of trojan horses deletion vote notice

Thanks for your vote for the list of computer viruses. Please consider voting similarly for the list of trojan horses as well. Thank you - A-Day 00:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for your help! A-Day 01:11, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

MainPageIntro

Raul654 keeps undoing the addition of Art and/or Philosophy to the bar on Template:MainPageIntro. He keeps citing the 2 objections that were made on the talk page (his objection and that of one other user), but ignores the fact that the consensus outvoted him on the template's talk page. So what gives? Perhaps you should change it again citing the consensus on the talk page. The approvals outnumber the objections. He's obviously pushing his own POV. Go for it! 15:47, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

spinning wheels

G'day Brian,

I see you've deleted {{Help Wikiboxes}}, and thereby done your little part in keeping a wheel war going. Congratulations. Don't do it again. Wheel warring — even deliberately taking on a tiny rôle in same — is disruptive, and lowers the level of trust the community has in its administrators. You command a great deal of respect on Wikipedia, and you should know better. Cheers, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 18:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. In the interests of fairness, after leaving a rather harsh warning on User:DESiegel's talkpage, I thought it best to leave blanket warnings on everyone else's talkpages, too. Given that you're on IRC right now, it would've been better just to ask you what was going on rather than shoot my mouth off. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 18:09, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Please use a standard date form...

For the sake of skimmers, date bots, and other nice and gentle folks - please don't change the timestamp format (as you do in your sig). It slows down the reading of talk page comments quite a lot, and is unnecessarily confusing. If you want to change your view of timestamps(yours or even everyones), you can do that without altering the view for everyone else. Just a request. Thanks for your work on Culture of Sudan, btw. JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

• What's nonstandard about YYYY-MM-DD? Isn't that the ISO 8601 standard? — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-1 22:36

rollback

How can you rollback without any notice to me or explanation? The revert page says:

Its intent is solely to be a timesaving shortcut for reverting mass vandalism... No one should ever be in an edit war, sysops in particular should be aware that that's not cool, so there's no need to think about whether or not 'rollback' should be used in an edit war. It shouldn't, because we shouldn't be in that position in the first place.

So what's the deal? If you're acusing me of vandalism, out with it! If not, then what are you doing rolling me back? Tedernst | talk 03:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• You're quoting a page that isn't even a guideline as if it was policy. I tend to restrict my rollbacks to vandalism, but it was just easier to undo the unfounded redirecting of templates and deletion of categories. And I did leave you a message on your talk page. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-2 03:18
  • You left me a message that didn't say you were going to revert dozens of edits in one fell swoop. Personally, I feel that requires a bit more explanation than that. This smacks of abuse of admin power to me. Tedernst | talk 04:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Anyone can make their own rollback button. It is not restricted to admins in any way. And, I didn't revert "dozens" of your edits, just those that basically undid hundreds/thousands of other people's edits (by redirecting all the disambig templates to the same generic one, and deleting specific disambig categories from articles). — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-2 04:44

I didn't revert anybody. I made edits in good faith. Don't you believe you have a responsibility to communicate when reverting? Especially when mass reverting? Tedernst | talk 08:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• I also think you need to have quite a consensus to be able to undo hundreds/thousands of other people's edits. You simply proposed the idea, waited for someone who agreed with you to reply, and then went forward with it. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-2 16:01

I'm not questioning you reverting me. I'm questioning your mass-reverting me without notifying me (or the relevant talk pages) that you had done so. Do you believe such notification is not necessary? Tedernst | talk 16:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• I would appreciate the courtesy of a response. Tedernst | talk 22:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I replied on your talk page right when I reverted the edits you made. I don't need to notify you specifically about my reversion of your edits, since the templates/categories don't belong to you, but I notified you of the reasons for the reversion. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-6 04:57

Of course they don't belong to me. I'm not trying to assert any kind of ownership or different status than any other editor. When reverting, I believe it customary to explain, either in the edit summary of the reverting edit itself, or on a relevant talk page. Your note on my talk page didn't even tell me what you were talking about. I didn't realize what you meant until I saw the discussion at MoS:DP. As a reminder, here's what you wrote:

Disambig

Before undoing hundreds or thousands of edits, you may want to discuss this first. People are clearly in favor of separate disambigs for places, 3LA, 4LA, etc, so please discuss this first rather than undoing it all. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-31 02:58

I'm done here now. In future, please extend to others the courtesy you denied me. Tedernst | talk 17:16, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

• I should've been clearer about that. My apologies. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-6 18:36
  • Accepted. Now back to work! :-) Tedernst | talk 18:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

So are we the People's Front of Judea, or the Judean People's Front?

I laughed for two full minutes. Thank you. WAS 4.250 04:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Speedy Delete Image?

Hi Brian, would you mind speedily deleting an image for me? I uploaded Image:F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City v2.jpg as an improvement of commons:Image:F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City.jpg (which is currently nominated for featured picture status). I have since overwritten the original with the edit, so Image:F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City v2.jpg has been orphaned. Thanks! ~MDD4696 05:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Cool Cat/Impersonators

Thank you for your contribution, feel free to add more :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 19:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Malaria

The data is already referenced: (Warhurst & Williams 1996) in the references section of the same page

Heather Graham image on Arrested Development page

Could you please exaplin what the problem with this picture is? There are a number of screen shots with this article. Why is this one specifically a problem? Thanks for the clarification. Michael L. Kaufman 03:39, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Michael L. Kaufman 03:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

pier pressure

can you direct me to a style link on that period/quote? BabuBhatt 02:44, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, Brian0918! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:46, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Britannica

Hi, I was wondering if I gave you a list of names- if you could email me the full text articles from Britannica - for the sake of comparison. I'd galdly repay the favor if you need articles, my Uni library doesn't waste the $$ on a Britannica subscription.--nixie 08:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

• I'm after Ernst Mayr, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Theodosius Dobzhansky and George Gaylord Simpson. My email is holmespeta at yahoo dot com. Thanks heaps.--nixie 12:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks, they all made it. I wanted them specifically to fact check the Britannica versions, and will probably report the errors on the talk pages of the relevant articles as I work on our versions.--nixie 09:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Free bench

I see you have created a page for Free bench. There is another version that I started a few days earlier which I titled Free Bench. I not too bothered with which title stays but could the two pages merged ? Talskiddy 14:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Battle POV?

I am in one of my first big disputes regarding the Battle of Antietam and whether it is POV. Would you mind looking at the Talk page and give me your opinion of whether I am handling this correctly? Thanks, Hal Jespersen 22:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I haven't looked at the dispute thoroughly, but if it's simply based on whether the battle is considered a victory/loss for the North/South, the only thing you can do is to see what the most reputable sources have to say. Don't try to find sources that agree with the original version, or that disagree with the proposed version. Simply check as many sources as possible. If they disagree in some way, then just explain that in the article. The one-word summary is not that important. Explaining what the sources have to say is more important. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-01-5 23:10

Thanks. well, the problem is that I do not know of any credible sources that argue that Antietam was not a strategic victory and this guy does not seem amenable to providing such sources, only complaining about the way I am treating him. Frankly, I believe the problem may stem from his misunderstanding of what the word "strategic" means, and I do not believe it is justified to rewrite the article to include such an explanation. Maybe he will come up with something more tangible when he cools down. Hal Jespersen 23:30, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Minoredit

You removed the link, and I understand your reason for the change. Yes, I click off the checkbox too. But over the past weeks I have seen at least three RFAs of users misusing minor edits. Essentially, the option is there, but not explained. Would you rather a separate link saying "(what are they?)"? Something needs to be there to explain what is minor. jnothman ^talk 03:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd rather something like (?) or (help) to a little asterisk. As for your other comment: A lot is expected of users running for adminship. There are a lot of policies, and "minor edits" may seem intuitive to some when their intuition is simply incorrect (I had thought that a minor edit was anything not a major edit, and had marked so until a week before my RFA). Hence users will not look it up unless there is a guide to do so. jnothman ^talk 04:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Cold Fusion RfC

Hello,

There's currently a controversy at Cold fusion that I would appreciate it if you could look at. The article is about to fail a Featrued Article Removal Candidate vote. There are at least 3 fairly different versions in play: one based on the original Featured Article dating back to 2004-08-20 and tossing out all edits between now and then [2] ("FA version"), one which was the current version up until that [3] ("current version"), and a proposed new draft written originally by Edmund Storms (a retired Los Alamos scientist) and edited by me [4] ("Storms version"). At the moment the article is being rather agressively edited by a few people who support the version from a year ago, and if this stands, a lot of good material will be lost. Frankly, I can't entirely support any of the versions; the article just needs more work and more different perspectives. Hence this invitation. I hope you can help.

I'm posting this to you because I've seen you on various physics-related pages, and/or because you've worked on the Cold fusion page before. Thank you for your time.

ObsidianOrder 06:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Pwn

Would you care to comment on my most recent posts on the talkpage? I hope that you have just been busy and are not abandoning the issue since it is relatively disconcerting when users, (especially admins) simply tag articles for fixing without putting input in themselves. My intention is not to be so blunt but I do not wish to go any further with the article without having the rest of my changes simply wiped clean in the name of NOR again without explanation.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 07:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Pgk's RFA

---

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (80/3/0), so I am now an administrator. I was flattered by the level of support and the comments, so I'm under real pressure not to disappoint, thus if you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as an admin then please leave me a note --pgk^(talk) 10:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:Otheruses

Please revert this edit. The template is protected and the wording has been the subject of much edit warring. The previous wording is best because that template may be used on articles, like names or places, that can't properly be described as a "term". -- Netoholic @ 19:53, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Do you have a diff...

for the "ride your arse" comment? I didn't see it on the page linked, or on your talk page. - brenneman^(t)(c) 03:36, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• It happened on #wikipedia IRC. I can probably get a log if you want. --BRIAN0918 03:49, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
  • No, pointless now anyway, but thanks. I'd council you to not continue to replace your neutral votes. While it's a bit iffy to make up a rule and then enforce it (just realised that I have not yet confirmed that my memoery matches the diffs, must check after this) there is no way that putting them back is going to stand. Regardless of anything else, NS has done enough work on this that he'll have support, not to mention it makes sense. You're pushing it uphill for little return on investment. People see when the link to the talk page is blue, they'll pop over to look.
    brenneman^(t)(c) 16:11, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding this edit

Hi! There was consensus for this, I'm afraid. The rules were that only support and oppose votes were allowed, and that extensive commentary was not allowed. Neutral votes are, per definition, neither support nor oppose, and only serve to comment; therefore, they will be moved to the talk page. Please cease obstructing the janitors' work in enforcing the rules of election. Thanks you! —Nightstallion (?) 17:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• Though you are completely wrong in all possible respects, it is only arbcom, so I don't care to waste my time on this further. And don't bother with this "cease obstructing the janitor" nonsense, I'm not falling for it. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-9 17:46
  • I'm terribly sorry, but – what purpose do neutral votes have, then? I'd prefer to solve this consensually, I've got no special preference to make enemies over matters such as these... —Nightstallion (?) 17:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • A neutral is just as much an opinion as a support or oppose. Just because people have decided it shouldn't count doesn't mean it should be ignored. In any case, the rules (before you unilaterally changed them) provided for neutral votes by saying that they counted as abstention. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-9 17:56
      • I only joined the ArbCom election administrating team very recently, and to me, it was presented as if it was clear-cut consensus that neutral votes are by definition only commentary. I've asked Jimbo to clarify his stance on this, is that okay? —Nightstallion (?) 18:16, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
        • • Okay. Mea culpa, you were right. Apologies from my side are in order. —Nightstallion (?) 18:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Francs2000's Bureaucratship

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs2000 21:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Akond

Hi there, I am not entirely sure if 'Akond' you are referring to here is same as 'Akhoond', if this is the case, I do have an idea of what one is, and I will do research it more and update the article, --Kash 10:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

OK - I have updated the article Akond, I think it should have the title of Akhoond instead, and perhaps be merged with Mullahs , let me know what you think, thanks! --Kash 15:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Cyclopaedia

I've been thinking- wouldn't it be easier to suck down the scans with wget or curl or something, run them through an OCR program, and then use some Emacs macros (after compiling all the texts into one long file) or some other programming to extract the head words, instead of manually extracting them? This'd have the benefit of producing a half-readable text to hand off to Distributed Proofreaders or Project Gutenberg or WikiSource or someone, and it's bound to be easier to correct the OCR's headwords with reference to the images than to manually type them all up. --maru (talk) Contribs 00:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Current results here: User:Marudubshinki/Cyc. When I have more time, I will check it's As against the As in your hand-built index. --maru (talk) Contribs 17:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible FP

I dunno, maybe you should ask for some more opninos but I don't really find myself jumping to the thought that it is worthy of FP. At full res it's not that sharp and a little blotchy. But hey, its just me, but if you still want to nominate it, it might be an idea to what a little while as after Diliff's latast ultrapanoramas I think people maybe a little less likely to support. It's a good image, and that kind of "stock" image with a white bckgrnd I fell is the best kind of photo for an article; and a photo like that should at one stage get featured, but I'm not sure this is the one. Anyway thanks for asking! --Fir0002 02:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

My user page

As with all broad prescriptions, Brian, there are going to be exceptions. Vandals and trolls are mostly minor annoyances, but I don't mean by that that there are none that ever cause a problem. I'm rather criticising the view that they are the problem. If you can think of a better formulation though, you're welcome to edit the page. This is a wiki after all.Grace Note 04:49, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Blocked IP

My school's IP, 65.43.196.54, has been blocked because of repeated vandalism. I use Wikipedia a lot at school, and edit/fix articles when I have nothing else to do. This IP is from an organization that provides internet access for about 50 schools, so the vandalism probably didn't come from my school. Could you unblock this IP so I can edit, or is there some way everyone but registered users can be blocked from editing from this IP? Thanks, Minkus 22:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Polling the 31/36 hour block...

...here. BD2412 T 02:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Apache Wickiup, Edward Curtis, 1903 edit.jpg

Hi Brian!

File:Apache Wickiup, Edward Curtis, 1903 edit.jpg

Edit

Sorry, but due to the loose strands of grass etc, doing a good blur to the image is pretty hard without spending a few hours painstakingly erasing around each individual strand. I've attempted an edit, but at ful res the results of the blurring are pretty visible. Thanks for asking tho --Fir0002 07:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Anabasius

Sorry I didn't answer your question about the Hofmann quote in time. I was, for once, involved in the real world ;) So why, if I may ask, did you need it? (And why don't you need it anymore?) --Iustinus 07:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Separating red from blue

I think separation of red and blue links should be handled by experienced members of this project and not part of the general instructions. I will be happy to separate the red and blue links for all of the projects. It will just take me a little while to actually figure out how to use perl. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 20:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Theodore7

A number of editors started an RfC against User:Theodore7 here. I though you might wanted to know. Cheers, —Ruud 16:45, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and suggest you read the comments on Ruud's talk page concerning his biting newbies. Seems the 20-year-old hasn't learned the difference between boy and man.Theo 19:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

FPC

Hello Brian. I just want to ask you one question, cause you are FPC expert :). Do you think some winter photo from my gallery has a good chance to become featured picture? - Darwinek 23:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Minor edit link

What would you think if MediaWiki:Minoredit were to be changed to:

This is a minor edit (?)

You'd still be able to click on the words while linking to the help. enochlau (talk) 03:14, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Sig

Are you aware your sig renders very differently in IE than in Firefox?

In IE I don't even see the word "BRIAN", but you do get a curious vertical orange stripe. Dragons flight 05:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Stalking?

Do you think an opinion on WP:FPC counts less if the user voicing it as a one-digit edit count? It looks very much like stalking to me if you comment everyone of User:Eyesclosed's edits with an edit of your own (which disturbingly is marked minor). Just wondering... --Dschwen 10:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

"More special characters"

Hello,

I notice the drop-down menu doesn't say "More special characters" at the top, as it did. I strongly recommend that this text be replaced. "Wiki" doesn't make sense to anyone, even me, and does not attract anyone to select this menu for more characters; just causes confusion. The text (in tiny font) on the far right of the previous line "See menu for more" does not help much to direct people in the right direction either, as it doesn't say which menu, what type of menu, where the menu is, or for more "what." Thanks; your keeping this as easy as possible to use for everyone, along every step of the way, is greatly appreciated. Badagnani 19:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you; I did do that, and now it says "More characters." It did say that over the past day or so, but not today before I F5ed. Before doing the F5, I carefully checked the menu several times and the very top selection was "Wiki," not "More characters." So how does this help the (thousands of?) people who didn't know to perform this arcane computer trick? Shouldn't it be set so that one doesn't have to do the F5 trick? Badagnani 20:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA. Dsmdgold 19:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Hebrew

You are using images from another Wikipedia. This might not be a good idea (for instance, in case of vandalism, who are you gonna call?). --cesarb 21:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

semi-protect request

Fox News Channel is going through an awful lot of annoying vandalism. I left a note on Requests for protection, but could you please semi-protect the page for me? Really annoying stuff... thanks. Matt Yeager 01:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks (that was quick!). Matt Yeager 01:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm wired in! :) — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-17 01:39

MediaWiki:Editmenu.js

Hello Brian0918,
Because you have created MediaWiki:Editmenu.js and are contributing menu options to MediaWiki:Monobook.js, I want you to know, that I have created a MediaZilla bug for this issue, because MediaWiki:Monobook.js is actually the wrong place for this script! You have to consider that even anonymous readers have to "wait" until MediaWiki:Monobook.js is loaded. OK, if you have DSL or cable this is no problem, but when using ISDN, etc... If you should think it is a good idea, consider voting for this bug. --- Best regards, Melancholie 03:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I have seen that you already have moved the menu options to MediaWiki:Charset.js, sorry! This makes my bug report worthless ;-). Sorry for disturbing you with my overhasty activities! --- Best regards, Melancholie 04:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Featured Picture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Apache Wickiup, Edward Curtis, 1903.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations, and thank you for nominating it. Raven4x4x 08:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

polydactyl cats

They are remarkable creatures, aren't they? Mark Vaoverland 18:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Missing articles

Hi, I know you've made a bunch of the missing articles lists, these lists (see List of people in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography - A and so on) are a copyvio in the main namespace, would you be able to move them out out of the main namespace and incorporate them into some other list of missing biographies?--nixie 02:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Cite text

Hi Brian, thanks for your edits to MediaWiki:Cite text. I'd like you to consider not changing the bullet point "Author: Wikipedia contributors" to "Authors: View the list of Wikipedia contributors" -- everything in this list is designed to be easily copy-and-pasted to be assembled into a complete citation, in case the provided styles don't meet the user's needs. The "author" they should be using in their citations is "Wikipedia contributors.

I do think the link you added is very helpful, and should definitely remain as a separate "Primary contributors" bullet point (perhaps indented under "Author"); I just don't think the two items should be merged.

Note there's another tool for listing page contributors that provides somewhat more detailed information: http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl . The TDS tool you linked probably provides sufficient detail for most would-be citers, though, and I'm not sure the AKA tool can accept input on the desired article from a link.

Anyway, let me know what you think, at my talk or on MediaWiki talk:Cite text. Thanks! — Catherine\^talk 05:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Another Featured Picture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Nez Perce warrior on horse.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations again. Raven4x4x 06:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

reply

Ok, sorry, it must be different for disambig'ing then, unless its changed recently. Good luck Martin 12:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Changes to MediaWiki:Monobook.js -- Please put the main page stuff back in

Out of curiosity: if you don't know javascript, why are you editing a javascript file???

You've disabled the modifications we had on the Main Page Redesign Draft on MediaWiki:Monobook.js.

We had it looking good!

Please undo your changes, and put our project's javascript back in.

--Go for it! 19:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Monobook.js

Are you sure it doesn't work? I moved your block of text to a separate file that should only load if the page is actually the page you want. Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft looks fine to me. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-18 19:45

The code isn't working. The skin elements we had removed are back on the page. Please restore our code to MediaWiki:Monobook.js. --Go for it! 19:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

In the future, please don't make changes like this without first discussing them with the people involved. Thank you. --Go for it! 20:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Everyone on Wikipedia is involved, because everyone has to download Monobook.js with that code that only a few people are utilizing. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-18 20:04

Thank you for changing it back. Actually a lot of people are looking at the page, as we are linked to from the Main Page's talk page, with a notice right at the top of that page. And this project may actually replace the main page some day, which will make the use of the code universal. If there is a way to accomplish what you are trying, Wikipedia's javascript experts should be able to help. One user who is pretty adept at this stuff is User:cesarb. Perhaps he could answer your questions on whether or not what you were trying can be made to work. (I'd be very interested in the answer too). --Go for it! 20:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

DoCB

Please explain why you have moved all the DoCB articles into your personal namespace. These are lists like a phone book, not copyvios Fawcett5 05:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Zorkmidfront.jpg

This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Zorkmidfront.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. — THOR ^=/\= 20:03, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

One more FP

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Castle Neuschwanstein.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations again. Raven4x4x 05:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Have you seen the proposed compromise?

Hare you seen the proposed compromise about consensus/upermajority at the end of this section? -- Samuel Wantman 22:52, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Brandy Alexandre

Hi Brian. I'm curious why you deleted 60 revisions of Brandy Alexandre (porn star), making it look like Jimbo created the article on December 30, 2005. You wrote "removing real name from history". Is the fact that her name is ... well, I'll assume good faith and refrain from duplicating it here. Anyway, I don't see anything at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandy Alexandre (porn star) or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive9 explaining why it's so critical to hide her real name. Perhaps you could leave an explanation at Talk:Brandy Alexandre (porn star)#Deleted revisions? Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 00:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank You Brian

Thank you for your welcome greetings. So were your parents both 0459s? George Bluth 05:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

24.194.236.47

I think he needs a blockMikereichold 05:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

"One week should do" Cool:}Mikereichold 05:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

And another FP

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:J. M. Flagg, I Want You for U.S. Army poster (1917).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Thanks again for nominating all these great pictures. Raven4x4x 09:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history: Coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject is currently holding elections for project coordinators. Any member of the project may nominate themselves and all are encouraged to vote here. The elections will run until February 5.

--Loopy ^e 04:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin Nomination

I was going to nominate you for an admin position for your watchful eye on the Arrested Development board but I see you already have that honour. :-)

Deleting a page

I'm having trouble trying to delete a page made in error, and finding info on who to do so. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance. Pattersonc 21:11, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Links to videos

Since your name is mentioned on Wikipedia:Media#Video as being willing to offer advice, I wondered whether you can tell me whether there is a Wiki-syntax for creating a link to an (ogg/theora) video which rather than showing the (somewhat naff) default 'video' icon, uses a specified image instead? Something equivalent to <a href="vid.ogg"><img src="thumb.jpg"></a>. Thanks, cdv 20:39, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:KIT

I'm not sure if it's the best idea for the article's creator to be removing the speedy deletion tag. Andy Saunders 02:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I threw in my $.02 on [[Talk:WP:KIT|the article's talk page]].--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 02:55, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Mithridate

Very nice work! AFD people are too delete-happy when they see an unfamiliar term. Tearlach 09:07, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Amazing how many features there are on Wikipedia! - Runcorn 20:18, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:CarolCleveland.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:CarolCleveland.jpg. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, contact Carnildo.

Find-a-grave status/tools?

Hi, been digging around in find-a-grave/T a little bit.... I'm wondering... this seems like a task that it would be extremely possible to make tools (javascript?) for - do you know if anyone has done so? Asking you since you seem to have started the page.... --Alvestrand 01:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Dates?

Hi - regarding George W. Bush and dates - I've asked User:Achille about this. This may be a standard, but it's not the accepted standard in Britain or USA. Achille told me to download User:Quarl's monobook.js, but I can't get the "datez" function to work, and from what I see, it seems to be to change from February 2, 2006 to 2006-01-02. Not what I want! I had the impression that the utility would change dates in ISO format to the er, "traditional" format. Isn't this like telling everbody in the US to use metres and kilograms overnight? Camillus (talk) 00:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about Bush

Hi Brian,

Sorry about the Bush message. I was reading something about Bush which made me really angry towards him.

again, sorry.

vick aka mercenary2k

RE: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools

This list is part of the Missing Articles project. The point of the list is to eventually clear it completely, removing articles as they are created. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-4 07:13

Thanks for the notice! However, in this edit, you removed one existing article but not the rest. What was your reason for removing only that specific article? Should I go down and remove all existing articles? (Of course, leaving on the list such schools as Reservoir High School - although it's blue, it's a redirect to Howard County Public Schools.) --M@thwiz2020 17:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

It's all explained here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles#Guidelines. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-4 17:24

Make sure that the article in question is not for another school of the same name. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-4 18:21

Thanks for the link! As for my edits, I checked that each school had an article for that school in that city before deleting it. I would have left links in the edit summary, but it was too long. There were some schools listed twice in different cities - in those cases, I checked to make sure two different schools existed. In some cases, people would list a school under a city and a community, so I removed the community reference and left the other link with the city. If you have any questions about a particular chnage, just ask me and I'll tell you my rationale. Again, thanks! --M@thwiz2020 19:50, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

My apologies...

Before this gets too out-of-hand, I would like to extend an olive branch and say I am sorry. The George W. Bush page is getting us to a place, I know I don't want to go again. How about we just agree to disagree and get back to constructive discussion? I appreciate your efforts and hope we can move forward in a productive, beneficial manner. Thanks, and again, sorry. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 23:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Glacier retreat

Least you could have done was to check the talk page and see that there had been a vote on this, rather than unilaterally change the title of the article...I thinkould have been polite to also at least inform the very limited number of contributors to the article what your concern was...learn some manners.--MONGO 07:23, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

edit tools

Hello Brian. I appreciate your great efforts. I have a question about your good work on Edittools. I want to add that usefull box which is under all edit pages to my own wiki but with some changes on charachters. would you please tell me that which pages should I add or change. thanx Yoosef 11:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I am still waiting! --Yoosef 13:40, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Ril?

By any chance, are you a sockpuppet of RIL? It looks like your account was created around the time of his first major ban, and you have the same funky signature thing going on as him?? If I'm off base here, then by all means, I don't care--64.12.116.71 17:36, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

• Yes. I'm the first sockpuppet with 26,000 edits... — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-5 19:10
  • I knew it!--64.12.116.71 19:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship on the Commons

I wonder if you could consider my self-nomination for adminship on the commons? Thanks! --Fir0002 04:56, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:CatholicEncyclopedia

You could just redirect this to Template:Catholic. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-6 22:10

I made the silly mistake of not checking that you could redirect to a template. Thanks for fixing this. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Image

Sorry was just busy blocking someone before I got back to it. Thank you for doing it. :) --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 22:31, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

3D Studio Max

Okay, you're looking to create a flexible diaphragm and a wire going around a pulley, right?

I'm going to assume you've worked out the basics of getting things to animate in 3D studio - if you need more detail, drop me a message.

• For the flexible diaphragm I suggest Plane Object from the Objects toolbar.
• Right-click on it and select Convert to editable mesh.
• On the panel to the right of the 3ds window, select the one-but-leftmost tab, modify.
• In the scrolly bit that makes up the bottom two thirds of the right-hand panel, just below the 'selection' box there should be 5 little red icon button bits. The leftmost should have 3 red dots on it, tooltip vertex. Click this button.
• All the points ('vertexes') of the plane object should be marked with blue dots.
• Select the select and move tool on the Main toolbar and try moving the blue dots around.
• When you're used to moving vertexes around, redo the instructions above so you have a new plane object.
• In the 'modify' tab of the right-hand panel thing, find the soft selection section. You might have to click it to expand it.
• Tick use soft selection
• Click a vertex in the middle of your plane object.
• It should go red. Depending on how big your plane object is, other vertexes might change colour.
• Mess around with the falloff property of 'soft selection' until you get a nice range of colours
• Now try moving vertexes around, like earlier.
• You should find you can distort the plane in a drum-like manner.
• Animate it doing that.

I have things to do now so I'll try to come back on thursday or something and detail how to do the second thing you asked about. I'll probably forget, so drop me a PM to remind me.

Cheers,

Mike1024 (t/c) 22:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

---

To make a circular plane:

After you create the plane but before you do 'convert to editable mesh' do the following:

• Put a Cylinder Object on top of the plane - i.e. so the plane passes through the cylinder
• Select your new cylinder
• In the compound toolbar select the one-but-rightmost button, Boolean compound object.
• In the right-hand toolbar thingy select the leftmost tab, 'create'
• In the scrolley bit, under parameters, subsection operation select Intersection
• Above that in the scrolley bit, under 'pick boolean' press the Pick operand B button.
• Click on your plane.

Basically this will take your two objects and construct a third object, based on places where the two objects intersect. In this case, the intersection of your plane and your cylinder should be a circular plane.

Mike1024 (t/c) 23:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

---

Precise positioning tips:

There are two things that I know of that might help.

The first is the three text boxes containing numbers, at the center bottom of the screen. Try selecting an object with the 'select and move' tool then change those numbers. You should be able to slide bits around quite precisely.

The other is the 'align' tool. Create two things - cubes, maybe - and select one of them. The 'align' tool is on the main toolbar, about 1/5th of the way from rightmost. The symbol is two coloured squares aligned to a red diagonal line. (If you have a small monitor, it's possible for the very right hand buttons to go off the edge of the screen, in which case choose 'align' from the 'tools' drop-down menu). If you then click the other cube you created, it should give you a window. Play around with the window and see what the results are.

Cheers,

Mike1024 (t/c) 08:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Haham hanukah: Talk:Yigal Amir

Hi Brian: Could you please review Haham hanukah's reactions at Talk:Yigal Amir#Websites by Amir supporters. Thanks. IZAK 12:22, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Harpers.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Harpers.jpg. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. -- Carnildo 16:24, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Javascript fix to check all revisions...

I know that you created a JavaScript fix to check all revisions on a page. I was wondering if you'd release that under the GPL, so that I can use it as part of a patch to add "check all" and "check none" links to MediaWiki (if the devs agree, of course...) If not, that's fine, but as long as you've already written it, it'd be faster to use your code. Ral315 (talk) 18:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

They told me that this was on purpose, anyway, so I closed the bug. Thanks for your help :) Ral315 (talk) 19:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Australian Ufology discussion

Hi Brian0918, sorry to bother you but I've been in discussion with a User:vufors about the Australian Ufology article they initiated. There's a redirect on that article's discussion to User_talk:Vufors and I'm negotiating with them about deleting the redirect. I was just about to delete it when I noticed an admin added it - 22:03, 23 January 2006 Brian0918 (moved Talk:Australian Ufology to User talk:Vufors). Is there any reason we need to keep this?

I'm asking because a number of users are getting confused about the username vufors and its relation to the organisation VUFORS that apparently denies any involvement in the article. --Zeug 05:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

FP

An image you edited, Image:Lowering the flag on Zuikaku.jpg, has just become a Featured Picture! Congratulations, and thanks for improving it for us. Raven4x4x 05:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

East Malling and Larkfield

Hello Brian - I am not happy about the merge of these two places. Both are separate villages, within the civil parish of East Malling and Larkfield. I am at the moment trawling through all the civil parish articles in Kent, and have been setting them out so that there is - as should be in the case of this one - an article for the civil parish, which can quite often include many other settlements and is a larger area than one particular village; and one for each village. As is obvious from this article, and from personal knowledge, the two places are quite different. Larkfield is pretty much a suburb of Maidstone, whereas East Malling is still a village. They also have different histories and occupy different kinds of location. I think we owe it to readers to point up the fact that a civil parish is the third tier of government, and not mix the ideas like this. Peter Shearan 06:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you Hello Brian0918, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 63/4/3. I am honoured by the community support and pledge to serve the project as best as I can. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 16:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Fir0002 FPC

Hi Brian!
It's been a while, but here's another batch. Thanks! --Fir0002 05:56, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Picture of the Day

POTD

Hi Brian,

Just to let you know that the photo Image:Glacial lakes, Bhutan.jpg that you nominated for WP:FPC is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on the 14th February. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 14, 2006. -- Solipsist 22:09, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Why was I banned?

I'm sorry to bother you, but why was I banned? All I did was correct spelling / grammar mistakes, add some info, update the medal count for the Olympics, and change the licensing tags of some tv logos from {{ *logo* }} to {{ *tv-logo* }} (no * included). I'm sorry if I did anything that I shouldn't have. Va girl2468 16:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

ALGEBRA

hey just letting you know the external link from ALGEBRA is down, dunno what it was, didn't understand the article. Something about putty and a chipper eh?

I think I see a potential problem, I emailed you because you were the first admin I could find

The problem is editting the earliar version of the page. If a person was to grafitti on the first version, than it would delete all edits, and many people's hardwork would've gone to waste. If this isn't the case just say so however, if it is than potential troublemakers will soon catch on. --Ghingo

True enough but to the software, that's little difference from a mass removal of text, and as easily reverted/rollbacked. --maru (talk) contribs 19:02, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Would like to hear the reason...

My edit of "pwn" was reverted.

19:28, 17 February 2006 Brian0918 m (Reverted edits by Racalvert (talk) to last version by

• You've provided no source for the addition. A simple screenshot of the game would suffice. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-17 20:08

Replacing charinsert with dynamic JavaScript

Currently, the special characters part of MediaWiki:Edittools has 18 kilobytes after being parsed. This is more than half of the size of an edit page's interface (without considering the size of the wikitext to be edited). I'm proposing replacing it by an empty box filled dynamically via a script. See more details at MediaWiki talk:Edittools#Replacing charinsert with dynamic JavaScript.

Since you tweaked that a lot in the past, I thought you would be interested.

--cesarb 20:32, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Wiki-gonzales.jpg

[Removed previous message]

Sorry Brian, I see now that the image had already been nominated for deletion, and since the result was keep I think there's no need to change its licensing and/or delete it. The only problem is that it will routinely get tagged for deletion by Roomba, but I'll keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn't get deleted. Now I'll go and read Avoid Copyright Paranoia again: I should stop annoying users this way :) Mushroom (Talk) 22:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I just had a discussion with user User:JYolkowski. He re-added the "orphaned fair use" template, and I think he's right since it's factually correct. I won't delete the image, but maybe someone else will do it, I don't know. Mushroom (Talk) 00:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Fir0002 FPC

Sorry to be back so soon after the last batch, but I'd appreciate your input in these photos. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 23:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for History of art, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 20:19, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Signature

Brian,

How did you get the date like that in your signature? Is there a special code I need to put in my monobook.js?

Thank you,

-- Tvaughn05_e ^(Talk)_(Contribs) 16:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Dayton Miller page

The section on Shankland and the references are pure junk. I have been repeatedly added material for restoring the scientific truth, if you have a special antirelativistic bias then you need to get educated.Ati3414 17:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Dayton Miller

This page is a disgrace, expecially the External links and Shankland Analysis. Now you locked the page. Please unlock it so I can remove all the biased junk and make it into a decent page.Ati3414 17:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

• Take it to the article's talk page and explain what should be changed. Your changes only made the article more ridiculous. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-20 17:48

I did, now please unlock the page. Ati3414 17:58, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

User arrested

For your consideration: {{User:UBX/arrested}}. Andrew Levine 06:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Egypt

Thank you for your contributions to ancient Egypt Project related articles. They are appreciated very much.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-24 04:11Z

Image Tagging for Image:7dayscast.jpg

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Fir0002 FPC Orb Weavers

Hi Brian!
I'd appreciate your input in these
Thanks! --Fir0002 www 23:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting my successful request for adminship. I'll try to put the admin tools to good and responsible use. If I do anything wrong you know where to find me. Raven4x4x 07:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Raspberries

Hi Brian!
I was wondering if you could look through these. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 08:17, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Protecting Triumph of the Will

Please read User:Raul654/protection. Today's featured article should not be protected or semi-protected unless it is only done temporarily to repair vandalism. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Please Block 66.109.35.35

For too long they have vandalized Wikipedia, specifically the Albany Academy page. Please review their contributions and you will see that they need to be permanently blocked. I noticed that you blocked them for a period of time already, and they have several warnings on their talk page, but yet they will not stop (they put stuff up today March 3). Please pull the plug on them.

Nbruschi 23:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Another idea

Also, if you wish, you can leave a message at "Ojamajo Doremi" - The English title is "Magical Doremi" and the characters have different names in the English versions. Yet some users want the article to be at the Japanese names. WhisperToMe 00:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Definition of "alumnus"

I must disagree with you. Merriam-Webster (m-w.com) offers the following definition for "alumnus:"

alumnus

One entry found for alumnus.
Main Entry: alum·nus
Pronunciation: &-'l&m-n&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural alum·ni /-"nI/
Etymology: Latin, foster son, pupil, from alere to nourish -- more at OLD
1 : one who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
2 : one who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate

The vast majority of that definition deals with a subject matter not implying graduation but rather former attendance (75% of the definition). Melville clearly satisfies *both* definitions and by clarifying him as a "non-graduate" is inconsistent with other school articles. Using that line of reasoning, it would be appropriate to further delve into the activities of each alumnus (e.g. "(captain of soccer team)" or "(student council president)") Reverting the page would be more accurate, and would conform to the ways to which he is referred on other sites (see the Wikipedia Article Albany, NY) and by the school itself.

Those who believe that "alumnus" automatically means "graduate" are ignorant, and it is not the job of Wikipedia to dumb down its articles by restating what words mean. It is called a dictionary- something Wikipedia is not.

I am going to "be bold" and revert back to its original version: the way it has been for almost the entire life of the article. If you really believe in your position, let's talk it out on the discussion page and achieve consensus.

I want to thank you for your vigilance when it has come to vandalism on this page in the past.

Nbruschi 04:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Very big Thanks

I want to thank you very much on the big improvement on Myson of Chen article. I live in a small town with no university library. I am also very poor. These two factors limit my ability to improve articles and do intensive research. I even did google searches for Myson of Chen, and found no good sites. You evidently did. I congratulate you and thanks for such a big and important improvements, that I even learned something new. Thanks. I like this collaboration. When we work together, things are improved and people learn. Thanks on a job well done.WHEELER 14:52, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

List of articles created

You requested the list of articles you've created so far. Here it is. Damn, you've created quite a few.  :) --Interiot 17:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black slug

I was in the middle of writing a reply to this explaining why I don't think it looks natural but I see Obli has now confirmed the surface is asphalt. It's a pity and I did hate going from a support to opposing like that. The slug is still fantastic but I think it would be so much better on a vegetative background so I'm going to stay with oppose for now ~ Veledan • Talk 12:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Anagram of Wikipedia

Brian, I added the following anagram of Wikipedia on the Anagram article:

I, a kid, wiped ~ Wikipedia

which you (pun not intended) wiped out. I feel the anagram is quite apt, as it describes the act of vandalism often perpetrated against Wiki articles by youngsters. Under the circumstances, I would appreciate it if you took the time to let me know why you deleted it. Rastapopoulos 11:18, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Girolamo Maggi, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Please archive your talkpage, it is taking lot of time to load on my browser. TIA, --Gurubrahma 13:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Pwn again

Since you have had a reasonable amount of well thought out and professionally conducted involvement in the article Pwn, I felt it was appropriate to come to you on this. In case you haven't noticed a proposal for merger has been covered. Before I even discuss how I feel about it, I wanted to know what you, as a far more experienced editor, with a better grasp on wiki-policy and involvement in the article, think about it. Thanks--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 16:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK template change

Hi, can you explain this where the edit summary reads "(moving my older entry up one :))." All the entries were updated at the same time - their date of creation is immaterial once they are updated; they are in a particular order for some reason - bio followed by a non-bio followed by a bio followed by..., so that it is interesting. I don't see a need to edit the template in the edit you have done. Kindly revert your change or respond on my talkpage. --Gurubrahma 16:16, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Interestingness is a personal opinion, and admin privileges are not for giving prominence to our own articles, imo. I do read the entries' articles before putting them on DYK. Kindly self revert. TIA, --Gurubrahma 16:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding. --Gurubrahma 16:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I need help (sounds bad..lol)

Hi, I am Northmeister and relatively new to wikipedia. I've edited one article mostly and had plans to offer contributions to others but attention has been diverted because of something that is happening here at wikipedia. There seems to be a long running dispute over 'LaRouche' editors and material that has resulted in arbcom cases. Certain administrators have used these decisions to label new editors they suspect of being somehow connected to that group. They did this to me. The history can be seen on the American System (economics) page with a user Will Beback, whom you may know. I attempted to help two new editors on the 'political views of Lyndon LaRouche' page (since I was called a supporter I had to know what I was being called), who were being harassed and treated badly by Sean, SlimVirgin, Cberlet and others. I asked for civility to no avail. Being new I don't have familiarity with all the rules of engagement so I am sure I got to wordy (like I am now) and to passionate at points, I admit guilt here. What resulted was my attempt to mediate the whole mess. I requested mediation at that page for the tactics used against me and others, name-calling, labeling, constant reverts, disruption to make a point etc., and SlimVirgin refused outright mediation. The mediator Twrigley then gave his verdict. SlimVirgin responded in kind by reverting an article he had worked on for 'day's' back to what it was before his work. This man is a cordial and civil man (the reason why he was a mediator) and was overwhelmed by the before said editors tactics. I stepped in and reverted the page back and made a plea for SlimVirgin not to disrupt a page to make a point. She reverted right back. What is happening is wrong. This mediator tried to help and he has been harassed for trying. He was a third party to the dispute originally and I am not sure what to do. He had chosen to leave wikipedia because of SlimVirgins tactics, the same tactics that were the complaint of my mediation. What do I do? I have tried to discuss but to no avail. Every attempt I make was not responded to on her talk page and deleted or put in archives. Are new editors always treated like this if they run up against what seems like McCarthism over certain issues? I am at a lost and need an objective look at this page. I have contacted all the original editors for comment. Thanks, sorry for the long statement. --Northmeister 04:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC) The page in question is Syllogism.

Brian, thank you for taking a look at the page in question and for your objective revert. Twrigely had decided to leave and requested I no longer involve myself. I was there to defend his honor, so I will abide by his wishes. Best wishes...--Northmeister 22:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

problem with MediaWiki:Anonnotice

There was a discussion in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia about the location of small icon located at the top of each article that has a spoken version or an audio version (the icon is added along with Template:Spoken Wikipedia, see Evolution for an example). Some have argued that the icon should be at the title level, just next to the Featured article icon and not below it, unfortunatly it clashes with the words soliciting donations from users who aren't logged in MediaWiki:Anonnotice. Could you fix this problem, in a way that the area at the right of the title become a repository of icons, with of courses no software or display problem? Thank you. CG 11:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Your use of rollback

I know it wasn't personal and most likely out of habit more than anything else but I just wanted to remind you that administrator rollback is only supposed to be used on blatant vandalism which my edit to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates was not. Thanks. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 21:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I know that but since your an admin I figured you were using the admin feature rather than a js version. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 21:09, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Chad

You may want to join WikiProject Chad. KI 21:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

re: Sockpuppet?

I could but I won't and this is with all due respect and it isn't personal. I assure you though that I am not a reincarnation of a vandal or a troll nor am I a reincarnation of any user who is currently blocked or banned. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 22:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I am a reincarnation of one of those though I don't edit with that account anymore. I'm also willing to tell you that my other account is/was an administrator (1 of 842 as of this post) with a good amount of expereince. That's why I know how Wikipedia works. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 22:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Hyogo Prefecture icon

Nice find, I gave a half-hearted attempt to find this icon, but I thought it was a bit too obscure to exist! CheekyMonkey 00:07, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: pwn

I grant you that my addition is unsourced, but I hardly consider it unnecessary. First of all, please reflect that the "bullet" that I edited is ENTIRELY unsourced, so deleting just my addition as unsourced hardly seems to make sense. Secondly, the entire rationale of that bullet is questionable, as the "theory" that "pwn" is an attempt to subvert "own" filters strikes me as specious. P is not a standard subsitution for O when attempting to evade filters. When filter evasion is the stated goal (rather than "leetness" as a goal in and of itself), attention is paid to make the substituted forms as near as possible to the original. Hence, people type "sh!t, sh|t, sh1t, SHlT" or some other variant. You do NOT typically get 54I7.... which would be a "leet" version of "shit". I'd reference the game Gunbound as an example of people using substitions (not really ciphers) in an attempt to evade language filters. "O" is almost exclusively replaced by "0" in that context, and other areas (say IRC channels) are, I believe, in line with that evidence. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 01:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

It is applied a little differently within tightly knit enough circles like come IRC rooms and specific game servers. It is easily understandable to the people within the group, for various possible reasons, and from there it expands. plus, p looks enough like a small o with a tail on it, so it works well on that level too. Your "shit" analogy is incorrect as well, well sortof. Pwn is not really the leet equivalent of own per your analogy the way 5417 is shit (which on an unrelated note would more likely be 5|-|17 since 4 is more exclusively used for "a". Pwn would be more like sh!t or $hit. Gunbound is also not the best example to use for the history of word usage. Its quite young. MUCH younger than the word.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 15:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, aside from the fact that this isn't the proper forum for this discussion... I know Gunbound is newer (by a great deal) than "pwn", I was just using it as an example of a language filter. The best examples would be older online games (such as certain MUSHs) or chatrooms (such as AOL chat or IRC). --Dante Alighieri | Talk 16:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Extra edit buttons

It looks like you were the source of the extra edit buttons on Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools in mid Jan. There has been a bit of a problem with the quote marks which means the code displayed on the article page can't be just cut and paste to the user's monobook.js. I was thinking of putting the code on a subpage (probably under my ID) so that users could just refer to it rather than having to cut and paste. As the code came from yourself would you be happy with this (I would add a credit to yourself) or do you have a better idea of how to get it working. MarkS 14:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

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