User talk:Gonzo fan2007/Archive 2009

Hey

Hi Gonzo fan, I haven't seen you in a while. Nice to see you! Dabomb87 (talk) 00:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Are you going to reassume your position of FLRC director? Sephiroth has done a good job while you were out, while Dweller is still recovering from surgery. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:50, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey, nice to see you back! Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 02:46, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Yep, welcome back! Gary King (talk) 02:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks guys! It's nice to be back. Merry Christmas! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 17:44, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, nice to see you're back. :-) — RyanCross (talk) 04:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Ryan, like I said, its nice to be back! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 04:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Ding!

I sent you email. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:16, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Replied. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 17:44, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

You have Mail!

Hiho. Sent an email to you! :D PoinDexta1 | Talk to Me | 10:27, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Replied. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 02:12, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of the Adriatic campaign, 1807–1814 FLC

Thankyou for participating in the FLC for Timeline of the Adriatic campaign, 1807–1814. The article has now passed and your assistance in the process was much appreciated. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 00:10, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Your welcome! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 01:58, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Move List of Mario series characters to Characters in the Mario series

As the admin who protected this page, can you move it to Characters in the Mario series (it's a less ambiguous wording and the article isn't list format)? Thanks. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 01:19, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I unprotected the article so that you can gain consensus and make the move yourself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 02:14, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Hey

Hey! Glad to see you are back! Hope your wikibreak when well. :) As far as the bot is concerned, I would be happy to resume our project. Here is a quick debreif on the changes:

• The only change I made to the code from the last time I ran it was some change to further generalize the code, which is yet untested, but I am hoping to test it on the next run.
• As you can see from User:AlyBot/PlayerList, some of the pages have been created by other people.
• Also, 10 pages from the last run are in the bot's namespace as per Special:Contributions/AlyBot.
• Also, on one of the pages created, this edit by User:Wizardman was made [1] (I have all the pages that the bot created watchlisted)
• The two pages that the bot wasn't able to create was because their entries don't exist on DatabaseFootball (if I remember correctly from 2 months back)

Other than that, I think we are good to go. Aly89 (talk) 02:49, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Ahh. Got it. I will change the template as soon as I get the chance. Also, FYI [2]. Aly89 (talk) 04:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Haha. Yes, I am aware of that scenario/feeling. No problems with regards to the time. We need not to finish this a rush. Take your time. And Happy New Year! Aly89 (talk) 23:58, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey! Here you go, something for you to work on. The pages were created with large interval in between to account for the code changes I was committing, and general bugfixes. I did realize something today, that 2TM, and 3TM actually meant 2 teams and 3 teams at databasefootball.com :), so I had to sat down and iron out the code for that. There are 2 extremely minor bug lefts, but it shouldn't hamper us too much. Although, I will try to get them fixed ASAP. Overall, I fixed many bugs, including a stupidity in the template of adding </br>, which means nothing as far as HTML is concerned :). So, I went back and fixed the pages where this way still lying around. All in all, I think I have generally improved the code. The bot is now also able to detect if there are more than 1 colleges, and splits it up correctly (if it can detect it properly). The categories are now alphabetically ordered (most of the time), and I should be committing the code to properly adding the word "and" to the last item in the list of teams which is present in the text itself. And in order to account for these changes, I had to manually modify some of the pages created by the bot (since I am too lazy to go back to my code, and turn off some of the checks I am doing to prevent duplicate page creation). Again, there is no rush to complete this, so take your time in completing all of this. Also, FYI, the page for Charlie Leigh has been created. And, also, in User:AlyBot/PlayerList, item number 613 is University of Auburn, which I presume is a typo. Apart from that, I think that is all. Have fun! Aly89 (talk) 07:19, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Here you go [3]. I see you were quick in picking up the fact that I was running the bot :). Also, > 20 pages in one day :|. I have to ask, are you running a bot too? :D

Other than that, a few changes were made, as you might have noticed. I have a prebuilt list of states now, that I can replace in, to eventually bypass the redirects. Also I have a prebuilt list of player positions, which it recognizes. However, a few of them, it wasn't able to recognize. I will post the list it wasn't able to decipher later as I am going to bed now, so that you can give me a heads up on them, and I can feed them into my bot to reduce the amount of work you do! Don't burn yourself out! :) Aly89 (talk) 05:00, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

PS: Also, don't worry about the failed pages right now. I will soon be committing a change into the bot that should be better at recognizing Alias of the players to pick up from other databases. However, I need to get started on that change which I cannot do before the weekend! Aly89 (talk) 05:03, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey. Just wanted to let you know about this - removing the pages from the given categories, "rm from polluted categories" (I don't quite understand what he means by polluted categories). While I understand that the pages are immediately listed in the categories page, they would be eventually moved the mainspace soon. Do you want me to comment the "categories" part in the template I am running to stop it from listing in the given categories, which could be then later uncommented when you are moving them to the mainspace. Aly89 (talk) 18:37, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

PS: I have reverted all the edits and brought the comments as categories, that should keep all of us happy for the timebeing. Aly89 (talk) 18:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Go crazy! :P.

PS: I have a few changes lined up for this weekend. Let me just hope I actually remember this while I am getting bored over the weekends :). Aly89 (talk) 02:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]. These are only from the pages I have watchlisted. You might want to add those templates back when you are moving them to mainspace. If you want, I could comment them in the template as well. Aly89 (talk) 23:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

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Yes, hello, and thank you!

With vandalism mounting, unproven rumors circulating about a movie that was announced 2 years ago and no news of it since, all we editors of Ed, Edd n Eddy really needed from you was to unprotect it! Yes, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! As an administrator, you are supposed to be helping us, not hindering us. -- Elaich ^talk 05:32, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Whenever you feel like dropping the sarcasm, I would be glad to address your concerns. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 05:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:Protection

Thank you for that. It really saves a lot of trouble! --DA Skunk - (talk) 06:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Nix Package Manager

Hello Gonzo, I was wondering why the article on Nix was deleted, I lurk mostly but this is a real package manager program that I have read about here. Perhaps whomever wrote the article badly, I'm willing to create a decent stub however. Kupojsin (talk) 13:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Packers images

Hey Gonzo fan2007, I added a license to my submitted Packers image File:GBretirednumbersbanners.JPG. I think it can now be moved over to Wikimedia Commons. If I added the wrong license let me know and I'll change it. Yunggunn2k3 (talk)

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Steven Appiah - protection

Thanks for protecing the page it has been the subject of lots of vandalism of late.

Before you protected the page you appear to have changed his current club status from 'Tottenham Hotsput (Trial)' to 'Celtic' - this information is incorrect, someone has repeatedly been vanadlising the page to say Appiah has moved to Celtic when in fact he is on trial at Tottenham and played a friendly for them today (14th Jan). The player has no links to Celtic whatsoever.Nagarjuna1980 23:09, 14 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nagarjuna1980 (talk • contribs)

Neither of my edits ([14][15]) changed any content on the page. I imagine you are talking about this edit. I have reverted it for you. Cheers, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 23:16, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for yor help - at least the page is now protected. Too many people were having to spend too much time correcting repeated vandalism on that entry!Nagarjuna1980 23:46, 14 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nagarjuna1980 (talk • contribs)

Packer article creation

Thanks for doing a great job and creating a stub article for all the Packer players! One suggestion, could you add a category for their collegiate play? For example, I added the Pittsburgh Panthers football players category to the Bill Neill article. Thanks again for the hard work! Patken4 (talk) 14:03, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

ACC tool

Hi there. Just wondering as you have the account creator flag would you like to help out on the Account Creating Tool? If you already have an account please ignore this message :P Please get back to me on my talk page if you want to help :) ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 19:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Gonzo fan2007/Archive 2009 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Versus22 talk 09:28, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Wishing Gonzo fan2007/Archive 2009 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! SMS ^Talk 12:55, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, one year...wow :D « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:58, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy anniversary, amigo! Dayewalker (talk) 23:00, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I can't believe its been 1 year! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 23:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Boy, how time flies... =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

No content in Category:Start-Class album articles

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Semi-protection request for Blackbeard

As an administrator, would you be willing to consider granting semi-protected status to Blackbeard? It's attracting an annoying volume of anonymous vandal strikes, apparently because of the pop notoriety of this particular pirate. (I'd do it myself, but I'm a mere mortal in wikiworld, and I saw you'd done the same for Maine.) Many thanks. Vincent pearse (talk) 17:51, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Gonzo, your page is on my watchlist. I looked it over and semi-protected it for 2 weeks. Vincent, let me know if vandalism continues after it is unprotected after the 2 weeks. Please be sure to watch the talk page in case some anon contributor is trying to make some productive edits so that you can do them on their behalf. In the future, I suggest you add requests at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Cheers! Royalbroil 14:04, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Royalbroil for your help in this matter. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 04:12, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Hey

Hey! No problems! Lately I have been fading off from Wiki as well due to other tasks that require my more urgent attention. I think I only did a single edit in the past month or so. It was awesome working with you as well. I got to know a lot more about the cool internal admin workings of Wiki :)! And if you want to re-start the project, just drop me a line (if I am still around that is). Aly89 (talk) 04:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Soundgarden

FYI: [16]. Cheers, Tiptoety ^talk 04:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Replied for Gonzo fan2007. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

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Could you please explain more fully...

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Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 07:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Commented. Thanks! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 02:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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See the talk page again as Scorpion has drafted a merged version. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:21, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar!--Yankees10 20:16, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

File:Fossil Creek AZ.jpg

Commons:File:Fossil Creek AZ.jpg had you listed as the creator of this file, with that file being your own work; however this page dating from August 2007 credits Jack Kurtz & The Arizona Republic. Which is correct? -- 75.167.30.222 (talk) 22:41, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

The only image on that web page looks nothing like my photograph. They are two completely different pictures that look absolutely nothing alike. Also, please do not re-attribute a photograph as you did here. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 03:02, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Happy Gonzo fan2007's Day!

Gonzo fan2007 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Gonzo fan2007's day! For being one of our most reliable admins, enjoy being the Star of the day, Gonzo fan2007! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 03:54, 11 May 2009 (UTC) If you'd like to show off your awesomeness, you can use this userbox.

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File:Veil Nebula DSS2 WikiSky.jpg

Could you please restore the image above. It's been deleted with the reason "image exists in commons", but it doesn't. Thank you friendlystar (talk) 14:01, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

It's unfortunate to see you go,

I hope you have good luck in whatever you choose to do after this, Gonzo.— Dædαlus ^Contribs 19:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I REALLY enjoyed working with you! Good luck wherever life takes you! Royalbroil 01:18, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Aw, you're leaving too? A shame, you'll be missed. Wizardman 15:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

This is unfortunate. Hope you return, but if not, good luck, and enjoy whatever activities you decide to pursue. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 17:10, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

When did this happen? :( -WarthogDemon 20:44, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Sysop flag

hello Gonzo . i have removed your sysop flag based on your will --Mardetanha ^talk 20:30, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

You deleted my photo inappropriately

05:42, 14 May 2008 Gonzo fan2007 (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Jonlovitz.jpg" ‎ (I3: Improper license)

Why? I took it and put it into public domain..... Phil Konstantin (talk) 15:10, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Gonzo has left and is not an admin any more. I can tell you why he deleted it. The original image was specified on flickr as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0. NonCommericial images are not allowed. The other 2 criteria are allowed. So the image had a license incompatible with Wikipedia. To remedy this, you would need to convince the flickr photographer [17] to removed the Non Commercial criteria. It literally would have to be changed on the photograph on flickr - we don't take people's word for it. Then you would need to agree to using ShareAlike and Attribution (but not Non-Commercial) for your cropping of the image. If you do all of these things, then we could use the image. Royalbroil 01:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Royalbroil explained it perfectly. Thanks Rb! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:44, 16 August 2009 (UTC)