User talk:Wizardman/Archive8

Re: my tip wage credit article

Thanks for your note.  When I first got involved with Wikipedia as a new boy I used my talk page to start writing my article, not knowing the difficulties I would face later on when I wanted to move my article to the main namespace (I didn't know what "main namespace" was at the time).  After I had the article where I felt I could turn it into a proper article, I created the article page (in the main namespace, of course), and then copied my talk page text into that blank article.

So, my talk page has all the edit history from my development work, and I've ended up "betwixt and between" so to speak.

What I'd like to do is have my edit history moved over to the article in main namespace, and then have the article deleted from my talk page.  One user tried to do that for me, but the end result was that I kept the article from being deleted from my talk page because part of the process seemed to be to delete my main namespace article, and I feared losing all the work I'd done on the article subsequent to my copying it over.

I'm deeply involved as temporary sysop/administrator for the Tok Pisin Wikipedia and Wikitionary.  It's a major rebuild effort for both Wiki's, and it's taking a lot of time.  I'm making progress, but completion of my tip wage credit artice is suffering as a result.

I don't know who/where to ask for real help in getting my talk page cleared of my tip wage credit draft, but perhaps you can show me the way?

Thanks again, K. Kellogg-Smith 14:57, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Admin request

Thanks for offering to nominate me. I'm mostly interested in supporting work on Physics and Mathematics, alternative music and I'm currently trying to work my way through thousands of ancient images, bringing them in line with our modern image use policy. If you're still happy to nominate me, then I'd be glad to try for adminship. I'll start reading up :) - Papa November 1 08:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination. I accept, and I'll update my nomination page after 0900 GMT when I have time to answer the questions properly. I'm afraid the barbecue takes priority this evening! Thanks again - Papa November 1 19:15, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Your message was one of the nicest things I've ever read on here, thank you. I quit smoking 26 days ago and it has been pretty easy up until this last week. The last four days have been some of the worst of my life. I think I focused all of my angst on what I felt was someone turning a blind eye toward obvious vandalism/harassment/disruption or whatever else it can be called. I also had a very persistent troll for five months, who daily stalked me and my photography and it took a massive amount of effort to achieve a ban for them. Their behavior was almost exactly the same behavior as the Chihuahua disruptor. All of these factors conspired to make me go off half-cocked. Your message, though, really made a difficult week better and I sincerely thank you for it. --David Shankbone 03:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Great news!

Now those, are wonderful news, dear Wizard - even tho your stressmeter still seems to be blowing off steam! :) I've got your mails, sweetie, and I'll get back to you there - and thanks for them! Love, Phaedriel - 04:19, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

to have beaten you to the "poles". !! Seriously, great candidate, well found. Pedro |  Chat  11:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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DYK Backlogged by almost 18 hours

Just thought I'd let you know, considering your page says you are on. Thanks -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 23:22, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I am really sorry, but I actually have to go offline right now. I wish you luck - try clearing July 29 - lots of good noms in there, but they will expire soon. Cheers, and apologies, -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 23:53, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Ahhh, great. By the way, you have email. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 06:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Currently, it has a backlog of 12 hours. Would you mind helping out again? Happy editing! --Boricuaeddie 00:16, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for updating it! Regarding this edit summary, I'd be willing to help out when/if the community trusts me with the ability to edit the template, FYI. Happy editing! --Boricuaeddie 02:42, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Ozzy barnstar

Yay :) - moved to main page. Wizardman 23:58, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

I think you forgot the messages for Aug 4.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Death Articles

I am frankly not sure. I just noticed that they were tagged by that bot. I wasn't sure about assessing them, so I waited a bit to start. If you think that I should just get rid of the template, I can do that. Captain panda 03:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

After reviewing the scope of WikiProject Biography, I still am not sure if they should be assessed or not. I will note this on the talk page of the assessment drive to ask for input on whether they are in WikiProject Biography or not. Captain panda 03:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

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DYK

If you are still on - DYK hasnt been updated for 10 hours, and the NU is ready to go. I'd do it myself, but only admins can update the temp itself (as you already know). Thanks -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 16:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for doing that. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 17:25, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

GF admins

I believe TheCoffee, Sceptre (former), Steel359, and Deckiller are all GameFAQs users and admins here :) --- RockMFR 16:34, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I talked to Sceptre on MSN once. --PEAR (talk) 17:53, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Edit counting scripts

Do you know where I can find one of those Wikipedia edit counting scripts? --PEAR (talk) 17:50, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

How did you get this? --PEAR (talk) 17:53, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On August 9, 2007, a fact from the article Joe Hauser, which you recently nominated, was 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.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:03, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

RE:Admin

Thank you Wizardman for your admin nom offer. Currently, I'm waiting till the end of August when Husond and Giggy plan on nomming me. If you want to co-nom along with them I would be honored. Once again, thank you for the show of trust. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 19:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

RfC

Hi, I think I messed up the initial formatting on the Outside view section at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/DreamGuy 2, leaving it unclear who was endorsing which view. I've split apart the two entries, and removed your signature so that you can re-endorse whichever you meant to endorse (one or both). Thanks :) --Quiddity 00:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

The mess has been cleared up, and I just wanted to remind you to weigh-in there. Any relevant or helpful additions would be especially welcome. Thanks :) --Quiddity 17:43, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Ohio counties

Proofing done, courtesy of Microsoft Word :-) Two related matters, which might not work too well together:

• I think it would look better if the origins section were widened, so that ____ County wouldn't display as

  _____
  County

  but I don't know how to do it.
• The article previously gave the number of civil townships in each county. Could you create an extra column? If you do that, I'll fill in the requisite information.

Thanks! Nyttend 02:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much. I myself have a widescreen laptop, 13"×8¼", and I sometimes forget that most people have skinnier screens :-) I'm going to contact the user you mentioned, since I expect such a change would be useful for many states. Nyttend 14:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Tompw says that we should use Template:Countyrow, because it has an unlimited number of columns. Would this mean a complete replacement of the template? Nyttend 00:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Email

You got it. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 19:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Moving to Commons

Don't I still have to follow the CSD rules? CSD I8 lists "The image has been marked with {{NowCommons}} for at least one week. Waiting one week is not necessary if it was the uploader who moved the image and marked it." as one of the criteria. If I'm exempt from this, then that's great. I just wasn't sure where I stood now. Let me know either way! Thanks, Papa November 23:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Normally I do things in batches anyway... first, move and tag images, then set commons categories and check that commons helper has set things properly. Once I'm happy with the status of the commons copy, I may go ahead and delete the local copy. Thanks for your help :) Papa November 23:31, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for ur praise - i didint get the pic slot, waaaah!!!!!! lol and bye!!Man of Bravery!! 02:38, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On August 14, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Scott Bailes, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Hello, I request your assistance

Hi

Could you please delete the pic koshindoemblem.jpg ? I substituted it, thank you Jennylen 10:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Need some help at AIV

There's is an extremely persistent IP (144.82.106.29) that's been running wild and it looks like no admins are monitoring AIV at the moment. Thanks! BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 15:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

NVM someone else got to it. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 15:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Untagged and AWB

Thanks for going through that one untagged subpage. I would be grateful if you would do that for the others, except for the first one. If you wish to do this, go to User:Psychless/Untagged. You can click one of the links in the "mixtures" header. Please put any non-bio and non-disambiguation articles in a subpage of User:Psychless/Untagged/Non-bio. You can just remove the disambiguation pages. That way those articles can be tagged with an appropriate banner as well, eventually. Also, if you have the time, could you approve me for AWB? Here's the link. I have over 500 mainspace edits. I will be doing the first one myself so you can safely ignore it. Psychless 18:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Admin nom

Thanks for offering to nominate me. Generally, I just do RC Patrol and the odd cleanup, and, so long as there are enough admins about when I report the vandals, I'm fine with not being an admin. I might go for it one day, though, when I have a bit more time, and ideas about how best I could use the adminship (to Wikipedia's advantage, not mine!). Thanks again. Stephenb (Talk) 08:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Yoshi

The edit there actually wasn't vandalism; the anon seemed to just have been trimming the article. — Malcolm (talk) 23:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ron Paul

The article Ron Paul you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Ron Paul for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Mrprada911 19:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK of Vinders

Hey, thanks for adding Jheronimus Vinders to DYK! Appreciate that! I don't add my articles all that often myself 'cuz it feels like self-promotion. Made my day.  :) Now karma says I should return the favor and add a DYK for someone else. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 16:19, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

My sysop review

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FYI, regarding Djg2006

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about armenian genocide

armenian genocide is still in progress by all historians. publishing it from the mainpage is not neutral--hakozen 00:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

today in wikipedia, you only work for "armenian diaspora" who are in a anti-turkic campain. "armenian genocide" page of wikipedia is written by the armenian diaspora and the armenia based insurance companies in the world. belive that is a shame for the people who lost their relatives in turkish holocaust.--hakozen 01:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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Steven Dufour

Hello. I noticed that you moved the article on the Belgian footballer Steven Defour here on the basis that the article name was mispelled. However, every source I have checked lists his last name as Defour. Accordingly, I am moving the article back to the original location (Steven Defour). If you disagree, please provide support for Dufour on the Talk page. Best regards. Jogurney 19:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Admin

While I wouldn't be entirely against the notion of becoming an admin here, I honestly do not think I would be able to fulfill the criteria. For one, my edit scope on Wikipedia is relatively narrow as the vast majority of my edits are related to WP:Anime. Not only that, but I've gotten into some deep disputes over the past year or so which all ended well enough, but the talk page debates really tired me out; I've never been banned though. And then that's not even counting the disagreements I've had with the Air (visual novel) article and related sub articles with user White Cat. And even if I became an admin, I'm not sure not only what I could do to help as an admin, but am not sure I would want to delve too much time into the bureaucracy of Wikipedia since most of my time here is spent improving articles, copyediting other users' edits, or reverting vandalism. But thanks just the same; maybe some time in the future if I get more involved not only with the bureaucracy but with a much larger scope of article topics.--十八 22:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jmfangio-Chrisjnelson

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Coaching/RFA

Thanks for your query. It's been a while since the coaching request, and I've probably been around long enough to get the hang of things. However I'm a bit busy at the moment. I was thinking of doing an RFA in about a month's time. Recurring dreams 02:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Think you can catch Ludahai?

Glad I decided to stop when I did; been having fun otherwise and getting some worthwhile things done, like getting my 2nd DYK and making my first featured pic nom which looks like it'll pass unanimously. It seems to be turning into a free for all right now towards the end. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 02:42, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

My plan

Based upon the discussion and kind words offered by you and others my plan is to do these things:

1. Edit less than normal, for awhile anyway.
2. Contribute less to discussion pages in the WP namespace, (save those discussions I am involved in currently)
3. Try not to let Wikipedia upset me so much (which it does at times and my edits reflect it, i.e. I become rather hostile towards some people)
4. Try to remember just how shitty of a school Northern Illinois University is, and that the president there is more likely to have graduated from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College than anywhere else.

IvoShandor 07:53, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

A matter of policy

At the relevance mediation the subjects are: reject, essay or proposal. Changing a failed proposal to an essay is discouraged by policy, so I see two outcomes of the mediation: (1) Continued proposal or (2) rejected proposal. This is the stated purpose of the mediation by FG: "WikiLen and Kevin Murray claim the proposal now at Wikipedia:Relevance of content was rejected; I (Father Goose) claim the proposal is active and discussion of it is being disrupted. WikiLen and Kevin Murray have sought to change its status to "essay" (actually rejected); Newbyguesses and I have been changing it back to "proposal". I think that he clearly states the boundaries of the mediation issue. Constant off-track questions by the proponents are just a ruse to delay this process and wear down the participants. Please take charge and keep this discussion focused on track. --Kevin Murray 21:09, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

William Stacy

Re the GA nom, this article has 22 footnotes in the lead. A proper lead, as a summary, should have few if any footnotes. It also little on his early life.Sumoeagle179 20:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 26 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Joe Nathan, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--DarkFalls ^talk 01:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Mail

Hey, you have Wikipedia email. Hope this didn't disturb you, and that you have a restful break. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 02:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok. I will let you know when the time comes. Thanks a lot. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 03:22, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Regarding intense criticism directed at me

I have possibly over-stepped my bounds — at least seems so to me — in moving the purely personal portion of FG's criticism of me to his talk page. I am attempting to right any wrongs I may have done and I am looking for any direction you have to offer on this. —thanks, WikiLen 04:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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Ouyang Xiu

I noticed you rated the article Ouyang Xiu which I expanded a few months ago. I want to work to bring it up to GA and perhaps even FA status. Could you please tell me what you think once the assessment drive is over. Thanks. ludahai 魯大海 15:35, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy 2

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Bio Drive

THanks. I plan to do about 400 tomorrow, but I am trying to bring List of educational institutions in Taichung up to feature list status and then I want to work on Ouyang Xiu and bring that up to at least Good Article status. I hope we can work together in the future. ludahai 魯大海 14:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

William Stacy, nomination to GA-class

Hello Mr. Wizardman. Thank you for your help and support. Article was reviewed by Sumoeagle179, and I incoporated his suggestions. Thanks to you and to Sumoeagle179. Best regards, ColWilliam 15:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Wizardman, I just wanted to say thank you for my successful RfA, which passed 89/2/5. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of support that I received and wanted to personally say how much it is appreciated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trusilver (talk • contribs) 02:10, August 24, 2007 (UTC).