User talk:ABCD/Archive 3

This is the third archive of User talk:ABCD.

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Template:Stub[edit]

Since Template:Stub is protected, you are going to have to revert yourself regarding the adding of "Wikipedia" into that template. See Wikipedia:Avoid self-references and read Template talk:Stub for the reasons why. ^Blank ^Verse 19:40, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks![edit]

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my userpage ;-) —Kirill Lokshin 21:47, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redvers's Wikibar[edit]

➨ ❝**R e DVERS**❞ awards this Barnstar to **ABCD** for very smart thinking!

PRE tags! Why didn't I think of that? Cheers! ➨ ❝R e DVERS❞ 13:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A anon vandal issue...please help?[edit]

I need your help, User 152.163.100.71 has been vandalizing several pages over the past few days and was encourging an edit war (see Talk:Louisville, Kentucky, in which the comment went unsigned). I just want to report this due to the likelihood that this person will continue to vandalize. Thanks. --Moreau36; 0212, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S.: The article Louisville, Kentucky needs attention from one of the admins , please?. Thanks.

Thanks for help with Caligulavator[edit]

Hi ABCD. Thanks for cleaning up his mess, blocking him, etc. I would've done it myself—except, of course, that I was already trying to revert his edits. I noticed him when he went through and plastered AD's all over a list of particle accelerators (!) I was working on. I think he's in the running for the prize for most pointless edit warrior ever. :P -- SCZenz 06:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Crimbo![edit]

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 22:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza Elections[edit]

ABCD

Thanks for voting for me at the Esperanza Elections.

I've made my way into the Advisory Committee, so if you ever need any help or have any queries about the stuff we do, please do not hesitate to ask me. Thanks again, Fir e Fox 11:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Calendar Templates[edit]

Hi ABCD, Can you give me hints about current hierarchy of calendar teplates. We are trying to emulate this on Marathi Wikipedia].

thanking you,

Wces423 13:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New user[edit]

I am a new face to Wikipedia, also known as a new Wikipedian. Would you be willing to help direct me to any important policies, guidelines or rules on the website? Please? –Cruz AFade ^{(Speak about it} | ^{How many?}) 15:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

request to view deleted article[edit]

Dear alphabetically first administrator on Category:User undeletion:

May I please have the "deletedhistory" permission and/or some other way to see Gang stalking so that I might vote on its deletion review? A friend of mine voted Keep and I would like to see what the controversy is all about.

Please reply on my user talk page. Thank you. —James S. 20:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Information: New Help Group[edit]

This message is to inform you about a new group whose aim is to try and answer Wikipedians' questions. The group is based here, and is so far nameless. If you can offer any help by improving the pages or by answering any questions, then you are very welcom to do so. You are also welcome to raise any questions.

If you know of anyone who would either like to know about this or could benefit from it, then please tell them. Thank you. The Neokid 19:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

monobook.js[edit]

Hello, I have a couple questions for you regarding my monobook.js file. As I can't write or read whatever language(java?) the monobook entries are in, I decided to just steal someone else's monobook(.js). What I want to do is add a few tabs to the page, one for sending my vandal warning message one for showing their edit count, and one to bring up the last diff. I am not how much of this is possible, so after experimenting a little, I asked Essjay(who has returned!) who directed me to the user scripts wikiproject. I chose you from the members list. So if you could help me I would very much appreciate it, Thanks

Note: this was originally posted to Adam1213 and Neutrality

Prodego ^talk 20:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Polling the 31/36 hour block...[edit]

...here. bd2412 T 02:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox_Town[edit]

I've noticed your changes to this template which simplified the code quite a lot, which is great. I wrote this template some time ago, using someone's template (I'm not a programmer myself) and it worked well. Since then many have updated the code making it more and more complicated (and I didn't understand it much). There's, however, a small problem now. The original intention was to have one line printing "Founded" and the year, later it was improved so that one could define a text in the field founded_type which then got displayed instead of "Founded". When this field was left blank "Founded" got displayed by default. Your changes fail to do so. Could I ask you to put this functionality into your code? It would take me some time to understand how to achieve that... Thanks, — Caroig 17:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – ABCD ^e✉ 17:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. — Caroig 17:16, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

comment template[edit]

Can you please revert that change - it breaks the template, see User talk:Wangi#test. Thanks/wangi 20:51, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – ABCD ^e✉ 20:54, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

vote here keep[edit]

exscuse me but also Muriel has done this trying to get people to delete this article important for a monarchic branch. This is a democratic encyclopedia and so this page has right to stay here : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosario Poidimani (3 nomination). Regards, M.deSousa 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Featured article[edit]

I don't know if my shouting is what alerted you to the Featured Article Vandalism just now, but thanks for doing that. How'd something like that happen anyway? I thought Feature articles were locked as a matter of course while linked from the main page?Johndodd 01:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC) (johndodd@uiuc.edu to e-mail)[reply]

No, they are not, only the content that appears on the main page (which comes from Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 28, 2006, among other pages) is protected. – ABCD ^e✉ 01:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help requested[edit]

You kindly assisted me to qualify as a wikipedian. Please could you help me now. I would like the help to improve David Hume. Scattered about are various descriptions of his work as seen by others, some rather wordy. I have a summary list of various opinions with references, but I am loath to try to edit this valuable article in case (as a newcomer) I muck it up. Please would you kindly advise me by replying to my talk page Fenton Robb 17:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC) . Here is what I'd like to include -[reply]

The attempts to categorise David Hume have reflected many of the philosophical interests of their periods; they include the following: ‘perhaps’ only a very clever man’ (Taylor, 1927) , ‘positivist’ (Russell, 1946; Kolakowski, 1968), ‘cynical conservative’ (Stephen,1962), ‘materialist’ (Anderson, 1966), ‘realist’ (Popper, 1970), ‘phenomenologist’ (Husserl, 1970), ‘naturalist’ (Stroud, 1977), ‘idealist’ (Ayer, 1980), ‘empiricist’ (Gregory, 1981; Livingston, 1989), ‘Pyrrhonian sceptic’ (Flew, 1986), ‘the prophet of the Wittgensteinian revolution’ (Phillipson, 1989), ‘neo-Hellenist’, (Penelhum, 1993), ‘the first post-sceptical philosopher of the early modern period’ (Norton, 1993), ‘radical perspectivalist’ (Fogelin, 1993). ‘'mitigated' sceptic’ (Hume, 1777, 162).

References Taylor, A. E. (1927). David Hume and the Miraculous, Leslie Stephen Lecture. Cambridge, pp. 53-4. Russell, B. (1946). A History of Western Philosophy. London, Allen and Unwin. Kolakowski, I. (1968). The Alienation of Reason: A History of Positivist Thought, Doubleday, Garden City. Stephen, L. (1962). A History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Harcourt, New York. Anderson, R. F. (1966). Hume’s First Principles, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Popper. K. (1960). Knowledge without authority. In Miller D. (ed.), (1983). Popper, Oxford, Fontana, pp. 46-57. Husserl, E. (1970). The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Carr, D. (trans.), Northwestern University Press, Evanston. Stroud, B. (1977). Hume, Routledge, London & New York. Ayer, A. J. (1980). Hume, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Gregory, R. L. (1981). Mind in Science, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. Livingston, D. (1989). Hume on the Natural History of Philosophical Consciousness. In P. Jones (ed.), The Science of Man, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 68-84. Flew, A. (1986). David Hume: Philosopher of Moral Science, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Phillipson, N. (1989). Hume, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. Penelhum, T. (1993). Hume’s moral philosophy. In Norton, D. F. (ed.), (1993). The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge University Press, pp. 117-147. Norton, D. F. (1993). Introduction to Hume’s thought. In Norton, D. F. (ed.), (1993). The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-32. Fogelin, R. J. (1993). Hume’s scepticism. In Norton, D. F. (ed.), (1993). The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge University Press, pp. 90-116. Hume, D. (1777). An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Nidditch, P. N. (ed.), 3rd. ed. (1975), Clarendon Press, Oxford. Fenton Robb 19:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ruzwana Bashir[edit]

Can you explain why you deleted this article? I have looked at the old VfDs and none of them decided on deletion. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:17, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly do not remember why I had deleted the article. – ABCD ^e✉ 15:17, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah well, I suppose no harm comes of it. The article is causing the person problems anyway. Keep it deleted :-) Ta bu shi da yu 08:15, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sig[edit]

Thanks for your note. Maurreen 21:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ABug on ABot[edit]

The bot is apparently tagging images as {{nowcommonsthis}} even though they don't exist on commons with the same name (examples: Image:Ac.christ.jpg and Image:AKMap-doton-Valdez.PNG), or even though the image has the same name but isn't exactly the same image (example: Image:APECMitgliedsstaaten.png). I blocked it for 24 hours, but feel free to unblock, of course, if it's working fine. Is this a bug? – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 16:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There appeared to be a bug in the bot (where it had a problem with image names with spaces), but the bot did not look at the actual images, instead just looking at how it had been tagged - if someone marked it as {{NowCommons|...}} incorrectly, my bot will change it to {{NowCommonsThis}}, if the Image has the same name. (I hope that made sense). – ABCD ^e✉ 16:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Feel free to unblock and run again when the first problem is fixed. (You may have already done so, I haven't checked.) – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 16:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template: Infobox animanga[edit]

Hello, I noticed you changed two of the subtemplates. The change to Qif I don't mind; the question there is whether Qif hits the server harder than If defined, or the other way around? I don't know, do you have an opinion? Your omission of the nowiki tags and the italics tags, however, causes an unwanted newline and disables the bolding. In other words, those tags were there for a reason. I'm just doing a straight revert for now, as I've got to run; if you want to change to Qif, please make sure it doesn't wreck the formatting and do apply it to all the subtemplates that have an optional title field. - mako 20:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine now. Thanks. - mako 22:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Locke Cole/Taxobox[edit]

Your change to User:Locke Cole/Taxobox broke the template (see User:Locke Cole/Blue Whale which uses this test template). Are you certain the change(s) you're making are correct? —Locke Cole • t • c 02:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. invisible username[edit]

I've reblocked him. He is lying about "Chinese initials", those Unicode characters have nothing to do with Chinese. He is intentionally choosing invisible non-printing Unicode characters. -- Curps 07:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He has tried to create a number of such accounts recently, using invisible non-printing characters like Unicode "left-to-right embedding". Please don't unblock any of them, he's up to no good, as the outright lying about "Chinese" indicates. -- Curps 07:21, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We need to talk[edit]

Hey, I just need to talk to you. Leave me a message on MY talk page, it will be more safer there. Richardkselby 01:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC) I replied. The reply is on my page. Richardkselby 01:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Marshall Strickland[edit]

Hi, I noticed that you just deleted the Marshall Strickland article. I was sort of in the middle of working on it, and I think he's a fairly notable person anyways, being a starter for a major Division 1 college basketball team and a possibly a future NBA player. Would you mind if I undeleted it?--Alhutch 06:43, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Undeleted (if you are in the middle of working on it, you might want to place {{inuse}} at the top). – – ABCD ^e✉ 06:44, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, I didn't think of that. thanks a bunch :-) Alhutch 06:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Footnote software solution?[edit]

I noticed your change to McDonald's and I like it, because that means not having to bop back and forth between two sections when adding footnotes. Please link me to where the format originates and is discussed. I hope it also handles multiple references to the same footnote as well. TransUtopian 13:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See m:Cite/Cite.php, an extension written by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason. – ABCD ^e✉ 19:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Hoyzer article[edit]

Just to give you a heads-up: I'm restoring the Robert Hoyzer article that you put a copyvio on. I looked at the article in question, and it's clear that the copyright violator was The Peninsula, not anyone on Wikipedia. The Peninsula article is basically word-for-word identical to a Wikipedia version that existed before December 26, 2005. — Dale Arnett 15:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flags - png vs. svk[edit]

I noticed you upgraded some of my flag image links on my User page. Thank you. But, not being an expert in the use of images, I don't know why you did. It seems like a lot of work for not much difference. And some of the png images are still there, you only changed some to svk. Anyway, if you could explain any of this to me I'd appreciate it. I'm sure you had good reasons, so thanks. Bruxism 03:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First, note that it's svg, not svk :). All of the images I changed (and possibly some that I didn't) are marked (or should be marked) as redundant, and therefore speedy deleteable once nothing links to it (images cannot be redirected). SVG images are nice for many reasons, one of which is that they can be resized to any size, and still look good (see the article for details). In addition, the names of the images are much nicer (proper capitalization is always a good thing :) ). – ABCD ^e✉ 03:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see, thanks. As for svk, I guess I have been watching too much Olympics. Still, I kind of like the internal pun of having the flag of PNG in png, but I'll fix it. (I put that page together the night that some Wikipedia servers were down, so I had a hard time getting images to work, and took whatever I could.) Bruxism 03:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Just Ignacio[edit]

Just Ignacio, which you originally prodded, is now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Just Ignacio. NickelShoe 05:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flags again[edit]

Your efforts moving the flags to .svg are commendable, but somehow your source for the Delaware state flag has the wrong shade of blue. The older image is the one in use- I see it everyday. The deeper shade makes it horrifyingly like Pennsylvania. Can you fix that or should it just be reverted pending a source with the correct color? stilltim 02:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't make the flag images, I'm just using the newer ones - if there's a problem with the image, please take it up with the uploader, or edit the image yourself. I'm sorry that I cannot help you any further. (By the way, I don't mind if you revert if that's the reason). – ABCD ^e✉ 02:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Link[edit]

Hello,

I enter to Mary Magdalene in wikipedia and put a link to the website MaryMagdalene.com and it shows, but after 1 day it is no longer there.

I just put it there again, but I want to know why it was deleted the past 2 times.

Thank you, Marengo.

My user page[edit]

That was a nice piece of Wikignoming, appreciate it. Herostratus 21:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

April Fool's Day[edit]

Why did you transclude the development page to the actual main page...without even protecting the former? Do you realize what types of potential vandalism you enabled?!

Assuming that the April Fool's Day material is to be used, this should be accomplished via the normal templates. But it appears as though no one made the necessary arrangements, given the fact that a different featured picture was designated. If you want to try to sneak some of the other content in, I suggest that you hurry up and propose this on the appropriate project pages. —David Levy 01:45, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Anniversary!!![edit]

Calendar says it's today, exactly one year ago, that they gave you all that extra mopping to do. Don't let it get to you. :) --Mmounties (Talk) 02:23, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy admin promotion anniversary. You became an administrator on this day. --Bhadani 13:28, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I just came back to watch your face. --Bhadani 13:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Stressed?[edit]

File:Esperanza.Fhloston.jpg

Esperanza hopes that your stress will blow away soon.

Relax! Stress is bad for your health, you know... --Misza 13 ^{T C} 18:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

File:Esperanza.Birthday.gif

Esperanza wishes you a Happy Birthday!!

Oh, and an early Happy Birthday! --Misza 13 ^{T C} 20:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday![edit]

Just noticed it was your birthday, so Happy Birthday! If it isn't your birthday, well Happy Easter anyway and if you don't believe in Easter, well I hope Hannukah does you well. I'll wish you a happy Guy Fawkes day as well, oops, I just blew up my arm. Oh well, have a good day. MyNameIsNotBob 09:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday from me too, hope you'll have a good day! --Joann e B 11:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday! - Have a nice peaceful day! --Scot ^t 11:33, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!!!! -- Hope you have a spectacular birthday!!!!!! ~SB rools ^(talk)

Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia:Birthday Committee!! Jared W!!! | Write to me, why don't you? 16:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed image[edit]

When I have looked at history of

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nationalities_of_China&dir=prev&offset=20050629013246&action=history

It said "rm image deleted by User:ABCD", which pointed to 56mingzhu.jpg.

As I have spent hours of work on this picture, can you tell me the reason you removed it, and how can I get this image back? Caiqian 02:30, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The image was deleted on 18 September 2005, because it had no copyright tags on it, and was marked as not having said tags for at least 7 days. I thereby deleted it in accordance with the Speedy Deletion criterion number I4, which says, "Lack of licensing. Images in category "Images with unknown source" or "Images with unknown copyright status" that have been tagged with a template that places them in the category for more than 7 days, regardless of when uploaded." I do not have a copy of the image, and it was deleted from the servers, so I do not know how you might be able to retrieve the picture. You may wish to check one of our many mirrors and forks to see if you can find the image on one of them. Sorry for the inconvenience. – ABCD ^e✉ 04:26, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Babel boxes[edit]

The Babel boxes on Simple English Wikipedia have been renamed to conform to a new accepted scheme. Please remake your boxes on your userpage there or change the references to fit with the new standard format. The old boxes will be deleted. Ask me any questions on my talk page there or here. Thanks! --Cromwellt|Talk 02:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot bug, has this been fixed?[edit]

Your bot user:ABot changed NowCommons into NCT on a couple of images.

However it mixes up the dots with other characters. Image:Ac.sultanahmed1.jpg was for instance uploaded to commons as Image:Ac-sultanahmed1.jpg -- not the same name. And Image:Ac.burleygriffin.jpg was uploaded as Image:Ac burleygriffin.jpg.

/ Fred-Chess 11:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I believe that the bug has been fixed. – ABCD ^e✉ 17:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]