User talk:Arknascar44/Archive 3

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Can you adopt me?

Hi, I was wondering if you could (please) adopt me. That would be great! Shmooshkums 02:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Why, certainly, Shmooshkums! Now, in order for me to create a curriculum for your adoption program, I'll need you to tell me what you like to do here at Wikipedia, what you want to learn about it, and things you might want to become here. Happy editing, Arky ^¡Hablar! 02:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, for instance, I'm not very good at using the computer properly, so I have some technical questions. As well, I want to learn more about the wikipolicies. On Wikipedia, I like to correct typos or word things in a better way, try and add information where I can (which is mostly the Harry Potter articles), and spread Wikilove. I also want to do some work on translating articles (in French and English). As for what I want to become here... I'd like to be a dependable asset to the community, I'd like to be counted on, and I'd like to learn lots in the process (and have fun!). Shmooshkums 15:08, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Good news--I've created your adoption curriculum! It is located here. Just scroll down until you see your name :) Cheers, ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 01:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good:) When do we start? Shmooshkums 22:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much for the kind words in your review, I appreciate it as well as the question. Cheers! Into The Fray ^T/C 03:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I need you to adopt me please!!!

I am new to wikipidia, and have been accused of sock puppetry,proved my innocence,and recommended mentorship.I do NOT vandalize and I am oposed to it.I am getting stressed out so I think I need an adopter.--Mary Di Valerio 18:12, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I'll adopt you :) And don't worry, I don't think you're intentionally vandalizing any pages. In order for me to create an adoption curriculum for you, I'll need to know the kinds of things you help out with around here, what you want to help out with later on, and anything you want to become (for example, an administrator, or just a reliable trusted editor). Cheers, ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 02:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much!!! I mostly correct grammerical errors and spelling mistakes,but later on I would like to add content or write articles, and maybe be on vandalisim patrol.I want to be a good editor and later on become an administrator.Cheers,--Mary Di Valerio 18:50, 26 September 2007 (UTC) Oh yeah and I 'd also like to know how to put a userbox on my page my computer won't let me.--Mary Di Valerio 19:09, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Happy Arky's Day!

Arknascar44 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Arky's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Arky!

Love,
Phaedriel
08:54, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
A record of your Day will always be kept here.

Oh, Phaedriel, you've outdone yourself again! Thank you so much for this gift; I'll treasure it forever! Thank you, thank you! ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 18:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Adopt me

(Moved from above)

Sure i would like to be adopted.--Wilemon23 13:35, 7 September 2007 (UTC) Please adopt me!!!! I am pathetic at this. Kitty 22:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Arky,

I haven't created many pages but however, I have mainly been doing the editing. Although I did Create one page for KKYR And one I get to know wikipedia better I plan on creatinng more pages. As for Partrolling Vandals yes I do check the pages and make sure that there is not any. Unfortunately though I haven't had very good luck in catching them.

And lastly I would like to eventually become an administrator.

If you have anymore questions or something I forgot to mention feel free to ask me.--Wilemon23 19:54, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Harlem Academy

Hey Arknascar44 i hope that you can be of assistance! I am an administrator at a great elementary school in Harlem NY we are trying to set up a wiki page for our fourth grade to learn how to research and publish internet articles. I have tried not only to create an article for the page but also a user page. I thought that schools could create pages for their students to work on wiki, allowing them to save articles and share their school work and other miscellany. I recently tried to update our page to be less 'biased' after being flagged, but the admin who flagged us suggested we seek an adoption to help us along. Maybe that can be you! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! [````] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harlemacademy (talk • contribs) 02:45, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

BoomerangIt

Thank you for your earlier reply. The fact is that we're the company BoomerangIt and someone else has created a Wikipedia account with our company name as his user name. We understand this violates the Wikipedia policies. We do not know of this user and have never provided him with our authorization to use our name. We want this user to stop using our company name as user name and to create our own account with username BoomerangIt. Your advise how we can do this is greatly appreciated. Thank you. The Folks at Boomerangit! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.164.99.50 (talk) 16:59, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Adminship?

I noticed the userbox on your userpage, took a look through your contribs, and was wondering how you would feel about RfA-ing? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 01:59, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, H2O. I really appreciate your offer, but I think I'd take a good deal of heat in an RfA now for my predominantly automatic (i.e. TW and AWB) edits in the mainspace, and my rather small amounts of edits in total. Besides, my main focus now is to improve the project in any way I can, and I currently see adminship as a long-term goal. I think I'll wait a bit, and gain the trust of the community, but thanks for the kind offer

Cheers, ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 02:04, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I would support your RfA definately. Think about it? :) — jacĸrм (talk) 02:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Leave a note when you think you're ready...I suppose you're right about mainspace =/ Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 02:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

20%

oh, thanks! Dybryd 00:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem

I'm here to help. ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 00:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Cheers, Arky!

[1]. Agreed. Quite nasty. But points for originality. Thanks for the revert. :D Into The Fray ^T/C 19:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. <bad joke/>Nothing like a little refined humor :)</bad joke> Cheers, ARkY // ¡HaBLaR! 20:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Email

I saw that earlier today, and was planning to respond after the Signpost was finished today. What I'd like to see is a sample -- profile a WikiProject (let's say Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography, to start). Write up what you think would be a good WikiProject profile; I'd like to see something that's both interesting and informative, but the specific makeup is up to you at this point. I'll let you know what I think when it's done. Ral315 » 02:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Done Sample created at User:Arknascar44/Signpost. Cheers, ( ar ky ) 01:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Info box help

That infobox you made me worked really well! There is just one problem. I can't get the photo to center! Can you fix it for me? Go to: Power Puzzle. MindstormsKid 17:46, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Done Cheers, ( ar ky ) 19:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Information

Hi! I am a student from Leigh´s class and we have to improve an article about the city we live in. I want to include some information about a church called La Merced but I do not know if I can include some pictures of the church. Can you tell me if I can?

Thank You

Zyasel88 17:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)Zyasel88Zyasel88 17:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

LOL

I just noticed this [2]. Thanks. :D Into The Fray ^T/C 22:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I couldn't resist a little fun :) ( ar ky ) 22:17, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Editing Toluca page

Hi Arky,I am Nathaly from Copitas team. We have just put information about the "Cosmovitral" in our page.Can you help us and tell us if the grammar structure it´s ok please? Thanks (please answer in our page)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Copitas

Nathaly07 18:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Editing Toluca page

Hi Arky, would you mind checking the information we just uploaded?? Arlettuce 18:25, 5 October 2007 (UTC)ArlettuceArlettuce 18:25, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Age for infant template

The template is malfunctioning. It is producing an extra return that forces the closing parenthesis in (age 3 months 14 days) to show on a separate line. Also the text on the Template page is not making sense since there are 32 days does not make sense.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 21:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, all powerful one...

Quoted from User talk:Anomie:
“	Anomie, titan of programming, canst thou assist me? =P I'm having trouble with {{age for infant}}. I'm trying to add a parameter that will allow months, days, etc. to be abbreviated. For example, if {{{abbr}}} is set to "yes", then all instances of "months" become "mos.", "days" become "dys.", "year" becomes "yr.", etc, etc. I've tried playing around with an `#ifeq` function, and a `#switch`, but it's the weirdest thing; when I put them in the template, it messed up the whole switch function I have in there already. Any ideas? Cheers, ( ar ky ) 02:55, 5 October 2007 (UTC)	”

Heh (: I've fulfilled your request, but it looks like you have done something else in the mean time. My version also has two additional changes:

Y|M|D parameter order instead of D|M|Y. Most date templates use Y|M|D, and D|M|Y will confuse those of us who live in places that use M/D/Y rather than D/M/Y in writing dates.
I've gotten rid of the "1 or over" parameter, instead actually calculating whether the age is 1 or over. I took the suggestion at Wikipedia:Requested templates#Infant age and used months+days for <1 year, years+months for <3 years, and just years for anything over.

It's also quite a bit smaller, since it pushes a lot of the work off onto other templates (like {{age}}). Feel free to copy it over if you like it (and be sure to fix the existing uses for the new order if so). BTW, if you're curious, I had to fix bugs in {{plural}} and {{age in months}} to do this. ;) Anomie 21:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

BTW, I notice your template still has some bugs. For example, October 5 to October 6 gives "12 months 31 days" instead of "1 day", and September 3 to October 6 gives "0 months 33 days" instead of "1 month 3 days". Anomie 21:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Done all usages updated, template changed. Thanks again, Anomie :) ( ar ky ) 23:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem, it was fun fixing all those other templates to get this to work (: Anomie 02:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for helping me with that template. After I made my request, I was thinking I didn't explain it well enough, but you knew exactly what I wanted. I went ahead and made it here - Template:Tlrow2. Now I can get back to cleaning up those template example pages. If you have time, please take a look at my template page and make sure I did everything right. I didn't know if I needed a /doc page or anything else. Like I said, I never made a template before. Also, if you can, remove the extra space between the two output templates. I would like for them to be stacked on top of each other, but I don't know what to change. (I think it just needs one less <br />.) Thanks again! Rocket000 21:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Done I added <div style="margin-top:0">text</div> instead of a <br/> tag so that the templates stack with no white space. Cheers, ( ar ky ) 23:34, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Perfect! Thank you! Rocket000 20:17, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Love Cabal update

Hey, I've modified User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal so that users can specify where exactly the icon is placed. {{User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal}} will still place it 10px from the right and 5px from the top, but {{User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal|right=70px|top=20px}} can be used to place it elsewhere, for example (if there's no value for something, it'll just revert to the default.; {{User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal|right=30px}} will just shift it over to the left a bit more than the default, while staying on the same vertical plane).

I'll leave it to you to put the documentation note on the page, though. EVula // talk // ☯ // 06:25, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Done Documentation added, and thanks for the feature :) ( ar ky ) 16:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure, happy to help. Though I'd promptly remove the template if it were left on my userpage (I'm too protective about how it operates; those icons are functional as well as decorative), I certainly agree with the thought and feeling behind it. EVula // talk // ☯ // 00:35, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Question

Arky...quick question. When I look at your talk page, you have a large smiley face floating on the left side of my screen, covering up the WP nav buttons. Is this a function of the fact that I'm on a wide screened laptop or is it where you want it to be? Into The Fray ^T/C 00:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

You know, I think I'll remove it. It's even starting to distract me now

Cheers, ( ar ky ) 00:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Eeep! Wasn't my intent to have you remove it, just curious if it looked different on my screen. Take care, Into The Fray ^T/C 01:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Ha, I know. I've been meaning to remove it, but I've just been puting it off until now :) No worries, ( ar ky ) 02:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Signpost

I could have sworn I replied to you, but apparently I didn't; apologies. That looks great. Are you still interested in doing this on a weekly basis? Ral315 » 16:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Of course :) ( ar ky ) 16:21, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Then I'll go with the Biography one for this week, and let's see how the format goes over. I don't mind the length of the Biography one, so if you choose to go shorter on future projects, that's fine, but if you choose to keep it about the same length, that's fine with me too. Ral315 » 23:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Wiki help

Hi Arky, would you mind checking the information we just uploaded in our talk page for some changes we will do in the TOLUCA page(ZYANYA06)?? Yacopop 00:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)YacopopYacopop 00:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Done Cheers, ( ar ky ) 01:49, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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Pictures

Hello again arky! I have to ask for permission to take pictures of the Temple of La Merced here in Toluca and I would like you to tell me if I can include pictures in the article about Toluca we are editing, can you tell me please?? because I need a lot of people from government to sign some papers before takinf the pictures.

Thank You!!

Zyasel88 17:55, 9 October 2007 (UTC)Zyasel88Zyasel88 17:55, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

David Miscavige article mediation status

Hi Arky! Since all Scientology related articles have been put under editing probation, the edit warring has died down considerably and some semblance of sanity is taking effect. So, yes, you may close the mediation. If anything flares up in the future, we can also open a new case. Thanks for your help.--Fahrenheit451 03:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Your welcome; I will close the case :) ( ar ky ) 11:27, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

Hi Arknascar44 I am a new user seeking adoption mainly in editing mistakes and being a new page patroller along with nominating articles for AfD's and what not. If you could help me i would be ecstatic! Thanks~--English836 00:19, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes i wish to be adopted--English836 20:02, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Any updates?--English836 00:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ferrylodge

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ferrylodge. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ferrylodge/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ferrylodge/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Newyorkbrad 16:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Help

Hi Arki. I need your help because I upload an image to Toluca Aticle (in education part). But I dont know why it appear so big.Whats wrong?? This is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluca

Nathaly07 19:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC) Thanks

I am back

am back sorry i took so long

- i had surgery
- moved houses
-new internet

I am now back and ready to edit i maybe a little slower because i am gettng a new joba and i have a harder deadline so i need to try to have a lot of attention with that. I am ready to move on! --Mgeheren 01:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

RE:Anti-vand tools/scripts

I already user AVT and I dont think it has a vandal warning tool.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 02:23, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmm...well, in AVT, if you click the link next to an edit that says uw-test or uw-vand, it loads the user's talk page with the template already on it. This isn't exactly "automatic", though. However, since Twinkle only works in Firefox, you could always wait a bit and register for VandalProof, which only works in Internet Explorer. It's a great program, but it has some requirements that you need to meet in order to get it. Happy editing, ( ar ky ) 02:29, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay thanks.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 02:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Note

Hello, just so you know, the picture on your userpage covers the editor review template, so I can't click it. Cheers,Je t Lover (Report a mistake) 02:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Fixed Thanks, JetLover! :) ( ar ky ) 20:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! (: Cheers,Je t Lover (Report a mistake) 21:09, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

how to tag non-free external resources?

Hi, I just edited the Talk:Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol page to note that the reference [1] points to a a non-freely downloadable article: one can see the abstract for the article and must pay $29 to see it all. Is there a standard tagging/highlighting guideline to warn about non-freely-available external resources? I tried some searching into [Main Talk User User-talk Wikipedia Wikipedia-talk Help Help-talk] namespaces, but found nothing that fits (the tagging for non-free images really do not fits). Thanks for your friendly Talk page :-) R.traverso 19:29, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Nice question :) First, if you really want to get technical, you could says that the website could be removed per Wikipedia's external links guidelines (criterion 7, to be really technical) because it is a link to a site that "require[s] payment or registration to view the relevant content." However, if the site is a reference for a fact that is specifically stated in the abstract (the free part of the site), then keeping it should be OK. Hope that helps, ( ar ky ) 20:28, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer! but hmm... this is turning into a political question... since highlighting the fact would be exposing a page to a clash with the guidlines, maybe there was not the community urge to decide a standard way to deal with this. In effect, in this case, the stated fact is not contained in the abstract, but I was not thinking at all at considering for its removal.... the fact, for my perspective is: I get to the wiki/LDAP page to browse on various resources on LDAP(as I would for other subjects)... maybe that reference is important and authoritative to the subject, I am not trying to find an answer to this in this case... but I, browsing the pages, would love to know this fact in advance before asking for the reference (especially in cases where many links are present and I would like to choose at a glance the ones that look more promising)... I realize that maybe to understand how to relate to this kind of questions I have to make up more experience on wikipedia. Anyway, also if my post is getting really huge, I want to ask for addressing on another class of problem, and I am getting a bit technical: this additional consideration is driven by the fact that maybe most users wants just the essential informations on a wiki page, and not the ones that would render the base infos less clear (and maybe other wants some more information, also if this can dirt the page a bit)... so: do you know if it is possible in wikipedia as it is now to have user-groups that have a view of the wiki pages different from the default ones, merging infos stored in an ad-hoc wiki page to that wiki pages that got some additional info registered (that would be a solution for this kind of reference highlighting fact: If one subscribe to the 'NotesAboutLinks' group additional content (e.g. more text, different underscoring...) is visualized in cases such as LDAP[1]). Thanks for the patience and for the space given to these considerations. R.traverso 09:24, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

This seems like something to bring up on the article's talk page. Personally, I would have the reference removed if it did not have the fact it was supposed to have in it. After all, references should be used to provide sources that say a fact is true, and, if the reference does not do this, then it is simply a link floating out in space :) As for different ways that people think about adding and removing things from articles, you might want to see the essays on Inclusionism and Exclusionism at the Meta-Wiki. Hope that answers your question, and cheers, ( ar ky ) 11:13, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Adopt me arky

Erm, as the title says really.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolver12 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Any updates?

I left you numerous messages, and we're wondering if your interested in still adopting me?--English836 01:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you please adopt me?

I would love to be adopted. I have posted messages here a few times, but haven't gotten a response. I don't know how to put a link, or I would link you to my talk page. I just started here, and would love to edit some of the sites where I have more knowledge, like flowering plants, harry potter, and the beatles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kittyloves (talk • contribs) 22:01, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I have posted this on my talk page, and would like if you responded there, but i have also posted it here: I would love to be adopted, I have recieved some help from other users, but i have not been adopted, thank you! Kitty 23:47, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

comment added by Kittyloves (talk • contribs) 23:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you please respond! I would really like to start editing!!! Kitty 21:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Kitty has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thank you. I would like to know how to add images onto wiki. I forgot after i added that one. also i would really like to know some of the templates. I think i might like to become an administrator.

I'm done my first lesson

Ok, so I'm done my first lesson; sorry it took me so long. What's next? Shmooshkums 03:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Featured sound

Greetings. I noticed you vote many times at the featured sound candidates page. I am looking to try and get a featured sound, though I am kinda lost of what to do. I am shooting for Image:Kimi ga Yo 1930.ogg to be the candidate. Thanks. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 07:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Zscout :) I've checked the .ogg file (an awesome recording, by the way) against the criteria (at WP:FS?) and it meets all except perhaps criterion 5. If the description page includes a bit more information, I would definitely support it at WP:FSC. Cheers! ( ar ky ) 23:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your message of support; everyone here is safe. As for the recording, I added some details at Image:Kimi_ga_Yo_1930.ogg#Detailed_information and I will try to add more. Keep in mind the original source is in Japanese, so it will take some time. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:34, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, no problem :) ( ar ky ) 02:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)