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hello.
I'm the contributor of "Dan Pena" article which was deleted. :(
Can you provide me a copy of it? I want to improve its content and hopefully
stay on wikipedia.
I've come across a user (Ahoalton1 currently) that needs more help than I can give. He seems (seems) to have a valid argument: He is editing the Order of the Arrow article and he's getting pushback from a couple of admins that are admittedly OA members and appear to be trying to keep the "secret" ceremonies secret (1, 2, 3... and more). Well, this guy stuck his foot in it when he started IP hopping (I don't know that this was his fault, might be a dynamic IP) then he ended up in a couple of edit wars (being with admins he was blocked instantly), he then went on to get a user name (Ahoalton) but was blocked for having a user name that is a secret word to these OA guys (he never got a single edit in the mainspace before getting blocked ). No edits, no help, no introduction to WP just hit him with an indefinite block instantly! Now he's gone and got a second user name and the namehopping is not looking good. What can I do to help this guy? Where can we go to get this reviewed and resolved? And what do you suggest I do with the user himself to get him to stop acting this way? Any help would be a big help. Yet more of the argument can be summed up on this users talk page, it's pretty blatant that at least some editors are trying to keep the secrets. Now, I don't give a tinkers cusp what the secrets are but any editor that has sworn to keep information secret is obviously in a conflict of interest when they start editing WP to keep those sworn secrets. Like I say, anything you can do to help, any direction would be a big deal. Padillah (talk) 19:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the input but it looks like this guy was just bound and determined to torpedo himself. I've never seen a user try harder to ruin their own argument. Well, we tried. Thanks a million. Padillah (talk) 13:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations
Hi, i don't know if you remember me, but i just wanted to say congratulations on becoming an admin, i wish i'd noticed your RFA, purely because i cannot think of a better candidate for adminship, and i would have liked to add my support, even though you didn't need it. I'm clearly not alone in my views. You're going to make a great administrator. Good Luck--Jac16888 (talk) 18:03, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
My Sanskrit Blog - showing English words in Sanskrit forms.
This is a non promotional and non profit endeavor of mine and I show how some of the English words are connected to Sanskrit,
by following well known rules.
So why are you saying that this is promotional? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunilsrivastava (talk • contribs) 11:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
My Disruptive Editing
Sorry 'bout all that. Someone found out my password and thought they'd have some fun with it. Don't worry I've changed it now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seantrac (talk • contribs) 20:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Done - I've restored the version immediately prior to the posting of the AfD notice. (There were no revisions after that point.) The only change I've made is to comment out the categories and the interwiki links. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 00:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Why did you remove Jaslene's Elite Model Management External link? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.147.207 (talk) 18:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Jaslene External Link
Why did you remove Jaslene's Elite Model Management External link? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.147.207 (talk) 18:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks:Six Nations
Sorry.I thought I was using the sandbox.I will watch where I put it from now on.--86.41.85.203 (talk) 10:13, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I see you are an admin, can you please protect the six nation page for a couple of hours.
This guy has been making random edits for a while now. Thanks FFMG (talk) 10:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for letting me know. --Ckatzchatspy 10:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the page protection. --Snowdog (talk) 10:19, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
No problem - please let me know if this persists after the protection is released. --Ckatzchatspy 10:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Possible semi-protection?
Hey, sorry to just drop this here, but, since I notice you've done some of the same reversions, I thought I'd ask - any chance I can get a semi-protection of my user page for, oh, a couple days maybe, in the last few hours it's been hit with the same edit by a couple different IPs [1] and [2] (think I got this diff thing right, first attempt at some), presumably in response to this reversion I made a few days back: [3]. Anyway, checking WHOIS on both IPs resolved to ISPs in Ireland. I reverted both, first go-round I dropped a note on the IP [4] talk page saying please don't do that, and to take discussion to my talk page. I'd rather not do that to every IP that keeps putting the same thing back up (and feeding the trolls)... and I'd also like to avoid constant reverting. (If it weren't multiple IPs, I'd simply go to AIV, but...) Anyway, thanks for whatever assistance you can provide. --Umrguy42 (talk) 07:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an eye on it, and I understand. (I was just wondering what I might find when I woke up today, more vandalism or not. Fortunately, the latter.) Hopefully, those two edits will be all, and it'll blow over soon. All the best, --Umrguy42 (talk) 15:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
My little troll is back, with two new edits to my userpage in the past hour (within a half hour of each other, and the second three minutes after my reversion of the first). Both edits from different IP addresses, although the first one is within the same subnet as the original vandalism. Using WHOIS, all of them indicate ownership by a subsidiary (or something like that) of BT Ireland. --Umrguy42 (talk) 18:35, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Dude the parade is in New York.
Not Chicago!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.147.207 (talk) 05:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Sliders article - External Links
Just wanted to chime in that I believe your addition of DMOZ is the fair and equitable solution to the fan site listings; I will help you enforce that if fan site links are added further. DBHughes (talk) 07:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. I've found the "DMOZ" link to be pretty useful so far... the Sliders page most definitely wasn't an "issue" by any stretch, but there are other pages (in TV, cars, etc.) that have had real problems with external links. It seems to address several concerns, especially complaints along the lines of "why isn't my site here if that one is", while still providing easy links to fan pages. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 07:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
reverting uncited edits
Hello Ckatz, you reverted my edit on Terraforming of Mars. I agree with the idea of not to insert original research in Wikipedia. As you can see, the information is (mostly) available in other pages on Wikipedia, already. Some of the information was moved from one page to another, and your reverting destroyed the information. So, I would kindly ask you not to revert whole paragraphs without checking the contents in detail. -- The Cascade (talk) 09:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
There is still a need to provide proper references, and a check of the other pages shows that it wasn't referenced there either. Please try to provide some, as much of the article is unreferenced. --Ckatzchatspy 09:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
The date
Hi. I'm trying to bring Degrassi: The Next Generation up to FA status, and I'm having problems with date formatting. I've been doing it the American way as I have been assuming that is the way Canadians do it, but Calendar date#dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy (day, month, year) says either is used. I also noticed you warned User:Robinepowell back in June about changing date formatting (she removes commas in this article so "March 19, 2008" becomes "March 19 2008"). As a Canadian I'm sure you'll be able to help me on this, which format is more widely used? -- Matthew|talk|Contribs 20:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
The warnings to RP were a part of a larger issue, rather than any specifics about formatting. (Good to check, though, if you're aiming for FA - hope it goes well!) For your question, I would suggest going with 01 January 2001, and then applying
wiki markup to the date as [[01 January]] [[2001]]. That will allow it to appear based on a user's preferences. Hope this helps. --Ckatzchatspy
21:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
But were her edits warranted?
Wikipedia:DATE#Full date formatting says "Commas are not required to be used in full format American dates, such as February 14, 1976. Their inclusion or exclusion is a stylistic and editorial preference. Either style is acceptable so long as articles are internally consistent. Editors should follow the method already established in an article, so that if the article has dates with commas, then the commas should be left alone and new dates added to the article should have commas. If the dates in the article do not have commas, then they should not be added to existing dates and new dates should not have them. Where there is disagreement or the article currently has a mix of commas and no commas, then the earliest format used should be respected and the article changed to be consistent with that format." But IrishLass0128 is saying the removal is the right way to go, and placing a warning template on her page was wrong. -- Matthew|talk|Contribs
21:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh! And thanks for answering about the correct formatting. Is the British version used more than the American way, then? -- Matthew|talk|Contribs 21:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Question about copying/moving page histories
Hey again, Ckatz... technical question for you. A while back, when I was still (even more) inexperienced and all, I found that someone had changed information in the article
Adam Russell (baseball). If not, okay, but I just wanted to check. (I admit to a little personal interest in the case, as I went to high school with the guy.) (My current "remedy" was to leave a note on the Talk page for the original Adam Russell mentioning where the history was, but...) Thanks, --Umrguy42 (talk
) 15:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll take a look. It should be possible to split the history, but I'll have to double-check. Might take a while before I can get to it, but I will let you know either way. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 19:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Great, thanks! --Umrguy42 (talk) 19:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Planet of the Odd
Frankly, CK, I did it because I suggested creating the articles several times over the last couple of weeks and each time was told no. Nothing changed since. Obviously it was a silly idea, though. —TreasuryTag—t—c 08:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at
WT:WHO which you can contribute to. —TreasuryTag—t—c
09:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I think we all need to decide on a policy (
WT:WHO) and have it written down, because from series to series personal policies seem to change and new people take the reins of artical writing, at the moment TT and I seem to be conflicting.--Wiggs (talk
) 11:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Re:
Hi, thank you. When I asked for the move I didn't realize that there are hundreds of pages. It seemed to be a pretty good idea, but apparently it wasn't so good :) Anyway thank you for fix. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 21:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Regarding Jericho the TV series and the Tom Tooman tie in
All due respect- but how is the Tom Tooman saga "not notable," but "Beyond Jericho" is? Tom Tooman was 8 months of follow along the Jericho universe for us fans. There were thousands of players scattered across the globe. I think the Tom Tooman information is pertinent and should stay. I'm open for discussion about this, but deleting the page is unnecessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tygr20 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
The section (not page) was removed initially because of questions over its notability. Keep in mind that while the game may have had a fair number of players, that does not necessarily mean it warrants inclusion. Given that the series is now over, you may find that a lot of material that is currently in the article (Tom Tooman, Beyond Jericho, etc.) ends up being removed by the editors if there is no indication of lasting importance. However, I've left it in for now after cleaning it up a bit. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 16:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Moving/Copying Page Histories (Pt. 2)
Hey, Ckatz, don't think I'm unhappy with you (I'm not), but I just decided to go ahead and ask about the page history issue for
WP:ANI. (It's not you, I'm just an impatient type ;D) All the best, and thanks for your help and consideration --Umrguy42 (talk
) 22:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Links left on "Concept Schools" "Horizon Science Academy" and "Charter Schools"
Hello,
You blocked links that I left on these three pages. I believe that the link is valid. It has everything to do with Horizon Science Academy. Look at the link for yourself.
I didn't realize that you were sending me messages. I thought there was an error. I did put the link on one of those pages with spacing. If you still think the link does not belong, you may remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miguelfyi (talk • contribs) 08:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Image Copyright Violations
Hi. I was hoping you could help me with some copyright violations. User:Decumanus/images
Most of the images on that page seem to be scanned maps and in use by articles. However, the user seems to have put GNU free licenses on all the images. I don't know where to post them, so I found your name on
Hi Ckatz, I've been undoing User talk:24.74.241.111 from continually adding a fan site to the external links in the Jim Sturgess article and was wondering if you could please give a stricter warning to him or her, and perhaps issue a block. I noticed that you have messaged the user several times before but it seems that he or she is making a nuisance on other articles as well. Thank you. IndulgentReader (talk) 06:52, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I am the main source for the location scouting page and much of what is on that page has never been written down in one place before.
I would be happy to cite myself and the several location professionals I know who use the the wikipedia location scouting article as an explanation of what they do on their homepages but pointing to my website leaves a lot to be interpreted in the way of self promotion.
The last edit before yours author made several editorial "adjustments" to the page, that judging by the syntax used gives clues the author has little or no expert knowledge of the subject and leads me to ask why other than perhaps boredom and or a personality flaw that individual might have been motivated to seemingly go on a witch hunt on the page including the first citation challenge.
Wikipedia is new territory and there are not 200 years of trade practices related to location scouting - in fact it may be one of a very few trades left where the knowledge is passed on by doing and learning by watching others - as far as I know much of what is on that page hadnt really been written down in one place before
I must say my level of motivation for contributing to Wikipedia has dropped considerably after reviewing the recent edits there on the location scouting page I and others have worked so hard on that seemed to be just fine for many years now till very recently.
Hello Ckatz, I messaged you before about issuing a warning to User talk:24.74.241.111 for which you did, and I'm grateful for it. However, I noticed the user is continuing to vandalize the Jim Sturgess article by continually adding the same fan site despite your warning. Could you please issue a block if possible? Thank you. 17:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Ckatz, I'm sorry if I'm continually bothering you with all of these requests, but I believe User talk:Moonset is a sock puppet to User talk:24.74.241.111. Both have been continually adding the same spam link on the Jim Sturgess article. Could you please issue a warning or a block? Thanks! IndulgentReader (talk) 01:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
No bother - and done. (I'd noticed the connection between the two as well. Thanks for keeping an eye on it.) --Ckatzchatspy 05:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Couple Things
1. Important question - do you know, is it WP *policy* that images on articles MUST BE uploaded to wikipedia (or commons)? I was just wondering, as I removed an IP user's attempt to place a link to an external image into an article, and I left them (what I hope) was a friendly message on their talk encouraging them, assuming the licensing is good, to upload the image to WP. I didn't say it was policy, I said it was "usually a good idea (maybe policy?)". I just thought I'd check on that. (I skimmed through
WP:IUP
and a couple related pages, didn't see anything explicitly on the subject there.)
Images on external sites can no longer be linked inline to be publicized on Wikipedia. This is due to several reasons:
* inline linking to images on other sites is often considered "leeching" and is thus rude
* allowing inline image linking makes it easier for vandals to post images from shock sites
* allowing inline image linking makes it easier to introduce copyrighted images in Wikipedia.
* external images are often unreliable
Instead, to place an image on Wikipedia, you will need to upload it.
2. I know you're likely busy and all, with other WP stuff, with stuff IRL... but if you can still be looking at the whole page history issue I mentioned with
Adam Russell (baseball)
, I'm much obliged.
No problem - thought you;d taken this elsewhere. It is now done. (Always good to learn a new trick!)
Again, no problem - feel free to ask any time. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 07:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
1. Okay. Appears to be guideline-shading-to-policy. Good to know, just for future reference. 2. Definitely appreciate it, and glad I could provide a learning experience :D 3. And for that, thanks again --Umrguy42 (talk) 08:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Trivia of Amherst College
I see that you reverted my change to the Amherst College page removing the piece of trivia about the asteroid named after the college. Can you explain why it's relevant to keep it on the article? And perhaps suggest where in the article you think it should go? Thanks! Npdoty (talk) 07:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
If you could respond on the Talk:Amherst College page in the appropriate section (at the bottom), that would be great. Thanks. Npdoty (talk) 07:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Don't delete my page!!! I was in the middle of creating and you deleted my work in less than a minute from the time i created it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 20wide (talk • contribs) 05:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
EHC Shenanigans
You may wish to act on the most recent result posted at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/EverybodyHatesChris. As someone familiar with EHC's editing patterns, you'll hear the quacking louder than most. BicMacDad18 (talk·contribs) first edits were to Hogan Knows Best, and he has that same can't bother to preview style and a habit of acting chummy with his other socks when administrators are keeping them down. Cheers, ➪HiDrNick! 15:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
A proposal for changing the layout of the episode pages is under way
here
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A discussion about the formatting of the cast lists in episode pages is under way here.
A discussion to move
here
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News
The
Torchwood project
has become a task-force under the project's scope.
The
4th series of Doctor Who
will start to air on 5th April.
For the Doctor Who project, Sceptre(talk) 18:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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Possible stalking by 65.31.98.71
Hello. Recently, I have noticed that this IP has been leaving disruptive comments as you did not respond to an "apology" by him. He has threatened to revealed your personal information. Please take a look at it. If you would like to reply to this message, please do so on my talk page on Simple Wiki. Chenzw (talk·contribs) 11:23, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
warnings
When you revert link additions as you did here, you might wanna warn the person adding the link. In this case this guy was adding the same link quite extensively, and it helps if they get warned about it somewhere. You can see the full details at m:User:SpamReportBot/cw/iasa.ir. —— nixeagle 19:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey Ckatz
Hi There CKatz... i'm responding back to the Telus/TELUS discussion. There is specific documentation within TELUS Legal documents that require TELUS to be be spelt with all CAPS, no matter where it is being used. So i believe that Wikipedia should take this into context and edit appropriately. Just my view, no hard feelings on this but can we not have Wikipedia show this to be correct in their rules? or maybe Wikipedia needs to adjust their editing rules if the company that it is encyclopeding has those rules as a part of their legal constitution.
Can we look into having this changed? That is why TELUS needs to be capitalized....
Hey thanks...that was really helpful. I will start using it in the future when I add lazy refs...thanks a lot...i never knew that gadget existed...it makes things much easier.--ChrisisinChristcomments and complaints here! 16:06, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
i did not make any edit of music of germany
how come it sent to me
i just started to make a user on wikipedia
i never even went on music of germany before!
please respond,
thanks
Halfgirl65 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Halfgirl65 (talk • contribs) 02:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
IP address 159.130.64.3
You were the last person to block this IP for vandalism, and (s)he's been up to it again. Dunno if you have time to do anything about it, but thanks if you do! -Yupik (talk) 13:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
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Vancouver meetup
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It's getting really weird. I don't want to be doing this alone. I'd rather have a second opinion, whatever it is. Serendipodous 19:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I lost my cool after a while. This guy was beginning to sound a bit like David Irving. Once you realise that the person you are arguing with is basing his beliefs on a totally separate line of inquiry to the one you are familiar with, you cease to be sure of anything. Serendipodous 09:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Who to speak to re page deletion
Hi Ckatz,
I created a page for We7 an ad-supported music service that has been gaining a lot of traction in the recent month, a music service that is easily comparable to other services like Last.fm, SpiralFrog. We7 is one of the first music site, to offer free legal and DRM-free music and therefore has stirred a lot of discussions and interests in the music industry.
Unfortunately, it has been taken down today due to following reason.
A tag has been placed on We7 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for web content.
I understand your policy I just wanted to point out to you or other admins here that you already have Last.fmSpiralFrog on wikipedia, which makes me think why We7 page can't be equally represented on Wikipedia.
I'd be grateful if you can give me some sort of guidance on this.
Ckatz, I see from your user page that you are an experienced editor; therefore, I'm a bit hesitant to leave the standard Uw-delete1 template in response to your recent edit to
Talk:Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures, and then we can work to improve the article? Thanks! -- JeffBillman (talk
) 15:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Wow... glad you caught that, as it certainly wasn't what was intended; I'd only meant to undo a spammed external link in that article and several others. Seems the utility I was using did something other than what it reported, so I'll review the other edits as well. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and sorry for the inconvenience. --Ckatzchatspy 19:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Ah, understood. No worries, then. Happy editing! -- JeffBillman (talk) 20:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Question about a page
Hey Ckatz... I brought this to you, knowing that you're an admin and having interacted with you before, since I wasn't sure what the appropriate noticeboard might be (possibly ANI, but not sure)... so, feel free to move this there if you figure it out.
Anyway, here's the scoop:
My watchlist includes
WP:AN
, in which the title blacklist is being discussed, I went and looked at the current listing, wondering about other terms that might improve things by their improvement (profanities, etc.) (I realize such inclusions might be problematic in light of reasonable uses, i.e., album and song names, book titles, etc.). Anyway...
So (coming to my point) - wondering about that term being used, I decided to see if there was in fact a page on
candidate for speedy deletion
? Or even regular deletion? (Possibly followed by "salting" the page against recreation to prevent future abuse?)
Anyway, for now, I'm gonna hang a CSD tag on it for the G10 (attack page) criteria, but I'd appreciate a more experienced set of eyes & opinion on it. Thanks, --Umrguy42 (talk) 22:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hmm. Well, it looks like another admin thought so too, it's since been speedied. But anyway, would appreciate your thoughts on situations like these, whether to keep going to
WP:CSD, or what (not that I normally go looking, but...). Anyway, thanks again. --Umrguy42 (talk
Re this edit, what pending discussion are you referring to? As a new administrator, are you aware of
chat
} 16:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
With respect to the image, it is important to discuss a change of this nature first because there are several issues with regards to the replacement. The replacement images have been retouched (by a Wikipedia editor) and cropped, and were actually mislabelled in some instances as being "Pluto and Charon". (According to the official source, the two discs are both Pluto.) Furthermore, this is not a question of using a "prettier" image, as evidenced by the number of comments about the "disco ball" (Image:Pluto.jpg). Despite these complaints, we have used that image because it does better serve the "encyclopedic purpose". The original is a more accurate representation of Pluto, being a true-colour image. --Ckatzchatspy 19:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes it is a more accurate representation, but it's non-free so you can't just use it across articles willy-nilly. In most of these articles, it's just in a table and its purpose is to just show Pluto. Well, the suckier image also does the same job; the licensing of the photo takes precedence over the encyclopedic purpose.
chat
} 20:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Contact juggling page Undo
Good Day,
I am newish to Wikipedia and as such get easily confused.
I recently made a single change to the Contact juggling page to give proper credit to Sphereplay which is trademarked.
I discussed it in the discussion page and then later made the edit.
Today I stop by and my edit has resulted in someone else removing all references to other names for the art form.
Since I am new to updating pages I would love to find out if there is an actual reason that a nameless IP address removed everything in the 'Names' section because I added the proper trademark notification. I would also like to find out how I can change it back without it being removed 2 minutes later by another nameless IP address
Thanks for your help.--RichShumaker (talk) 23:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Edit war regarding use of flags
This message is being left for both parties - please stop edit warring over the use of flags in the television template. This is a content dispute; reverting one another over and over is more detrimental to the project than the presence (or lack thereof) of an image. Both of you are in danger of violating the [[WP:3RR|three-revert guideline today; CJ2005B may already have done so. As well, to correct Islander, the template instructions are simply that - instructions for use. They do not mandate the use of a flag icon, nor should they be considered as being on the same level as an official guideline. --Ckatzchatspy 23:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
LOL, Your a bit late! Already over, sorry! CJ2005B (talk) 23:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Oh and for the record, I made sure I didnt break 3RR. Note to Islander - Loved your edit summary when you removed that warning from your talk page! It was really funny. I would give a barnstar for it, but I fear you might not accept it! Anyway, it was bloody funny! Nice one CJ2005B (talk) 23:55, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
I somehow don't think that a barnstar would be appropriate here :P. Still, I thank you for your kind sentiments ;). We're going to have to agree to disagree when it comes to this matter (and, for the record, I completely disagree with Ckatz, but there you go). You seem a decent chap, and I know I am ( :P ), so here's hoping we just got off to an appalling start, and can put this behind us ;). TalkIslander 00:01, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
The edit war being "already over" (and Islander's being a sysop) aren't really relevant - the note was still valid. I'll emphasize, however, that it was just a note, not a warning or a template. If you've resolved it between yourselves, great, I was only trying to stop the back-and-forth on the page. However, since it has been brought up, I'm curious to ask Islander why he/she (sorry) "completely disagrees" with me. (I'm presuming it is in regards to the template-guideline comparison.) --Ckatzchatspy 08:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
I only referenced my sysop status to make obvious the fact that I know 3RR, and don't need to be told about it. I certainly didn't mean to imply that I am immune to 3RR, or anything like that, so sorry for any confusion there. As for the edit war being over, it is kinda relevant - if there the problems have ended on their own, no need to jump in. In response to your question (and, for your reference, I'm a 'he' :P ), take a look at WP:GUIDE. "...guidelines are more advisory in nature". To me, this suggests that in general guidelines should be followed, but common sense should also be used. In this instance, common sense suggests that the template instructions should be followed. You state "...official guidelines..." - they're no more or less official than the template instructions, both are written by the users of Wikipedia. Appologies CJ2005B for taking over your talk page. TalkIslander 10:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Ah, but guidelines do have a higher status (if you will) than template instructions, as a guideline must reach consensus to become a guideline. (The template documentation is just that - instructions on how to use the code - and does not have the same weight. (As well, the template instructions do not say onemust use a flag, or even that flags are recommended. They only give a link to where you can find flag templates.) --Ckatzchatspy 15:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Islander's admin status may not be relevent at the moment, but should this escalate, more than likely it would come into play (based on experience). And an edit war is an issue whether or not it is currently active - does anyone really think this issue is over? Also, there is still obvious disagreement on some other matters, i.e. guidelines vs. templates etc.72.92.4.157 (talk) 13:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey guys...I bumped into this conversation on another user's page, and because I've done the same thing myself I want to ask--am I correct in my interpretation that flag icons are generally NOT supposed to be used in infoboxes?? I've removed quite a few, so if I'm doing something wrongly I'd like to know about it!
Gladys J Cortez
01:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Was/Is
Hello Ckatz
How are you doing? Despite guide lines I think it would be in the articles interest to have was, apart from what Wikipedia says by the book what is your personal opinion on the matter? Regards Police,Mad,Jack (talk·contribs)☺ 21:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Saw Loser Wiki
Hello,
I am contacting you because Ive been trying to make a Wiki page for a band called Saw Loser. I had gotten your message that I need to contact and ask for advice through the Wikipedia Music project page. I am completely new to WIki and was wondering if you could tell me how to do this.
I Really appreaciate the job admin do on wikipedia but i fell Canadians would not want to look at N.Z media articles though Newzealanders do —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tshiels1 (talk • contribs) 06:22, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Canadian units
Hi. All I saw in the references was a the equivalent in Canadian units of a U.S. fl. oz. That might conceivably be there as a convenience rather than an indication that U.S. units are authorized. I think it's likely U.S. units are allowed, but I don't see where that's mentioned in the references given. Joeldl (talk) 08:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
It is in Section 11.2, stated as "Metric units must be used or, metric units and any other equivalent unit of measurement, provided that the metric units are displayed more prominently." (The relevant text is in bold text for emphasis.) Hope this helps. --Ckatzchatspy 08:59, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
All right then, but that means there's nothing special about U.S. measures, then. One could use customary Chinese measures, it seems. Joeldl (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Dave McRae
Hello:
With the explanation, I see some of the areas of concern that you are talking about. However, it was written this way to reflect a lot of Wikipedia's articles reflecting people with in the entertainment industry.
Non the less, It would be greatly appreciated of a better angle and suggestions.. perhaps an example..