User talk:Fish and karate/Archive 7

Um, yeah. Looks like vandalism to me. Thanks, Tawkerbot2. I think I'll have a word with your daddy.

type

09:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

See the message I left at User talk:JamesMLane#Tawkerbot, that case is similar to yours. Of course, shortly you will be an admin and forget all about the bot problems that non-admins face ;-) (just kidding) NoSeptember ^talk 10:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Now you're whitelisted, the bot won't touch you, you get the same bot freedom as admins :) -- Tawker 15:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

It's 1 line to remove whitelist and to move you to blacklist :) -- Tawker 15:46, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for the incorrect vandalism warning you received. A certain filter was a little too indiscriminate. This is the first example of this kind of false positive I've seen. I'm removed the offending filter that caught you, and need to spend a bit of time with it to get it up to scratch before activating it. Thanks for your patience. joshbuddy^talk 14:46, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I think it happens to you because last night, I setup the bot to look at edits that human's never usually review. This has, understandably, meant its been going over way more edits than it usually does. In short, this gives us a much better test of false positives than before. As well, you have terribly luck. Sorry about that, if its an consolation, you'll prolly die early and won't have to endure too much more of this mortal life. :) joshbuddy^talk 16:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Heh. Douglas Adams is my muse :) joshbuddy^talk 16:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that you tagged the page

I've removed color-related formatting from my userpage; instead of having it custom formatted, I've changed my CSS settings so it displays the way I want it to in my browser. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 03:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I was wondering if you would consider changing you're vote to Keep after reading this?

A homemade aircraft for flight sim 2004 that is extremely popular/notable at 3000+ downloads from just one website. Made by one of the most notable concept developers for flight sim. What’s wrong with listing a concept Flight Sim aircraft? Not so different from the X-02 model under fictional aircraft in my opinion. The TR-3B is based on a rumored aircraft in the real world named the TR-3A Black Manta. This article has been around sine 2005.

-Left by user MachJok with a vote to keep- As a designer of Flight Simulator Aircraft I must say EVERY aircraft is notable and unique, even if it has been modeled after a real world aircraft. To have a wikipedia article on a unique aircraft that MAY BE real, but has been modeled in a flight simulator constitutes a unique and notable a) article and b) aircraft. To say that the aircraft is not unique is to say that every fictional plane or aircraft based on rumor is not unique...and obviously this is not the case at hand. Although I see how bandwidth may be an issue, I do not agree that the stipulation of non-notable applies. That would be the equivalent of saying a hand built model is not unique, and each modeled aircraft for flight simulator is painstakingly modeled part by part. ASSUMING the black manta is not real (which it may or may not be, I don't know) just because there is an article about an aircraft that was made for a flight simulator is in itself unique. Therefore the aircraft itself is not entirely unique; however, it is notable that a designer went through the effort to build an aircraft. I will also add that this aircraft is worth of distinction and has already won an award from another design group. I have adequately shown that this aircraft is both unique and worthy of distinction and excellence. As per your guidelines for deletion, all of the titles of non-notability, non-excellence, and not worthy of distinction do not apply. --end--

I am not here to get into a fight of any sort, just simply to talk about the deletion and to try and persuade you to change you’re vote to keep.

--Elgae Nacriema

Yeah I understand that, and I did'nt intend to, It got deleted in the edit of new information. Thanks for looking at it again.

--Elgae Nacriema

Could you explain this four tides thing to me a little more? Do you mean in the edit box, I should do Elgae Nacirema 06:40, 31 March 2006 (UTC)Elgae Nacriema after my text?

--Elgae Nacriema

Ahh ok, I looked around for info on it, but I never saw a thing that clear said how to do it. So thanks. And I wont. Just upsets me that he is going after something like this under Fictional, when it is a notable aircraft in the flight sim world, but I guess you need to be really involved in the flight sim world to under stand that. Elgae Nacirema 07:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for all the great help. One thing... The TR-3B is not my artical, I just added some things to it, and fixed some stuff here and there, then the next thing I know someone wants to delete it. Elgae Nacirema 09:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Can you please read the Talk page of

Okay it looks like we misunderstood each other. I had thought that being a 'dirty Leeds fan' might have influenced what I saw as the beginning of an edit war.GordyB 12:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have reopened Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inside Carolina. I understand that you mean well, but usually closing an AfD is the job of a closing admin. In this case, we don't have consensus to do anything, and thus the AfD will get its five days. Even if you consider it a bad faith nomination, it's probably best just to say so in the discussion rather than closing the debate outright. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Isopropyl 15:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I noticed your first edit is a year ago today. Many happy returns! Isopropyl 17:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Proto, since 'hijo' can mean 'son' or 'child', it's not clear that he had two sons, just that he had (at least) two children, with at least one of them being a daughter. Thanks for the tip on untranslated articles...I'm still getting used to this process. Cheers! Rodney Boyd 20:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

No worries, Proto, I got the e-mail after I voted (and just replied to it a minute ago). Fact is, you got so many supports, so fast, that when I first looked at your RfA it looked like it had been up for a while when it hadn't even been half a day. I'll congratulate you in advance (just make sure not to sign any petitions over the next few days ;). Marskell 05:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

The "official" place is probably the bottom of

If you add redirects for mispelinks, please tag them with {{R from misspelling}}. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 05:45, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

This is your good friend Proto. As you have no paper to hand and will probably forget otherwise, when you have chance tomorrow to actually edit with a PC and not opera mini, check

In honor of you becoming an admin in the next few hours, it would be nice if you could remove the fair use image (comic) from your user page. Thanks, Christopher Parham (talk) 05:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

• It was pretty funny. Anyway, thanks. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! Consensus having been reached, it is my pleasure to inform you that you are now an

Congratulations! _-M ^o P-_ 14:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Huzzah! --Syrthiss 14:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Grats :) Gardar Rurak 14:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Congrats again Monsieur Proto. Please let me know about the cabal once you're fully initiated. Marskell 14:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! I am happy for you and good luck for the future! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 15:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! :) I wish you all the best with your new tools. Cheers --

e Ong

13:18, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Terribly sorry to hear that. Best to ignore the Wikipedia page altogether - last time I checked it was still a little too bleak for some circumstances. My consultant has told me that I could have another 40 years instead of the five or so that the article suggested when I first read it, although my situation is a bit extreme as I had the least severe form of the illness and am half the age of most patients. Do you know which type of MDS your mother's got (eg Refractory Anaemia)?

Is there any chance of your mother having a transplant? I had mine a month ago (unrelated donor, not perfectly matched) and it's gone really well so far. Not too many side effects and no serious infections. It's too early to start talking about being cured or anything but I'm doing better than I dared imagine. Won't be back at work for a while so I'll probably be wasting time on here like I've been doing for the last year, although I'm trying my hardest to cut down. Let me know how things go and all the best. CTOAGN (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Hallo- I noticed that you posted a 'Delete' vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soggy biscuit (2). I have recently posted some new material that I feel satisfies the requirement for

Sorry, I was just moving it to where it'd be better... heh sorry. Congrats on your adminship! Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 00:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, I think someone's remaking pages fileld with garbage in Spanish.. I've seen 2 been speedied already, but therer may be more. Just to let you know and keep up the great work, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 00:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Make that 3 :P Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 00:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I recently received the following message "Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Proto||type 06:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)." I was wondering if I could be given specific information on what I have vandalized and I will cease to do so, sincerely 203.33.167.112.

I have answered on your talk page. Thanks for pledging to stop vandalising!

type

08:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Proto. Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers TigerShark 09:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, is the Caledonian Academy site going to be allowed to stay or will it be deleted?

Thanks for your message. I don't know how it happened, but I thought I was reverting vandalism by 86.128.158.135. I was touring through and reverting various vandal edits by 86.128.158.135 at that point (Chelsea FC, Frank Lampard, Jose Mourinho and Wayne Rooney). I wasn't aware that you had edited in the meantime and apologise for thereby eliminating your edits. Cheers

We should call him Mo, not Muhammad. Muhammad means praised one. 69.93.127.199 06:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for acting so well.

I apologise, I could swear I saw a how-to-guide nominated for speedy deletion. Nevermind though, at least now I know.

Anything I can do for you, just say! Have a nice night! Computerjoe's talk 20:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello there. You have proposed the article

Hi Proto, you and I were in contact while updating the Business continuity planning article. There is a new WikiProject Disaster Management project [1] just established and I though you might like to participate given your health system project. Revmachine21 11:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Starting off with a disclaimer: Whilst I'm obviously responding to your vote on my RfA, I'm not trying in to get you to change that. What I am asking is much more general and applies to any RfA of a similar nature, past, current, or future. If you think it is more appropriate to wait till my RfA is over before answering that is fine.

I've questioned this before on other people's RfA, but never really got an answer- why exactly does article creation/editing affect how suitable someone is for being an administrator? Your reason of "Administrators should actually have a handle on what article editing and creation is about" is the closest I've found to an answer, so I'm grateful for that and I was just wondering if you could expand on that reason; to help get it clear in my head why some people oppose RfA's on the basis of low article counts.

I've argued before that Wikipedia needs to have editors and admins that do different things, and it is fine to have some who are pure writers, some who basically edit but fix other things as they come across them, others who do vandal fighting/maintenance, help resolve disputes etc. I am asking: are you opposing because you feel users like me, who do not greatly contribute to articles will not do a good job as an admin because they might misunderstand editing issues? Or some other reason?

Referring back to my specific case, are you worried that I might in some way do a bad job as an admin? If this is the case I would like to know why (so I can see if it can be fixed!)

I do realise creating/expanding/improving articles is the most important job there is on Wikipedia. I have never once doubted that, but I've also thought that other things are needed as well- and that's where I can help more.

Hope you understand what I'm trying to get at here; thank you for reading this far and hopefully you can help me in my never ending quest for knowledge and improvement :)

Responded on your

type

15:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Proto for your helpful answer (and you even did my greyness for me!). I'm not really wanting to only do vandal-whacking. I've also done quite a lot of work recently on

Petros471

15:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Proto. Would you mind taking a look at

Hi, Proto. You ate the previous three posts here. That sometimes happens. I've seen people reported for vandalism and 3RR because of that glitch in the system. Congratulations on your adminship, by the way. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 16:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Appreciate it; he managed to recruit someone else to edit war for him and revert you, though. Meanwhile Charles Matthews also blocked him, but for only 3 hours, so who knows what will happen? Perhaps you should just unblock him and re-block to ensure it works properly. What a day! Appreciate the help. Jayjg ^(talk) 16:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Since you seem to be an ardent foe of speculative lists care to have another run on

Hi Proto. I noticed your note on the IP's talk page and your comment that you would keep an eye on the user. So that you don't waste your time re-checking the user's contributions, I just wanted to let you know that the user has already been blocked indefinitely by Tawker. Cheers TigerShark 08:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, ok, but I don't see it. Phradrel, Phraedriel, there's a noticeable difference, and it's a bit lacking in

type

08:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

FYI...This article is up for vote on AFD. OSU80 01:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Proto. I note that you removed the table from

One of the aspects that makes Wikipedia essential is its usage as a reference source; as the 'Dictators' list has now gained international notoriety, a researcher would want to refer to past "winners" at a glance. Without the table the above page is rendered meaningless, as merely linking to the original content gains nothing. The Oscars page could easily be entirely replaced with a link to the Academy's own site. Smb1001 11:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I transwiki'd it twice, but I don't see it on wikisource, or in my contribution log there. I also don't see it after your transwiki. Admittedly, I'm not super familiar with Wikisource. Is there a lag between posting and actually seeing a page there?--Isotope23 13:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for bringing

I blocked for 48 hours (as a repeat vandal), you blocked for 24. You might want to consider revising your block (as that is the one that stands at the moment). Up to you. Cheers,

Er, is there a reason you took out the spoiler warning? It was a partial joke since a number of people have made very blatant references to spoiler info in the HP books in some of their votes, and I didn't want his RfA to ruin it for people who haven't read all of them yet. JoshuaZ 12:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Per

I had a question relating to your comment on my talk page regarding "cavaliers". There is more than one definition for cavalier (and by extension, the plural form "cavaliers") so I redirected to cavalier disambiguous. I'm unsure why you redirected it to cavaliers (royalist) however. I understand checking the link "what links here", I'll be sure to check that in the future. However, IMHO cavaliers should point to the disambiguous page not royalist. Netkinetic 23:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

FYI, he has removed the pic from his sig. JoshuaZ 05:18, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Noted, thanks Joshua

type

14:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Proto:

This is totally unacceptable. I don't care what you think of the guy, the RfA, me, or anything else for that fact. It doesn't matter if that was a support, oppose, neutral, comment, or question.. what you said was completely uncalled for and I am asking you to retract it. If someone said that on your RfA, what would you think? Remember, there are actual people behind the computer screens, so don't be a jerk. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 14:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Responded on Linuxbeak's talk page.

type

14:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for rewording that. I understand your concerns, and frankly they're valid ones. But, the way you put them were not nice. Thanks for changing it. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 14:26, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I notice you got rid of the Skeletor pic on your user page. I giggle every time I think of it and decided it has to be on somebody's page, so I've but it on the bottom of mine. I think it's choosing "tremendous" before "jackass" that does it.

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Marskell 14:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I notice you've been maintaining List of hardcore punk bands, and that you cut it back to the ones with articles. If every band in there has an article, it can just be a redirect to the category. Then the database engine will maintain the page automatically. I've put a "see also" link to the category at the top of the article, and a note on the talk page suggesting that fans work to get the right category tags in their band's articles. In time, I'd like to get rid of some of the longer "list of" articles that duplicate categories. They take too much maintenance time, and it's not being done.

Until then, the page needs a hardcore fan to keep the thing up to date. Is that you? The article needs some minor maintenance again - somebody added some bad links. --John Nagle 17:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear Proto, I appreciate your vote and your kind words in my RFA. It has passed with an unexpected 114/2/2 and I feel honored by this show of confidence in me. Cheers! ←Humus sapiens ну? 04:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting at my RFA. Even though you did not vote for me, your counsel was appreciated. In the next few months, I intend to work on expanding my involvement in other namespaces and try a few different subjects than in the past. - CTSWynekenTalk

I wanted to stop by and thank you for your constructive criticism of my RFA. It's helped, and is helping, to improve me as a wikipedian and an editor. I look forward to gaining your support in the future. Until then, keep on keepin on.

I do not believe that userboxes are evil.