User talk:Poeloq/Archive 1

Orphans: Orphaned articles in Germany

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! -- Kusma (talk) 08:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't have a copy, but you can get the dissertation from UMI (it probably costs about $40), or you can order it via Interlibrary Loan from your university or local library. It may be possible also to buy it as a digital download cheaper. Let me know if you need further info. Badagnani 17:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I created the page with one line of text and some other unregistered user has added the additional text (as you can see from the page history). Please direct any issues you have to them. Jared Preston 07:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Have a nice easter and happy editing! Jared Preston 10:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I've fixed this template so it correctly lists products in the speedy deletion category. It was only placing boilerplate text, and wasn't categorising the article.

Thank you for tagging the article. I appreciate your help! The problem seems to be, though, that if we tag all of the stadium articles in 2008 high importance, we'd probably have to do so for all the other years of the Olympics, Summer and Winter. Now, that's a lot of articles, not to mention all the other ones that are currently high quality. This would just make a big soup of questionable high quality articles that would be confusing to anyone who wanted to check out our assessment.

What I suggest you do, though, is perhaps state your claim at the Olympics WikiProject's talk page. There, you might be able to sort out the whole stadium thing with other users, if you have a proposition or are just looking for a suggestion. What I was thinking about doing about the stadium articles was calling all the important stadiums (like in 2008: Beijing National Stadium, BN Aquatics Center, and maybe a few others) either high or mid importance (probably closer to mid) and all others a step below that. This way, we have some sort of hierarchy of pages because obviously not all of them are at the same level.

So again, we at

Thank you. Had been meaning to do it myself but hadn't figured out how to do it as yet. Looking to expand that page anyway when I have time. InternationalHit2 17:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Please do not blind revert the merge/redirect of the Photoshopping article. It was done with clear consensus, and the editor who had reverted the redirect before did so under the rationalization that it hadn't yet been fully mergedwhile admitted the consensus to do so. It has been fully merged now, so you have no reason whatsoever to revert the change. I don't know if you are just violating

There may be a clear consensus to merge but not to simply redirect, and that consensus is not necessarily as clear as you want it to seem. However, I am not going to get into a edit/reverting war with you and let it be. Have a nice a nice day, Poeloq 18:19, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, if you'd given it more than a couple of seconds before you reverted and had bothered to read the talk page you'd see that it was infact merged and not simply redirected... not that that should really make a difference, but even there your complaint has no merit. Please don't be so quick on the reverts,

assume good faith, and take the time to look into what you are doing before doing it and things will go much smoother. You have a nice a nice day yourself. 216.165.158.7

18:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

The referenced source is faulty, the report that the United Nations will completely switch to simplified Chinese by 2008 was started by people in Taiwan in chain e-mails as part of a movement to use traditional Characters only. The United Nations has had official Chinese documents printed with simplified Chinese characters since 1971 when the People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China's seat in the General Assembly. This is pretty much common sense, you can't find any document at the United Nations' website (http://www.un.org/) or find any document after 1971 that uses traditional Chinese. Cheers! --68.239.65.186 19:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

The story began sometime ago from chained e-mails calling people to petition the United Nations' decision to end all issuance of traditional Chinese documents from 2008 onwards, which probably had something to do with a linguist from mainland China talking about the plight of traditional Chinese at a conference. This is not true, the

simplified Chinese page to remove a faulty statement, because otherwise I would not know where to place the source. However if one wishes to add a statement about the chain e-mail and the faulty news reports that followed, or perhaps create a separate article about it, then I would be glad to provide sources. I read this story on a newspaper, translators at the UNO were asked about this news, and they have stated that the UNO has not made such a statement. Here is the Wikinews article in Chinese I'm afraid, it gives some sources at the bottom, I guess the story isn't covered well in English media, thus the confusion here. Similar to the organisation's decision to use Spain's Spanish orthography, UK's English orthography and Modern Standard Arabic. Cheers! --68.239.65.186

23:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I took your vandalism edits into consideration, but you are really new to Wikipedia. Sorry... alphachimp 07:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

You created {{

Thanks for informing me. I just voted myself: delete. I agree fully with your RfD. --Poeloq 14:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for being understanding, and don't sweat it - I've been here over two years and still make mistakes. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm afraid I've listed Image:Hughgrant-wax.jpg at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. The problem is that it is a photo of a copyright thing, which puts restrictions on our use of it. Regards, Ben Aveling 21:54, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hello, Poeloq. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under

I just created this article on this very topical subject. The subject matter would make for a good featured article, so I am hoping to enlist your help to get it there qualitatively. Ohconfucius 02:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for adding some noms to the next update. However, in future (this time, I guess it can be let slip),

Furthermore, please be sure to select the oldest articles which don't have significant outstanding objections (ie. August 25 before August 28), and please be sure to fill in the credits section of

T:TDYK once it's been moved, to avoid duplicating them up in multiple updates. Cheers, Daniel

08:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I have started a naming convention discussion at Category talk:Chinese rolling stock. The style guide is (railway) (class) eg. "China Railways DF4"; it doesn't require the actual word "class" that you object to.

Please also note that articles

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Aaron Pike

Greetings! Something seems to have gone wrong with your nomination of Aaron Pike for AfD. The discussion page doesn't seem to be up. Cheers. ---- Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:28, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Click here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Pike, put this {{subst:afd2 | pg=Aaron Pike | cat=B| text=Reason the page should be deleted}} ~~~~ in the text area , enter your 'reason the page should be deleted', put 'Creating deletion discussion page for [[Aaron Pike]]' in the summary and save page. That should do it (I think!). ---- Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Yep, that did it! ---- Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:11, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Gwm-logo.jpg

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) 13:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

False positive

Hi Stifle, I just reverted your edit to

Credit score (United States) as I thought it was spam/vandalism. However I undid my mistake. But still, do you think that a telephone number in a Wikipedia article in this style is a good idea? Should it preferably not be linked? --Poeloq (talk

) 10:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it should.

systemic bias and an invitation for the next 100 countries to include their phone number for getting your credit report. Stifle (talk

) 10:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Revert of IP at

WP:ACC

Hi Poeloq, was this a mistake? I don't see anything wrong with it. Do you know something I don't know about this IP? --

barneca (talk

) 12:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC) ：Hey Barneca, oh god, yeah that was a mistake indeed! Sorry, must have happened in the heat of vandal fighting! Poeloq (talk) 14:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I've done that myself. I assumed as much and reverted it. --

barneca (talk

) 14:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't feed the troll...

Good job in reverting the vandalism of this particularly unpleasant IP vandal, but don't encourage them by posting extra messages on their talk page. He's vandalised past his last warning, now just hold out until a mod gets to the report. _TheIslander 20:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. But people like this just piss me off and I sometimes flip ;-) Good work, keep it up! How to patrol with u soon again. Poeloq (talk) 20:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy for Ike Awgu

My bad. I saw the username that did the vandalism, and I saw the title of the article, and figured both were meant to attack the fellow. If at all possible, I'd like to withdraw the speedy. --GoodDamon 18:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Chinese speakers

Hello Poeloq, thanks for the contribution. But I guess this list is a bit problematic:

1. The linguistic competence of a particular person is, in most cases, difficult to evaluate, especially that of a deceased person. It's something like "the IQ of Mozart/Da Vinci/Einstein": something that can neither be proved nor refuted. We know people enjoy reading these things, but Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopedia.
2. A really long list can be produced if we are to include the sinologists and diplomats. But I doubt whether it'd be meaningful.

Just some thoughts. Cheers.--K.C. Tang (talk) 01:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey K.C. Tang. I understand your points, however I don't think that we shouldn't include a list of notable speakers just because it will be short. For example, Kevin Rudd is a very notable current speaker. And: we are not evaluating anybodies language skill, but are telling people, which notable people learned Chinese and were able to speak it at least semi-conversatonianal. I will rv the non-western speakers and source the remaining and expand it with more if I find any. I actually had finished half way, and then my PC decided to crash:( Poeloq (talk) 02:02, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Your

NPWatcher

application

Dear Poeloq,

Thank you for applying for

NPWatcher

! You've been approved to use it. Before you run the program, please check the changelog on the application page to see if there is a newer release (or just add the main page (

here. If you need help, feel free to contact me or join NPWatcher

.

Qst 21:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Poeloq!

Unfortunately, we've chosen to decline your application because we think that maybe you should get more experience with CSD tagging before using a semi-automated tool like NPWatcher. Feel free to apply again in the near future, and happy editing ;-), Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I've striken the application not as admin but as NPW moderator, after consultations with the other NPW mod. Since you should warn users when tagging as CSD, it's not difficult to check, you have only to browse the contributions. However, as admin I can check deleted contributions too. From your contributions, you seems to have tagged 21 (less or more) articles, and many of those in April or before. I'm sure that a bit more of experience won't hurt. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:52, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Snowwolf, thank you for clarifying in what role this decision was made. However, my preferences show 150+ deleted edits (as you as an admin can in deed check) and I only started tagging userpages after using Twinkle and learning WP:CSD. This means that tools in general improve my performance and I believe NPWatch would do so aswell. Please reconsider your decision, as depending on what tools I have I will be focusing on that certain area for a while. Poeloq (talk) 00:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Warning placement

Hello, please exercise caution that you are placing warnings on user talk pages, not on their user pages. You recently placed warnings on User:Seowebworks (which I moved) and User:Tburton30. If you are using an automated tool please check your settings. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 05:12, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

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		Thank you for fixing the friendly ) 18:59, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

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db-author}} to the top of Haslach (Freiburg). Kannie | talk

22:14, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. When I edited your article, I was unaware of the wikipolicy concerning villages. I now am enlightened by a privious editor. I deleted the proposed deletion tag. Kannie | talk 22:37, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

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