User talk:Qxz/Archive 5

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Qxz

20:57, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Quote from AndonicO: "There's only one huge problem with it: it's missing a period after "Join the Strategy games WikiProject". :-) Oh, and "Games" is lower case (per

Guy

12:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Corrected. You may need to

Qxz

00:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

As we're trying to attract more participants, could you construct an ad to promote the

Thanks a lot on behalf of the participants. Cheers, Orthologist 22:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up my userpage after that vandal hit it. Take Care. ParticleMan 03:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for caring enough to revert vandalism on my user page. It is much appreciated. V-Man - ^T/_C 03:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

What are the instructions for your talkpage indexer? It looks like a great program, whatever it's using. Are you running a bot under your username? Also, is it approved for general use? I'd like to index my archives, too; does this indexer retroactively index archives? Thanks! This looks cool! —

It requires a number of templates to be transcluded wherever the index needs to go, and a data page set up to hold data for the index. I have written a script to update it, which I've run under my username purely for testing purposes. At the moment I'm trying to get approval to run a bot to do regular updates; I can't do anything at the moment, but I may be able to do so once the bot is approved. Indexing of archives is possible in the same way, if desired. Thanks –

Qxz

01:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Looking forward to your getting approval. Will you let me know when the tool is up and running? Thanks! —

Improve me

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Hi, unfortunately I've decided to withdraw my request due to objections that I can't be bothered to address. Apologies for the inconvenience –

Qxz

01:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Would it be possible for you to create an ad for

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Qxz

02:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. It looks great. --PhantomS 03:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, regarding your comment on the edit I made to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_foam . I respect your decision to remove my link and if that's the way it must be then there's nothing I can do about it but can I just ask you to have a closer look at http://www.myfoammattress.net/memory/ild.html . This is the most comprehensive report on memory foam firmness out there, it involved 30+ hours of research, interviewing and writing and is very useful for anyone who wants to understand how memory foam works. The link has been in Wikipedia for months now which to me it means that senior editors deemed it worthy and useful. I hope you will reconsider your decision to remove the link.

As for the other links I removed, they were all to merchants and I know Wikipedia doesn't like that. If I was wrong in removing them, then I'm sorry. They'd been piling up on that page for weeks now. I was hoping a senior editor would step in. The only link that seemed appropriate was the chemtox one.

Thank you for your time Liz – Lizhoffman 10:12, 21 March 2007

Hi, thank you for your contributions. It may well be that the link you added is in fact the best one and that all the others are spam links; however, the impression that your edits give is that of someone attempting to promote their own website by firstly inserting a link to it and secondly removing any other links that might draw away traffic. If this is not the case, then I apologize; however, it frequently is the case, and it is necessary for us to balance the need to provide useful external links with the need to prevent Wikipedia from turning into a marketing tool.

I recommend that if you add an external link to an article, and then find that many of the other links are unnecessary, you contact an administrator or more experienced user, or leave a message on the article's discussion page, suggesting that they be removed. This should remove any ambiguity about your intentions. Thanks –

Qxz

10:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Qxz, I had tried contacting senior editors in the past and they never replied but maybe I didn't contact the right people. I wasn't aware of the correct procedure but I do know it now, thanks to you, so I will not make the same mistake twice. Given that you are the first to ever reply to me on Wikipedia I'll bring my concerns to you. Regarding the edit I made, is there some way that I can fix my mistake and reearn the spot that link had or is there nothing else to be done about it?

Thanks for the quick reply by the way! Lizhoffman 10:12, 21 March 2007

I've had a look at both the link you added and the other links that were there, and yours seems to bear the least resemblence to spam; as your explanation seems reasonable, I've restored it. Again, apologies for misinterpreting your intentions.

I'm surprised to hear that you had so much trouble getting hold of someone; people are encouraged to at least say something in response to messages they recieve, unless they are obviously rude or insulting. I'll happily assist you with any other problems you may have (though if I'm not online, you may have to wait a little longer for a reply). Thanks –

Qxz

10:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't mind waiting for a reply if I know it's coming eventually! All the best. Lizhoffman 10:26, 21 March 2007

Alright, let's take this guy up through channels. What's the first move to get this guy blocked? --HubHikari 12:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Report them at

Qxz

12:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, one step ahead of me, I see. I'm also going to shoot a request up to page protection, see if I can get that working. --HubHikari 12:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

There is generally no need to protect a page when only one user is vandalising – once they are blocked, they can no longer cause trouble. Requests are likely to be declined unless there is a significant recent history of vandalism from multiple users. Just to let you know –

Qxz

12:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh. Whoops. My bad; I've already submitted the request. Looks like they've got some backlog over there. Wouldn't mind helping; I've got nothing to do in class today anyway :) --HubHikari 12:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed there is something of a backlog – and presumably for the same reason there's a backlog at WP:AIV; no administrators around to deal with it. If you have nothing to do (though I have a feeling you should perhaps be paying attention!), stick with reverting vandalism, probably the best use of your time. Thanks for your help – Qxz 12:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

No, no, you misunderstand. Class is going to be focused today (presumably Friday, too) on completing a lab assigned on Monday, because the professor hasn't gone over how to do what he's asked in class. But I'm so smooth that I was able to get it converted and running without him talking about it to me.  :) But yes, I'll keep plugging away at the RC page. --HubHikari 12:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

You're faster than me with reverting this person - FYI, I've got them listed at AIV, just a matter of waiting until someone gets it done. Lcarscad 12:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your help. AIV was a little slow to clear earlier this afternoon, but it looks like the user was dealt with fairly quickly. Thanks again –

Qxz

18:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I had never done one of these before, so I'm not sure what was wrong with what I did. What you did looks fine, though, so I'm not gonna worry about it much. Thanks, I guess. --Orange Mike 17:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Just a case of adding {{talkarchive}} to a page when you want to use the template, rather than copying and pasting the code of the template from

Qxz

17:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could create ads in the sidebar format. I like how bars like them look on my userpage. Thanks!Canadianshoper 18:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your suggestion. This has been brought up before; I'm reluctant to do ads of a different shape because it would require me to re-do the existing ads from scratch in order to have content, and to do two new ads each time there is a request (to satisfy users of both formats), which would take a long time. Having separate formats also has the disadvantage of added complexity. Thanks –

Qxz

18:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I understand. Canadianshoper 18:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Qxz, you are a very dedicated vandal fighter and civil Wikipedian. Your experience with this community seems superb and for a long time I have admired it. Have you ever considered running for adminship? I'm tempted to consider nominating you one of these days but I rather have your approval first :). Keep up the excellent work.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 18:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I have considered the possibility of adminship; as you will notice if you look through my talk archives, so have several other people. However, I am not interested. There are a number of reasons for this, but I'll stick with the most obvious for now; I have been here for less than two months (two months as of tomorrow, in fact). One has only to take a quick look at the standards generally applied at RfA to see that one would have to be mad to apply with anything less than three times this amount of experience. Thanks –

Qxz

18:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

• Heh, I should have looked through the talk page archives first! Anyways, I appreciate your response. I think though you are definitely an indispensable member of this community. Thank you for all your hard work and service.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 18:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Lol, I think there is a line of wikipedians who would like to nominate him. I know I have personally offered to as well as many others. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

A line that is (a) over four months premature and (b) unwanted. And each of you will recieve the same answer. I'd put this at the top of my talk page, but that would seem rude –

Qxz

18:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I apolagize if my response seemed rude. I think what I was trying to say nicley is that you did not feel that you were ready without outting words in your mouth. I understand how you feel, and you have expressed it to me before. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

No, it wasn't rude at all; don't worry. It's just slightly irritating that people offer to nominate me without even checking the age of my account – it only takes a few clicks, after all – as if they had, they would surely see that an RfA would have absolutely no chance of passing. Thanks –

Qxz

18:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you fix this page? Mmcknight4 20:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed, I think –

Qxz

20:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, thank. I'm polishing my revert skills. Mmcknight4 20:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Hope you don't mind me asking you a question. I read your excellent tip at the Village Pump Proposals page about hiding some of the links on the left. It works fine for some, but I can't get it to work for "Make a donation". Is this because it is an external link and should be treated differently in some way? Regards, Adrian M. H. 22:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

#n-sitesupport {display: none}

should work, though I haven't tested it. Thanks –

Thanks very much for your reply. Most helpful. I'll give that a go. Regards, Adrian M. H. 22:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering if you can make a banner for WikiProject:Armenia something simple, since theres alot of help needed on there and the articles etc, a simple banner maybe a ancient slogan etc anything. Artaxiad 01:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I'll see what I can do –

Qxz

01:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, regards. Artaxiad 01:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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Qxz

00:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks alot! looks awesome. Artaxiad 00:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Upon what grounds do you revert my edit to

Edit in question here. Another edit by same user three minutes before here –

Qxz

22:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me so much, i did a stupid thing leaving my computor on while i was away and i can see my little brother has been doing some vandalizing. I'm sorry about this. If there is any vandalizing again done by this user it's not me, just so you know. But i won't do the same mistakes in the future, this has actually happened before.HoJii – HoJii 15:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Very well. I suggest you exercise a little more care in future; persistent vandalism may well lead to your account being

Qxz

18:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment Contribs for this user are any thing but productive. HoJii (talk · contribs) Purgatory Fubar ^Converse or Snafu 19:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Please check out what i have written on my talk thing, HoJii – 20:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Responded at

Qxz

19:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm part of

Thanks a lot! Canadianshoper 18:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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Qxz

00:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Thats a great banner Great Job! Canadianshoper 01:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Where are all the "Special pages" links, like "My page", documented?

I don't have a clue where to find the syntax for those.

And I've been here over a year!

(sheepish grin)

The Transhumanist   22:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

There's a list of all special pages at

Qxz

19:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Your vandal fighting skills have surpassed by users Curps and Omicronpersei8. I consider nominating you for admin in a few months. zero » 00:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

You are the

Qxz

19:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I think you withdrew that a bit hastily. We have a duty to cover all bases, but I'm sure provided the transclusion limits weren't hit it would ultimately have been approved. --kingboyk 13:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

If the bot approval process is going to become as pedantic as RfA, I'm not interested. Thanks –

Qxz

19:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

...is this you? zero » 00:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

No, it's not me. And since it was created over a year ago and has fewer than 50 edits, I also fail to see how it is "similar" in anything but name. I also find this an assumption of

Qxz

00:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, no; I have changed my username from Meteoroid to Z.E.R.O. at Wikipedia:Changing username and I have been using this username for only 10 days. I do not know if is acceptable to change usernames more than 3 times. zero » 00:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

You can change usernames as many times as you wish (at least, if a bureaucrat approves the change; I imagine they'd begin to get annoyed if you requested them too often). Thanks –

Qxz

00:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I have sent some wikipedia mails to some editors and technically they may be contrued to be spam. However, my purpose was to watch the development and emergence of online community, and I had made this clear in my mail. If you feel aggrieved then I express my apology. However, I still feel that we should participate in emerging online communities to learn more about the phenomenon at its nascent stage, and to apply the lessons to wikipedia if possible. Still I respect your right to feel aggrieved and I would request to treat the matter in this light. I also think that (though may have all the right to think differently) this issue has nothing to do with my position as an administrator here, and it was done in my personal capacity. In case, people feel otherwise, I shall send any one any mail only after asking the editor concerned as regards his/ her intention to receive any mail from me outside anything connected with wikipedia. Sometimes, people surely send mails not connected with wikipedia and it should not be construed as a misconduct on the part of any editor or administrator. However, at the second thought I think that you people are right in your judgment in commenting about my action. As wished by you, I am also posting this at the ANI. Regards. --Bhadani 02:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation. In future, if you do wish to contact users regarding a project (external or internal), I would recommend using talk pages rather than email, and only contacting those users who have expressed interest in the subject (from your description, it sounds like you went through a page history and emailed everyone on it, which is generally a bad idea). Thanks again for your understanding –

Qxz

03:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I thank you all for guiding me in the matter. This spirit shows the resilience of wikipedia community - I now understand better the level of collective maturity of the wikipedians, and any other wiki should draw inspiration from such level of maturity to deal with the matters. Regards. --Bhadani 16:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

For my future reference. --Bhadani 16:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

You've made a recent contribution to the article on strategic management, and I've made a proposal to revert that article to a prior version that existed before vandalism in July 2006. Please see Talk: Strategic management#Once_a_great_article. Please add your comments to that talk page if you're concerned about this. Thank you. --SueHay 04:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Replied at

Qxz

04:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Qxz

I notice that you've begun mass protecting a large number of stub templates. For your information, we have around 3,000 of these. Have you consulted

Thanks for your reply. That template is normally avoided on WP:WSS, so I don't see the point in it. Well, you've definitely revealed something interesting; that several templates are protected without any reason at all. {{Poland-bio-stub}}, or {{Austria-bio-stub}}. They aren't controversial at all. Valentinian ^{T / C} 09:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

If you feel the protection is inappropriate, by all means request they be unprotected; I'm not making a judgement as to whether or not the protection is appropriate (unless I find a very obvious case like a protected template that's not used at all, in which case I'll go to

Qxz

09:05, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'll like to hear the answer, but do you have any idea about how many stub templates this affects? Valentinian ^{T / C} 09:17, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Replied with list on

Qxz

09:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the list. I'll ask WP:WSS to go through it. Btw, I got a good laugh from the "advertisement" on your page. Valentinian ^{T / C} 09:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Glad to hear you like the ads; if you have a bit of time, there are over 30 of them (though not all humorous); click the "show another" button to go through them –

Qxz

09:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there! Are you an admin? R@y 10:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

No. If you want an administrator, pick one from

Qxz

11:04, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I forgot how to remove the article. It seemed unnecessary to have two separate articles about the exact same thing. – R00723r0 03:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Replied at

Qxz

03:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I noticed your revert here within the minute, and had a look at your contributions... Re. RfA discussion above, I reckon another month, then you should start gearing up. Tyrenius 05:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		You deserve this for your tireless work. Tyrenius 05:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. As far as adminship is concerned, once again, I do not want to be an administrator. What is it about that that people find so difficult to understand? –

Qxz

05:38, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that! I thought you were just concerned about the requirements not being fulfilled. There's a nice user box that says this person is not an administrator and does not want to be one. That would save the hassle... :) Tyrenius 05:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

This is true; however it seems a little rude; a while back I had a notice telling people not to give me any more barnstars (this was after I got seven in one day), and while I still don't want any, I ended up removing the notice because people thought it gave a bad impression. I also happen to think userboxes are stupid :) I am a little confused as to why so many people (must be at least seven, now) have suggested I should be shoved onto RfA in a month or so; they seem to be obvlivious to the fact that I have been here for only two months, and I would be overwhelmingly opposed on length of time actively editing alone (many people seem to consider six months an absolute minimum) –

Qxz

05:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the barnstar - you seemed a bit denuded of them!

That's because I archived the others away. I could leave them at the top of the page, but then there wouldn't be room for anything else.

Put up a notice/notices. You can always do a custom one.

I did. I even made a new version of Image:Barn star free zone.png for the purpose. I've decided it's better just to not fuss and archive them away.

It will solve the problem. On RfA people take all factors into account.

Much as I'd like to believe you, I fear the many voters simply rely on the output of a couple of scripts, and either support without a real reason, or oppose for "insufficient edits in X space" or "doesn't demonstrate a need for the tools", or something similar. And that's the ones who bother to look at the candidate's history at all, rather than just voting the way everyone else has. It's fairly well-established that RfA is not functioning as it should; the last few dozen archives of

WT:RFA

show a consensus that this is the case.

This is all academic anyway; I have no intention of going anywhere near RfA, (I went there once, when I was bored, and posted Image:Qxz-ad16.gif, which I think sums up my thoughts on the matter).

The number of edits you've made starts to compensate for the time factor. Obviously the longer you wait the more you lessen risks, but if people have been suggesting it, including admins, that speaks volumes. If you're nom'd any time, this is a formal request that I'd like to be notified (so you won't be canvassing in that case). Tyrenius 05:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Since I would decline any such nomination, rest assured there's no need for you to know. Thanks –

Qxz

06:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough! Tyrenius 08:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)