User talk:Titoxd/Archive17

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Portal approval process counter to Wikipedia's aims? Discussion opened. SilkTork 08:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Since my Spanish speaking is horrid, and I believe that you said that you can speak the language, could you add info from here to the Tropical Storm Gamma (2005) article? Most of it is aftermath, I think. Good luck! íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 15:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 00:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Samsara (talk • contribs) 21:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I would like to express my gratitude for your participation at my recent RfA. The final vote was 68/21/3 and resulted in me becoming an admin!

For those of you who supported my RfA, I highly appreciate your kind words and your trust in me. For those who opposed - many of you expressed valid concerns regarding my activity here; I will make an effort in addressing them as time goes on while at the same time using my admin tools appropriately. So,

شكرًا, cảm ơn, 감사합니다, mahalo, ขอบคุณครับ, go raibh maith agat, dziękuję, ευχαριστώ, Danke, תודה, mulţumesc, გმადლობთ, etc.! If you need any help, feel free to contact me

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PS: I took the company car (pictured left) out for a spin, and well... it's not quite how I pictured it. --Chris S. 23:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

As a self-professed Wikipedian from Mexico, please help to find sources for Fresa (AfD discussion) in order to make a verifiable encyclopaedia article about the concept. See chav for how such articles should be sourced. Uncle G 12:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey, Titoxd, I replied to your question on my page and kind of expected to hear from you again, did you lose interest? I could do a little Version 0.5 reviewing, if I understood the process. Bishonen | talk 23:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC).

...for reverting attacks to my user page! (I realize it's a bit after the fact, but I didn't even realize that it had been vandalized before!) bd2412 T 04:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

There's a couple housekeeping tasks which I'm not sure how to go about with having updated the entire Commons category. The 2006 Pacific storms are all hosted incorrectly on here and not Commons. In addition to those 2006's Alberto has three copies on commons of its image: Commons:Image:Alberto 2006 track.png, Commons:Image:Alberto 2006 track2.png and Commons:Image:Alberto 2006 track.jpg. I know the first is the one which should be recolored, but should the others be deleted first? Also, Commons:Image:1926 Nassau hurricane track.png was created as a new file instead of being over the old one: Commons:Image:1926 Nassau Hurricane track.png. That's another redundant file which needs to go... Should I put them those 4 images up for deletion on commons? And what do I want to do about the 2006 Pacific storms - get them on commons then recolor?--Nilfanion (talk) 14:41, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

When you said "Copy the revisions", did you mean copy all versions of the images over or just all revisions of the image description (if it changed)? The only Alberto in use is the "correct" one, but the others aren't exact duplicates so do they need to go through the commons deletion process now? As for the Nassau pic thats sorted...--Nilfanion (talk) 16:06, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Jeeze I didn't realise just how awful this looks like turning out to be. I've copied Aletta's map over to Commons and tagged the image with NowCommonsThis. However I'm concerned about the "Please always include the complete image caption and author, uploader and upload date to en wiki" instruction given for commons moves. All the track maps hosted on the en wiki were uploaded by Reub2000, who GFDL tagged them. However the Commons template that the track maps use licenses them as PD-Self, so a GFDL image is being moved to a PD image, that is looking for trouble :( I left him a message a few days ago about all manner of things), but he hasn't to acknowledged it. I'm thinking the transwiking stuff you aren't looking forward to is going to be the easy part.--Nilfanion (talk) 09:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Yep, he has now. He uploaded Beryl to commons as PD and so on. I'm (half) tempted to FAC Lee (not on behalf of the Wikiproject though).--Nilfanion (talk) 09:53, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi again Titoxd! Thanks for your patience. The problem might be in my head in a generalized way (loss of brain mass), or specifically in my not knowing the "Good article" process that this is based on (I think?). I haven't been involved in that. Could you assist me with a single example, and then maybe I'll get a handle on it? I don't think The Giver ought to be part of Version 0.5. It's here (under "Literature"), here, and here, but not here or here. So is it up for review? If it is, where/how would I do it? Bishonen | talk 09:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC).

I thank one and all - Jarandal, Antandrus, Titoxd, Xaosflux, TenOfAllTrades, mboverload, PseudoSudo, Knowledge Seeker, Haukurth, Deathphoenix, Zzyzx11, Tyrenius, Zscout370, AnnH, Rick Block, Tyrenius (again), Zscout370 (again) and NoSeptember for your support.

To

For TenOfAllTrades who advised me not to worry and Rick who made me laugh I give special thanks, you've helped me to not take this so personally. And to Jeff, thanks for being courteous in informing me of your action and for letting me feel that your heart wasn't for blocking me.
Except for my one explanation above, I haven't edited for a few days now so as to allow y'all to comment about this based on my history of contribution rather than my reaction to it.

I wanted to say all of this before it all goes to archive heaven. I still have a lingering concern that this may arise again and don't want to go through WP life looking over my shoulder or worrying that I might piss-off some admin and cause another inquiry about the legitimacy of my account. If any of you who have been so gracious as to take the time to support me here have any suggestions to prevent such an action, please drop your thoughts on my talk or by email.

Finally, on a personal note to all, I never ever expected so much supportive response from all of you. I know that I've been moody at times and have spoken in ways that I have regretted the next day. I hoped otherwise but it seemed that those unfortunate responses might end up being my legacy as they were the foremost in my mind. And so far as this being a "role account", I think that I'll let the descriptions of AnnH and NoSeptember (both above) stand as the most intuitive descriptions of this account. My (and our) warmest regards to all of you for your understanding and outward support for the continuation of hydnjo's user account and future contributions. Again, my delighted and humble thanks :-) --hydnjo talk 02:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

addendum: Jeff, I was confused at the outset in that I wasn't aware of the "role account" policy and then after becoming aware I was frustrated that I had made so many edits which could mislead someone to the conclusion that my account was a role account. I'm sorry that in my zeal to understand your actions that I posed the possibility that you were acting at someone else's behest. I have no evidence of that and it was improper of me to even mention that such a bizarre conspiracy was possible. I find myself guilty of "blaming the messenger" and posting an inappropriate comment about your motivation.

As for my account, I want to state that it is not a role account and I apologize for leaving the impression that it is one. "hydnjo" is the signature that I commonly use for much of my correspondence and thought it to be appropriate when I first started my WP account. The portmanteau is an acknowledgment of our shared existence and not an indication that Heidi and I share in editing at WP.

I thank you for your courtesy in informing me at the outset of the discussion at

Thank you! I've grabbed the changes on CVS now; thanks for putting in the optimizations. :) How've things on Wikipedia been? Happy editing! —AySz88\^-^ 04:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

		Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
		To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations! To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well! ♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 23:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I very much appreciate all the support you've given me (directly and indirectly) during this time. Thanks, Titoxd. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 23:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello Titoxd, and thank you for your support at my masterka 05:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. {{PAGENAME}} 05:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Titoxd...I don't know if you have admin rights in both wiki:en and wiki:es, but here is my problem: I was trying to install the Monobook-Suite and I did something wrong with the monobook.js of wikipedia in spanish monobook.js because now I'm not able to login at es.wikipedia.org...please help!!! Thanks a lot --cybedu 13:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, appreciate your thoughts on some things: After this edit [1], I blocked DA for 48 hours[2], an increase on a previous block I had given for 24 hours based on this[3]. After this latest block the user seems to have become embittered, and this string of edits worries me.[4], [5], [6] and [7]. The user seems to be obsessing with T-man, note the comment "I am completely and utterly fed up with being treated as the bad guy for my efforts to control T-Man's actions". Appreciate some input on this. Steve block Talk 21:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that comment, but he blanked that out too, so I'm not sure what the next step is. What do you think, keep an eye on the situation, hope he/she will calm down or raise an rfc or something? Maybe

WP:AN/AE? Steve block Talk

14:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On National Weather Service bulletin for New Orleans, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page .

--

Hi,

I've recently added Libya to the list of featured article candidates. Overall the candidature is going well with many of the objections now sorted out. The final concrete objection is with the article's prose. I have been the main contributor to the article and have been looking at it for the previous 9 - 10 months. My eyes no longer see it freshly, so I am not a suitable copy-editor!

To meet the final demand of copy editing, I have been advised to ask different people to edit parts of the article.

I would really love to get this article featured as you can probably see from the page's history! I've worked very hard on it and I see this as possibly being the final hurdle.

You can see the prose objections, mostly raised by Sandy, on the candidature page. If you have the time, please choose a section (Politics, Religion, Culture etc.) and copyedit, perfect, ace it! I would be very grateful with any help I can get.

Thanks a lot,

--Jaw101ie 16:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Has been deleted. --Quentin Smith 14:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello Titoxd. Are you still running the admin coaching page, or is Petros? Well, HighwayCello decided he doesn't want to run for adminship. And my other coachee, Firsfron, is up for RfA. I'm pretty confident he will succeed. So soon I'll be ready to take on another coachee. Just an FYI. Thanks! :) --Fang Aili ^talk 23:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Are all those "broken" talk pages thanks to the db slave unsync earlier today? Titoxd^(?!?) 03:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

No. They are all from much earlier, from bugs which allowed the creation of pages with bad titles.

Brion sometimes runs a script which renames them to sane names; I found out at the Server admin log he ran it recently, and am looking at them (the script generates quite predictable names) to see if there's something useful to save (so far, only a couple of userspace pages and a little bit of archived history). --cesarb

04:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I am using your status boilerplates. They look great! -- Sarsaparilla39 05:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I was just wondering if you thought Debby needed a copyedit, or if it should go straight to GAnom (again). Also, just a friendly reminder that you said you would give Typhoon Aere (2004) a copyedit. íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 21:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the copyediting and various other fixes and improvements on Esther - it passed FAC earlier. :D --

04:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

TC Dabs and Cats

Yuck, this is horrible... I'm starting to plod through these now, but I feel its just going to be hideous. For a start I think I'm going to need admin help for a lot of them. Here's a couple so far:

• Hurricane Adrian (disambiguation)
  . As Adrian wasn't retired last year that's clearly wrong...
• List of named tropical cyclones
  ).

As you can see thats barely halfway through A, theres going to be many many similar problems I'm sure. Should I just list them up at

WP:RM

as and when I find them?

Also I made a created a couple bad cats in the SH recategorising, Category:2005-06 Australian tropical cyclone season instead of Category:2005-06 Australian cyclone season and Category:1983-1984 Australian cyclone season instead of Category:1983-84 Australian cyclone season. Fancy a couple quick deletes?--Nilfanion (talk) 22:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, as I'm literally walking out the door, I'll get to those first thing a little bit later. Just put them here and I'll deal with all the ones that are not controversial. Titoxd^(?!?) 22:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. Expect dozens over the next few weeks...--Nilfanion (talk) 22:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I've started a discussion on the projects talk on the dabs. There will be several moves needed I'm sure, but as they are possibly contraversial it needs discussion there first.--Nilfanion (talk) 15:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Hillary

Yeah, I figured if she's too drunk to spell her name right I shouldn't let her edit.  ;-) Antandrus (talk) 04:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

T-Man accusations - call for his ban

T-Man acused me of lying here. please take the appropriate action. -- Dyslexic agnostic 19:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

He also continues to defame and harass me at User talk:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow/Vandalism & Harassment. Please have this page REMOVED, or I will do it myself. This is intolerable. -- Dyslexic agnostic 19:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts?

• DA left me a note too. I'm trying to clear the mess up, but I really don't know what to do with T-Man. He seems to have disregarded consensus at List of Justice League episodes and not helped his case at Talk:List of Justice League episodes. Whilst he's made comments which border on the margins of incivility, I'm not sure they come in for being personal attacks. I don't judge his comment against DA which DA links to above as a personal attack, it's rather his sloppy english I think. That said, if you happen to take a diffrent view, I would respect that. However, his subpage creation at User talk:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow/Vandalism & Harassment is something I would consider a personal attack, and I've asked him not to create these before. Looking at his arb com page, he's up to 4 blocks for personal attacks, so his permanent ban doesn't kick in yet. I'm not sure what to do with this. I've left a note with DA to leave T-Man well alone, and I've asked T-Man to consider letting me delete it, otherwise I will list it at MFD. Steve block Talk 10:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Just seemed out of place and didn't want anything to go wrong with the page. SorryO-TOWN'S AT 06:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't care, I have admin friends who can unblock it. There is nothing wrong with trying to protect against vandals. Sorry, I made a mistake. Please move on with life, Okay, Thank you...O-TOWN'S AT 06:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Now we both deal with hurricanes so there is no reason to argue so please chill the hell out.O-TOWN'S AT 06:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyright on track maps

I'm not sure about the copyright issues with utilising Gary Padgett's summaries for making the track maps. He prepares track data for all storms in all basins, generally utilising data from the JTWC. The raw data from the JTWC data is available online at the NRL. Does this mean I can just use his text to make the track map and then just source to the JTWC, without attribution to him? After all I could collate exactly the same data myself but it would take a lot of time and effort. If I do have to give him attribution, does that mean that I cannot claim the image as PD-self? Would some other commons-permissible license be usable if that is a problem?

In addition he utilises other sources (the RSMCs) than the JTWC in preparing some of the tracks. Can I make use of the JMA or Australian BoM best track data at all, and if I can do I need to use a different license to PD-self (for the images). Again, do I need to attribute GP when I make use of his tracks, some of the time he uses his judgement to pick which of the JTWC or the RSMC to go with. And then there is Catarina where he publishes a track prepared by another private individual. Is the image description I have provided there adequate?

Or am I just worrying about nothing here, as long as I source the location of the original advisories can I just use it as is done with the Atlantic storms?--Nilfanion (talk) 14:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I think that is mostly paranoia on my part. I'm having to go to the original warnings to generate the data anyway, and I'm merely referring to his summaries to verify I have them right. However, there is a couple things I'm unsure of. When generating track maps am I correct in thinking that there are no copyright problems? My guess is that the bulletins are protected by the copyright of the issuing organization (if it has any), but I can use the data without being concerned about copyright issues. That is as long as I satisfy

WP:V and link to the source of the data. On that note is the citing in Catarina's image description OK? Thanks.--Nilfanion (talk

) 14:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I couldn't not say hello to Tito!

So there you go! Hi Tito! :) KOS | talk 06:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Highway's RfA

Request for Adminship

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Thank you for contributing to my my request for adminship. Although I wasn't promoted to admin status, with a withdrawn vote count of 14/27/14, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was pleasantly suprised at the support, and was touched by it. I will also work harder on preventing disputes and keeping cool under stress. Hopefully I will re-apply soon and try again for the mop. Thanks again, Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 13:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

I noticed you were the coordinator of the admin coaching page. Could you put me on the "Unnasigned" users list, cheers —Minun ^Spiderman 18:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

T-Man out of control

Your "mentee" T-Man, on top of his usual antics, is now accusing me of having a sock puppet, at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Dyslexic agnostic. He continues to place personal attacks against me, at User talk:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow/Vandalism & Harassment, a page I have asked to have deleted repeatedly. And his spelling is atrocious... one of many examples is "Image:Fire From Olimpus.jpg"... I mean, the correct spelling is in from of his nose, on the image itself! Please rein him in. -- Dyslexic agnostic 01:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

To add to the above, T-Man has been acting inappropriately at Talk:List of Justice League episodes#Comments deleted, a page he was previously banned from. I am advising his mentors rather than engage him directly, to avoid further agression and hostile responses. -- Dyslexic agnostic 17:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

T-man has is also currently reported at

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05:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)