User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive11

Thanks for my first barnstar! It is very encouraging. --Kimchi.sg 04:24, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Consider changing your signature in the preferences, and enclose the vertical pipe character (|) between the user page and user talk links with <nowiki> </nowiki>. Otherwise part of your signature disappears in the Barnstar box since | is a parameter delimiter as well. Regards, Kimchi.sg | talk 04:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's right, I'm back! And thanks for the well-wishes. :) - Cheers,

Sorry about that. See, I find it a hassle to edit whole articles, and seeing as the RfA page is made up of smaller, less large sections, I usually type in (by hand, manually, without any references to aid me) "Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/(name here)" so when I saw his RfA that's what I did, except I didn't notice and forgot to place the two there. Forgive me. Aaрон Кинни (t) 04:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the revert on my userpage.

And again, thanks.

DVD+ R/W 04:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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I explained at

Hi, and thanks for your Barnstar (I must find somewhere to hang them proud one day). I'm still fiddling with the template and hopefully advancing it to be able to cope with the Australian hierarchy as a whole, or part of it at least in the short term, with support for WikiProjects. I'm just grabbing a sample of most article types for now to see what type of coverage is required by the project, and where coverage is lacking. By breaking Australia down in this sense, we can see which areas of Australian coverage are badly lacking in quality and detail. Feel free to list any articles you'd like to see assessed quickly at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/Assessment#Requesting_an_assessment. -- Longhair 06:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet dear B, once again, I am deeply touched by your beautiful gesture and your kindness to me. You truly are a shining spirit, and every day, you become more and more special to me. Your gift is much more than I could ask for - I'll display it with gratitude and pride for as long as I call myself a Wikipedian.

Dear B, I'd like to talk to you in private, if that's possible. Is there any chance we can meet in IRC, or MSN? Otherwise, I'll just email you. I hope you're doing fine, hun - have a great hug from this side of the ocean ;) Kisses, Phædriel ♥ tell me - 23:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I really messed things up, didn't I, my dear B? I'm so incredibly sorry. Phædriel ♥ tell me - 08:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, sweetheart, it's what "I" have done, not you - you've been, as usual, a true gentleman. I don't wanna discuss this in public tho, so I'll send you an email. xxx Phædriel ♥ tell me - 08:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Blnguyen, I have reverted what I thought was vandalism in your talk page. -

I don't think so, my browser keeps on logging me out randomly. Thanks anyway, Blnguyen | rant-line 09:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, actually the ip seems to belong to a univ and has received many warnings in the past..

Lost 09:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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OK, I'm coming. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Blnguyen. I'm sorry to see your morale is low and that you are so stressed. :( I hope to see you back and editing soon, and have a great, relaxing wikibreak. Take care -- Banes 22:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just got hit by this block while I was logged in. Does this mean that whatever change was made to wikimedia to bypass IP blocks is no longer in effect?--172.150.36.202 03:02, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

:I'm sorry I couldn't read the certificate.Blnguyen | rant-line 03:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for recognising my efforts with a Barnstar. I've still got heaps to go. I'll keep continuing to provide as much local knowledge and history that I have on suburbs in southern Sydney. I'm starting to take a few photos, when I'm out and about in the local area, so I'll keep loading those too. J Bar 03:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Blnguyen - My, that was some very random vandalism (or... whatever it was...) that you reverted on my talk page! But thanks for watching out for others. See you around! - Tapir Terrific 03:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for watching and reverting the vandalism on my page, too --rogerd 03:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dont let the backlogs get to you! Wikipedia will survive, it has survived its basis in mutually assured "anarchy" so far. Thanks for fixing this and this. They are both on my watchlist and I missed both of them. You are not going crazy yet! Ansell 04:32, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Good work with the Thorpey speculation... Wonder when that one got onto the page. And I thought the page was relatively quiet. Ansell 04:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

All three of your recent admin nominations were really good. I dont usually get into RfA but these nominations were really really well researched. You seem to have found the ultimate way out of your personal "backlog hell". Ansell 05:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that last rollback. An inadvertant click. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 04:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If this works, my mysterious block has disappeared. *shrugs*. Mangojuice^talk 05:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't figure out whether these images Image:2FE.JPG Image:P1013085.JPG Image:P1183144.JPG created by Bevsta (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) are speedy candidates in any way. The user was blocked, not banned, so they don't quite come under that criteria. Ansell 07:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

We can just delete it normally right? He isn't banned so they won't be speedied. Just a tattoo pic right, or is there something I shouldn't see? Blnguyen | rant-line 07:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will put them up for

deletion then. There was nothing more than the tattoo and a few bikes, just wondering whether you knew the system any better than I. Ansell

07:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry you had to listen to the foolish thoughts of a silly girl while you were stressed and having a tough time, my beloved B. Your words have relieved me, but your absence is saddening; and not only because of our friendship, but because it's Wikipedia's loss as a whole to have you away, even for a short while. I'll be waiting for you to return whenever you feel the time is right; please, relax, you've worked so incredibly hard in the last times, that you desperately need a soothing rest. I'll always be around in case you feel like talking. Your friend, now and always, Phædriel ♥ tell me - 09:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you've been nominating quite a few users for adminship! That's very kind of ya. I agree that we do need more admins as waiting for vandals to be blocked at AIV for 10+ minutes and the articles for speedy deletion building up can get annoying. Regards, Andeh 13:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, somebody noticed. Yes, it is probably related to the burn-out mentioned at the top of the page.Blnguyen | rant-line 01:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As you like nominating, I was wondering if you could convince Phaedriel to be admin? People keep asking her but she keeps declining..--Andeh 13:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not happy with the content on the link - it lists rapists as notable Lebanese australians. they are criminals that tarnish our reputation. I believe I am entitled to remove their names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.166.110.125 (talk • contribs)

Just a note. This happens to everyone. All notable people of any group are listed there, whether they are good or not. See

List of Australians. Unfortunately, every ethnic group, will have criminals there, as the articles are meant to give information, even if it is unpleasant. Blnguyen | rant-line 06:26, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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I think that they are notable, there are plenty of criminals in Wikipedia, like

Australian noticeboard with the whole community. Also I think you should register an account because you are interested in serious debate and many users are reluctant to deal with anonymous editors.Blnguyen | rant-line 06:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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I've faced this problem before a while back now, over at

List of Australians. It seems some people are wanting the criminal aspect of their society removed. As you can see, the content remains. I think you handled this very well. Cheers. -- Longhair 07:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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I've replied on my own page, but I'll post here as well:
I'd prefer it slightly if you left the page-creation up to me (I've got the "templates" I use saved as Notepad files on my computer, so it'll probably be a mite faster - also, if you're Wikibreaking and I'm not then I should probably be able to get them done faster), but you're welcome to add extra info to any of the songs - particularly where Ireland's concerned, I really only know the winners well. If you want, I could go directly to Ireland from Estonia when that part gets done. That said, if you want to create the pages, be my guest. I'll whiz through them later and create what isn't there and standardise what is. BigHaz 08:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thought you might like some coffee. I was up to 5 XL coffees a day a couple of months ago (thanks Tim Hortons!) Just like you can't solve all the world's problems, you can't solve all of WP's problems. But you're a gem of an admin and a genuinely good guy to be trying so hard. -- Samir धर्म 12:49, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you for writing such wonderful nominations! By the way, I saw you were stressed and hope you know that while this project is extremely lucky to have such a dedicated and kind contributor like you, we all need some time off to relax as well. So sit back, enjoy your wikibreak, and maybe focus more on writing some articles. :) Kind regards, Sango123 23:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please undelete the image

Also, Image:Jefferson Parrish la seal.gif, which can be found at the District Attorney's website at http://www.jpda.org/seal3.gif, and was being used fairly to illustrate Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. DHowell 00:48, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for blocking that IP (195.93.21.66). S/he's been a real pain on the Michael Jackson page.

I saw your rebuttals in there. Thanks, I appreciate it. It looks really close, too. I've more or less anticipated this because I suddenly have a lot of freetime after 18 months of school and thus relatively few edits during that time frame. Oh well, there's always a next time and there's no rush for me to become admin. I don't plan on leaving Wikipedia during my lifetime. Damn Wikiholism. ;-) --Chris S. 03:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's even an official policy at Wikipedia:Notability (numbers)#Related issues. Chemical compounds are "not by definition encyclopedic, unless they have some sort of unusual chemical, economic or industrial significance". The particular compound antimony trichloride, however, is certainly notable, because it was known to the alchemists as "butter of antimony" and it is used as a reagent for detecting vitamin A and other carotenoids. If you had added a fact like that before removing the importance tag, I'd be much happier. In the future, please don't simply remove the importance tag without adding anything to show importance. —Keenan Pepper 04:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I have warned him. He seems to be the same person who has been attacking me on my user and talk pages. But I don't know what he would get by vandalising Pakistan's page. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also warned the vandals who attacked your userpage. I wonder why they weren't warned for this before. BTW, how did you make the noteriety graph? I was wondering how my graph would look like. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I never thought that the Pakistan article would be protected because of me. That too in the light that I am hardly a contributor to the article. The last time I edited it was 2 weeks back while reverting vandalism of non-Ambuj Saxena vandal! I also saw that you protected a lot of my user pages. Thanks for being a prompt admin. And enjoy your WikiBreak, if at all you are taking one. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 08:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to wonder why you put a backlog tag on the NS category, when it was actually up-to-date - July 6th is 7 days ago, so we can't delete those items till tomorrow. But then I read your message at the top, and it prompted me to re-think what I was going to write. Pardon the vehemence, but - GO BACK TO WRITING ARITCLES! - we need that far more than we need an admin tasks done, and it's far harder to do. I speak as a WikiGnome; someone who has been doing maintence tasks since before I became a janitor, and simply continued - we need article writers far more than we need more maintence people - yes, the backlogs grow gigantic, and continue on as far as the eye can see, but - what we are here to do is write articles - that's what we have all come together for, and what our intention and purpose is. Please don't trade time you could spend writing articles for anything - it's our most precious and rare resource. I hope this is of some help - if I can do anything else, please let me know.

Yes, exactly. I have a semi-automatic tool I use to handle the no_source categories, and it checks the the pages have been uploaded more than 7 days ago, no exceptions (and that they haven't been edited in the last day, just as a further check), so I don't usually get to the NS categories until at least one day past the 7 days. A backlog, to me, is 2 or 3 days beyond the 7 day limit. As for PRODs - I'm not that familiar with the non-toolserver process, but I assume people cut it close due to non-automatic checking (which was available on the toolserver, may it soon return). Glad there are other people concerned about the backlogs.

JesseW, the juggling janitor

01:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, just wanted to reiterate what JesseW says above. WP is too big for anyone to carry the whole thing on their shoulders, and if anything the backlog of excellent article writing is the one we should all be working on :) Happy wishes, Ziggurat 01:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An

Thanks for your reply, Blnguyen --

Lost 15:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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for blocking my userpage vandal. That was getting a little annoying =). Have a great day! Alphachimp ^talk 02:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They are purposefully editing my comments and the reporting me to admin for forcing a civil discussion on the page. I request you to consider my case, as I have always been civil, cited my sources, and talked about the issue at hand. —The preceding

On Talk:Marco Materazzi you responded to a rather tangential comment unrelated to Wikipedia article discussion. Because the user who added the comment to which you responded has been vandalizing this page by blanking comments by others and his non-vandalistic comments are still not about improving the article, I have been reverting his edits entirely. I am careful with comments added by others in the interval, though it is a pain, but in removing his comment, your comment would be dangling so I would like to remove it as well. I have not yet reverted, because I am not going to keep reverting this vandalism every minute, so I will wait until he has been blocked or until it has been a little while. —Centrx→talk • 04:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

since you are apparently the only admin online right now, please read my report of User:Downwards's 3RR violation. thanks [1]] 05:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

nevermind. you are right. SADLY, you are right. Drmagic 05:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Will do, you too. :) -- 06:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Someone (IP) replaced most of your user page with text which appeared to be extracted from an article on Wikipedia (some US president, might have been Kennedy, can't remember exactly). I assumed it was vandalism (and wasn't you). If it was you, please accept my apologies.

Blnguyen, someone is really seeking your attention today :) -

Lost 07:02, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply

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No worries. Snottygobble 07:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate it =) Bwithh 07:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't have any close relatives living in Mumbai. Although I was still pretty shocked by the attacks. I've just been editing a little less on wiki recently because I had other things to do. Nobleeagle (Talk) 07:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...can you check up on my report

Have you seen this? Looks like good news. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 11:22, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Blnguyen for the following reason (see our blocking policy ): obscene personal attacks Your IP address is 152.163.100.68.

Who was this block supposed to be aimed at?--152.163.100.5 15:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The person who was making obscene attacks under that IP.Blnguyen | rant-line 23:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well it probably isn't affecting that person, it is however periodically keeping me from editing, how long a block is it anyway?--152.163.100.5 01:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Samsara (talk • contribs) 21:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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. 23:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On a personal note - thanks for taking the time in defending me. That meant a lot. --Chris S. 23:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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