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Greetings! I am very impressed by AssessorTags, and I intend to use it a lot. I added some requested features at User:Drilnoth/assessortags.js/doc#Bugs and to-do list. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 16:54, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth, I'm going away to a conference for the next week or so. I do expect to have internet access while there, but I will be travelling a lot, and so may contributions over the next week may be limited and sporadic. Also, I have a huge task over the next 3 weeks or so concerning Version 0.7, and that will dominate my wikitime. Can you keep things ticking over at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Assessment_working_group? I don't think we need any urgent discussions, but if you can perhaps help get some of the action points moving along, I'd appreciate it. I will try to do a few bits and pieces myself as time allows at the conference. Thanks! Walkerma ( talk) 03:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC) P.S. - I think we should removed the A-Class discussion from {{ cent}}, but I don't know what the protocol is for that. Do you know? Cheers, Walkerma ( talk) 03:12, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth - Though I can understand the reason for the automation of the backlog notice at Category:Stubs, I do have a couple of concerns about it - please seem my comments at Category talk:Stubs. Grutness... wha? 23:57, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Just a note to remind you that if you remove something from the cent template, you should add a summary of the discussion to the archive unless it's totally unimportant. Stifle ( talk) 18:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Frehley Space Ace 00:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Diverse Mentality 01:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
can I test coding on my userpage?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fastestengine ( talk • contribs)
ok thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fastestengine ( talk • contribs) 21:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Drilnoth! Not sure if this would be of interest to you, but here is a quick report on how AssessorTags fares in different browsers I tested:
I assume you developed and tested this in Firefox, which is why I have not tried it (I don't like that browser, so I wasn't going to install it just to see the obvious). All in all, I am sorry to inform that this potentially very useful tool is of no use to me whatsoever, because it does not work in any of the browsers I am willing/am able to work in :( I understand my following request is going to be very low on your list of priorities, but when/if you have time, could you look into making this tool compatible with more platforms? I think lots of other folks like me would appreciate it as well :) Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:27, March 25, 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject USCJ
in the customization area to read WikiProject USCJ|class=|importance=
. If that doesn't work after you purge your cache, let me know and I'll try to figure out some other way to do it. –
Drilnoth (
T •
C) 18:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
(unindenting) That works! I'm surprised. I'd've thought it would've put \| in the template, but it works great. Also, I see that you saw that I see your replies here.
When I create new articles (e.g. Luther Emmett Holt or Frank Edward Figgures) I try to put the right banners on the talk page. But it's a ton of work. There are so many Wikiprojects I can't memorize them all, and there's no standard to what they might be named: Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers uses {{ Composers}}, but Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges uses {{ WikiProject USCJ}}, and many WikiProject pages do not prominently display their banner templates on the WikiProject mani page where an outsider can easily find them. What's needed, of course, is an AssessorTags-type-tool that has all banner templates for active WikiProjects, (perhaps pulled from a single, updatable page) with an easy way to set the most common parameters (like Status). I know that's a tall order, but it would sure be useful. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 18:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
It's not evil April 1st yet, and things are already getting warmed up. :P BOZ ( talk) 13:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Did you do anything to the code? I've just noticed this morning that the WikiProject tag now happily shows up in IE6 (with Standard Library off!), and although nothing happens when I click on it, it is still an improvement :)— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:40, March 26, 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to confirm that script now does insert my custom tag into WikiProjectBannerShell, e.g. at Talk:Andrew S. Effron. Good job! – Quadell ( talk) 17:08, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Nah, it must be stupid IE6 again. I'll leave the script on for now and will check it with other browsers at home. By the way, would you be interested in contacting user:Cameltrader and perhaps coordinating inclusion of CodeFixer's functionality into his most excellent Advisor script?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 18:25, March 26, 2009 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for taking the time to clean up statistics. I reverted one part of your cleanup. You changed [[Category:Statistics| ]] to [[Category:Statistics|Statistics]]. I changed it back to preserve the cat sort. Regards — G716 < T· C> 03:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, me again. Today I am going to share the results of my second test run; hopefully you'll find some use for them :)
Yesterday evening I tried IE8, Chrome, and Opera once again:
Hope this helps! As a side note, what do you think about renaming the Wikiprojects tab to "Assess"? Not that it matters much, but I find "Wikiprojects" could be somewhat confusing to the users who are new to the script. Best,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:52, March 27, 2009 (UTC)
I came across your tagging of Tim Iredale under A7. A7 should only be used when the article does not make any claim of notability of the subject. In the article it clearly says: "Prior to moving to the BBC in 2006, Tim was the Chief Political Correspondent for ITV Yorkshire." and "currently the Political Editor for the BBC in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire." which is a clear claim for notability. So A7 would not be valid here. If you wish, you could create an AfD discussion for it. Best to you. Anti venin 14:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I beat you to it! ;) Although it can probably be improved further. Best, -- A Nobody My talk 15:11, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
This edit to Michael Phelps introduced a couple of errors. Emdashes on Wiki are not spaced (see WP:EMDASH), and when the elements in date ranges contain spaces, the WP:ENDASH is spaced (see WP:MOSDATE). Because your edit summary indicated that several different scripts were used (Checkwiki, Formatter, Codefixer and advisor), I'm unable to decipher which script is responsible or if there is anyone else I should notify of these errors. I corrected the errors at Michael Phelps, [2] but was hoping you could follow through and make sure these scripts are updated to conform with WP:EMDASH, WP:ENDASH and WP:MOSDATE. I also noticed that the scripts hadn't corrected the WP:MOS#Ellipses errors (ellipses have spaces) or replaced curly quotes with straight quotes; [3] perhaps you can convince one of the script operators to incorporate that. Regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply regarding quick fails. I've looked over the articles you reviewed, and I think they can all stand up to the GA criteria. A couple of them have four fair-use images each, but I've never seen an actual number given as a limit. I also tend to agree with you about an encyclopedia being a tertiary source. At the GA level, I'm sure that it's not a big deal. Thanks again for all the work you put into coordinating the drive. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 02:58, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
waves
See you soon. :) BOZ ( talk) 03:43, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to mention that I think we solved the issue that was preventing you from saving the Wikipedia check project page. It required a software patch to do it, so that caused the delay. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Dragons flight ( talk) 06:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for notice; I fixed tag. -- Boston ( talk) 15:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your efforts at chasing down improper copyright tags. Best wishes and happy editing. -- Boston ( talk) 15:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC) |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | |
For your participation in the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive, in which you reviewed 7 articles, you are granted this barnstar! Great work! — The participants on the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive 21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC) |
In addition, you may use the userbox located at User:Drilnoth/Userboxes/GAN backlog elimination drive to indicate your participation on your user page. Thanks! – Drilnoth ( T • C) 21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Seems like it wasn't such a good idea on either of our parts - see this comment I've had at my talk. Best, — Hex (❝?!❞) 23:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Really have to go to bed and consequently can't watch this, but in my defence, it is April 1, not the end of the world FlowerpotmaN·( t) 01:36, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello again. Have you considered general fixes to refs.
For example, moving the ref tags outside the punctuation: changing ...end of a sentence<ref>blah blah blah</ref>. to ...end of a sentence.<ref>blah blah blah</ref> The period in this example could be a comma, exclamation point, etc.
And removing spurious spaces: changing ...end of a sentence. <ref>blah blah blah</ref> to ...end of a sentence.<ref>blah blah blah</ref>, and changing </ref> <ref> to </ref><ref>
Regards, — G716 < T· C> 01:48, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much for that barnstar, that's my first ever one! :) CarpetCrawler ( talk) 02:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Alright, I've restored it to its original location. :) Regards, – Juliancolton | Talk 02:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
If you continue to change my invaluable edits to some random user page, you will be severely troutslapped. Fram ( talk) 13:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2009, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2009 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2009 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Scott Mac (Doc) 16:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
I was looking at Filescripts. Are you familiar with User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js? He has code for notifying uploaders automatically when using 1-click image tagging. Thought it might interest you. – Quadell ( talk) 22:36, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Your request on the reward board has expired. Just to tell you. -- The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 23:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I left a bug notice for you at User:Drilnoth/filescripts.js/doc. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 01:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
I have 3 granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Juliancolton | Talk 20:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
I've got a literature for " Iabet". It is from Caroline Seawright's page.-- Gospodar svemira ( talk) 16:28, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
No, literature is from web-page of Caroline Seawright. She wrote many pages about Ancient Egypt and mythology. -- Gospodar svemira ( talk) 10:42, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Drilnoth. I'd like to discuss something with you in private, but you don't have e-mail set up. Could you e-mail me? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) 03:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Based on our conversation, I feel confident to nominate you for adminship. You can accept the nomination, if you wish, at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Drilnoth. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 01:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
You wanted to co-nominate I believe? If so, head over to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BOZ and add your thoughts. Best, Hiding T 13:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
It is generally a mistake to shoehorn Arabic names into the English surname convention.
Exceptions include include individuals with Arabic names who live or were educated in non-Muslim countries, or live in westernized communities in Muslim countries.
Neither of the two naming conventions typically used in Arabic cultures (and Pashtun culture as well) has any analog to a surname the individual inherits from their father. So sorting on their "last name" is very misleading.
I see you have spent some time adding "listas" parameters. I started reverting them.
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 18:02, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Arabic names are tricky to alphabetize. So are Chinese names, Japanese names, etc: more traditional folks put their family name first, and more Americanized folks put the family name last. We really need tags like {{ Arabic name needing alphabetization}} or somesuch, but I'll leave it to someone more knowledgeable than myself to set up. – Quadell ( talk) 12:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. I've listed live action role-playing game for peer review with an eye to improving it towards FA quality, and it'd be great to hear your thoughts in the review. Thanks again for the Good Article review, it was good working with you on it. Ryan Paddy ( talk) 01:23, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Nice work on the script. Suggestion for {{ WPBiography}} tags - please add "class" and "priority" parameters with their respective options (maybe in a dropdown list a la Twinkle for its notability options?). Thanks. – ukexpat ( talk) 15:50, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
M2c: "Class" will probably be the same across projects, but "importance" will not. A stub is a stub, but Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (founder of modern Turkey) is much more important to Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey than to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. – Quadell ( talk) 16:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, i noticed your edit changing, in 165 places, from "br/" to "br /", within National Register of Historic Places listings in Oregon. There are more than 1,000 NRHP list articles where br/ is used which could be affected. Could you explain the usefulness of making such a change? I don't see the advantage of adding a hidden character which does not change the functionality of the break. If it is a useful change for some reason, perhaps it should be discussed at wt:nrhp and perhaps could be implemented into the list-table generator tool that we have been using to create the NRHP list-articles. I'm not reverting your change in the Oregon list article right now, though it seems to just add to page size of an already large page. doncram ( talk) 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth. I undid most of your last edit to AkzoNobel, reverting the change of image:example.png to file:example.png. Can you explain why you did that in the first place? And the comments suggest another edit (which you didn't do, apparently), that is change <br/> into <br />. Is there a reason to do that? Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim van Dorst (talk) 22:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC).
Having fun? :) You don't have to keep up with the tallies constantly, as others will update it - and if it is off, it's usually very easy to figure out the numbers. ;) It's been very interesting so far! Honestly, I expected more people to oppose me - but then, there are six days left. ;) BOZ ( talk) 23:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I find it amusing that you'll be picking up the delete feat, when your alignment won't allow you to use it very often. – Quadell ( talk) 01:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that you added incorrect and unnecessary DEFAULTSORTs to the following pages: József Madaras, Sándor Sára, József Szabó (Hungarian footballer). Each of those already had a {{ Lifetime}}, which embeds a DEFAULTSORT of its own. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 17:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Drilnoth. I was looking at your monobook.css, and I copied the following into my User:Quadell/monobook.css:
#p-coll-create_a_book { display: none; } //Hides "books" in sidebar
And it works great! But when I tried to add this:
#n-recentchanges { display: none; }
...it doesn't work. Do you know why? Does "display:none" fail to work with li or something? All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 23:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, a comment bug! Sneaky. Thanks a bundle! (I'm still not voting for you for class president though.) – Quadell ( talk) 23:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Why did you add All free media to the backlog? ViperSnake151 Talk 11:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. I am trying to follow all your advice. Regarding "Source", you say I have to put the (terms and conditions) of the web page of the source. Well, it's my web page and there isn't any terms or conditions.
(BStet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:36, 10 April 2009 (UTC))
I am trying and trying.
What are these messages untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged,
does that mean "copyright" tag. These paintings don't have copyright tags.
This whole thing can drive you nuts!!
(Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 02:08, 10 April 2009 (UTC))
Under most laws, the utilitarian, functional, or industrial aspects of a design cannot attract protection. Cellphones are utilitarian objects, not made to be artwork. Just look at Category:Fair use images of three-dimensional art and notice that there are no cellphones in it. Utilitarian designs are usually protected using more trademark-esque forms of protection, such as design patents. ViperSnake151 Talk 02:11, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I thought I turned on that thing to prompt me for no edit summary... BOZ ( talk) 02:53, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking it would be a big popup, or even something bolded, but it's just a little line of text in there - not very conspicuous! Just need to remember that if I do forget an edit summary, not to close the page before I make sure my edit got in there. :) BOZ ( talk) 02:59, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
How's it going. I'm PericlesofAthens. Pleased to meet you. I noticed that you are a member of the Guild of Copyeditors. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at my latest FAC, the Han Dynasty. The prose needs some tweaking if the article is to pass its nomination. I have the bad habit of writing very long sentences that ultimately need to be split apart. I hope you have some spare time to copyedit the article a bit. Thanks!-- Pericles of Athens Talk 02:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
One of the things I've noticed on various Talk pages is that it's widely regarded as poor tactics to respond to every "oppose" at RfA - it gives the impression that the persistent responder is too eager to have the last word on everything. I'm not saying this applies to you, in fact my impression of you as a person is that you are very reasonable. I think that's all the more reason to avoid the risk of giving a misleading impression. -- Philcha ( talk) 16:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
User:Drilnoth Alt is making this post to confirm that it is, indeed, an alternative account of User:Drilnoth. Drilnoth Alt ( talk) 19:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
RFA's been an interesting ride with you; here's hoping that we don't each get a few dozen Opposes in the next 10 hours. :) BOZ ( talk) 02:21, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 16:12, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for protecting Earth Day. It is like this every year, I think, and I suggest that you go ahead and protect it through the end of April, or at least through April 27, when most of the coverage of Earth Day/Earth Week events will have run.-- Hjal ( talk) 18:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey mate - just a reminder about the larp article peer review, in case it got forgotten in all the admin madness. And congrats. Ryan Paddy ( talk) 00:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Well, if the 50 people or so I just e-mailed to flood your RfA with Oppose votes doesn't work, you'll be an admin in about 10 minutes, so let me pre-pre-pre-jinx, I mean congratulate you on your impending success. :) I'll probably be AFK when it happens, so I'm cheating. ;) BOZ ( talk) 12:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Dear Drilnoth,
I have closed your recent RfA as successful per the consensus of the community. Congratulations, you are now a sysop! Please make sure you're aware of the Administrators' how-to guide and are aware of the items on the Administrators' reading list. Best of luck in your new position! — Anonymous Dissident Talk 13:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
More congratulations from me I'm afraid, but I do come bearing gifts: namely, this T-shirt. Enjoy! 16:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth - I've noticed that occasional editors, yourself included, have been changing "Image:" to "File:" lately. What's this about? It seems to me to be replacing a clear and specific keyword with something less specific, for no obvious benefit. Colonies Chris ( talk) 13:11, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Drilnoth. I participate in a lot of image deletion debates, and I recently noticed this edit and this edit by a user, objecting to the nomination of images he uploaded. I understand it can be frustrating to have an image nominated for deletion, but civility is still required. I saw the note at the top of his user page, and the previous warnings on his talk page, and I left a warning myself. He responded on my talkpage with a defense that included another personal attack (not toward me), and I told him that's just not okay.
I don't intend to interact with him further, and I think it would be inappropriate for me to block him if he continues in this behavior; I don't want it to appear like the deletionists are out to get him. But you're an inclusionist, and fair-headed. Could you keep an eye on the situation? All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 14:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
You could at least let me know if Commons Helper is playing up... That should be moving the History and description?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:06, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
I see you're a participant in WP:VIT and that you added a vital article template at Talk:AMC Gremlin. I can understand how articles on, say, The United States, Sophocles, Electricity and William Shakespeare might be characterized as 'vital'. But the Gremlin? I don't get it. (I have read WP:VA and WP:VIT, but they left me even more perplexed. For example, there are articles on dozens of utterly undistinguished vehicles listed as 'vital' in the expanded VA.) Please can you take a moment to explain? Thank you! Writegeist ( talk) 17:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Been wanting to get that out for awhile. ;) BOZ ( talk) 19:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I need those pictures on my talkapgesm which i'm using for a game.: Wikipedia is easy to use for showing pictures and all, and i doubt any of these pictures, considering their age: is copyrightable-- Ssteiner209 ( talk) 21:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I didn't realize my article was accepted. Thank you so much!1 There is much more I have to do. I am so excited. I just reread your message and I see that you said it was accepted, but it is actually on the internet now.
I have to put deKolb picture in there. I will do that tomorrow.
I know you said that we shouldn't put too many pictures on the cover page, but it looks bare. What should we do.
(Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 23:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC))
Great! (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 23:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC))
Drilloth, I am uploading into the commons, what "Category" should I use? (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
Hey Drinoth,
I added Illusions Rhapsody to the Commons and put some pictures on the article and wrote a bit more and fixed a few things on the article to. I figured out the "category" (Eric de Kolb) Anyway, see you tomorrow (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks, have a nice evening! (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
Hey Dril. I was doing some new page patrol, and it seemed to me that your edits fixing formatting issues and adding an orphan tag mark the article as patrolled. Unless someone is actually reading the article, this doesn't seem like a good idea. What do you think? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 02:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I just started using Twinkle after your (probably unintentional) recommendation. Does the "unlink" function work for you? It doesn't actually remove images from articles for me, whether used on its own or in conjunction with deletion. Not that important, since a bot does it anyway after a bit, but I'm just wondering. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 01:50, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh by the way, I thought you'd get a kick out of this: File:ST47 edit time.png. If only this could be auto-generated. – Quadell ( talk) 02:51, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey. I noticed things stalled for you at User:Drilnoth/Sandbox 3. I still think it's a good idea, if you ever find time to build upon it. I'm busy over the next little while. But if you wanted to get a few editors together from across the inclusion spectrum I'd be happy to help out.
In the meantime, I've put together an essay called Wikipedia:Third-party sources. I'm sure that you won't agree with every part of it. But I was curious what you thought about it, and if there are any parts of it that you'd find particularly controversial. Randomran ( talk) 18:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, What's up Drilnoth??
I have not uploading Eric de Kolb's picture on The Commons.
Please look at the paragraph below:
{{Information |Description={{en|1=Photo is of Eric de Kolb in the Isle of Capri. The cane he has is one of his original designs. Mrs. de Kolb (B. Stettner) has given permission to B. Stettner to show this faithful representation of original photograph on Wikipedia. License: CC-by-3.0
This is how the description looks after I press "save".
But, if you look at the third sentence (Mrs. de Kolb (B. Stettner) has given permission to B. Stettner)
This is not what I wrote. I wrote: (Mrs. de Kolb (copyright owner) has given permission to B. Stettner)
Why is it putting B.Stettner in where I write (copyright owner). I am not the copyright owner, Mrs. de Kolb is.
Also, at the end of the paragraph, I wrote: License: CC-by-3.0, copyleft. It is omitting the copyleft. I think this mistake is on all my images, but I have to really look.
HERE'S ANOTHER THING DRILOTH,
I JUST TRIED TO PLACE ERIC DE KOLB'S PICTURE IN MY ARTICLE AND I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU DID IT. File:EricdeKolbinCapri.jpg. IF YOU COULD MAKE THE PICTURE BIGGER SO IT STANDS OUT. PROBABLY THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE PIC. SHOULD BE BIGGER TOO. THANKS MUCH (BSTET-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:13, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks Driloth,
My ex boss didn't like capital letters, he thought the same thing "SHOUTING". Anyway, the picture of Eric de Kolb looks great. I thought you would put his picture next to the table of contents. I think I want the picture of the "storybook romance" somewhere in the article (a bigger one than the one we had before) (Bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 00:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
I saw this in my article
his article includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate.
What do I have to do to remedy this. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
I just deleted some of the "talk" templates. I don't think you responded yet to my last question about the citations. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:15, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
The list of references are from newspaper articles (and the newspapers are listed in the article) that Mrs. de Kolb allowed me to read and write the info. down. In the article their are footnotes. The sentences in the article relate to the footnote.
What else do I need. I don't understand. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:22, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 01:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
Driloth,
Please leave me a message about the category (commons) in dekolb. I don't want to categorize or subcategorize this incorrectly.
Good Night,
Will be back tomorrow late. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 02:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
You know what feels good? This, and this (etc.), and the upper right here, and especially the top eight entries here. – Quadell ( talk) 02:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Regarding in my recent Request for adminship, I have to officially thank you for co-nominating me! Now let's go have a beer. :) Or something. BOZ ( talk) 02:12, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was an easy way to do this, but I just hadn't spoken up about it. :) It'll be really helpful to allow us to keep track of talk page discussions, which was difficult enough to do previously. Is there an easy way to add the asterisks back in too, or do you prefer the clunky paragraph look to the long and drawn out look? :) BOZ ( talk) 22:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to delete my subpages. I appreciate it. Anti venin 15:48, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
For switching in that new template, fixes a lot of errors floating around. MBisanz talk 21:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Why Code Fixer is removing "-13" and "-10" from ISBN as it did here? Is anything written in the Manual of Style about that? In Wikipedia:ISBN I didn't find anything and in fact since the are two templates for it, I have the impression that having "ISBN-10" in wikipedia is something welcome. Can you enlighten me a bit? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I noticed this edit where you replaced < with a raw less-than sign using a script. I wonder whether that replacement is a good idea in general, as raw less-thans also serve to delimit some kinds of wiki markup, such as <ref>.
For example, if somebody wrote in an article about markup languages
MediaWiki uses <nowiki> and </nowiki> for this purpose.
would there be a risk that your script would suggest rewriting it to actual nowiki tags? Or is it smart enough to avoid this replacement where the result might look like a valid HTML/XML tag?
I recognize that this may have been discussed before; if so, I would appreciate if you could point me to the discussion. – Henning Makholm ( talk) 22:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC) Now watching this page
Here I am Drilloth,
I have been busy with other things these past two days, anyway, I hope you are well.
You know when I google "Eric de Kolb Wikipedia", the Eric de Kolb Wikipedia sight shows up, but so does all the other questions that I åsked Wikipedia Copyright. When someone looks up de Kolb, I don't want them to see my questions. I did go into Wikipedia Copyright and erase one of my questions, but they are still there!! How do I get rid of them.
Also, tell me about this Wiki Book.
Much thanks agåin, (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 23:43, 19 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks Drilloth,
I wasn't worried about the Wapedia thing. I saw that and I don't care. I was more concerned that my questions to the wikipedia copyright center were there when people type in Eric de Kolb or wikipedia eric de kolb. I don't want them on there for everyone to see.
Thank you again (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Oh well, I guess that means "just accept it", nuts.
Ok then, thank you (Bstet--
EricdeKolb ([[User
talk:EricdeKolb|talk]]) 00:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Absolutely, positively sure (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Not sure if this is helpful to you, Drilnoth, but see Template:NOINDEX, MediaWiki:Robots.txt, and the proposal at Wikipedia:Search engine indexing. – Quadell ( talk) 00:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I just went into the "deletion" site and I wrote that I would fix it. (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Driloth, I went into the commons and changed it from BehindFlowers to Woman Behind Flowers and added more in the description, etc. If you could delete the behindflowers.jpg for me that would be great. I hope this clears up the problem.
Got it! (bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 02:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Well Driloth, I went into the commons:
commons:File:WomanOnStageBehindCurtain.JPG , I hit edit and changed all the wording. However, the license is still wrong. What am I doing wrong?
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 02:55, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Driloth, I looked again, and this time it's correct. did you fix something. also, why don't I see this picture in the gallery in the commons. I must have saved it somewhere else.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 03:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Now it's in the gallery (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 03:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Another thing,
I put in the commons a clipping with Eric de Kolb's picture ArtInternational.jpg It isn't in the commons anymore??? Where did it go? I'm tired, see you tomorrow eve. Good Night!
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 03:37, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Delivered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 18:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I got your message that they are ready to delete Behind Flowers. That's fine because I have a duplicate in their now Girl Behind Flowers (remember I mentioned this to you yesterday.) But anyway, I know I have to get Mrs. de Kolb to sign a permission affadavit for all of the images. I am going there on Wednesday and I will have her sign and then I will scan and email it this week. So tell them there to please hold on.
(bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
Mrs. deKolb doesn't have a computer. We will have to go to an internet place and do this, besides, there are a lot of images, not just one. Will a one time permission ok from Mrs. de Kolb do the trick when there are so many images.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 01:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
I believe I already asked this question to someone and they said to have her sign a permission with the name of the images and pictures and send it to permissions-commons#wikimedia.org Anyway, I will do it this way, I can also give her an email address from my computer. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:54, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
I don't remember. But last week, I copied one of the permission letters with the names of the images and I showed it to Mrs. de Kolb. I didn't have a picture of the license though and she didn't want to sign it until she saw the picture.
When I look at the document, I have listed some paintings that are not on the Commons Site. They are: PsychedlicGreenMan.JPG, VooDooChild.JPG, Kitties&Friend.JPG, - I tried to upload them again into the commons, but I got a message that they were already in the system. How do I put them in the Gallery. I will probably have to redo the description and source and all that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EricdeKolb ( talk • contribs) 02:04, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Good suggestion, I won't upload anymore images. But what I will do is name the images in advance and have Mrs. deKolb sign an additional permission sheet so when I upload the images in Wiki Commons I can send along the permissions letter right off to Wikipedia. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 02:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
[TheBlackDarling.jpg]is also missing on the Commons. I am going to put this image in my permissions so if you could find it and put it in the gallery that would be great.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 02:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
Thank you (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 13:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
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Greetings! I am very impressed by AssessorTags, and I intend to use it a lot. I added some requested features at User:Drilnoth/assessortags.js/doc#Bugs and to-do list. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 16:54, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth, I'm going away to a conference for the next week or so. I do expect to have internet access while there, but I will be travelling a lot, and so may contributions over the next week may be limited and sporadic. Also, I have a huge task over the next 3 weeks or so concerning Version 0.7, and that will dominate my wikitime. Can you keep things ticking over at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Assessment_working_group? I don't think we need any urgent discussions, but if you can perhaps help get some of the action points moving along, I'd appreciate it. I will try to do a few bits and pieces myself as time allows at the conference. Thanks! Walkerma ( talk) 03:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC) P.S. - I think we should removed the A-Class discussion from {{ cent}}, but I don't know what the protocol is for that. Do you know? Cheers, Walkerma ( talk) 03:12, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth - Though I can understand the reason for the automation of the backlog notice at Category:Stubs, I do have a couple of concerns about it - please seem my comments at Category talk:Stubs. Grutness... wha? 23:57, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Just a note to remind you that if you remove something from the cent template, you should add a summary of the discussion to the archive unless it's totally unimportant. Stifle ( talk) 18:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Frehley Space Ace 00:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Diverse Mentality 01:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
can I test coding on my userpage?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fastestengine ( talk • contribs)
ok thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fastestengine ( talk • contribs) 21:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Drilnoth! Not sure if this would be of interest to you, but here is a quick report on how AssessorTags fares in different browsers I tested:
I assume you developed and tested this in Firefox, which is why I have not tried it (I don't like that browser, so I wasn't going to install it just to see the obvious). All in all, I am sorry to inform that this potentially very useful tool is of no use to me whatsoever, because it does not work in any of the browsers I am willing/am able to work in :( I understand my following request is going to be very low on your list of priorities, but when/if you have time, could you look into making this tool compatible with more platforms? I think lots of other folks like me would appreciate it as well :) Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:27, March 25, 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject USCJ
in the customization area to read WikiProject USCJ|class=|importance=
. If that doesn't work after you purge your cache, let me know and I'll try to figure out some other way to do it. –
Drilnoth (
T •
C) 18:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
(unindenting) That works! I'm surprised. I'd've thought it would've put \| in the template, but it works great. Also, I see that you saw that I see your replies here.
When I create new articles (e.g. Luther Emmett Holt or Frank Edward Figgures) I try to put the right banners on the talk page. But it's a ton of work. There are so many Wikiprojects I can't memorize them all, and there's no standard to what they might be named: Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers uses {{ Composers}}, but Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges uses {{ WikiProject USCJ}}, and many WikiProject pages do not prominently display their banner templates on the WikiProject mani page where an outsider can easily find them. What's needed, of course, is an AssessorTags-type-tool that has all banner templates for active WikiProjects, (perhaps pulled from a single, updatable page) with an easy way to set the most common parameters (like Status). I know that's a tall order, but it would sure be useful. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 18:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
It's not evil April 1st yet, and things are already getting warmed up. :P BOZ ( talk) 13:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Did you do anything to the code? I've just noticed this morning that the WikiProject tag now happily shows up in IE6 (with Standard Library off!), and although nothing happens when I click on it, it is still an improvement :)— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:40, March 26, 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to confirm that script now does insert my custom tag into WikiProjectBannerShell, e.g. at Talk:Andrew S. Effron. Good job! – Quadell ( talk) 17:08, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Nah, it must be stupid IE6 again. I'll leave the script on for now and will check it with other browsers at home. By the way, would you be interested in contacting user:Cameltrader and perhaps coordinating inclusion of CodeFixer's functionality into his most excellent Advisor script?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 18:25, March 26, 2009 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for taking the time to clean up statistics. I reverted one part of your cleanup. You changed [[Category:Statistics| ]] to [[Category:Statistics|Statistics]]. I changed it back to preserve the cat sort. Regards — G716 < T· C> 03:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, me again. Today I am going to share the results of my second test run; hopefully you'll find some use for them :)
Yesterday evening I tried IE8, Chrome, and Opera once again:
Hope this helps! As a side note, what do you think about renaming the Wikiprojects tab to "Assess"? Not that it matters much, but I find "Wikiprojects" could be somewhat confusing to the users who are new to the script. Best,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:52, March 27, 2009 (UTC)
I came across your tagging of Tim Iredale under A7. A7 should only be used when the article does not make any claim of notability of the subject. In the article it clearly says: "Prior to moving to the BBC in 2006, Tim was the Chief Political Correspondent for ITV Yorkshire." and "currently the Political Editor for the BBC in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire." which is a clear claim for notability. So A7 would not be valid here. If you wish, you could create an AfD discussion for it. Best to you. Anti venin 14:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I beat you to it! ;) Although it can probably be improved further. Best, -- A Nobody My talk 15:11, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
This edit to Michael Phelps introduced a couple of errors. Emdashes on Wiki are not spaced (see WP:EMDASH), and when the elements in date ranges contain spaces, the WP:ENDASH is spaced (see WP:MOSDATE). Because your edit summary indicated that several different scripts were used (Checkwiki, Formatter, Codefixer and advisor), I'm unable to decipher which script is responsible or if there is anyone else I should notify of these errors. I corrected the errors at Michael Phelps, [2] but was hoping you could follow through and make sure these scripts are updated to conform with WP:EMDASH, WP:ENDASH and WP:MOSDATE. I also noticed that the scripts hadn't corrected the WP:MOS#Ellipses errors (ellipses have spaces) or replaced curly quotes with straight quotes; [3] perhaps you can convince one of the script operators to incorporate that. Regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply regarding quick fails. I've looked over the articles you reviewed, and I think they can all stand up to the GA criteria. A couple of them have four fair-use images each, but I've never seen an actual number given as a limit. I also tend to agree with you about an encyclopedia being a tertiary source. At the GA level, I'm sure that it's not a big deal. Thanks again for all the work you put into coordinating the drive. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 02:58, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
waves
See you soon. :) BOZ ( talk) 03:43, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to mention that I think we solved the issue that was preventing you from saving the Wikipedia check project page. It required a software patch to do it, so that caused the delay. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Dragons flight ( talk) 06:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for notice; I fixed tag. -- Boston ( talk) 15:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your efforts at chasing down improper copyright tags. Best wishes and happy editing. -- Boston ( talk) 15:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC) |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | |
For your participation in the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive, in which you reviewed 7 articles, you are granted this barnstar! Great work! — The participants on the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive 21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC) |
In addition, you may use the userbox located at User:Drilnoth/Userboxes/GAN backlog elimination drive to indicate your participation on your user page. Thanks! – Drilnoth ( T • C) 21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Seems like it wasn't such a good idea on either of our parts - see this comment I've had at my talk. Best, — Hex (❝?!❞) 23:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Really have to go to bed and consequently can't watch this, but in my defence, it is April 1, not the end of the world FlowerpotmaN·( t) 01:36, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello again. Have you considered general fixes to refs.
For example, moving the ref tags outside the punctuation: changing ...end of a sentence<ref>blah blah blah</ref>. to ...end of a sentence.<ref>blah blah blah</ref> The period in this example could be a comma, exclamation point, etc.
And removing spurious spaces: changing ...end of a sentence. <ref>blah blah blah</ref> to ...end of a sentence.<ref>blah blah blah</ref>, and changing </ref> <ref> to </ref><ref>
Regards, — G716 < T· C> 01:48, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much for that barnstar, that's my first ever one! :) CarpetCrawler ( talk) 02:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Alright, I've restored it to its original location. :) Regards, – Juliancolton | Talk 02:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
If you continue to change my invaluable edits to some random user page, you will be severely troutslapped. Fram ( talk) 13:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2009, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2009 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2009 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Scott Mac (Doc) 16:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
I was looking at Filescripts. Are you familiar with User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js? He has code for notifying uploaders automatically when using 1-click image tagging. Thought it might interest you. – Quadell ( talk) 22:36, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Your request on the reward board has expired. Just to tell you. -- The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 23:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I left a bug notice for you at User:Drilnoth/filescripts.js/doc. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 01:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
I have 3 granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Juliancolton | Talk 20:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
I've got a literature for " Iabet". It is from Caroline Seawright's page.-- Gospodar svemira ( talk) 16:28, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
No, literature is from web-page of Caroline Seawright. She wrote many pages about Ancient Egypt and mythology. -- Gospodar svemira ( talk) 10:42, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Drilnoth. I'd like to discuss something with you in private, but you don't have e-mail set up. Could you e-mail me? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) 03:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Based on our conversation, I feel confident to nominate you for adminship. You can accept the nomination, if you wish, at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Drilnoth. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 01:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
You wanted to co-nominate I believe? If so, head over to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BOZ and add your thoughts. Best, Hiding T 13:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
It is generally a mistake to shoehorn Arabic names into the English surname convention.
Exceptions include include individuals with Arabic names who live or were educated in non-Muslim countries, or live in westernized communities in Muslim countries.
Neither of the two naming conventions typically used in Arabic cultures (and Pashtun culture as well) has any analog to a surname the individual inherits from their father. So sorting on their "last name" is very misleading.
I see you have spent some time adding "listas" parameters. I started reverting them.
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 18:02, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Arabic names are tricky to alphabetize. So are Chinese names, Japanese names, etc: more traditional folks put their family name first, and more Americanized folks put the family name last. We really need tags like {{ Arabic name needing alphabetization}} or somesuch, but I'll leave it to someone more knowledgeable than myself to set up. – Quadell ( talk) 12:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. I've listed live action role-playing game for peer review with an eye to improving it towards FA quality, and it'd be great to hear your thoughts in the review. Thanks again for the Good Article review, it was good working with you on it. Ryan Paddy ( talk) 01:23, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Nice work on the script. Suggestion for {{ WPBiography}} tags - please add "class" and "priority" parameters with their respective options (maybe in a dropdown list a la Twinkle for its notability options?). Thanks. – ukexpat ( talk) 15:50, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
M2c: "Class" will probably be the same across projects, but "importance" will not. A stub is a stub, but Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (founder of modern Turkey) is much more important to Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey than to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. – Quadell ( talk) 16:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, i noticed your edit changing, in 165 places, from "br/" to "br /", within National Register of Historic Places listings in Oregon. There are more than 1,000 NRHP list articles where br/ is used which could be affected. Could you explain the usefulness of making such a change? I don't see the advantage of adding a hidden character which does not change the functionality of the break. If it is a useful change for some reason, perhaps it should be discussed at wt:nrhp and perhaps could be implemented into the list-table generator tool that we have been using to create the NRHP list-articles. I'm not reverting your change in the Oregon list article right now, though it seems to just add to page size of an already large page. doncram ( talk) 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth. I undid most of your last edit to AkzoNobel, reverting the change of image:example.png to file:example.png. Can you explain why you did that in the first place? And the comments suggest another edit (which you didn't do, apparently), that is change <br/> into <br />. Is there a reason to do that? Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim van Dorst (talk) 22:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC).
Having fun? :) You don't have to keep up with the tallies constantly, as others will update it - and if it is off, it's usually very easy to figure out the numbers. ;) It's been very interesting so far! Honestly, I expected more people to oppose me - but then, there are six days left. ;) BOZ ( talk) 23:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I find it amusing that you'll be picking up the delete feat, when your alignment won't allow you to use it very often. – Quadell ( talk) 01:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that you added incorrect and unnecessary DEFAULTSORTs to the following pages: József Madaras, Sándor Sára, József Szabó (Hungarian footballer). Each of those already had a {{ Lifetime}}, which embeds a DEFAULTSORT of its own. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 17:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Drilnoth. I was looking at your monobook.css, and I copied the following into my User:Quadell/monobook.css:
#p-coll-create_a_book { display: none; } //Hides "books" in sidebar
And it works great! But when I tried to add this:
#n-recentchanges { display: none; }
...it doesn't work. Do you know why? Does "display:none" fail to work with li or something? All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 23:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, a comment bug! Sneaky. Thanks a bundle! (I'm still not voting for you for class president though.) – Quadell ( talk) 23:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Why did you add All free media to the backlog? ViperSnake151 Talk 11:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. I am trying to follow all your advice. Regarding "Source", you say I have to put the (terms and conditions) of the web page of the source. Well, it's my web page and there isn't any terms or conditions.
(BStet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:36, 10 April 2009 (UTC))
I am trying and trying.
What are these messages untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged,
does that mean "copyright" tag. These paintings don't have copyright tags.
This whole thing can drive you nuts!!
(Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 02:08, 10 April 2009 (UTC))
Under most laws, the utilitarian, functional, or industrial aspects of a design cannot attract protection. Cellphones are utilitarian objects, not made to be artwork. Just look at Category:Fair use images of three-dimensional art and notice that there are no cellphones in it. Utilitarian designs are usually protected using more trademark-esque forms of protection, such as design patents. ViperSnake151 Talk 02:11, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I thought I turned on that thing to prompt me for no edit summary... BOZ ( talk) 02:53, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking it would be a big popup, or even something bolded, but it's just a little line of text in there - not very conspicuous! Just need to remember that if I do forget an edit summary, not to close the page before I make sure my edit got in there. :) BOZ ( talk) 02:59, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
How's it going. I'm PericlesofAthens. Pleased to meet you. I noticed that you are a member of the Guild of Copyeditors. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at my latest FAC, the Han Dynasty. The prose needs some tweaking if the article is to pass its nomination. I have the bad habit of writing very long sentences that ultimately need to be split apart. I hope you have some spare time to copyedit the article a bit. Thanks!-- Pericles of Athens Talk 02:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
One of the things I've noticed on various Talk pages is that it's widely regarded as poor tactics to respond to every "oppose" at RfA - it gives the impression that the persistent responder is too eager to have the last word on everything. I'm not saying this applies to you, in fact my impression of you as a person is that you are very reasonable. I think that's all the more reason to avoid the risk of giving a misleading impression. -- Philcha ( talk) 16:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
User:Drilnoth Alt is making this post to confirm that it is, indeed, an alternative account of User:Drilnoth. Drilnoth Alt ( talk) 19:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
RFA's been an interesting ride with you; here's hoping that we don't each get a few dozen Opposes in the next 10 hours. :) BOZ ( talk) 02:21, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 16:12, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for protecting Earth Day. It is like this every year, I think, and I suggest that you go ahead and protect it through the end of April, or at least through April 27, when most of the coverage of Earth Day/Earth Week events will have run.-- Hjal ( talk) 18:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey mate - just a reminder about the larp article peer review, in case it got forgotten in all the admin madness. And congrats. Ryan Paddy ( talk) 00:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Well, if the 50 people or so I just e-mailed to flood your RfA with Oppose votes doesn't work, you'll be an admin in about 10 minutes, so let me pre-pre-pre-jinx, I mean congratulate you on your impending success. :) I'll probably be AFK when it happens, so I'm cheating. ;) BOZ ( talk) 12:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Dear Drilnoth,
I have closed your recent RfA as successful per the consensus of the community. Congratulations, you are now a sysop! Please make sure you're aware of the Administrators' how-to guide and are aware of the items on the Administrators' reading list. Best of luck in your new position! — Anonymous Dissident Talk 13:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
More congratulations from me I'm afraid, but I do come bearing gifts: namely, this T-shirt. Enjoy! 16:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Drilnoth - I've noticed that occasional editors, yourself included, have been changing "Image:" to "File:" lately. What's this about? It seems to me to be replacing a clear and specific keyword with something less specific, for no obvious benefit. Colonies Chris ( talk) 13:11, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Drilnoth. I participate in a lot of image deletion debates, and I recently noticed this edit and this edit by a user, objecting to the nomination of images he uploaded. I understand it can be frustrating to have an image nominated for deletion, but civility is still required. I saw the note at the top of his user page, and the previous warnings on his talk page, and I left a warning myself. He responded on my talkpage with a defense that included another personal attack (not toward me), and I told him that's just not okay.
I don't intend to interact with him further, and I think it would be inappropriate for me to block him if he continues in this behavior; I don't want it to appear like the deletionists are out to get him. But you're an inclusionist, and fair-headed. Could you keep an eye on the situation? All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 14:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
You could at least let me know if Commons Helper is playing up... That should be moving the History and description?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:06, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
I see you're a participant in WP:VIT and that you added a vital article template at Talk:AMC Gremlin. I can understand how articles on, say, The United States, Sophocles, Electricity and William Shakespeare might be characterized as 'vital'. But the Gremlin? I don't get it. (I have read WP:VA and WP:VIT, but they left me even more perplexed. For example, there are articles on dozens of utterly undistinguished vehicles listed as 'vital' in the expanded VA.) Please can you take a moment to explain? Thank you! Writegeist ( talk) 17:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Been wanting to get that out for awhile. ;) BOZ ( talk) 19:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I need those pictures on my talkapgesm which i'm using for a game.: Wikipedia is easy to use for showing pictures and all, and i doubt any of these pictures, considering their age: is copyrightable-- Ssteiner209 ( talk) 21:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I didn't realize my article was accepted. Thank you so much!1 There is much more I have to do. I am so excited. I just reread your message and I see that you said it was accepted, but it is actually on the internet now.
I have to put deKolb picture in there. I will do that tomorrow.
I know you said that we shouldn't put too many pictures on the cover page, but it looks bare. What should we do.
(Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 23:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC))
Great! (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 23:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC))
Drilloth, I am uploading into the commons, what "Category" should I use? (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
Hey Drinoth,
I added Illusions Rhapsody to the Commons and put some pictures on the article and wrote a bit more and fixed a few things on the article to. I figured out the "category" (Eric de Kolb) Anyway, see you tomorrow (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks, have a nice evening! (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
Hey Dril. I was doing some new page patrol, and it seemed to me that your edits fixing formatting issues and adding an orphan tag mark the article as patrolled. Unless someone is actually reading the article, this doesn't seem like a good idea. What do you think? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 02:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I just started using Twinkle after your (probably unintentional) recommendation. Does the "unlink" function work for you? It doesn't actually remove images from articles for me, whether used on its own or in conjunction with deletion. Not that important, since a bot does it anyway after a bit, but I'm just wondering. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 01:50, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh by the way, I thought you'd get a kick out of this: File:ST47 edit time.png. If only this could be auto-generated. – Quadell ( talk) 02:51, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey. I noticed things stalled for you at User:Drilnoth/Sandbox 3. I still think it's a good idea, if you ever find time to build upon it. I'm busy over the next little while. But if you wanted to get a few editors together from across the inclusion spectrum I'd be happy to help out.
In the meantime, I've put together an essay called Wikipedia:Third-party sources. I'm sure that you won't agree with every part of it. But I was curious what you thought about it, and if there are any parts of it that you'd find particularly controversial. Randomran ( talk) 18:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey, What's up Drilnoth??
I have not uploading Eric de Kolb's picture on The Commons.
Please look at the paragraph below:
{{Information |Description={{en|1=Photo is of Eric de Kolb in the Isle of Capri. The cane he has is one of his original designs. Mrs. de Kolb (B. Stettner) has given permission to B. Stettner to show this faithful representation of original photograph on Wikipedia. License: CC-by-3.0
This is how the description looks after I press "save".
But, if you look at the third sentence (Mrs. de Kolb (B. Stettner) has given permission to B. Stettner)
This is not what I wrote. I wrote: (Mrs. de Kolb (copyright owner) has given permission to B. Stettner)
Why is it putting B.Stettner in where I write (copyright owner). I am not the copyright owner, Mrs. de Kolb is.
Also, at the end of the paragraph, I wrote: License: CC-by-3.0, copyleft. It is omitting the copyleft. I think this mistake is on all my images, but I have to really look.
HERE'S ANOTHER THING DRILOTH,
I JUST TRIED TO PLACE ERIC DE KOLB'S PICTURE IN MY ARTICLE AND I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU DID IT. File:EricdeKolbinCapri.jpg. IF YOU COULD MAKE THE PICTURE BIGGER SO IT STANDS OUT. PROBABLY THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE PIC. SHOULD BE BIGGER TOO. THANKS MUCH (BSTET-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:13, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks Driloth,
My ex boss didn't like capital letters, he thought the same thing "SHOUTING". Anyway, the picture of Eric de Kolb looks great. I thought you would put his picture next to the table of contents. I think I want the picture of the "storybook romance" somewhere in the article (a bigger one than the one we had before) (Bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 00:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
I saw this in my article
his article includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate.
What do I have to do to remedy this. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
I just deleted some of the "talk" templates. I don't think you responded yet to my last question about the citations. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:15, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
The list of references are from newspaper articles (and the newspapers are listed in the article) that Mrs. de Kolb allowed me to read and write the info. down. In the article their are footnotes. The sentences in the article relate to the footnote.
What else do I need. I don't understand. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:22, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 01:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
Driloth,
Please leave me a message about the category (commons) in dekolb. I don't want to categorize or subcategorize this incorrectly.
Good Night,
Will be back tomorrow late. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 02:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC))
You know what feels good? This, and this (etc.), and the upper right here, and especially the top eight entries here. – Quadell ( talk) 02:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Regarding in my recent Request for adminship, I have to officially thank you for co-nominating me! Now let's go have a beer. :) Or something. BOZ ( talk) 02:12, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was an easy way to do this, but I just hadn't spoken up about it. :) It'll be really helpful to allow us to keep track of talk page discussions, which was difficult enough to do previously. Is there an easy way to add the asterisks back in too, or do you prefer the clunky paragraph look to the long and drawn out look? :) BOZ ( talk) 22:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to delete my subpages. I appreciate it. Anti venin 15:48, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
For switching in that new template, fixes a lot of errors floating around. MBisanz talk 21:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Why Code Fixer is removing "-13" and "-10" from ISBN as it did here? Is anything written in the Manual of Style about that? In Wikipedia:ISBN I didn't find anything and in fact since the are two templates for it, I have the impression that having "ISBN-10" in wikipedia is something welcome. Can you enlighten me a bit? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I noticed this edit where you replaced < with a raw less-than sign using a script. I wonder whether that replacement is a good idea in general, as raw less-thans also serve to delimit some kinds of wiki markup, such as <ref>.
For example, if somebody wrote in an article about markup languages
MediaWiki uses <nowiki> and </nowiki> for this purpose.
would there be a risk that your script would suggest rewriting it to actual nowiki tags? Or is it smart enough to avoid this replacement where the result might look like a valid HTML/XML tag?
I recognize that this may have been discussed before; if so, I would appreciate if you could point me to the discussion. – Henning Makholm ( talk) 22:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC) Now watching this page
Here I am Drilloth,
I have been busy with other things these past two days, anyway, I hope you are well.
You know when I google "Eric de Kolb Wikipedia", the Eric de Kolb Wikipedia sight shows up, but so does all the other questions that I åsked Wikipedia Copyright. When someone looks up de Kolb, I don't want them to see my questions. I did go into Wikipedia Copyright and erase one of my questions, but they are still there!! How do I get rid of them.
Also, tell me about this Wiki Book.
Much thanks agåin, (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 23:43, 19 April 2009 (UTC))
Thanks Drilloth,
I wasn't worried about the Wapedia thing. I saw that and I don't care. I was more concerned that my questions to the wikipedia copyright center were there when people type in Eric de Kolb or wikipedia eric de kolb. I don't want them on there for everyone to see.
Thank you again (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Oh well, I guess that means "just accept it", nuts.
Ok then, thank you (Bstet--
EricdeKolb ([[User
talk:EricdeKolb|talk]]) 00:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Absolutely, positively sure (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Not sure if this is helpful to you, Drilnoth, but see Template:NOINDEX, MediaWiki:Robots.txt, and the proposal at Wikipedia:Search engine indexing. – Quadell ( talk) 00:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I just went into the "deletion" site and I wrote that I would fix it. (Bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 00:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Driloth, I went into the commons and changed it from BehindFlowers to Woman Behind Flowers and added more in the description, etc. If you could delete the behindflowers.jpg for me that would be great. I hope this clears up the problem.
Got it! (bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 02:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Well Driloth, I went into the commons:
commons:File:WomanOnStageBehindCurtain.JPG , I hit edit and changed all the wording. However, the license is still wrong. What am I doing wrong?
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 02:55, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Driloth, I looked again, and this time it's correct. did you fix something. also, why don't I see this picture in the gallery in the commons. I must have saved it somewhere else.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 03:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Now it's in the gallery (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 03:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Another thing,
I put in the commons a clipping with Eric de Kolb's picture ArtInternational.jpg It isn't in the commons anymore??? Where did it go? I'm tired, see you tomorrow eve. Good Night!
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 03:37, 20 April 2009 (UTC))
Delivered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 18:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I got your message that they are ready to delete Behind Flowers. That's fine because I have a duplicate in their now Girl Behind Flowers (remember I mentioned this to you yesterday.) But anyway, I know I have to get Mrs. de Kolb to sign a permission affadavit for all of the images. I am going there on Wednesday and I will have her sign and then I will scan and email it this week. So tell them there to please hold on.
(bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
Mrs. deKolb doesn't have a computer. We will have to go to an internet place and do this, besides, there are a lot of images, not just one. Will a one time permission ok from Mrs. de Kolb do the trick when there are so many images.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 01:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
I believe I already asked this question to someone and they said to have her sign a permission with the name of the images and pictures and send it to permissions-commons#wikimedia.org Anyway, I will do it this way, I can also give her an email address from my computer. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 01:54, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
I don't remember. But last week, I copied one of the permission letters with the names of the images and I showed it to Mrs. de Kolb. I didn't have a picture of the license though and she didn't want to sign it until she saw the picture.
When I look at the document, I have listed some paintings that are not on the Commons Site. They are: PsychedlicGreenMan.JPG, VooDooChild.JPG, Kitties&Friend.JPG, - I tried to upload them again into the commons, but I got a message that they were already in the system. How do I put them in the Gallery. I will probably have to redo the description and source and all that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EricdeKolb ( talk • contribs) 02:04, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Good suggestion, I won't upload anymore images. But what I will do is name the images in advance and have Mrs. deKolb sign an additional permission sheet so when I upload the images in Wiki Commons I can send along the permissions letter right off to Wikipedia. (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 02:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
[TheBlackDarling.jpg]is also missing on the Commons. I am going to put this image in my permissions so if you could find it and put it in the gallery that would be great.
(bstet--
EricdeKolb (
talk) 02:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC))
Thank you (bstet-- EricdeKolb ( talk) 13:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC))