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Hello, iridescent. I stumbled across some of the recent signature discussions in which you've been a participant and ended up here. I notice a few sections above that you scolded iMatthew for advising another user to tranclude a template as his signature. I agree that the whole customized signature craze is inappropriate for Wikipedia and that iMatthew was making such a recommendation to circumvent the implicit 255 character limit (as imposed by the MediaWiki software), but he was in fact advising that user to substitute the template. Assuming the signature template is under 255 characters, does substituting a template as one's signature break policy? I didn't see a provision for this in WP:SIG, but such action wouldn't be susceptible to most (all?) of the disadvantages of transclusion. Doctorfluffy ( robe and wizard hat) 02:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Now, Gurch, as I was saying about people using automated tools not checking who they're templating... — iride scent 22:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Do you think you could reply to some questions that I asked on my admin coaching page, as my coach is offline at this time? Cheers, Razor flame 23:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
For beating me to several reverts! Regards, CycloneNimrod talk? contribs? 23:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC) |
Don't know if you thought I wouldn't notice this, but I have. I realise it's intended to be humorous, but frankly many of the entries are more insulting that funny --
Gurch (
talk)
01:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it wasnt sure who to tell about the incident. Yes it is highly unlikely but still needs to be reported. ChristopherJames2008 ( talk) 15:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I could probably just link your WP:WIKISPEAK contributions list, but since that will likely be MfD'd to oblivion by the humorless, I found a better quote. Spot on. Welcome to my quotes page :-) Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 15:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi iridescent. Thanks for your help on this article. Maybe I was a little too hasty in my CSD request. Ho hum! Cheers » xytram« talk 19:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The recent edit you made to Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thanks. — User_talk:Ozzie425er 19:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For giving me good advice, I hereby award you this barnstar! Razor flame 21:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC) |
Repost from my talkpage, on the off chance you're not watching it. Iridescent: I think a brief look at the edit history of that page shows that the articles Axolotl and Mudkip are related; the least that should be done is to link them in the see also section. Perhaps a "Axolotl in Popular Culture" section should be added, but I haven't time or interest. My edit was done at the request of another user who apparently cares. I don't usually edit wikipedia myself as the wiki developers refuse to fix the captcha problems, making me as a blind member unwelcome. Vandalism? For one wiki link? That seems a bit...much. 206.126.88.124 ( talk) 01:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Irdescent,
I am creating a Wiki all about transport in the UK and i was wondering if you would like to join and edit it. This offer has been offered to you as you are interested in London Underground. Please write back on my talk page.
Many Thanks
Dudleybus Spake 2 me 16:42, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Iridescent. I revamped my answers to the RfA questions today. I'll read over it once more before I go offline tomorrow, and then I'll likely transclude this on Monday the 16th when I actually have internet access again. While reading over the page again I noticed a small error in the nomination that I hope you won't mind fixing. I'm not an extremely active vandal-fighter, but I have done some. I warn vandals who I've seen do naughty things to the pages I watch, and when they've vandalised after their final warning I have reported them to AIV (probably about a dozen in the last 9-12 months). Would you mind making a slight amendment to your statement? Thanks! Karanacs ( talk) 14:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
You keep beating me to reverting the vandals! Dave the Rave 17:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
What is it?
The Transhumanist 18:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
The. WP. Logo. Is. Trippy. Wait, that's four! EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG!-- Editor510 ( talk) 12:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Given the volume of "unexplained blanking" reversions, would it be possible to add a single-keystroke revert-and-{{ uw-delete1}} (2,3,4) alongside the current revert-and-{{ uw-vand1}}? As you (Gurch) know, I've been monitoring Huggle usage & testing it recently, and people being given vandalism warnings for removal of content (which can have some perfectly legitimate reasons which aren't obvious in the diff box, in the case of BLP violations and duplicated sectons) seems to be an issue that comes up repeatedly.
Also, I personally think it would be a good idea to set "watchlist:warnings" as the default setting; the new users you're dealing with here won't necessarily understand the "reply on my talkpage" etiquette, and are likely to post any "why this edit wasn't vandalism" explanations underneath the warnings on their own talkpage. Just a thought...
And finally, is there any way to set {{ anonblock}} as the default block message, at least when warning IPs? — iride scent 15:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I think you can just close the ANI thread now. Gary King ( talk) 03:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
It appears the globe stand was from a copyrighted image.
This means we're back to square one.
We need to either find another globe stand (please keep a lookout for one), or we need to come up with a new idea altogether for the "Wikipedia World Traveler" award.
I look forward to any ideas you might have.
During the competition that this award is for, each participant will be "visiting" (and changing an item on) a particular type of country-related page for every country of the world. By doing so, he or she will have "traveled the World".
But I have no idea what the award should look like now.
I'm still in shock from the last 3 weeks' of effort being trashed.
Any thoughts you could provide would be most appreciated.
The Transhumanist 01:03, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I modified those ferrari figures just to test if I can do it. I actually argued with my friend if it is possible. Excuse us please!! By the way you are not a kind of bot, aren't you?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.200.28.117 ( talk • contribs)
The long conversations about Huggle these past few days have got me thinking. I'm not sure Gurch realised it at the time (or that the idea has even occurred to anyone yet), but a stable & foolproof version of Huggle — which Gurch seems to be getting very close to — could totally shift the internal "power structure" in Wikipedia. A volunteer "police force", structured so that there are always at least two or three on duty at any given time, could stop (at a rough guess) 90% of vandalism from ever going live for more than a few seconds.
As the vandals come to realise that their vandalism never stays live, they'll drift off to pester someone else. With no need (or a vastly reduced need) for AIV, there'd be a hugely reduced need for admins; we'd gradually shift to a Minority Report style system, where the existence of foolproof vandal-destruction system with an acceptably low level of false positives would mean they wouldn't even bother trying. The admins freed up by the automation of the RBI system would go into other areas, reducing the current workload problems and backlogs across the whole site — or even go write some articles (remember those?).
The more I think on it, the more I'm coming to think that Gurch has potentially (and unintentionally) unleashed the biggest change to the way Wikipedia operates since Larry thought of getting more people involved. — iride scent 18:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I found your comment regarding our being "on opposite sides in too many RFAs" very interesting and decided to check it out. I went through the last 50 unsuccessful and the last 50 successful RFAs; 100 RFAs is a decent sample size. Strangely enough, there were only 9 times in which we both participated in the same RFA. Of the last 50 unsuccessful ones, there were 4 times in which you supported and I opposed, 1 time in which you were neutral and I opposed, 1 time in which I was neutral and you opposed, and 1 time we both opposed. Of the last 50 successful ones, we only crossed paths twice, both times we both supported. Seems that we agree during the successful ones and disagree during the unsuccessful ones. Just thought that was interesting. Useight ( talk) 01:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I think he is ready to start fighting vandals again, and I told him that. Do you think I should recommend that he use Twinkle? I personally see no harm in it, since it will merely automate the nitty-gritty details of physically typing everything out. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I already used it(sorry,really,:() on np patrol, I think Ive been responsible for the deletion of about a dozen pages and a indefed user at AIV.<nervous laugh> User:Xp54321) 02:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Iridescent,
I was patrolling the newpages and came across the above article. It clearly has no references and would only classify as a stub.
I added {cleanup} and {unreferenced} and Checco has removed them stating in his edit summary "rm unreasoned tags".
No-one else has queried this or attempted to add tags to any other "List of Presidents..." articles.
Was I wrong to add these tags? Just seems a bit odd to have an unreferenced list.
Please also see List of Presidents of Marche for another example.
Thanks » xytram« talk 17:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Why is my nominating the article for Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo "Rediculous?" It's only sources were two articles from some very shady-looking websites. I'm nominating it for AfD. Rwiggum ( Talk/ Contrib) 22:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
rm ramblings, sorry. I shouldn't be allowed on after 9:30... J.delanoy gabs adds 12:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Well not really. How did you get that weird kaleidoscope effect behind the Wikipedia logo? Simply south ( talk) 12:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
No - we generally apply a different standard to Huggle edits. Since Twinkle opens the talkpage (and it's assumed that manual rollbackers are also opening the talkpage) of whoever's being reverted, it's easier to see right away that you're stepping into an edit-war that's already the subject of discussion, or reverting something as "vandalism" when there's talkpage consensus to keep it. As anyone keeping even a casual eye on ANI recently will notice, were we to apply the "letter of the law" in the case of Huggle edits, within a week Huggle would have about three users left. Gurch designed it for obvious vandalism, but thanks to the overenthusiams some users have for the "Q" instead of the "R" button (and the fact that certain users aren't reading the instructions), we're in a situation where people are being reported to AIV with a summary of "vandalism only account" for changing British to American spelling, indefblocked for typing "hi" onto a page, issued with final warnings for adding correct information but failing to include a citation all of these have happened within the last couple of days - as some of you are presumably aware, a couple of weeks ago, disabling Huggle access for anyone except Gurch was being seriously discussed. Luckily it didn't come to that, but everyone using huggle is on a sort of unofficial probation at the moment. Because (whatever you all may think of Those Evil Admins) we don't want to hound people off the project, damage future RFA prospects etc, when good-faith misuse, as opposed to actual abuse, comes up, we'd far rather just quietly disable your huggle access, explain what you did wrong and give it back when you've promised to be more careful, than have "rollback removed: systematic abuse" on your log to haunt you in any future Request For Whatever process. — iride scent 18:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, concerning this anonymous user, i was wondering whether or not he is a constant vandaliser. I am going to check, but i dislike anonymous users (my signature is satyrical for them) and i would love to block him. Thanks for your time, ((Unknown) ? (Us er) ? oh, and please reply on my talk page. thx
I have seen you many times on the recent edits blocking vandalism (you always get there before i do) And i feel the need to award you with my personal gratitude! Also, heres this: {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;" |rowspan="2" valign="middle" | |rowspan="2" ||style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Special Barnstar|-|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for being so good.|}
The complete works of Matt Groening, on the other hand... EyeSerene talk 22:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
←That page, I hadn't seen, and I'm so taken by it that I'm going to preserve the core passage here so it's Safely Held in the Loving Arms of Jimbo if/when Wetpaint finally shut him down.
Absolutely amazing. – iride scent 19:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Greeting!
I saw your comments about how you disagree with WP:FAIL and WP:NOTFAIL. I was struck by several views I totally agree with.
WRT the weakness of {{ rfa}} -- the very first {{ rfa}} I participated in was User:KI's 2nd nomination. I asked him some tough questions because I had found him very unwilling to be held accountable, and very prone to make personal attacks. I think I posed my questions in a civil fashion. Nevertheless, when his {{ rfa}} failed he initiated an {{ rfc}} on my behaviour -- my first and only. I found it very alarming to learn a month or so later that he was a sockpuppet, who had already been granted administrator access, and had it removed.
Since then I have been shocked by some of the people who have been chosen as administrators.
I agree even more strongly that wikipedia's core strengths are overlooked.
I agree that stubs on less well-known topics are a strength.
And, I would add that the power of the "what links here" button is highly unrecognized. Wikipedia's links are bidirectional -- a very powerful feature. And it is most useful if articles are confined to a single topic. When one goes to an article, and it doesn't talk about what you hoped it talked about, one of the articles that links to it might.
I may have a different concern about biographies of living persons than you do. I am quite frustrated that BLP, which protects the rights to privacy, and prevention of slander has been mixed with BLP1E. I see the determination of what should and shouldn't be considered a "single event" hopelessly POV. I think BLP1E should be removed from BLP. Violations of the privacy and related aspects of BLP can require urgent action. If BLP1E belongs in policy space it would be far less urgent than privacy or slander concerns. I remain unconvinced that it belongs in policy space, not essay space.
And I have been concerned by a phenomenon I keep encountering. I have come across quality control volunteers who regularly assert that BLP proscribes covering allegations against individuals, even if the allegations were sourced to official publications -- if they hadn't been proven to be "true". That would be, of course, a violation of WP:VER. I don't agree that neutral coverage of allegations from official sources should be regarded as a violation of BLP.
I know your userid is familiar. But I can't remember from where.
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 00:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
My, my talkpage is getting some long posts this week...
I don't think my opinions on what's wrong with RFA - or what's wrong with Wikipedia - are any secret. While I didn't point Xp towards WP:WIKISPEAK in the long rambling post of mine you mention (it could seem a very bitey page to a new user), I do feel that most of the entries there (whether or not they're the ones I've written) reflect my Wikipedia prejudices fairly accurately. In particular, any structure where this turns into this is self-evidently too in love with process for the sake of process; one of the things I most admire about Gurch's revolution is the very way it's forcing some processes to simplify. (Yes, I know some eggs are being broken in the process, but it's undoubtedly improving the omelette as a whole.)
Not sure where we would have come across each other before (except possibly at RFA/ANI/AFD), as we don't seem to overlap much; were you involved in the Troubles Arbcom or any of the nasty little flamewars that still erupt over it? (I have a feeling I unintentionally helped to kickstart that whole slide into chaos.) Looking over your talkpage, I don't see anyone I've worked with before; although I generally work in a few specialised areas – the "technical" fields listed in this post, and the random(ish) sampling of articles on my userpage is fairly representative – I've dipped my finger into enough ponds that we may well have crossed at some point.
Oddly enough, with Gurch, Malleus Fatuarum, J.delanoy, Giggy etc currently watching this talkpage, you probably have about as broad a range of "high level ambassadors" of the various "quality control volunteer" fields as you'll find anywhere outside the core policy pages; if you want to rant about a particular problem, ranting about it here at the moment is probably a pretty good way to get the problem fixed. Note to everyone; this is not a general invite to every passing sockpuppet to share with me your five-page essay on "why I hate Wikipedia"; despite the ever growing number of people who appear to believe the contrary, my talkpage is not the Wikipedia complaints department. – iride scent 19:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Iridescent.
As you may have guessed, I would like very much to be an administrator. That being said, you are the first administrator which I have substantially interacted with who does not primarily use their sysop tools for things like AIV, CSD, AFD, and the like.
I would like to ask you a few questions. I am asking for your opinion because you work in areas of Wikipedia which I rarely, if ever visit, and you are already an admin.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to reading your answers.
J.delanoy gabs adds 01:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I just submitted a proposal to User:Jimbo Wales. Please feel free to comment.Note: Original idea by User:Iridescent Xp54321 ( Hello!, Contribs) 01:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[insert five-page essay here]
Only kidding. *huggles Iridescent* -- Gurch ( talk) 12:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I was going to say something to him, but I saw that he had "left". Honestly, I don't know what to do about him. I have tried almost everything I can to do some writing, but he would not listen. IMO, vandal-fighting should only be attempted by an editor who has been here for at least a few months, and the vandal-fighter should do it completely by hand (Using the rollback feature is still "by hand", IMO.) for at least 500 or a thousand reverts. A new user (less than at least a month and 500 or a thousand edits) simply cannot understand how things work well enough. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I just came here after being informed by Xp. "I freely admit that my finger twitches over the block button every time I see Kodster & Realist, in particular." Im seriously NOT impressed with that comment. If you have a problem with Me Honey just say so on my talk page. Dont slag me off behind my back accusing me of all sorts. Seriously, if I hear stuff like that again I will personally insist on a checkuser. How dare you. — Realist2 ( Come Speak To Me) 22:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc., 908, 296 F.3d 894 (9th Circuit 2002). Realist2 isn't going to get a WP:RFCU to vindicate himself, because that's not the way we work. If there is evidence, please let's see it. -- Rodhull andemu 22:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I have one thing to say to Iridescent: April Fool's Day was 2 months ago. How can you suggest that Realist2 and I are the same people??? He's one of those Wikipedians who's actually helped me here, and I admire him greatly. Firstly, I had nothing to do with that "barnstar" thing, so don't stick that on me. Secondly, that is NOTHING, IMO, to block someone on. Okay, let's quote Iridiscent: "there's a very suspicious similarity in their editing patterns, spelling & grammar, userpages, signatures, obsessive editcounting and odd quirks like use of the {{ talkback}} template". Let's take that apart. By looking at my editing patterns, you'll see that I am a Beatles fanatic; I have worked extensively on " Rain", "A Day in the Life", " The Beatles", etc. The ONLY reason that Realist2 can be found editing those pages is because I specifically asked him to help with them. In the same way, he specifically asked me to help him with Thriller (album), Michael Jackson, etc. Are you saying that Wikipedians can't help each other with articles, because they might share the same editing patterns? Next: Spelling and grammar. I follow Manual of Style. If I have to use British spelling for an article, fine. If I have to use American spelling (my native), fine. I adapt. So I don't see what that's ablout. Userpages: RyRy5 designed all of ours (if you bothered to look at the bottom of the pages]], so they follow the same basic pattern. Signatures, Realist2 designed Xp54321's signature, and theirs are completely different from mine. Let's see: obsessive editcounting. You've based that (I'm sure) on my excessive use of AWB to (I admit) do unnecessary edits like deleting white space and such. I was warned once on such a matter, and I stopped. Look at this. Average edits per page: 6.85. And it's only that low because I used AWB in the beginning to make inconsequential edits. I of all people do not hold editcounts to be of any importance. If I did, then I would have 6.85 times the amount of edits that I do now. :) Now, "odd quirks like use of the {{ talkback}} template". I've used that less than five times, and I've since stopped. I was trying to reorganize my talk system, but it didn't work, so I stopped. I think Xp54321 still uses it, but I'm not sure. Anyway, that ends my tirade, feel free to comment. I'll be glad to answer. Cheers, Kodster ( heLLo) ( Me did that) 23:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Iridescent you have managed to insult Me, Xp54321, Kodster and you were less than nice when talking about RyRy5 talk/user page. Im glad my connection went down for 15 minutes because I was going to blow a fuse. Seriously dont say things like "I honestly can't understand why any of them are here — the vandal-fighting, spellchecking and semi-obsessive minor-editing of
Thriller they do is hardly fun, and I can't see why anyone would choose Wikipedia as a social networking site." ever again. You have no idea how hard I work on these articles "IN MY SECOND LANGUAGE". They were in a hell of a worse state before I got to them. Im glad to know your discouraging, vandal-fighting and spell checking on wikipedia, seriously, you should know better. Jimbo would be proud. —
Realist2 (
Come Speak To Me)
23:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Why don't you boys give it a rest now, eh? --
Malleus Fatuorum (
talk)
00:50, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
On A lighter note, im happy to know you,ve spent the time checking my barnstars, user page and edit history. As for my very first edit (which you seem to find odd), when I first started wikipedia, my main interest was Michael Jackson. I was just an IP adress and couldn't make edits to the article, only the talk page. Eventually I realised I wanted to stay and edit the article = I needed an account. I started a conversation/"consensus building task" as my IP, then a few days later after my account was set up and the conversation had died down I made that edit. I started the conversation as an IP then made that comment after I had set up my account a few days later. Since making my account on May 27, 2007 I have never again used my IP (unless accidently lol). If you still have further interest in me I can send you regular updates on my stats. Everytime my edit count rises 1000, I get a Barnstar, get an article to GA, review an article for GA or start a wikiproject I could let you know?
You've obviously been doing your research on me, poorly, I might add, if you think im here for some "social" aspect. Yes I have friends here who love me dearly but I also work hard aswell. Your comments about me "editing Thriller 1000 times" or whatever are really rude and the sock allegation... you should just know better. Also, no, Im never going to run for RfA so don't worry, I wouldn't dare give you the satifaction of lying about me again. Besides, Ive seen some of the people who has passed/failed RfA and the system obviously has its flaws.
Im going to leave you to yourself now, Im not expecting an apology of you, admins rarely do. Just stop lying about me because its hurtful. Cheers. — Realist2 ( Come Speak To Me) 05:50, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
What exactly is everyone "demanding an apology" demanding an apology for? Accusing a checkuser-confirmed sockpuppeteer of sockpuppetry? Accusing someone who thinks this is an acceptable comment of not understanding Wikipedia policy? Saying someone with more than 40% of their edits to their own user page is violating WP:NOTMYSPACE?
RyRy5, I'm not accusing you of anything. You'll notice, I hope, that at no point has anyone actually mentioned you. The reason your barnstar page came up is not because of any problem with you, but with the people adding stars to it; on a quick skim through it, just among the names I recognise I see four confirmed sockpuppeteers. As you know, you had problems a couple of months ago, but I'm not aware of any issues affecting you at present.
Everyone above who seems to think "admin" is some kind of superpower, take the time to read WP:SYSOP and see what exactly it is that admins do. Wikipedia is not run like a chat board where moderators restructure and remove posts, ban people they don't like, rewrite page histories and generally have more authority than normal users. Wikipedia adminship means a couple of extra technical powers to clean up vandalism and prevent disruption — it used to be given to everyone, and was limited purely because some people were using the admin buttons disruptively.
Somewhere in the conversation above I posted a link to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Esperanza/Archive1 and I really, really urge everyone who's feeling hard done by at being accused of social networking to read What Wikipedia is not, which is a non-negotiable core policy (the very first link on WP:FIVE, in fact). In particular " Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they may be used only to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. [...] The focus of user pages should not be social networking, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration." – iride scent 16:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, as per your question, i replied in a new db-spam, so you can review the reasoning behind it. I admit the first reasoning was a bit below par, since I thought it was kind of clear cut. Cheers, Shoombooly ( talk) 02:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
PS: I was going to let it go anyway, Gwen. I just don't like being talked to like that for little reason.
Yeah but beneath that tacky ad copy was a big, docking assertion of notability. Gwen Gale ( talk) 03:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
As a token of good will i want to let you know that the flower on your user page is most likely an Azalea, like this one. See also [4], different color, but same morphology. Also the stem (hairy) and leaves in background are almost certainly Azalea. Cheers, Shoombooly ( talk) 04:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Please see my reply on my talk page. TN‑ X- Man 04:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Looks like you're taking a bit of a beating lately for having the gumption to stand tall against the MySpace set. If it means anything, here's a barnstar from a somewhat old and burned out Wikipedian thanking you for the effort - it's only a small one though, I wouldn't want to get carried away with the social networking! :o east.718 at 01:17, June 12, 2008 |
You're on candid AN ..well sort of. Toddst1 ( talk) 17:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments in my RFB. Since it was only at 64%, it was a shoo-in to be unsuccessful, so I withdrew. I didn't want it to run until its scheduled close time because my intent in standing for RFB was to help the bureaucrats with their workload, not give them one more RfX to close. Through the course of my RFB, I received some very valuable feedback, some of it was contradictary, but other points were well agreed upon. I have ceased my admin coaching for now to give me time to revamp my method. I don't want to give up coaching completely, but I'm going to find a different angle from which to approach it. As for my RFA Standards, I am going to do some deep intraspection. I wrote those standards six months ago and I will slowly retool them. This will take some time for me to really dig down and express what I want in an admin candidate. If, after some serious time of deep thought, I don't find anything to change in them, I'll leave them the way they are. I'm not going to change them just because of some community disagreement as to what they should be. Will I stand for RFB again in the future? I don't know. Perhaps some time down the road, when my tenure as an administrator is greater than one year, if there is a pressing need for more active bureaucrats, maybe. If there no pressing need, then maybe not. Useight ( talk) 03:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Yo Iridescent, I found you through WAWWPCODA; could you possibly restore the last version of list of anarchists to User:SwitChar/Anarchlist/Original? We are currently developing a thoroughly referenced replacement for the original here, and there is no sense in re-inventing the wheel with respect to descriptions and references. Muchas gracias, Skomorokh 03:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!. That's all I have to say. I'm going offline (mostly) for the weekend. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 22:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
On hold: This article is currently awaiting improvements before pass/fail.
I have carried out an assessment of this talkpage as per the criteria at WP:Poor Talkpage Candidates. While this page generally meets the Poor Talkpage Criteria, there are certain issues that need to be addressed before I would feel comfortable passing it:
All of the elements currently lacking are fairly easily addressed, and overall the general quality of this talkpage is easily poor enough to meet Wikipedia's standards. If the issues raised above are addressed within a week of this review, I will have no hesitation in passing this as a Poor Quality Talkpage. If you are having trouble in raising the number of flames on this page, you may wish to consider asking some of the editors posting here or here to assist. – iride scent 14:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
How was that a bad rewrite? You've confused me in my view my edits helped the article to come out of its confusing current state. I think it deserves better than current and has POV in it. Police,Mad,Jack ( talk · contribs)☺ 15:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Iridescent! I just noted that you left a level 4 warning for User talk:67.162.115.75. I had just reverted another edit left by this IP, and left the prior warning.
>>insert long story<< For the better part of the last nine months, I spent most of my time on vandal cleanup. I felt productive. I was happy. About a month ago, I came across a vandal-only account (about a dozen edits over a month; all vandalism). He had been warned twice already. As I reverted, I left a warning, then reported him as a vandal.
An editor (I don't even remember the name, I'm not looking it up, its not relevant, accused me of bad faith in reporting a vandal without the requisite four strikes, and that I had tagged their user page after the fact. I tried explaining: its a vandal only account (not an IP .. an account), and that editors are well within their right to report and have a vandal only account blocked without four warnings. Meanwhile, another admin blocks the account. This admin fights to get it unblocked, citing "we need to follow the rules". I tried making him see the light: I was (or at lest I thought I was). The account was unblocked, and less than a month later, it was blocked for continued vandalism. I decided to get out of the anti-vandalism business if I was going to be accused of bad faith. >>end of long story<<
The IP address that you and I recently warned had several acts of recent vandalism. I'm not talking about filing a report, but I am concerned: should warnings about those other incidents of vandalism be tagged on their page? I only say this because I was also told that part of the problem is the lack of tagging on those pages postpones blocking.
Thank you for letting me take some of your time ... I hope all is well in London ... no place like it on Earth! LonelyBeacon ( talk) 20:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could point me to the deletion debate for Jim Stanton? It was proposed for deletion earlier this month and I'm intrigued to know why it survived. Jonathan Cardy ( talk) 20:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
As I see you use huggle, you might consider adding Category:Wikipedians who use Huggle to your userpage. Spencer T♦ C 21:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I havent impersonated an admin for bout an hour now. Why do i keep receiving these warning messages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GENIUS(4th power) ( talk • contribs) 23:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
The more I see of this sort of nonsense on your talk page Iridescent the more thankful I am that my last RfA crashed and burned. Those who believed that I wouldn't have the patience to put up with that sort of crap were quite right; I wouldn't. Besides, taking a leaf out of your book, I think that adding to the sum of human knowledge is much better served by creating articles on obscure events that nobody really cares about. :-) -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 00:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
(<--) I forgot to say it at the time, but my caption contest entry for this one would be "Can you call me back, I'm posing for Commons?" giggy ( :O) 03:02, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
You declined speedy when someone else tried to G10 Red Light Junkie. However, I researched it and the real reason it should be speedied is A7. It's a neologism which results in trivially few google hits, none of which have anything to do with the definition as proposed. I speedied it appropriately, but it's been hanging around for 3+ hours. Need we really AfD it, just because someone else speedied it inappropriately? Thanks. Jclemens ( talk) 03:31, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Thought you may want to see my comments on Kerotan RFA. — Rlevse • Talk • 17:39, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, I'm not sure whether the text should be there or not. I thought that my use of rollback (and violation of the 3RR) was appropriate because each time I reverted, I undid an edit which removed a block of (well, what I thought, until now, was) properly referenced text, which is (at least I thought it was) "blatant and obvious vandalism". Was there something wrong with the reference? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
←Incidentally, once Gurch has seen it, I'd suggest removing your posts & mine on the matter unless he's able to fix it; I can see some of our more colourful characters being interested in the matter. – iride scent 23:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
You'd better have a read of this. Let me know when you have & I'll give the conversation the WP:BEANS treatment. – iride scent 22:59, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Can you have a quick look at SandyG's question here? Thanks. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 05:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I see you've indicated it's a joke, but 1) I don't get it and 2) I don't see how it helps her RfA. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Heya, just a heads up... as you may have noticed, I've been keeping a fairly close eye on the RfA for most of the day, and plan to continue to do so over the next couple of days, although less and less as it gains its own momentum, and so long as new distractions don't break out. However, I will be going away from Friday, so hope that you can be sure to anything that needs attention over the weekend. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 08:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Did you set this up, its not funny, [5]. — Realist2 ( Come Speak To Me) 19:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page :-) «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 08:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
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For beating me to the reverts so often, I'm awarding you this barnstar to get you off Huggle for two minutes so I can have a chance! :) Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC) |
I didnt realize what i was doing. While my meaning was to speedy delete the page, i accidentally ended up undoing it and allowing the page to be remade. I am sorry :( wont happen again. -me —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
is that better? -me —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I was going to edit the page and add in content about Blogs and Content, but there is no edit sign. Has MySPace (the page) been protected? If so, when will it be unprotected?
-me—Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs)
—Preceding comment was added at 20:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
okie, i sorry. Ill reduce it to 255 characters. Please dont get me into trubble for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
My talk page. It feels alot more soothing, i sorta like it! Blue background makes it soothe and calm the body. Its a psychological thing. Just stare at my talk page for a minute. Dont you notice it too? Its awesum! -me —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I have now just written down one of the very historic Wikipedia Guidelines. Go to this page to see it! 7Deadly Sins greed, gluttony, and wrath envy, sloth, lust and pride —Preceding comment was added at 22:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it okay if i use 3 edits to perfect my signature? Cuz i really, really want to, but i dont wanna get blocked. Comment I would appreciate it if this was userfied, but i dont even know what that means. 7Deadly Sins greed, gluttony, and wrath envy, sloth, lust and pride
The vandalism thing? I was testing to see what would happen if i was paged. why? Is something wrong?
7Deadly Sins greed, gluttony, and wrath envy, sloth, lust and pride 23:13, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
It's real info on Daly. -- SmackingMonkeys ( talk) 03:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
(note: Indefblocked troll)
Hey, I think that Bauhinia on your user page is most likely Bauhinia variegata. The shape of the flower is more like variegata. Its colors can range from magentas to white, and I think the color fits the description best. bibliomaniac 1 5 19:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
That's a thought - although I've also been advised that it looks like it's actually an azalea of some kind. I'll leave it up a while longer and see if I can get some kind of consensus – frustrating, as it's quite a striking photo and it's irritating not to know what it's a photo of. Open note to anyone else reading this – if you have any thoughts as to what this is a picture of, please do let me know! (Taken on Lantau island, Hong Kong, on 1 March 2008, if that helps narrow it down...) — iride scent 19:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
"...Wikipedia is just Facebook for ugly people..."
You been peeking at my userpage? LessHeard vanU ( talk) 21:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Maybe we should have a caption competition.... WjBscribe 01:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Are we in?
Starting off with the rather bland Ryan:"You taste like the sockuppet I blocked."
I'm sure the iridescent one can do better.
giggy (
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Adele: "Dammit, I shoulda said Truth". Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 15:04, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Although, WTF is a two week old account doing with Huggle access? – iride scent 21:31, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh wow, you're brave for touching that one. It's such a merge mess. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 19:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear iridescent, you have accidently restored a vandilism on a article and sent me a lvl 1 vandal warning. please reply on my talk page about this incident and remove the warning so that the administers now it was a mistake. Thanks for taking your time.
Your , Alexnia ( talk) 06:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
←(to Iridescent) I have gone through all (read: 100%) of this user's Huggle reversions and I have found six (including the one you gave) that are 100% definitely not blatant vandalism. Two of them actually restored vandalism. Should I post the diffs here, or should I just not say anything unless Alexnia makes more mistakes after s/he reads your poke? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
For quickly denying the speedy deletion on José Azueta (sailor) and for your comments to the editor who tagged it. I was displeased to see that pop up so soon, but since I knew what to do, I wasn't worried. But like you said, newbies might not feel the same way about that. -- AW ( talk) 20:14, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
On Award Centers and what not, they are such a mess yet they seem to have their defenders. I don't get it. I don't get why this is such a competition. What am I missing? What memo did I miss when I signed up? TravellingCari the Busy Bee 21:29, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Iri, that's going to get a place of honor. Given that I refuse to have anything to do with MySpace and twitch when I have to use it for work, I'll take my ninja. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 02:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
you just beat me to vandalism:-( Actually, you've beat me a handful of times. You're doing a nice job fighting vandalism on wikipedia, and I hope we can continue to rely on you to fight vandalism:-)-- SJP ( talk) 03:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
sorry about that I thought that , that was a paragraph cut off so i reverteted it thanks for noticing me. For the future I will be a bit slower while I use huggle and check what paragraphs I am restoring. I will keep in mind to watch over paragraph restoration, sorry for wasting your time and thanks for warning me.
p.s please don't remove my rollback rights you can remove my huggle rights but I need the rollback to fight vandilism at school (school computer's only have Internet Explorer so twinkle dosn't work on them and I hate it when Huggle users beat me while I am using twinkle or the old school way. Alexnia ( talk) 10:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
oh damn silly me, sorry for posting this on your talk page forgot to read one of the boxes Alexnia ( talk) 10:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
FYI: Quoting your awesomness here. giggy ( :O) 11:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
The article Hellingly Hospital Railway you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Hellingly Hospital Railway for things needed to be addressed. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
...There's a meetup on July 13th in London. Coming? Ironho lds 00:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I knew that they were the same account, but I wanted some way to tell other Wikipedians that DJQ and PT were the same person. I didn't know a better way than to easily communicate this fact. I noticed that some users who had been reverting DJQ and his other SPs were not doing the same to PT thinking that he was a different user. So, how do you let people know without going to each and every one of them and leaving a message? (I also think that a contributor involved in a SP or other on going case, should be aloud to change their user name until the issue is resolved. It was obvious the he changed this account in order to evade the case against him and/or the block that may result.) So, if you know of an easier way to let others know, go for and let me know? ~ WikiDon ( talk) 16:37, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Iri as a test I changed my huggle config page "rollback:false" but I can still use huggle. Bug?-- Xp54321 ( Hello!, Contribs) 17:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Iridescent, for nominating me for adminship and then providing so much enjoyable commentary as the RfA progressed. I was a bit surprised at how smoothly the process went and how I've emerged without feeling run through a large wringer (maybe just a tiny one). I'll do my best to avoid doing something stupid so that I don't make you look bad ;) Thanks! Karanacs ( talk) 16:26, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Iridescent, I would like your opinion on a reversion I made. I do not believe that the assertion removed by another editor violated BLP, and reverted it, and I was reverted again, with the other editor citing BLP at me. I'm not going to sweat one unsourced statement which I didn't even add to begin with, but I'd like your opinion on whether I was really in the wrong or not. Diffs here. Thanks for your time. Jclemens ( talk)
Since you might not be watching the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/You Hear Me?, I just thought I'd drop you a note saying that I have a question about your reply. Thanks!-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 18:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
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On the positive side, at least people will stop complaining to you about it on your talk page now, right? .... Right?
Oh shit I just gave a barnstar. Metros ( talk) 00:51, 24 June 2008 (UTC) |
Xp, yes I did read your answer. Like I said at the time, there's no right answer to that question (if hackers hadn't taken Wikipedia Review offline, you could read for yourself a large number of crazy people arguing over that exact question at extreme length). I haven't posted any reply to you there or on your talkpage, as while I've no problem with you, I am thoroughly fed up with taking abuse from your nutjob friends.
BTW, for anyone who wants to see exactly what kind of people Gurch has unleashed on us, this post (in his own RFA!) illustrates the current level of AGF and civility of Huggle users. (Before anyone complains, yes I know there are dozens of perfectly decent Huggle users. Unfortunately, it's only the misusers who come to notice). – iride scent 17:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it your magnetic personality, your winsome smile, or your natural charm that brings you so many new friends? Risker ( talk) 22:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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Iris, I have a terrible feeling Xp is going to start something he regrets. :-( — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 01:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
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← No, the MOS guideline is still "The image subject or properties may call for a specific image width to enhance the readability or layout of an article. Apart from the lead, other cases where a specific image width is appropriate include (but are not limited to) images with extreme aspect ratios, detailed maps, diagrams or charts, and images in which a small region is relevant, but cropping to that region would reduce the coherence of the image.". Which AFAIK BWFE complied with scrupulously throughout; although there are forced image widths on five occasions (I've just unforced a sixth), two of them are enlarged to show specific architectural details, and three have extreme aspect ratios. But What Do I Know. The MOS and me don't mix. – iride scent 16:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Sigh and double sigh. Metros ( talk) 22:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
What's going on with Deadly? Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 02:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh yeah thank you! Too many false positives is a VERY good reason. TestPilot talk to me! 02:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I apologise for the earlier conflict here. Perhaps we can reach some agreement on such debate? Cheers, and good morning (etc.). :-) -- Mizu onna sango15/ Discuss 14:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC).
I really would like to let this drop now. My final word is that I do not accept the charge of incivility over this edit, and I never will. If that's the kind of thing that merits a block these days then I will have to leave the asylum to be run by its inmates. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 15:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
Thanks for repeatedly beating me. I really appreciate that, and I am awarding you this barnstar. Keep up the fantastic work. Schfifty Three 19:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
During some anti-vandalism work today, I kept coming across vandalism that had just been reverted by you. Leonard( Bloom) 20:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
<-Only 63 to go for you, according to your edit count... Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Just so you know, the IP you just reverted on this page you prodded is actually the creator. They've been abusing multiple IPs, and also an account, and have recently threatened to vandalize the feature article. I thought I'd give you a heads up. Thanks. Acalamari 21:15, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Believe it or not I dont have his talk page on my watchlist so when I do go and look in a moment it will be new to me. I checked his talkpage about 5 hours ago and everything was fine then. Ive been having a bad day on wikipedia, someone from the past that I don't like has returned. I will look at this mess now. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 23:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Xp, even if you're not going to listen to me, please listen to R2. Wikipedia is not an anarchy is a non-negotiable core policy of Wikipedia, which means that there's no way around it.
You do bring plenty of positives to Wikipedia, otherwise you'd have been blocked last time. However, once someone decides that the time it takes dealing with your disruption (and that's not just the admin time you've wasted; it's the time R2's wasted talking about this with you when he could have been working on Michael Jackson, the time Metros spends explaining things to you when he could be vandal-fighting, and so on) outweighs the good you bring to the project, they will block you.
Just take some time to read pages without trying to edit everything you see. As someone (I forget who) told you when you tried to edit the Huggle configuration code without asking anyone first, just because you can edit things here doesn't mean you should. Please follow Ryan's advice, do something else for a few days - or even just read Wikipedia (I still regularly find things I didn't know about Wikipedia all the time, and that's quite aside from the facts you find out by clicking "Random Article"), and let the whole thing cool down. Don't let one very immature (yes, I said it) user wreck your time here.
If you're only going to take one piece of advice from me, take this: read WP:SYSOP and discover just what an admin actually does before you decide you want to be one, or take part in RFAs. It doesn't give you any special status; Giano, who's probably the best writer here of all, isn't an admin and never will be; nor is Malleus; nor is R2; nor is Giggy; nor is Gurch. It doesn't mean people respect them any less, because Wikipedia is all about the articles. – iride scent 00:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
←And to all four of you, this is the reason the RFA process is so harsh. If you're going to snap at someone for making comments in an RFA, you're certainly going to snap when your talkpage has magically grown thirteen times in size in a week! – iride scent 14:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I remember how you helped me before last week, which I was very thankful for, so here is the small issue I found just now when I logged into my wikipedia account......or so I think so....as I am new to this great site I might just be reading it wrong and looking at an old pre-edited version. When I logged in and looked in my talk section I noticed a "request for speedy deletion" in there. I just sent this same message to user Ukexpat who also helped me format my page properly after you were the one who insisted that the entry about me was far from deletion material. It was you who stepped up and said the entry about me is far from a speedy deletion article so it would be locked in here on wikipedia which I was very thankful for.....as noted in the email I sent both of you. It would mean the world to me to have this issue corrected as it was last week by you. I also received your email (I think it was you or user Ukexpat) about adding additional materials....references etc. Just started doing that today for the first time, since I never paid any attention to this stuff until now...wish I did. Off the top of my head I appeared in the video, "Body of Work" that was shown on MSNBC about women in wrestling featuring April Hunter who I trained with. This video can be seen all over the internet and on youtube. I didn't have any speaking parts but I was shown close up doing pushups, walking around, drills, and being around the ring. You can view this close up photo of me from MSNBC on my myspace page in the pro wrestling album....the pic with the official MSNBC logo in the bottom of it. I don't know where one would place that information on my page. Others have told me I was in a documentary featuring Tony Atlas but I have to look for the first time when I get a free moment. I appreciate all of your help before and I know this matter will be corrected my friend. When I was pro wrestling I was known as Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's boy and was touted by many that I would be going pro with XWF with Brutus. I was even contacted by a female in the XWF inside that I was on the roster under a different wrestling persona and she even told me my salary and wrestling TV schedule. Pretty well known in the business and far from deletion material since there is a lot more info that can be added in the future to this entry. I might have had a spelling error or two that I just picked up on from the email message I sent user Ukexpat.....sorry bout that. I'll try to brainstorm and think of some other videos etc. I look forward to the correction of this small issue. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule, as you did before my friend, to correct this issue once and for all....that meant the world to me! I'll start looking for additional material etc. to add to the entry.
Thnak You So Much Again Iridescent.....You Are A Great Friend! Jaderocker ( talk) 03:30, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Iridescent. I can assume it is safe to say that my entry is now safe on wikipedia.....right? Especially since it was already professionally re-formatted correctly and approved by a Wikipedia editor on the site. I'll just try over time to find more articles and videos I was in to use as references. Thanks So Much!
Jaderocker ( talk) 14:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
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For your defending of the mainspace from deletionist hordes who "couldn't find their arse with an atlas" ;-) Serviam (talk) 15:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC) |
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Thanks for being a great friend! B G 7even 20:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
...gotcha? ;-) giggy ( :O) 08:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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I'm leaving wikipedia because of you and your age racist freinds. You were not nice to me and when I told my mom said there are not nice people. You are one and I hope you banned forever soon. Jerk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freind of young ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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I did not commit said acts of vandalism and trolling said above. I have no idea who did this and received an email from R2 asking if I had done it. I did not and replied by email as such. (No, I am not back but my name shall not be tarnished further. Lol, where did this spa come from?;)-- Xp54321 ( Hello! • Contribs) 04:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Good afternoon. :-) Since I've changed my sig to something more readable and have answered more questions than were there when you !voted, would you like to evaluate me again and change to one of the other categories? (I know which one I'd prefer, but you might see something in my answers that worries you...) Thanks!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 19:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to formally apologize for calling you bitter and hormonal. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 17:55, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, is there a way to remove the "move" tab in your preferences or something. I often hit the move tab instead of the history tab and it annoys me. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 01:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
(out) I tried, following all the instructions available, nothing happened though. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 13:06, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Dude, have you notced I just got it! Im stll learnng, and most of my undos dont use rollback. And most of roll backs are rghtly used. This is wrong dude. Gears Of War 19:31, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
the subject subheading was "Sequels and offshoots" this is a OFFSHOOT the movie is directly referenced there. Fair to post the reference...... that is what an offshoot is thanks 69.125.90.71 ( talk) 21:17, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I think when I went with "rvv" as an edit summary, I considered it simple blanking. Isn't that considered vandalism? I'm not at all claiming I was right, I'm just trying to learn more. S. Dean Jameson 22:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I was trying to write it in a rush and add sources before I went out to an actual Harvester.:) It didn't sound very convincing I suppose.:) I'll put that it's suspect or something. I was just annoyed that people from another country perhaps, just because thy hadn't heard of this well-known chain and hadn't bothered googling, were claiming it wasn't notable. Sticky Parkin 22:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I apologise if it seemed like I was making an attack on said user. I didn't mean it in a vicious way. However, regardless of my intentions, I realise how it looks. It just annoyed me that (in my opinion) a decent article, which had perfect integrity, was removed because it was too releated to another article. This, to me, seemed stupid. I will learn to control my emotions on wikipedia from now on, you have my word. Billynewman —Preceding comment was added at 00:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to be able to archive my talk page at some point. I've noticed that some are done automatically. I'd like mine to be archived monthly. Could you help me figure out how I can go about doing this? S. Dean Jameson 01:00, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.
See you around the wiki!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 00:53, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey Iri,
Thanks for your kind words. The WB-Enf doesnt seem to work, even though I have now purged my cache countless times. I have given up on it.halfway through editing this it decided to work. Lolz.
My main reasons for leaving was due to the comment on my User page. I find this pretty unacceptable. I will be bringing it up further, but with the help from more experienced editors. As for the whole RfA/MfD thing, I found it embarrassing due to the whole Shanner191 issue.
I am going to return, but i doubt I will ever run for adminship now as I am sure many editors will look back on this and oppose because of it. This is in addition to the IRC comments.
Thankyou, yet again, for all the support you have ever given me at Wikipedia. I am most grateful. Could you possibly do me a favour, and either comment on my Editor Review, or my Blackpool tramway Peer review. Or both, if you can. Can you also unenforce my WB? I have some apologies to make...
B G 7even 17:55, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I see that some time ago you (I think!) set up a category called that, and added Pinchinthorpe, Hutton Gate and Guisborough stations. I am really, really confused by their presence there. I know there's this thing they are calling Tees Valley but I am finding it incredibly hard to make the leap from that to in effect endorsing the statement "Guisborough is in the Tees Valley", because it just isn't. I wonder if you see what I mean and if any workaround presents itself? Thanks and best wishes Nomorenonotnever ( talk) 17:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Wow. The Buffalo Zoo. A tiger from my home town zoo. Thanks-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 02:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, iridescent. I stumbled across some of the recent signature discussions in which you've been a participant and ended up here. I notice a few sections above that you scolded iMatthew for advising another user to tranclude a template as his signature. I agree that the whole customized signature craze is inappropriate for Wikipedia and that iMatthew was making such a recommendation to circumvent the implicit 255 character limit (as imposed by the MediaWiki software), but he was in fact advising that user to substitute the template. Assuming the signature template is under 255 characters, does substituting a template as one's signature break policy? I didn't see a provision for this in WP:SIG, but such action wouldn't be susceptible to most (all?) of the disadvantages of transclusion. Doctorfluffy ( robe and wizard hat) 02:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Now, Gurch, as I was saying about people using automated tools not checking who they're templating... — iride scent 22:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Do you think you could reply to some questions that I asked on my admin coaching page, as my coach is offline at this time? Cheers, Razor flame 23:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
For beating me to several reverts! Regards, CycloneNimrod talk? contribs? 23:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC) |
Don't know if you thought I wouldn't notice this, but I have. I realise it's intended to be humorous, but frankly many of the entries are more insulting that funny --
Gurch (
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01:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it wasnt sure who to tell about the incident. Yes it is highly unlikely but still needs to be reported. ChristopherJames2008 ( talk) 15:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I could probably just link your WP:WIKISPEAK contributions list, but since that will likely be MfD'd to oblivion by the humorless, I found a better quote. Spot on. Welcome to my quotes page :-) Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 15:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi iridescent. Thanks for your help on this article. Maybe I was a little too hasty in my CSD request. Ho hum! Cheers » xytram« talk 19:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The recent edit you made to Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thanks. — User_talk:Ozzie425er 19:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For giving me good advice, I hereby award you this barnstar! Razor flame 21:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC) |
Repost from my talkpage, on the off chance you're not watching it. Iridescent: I think a brief look at the edit history of that page shows that the articles Axolotl and Mudkip are related; the least that should be done is to link them in the see also section. Perhaps a "Axolotl in Popular Culture" section should be added, but I haven't time or interest. My edit was done at the request of another user who apparently cares. I don't usually edit wikipedia myself as the wiki developers refuse to fix the captcha problems, making me as a blind member unwelcome. Vandalism? For one wiki link? That seems a bit...much. 206.126.88.124 ( talk) 01:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Irdescent,
I am creating a Wiki all about transport in the UK and i was wondering if you would like to join and edit it. This offer has been offered to you as you are interested in London Underground. Please write back on my talk page.
Many Thanks
Dudleybus Spake 2 me 16:42, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Iridescent. I revamped my answers to the RfA questions today. I'll read over it once more before I go offline tomorrow, and then I'll likely transclude this on Monday the 16th when I actually have internet access again. While reading over the page again I noticed a small error in the nomination that I hope you won't mind fixing. I'm not an extremely active vandal-fighter, but I have done some. I warn vandals who I've seen do naughty things to the pages I watch, and when they've vandalised after their final warning I have reported them to AIV (probably about a dozen in the last 9-12 months). Would you mind making a slight amendment to your statement? Thanks! Karanacs ( talk) 14:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
You keep beating me to reverting the vandals! Dave the Rave 17:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
What is it?
The Transhumanist 18:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
The. WP. Logo. Is. Trippy. Wait, that's four! EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG!-- Editor510 ( talk) 12:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Given the volume of "unexplained blanking" reversions, would it be possible to add a single-keystroke revert-and-{{ uw-delete1}} (2,3,4) alongside the current revert-and-{{ uw-vand1}}? As you (Gurch) know, I've been monitoring Huggle usage & testing it recently, and people being given vandalism warnings for removal of content (which can have some perfectly legitimate reasons which aren't obvious in the diff box, in the case of BLP violations and duplicated sectons) seems to be an issue that comes up repeatedly.
Also, I personally think it would be a good idea to set "watchlist:warnings" as the default setting; the new users you're dealing with here won't necessarily understand the "reply on my talkpage" etiquette, and are likely to post any "why this edit wasn't vandalism" explanations underneath the warnings on their own talkpage. Just a thought...
And finally, is there any way to set {{ anonblock}} as the default block message, at least when warning IPs? — iride scent 15:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I think you can just close the ANI thread now. Gary King ( talk) 03:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
It appears the globe stand was from a copyrighted image.
This means we're back to square one.
We need to either find another globe stand (please keep a lookout for one), or we need to come up with a new idea altogether for the "Wikipedia World Traveler" award.
I look forward to any ideas you might have.
During the competition that this award is for, each participant will be "visiting" (and changing an item on) a particular type of country-related page for every country of the world. By doing so, he or she will have "traveled the World".
But I have no idea what the award should look like now.
I'm still in shock from the last 3 weeks' of effort being trashed.
Any thoughts you could provide would be most appreciated.
The Transhumanist 01:03, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I modified those ferrari figures just to test if I can do it. I actually argued with my friend if it is possible. Excuse us please!! By the way you are not a kind of bot, aren't you?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.200.28.117 ( talk • contribs)
The long conversations about Huggle these past few days have got me thinking. I'm not sure Gurch realised it at the time (or that the idea has even occurred to anyone yet), but a stable & foolproof version of Huggle — which Gurch seems to be getting very close to — could totally shift the internal "power structure" in Wikipedia. A volunteer "police force", structured so that there are always at least two or three on duty at any given time, could stop (at a rough guess) 90% of vandalism from ever going live for more than a few seconds.
As the vandals come to realise that their vandalism never stays live, they'll drift off to pester someone else. With no need (or a vastly reduced need) for AIV, there'd be a hugely reduced need for admins; we'd gradually shift to a Minority Report style system, where the existence of foolproof vandal-destruction system with an acceptably low level of false positives would mean they wouldn't even bother trying. The admins freed up by the automation of the RBI system would go into other areas, reducing the current workload problems and backlogs across the whole site — or even go write some articles (remember those?).
The more I think on it, the more I'm coming to think that Gurch has potentially (and unintentionally) unleashed the biggest change to the way Wikipedia operates since Larry thought of getting more people involved. — iride scent 18:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I found your comment regarding our being "on opposite sides in too many RFAs" very interesting and decided to check it out. I went through the last 50 unsuccessful and the last 50 successful RFAs; 100 RFAs is a decent sample size. Strangely enough, there were only 9 times in which we both participated in the same RFA. Of the last 50 unsuccessful ones, there were 4 times in which you supported and I opposed, 1 time in which you were neutral and I opposed, 1 time in which I was neutral and you opposed, and 1 time we both opposed. Of the last 50 successful ones, we only crossed paths twice, both times we both supported. Seems that we agree during the successful ones and disagree during the unsuccessful ones. Just thought that was interesting. Useight ( talk) 01:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I think he is ready to start fighting vandals again, and I told him that. Do you think I should recommend that he use Twinkle? I personally see no harm in it, since it will merely automate the nitty-gritty details of physically typing everything out. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I already used it(sorry,really,:() on np patrol, I think Ive been responsible for the deletion of about a dozen pages and a indefed user at AIV.<nervous laugh> User:Xp54321) 02:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Iridescent,
I was patrolling the newpages and came across the above article. It clearly has no references and would only classify as a stub.
I added {cleanup} and {unreferenced} and Checco has removed them stating in his edit summary "rm unreasoned tags".
No-one else has queried this or attempted to add tags to any other "List of Presidents..." articles.
Was I wrong to add these tags? Just seems a bit odd to have an unreferenced list.
Please also see List of Presidents of Marche for another example.
Thanks » xytram« talk 17:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Why is my nominating the article for Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo "Rediculous?" It's only sources were two articles from some very shady-looking websites. I'm nominating it for AfD. Rwiggum ( Talk/ Contrib) 22:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
rm ramblings, sorry. I shouldn't be allowed on after 9:30... J.delanoy gabs adds 12:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Well not really. How did you get that weird kaleidoscope effect behind the Wikipedia logo? Simply south ( talk) 12:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
No - we generally apply a different standard to Huggle edits. Since Twinkle opens the talkpage (and it's assumed that manual rollbackers are also opening the talkpage) of whoever's being reverted, it's easier to see right away that you're stepping into an edit-war that's already the subject of discussion, or reverting something as "vandalism" when there's talkpage consensus to keep it. As anyone keeping even a casual eye on ANI recently will notice, were we to apply the "letter of the law" in the case of Huggle edits, within a week Huggle would have about three users left. Gurch designed it for obvious vandalism, but thanks to the overenthusiams some users have for the "Q" instead of the "R" button (and the fact that certain users aren't reading the instructions), we're in a situation where people are being reported to AIV with a summary of "vandalism only account" for changing British to American spelling, indefblocked for typing "hi" onto a page, issued with final warnings for adding correct information but failing to include a citation all of these have happened within the last couple of days - as some of you are presumably aware, a couple of weeks ago, disabling Huggle access for anyone except Gurch was being seriously discussed. Luckily it didn't come to that, but everyone using huggle is on a sort of unofficial probation at the moment. Because (whatever you all may think of Those Evil Admins) we don't want to hound people off the project, damage future RFA prospects etc, when good-faith misuse, as opposed to actual abuse, comes up, we'd far rather just quietly disable your huggle access, explain what you did wrong and give it back when you've promised to be more careful, than have "rollback removed: systematic abuse" on your log to haunt you in any future Request For Whatever process. — iride scent 18:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, concerning this anonymous user, i was wondering whether or not he is a constant vandaliser. I am going to check, but i dislike anonymous users (my signature is satyrical for them) and i would love to block him. Thanks for your time, ((Unknown) ? (Us er) ? oh, and please reply on my talk page. thx
I have seen you many times on the recent edits blocking vandalism (you always get there before i do) And i feel the need to award you with my personal gratitude! Also, heres this: {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;" |rowspan="2" valign="middle" | |rowspan="2" ||style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Special Barnstar|-|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for being so good.|}
The complete works of Matt Groening, on the other hand... EyeSerene talk 22:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
←That page, I hadn't seen, and I'm so taken by it that I'm going to preserve the core passage here so it's Safely Held in the Loving Arms of Jimbo if/when Wetpaint finally shut him down.
Absolutely amazing. – iride scent 19:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Greeting!
I saw your comments about how you disagree with WP:FAIL and WP:NOTFAIL. I was struck by several views I totally agree with.
WRT the weakness of {{ rfa}} -- the very first {{ rfa}} I participated in was User:KI's 2nd nomination. I asked him some tough questions because I had found him very unwilling to be held accountable, and very prone to make personal attacks. I think I posed my questions in a civil fashion. Nevertheless, when his {{ rfa}} failed he initiated an {{ rfc}} on my behaviour -- my first and only. I found it very alarming to learn a month or so later that he was a sockpuppet, who had already been granted administrator access, and had it removed.
Since then I have been shocked by some of the people who have been chosen as administrators.
I agree even more strongly that wikipedia's core strengths are overlooked.
I agree that stubs on less well-known topics are a strength.
And, I would add that the power of the "what links here" button is highly unrecognized. Wikipedia's links are bidirectional -- a very powerful feature. And it is most useful if articles are confined to a single topic. When one goes to an article, and it doesn't talk about what you hoped it talked about, one of the articles that links to it might.
I may have a different concern about biographies of living persons than you do. I am quite frustrated that BLP, which protects the rights to privacy, and prevention of slander has been mixed with BLP1E. I see the determination of what should and shouldn't be considered a "single event" hopelessly POV. I think BLP1E should be removed from BLP. Violations of the privacy and related aspects of BLP can require urgent action. If BLP1E belongs in policy space it would be far less urgent than privacy or slander concerns. I remain unconvinced that it belongs in policy space, not essay space.
And I have been concerned by a phenomenon I keep encountering. I have come across quality control volunteers who regularly assert that BLP proscribes covering allegations against individuals, even if the allegations were sourced to official publications -- if they hadn't been proven to be "true". That would be, of course, a violation of WP:VER. I don't agree that neutral coverage of allegations from official sources should be regarded as a violation of BLP.
I know your userid is familiar. But I can't remember from where.
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 00:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
My, my talkpage is getting some long posts this week...
I don't think my opinions on what's wrong with RFA - or what's wrong with Wikipedia - are any secret. While I didn't point Xp towards WP:WIKISPEAK in the long rambling post of mine you mention (it could seem a very bitey page to a new user), I do feel that most of the entries there (whether or not they're the ones I've written) reflect my Wikipedia prejudices fairly accurately. In particular, any structure where this turns into this is self-evidently too in love with process for the sake of process; one of the things I most admire about Gurch's revolution is the very way it's forcing some processes to simplify. (Yes, I know some eggs are being broken in the process, but it's undoubtedly improving the omelette as a whole.)
Not sure where we would have come across each other before (except possibly at RFA/ANI/AFD), as we don't seem to overlap much; were you involved in the Troubles Arbcom or any of the nasty little flamewars that still erupt over it? (I have a feeling I unintentionally helped to kickstart that whole slide into chaos.) Looking over your talkpage, I don't see anyone I've worked with before; although I generally work in a few specialised areas – the "technical" fields listed in this post, and the random(ish) sampling of articles on my userpage is fairly representative – I've dipped my finger into enough ponds that we may well have crossed at some point.
Oddly enough, with Gurch, Malleus Fatuarum, J.delanoy, Giggy etc currently watching this talkpage, you probably have about as broad a range of "high level ambassadors" of the various "quality control volunteer" fields as you'll find anywhere outside the core policy pages; if you want to rant about a particular problem, ranting about it here at the moment is probably a pretty good way to get the problem fixed. Note to everyone; this is not a general invite to every passing sockpuppet to share with me your five-page essay on "why I hate Wikipedia"; despite the ever growing number of people who appear to believe the contrary, my talkpage is not the Wikipedia complaints department. – iride scent 19:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Iridescent.
As you may have guessed, I would like very much to be an administrator. That being said, you are the first administrator which I have substantially interacted with who does not primarily use their sysop tools for things like AIV, CSD, AFD, and the like.
I would like to ask you a few questions. I am asking for your opinion because you work in areas of Wikipedia which I rarely, if ever visit, and you are already an admin.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to reading your answers.
J.delanoy gabs adds 01:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I just submitted a proposal to User:Jimbo Wales. Please feel free to comment.Note: Original idea by User:Iridescent Xp54321 ( Hello!, Contribs) 01:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[insert five-page essay here]
Only kidding. *huggles Iridescent* -- Gurch ( talk) 12:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I was going to say something to him, but I saw that he had "left". Honestly, I don't know what to do about him. I have tried almost everything I can to do some writing, but he would not listen. IMO, vandal-fighting should only be attempted by an editor who has been here for at least a few months, and the vandal-fighter should do it completely by hand (Using the rollback feature is still "by hand", IMO.) for at least 500 or a thousand reverts. A new user (less than at least a month and 500 or a thousand edits) simply cannot understand how things work well enough. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I just came here after being informed by Xp. "I freely admit that my finger twitches over the block button every time I see Kodster & Realist, in particular." Im seriously NOT impressed with that comment. If you have a problem with Me Honey just say so on my talk page. Dont slag me off behind my back accusing me of all sorts. Seriously, if I hear stuff like that again I will personally insist on a checkuser. How dare you. — Realist2 ( Come Speak To Me) 22:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc., 908, 296 F.3d 894 (9th Circuit 2002). Realist2 isn't going to get a WP:RFCU to vindicate himself, because that's not the way we work. If there is evidence, please let's see it. -- Rodhull andemu 22:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I have one thing to say to Iridescent: April Fool's Day was 2 months ago. How can you suggest that Realist2 and I are the same people??? He's one of those Wikipedians who's actually helped me here, and I admire him greatly. Firstly, I had nothing to do with that "barnstar" thing, so don't stick that on me. Secondly, that is NOTHING, IMO, to block someone on. Okay, let's quote Iridiscent: "there's a very suspicious similarity in their editing patterns, spelling & grammar, userpages, signatures, obsessive editcounting and odd quirks like use of the {{ talkback}} template". Let's take that apart. By looking at my editing patterns, you'll see that I am a Beatles fanatic; I have worked extensively on " Rain", "A Day in the Life", " The Beatles", etc. The ONLY reason that Realist2 can be found editing those pages is because I specifically asked him to help with them. In the same way, he specifically asked me to help him with Thriller (album), Michael Jackson, etc. Are you saying that Wikipedians can't help each other with articles, because they might share the same editing patterns? Next: Spelling and grammar. I follow Manual of Style. If I have to use British spelling for an article, fine. If I have to use American spelling (my native), fine. I adapt. So I don't see what that's ablout. Userpages: RyRy5 designed all of ours (if you bothered to look at the bottom of the pages]], so they follow the same basic pattern. Signatures, Realist2 designed Xp54321's signature, and theirs are completely different from mine. Let's see: obsessive editcounting. You've based that (I'm sure) on my excessive use of AWB to (I admit) do unnecessary edits like deleting white space and such. I was warned once on such a matter, and I stopped. Look at this. Average edits per page: 6.85. And it's only that low because I used AWB in the beginning to make inconsequential edits. I of all people do not hold editcounts to be of any importance. If I did, then I would have 6.85 times the amount of edits that I do now. :) Now, "odd quirks like use of the {{ talkback}} template". I've used that less than five times, and I've since stopped. I was trying to reorganize my talk system, but it didn't work, so I stopped. I think Xp54321 still uses it, but I'm not sure. Anyway, that ends my tirade, feel free to comment. I'll be glad to answer. Cheers, Kodster ( heLLo) ( Me did that) 23:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Iridescent you have managed to insult Me, Xp54321, Kodster and you were less than nice when talking about RyRy5 talk/user page. Im glad my connection went down for 15 minutes because I was going to blow a fuse. Seriously dont say things like "I honestly can't understand why any of them are here — the vandal-fighting, spellchecking and semi-obsessive minor-editing of
Thriller they do is hardly fun, and I can't see why anyone would choose Wikipedia as a social networking site." ever again. You have no idea how hard I work on these articles "IN MY SECOND LANGUAGE". They were in a hell of a worse state before I got to them. Im glad to know your discouraging, vandal-fighting and spell checking on wikipedia, seriously, you should know better. Jimbo would be proud. —
Realist2 (
Come Speak To Me)
23:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Why don't you boys give it a rest now, eh? --
Malleus Fatuorum (
talk)
00:50, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
On A lighter note, im happy to know you,ve spent the time checking my barnstars, user page and edit history. As for my very first edit (which you seem to find odd), when I first started wikipedia, my main interest was Michael Jackson. I was just an IP adress and couldn't make edits to the article, only the talk page. Eventually I realised I wanted to stay and edit the article = I needed an account. I started a conversation/"consensus building task" as my IP, then a few days later after my account was set up and the conversation had died down I made that edit. I started the conversation as an IP then made that comment after I had set up my account a few days later. Since making my account on May 27, 2007 I have never again used my IP (unless accidently lol). If you still have further interest in me I can send you regular updates on my stats. Everytime my edit count rises 1000, I get a Barnstar, get an article to GA, review an article for GA or start a wikiproject I could let you know?
You've obviously been doing your research on me, poorly, I might add, if you think im here for some "social" aspect. Yes I have friends here who love me dearly but I also work hard aswell. Your comments about me "editing Thriller 1000 times" or whatever are really rude and the sock allegation... you should just know better. Also, no, Im never going to run for RfA so don't worry, I wouldn't dare give you the satifaction of lying about me again. Besides, Ive seen some of the people who has passed/failed RfA and the system obviously has its flaws.
Im going to leave you to yourself now, Im not expecting an apology of you, admins rarely do. Just stop lying about me because its hurtful. Cheers. — Realist2 ( Come Speak To Me) 05:50, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
What exactly is everyone "demanding an apology" demanding an apology for? Accusing a checkuser-confirmed sockpuppeteer of sockpuppetry? Accusing someone who thinks this is an acceptable comment of not understanding Wikipedia policy? Saying someone with more than 40% of their edits to their own user page is violating WP:NOTMYSPACE?
RyRy5, I'm not accusing you of anything. You'll notice, I hope, that at no point has anyone actually mentioned you. The reason your barnstar page came up is not because of any problem with you, but with the people adding stars to it; on a quick skim through it, just among the names I recognise I see four confirmed sockpuppeteers. As you know, you had problems a couple of months ago, but I'm not aware of any issues affecting you at present.
Everyone above who seems to think "admin" is some kind of superpower, take the time to read WP:SYSOP and see what exactly it is that admins do. Wikipedia is not run like a chat board where moderators restructure and remove posts, ban people they don't like, rewrite page histories and generally have more authority than normal users. Wikipedia adminship means a couple of extra technical powers to clean up vandalism and prevent disruption — it used to be given to everyone, and was limited purely because some people were using the admin buttons disruptively.
Somewhere in the conversation above I posted a link to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Esperanza/Archive1 and I really, really urge everyone who's feeling hard done by at being accused of social networking to read What Wikipedia is not, which is a non-negotiable core policy (the very first link on WP:FIVE, in fact). In particular " Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they may be used only to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. [...] The focus of user pages should not be social networking, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration." – iride scent 16:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, as per your question, i replied in a new db-spam, so you can review the reasoning behind it. I admit the first reasoning was a bit below par, since I thought it was kind of clear cut. Cheers, Shoombooly ( talk) 02:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
PS: I was going to let it go anyway, Gwen. I just don't like being talked to like that for little reason.
Yeah but beneath that tacky ad copy was a big, docking assertion of notability. Gwen Gale ( talk) 03:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
As a token of good will i want to let you know that the flower on your user page is most likely an Azalea, like this one. See also [4], different color, but same morphology. Also the stem (hairy) and leaves in background are almost certainly Azalea. Cheers, Shoombooly ( talk) 04:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Please see my reply on my talk page. TN‑ X- Man 04:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Looks like you're taking a bit of a beating lately for having the gumption to stand tall against the MySpace set. If it means anything, here's a barnstar from a somewhat old and burned out Wikipedian thanking you for the effort - it's only a small one though, I wouldn't want to get carried away with the social networking! :o east.718 at 01:17, June 12, 2008 |
You're on candid AN ..well sort of. Toddst1 ( talk) 17:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments in my RFB. Since it was only at 64%, it was a shoo-in to be unsuccessful, so I withdrew. I didn't want it to run until its scheduled close time because my intent in standing for RFB was to help the bureaucrats with their workload, not give them one more RfX to close. Through the course of my RFB, I received some very valuable feedback, some of it was contradictary, but other points were well agreed upon. I have ceased my admin coaching for now to give me time to revamp my method. I don't want to give up coaching completely, but I'm going to find a different angle from which to approach it. As for my RFA Standards, I am going to do some deep intraspection. I wrote those standards six months ago and I will slowly retool them. This will take some time for me to really dig down and express what I want in an admin candidate. If, after some serious time of deep thought, I don't find anything to change in them, I'll leave them the way they are. I'm not going to change them just because of some community disagreement as to what they should be. Will I stand for RFB again in the future? I don't know. Perhaps some time down the road, when my tenure as an administrator is greater than one year, if there is a pressing need for more active bureaucrats, maybe. If there no pressing need, then maybe not. Useight ( talk) 03:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Yo Iridescent, I found you through WAWWPCODA; could you possibly restore the last version of list of anarchists to User:SwitChar/Anarchlist/Original? We are currently developing a thoroughly referenced replacement for the original here, and there is no sense in re-inventing the wheel with respect to descriptions and references. Muchas gracias, Skomorokh 03:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!. That's all I have to say. I'm going offline (mostly) for the weekend. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 22:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
On hold: This article is currently awaiting improvements before pass/fail.
I have carried out an assessment of this talkpage as per the criteria at WP:Poor Talkpage Candidates. While this page generally meets the Poor Talkpage Criteria, there are certain issues that need to be addressed before I would feel comfortable passing it:
All of the elements currently lacking are fairly easily addressed, and overall the general quality of this talkpage is easily poor enough to meet Wikipedia's standards. If the issues raised above are addressed within a week of this review, I will have no hesitation in passing this as a Poor Quality Talkpage. If you are having trouble in raising the number of flames on this page, you may wish to consider asking some of the editors posting here or here to assist. – iride scent 14:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
How was that a bad rewrite? You've confused me in my view my edits helped the article to come out of its confusing current state. I think it deserves better than current and has POV in it. Police,Mad,Jack ( talk · contribs)☺ 15:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Iridescent! I just noted that you left a level 4 warning for User talk:67.162.115.75. I had just reverted another edit left by this IP, and left the prior warning.
>>insert long story<< For the better part of the last nine months, I spent most of my time on vandal cleanup. I felt productive. I was happy. About a month ago, I came across a vandal-only account (about a dozen edits over a month; all vandalism). He had been warned twice already. As I reverted, I left a warning, then reported him as a vandal.
An editor (I don't even remember the name, I'm not looking it up, its not relevant, accused me of bad faith in reporting a vandal without the requisite four strikes, and that I had tagged their user page after the fact. I tried explaining: its a vandal only account (not an IP .. an account), and that editors are well within their right to report and have a vandal only account blocked without four warnings. Meanwhile, another admin blocks the account. This admin fights to get it unblocked, citing "we need to follow the rules". I tried making him see the light: I was (or at lest I thought I was). The account was unblocked, and less than a month later, it was blocked for continued vandalism. I decided to get out of the anti-vandalism business if I was going to be accused of bad faith. >>end of long story<<
The IP address that you and I recently warned had several acts of recent vandalism. I'm not talking about filing a report, but I am concerned: should warnings about those other incidents of vandalism be tagged on their page? I only say this because I was also told that part of the problem is the lack of tagging on those pages postpones blocking.
Thank you for letting me take some of your time ... I hope all is well in London ... no place like it on Earth! LonelyBeacon ( talk) 20:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could point me to the deletion debate for Jim Stanton? It was proposed for deletion earlier this month and I'm intrigued to know why it survived. Jonathan Cardy ( talk) 20:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
As I see you use huggle, you might consider adding Category:Wikipedians who use Huggle to your userpage. Spencer T♦ C 21:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I havent impersonated an admin for bout an hour now. Why do i keep receiving these warning messages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GENIUS(4th power) ( talk • contribs) 23:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
The more I see of this sort of nonsense on your talk page Iridescent the more thankful I am that my last RfA crashed and burned. Those who believed that I wouldn't have the patience to put up with that sort of crap were quite right; I wouldn't. Besides, taking a leaf out of your book, I think that adding to the sum of human knowledge is much better served by creating articles on obscure events that nobody really cares about. :-) -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 00:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
(<--) I forgot to say it at the time, but my caption contest entry for this one would be "Can you call me back, I'm posing for Commons?" giggy ( :O) 03:02, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
You declined speedy when someone else tried to G10 Red Light Junkie. However, I researched it and the real reason it should be speedied is A7. It's a neologism which results in trivially few google hits, none of which have anything to do with the definition as proposed. I speedied it appropriately, but it's been hanging around for 3+ hours. Need we really AfD it, just because someone else speedied it inappropriately? Thanks. Jclemens ( talk) 03:31, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Thought you may want to see my comments on Kerotan RFA. — Rlevse • Talk • 17:39, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, I'm not sure whether the text should be there or not. I thought that my use of rollback (and violation of the 3RR) was appropriate because each time I reverted, I undid an edit which removed a block of (well, what I thought, until now, was) properly referenced text, which is (at least I thought it was) "blatant and obvious vandalism". Was there something wrong with the reference? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
←Incidentally, once Gurch has seen it, I'd suggest removing your posts & mine on the matter unless he's able to fix it; I can see some of our more colourful characters being interested in the matter. – iride scent 23:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
You'd better have a read of this. Let me know when you have & I'll give the conversation the WP:BEANS treatment. – iride scent 22:59, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Can you have a quick look at SandyG's question here? Thanks. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 05:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I see you've indicated it's a joke, but 1) I don't get it and 2) I don't see how it helps her RfA. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Heya, just a heads up... as you may have noticed, I've been keeping a fairly close eye on the RfA for most of the day, and plan to continue to do so over the next couple of days, although less and less as it gains its own momentum, and so long as new distractions don't break out. However, I will be going away from Friday, so hope that you can be sure to anything that needs attention over the weekend. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 08:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Did you set this up, its not funny, [5]. — Realist2 ( Come Speak To Me) 19:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page :-) «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 08:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
For beating me to the reverts so often, I'm awarding you this barnstar to get you off Huggle for two minutes so I can have a chance! :) Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC) |
I didnt realize what i was doing. While my meaning was to speedy delete the page, i accidentally ended up undoing it and allowing the page to be remade. I am sorry :( wont happen again. -me —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
is that better? -me —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I was going to edit the page and add in content about Blogs and Content, but there is no edit sign. Has MySPace (the page) been protected? If so, when will it be unprotected?
-me—Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs)
—Preceding comment was added at 20:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
okie, i sorry. Ill reduce it to 255 characters. Please dont get me into trubble for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
My talk page. It feels alot more soothing, i sorta like it! Blue background makes it soothe and calm the body. Its a psychological thing. Just stare at my talk page for a minute. Dont you notice it too? Its awesum! -me —Preceding unsigned comment added by IaM7DeadlySins ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I have now just written down one of the very historic Wikipedia Guidelines. Go to this page to see it! 7Deadly Sins greed, gluttony, and wrath envy, sloth, lust and pride —Preceding comment was added at 22:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it okay if i use 3 edits to perfect my signature? Cuz i really, really want to, but i dont wanna get blocked. Comment I would appreciate it if this was userfied, but i dont even know what that means. 7Deadly Sins greed, gluttony, and wrath envy, sloth, lust and pride
The vandalism thing? I was testing to see what would happen if i was paged. why? Is something wrong?
7Deadly Sins greed, gluttony, and wrath envy, sloth, lust and pride 23:13, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
It's real info on Daly. -- SmackingMonkeys ( talk) 03:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
(note: Indefblocked troll)
Hey, I think that Bauhinia on your user page is most likely Bauhinia variegata. The shape of the flower is more like variegata. Its colors can range from magentas to white, and I think the color fits the description best. bibliomaniac 1 5 19:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
That's a thought - although I've also been advised that it looks like it's actually an azalea of some kind. I'll leave it up a while longer and see if I can get some kind of consensus – frustrating, as it's quite a striking photo and it's irritating not to know what it's a photo of. Open note to anyone else reading this – if you have any thoughts as to what this is a picture of, please do let me know! (Taken on Lantau island, Hong Kong, on 1 March 2008, if that helps narrow it down...) — iride scent 19:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
"...Wikipedia is just Facebook for ugly people..."
You been peeking at my userpage? LessHeard vanU ( talk) 21:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Maybe we should have a caption competition.... WjBscribe 01:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Are we in?
Starting off with the rather bland Ryan:"You taste like the sockuppet I blocked."
I'm sure the iridescent one can do better.
giggy (
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Adele: "Dammit, I shoulda said Truth". Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 15:04, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Although, WTF is a two week old account doing with Huggle access? – iride scent 21:31, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh wow, you're brave for touching that one. It's such a merge mess. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 19:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear iridescent, you have accidently restored a vandilism on a article and sent me a lvl 1 vandal warning. please reply on my talk page about this incident and remove the warning so that the administers now it was a mistake. Thanks for taking your time.
Your , Alexnia ( talk) 06:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
←(to Iridescent) I have gone through all (read: 100%) of this user's Huggle reversions and I have found six (including the one you gave) that are 100% definitely not blatant vandalism. Two of them actually restored vandalism. Should I post the diffs here, or should I just not say anything unless Alexnia makes more mistakes after s/he reads your poke? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
For quickly denying the speedy deletion on José Azueta (sailor) and for your comments to the editor who tagged it. I was displeased to see that pop up so soon, but since I knew what to do, I wasn't worried. But like you said, newbies might not feel the same way about that. -- AW ( talk) 20:14, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
On Award Centers and what not, they are such a mess yet they seem to have their defenders. I don't get it. I don't get why this is such a competition. What am I missing? What memo did I miss when I signed up? TravellingCari the Busy Bee 21:29, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Iri, that's going to get a place of honor. Given that I refuse to have anything to do with MySpace and twitch when I have to use it for work, I'll take my ninja. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 02:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
you just beat me to vandalism:-( Actually, you've beat me a handful of times. You're doing a nice job fighting vandalism on wikipedia, and I hope we can continue to rely on you to fight vandalism:-)-- SJP ( talk) 03:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
sorry about that I thought that , that was a paragraph cut off so i reverteted it thanks for noticing me. For the future I will be a bit slower while I use huggle and check what paragraphs I am restoring. I will keep in mind to watch over paragraph restoration, sorry for wasting your time and thanks for warning me.
p.s please don't remove my rollback rights you can remove my huggle rights but I need the rollback to fight vandilism at school (school computer's only have Internet Explorer so twinkle dosn't work on them and I hate it when Huggle users beat me while I am using twinkle or the old school way. Alexnia ( talk) 10:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
oh damn silly me, sorry for posting this on your talk page forgot to read one of the boxes Alexnia ( talk) 10:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
FYI: Quoting your awesomness here. giggy ( :O) 11:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
The article Hellingly Hospital Railway you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Hellingly Hospital Railway for things needed to be addressed. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
...There's a meetup on July 13th in London. Coming? Ironho lds 00:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I knew that they were the same account, but I wanted some way to tell other Wikipedians that DJQ and PT were the same person. I didn't know a better way than to easily communicate this fact. I noticed that some users who had been reverting DJQ and his other SPs were not doing the same to PT thinking that he was a different user. So, how do you let people know without going to each and every one of them and leaving a message? (I also think that a contributor involved in a SP or other on going case, should be aloud to change their user name until the issue is resolved. It was obvious the he changed this account in order to evade the case against him and/or the block that may result.) So, if you know of an easier way to let others know, go for and let me know? ~ WikiDon ( talk) 16:37, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Iri as a test I changed my huggle config page "rollback:false" but I can still use huggle. Bug?-- Xp54321 ( Hello!, Contribs) 17:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Iridescent, for nominating me for adminship and then providing so much enjoyable commentary as the RfA progressed. I was a bit surprised at how smoothly the process went and how I've emerged without feeling run through a large wringer (maybe just a tiny one). I'll do my best to avoid doing something stupid so that I don't make you look bad ;) Thanks! Karanacs ( talk) 16:26, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Iridescent, I would like your opinion on a reversion I made. I do not believe that the assertion removed by another editor violated BLP, and reverted it, and I was reverted again, with the other editor citing BLP at me. I'm not going to sweat one unsourced statement which I didn't even add to begin with, but I'd like your opinion on whether I was really in the wrong or not. Diffs here. Thanks for your time. Jclemens ( talk)
Since you might not be watching the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/You Hear Me?, I just thought I'd drop you a note saying that I have a question about your reply. Thanks!-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 18:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
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On the positive side, at least people will stop complaining to you about it on your talk page now, right? .... Right?
Oh shit I just gave a barnstar. Metros ( talk) 00:51, 24 June 2008 (UTC) |
Xp, yes I did read your answer. Like I said at the time, there's no right answer to that question (if hackers hadn't taken Wikipedia Review offline, you could read for yourself a large number of crazy people arguing over that exact question at extreme length). I haven't posted any reply to you there or on your talkpage, as while I've no problem with you, I am thoroughly fed up with taking abuse from your nutjob friends.
BTW, for anyone who wants to see exactly what kind of people Gurch has unleashed on us, this post (in his own RFA!) illustrates the current level of AGF and civility of Huggle users. (Before anyone complains, yes I know there are dozens of perfectly decent Huggle users. Unfortunately, it's only the misusers who come to notice). – iride scent 17:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Is it your magnetic personality, your winsome smile, or your natural charm that brings you so many new friends? Risker ( talk) 22:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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Iris, I have a terrible feeling Xp is going to start something he regrets. :-( — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 01:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
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← No, the MOS guideline is still "The image subject or properties may call for a specific image width to enhance the readability or layout of an article. Apart from the lead, other cases where a specific image width is appropriate include (but are not limited to) images with extreme aspect ratios, detailed maps, diagrams or charts, and images in which a small region is relevant, but cropping to that region would reduce the coherence of the image.". Which AFAIK BWFE complied with scrupulously throughout; although there are forced image widths on five occasions (I've just unforced a sixth), two of them are enlarged to show specific architectural details, and three have extreme aspect ratios. But What Do I Know. The MOS and me don't mix. – iride scent 16:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Sigh and double sigh. Metros ( talk) 22:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
What's going on with Deadly? Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 02:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh yeah thank you! Too many false positives is a VERY good reason. TestPilot talk to me! 02:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I apologise for the earlier conflict here. Perhaps we can reach some agreement on such debate? Cheers, and good morning (etc.). :-) -- Mizu onna sango15/ Discuss 14:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC).
I really would like to let this drop now. My final word is that I do not accept the charge of incivility over this edit, and I never will. If that's the kind of thing that merits a block these days then I will have to leave the asylum to be run by its inmates. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 15:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
Thanks for repeatedly beating me. I really appreciate that, and I am awarding you this barnstar. Keep up the fantastic work. Schfifty Three 19:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
During some anti-vandalism work today, I kept coming across vandalism that had just been reverted by you. Leonard( Bloom) 20:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
<-Only 63 to go for you, according to your edit count... Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Just so you know, the IP you just reverted on this page you prodded is actually the creator. They've been abusing multiple IPs, and also an account, and have recently threatened to vandalize the feature article. I thought I'd give you a heads up. Thanks. Acalamari 21:15, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Believe it or not I dont have his talk page on my watchlist so when I do go and look in a moment it will be new to me. I checked his talkpage about 5 hours ago and everything was fine then. Ive been having a bad day on wikipedia, someone from the past that I don't like has returned. I will look at this mess now. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 23:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Xp, even if you're not going to listen to me, please listen to R2. Wikipedia is not an anarchy is a non-negotiable core policy of Wikipedia, which means that there's no way around it.
You do bring plenty of positives to Wikipedia, otherwise you'd have been blocked last time. However, once someone decides that the time it takes dealing with your disruption (and that's not just the admin time you've wasted; it's the time R2's wasted talking about this with you when he could have been working on Michael Jackson, the time Metros spends explaining things to you when he could be vandal-fighting, and so on) outweighs the good you bring to the project, they will block you.
Just take some time to read pages without trying to edit everything you see. As someone (I forget who) told you when you tried to edit the Huggle configuration code without asking anyone first, just because you can edit things here doesn't mean you should. Please follow Ryan's advice, do something else for a few days - or even just read Wikipedia (I still regularly find things I didn't know about Wikipedia all the time, and that's quite aside from the facts you find out by clicking "Random Article"), and let the whole thing cool down. Don't let one very immature (yes, I said it) user wreck your time here.
If you're only going to take one piece of advice from me, take this: read WP:SYSOP and discover just what an admin actually does before you decide you want to be one, or take part in RFAs. It doesn't give you any special status; Giano, who's probably the best writer here of all, isn't an admin and never will be; nor is Malleus; nor is R2; nor is Giggy; nor is Gurch. It doesn't mean people respect them any less, because Wikipedia is all about the articles. – iride scent 00:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
←And to all four of you, this is the reason the RFA process is so harsh. If you're going to snap at someone for making comments in an RFA, you're certainly going to snap when your talkpage has magically grown thirteen times in size in a week! – iride scent 14:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I remember how you helped me before last week, which I was very thankful for, so here is the small issue I found just now when I logged into my wikipedia account......or so I think so....as I am new to this great site I might just be reading it wrong and looking at an old pre-edited version. When I logged in and looked in my talk section I noticed a "request for speedy deletion" in there. I just sent this same message to user Ukexpat who also helped me format my page properly after you were the one who insisted that the entry about me was far from deletion material. It was you who stepped up and said the entry about me is far from a speedy deletion article so it would be locked in here on wikipedia which I was very thankful for.....as noted in the email I sent both of you. It would mean the world to me to have this issue corrected as it was last week by you. I also received your email (I think it was you or user Ukexpat) about adding additional materials....references etc. Just started doing that today for the first time, since I never paid any attention to this stuff until now...wish I did. Off the top of my head I appeared in the video, "Body of Work" that was shown on MSNBC about women in wrestling featuring April Hunter who I trained with. This video can be seen all over the internet and on youtube. I didn't have any speaking parts but I was shown close up doing pushups, walking around, drills, and being around the ring. You can view this close up photo of me from MSNBC on my myspace page in the pro wrestling album....the pic with the official MSNBC logo in the bottom of it. I don't know where one would place that information on my page. Others have told me I was in a documentary featuring Tony Atlas but I have to look for the first time when I get a free moment. I appreciate all of your help before and I know this matter will be corrected my friend. When I was pro wrestling I was known as Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's boy and was touted by many that I would be going pro with XWF with Brutus. I was even contacted by a female in the XWF inside that I was on the roster under a different wrestling persona and she even told me my salary and wrestling TV schedule. Pretty well known in the business and far from deletion material since there is a lot more info that can be added in the future to this entry. I might have had a spelling error or two that I just picked up on from the email message I sent user Ukexpat.....sorry bout that. I'll try to brainstorm and think of some other videos etc. I look forward to the correction of this small issue. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule, as you did before my friend, to correct this issue once and for all....that meant the world to me! I'll start looking for additional material etc. to add to the entry.
Thnak You So Much Again Iridescent.....You Are A Great Friend! Jaderocker ( talk) 03:30, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Iridescent. I can assume it is safe to say that my entry is now safe on wikipedia.....right? Especially since it was already professionally re-formatted correctly and approved by a Wikipedia editor on the site. I'll just try over time to find more articles and videos I was in to use as references. Thanks So Much!
Jaderocker ( talk) 14:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | ||
For your defending of the mainspace from deletionist hordes who "couldn't find their arse with an atlas" ;-) Serviam (talk) 15:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC) |
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Thanks for being a great friend! B G 7even 20:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
...gotcha? ;-) giggy ( :O) 08:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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I'm leaving wikipedia because of you and your age racist freinds. You were not nice to me and when I told my mom said there are not nice people. You are one and I hope you banned forever soon. Jerk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freind of young ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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I did not commit said acts of vandalism and trolling said above. I have no idea who did this and received an email from R2 asking if I had done it. I did not and replied by email as such. (No, I am not back but my name shall not be tarnished further. Lol, where did this spa come from?;)-- Xp54321 ( Hello! • Contribs) 04:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Good afternoon. :-) Since I've changed my sig to something more readable and have answered more questions than were there when you !voted, would you like to evaluate me again and change to one of the other categories? (I know which one I'd prefer, but you might see something in my answers that worries you...) Thanks!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 19:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to formally apologize for calling you bitter and hormonal. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 17:55, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, is there a way to remove the "move" tab in your preferences or something. I often hit the move tab instead of the history tab and it annoys me. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 01:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
(out) I tried, following all the instructions available, nothing happened though. — Realist2 ( Who's Bad?) 13:06, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Dude, have you notced I just got it! Im stll learnng, and most of my undos dont use rollback. And most of roll backs are rghtly used. This is wrong dude. Gears Of War 19:31, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
the subject subheading was "Sequels and offshoots" this is a OFFSHOOT the movie is directly referenced there. Fair to post the reference...... that is what an offshoot is thanks 69.125.90.71 ( talk) 21:17, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I think when I went with "rvv" as an edit summary, I considered it simple blanking. Isn't that considered vandalism? I'm not at all claiming I was right, I'm just trying to learn more. S. Dean Jameson 22:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I was trying to write it in a rush and add sources before I went out to an actual Harvester.:) It didn't sound very convincing I suppose.:) I'll put that it's suspect or something. I was just annoyed that people from another country perhaps, just because thy hadn't heard of this well-known chain and hadn't bothered googling, were claiming it wasn't notable. Sticky Parkin 22:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I apologise if it seemed like I was making an attack on said user. I didn't mean it in a vicious way. However, regardless of my intentions, I realise how it looks. It just annoyed me that (in my opinion) a decent article, which had perfect integrity, was removed because it was too releated to another article. This, to me, seemed stupid. I will learn to control my emotions on wikipedia from now on, you have my word. Billynewman —Preceding comment was added at 00:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to be able to archive my talk page at some point. I've noticed that some are done automatically. I'd like mine to be archived monthly. Could you help me figure out how I can go about doing this? S. Dean Jameson 01:00, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.
See you around the wiki!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 00:53, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey Iri,
Thanks for your kind words. The WB-Enf doesnt seem to work, even though I have now purged my cache countless times. I have given up on it.halfway through editing this it decided to work. Lolz.
My main reasons for leaving was due to the comment on my User page. I find this pretty unacceptable. I will be bringing it up further, but with the help from more experienced editors. As for the whole RfA/MfD thing, I found it embarrassing due to the whole Shanner191 issue.
I am going to return, but i doubt I will ever run for adminship now as I am sure many editors will look back on this and oppose because of it. This is in addition to the IRC comments.
Thankyou, yet again, for all the support you have ever given me at Wikipedia. I am most grateful. Could you possibly do me a favour, and either comment on my Editor Review, or my Blackpool tramway Peer review. Or both, if you can. Can you also unenforce my WB? I have some apologies to make...
B G 7even 17:55, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I see that some time ago you (I think!) set up a category called that, and added Pinchinthorpe, Hutton Gate and Guisborough stations. I am really, really confused by their presence there. I know there's this thing they are calling Tees Valley but I am finding it incredibly hard to make the leap from that to in effect endorsing the statement "Guisborough is in the Tees Valley", because it just isn't. I wonder if you see what I mean and if any workaround presents itself? Thanks and best wishes Nomorenonotnever ( talk) 17:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Wow. The Buffalo Zoo. A tiger from my home town zoo. Thanks-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 02:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)