I thank you(Sound of coughing, and tapping on table...) "Ladies and Gents, I gratefully accept this heartwarming Barnstar for my unofficial admin role as Bargain bin editor. I thank his Royal Highness Kingboyk for bestowing this award on myself. I will now celebrate with a pint of golden nectar which I will proceed to pour down me throat. Now.... Do you have any more cheap, unloved, or merge articles that I can get me greasy fingers on?" -- andreasegde 18:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Admin RequestHello, I have a change that I would like to have made at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. The change would start at the top of the "Guide" section and would stop right before the text "Also, to reduce bureaucracy,". I have stored the text in the sandbox in this ( diff). It looks like you are on-line, could you please post this for me? Thanks -- After Midnight 0001 12:15, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
adminshipI try not to reject things out of hand, so I want to hear your case for this. Two questions:
Let me know and I'll consider it.-- Mike Selinker 16:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Users who never made it to first baseYou just deleted that one so you could make the "struck out" joke. I highly respect that.-- Mike Selinker 08:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
1987Excellent work. The Composition section is very well done, now. I have voted "support" on the article's FAC. The minor issues I cited are of extremely low importance, and I doubt anyone else will notice, so you don't need to worry about them. Again, excellent work. JimmyBlackwing 11:08, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
UsernameHey Steve. Do you know if its possible to rename a user account (moving all related subpages, history, logs etc? I originally wanted the username User:Setanta, but that was unavailable at the time I registered. Now it appears to be free. Cheers. Oh - btw .. 100+ edits with AWB so far (having renamed the Kingbotk dll), and no errors/crashing. Having said that, AWB forced me to upgrade to the latest version. I'm going to try the Kingbotk plugin again shortly, and I'll keep you advised. You been having problems still, or is it sorted? -- Mal 20:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
RequestI have left a request for you. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 01:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
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Re. Big Brother (UK series 7)Thank you for all the effort you put into the reviews - I'll get to work on the article a.s.a.p, and it'll be on the main page before you know it :) -- Alex ( Talk) 14:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
""Fourteen housemates entered on launch night, but over the whole series there were a total of twenty-two, more than in any previous series." This isn't FA class writing.' '"This year, Big Brother was criticised in the media for both its choice of housemates and its practice once the housemates were inside."' Could you possibly clarify what would be FA class writing in that first quote, and also how do I improve the second quote? Thanks. -- Alex ( Talk) 16:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
KLF ArticlesAnytime, I notice how much effort you put into the articles so thought it was only fair I helped you a little - what initially attracted me to them is how well written and cited they are. I'm kinda jealous actually, as I'd like to do the same thing with Marilyn Manson related articles, only I don't possess the time nor the expertises to do this. The Manson article (on the person) itself has an awful layout, and I cannot for the life of me work out how to amend this. You have any ideas? My real name's Anthony Morgan if you're wondering. LuciferMorgan 23:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
My RfAJust wanted to send a quick note of thanks for your support in my RfA. :-) I really appreciate it! Best, Irongargoyle 03:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Something you might be interested inSince you requested deletion for the One Peice attacks, I thought you could help out here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dragon Ball special abilities. Hydromasta231 04:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Repeat idiotHello old friend. You are the only Administrator I know, so sorry if this seems a bit random: Check the history for Juicebox please. There is a user (IP only) who keeps adding a definition of juicebox (Something like "an underground swearword") and I reverted it, and it's just basically an edit war. I have left comments in the discussion but I get no reply, and the user just deletes what I've wrote every now and then. Well, I hope you can help rinse this scum. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alexbuirds ( talk • contribs) .
Why did you revert please?My changes were in line with WikiPolicy. You have reverted to a solecism. - Kittybrewster 11:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Here Comes The Sun
Hello Kingboyk, read your comment on my talk page and saw that you edited my changes back to what they were. I understand your arguments and respect your decision. However stating that 99% of the readers will only associate the title with the Beatlessong itself is a bit overstated, and as of talking about the Simone album as merely a cover album...but that's just me simone-nerdtalking. :) Marcel flaubert 13:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not implying that the album is 'so important', just that there are also people who by thinking of Here Comes the Sun also think about this album, the songs on it with a distinct Nina-reinterpretation and the minimalistic sixties coverart. And as you say, the dab scheme works fine for everybody, and my decision to rename the article was unjustified. Marcel flaubert 14:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Heavy metal wikiprojectI agree with your comments there - you can check what I had to say. Is it me, or does just about every Metal/Rock article have weasly, uncited statements in them with critiques about albums (again without cites)? I'm really fed up with that Wikiproject be honest, seems like fancruft galore. LuciferMorgan 21:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
"Hottie"Hiya. In the Kittie photo, the hottie on the left is Trish Doan. Just to let you know. ScreamAtMe 22:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
RfB With A Smile :)
Plange RFAHey, I was just writing up an RFA nom for her: User:AudeVivere/Plange. Can this be a co-nom? -- Aude ( talk) 16:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Your adviceQuestion moved to and replied at User_talk:Kingbotk/Plugin#Your_advice. -- kingboyk 18:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Tagging biographiesQuestion from WikiProject Guitarists. As we are sorting through guitarist articles, we are noticing many that have not been identified by WikiProject Biography. In order to avoid duplicating work, should we be at the minimum placing these articles in Category:Living people? Will that let your bot catch them? What if they're dead? -- Aguerriero ( talk) 17:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
McCartney and AspinallPaul McCartney, Neil Aspinall: I have done as much as I can at the moment on both articles, and I think it would be good to have them both assessed. I will be interested to see what Macca gets :) -- andreasegde 20:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
The Beatles (Tagged for Speedy Deletion!)Somebody's tagged the Beatles main article for speedy deletion! I'd keep an eye on the page for awhile, and remove the deletion tag. LuciferMorgan 11:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
McCartneyI have had second thoughts about it being assessed. I think it could do with more polishing, and then go for GA status. -- andreasegde 14:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
No, I don't, now. (Indecisions, indecisions...)I have worked on it a lot over the past few days, and I think it's doing well. -- andreasegde 16:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Diplomatic requestCould you advise me of the appropriate place where I can express my perception of Systematic bias I am finding in many Wiki articles? LessHeard vanU 16:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Sorting at Category:Articles by qualityTruth is I just started placing them because I was tinkering around with the cats for WikiProject Organized Labour. Kind of one of those mindless things that feels good to do once in a while. :/ Your right about the bot doing it though, I'll bring it up at the talk page. -- Bookandcoffee 19:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Re [1]I didn't rollback your edit "as vandalism". The edit summary in this edit doesn't mention "vandalism". I rolled back the removal of the AFD notice because it was an obvious mistake. I've used the same process to revert my own edits when I've made mistakes, as seen here. John254 19:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Greetings kingboyk. I am pasting the comments that I put on john254's page below. The point was because I saw the confusion regarding the AfD tags on the Strata page (sorry that I am not bothering to insert links but I am being lazy). I took a quick look and saw that although you deleted the tags you were right to do so even though the debate had not been closed. The AfD tag was accidentally replaced by someone with the wrong tag, as you probably already know:
Green hornet 20:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC) My failed FACHeya Kingboy. Sasha (DJ) failed its FAC due to copy-editing issues. :( Is there any way either you or if you know anyone else would copy-edit it? Is there a list of people who are willing to perform final touch-ups on almost FAs or anything? You can check out the failed fac reasons here. I would be (even more) in your debt! I'd owe ya one. Thanks for your time! If you would like for me to try some copy-editing/other work on articles you think need another set of eyes, I would be more than willing to. Also, been rooting through The Orb stuff you emailed me. Its really great stuff! Ugh, can't wait to get Sasha to FA standards so I can concentrate on getting The Orb to GA. Wickethewok 06:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
The KLF...won a t-shirt for being the best in the humanities and culture category. Next year, the awards should add submission requirements of listing the primary authors of the work, and should offer some secondary compensation for the nominator of winning entries. Let me know how to send you your shirt -- just send a snail mail address and preferred size / design to my wiki email. Cheers, +sj + 12:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I tried to edit Template:WPBiography such that one could choose the order in whihc articles are listed. It didn't work. Could you please help out? Cheers, // D B D 22:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
WP:WONKHi Kingboyk. I see that you've deleted WP:WONK as a cross-namespace redirect; out of curiosity, what was its target page? Picaroon9288 23:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Auto-assessmentsAn idea for the plugin (not sure how difficult it would be to code): Currently, the plugin will set
Currently, then, the individual templates are processed one at a time. If they were to affect each other (i.e. a grading from one is used in another) I'd have to add some extra steps to that process and shift quite a lot of code around. When I've finished the logging feature I'll take a look at how difficult it might be (which may range from a few minutes cutting and pasting to "not worth the effort" :)). -- kingboyk 11:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I've unblocked him, at least for now. He hasn't even edited since I posted there, and blocking someone after 6+ months of being here for a username violation, without asking them kindly first, is a bit harsh. I'm watching the account for now, and will reblock if he doesn't change his username. Ral315 ( talk) 20:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
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I know I've already given you one, but dang, you just keep rolling! This latest edition of the kingbotk Plugin, with the auto-uploads of logs, is simply brilliant!! plange 03:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC) |
It may not be the place for an editor (especially not one such as I) to admonish an Admin with X FA's and Y GA's, but I don't think "Bah! etc..." is exactly wiki language. Indeed, it wasn't at all diplomatic. Although the article may have needed rejigging - and I acknowledge that if you think it did then it likely did - you may have considered the feelings of someone who had recently spent a lot of time and effort on it and discussed it first. The argument that wiki is bigger than any one editor applies accross the board. Andreasedge has not contributed to wikipedia since, and it would be a shame if such a good and enthusiastic editor were to be lost. LessHeard vanU 14:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)You can shout at me, as my ego is immune, but this is a heartfelt comment regarding two people I think highly of.
If I had known that "toys/prams" scenarios were endemic in The Beatles Project I would have kept my mouth shut! I don't know what removing yourself from the Project will achieve, in fact I believe it will suffer, but you seem a little sensative regarding mild criticism. On the basis that Wiki is bigger than any of us I apologise for mentioning my comments. LessHeard vanU 15:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk,
I noticed you're the user who operates Kingbotk, the bot that added the Biography Project banner to a lot of articles. I was one of the users, who recently started the WikiProject Germany, and we are now trying to add our project banner to articles that fit the scope of the project, but I'm starting to notice how much work that is even with AWB. I was wondering if you could somehow help us with your bot or by helping me design an identical bot I could use or something like that.
Thanx, -- Carabinieri TTaallkk 17:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
I feel I must express my immense frustration that you deleted both of the categories I created ("RS 500 albums and songs") due to a false idea that they were both copyvios. You try working hard to populate a cetegory and see how you feel when someone deletes it for their own sheer joy. How is a category a copyright violation? To have gone to a site, copied the list, and pasted it on the site is indeed because it copies text from another site. But please explain how it is copyvio to add the label "Category:RS 500 albums" on the articles of all the albums that were featured on Rolling Stone's list. Actually, don't bother, because you can't explain anything. IT"S NOT A COPYVIO, GODDAMNIT! Bring both those categories back right now!
2Pac 22:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Wow, that was so helpful. I ask why it is a copyright violation and show why it is not, and you reply by saying "it is a pretty clear copyvio". Thanks for solving all my problems. 2Pac 00:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
In this edit you added a biography project template, however you also removed the {{ talkheader}} template. What was the reason for doing that? __ meco 17:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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Stephen, thank you so much for being my nominator for RfA and helping me with the process! I passed with a vote tally of 61/0/1. I don't think anyone dared oppose having you guys as my nominators! :-) I am honored that the consensus was to allow me the added privilege of the admin mop. I appreciate your nomination and complimentary words on my RFA, as well as the note of congratulations! -- plange 21:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC) |
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I thank you for your comments. I will reply later, as I have to work. (Yeah, it's true...) I apologised to Chuck, and I hope he comes back. -- andreasegde 11:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
This may sound silly but do you know anyone that's really nifty at drawing, and real professional so to speak? LuciferMorgan 23:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk,
Thanks for your help with the plugin and everything.-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 15:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Yo, awesome one. I just noticed the project banner above has terms for how to use the assessments, but have no idea how to indicate the class of an article. Your humble servant begs for a clarification which even is own permanently addled brain may comprehend. I'll try to start tagging the appropriate articles as soon as I am calmly and patiently told how to do so. Thank you. Badbilltucker 22:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear Kingboyk, there is an editor going around deleting infoboxes from bios (because he thinks infoboxes are "silly"). He put a comment on my talk page. I have copied it and replied on his talk page at [4]. He seems out of touch with what is standard now, and it might help if you as an Avatar of the bio projects step in and help out with the discussion. Also if you can give my reply to him a "sanity check" and let me know if I said the right thing, was civil, not too grumpy, etc. that would be good. I will apologise to him if you think I have been out of line. SuperGirl 08:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
I have some ideas that you should think about (and I will not back down about this... :)
We all have some stylistic questions (who doesn't?) but those can be resolved on the talk page - and I really mean resolved...
I want to get back to work. -- andreasegde 15:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk: the delete link can be added back by adding
function addDeleteLink() { var targetSpan = document.getElementById('specialDeleteTarget'); var linkSpan = document.getElementById('specialDeleteLink'); if (targetSpan == null || linkSpan == null) return; var targetLink = targetSpan.getElementsByTagName("A")[0]; if (targetLink == null) return; var targetTitle = targetLink.childNodes[0].data; var deleteHref = "http://en.wikipedia.org/?action=delete&title=" + escape(targetTitle); var deleteSpan = null; with (easyDom) { deleteSpan = span({ "class": "plainlinks" }, " (", a({ "href": deleteHref, "class": "external text" }, "delete"), ")"); } linkSpan.appendChild(deleteSpan); } addOnloadHook(addDeleteLink); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Mike_Dillon/easydom.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
to your personal js. Do you know of any other page to publicize this perhaps? — Mets501 ( talk) 00:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you just removed a comment from a user talk page [5]. I assume good faith on your part, but I'm wondering why it was removed. -- BostonMA talk 12:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Rosencomet states he is the exec director [6]. of ACE and also writes that Jeff Rosenbaum is exec director [7]. I'm not clear regarding what privacy issues there might be, however, does Jeff Rosenbaum article warrant an autobiography tag? -- BostonMA talk 13:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm currently working on the Jackie Robinson article, trying to bring it up to GA-class. I'm only using one source at the moment. Would someone please help me in understanding how to reference page numbers from a single book source concerning this? TY. robertjohnsonrj 21:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestions pertaining to single source citation references and of their page numbers. Also, I appreciate your attention to and relevant clean up of the Jackie Robinson article. I learned a lot just from reviewing your edits! Once again, thank you. robertjohnsonrj 15:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I am attempting to add factual, relavent, notable, non-biased, cited statements and citations to this article to bring it up to at least GA status, or higher. I suggest a heading on his personal life (to include his marriage, family life and semi-political contributions to society). What do you think of this? robertjohnsonrj 16:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
A final thought. How would a heading reguarding his personal accounts with racism and bigotry? Would this be too confrontational??? robertjohnsonrj 16:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello Kingboyk! Using your plugin for AWB I can add templates (of wikiprojects) on the talk pages, but is there any way to add a new template on the main namespace? Giro720 16:42, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I see you have contributed your thoughts to Wikipedia talk:Fair use/Fair use images in lists. It's been dead for a while, but I have archived it and taken a new fresh start. I hope this time we will be able to achieve something as I have summarized the main points of both sides (feel free to improve them) and I call you to express your support or oppose on the concrete proposal that I have formulated. Thanks, Renata 02:33, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Two questions 1) What is the difference between "Auto-stub" in template section vs "Auto-stub" in Configuration section? 2) Some times the plug-in is applying auto=yes even though there was no stub template. Would you know why? Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 04:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello fella, just thought I'd pop by to congratulate you on your continued successes with the project. Two more FACs and a DYK? entry, to say nothing of a relatively prestigious award for which we received no official credit! Take care dude. -- Vinoir 15:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. An AWB user told me you might be able to help with a query I have. You wouldn't have any ideas on how to take a long (1000+) list of articles and find all the redirects pointing to articles on that list, would you? I know AWB can spit out a list of WhatLinksHere for a single article, and even two or three or four. But can it cope with 1000+? The reason I ask, is that I want to detect all the redirects pointing at pages to do with a particular WikiProject, partly to see how many there are (I've found hundreds already) and partly to help fill in gaps and organise an index of redirects and so forth. The other thing is that the Wikipedia WhatLinksHere list marks the redirects. Does the AWB list also do this? Thanks for any advice you can think of. Carcharoth 03:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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I can't make up my mind about this one. It has a very strong smell of spam, but some people assert that it is more or less the "official" source for Starwood Festival performers lists. However, the whole idea here seems to be to confer a halo effect - paganism is notable therefore the Starwood pagan festival is notable therefore everybody who appears at the starwood festival is notable therfore their cat is notable and so on. Guy 10:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey, the discussion on colour templates for infoboxes has moved to this page. We should get as many views as possible, maybe you'd like to contribute your 10p. Thanks - Coil00 00:18, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Stephen. When you get the opportunity, could you check the Badfinger article for me? I am having trouble with a new editor adding a 'ton' of POV and typos to the article. I already did one revert and he apparently ignored the reasons I gave for reverting. Although this person appears sincere, he/she is ruining the article. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ZincOrbie 00:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I suggest that the AFD is re-run instead of your closure. That redlink is not going to last, you'll probably need a proper clean AFD to kill it off. I've commented on the AFD here and here and here. I really think a DRV would conclude in a re-run. - Hahnch e n 17:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Empires. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. FalconXVI 19:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
If you hadn't noticed a vandal put The Beatles up for deletion. As this is clearly vandalism I reverted to the article previous to the notice - however I realise that the notice is probably in the Wiki system and I need an admin to get it removed. I will argue that the lesser evil is to remove the tag from the article to avoid confusion, and then do the business with Wikipedia. I'm copying this note to Lar in case you are busy. LessHeard vanU 22:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Template:Stubclass has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Mets501 ( talk) 03:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Please do not make the songs composed by George Martin for the Yellow Submarine movie redirects right now. Although I agree with you that the information right now is covered by the Yellow Submarine Album article, I think that enough information could be researched and added to the song articles for them to merit an artcle on their own. So please, when I revert the edits, do not re-revert them. Give me a little more time to make the articles worthwhile. Nautica Shad e s 11:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I have removed a comment I wrote here by mistake -- it was supposed to be on someone else's user page. Sorry! Hayford Peirce 16:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I've left a message here regarding a very short trial I ran for the pluralisation system. Thanks, M a rtinp23 20:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
If this person is editing articles you work on with the intention of doing it to annoy you rather than improve an article, I'd report him to an admin, especially if his edits are detrimental to an article rather than helping. LuciferMorgan 12:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I am in favor of deleting this list, although it doesn't appear that there would be much point in bringing it up at AfD. I have been mulling this list over for a while, since it falls under WikiProject Guitarists. See also Guitarist, which is just another list, except this time by genre. I also want to remove all of that and make it an article about being a guitarist. Our project has at least one well-defined and sourced list, List of Telecaster players, and I think all such lists should be more like that. -- Aguerriero ( talk) 17:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Do you know what utter asshole has been messing around with the "Influences" section in the Beatles article? It looked much better when Andreas last edited it, only now it looks like a pile of dog turd again. I have full intentions of pasting Andreas "Influences" section into the article from his last edit. LuciferMorgan 18:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
By your comment "is it noteable?" should I take it that you don't think that sentence is noteable? -- Spencer "The Belldog" Bermudez | ( Complain here) 20:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Please respond to User_talk:Secondaryschoolgirl. Thanks :) --lov elaughterlife♥ ( user| talk) 00:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
In reference to your message on my talk page (Don't stalk me: [8] I must apologise if I this is the inference you took. I took this action as an example to demonstrate to you that while you have vigorously pursued the Nambassa tag, your own edits seem to show some level of hypocrisy on these specifics. I believe you’re repeated reverting of the captions on the Nambassa photos is in most cases incorrect. (while some I have agreed too). The precedent is already set in many Wikipedia photos where in most cases where entertainers are concerned, the event and day of their performance is usually mentioned in the caption itself. Of many of the Nambassa photos throughout Wikipedia whose origins you have attempted to block, you actually bastardised ...for example Brownie McGhee. You did this previously and I had to follow in your wake of destruction and fix up. I must assume that you have some underlying philosophical axe to grind with Nambassa and if this be the case I am only too happy to ask Peter Terry to completely remove not only all the Nambassa photos, which I must conclude have given some colour and movement to many drab articles, but the Nambassa Wikipedia inclusion itself. Perhaps you would like to tell me why you are so persistent in not giving Nambassa a caption credit for it’s photo contributions- please advise?
On the question of The KLF article, it’s abundantly clear that many of the cited references supporting claims about this band and their individual members are quite soft on fact. In a purely professional sense it could be construed that the Library of Mu which is essentially a internet fan site, is soft on real proof.
I trust we can resolve this amicably….kindest regards Mombas 21:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Wow. Just, like, wow. -- Guinnog 18:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Could someone tell me for certain whether blanking talk page warnings merits a warning or not? I got my fingers slapped by a few editors for warning him against it, and now you've just blocked him for it. Now I'm just plain confused. yandman 20:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry if I'm being slightly agressive about this, but everyone seems to have assumed good faith on the part of this user, and assumed bad faith on my part. I wasn't tring to harass this guy, I just came across his modification spree on RC-patrol, and reacted (in my opinion) appropriately: warn the user, try to contain the damage, and make sure the warnings stay up so that subsequent vandalism is treated as it should. The problem as I see it is that this user hasn't learnt that ignoring consensus and changing 20 articles is bad, he hasn't learnt that libelling another user is bad, he hasn't learnt that trying to whip up opinion by spamming messages saying "(insert country here) deserves better than this!" is bad. No, he's just learnt not to refuse a gift (in this case, archiving a discussion about vandalism barely 20 minutes old) from an admin. Again, don't take this personally, but don't forget that there aren't just new users and admins here. There are also thousands of regular contributors who try to help out, but won't be trying for much longer if they see that they're ignored. yandman 08:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Look, this is all past history, but I disagree (amicably...) with a lot of what kingboyk is saying here. Talking the piss is not sufficient reason for blocking. From my point of view (necessarily not neutral) I saw an edit which I thought neither standard nor NPOV on the UK page; I looked for a discussion occuring before, during and after that change and found none (so there was no consensus); I reverted it and started a discussion; then I saw it was on all EU country pages and reverted them; I had no idea there was any centralised discussion or I would have started there first - there were no signposts to this anywhere; then I got flamed by a whole load of guys on my talk page, inlcuding some warning signs which; given (in my point of view) these warnings were without basis, and feeling both a) insulted and b) ganged up on, I removed the warnings; someone complained about this, I did some reading and saw that my own talk page is mine to edit (at least according to the official-looking pages I read); eveything went downhill from there!
As a non-admin I have very little way of protecting my own space and my own position. Nor do I have knowledge of all of the processes or standards of Wikipedia; you (the wider, more involved community) should not expect every casual editor to have such knowledge. You might have found it rude, for which I apologise as offence was not intended, but everything I read said that my talk page was mine to edit; I did not want Yandmans (in my view, misplaced and aggressive) warning signs to remain anywhere on that page. His actions did conflict with what I read on Wikipedia's Harrassment page. He and others thought me a vandal and the assumption of good faith went out of the window, leading rapidly downhill on all sides. I defended my position and would do so again.
Thanks, nevertheless for your time. JamesAVD 11:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
In reference to your message on my talk page (Don't stalk me: [9] I must apologise if I this is the inference you took. I took this action as an example to demonstrate to you that while you have vigorously pursued the Nambassa tag, your own edits seem to show some level of hypocrisy on these specifics. I believe you’re repeated reverting of the captions on the Nambassa photos is in most cases incorrect. (while some I have agreed too). The precedent is already set in many Wikipedia photos where in most cases where entertainers are concerned, the event and day of their performance is usually mentioned in the caption itself. Of many of the Nambassa photos throughout Wikipedia whose origins you have attempted to block, you actually bastardised ...for example Brownie McGhee. You did this previously and I had to follow in your wake of destruction and fix up. I must assume that you have some underlying philosophical axe to grind with Nambassa and if this be the case I am only too happy to ask Peter Terry to completely remove not only all the Nambassa photos, which I must conclude have given some colour and movement to many drab articles, but the Nambassa Wikipedia inclusion itself. Perhaps you would like to tell me why you are so persistent in not giving Nambassa a caption credit for it’s photo contributions- please advise?
On the question of The KLF article, it’s abundantly clear that many of the cited references supporting claims about this band and their individual members are quite soft on fact. In a purely professional sense it could be construed that the Library of Mu which is essentially a internet fan site, is soft on real proof.
I trust we can resolve this amicably….kindest regards Mombas 21:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Serebii.net ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I want to work up a better article on this because it has a very high Alexa ranking (2,763) and it dominates everything in its field...the official Pokémon site in the US only has a ranking of about 9,000. Another big fansite I checked had 14,210. I will use one of my sandboxes (User:TrackerTV/KXRM1, KXRM2, KXRM3, KXRM4) to work on it. TTV ( MyTV| PolygonZ| Green Valley) 04:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Just messaging to say I've been restructuring the article in the hope it makes it easier to improve it. If I have the time I hope I can convert some of the lists into prose and add the odd inline cite here and there. After that, maybe then someone like Andreas (if he felt like that is) could weigh in with some stuff from books he may own. LuciferMorgan 14:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for leading the charge on this issue. [10] Take care, FloNight 16:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I notice you have speedily deleted several categories, such as Category:Wikipedians born in 1993 citing WP:CHILD. I am a bit disturbed by this, given that this is merely a proposed policy and it is currently undergoing arbcom discussion. There were also several deletions and undeletions by youself and User:1ne, which might be construed as wheel-warring.
Also, I strongly suggest that you unblock User:Secondaryschoolgirl. Her username does not violate policy and although it is a sock, it fits under umbrella of allowable sock uses. Best, Irongargoyle 21:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about that - I tweaked over your tweak. When I get an edit conflict, I normally think it's silly me clicking Save twice. BTW, the page is coming on, do you not think? -- andreasegde 10:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I presume from your comments on Mike's talk page that you would like to conominate him for adminship? If so, please add your nomination to the above page and then direct Mike to it. Tell him to answer the questions and then list the nom on the main RFA page per instructions.
If in fact you don't want to conom please let me know and I'll proceed with informing Mike that my nom is ready. Cheers. -- kingboyk 16:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I was just about to reorder the supports of the three nominators into thread order... But then I realized there is no thread order, since you just "signed" for three people, "post-dating" the timestamps in the process. This is probably "no harm" in practice, since all three of you clearly intended to support (and personally I'd prefer that n-wise co-nominations were just mapped to one nom, and n-1 "ordinary" supports, but it's a horrible precedent to set in both respects. Would you mind fixing that up? (I shall leave what 'fixing up' entails to your own interpretation.) Alai 10:45, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
What do you mean? You've lost me? You want to be counted as supporters don't you? -- kingboyk 11:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I've been noticing lately that some article talk pages are getting a huge number of tags - so many that they're hiding the talk discussion. By tags, I mean both WikiProject (WP) and non-WP tags, but mainly the former. I am considering proposing that all WP templates are all merged into a single template, where different options can be selected for different wikiprojects. This would also avoid the current degeneracy (in a physics sense) where the article is rated multiple times by different WPs. While I recognize that different WPs may want to rate the article differently, I have yet to see this in practice. I guess the importance tags would be a different matter. Can I ask your thoughts on the matter? Thanks. Mike Peel 12:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the link - I'll start up a conversation there. Re: complexity - that is something I've been worrying about. I guess an alternative would be some sort of meta-template, something like the following:
{{TalkTemplate | wikiprojects={{physics|importance=high}} {{WPBiography|priority=}} | featured={{FAC}} | goodarticle={{GA}} | rating=A }}
This could then set up a bar at the top of the page, which would reveal all of the tags in an appropriate order when the "show" button is pressed. It would also allow the trimming down in size of the various tags. What do you think? Mike Peel 12:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Just to make sure we're on the same page... how had you in mind generating artist names from uncategorised articles? From infoboxes would certainly be feasible, though off the top of my head, I'd guess that the uncategorised articles are probably the ones missing infoboxes, too. Alai 18:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Are you there at the moment, I want to transmit something to you for the Macca article. Lincher 18:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hiya Steve,
Just wanted you to know that I have listed Fluke (band) on Featured Article Candidates and that the article currently has 1 comment (the issues within I have attempted to address) and 1 support :)
Martin Hinks 10:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
hi,
i ripped the Beatles article assessment system for WikiProject Spiders in July or so, and got it to work after a fair amount of hacking. now someone from the Arthropod project has implemented it, too, and asked me how it's possible that the bot inserts the articles not all into a page Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Arthropods_articles_by_quality, but into subpages (/1, /2 etc.). I somehow managed this back then, but cannot remember how i did it. thx :) -- Sarefo 13:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the Support
I'd like to express my huge thanks to you, Kingboyk, for your support in my recent RfA, which closed with 100% support at 71/0/1. Needless to say, I am very suprised at the huge levels of support I've seen on my RfA, and at the fact that I only had give three answers, unlike many other nominees who have had many, many more questions! I'll be careful with my use of the tools, and invite you to tell me off if I do something wrong! Thanks, M a rtinp23 14:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC) |
Hi Steve, sme editors have written an article named Millwall Brick. This emanates from a Spoof Adverisment in Viz Comic and they are putting it in the Millwall F.C. article. I have reverted it twice, will you please intervene? Hope you're well. Best wishes, Jimmy.
Hi, voting seems to have started on new colors for the musical infobox artist. Since you seemed to be interested in the earlier discussions, I thought you might want to express your opinions. Template talk:Infobox musical artist#Proposed colour selections (The voting section is down below the proposals.) Xtifr tälk 10:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Ahhh... the mysterious andreasegde. Clue 1: I'm named twice on Wiki. #2 I put my own name in two articles (not technically allowed, but I did it as they were factual.) #3 An anagram is a useful tool. #4 I once worked with one of Macca's keyboardists (uhhh... that's a dead giveaway.)
If you find out, leave a clue on my page. (This is like taking yer trousers off in public... :) -- andreasegde 09:33, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on some templates, and I've noticed that when one is placed under another, there is sometimes a gap, but sometimes not - could you take a look? An example is Charles, Prince of Wales - CPW joins to PW, whereas PW doesn't to DC... Could you possibly shed some light? Cheers - D B D R 23:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
By changing cannabis (drug) to marijuana you recreated the redirect I fixed. Why? You clearly have enough wiki experience to know better, SqueakBox 17:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
How can you say we shouldn't get rid of redirects? It is policy to get rid of them and I cant believe you arent aware of this. There may be an argument for putting hash and marijuana instaed of cannabis but you have to get the marijuana redirect correct ie [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]]. I am trying to get rid of the marijuana redirects so when you add them it is unhelpful, and only really an understandable action in new users who dont know better. Thanks, SqueakBox 18:55, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you have a look at the above article? I'm mainly interested in whether or not I've set myself (and others who may wish to contribute) too huge a task by going back so early, and secondly if there are any copyright issues with using solely Lewisohn to populate the list (as a side note, I've dug out a few other Beatles books I have and will begin generously dishing out references in the next few days). Liverpool Scouse 17:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
If you search for Actors' Fund, the article won't come up. I'm new. Can you tell me here how to fix, or who to ask? This is a technical problem, I think. 23:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Kingboyk. I'm afraid I've found myself in a distinctly disagreeable situation - a user named User:Tasc had decided that he wishes to engage in a crusade against me, or my work (compare: My contribs vs his). I have so far seen no justifications for his revert edits, and therefore can see only persecution in his acts. Having read through his talk page, I can see that I am not the first to have been a victim of his unprofessional behaviour. I would really appreciate your swift help. Cheers & GB - D B D R 13:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'd be interested in having SVN access for wikifunctions2.dll
I've been programming in VB .NET for over a year now, and have done a range of programs. College coursework ones (currently still working on my 2nd year project with a mysql backend), and am always looking to develop knowledge in programming and try new stuff
Love to help out with it - If i knew C# (i know syntax wise its similar), to a better standard, i'd offer to help Martin and MaxSem out with AWB.. But learning C# is a side point
Suppose to help with testing, i'll have to work out something to get User:Reedy Boy bot status... But thats a side point
Cheers
Reedy Boy 20:33, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey do you know if anyone is doing the newsletter? it's almost time to deliver and it looks like no one has started yet... I see you're on break so you can't well... I left GPH a note. I myself can't take it on. Maybe the Beatles Project is a project whose time has come and went? If so maybe you and I need to do whatever needs doing to close it down, I dunno. Thoughts? ++ Lar: t/ c 00:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you revert the Macca page? I'm not sure how to do it, with all that "reverted using pop-ups" stuff. Some loony has wiped it all, and has even left his e-mail address on there...-- andreasegde 11:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. -- andreasegde 12:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to let you know that the Megadeth article is a FAC here, and as someone with a knowledge of the mighty FA process, as well as one that previously voted against this article back in August (before I got ahold of it), I'd like to ask if you could take another look at it, as it has been completely rewritten and cited. Thanks! Skeletor2112 05:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Just needing your advice Kingboyk (or do you prefer Steve?) on musical biographies... a problem I come across a lot is the listing of a musician's influences and the instruments they prefer. Personally I find it trivia that should be deleted, but other editors re-insert such info. How do you suggest dealing with such info? LuciferMorgan 22:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Now you're back Kingboyk, what's your advice on what I originally asked for advice for? LuciferMorgan 02:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin ( talk) 19:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Caught someone screwing with your userpage.. spurned lover? ;) Deizio talk 00:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey Steve, your an admin that I know (kind of) so I thought you'd be good to ask. Where would a person make general suggestions to wikipedia about operation? I seriously think WP should consider locking articles while they are FAs. I opened the Macedonia (terminology) article last night when my daughter was in the room, only to be subjected to a vandal's large depiction of his favorite attribute. Has locking FAs been discussed at all? I'd like to vote "yes" if it comes up to a vote. Thanks. ZincOrbie 19:13, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
We need your vote on Macca's talk page about which section to fork. (1,000 words less and we have it in the bag...) -- andreasegde 05:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, that article looks fishy to me, since you are an admin and WikiProject Musicians participant, maybe you can take the appropriate measures. I am not sure what to do about it. Cheers, BNutzer 15:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind knowing why you deleted User:Xkeeper/Mario_Adventure, since there is no reason given and (ironically) it was moved there by an admin as per my request.
Could you damn admins make up your mind on what you're supposed to do and what not? --
72.193.66.186 --
Xkeeper
19:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you even read the TfD before closing it?
If it's broke, fix it.
The "cartoonish" assertion is news to me and nobody complained at FAC.
Wikipedia:Templates for deletion clearly says that templates should be deleted if "redundant to another better-designed template". We have a whole category of redundant quotation templates which provide the exact same function. Which should be kept? — Omegatron 19:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
A suggestion has been made on the John Lennon talk page about how much information should go in. It would be nice of you to add a comment, if you wish to... -- andreasegde 14:40, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Can I request a few categories for it to run on? I've done at least 500 talk pages taggins with AWB in the past few days but theres still about 2500 (inc. possible duplicates) to go. RHB 22:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I have placed a move template and proposed the move by the book for List of trains in films. Since you had expressed this wish in the AfD, I thought I'd let you know. I hope it gets moved soon. Hoverfish Talk 20:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
An image you uploaded, Image:Cheltenham coat of arms.gif, was tagged with the {{ coatofarms}} copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as {{ seal}}. If you have any questions, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- 08:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to be on the bot approvals group, and since you yourself are in the group, it would be great if you can stop by and either support or oppose my request. Thank you! — Mets501 ( talk) 23:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I have a problem that I would like to impart to all you good 'Beatles project' editors, and it is this:
Please answer (on a stamped and self-addressed postcard please) on our talk page. (This might be more interesting than talking about MBEs... :) andreasegde, Mr Hornby, and Sir Sean de Garde 15:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I could be wrong, but I believe the link at the top of your talk page that marks it as a talk page, is broken. It's in the "This is a Wikipedia user talk page" section. Excuse me if it's supposed to be like that. Dsnider 23:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk, I hope you're well. This is an article I've been working on over the past few days, and I wish to get it to FA status. I've been told it needs a copyedit, and the lead needs work. Since you've worked on a few music related articles, can you help me out in any way? Thanks for anything you be able to offer. LuciferMorgan 19:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I have made a request for membership on the bots approval group. I have received only one response by User:Mets501, who suggested I drop the group a line [11] and let you know about my request. Thanks. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 04:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions in the article :) If you can, please read it again and try to eliminate mistakes / weasel words (clean it up).
Thanks again. Detlef ♪ ♫ ∆ 01:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey. I noticed that you made the templates for Wikiprojects Beatles and Biography. I'd like to start an assessment/priority rating scale fo my wikiproject, but have no idea how to add the code in the template. How ould I go about doing that?-- Wizardman 17:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Kingboyk, I've just been fiddling with the above template, and have been by and large successful, except that the template seems to default to being hidden - could you persuade it to act contrarywise? Cheers – D B D 19:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Good evening. Per the discussion about privacy concerns expressed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays, date of birth should generally not be added to the biographies of living non-public or semi-public figures. So far, that policy has been interpreted fairly strictly with a pretty high bar being set for the definition of "public figures" who are assumed to have given up their rights to privacy.
By the same token, we should not be adding Category:Date of birth missing to articles unless we have made the case that the person meets the "public figures" threshold. Otherwise, we're just baiting new users into adding content even though the community has already said that we shouldn't include that particular data point. Category:Year of birth missing is okay but the exact date is often not. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 23:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Kingboy! I was just wondering if you are a still part of the albums assessment project, because we have a massive backlog of unassessed articles? I read your note about starting another wiki with "naked sleeves" and was wondering how a person would create a wiki? Also, how do you get your userpage to have a different font than Arial? Thanks.
Real96
01:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
You have gone from the KLF to The Beatles to The Wombles in a couple of months ?!
My dear old friend, are you slipping down the same old slope as me ? LOL. Keep on messing up the scene, same as me.
Derek R Bullamore 01:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey Steve. Hope you're keeping well both as I write this and as you read it. That's not to say I don't give a frig about all the time between those two points! .. or afterward. Aaaaaanyway.. I'm stealing your {{ WPKLF}} template verbatim. Well, that is to say that I'm stealing the last working version of the 21st of September, 2006 and I'm going to replace any relevant text etc.
If I fuck it up and it affects anything relating to The KLF or whatever, please let me know/offer assistance asap. Cheers and come back soon! -- Mal 04:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Are you and your colleague still supporting this plugin as there appears to be little or no movement on the plugin pages. Thanks :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 10:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Robert Benfer. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Esn 04:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
ARE YOU LYING BECAUSE I CANT FIND ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 74.195.3.199 02:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
I thank you(Sound of coughing, and tapping on table...) "Ladies and Gents, I gratefully accept this heartwarming Barnstar for my unofficial admin role as Bargain bin editor. I thank his Royal Highness Kingboyk for bestowing this award on myself. I will now celebrate with a pint of golden nectar which I will proceed to pour down me throat. Now.... Do you have any more cheap, unloved, or merge articles that I can get me greasy fingers on?" -- andreasegde 18:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Admin RequestHello, I have a change that I would like to have made at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. The change would start at the top of the "Guide" section and would stop right before the text "Also, to reduce bureaucracy,". I have stored the text in the sandbox in this ( diff). It looks like you are on-line, could you please post this for me? Thanks -- After Midnight 0001 12:15, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
adminshipI try not to reject things out of hand, so I want to hear your case for this. Two questions:
Let me know and I'll consider it.-- Mike Selinker 16:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Users who never made it to first baseYou just deleted that one so you could make the "struck out" joke. I highly respect that.-- Mike Selinker 08:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
1987Excellent work. The Composition section is very well done, now. I have voted "support" on the article's FAC. The minor issues I cited are of extremely low importance, and I doubt anyone else will notice, so you don't need to worry about them. Again, excellent work. JimmyBlackwing 11:08, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
UsernameHey Steve. Do you know if its possible to rename a user account (moving all related subpages, history, logs etc? I originally wanted the username User:Setanta, but that was unavailable at the time I registered. Now it appears to be free. Cheers. Oh - btw .. 100+ edits with AWB so far (having renamed the Kingbotk dll), and no errors/crashing. Having said that, AWB forced me to upgrade to the latest version. I'm going to try the Kingbotk plugin again shortly, and I'll keep you advised. You been having problems still, or is it sorted? -- Mal 20:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
RequestI have left a request for you. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 01:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
DYK
Re. Big Brother (UK series 7)Thank you for all the effort you put into the reviews - I'll get to work on the article a.s.a.p, and it'll be on the main page before you know it :) -- Alex ( Talk) 14:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
""Fourteen housemates entered on launch night, but over the whole series there were a total of twenty-two, more than in any previous series." This isn't FA class writing.' '"This year, Big Brother was criticised in the media for both its choice of housemates and its practice once the housemates were inside."' Could you possibly clarify what would be FA class writing in that first quote, and also how do I improve the second quote? Thanks. -- Alex ( Talk) 16:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
KLF ArticlesAnytime, I notice how much effort you put into the articles so thought it was only fair I helped you a little - what initially attracted me to them is how well written and cited they are. I'm kinda jealous actually, as I'd like to do the same thing with Marilyn Manson related articles, only I don't possess the time nor the expertises to do this. The Manson article (on the person) itself has an awful layout, and I cannot for the life of me work out how to amend this. You have any ideas? My real name's Anthony Morgan if you're wondering. LuciferMorgan 23:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
My RfAJust wanted to send a quick note of thanks for your support in my RfA. :-) I really appreciate it! Best, Irongargoyle 03:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Something you might be interested inSince you requested deletion for the One Peice attacks, I thought you could help out here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dragon Ball special abilities. Hydromasta231 04:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Repeat idiotHello old friend. You are the only Administrator I know, so sorry if this seems a bit random: Check the history for Juicebox please. There is a user (IP only) who keeps adding a definition of juicebox (Something like "an underground swearword") and I reverted it, and it's just basically an edit war. I have left comments in the discussion but I get no reply, and the user just deletes what I've wrote every now and then. Well, I hope you can help rinse this scum. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alexbuirds ( talk • contribs) .
Why did you revert please?My changes were in line with WikiPolicy. You have reverted to a solecism. - Kittybrewster 11:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Here Comes The Sun
Hello Kingboyk, read your comment on my talk page and saw that you edited my changes back to what they were. I understand your arguments and respect your decision. However stating that 99% of the readers will only associate the title with the Beatlessong itself is a bit overstated, and as of talking about the Simone album as merely a cover album...but that's just me simone-nerdtalking. :) Marcel flaubert 13:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not implying that the album is 'so important', just that there are also people who by thinking of Here Comes the Sun also think about this album, the songs on it with a distinct Nina-reinterpretation and the minimalistic sixties coverart. And as you say, the dab scheme works fine for everybody, and my decision to rename the article was unjustified. Marcel flaubert 14:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Heavy metal wikiprojectI agree with your comments there - you can check what I had to say. Is it me, or does just about every Metal/Rock article have weasly, uncited statements in them with critiques about albums (again without cites)? I'm really fed up with that Wikiproject be honest, seems like fancruft galore. LuciferMorgan 21:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
"Hottie"Hiya. In the Kittie photo, the hottie on the left is Trish Doan. Just to let you know. ScreamAtMe 22:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
RfB With A Smile :)
Plange RFAHey, I was just writing up an RFA nom for her: User:AudeVivere/Plange. Can this be a co-nom? -- Aude ( talk) 16:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Your adviceQuestion moved to and replied at User_talk:Kingbotk/Plugin#Your_advice. -- kingboyk 18:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Tagging biographiesQuestion from WikiProject Guitarists. As we are sorting through guitarist articles, we are noticing many that have not been identified by WikiProject Biography. In order to avoid duplicating work, should we be at the minimum placing these articles in Category:Living people? Will that let your bot catch them? What if they're dead? -- Aguerriero ( talk) 17:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
McCartney and AspinallPaul McCartney, Neil Aspinall: I have done as much as I can at the moment on both articles, and I think it would be good to have them both assessed. I will be interested to see what Macca gets :) -- andreasegde 20:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
The Beatles (Tagged for Speedy Deletion!)Somebody's tagged the Beatles main article for speedy deletion! I'd keep an eye on the page for awhile, and remove the deletion tag. LuciferMorgan 11:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
McCartneyI have had second thoughts about it being assessed. I think it could do with more polishing, and then go for GA status. -- andreasegde 14:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
No, I don't, now. (Indecisions, indecisions...)I have worked on it a lot over the past few days, and I think it's doing well. -- andreasegde 16:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Diplomatic requestCould you advise me of the appropriate place where I can express my perception of Systematic bias I am finding in many Wiki articles? LessHeard vanU 16:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Sorting at Category:Articles by qualityTruth is I just started placing them because I was tinkering around with the cats for WikiProject Organized Labour. Kind of one of those mindless things that feels good to do once in a while. :/ Your right about the bot doing it though, I'll bring it up at the talk page. -- Bookandcoffee 19:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Re [1]I didn't rollback your edit "as vandalism". The edit summary in this edit doesn't mention "vandalism". I rolled back the removal of the AFD notice because it was an obvious mistake. I've used the same process to revert my own edits when I've made mistakes, as seen here. John254 19:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Greetings kingboyk. I am pasting the comments that I put on john254's page below. The point was because I saw the confusion regarding the AfD tags on the Strata page (sorry that I am not bothering to insert links but I am being lazy). I took a quick look and saw that although you deleted the tags you were right to do so even though the debate had not been closed. The AfD tag was accidentally replaced by someone with the wrong tag, as you probably already know:
Green hornet 20:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC) My failed FACHeya Kingboy. Sasha (DJ) failed its FAC due to copy-editing issues. :( Is there any way either you or if you know anyone else would copy-edit it? Is there a list of people who are willing to perform final touch-ups on almost FAs or anything? You can check out the failed fac reasons here. I would be (even more) in your debt! I'd owe ya one. Thanks for your time! If you would like for me to try some copy-editing/other work on articles you think need another set of eyes, I would be more than willing to. Also, been rooting through The Orb stuff you emailed me. Its really great stuff! Ugh, can't wait to get Sasha to FA standards so I can concentrate on getting The Orb to GA. Wickethewok 06:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
The KLF...won a t-shirt for being the best in the humanities and culture category. Next year, the awards should add submission requirements of listing the primary authors of the work, and should offer some secondary compensation for the nominator of winning entries. Let me know how to send you your shirt -- just send a snail mail address and preferred size / design to my wiki email. Cheers, +sj + 12:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I tried to edit Template:WPBiography such that one could choose the order in whihc articles are listed. It didn't work. Could you please help out? Cheers, // D B D 22:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
WP:WONKHi Kingboyk. I see that you've deleted WP:WONK as a cross-namespace redirect; out of curiosity, what was its target page? Picaroon9288 23:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Auto-assessmentsAn idea for the plugin (not sure how difficult it would be to code): Currently, the plugin will set
Currently, then, the individual templates are processed one at a time. If they were to affect each other (i.e. a grading from one is used in another) I'd have to add some extra steps to that process and shift quite a lot of code around. When I've finished the logging feature I'll take a look at how difficult it might be (which may range from a few minutes cutting and pasting to "not worth the effort" :)). -- kingboyk 11:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I've unblocked him, at least for now. He hasn't even edited since I posted there, and blocking someone after 6+ months of being here for a username violation, without asking them kindly first, is a bit harsh. I'm watching the account for now, and will reblock if he doesn't change his username. Ral315 ( talk) 20:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
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I know I've already given you one, but dang, you just keep rolling! This latest edition of the kingbotk Plugin, with the auto-uploads of logs, is simply brilliant!! plange 03:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC) |
It may not be the place for an editor (especially not one such as I) to admonish an Admin with X FA's and Y GA's, but I don't think "Bah! etc..." is exactly wiki language. Indeed, it wasn't at all diplomatic. Although the article may have needed rejigging - and I acknowledge that if you think it did then it likely did - you may have considered the feelings of someone who had recently spent a lot of time and effort on it and discussed it first. The argument that wiki is bigger than any one editor applies accross the board. Andreasedge has not contributed to wikipedia since, and it would be a shame if such a good and enthusiastic editor were to be lost. LessHeard vanU 14:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)You can shout at me, as my ego is immune, but this is a heartfelt comment regarding two people I think highly of.
If I had known that "toys/prams" scenarios were endemic in The Beatles Project I would have kept my mouth shut! I don't know what removing yourself from the Project will achieve, in fact I believe it will suffer, but you seem a little sensative regarding mild criticism. On the basis that Wiki is bigger than any of us I apologise for mentioning my comments. LessHeard vanU 15:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk,
I noticed you're the user who operates Kingbotk, the bot that added the Biography Project banner to a lot of articles. I was one of the users, who recently started the WikiProject Germany, and we are now trying to add our project banner to articles that fit the scope of the project, but I'm starting to notice how much work that is even with AWB. I was wondering if you could somehow help us with your bot or by helping me design an identical bot I could use or something like that.
Thanx, -- Carabinieri TTaallkk 17:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
I feel I must express my immense frustration that you deleted both of the categories I created ("RS 500 albums and songs") due to a false idea that they were both copyvios. You try working hard to populate a cetegory and see how you feel when someone deletes it for their own sheer joy. How is a category a copyright violation? To have gone to a site, copied the list, and pasted it on the site is indeed because it copies text from another site. But please explain how it is copyvio to add the label "Category:RS 500 albums" on the articles of all the albums that were featured on Rolling Stone's list. Actually, don't bother, because you can't explain anything. IT"S NOT A COPYVIO, GODDAMNIT! Bring both those categories back right now!
2Pac 22:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Wow, that was so helpful. I ask why it is a copyright violation and show why it is not, and you reply by saying "it is a pretty clear copyvio". Thanks for solving all my problems. 2Pac 00:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
In this edit you added a biography project template, however you also removed the {{ talkheader}} template. What was the reason for doing that? __ meco 17:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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Stephen, thank you so much for being my nominator for RfA and helping me with the process! I passed with a vote tally of 61/0/1. I don't think anyone dared oppose having you guys as my nominators! :-) I am honored that the consensus was to allow me the added privilege of the admin mop. I appreciate your nomination and complimentary words on my RFA, as well as the note of congratulations! -- plange 21:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC) |
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I thank you for your comments. I will reply later, as I have to work. (Yeah, it's true...) I apologised to Chuck, and I hope he comes back. -- andreasegde 11:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
This may sound silly but do you know anyone that's really nifty at drawing, and real professional so to speak? LuciferMorgan 23:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk,
Thanks for your help with the plugin and everything.-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 15:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Yo, awesome one. I just noticed the project banner above has terms for how to use the assessments, but have no idea how to indicate the class of an article. Your humble servant begs for a clarification which even is own permanently addled brain may comprehend. I'll try to start tagging the appropriate articles as soon as I am calmly and patiently told how to do so. Thank you. Badbilltucker 22:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear Kingboyk, there is an editor going around deleting infoboxes from bios (because he thinks infoboxes are "silly"). He put a comment on my talk page. I have copied it and replied on his talk page at [4]. He seems out of touch with what is standard now, and it might help if you as an Avatar of the bio projects step in and help out with the discussion. Also if you can give my reply to him a "sanity check" and let me know if I said the right thing, was civil, not too grumpy, etc. that would be good. I will apologise to him if you think I have been out of line. SuperGirl 08:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
I have some ideas that you should think about (and I will not back down about this... :)
We all have some stylistic questions (who doesn't?) but those can be resolved on the talk page - and I really mean resolved...
I want to get back to work. -- andreasegde 15:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk: the delete link can be added back by adding
function addDeleteLink() { var targetSpan = document.getElementById('specialDeleteTarget'); var linkSpan = document.getElementById('specialDeleteLink'); if (targetSpan == null || linkSpan == null) return; var targetLink = targetSpan.getElementsByTagName("A")[0]; if (targetLink == null) return; var targetTitle = targetLink.childNodes[0].data; var deleteHref = "http://en.wikipedia.org/?action=delete&title=" + escape(targetTitle); var deleteSpan = null; with (easyDom) { deleteSpan = span({ "class": "plainlinks" }, " (", a({ "href": deleteHref, "class": "external text" }, "delete"), ")"); } linkSpan.appendChild(deleteSpan); } addOnloadHook(addDeleteLink); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Mike_Dillon/easydom.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
to your personal js. Do you know of any other page to publicize this perhaps? — Mets501 ( talk) 00:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you just removed a comment from a user talk page [5]. I assume good faith on your part, but I'm wondering why it was removed. -- BostonMA talk 12:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Rosencomet states he is the exec director [6]. of ACE and also writes that Jeff Rosenbaum is exec director [7]. I'm not clear regarding what privacy issues there might be, however, does Jeff Rosenbaum article warrant an autobiography tag? -- BostonMA talk 13:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm currently working on the Jackie Robinson article, trying to bring it up to GA-class. I'm only using one source at the moment. Would someone please help me in understanding how to reference page numbers from a single book source concerning this? TY. robertjohnsonrj 21:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestions pertaining to single source citation references and of their page numbers. Also, I appreciate your attention to and relevant clean up of the Jackie Robinson article. I learned a lot just from reviewing your edits! Once again, thank you. robertjohnsonrj 15:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I am attempting to add factual, relavent, notable, non-biased, cited statements and citations to this article to bring it up to at least GA status, or higher. I suggest a heading on his personal life (to include his marriage, family life and semi-political contributions to society). What do you think of this? robertjohnsonrj 16:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
A final thought. How would a heading reguarding his personal accounts with racism and bigotry? Would this be too confrontational??? robertjohnsonrj 16:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello Kingboyk! Using your plugin for AWB I can add templates (of wikiprojects) on the talk pages, but is there any way to add a new template on the main namespace? Giro720 16:42, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I see you have contributed your thoughts to Wikipedia talk:Fair use/Fair use images in lists. It's been dead for a while, but I have archived it and taken a new fresh start. I hope this time we will be able to achieve something as I have summarized the main points of both sides (feel free to improve them) and I call you to express your support or oppose on the concrete proposal that I have formulated. Thanks, Renata 02:33, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Two questions 1) What is the difference between "Auto-stub" in template section vs "Auto-stub" in Configuration section? 2) Some times the plug-in is applying auto=yes even though there was no stub template. Would you know why? Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 04:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello fella, just thought I'd pop by to congratulate you on your continued successes with the project. Two more FACs and a DYK? entry, to say nothing of a relatively prestigious award for which we received no official credit! Take care dude. -- Vinoir 15:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. An AWB user told me you might be able to help with a query I have. You wouldn't have any ideas on how to take a long (1000+) list of articles and find all the redirects pointing to articles on that list, would you? I know AWB can spit out a list of WhatLinksHere for a single article, and even two or three or four. But can it cope with 1000+? The reason I ask, is that I want to detect all the redirects pointing at pages to do with a particular WikiProject, partly to see how many there are (I've found hundreds already) and partly to help fill in gaps and organise an index of redirects and so forth. The other thing is that the Wikipedia WhatLinksHere list marks the redirects. Does the AWB list also do this? Thanks for any advice you can think of. Carcharoth 03:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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I can't make up my mind about this one. It has a very strong smell of spam, but some people assert that it is more or less the "official" source for Starwood Festival performers lists. However, the whole idea here seems to be to confer a halo effect - paganism is notable therefore the Starwood pagan festival is notable therefore everybody who appears at the starwood festival is notable therfore their cat is notable and so on. Guy 10:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey, the discussion on colour templates for infoboxes has moved to this page. We should get as many views as possible, maybe you'd like to contribute your 10p. Thanks - Coil00 00:18, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Stephen. When you get the opportunity, could you check the Badfinger article for me? I am having trouble with a new editor adding a 'ton' of POV and typos to the article. I already did one revert and he apparently ignored the reasons I gave for reverting. Although this person appears sincere, he/she is ruining the article. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ZincOrbie 00:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I suggest that the AFD is re-run instead of your closure. That redlink is not going to last, you'll probably need a proper clean AFD to kill it off. I've commented on the AFD here and here and here. I really think a DRV would conclude in a re-run. - Hahnch e n 17:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Empires. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. FalconXVI 19:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
If you hadn't noticed a vandal put The Beatles up for deletion. As this is clearly vandalism I reverted to the article previous to the notice - however I realise that the notice is probably in the Wiki system and I need an admin to get it removed. I will argue that the lesser evil is to remove the tag from the article to avoid confusion, and then do the business with Wikipedia. I'm copying this note to Lar in case you are busy. LessHeard vanU 22:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Template:Stubclass has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Mets501 ( talk) 03:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Please do not make the songs composed by George Martin for the Yellow Submarine movie redirects right now. Although I agree with you that the information right now is covered by the Yellow Submarine Album article, I think that enough information could be researched and added to the song articles for them to merit an artcle on their own. So please, when I revert the edits, do not re-revert them. Give me a little more time to make the articles worthwhile. Nautica Shad e s 11:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I have removed a comment I wrote here by mistake -- it was supposed to be on someone else's user page. Sorry! Hayford Peirce 16:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I've left a message here regarding a very short trial I ran for the pluralisation system. Thanks, M a rtinp23 20:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
If this person is editing articles you work on with the intention of doing it to annoy you rather than improve an article, I'd report him to an admin, especially if his edits are detrimental to an article rather than helping. LuciferMorgan 12:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I am in favor of deleting this list, although it doesn't appear that there would be much point in bringing it up at AfD. I have been mulling this list over for a while, since it falls under WikiProject Guitarists. See also Guitarist, which is just another list, except this time by genre. I also want to remove all of that and make it an article about being a guitarist. Our project has at least one well-defined and sourced list, List of Telecaster players, and I think all such lists should be more like that. -- Aguerriero ( talk) 17:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Do you know what utter asshole has been messing around with the "Influences" section in the Beatles article? It looked much better when Andreas last edited it, only now it looks like a pile of dog turd again. I have full intentions of pasting Andreas "Influences" section into the article from his last edit. LuciferMorgan 18:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
By your comment "is it noteable?" should I take it that you don't think that sentence is noteable? -- Spencer "The Belldog" Bermudez | ( Complain here) 20:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Please respond to User_talk:Secondaryschoolgirl. Thanks :) --lov elaughterlife♥ ( user| talk) 00:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
In reference to your message on my talk page (Don't stalk me: [8] I must apologise if I this is the inference you took. I took this action as an example to demonstrate to you that while you have vigorously pursued the Nambassa tag, your own edits seem to show some level of hypocrisy on these specifics. I believe you’re repeated reverting of the captions on the Nambassa photos is in most cases incorrect. (while some I have agreed too). The precedent is already set in many Wikipedia photos where in most cases where entertainers are concerned, the event and day of their performance is usually mentioned in the caption itself. Of many of the Nambassa photos throughout Wikipedia whose origins you have attempted to block, you actually bastardised ...for example Brownie McGhee. You did this previously and I had to follow in your wake of destruction and fix up. I must assume that you have some underlying philosophical axe to grind with Nambassa and if this be the case I am only too happy to ask Peter Terry to completely remove not only all the Nambassa photos, which I must conclude have given some colour and movement to many drab articles, but the Nambassa Wikipedia inclusion itself. Perhaps you would like to tell me why you are so persistent in not giving Nambassa a caption credit for it’s photo contributions- please advise?
On the question of The KLF article, it’s abundantly clear that many of the cited references supporting claims about this band and their individual members are quite soft on fact. In a purely professional sense it could be construed that the Library of Mu which is essentially a internet fan site, is soft on real proof.
I trust we can resolve this amicably….kindest regards Mombas 21:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Wow. Just, like, wow. -- Guinnog 18:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Could someone tell me for certain whether blanking talk page warnings merits a warning or not? I got my fingers slapped by a few editors for warning him against it, and now you've just blocked him for it. Now I'm just plain confused. yandman 20:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry if I'm being slightly agressive about this, but everyone seems to have assumed good faith on the part of this user, and assumed bad faith on my part. I wasn't tring to harass this guy, I just came across his modification spree on RC-patrol, and reacted (in my opinion) appropriately: warn the user, try to contain the damage, and make sure the warnings stay up so that subsequent vandalism is treated as it should. The problem as I see it is that this user hasn't learnt that ignoring consensus and changing 20 articles is bad, he hasn't learnt that libelling another user is bad, he hasn't learnt that trying to whip up opinion by spamming messages saying "(insert country here) deserves better than this!" is bad. No, he's just learnt not to refuse a gift (in this case, archiving a discussion about vandalism barely 20 minutes old) from an admin. Again, don't take this personally, but don't forget that there aren't just new users and admins here. There are also thousands of regular contributors who try to help out, but won't be trying for much longer if they see that they're ignored. yandman 08:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Look, this is all past history, but I disagree (amicably...) with a lot of what kingboyk is saying here. Talking the piss is not sufficient reason for blocking. From my point of view (necessarily not neutral) I saw an edit which I thought neither standard nor NPOV on the UK page; I looked for a discussion occuring before, during and after that change and found none (so there was no consensus); I reverted it and started a discussion; then I saw it was on all EU country pages and reverted them; I had no idea there was any centralised discussion or I would have started there first - there were no signposts to this anywhere; then I got flamed by a whole load of guys on my talk page, inlcuding some warning signs which; given (in my point of view) these warnings were without basis, and feeling both a) insulted and b) ganged up on, I removed the warnings; someone complained about this, I did some reading and saw that my own talk page is mine to edit (at least according to the official-looking pages I read); eveything went downhill from there!
As a non-admin I have very little way of protecting my own space and my own position. Nor do I have knowledge of all of the processes or standards of Wikipedia; you (the wider, more involved community) should not expect every casual editor to have such knowledge. You might have found it rude, for which I apologise as offence was not intended, but everything I read said that my talk page was mine to edit; I did not want Yandmans (in my view, misplaced and aggressive) warning signs to remain anywhere on that page. His actions did conflict with what I read on Wikipedia's Harrassment page. He and others thought me a vandal and the assumption of good faith went out of the window, leading rapidly downhill on all sides. I defended my position and would do so again.
Thanks, nevertheless for your time. JamesAVD 11:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
In reference to your message on my talk page (Don't stalk me: [9] I must apologise if I this is the inference you took. I took this action as an example to demonstrate to you that while you have vigorously pursued the Nambassa tag, your own edits seem to show some level of hypocrisy on these specifics. I believe you’re repeated reverting of the captions on the Nambassa photos is in most cases incorrect. (while some I have agreed too). The precedent is already set in many Wikipedia photos where in most cases where entertainers are concerned, the event and day of their performance is usually mentioned in the caption itself. Of many of the Nambassa photos throughout Wikipedia whose origins you have attempted to block, you actually bastardised ...for example Brownie McGhee. You did this previously and I had to follow in your wake of destruction and fix up. I must assume that you have some underlying philosophical axe to grind with Nambassa and if this be the case I am only too happy to ask Peter Terry to completely remove not only all the Nambassa photos, which I must conclude have given some colour and movement to many drab articles, but the Nambassa Wikipedia inclusion itself. Perhaps you would like to tell me why you are so persistent in not giving Nambassa a caption credit for it’s photo contributions- please advise?
On the question of The KLF article, it’s abundantly clear that many of the cited references supporting claims about this band and their individual members are quite soft on fact. In a purely professional sense it could be construed that the Library of Mu which is essentially a internet fan site, is soft on real proof.
I trust we can resolve this amicably….kindest regards Mombas 21:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Serebii.net ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I want to work up a better article on this because it has a very high Alexa ranking (2,763) and it dominates everything in its field...the official Pokémon site in the US only has a ranking of about 9,000. Another big fansite I checked had 14,210. I will use one of my sandboxes (User:TrackerTV/KXRM1, KXRM2, KXRM3, KXRM4) to work on it. TTV ( MyTV| PolygonZ| Green Valley) 04:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Just messaging to say I've been restructuring the article in the hope it makes it easier to improve it. If I have the time I hope I can convert some of the lists into prose and add the odd inline cite here and there. After that, maybe then someone like Andreas (if he felt like that is) could weigh in with some stuff from books he may own. LuciferMorgan 14:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for leading the charge on this issue. [10] Take care, FloNight 16:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I notice you have speedily deleted several categories, such as Category:Wikipedians born in 1993 citing WP:CHILD. I am a bit disturbed by this, given that this is merely a proposed policy and it is currently undergoing arbcom discussion. There were also several deletions and undeletions by youself and User:1ne, which might be construed as wheel-warring.
Also, I strongly suggest that you unblock User:Secondaryschoolgirl. Her username does not violate policy and although it is a sock, it fits under umbrella of allowable sock uses. Best, Irongargoyle 21:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about that - I tweaked over your tweak. When I get an edit conflict, I normally think it's silly me clicking Save twice. BTW, the page is coming on, do you not think? -- andreasegde 10:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I presume from your comments on Mike's talk page that you would like to conominate him for adminship? If so, please add your nomination to the above page and then direct Mike to it. Tell him to answer the questions and then list the nom on the main RFA page per instructions.
If in fact you don't want to conom please let me know and I'll proceed with informing Mike that my nom is ready. Cheers. -- kingboyk 16:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I was just about to reorder the supports of the three nominators into thread order... But then I realized there is no thread order, since you just "signed" for three people, "post-dating" the timestamps in the process. This is probably "no harm" in practice, since all three of you clearly intended to support (and personally I'd prefer that n-wise co-nominations were just mapped to one nom, and n-1 "ordinary" supports, but it's a horrible precedent to set in both respects. Would you mind fixing that up? (I shall leave what 'fixing up' entails to your own interpretation.) Alai 10:45, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
What do you mean? You've lost me? You want to be counted as supporters don't you? -- kingboyk 11:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I've been noticing lately that some article talk pages are getting a huge number of tags - so many that they're hiding the talk discussion. By tags, I mean both WikiProject (WP) and non-WP tags, but mainly the former. I am considering proposing that all WP templates are all merged into a single template, where different options can be selected for different wikiprojects. This would also avoid the current degeneracy (in a physics sense) where the article is rated multiple times by different WPs. While I recognize that different WPs may want to rate the article differently, I have yet to see this in practice. I guess the importance tags would be a different matter. Can I ask your thoughts on the matter? Thanks. Mike Peel 12:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the link - I'll start up a conversation there. Re: complexity - that is something I've been worrying about. I guess an alternative would be some sort of meta-template, something like the following:
{{TalkTemplate | wikiprojects={{physics|importance=high}} {{WPBiography|priority=}} | featured={{FAC}} | goodarticle={{GA}} | rating=A }}
This could then set up a bar at the top of the page, which would reveal all of the tags in an appropriate order when the "show" button is pressed. It would also allow the trimming down in size of the various tags. What do you think? Mike Peel 12:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Just to make sure we're on the same page... how had you in mind generating artist names from uncategorised articles? From infoboxes would certainly be feasible, though off the top of my head, I'd guess that the uncategorised articles are probably the ones missing infoboxes, too. Alai 18:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Are you there at the moment, I want to transmit something to you for the Macca article. Lincher 18:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hiya Steve,
Just wanted you to know that I have listed Fluke (band) on Featured Article Candidates and that the article currently has 1 comment (the issues within I have attempted to address) and 1 support :)
Martin Hinks 10:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
hi,
i ripped the Beatles article assessment system for WikiProject Spiders in July or so, and got it to work after a fair amount of hacking. now someone from the Arthropod project has implemented it, too, and asked me how it's possible that the bot inserts the articles not all into a page Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Arthropods_articles_by_quality, but into subpages (/1, /2 etc.). I somehow managed this back then, but cannot remember how i did it. thx :) -- Sarefo 13:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the Support
I'd like to express my huge thanks to you, Kingboyk, for your support in my recent RfA, which closed with 100% support at 71/0/1. Needless to say, I am very suprised at the huge levels of support I've seen on my RfA, and at the fact that I only had give three answers, unlike many other nominees who have had many, many more questions! I'll be careful with my use of the tools, and invite you to tell me off if I do something wrong! Thanks, M a rtinp23 14:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC) |
Hi Steve, sme editors have written an article named Millwall Brick. This emanates from a Spoof Adverisment in Viz Comic and they are putting it in the Millwall F.C. article. I have reverted it twice, will you please intervene? Hope you're well. Best wishes, Jimmy.
Hi, voting seems to have started on new colors for the musical infobox artist. Since you seemed to be interested in the earlier discussions, I thought you might want to express your opinions. Template talk:Infobox musical artist#Proposed colour selections (The voting section is down below the proposals.) Xtifr tälk 10:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Ahhh... the mysterious andreasegde. Clue 1: I'm named twice on Wiki. #2 I put my own name in two articles (not technically allowed, but I did it as they were factual.) #3 An anagram is a useful tool. #4 I once worked with one of Macca's keyboardists (uhhh... that's a dead giveaway.)
If you find out, leave a clue on my page. (This is like taking yer trousers off in public... :) -- andreasegde 09:33, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on some templates, and I've noticed that when one is placed under another, there is sometimes a gap, but sometimes not - could you take a look? An example is Charles, Prince of Wales - CPW joins to PW, whereas PW doesn't to DC... Could you possibly shed some light? Cheers - D B D R 23:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
By changing cannabis (drug) to marijuana you recreated the redirect I fixed. Why? You clearly have enough wiki experience to know better, SqueakBox 17:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
How can you say we shouldn't get rid of redirects? It is policy to get rid of them and I cant believe you arent aware of this. There may be an argument for putting hash and marijuana instaed of cannabis but you have to get the marijuana redirect correct ie [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]]. I am trying to get rid of the marijuana redirects so when you add them it is unhelpful, and only really an understandable action in new users who dont know better. Thanks, SqueakBox 18:55, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you have a look at the above article? I'm mainly interested in whether or not I've set myself (and others who may wish to contribute) too huge a task by going back so early, and secondly if there are any copyright issues with using solely Lewisohn to populate the list (as a side note, I've dug out a few other Beatles books I have and will begin generously dishing out references in the next few days). Liverpool Scouse 17:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
If you search for Actors' Fund, the article won't come up. I'm new. Can you tell me here how to fix, or who to ask? This is a technical problem, I think. 23:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Kingboyk. I'm afraid I've found myself in a distinctly disagreeable situation - a user named User:Tasc had decided that he wishes to engage in a crusade against me, or my work (compare: My contribs vs his). I have so far seen no justifications for his revert edits, and therefore can see only persecution in his acts. Having read through his talk page, I can see that I am not the first to have been a victim of his unprofessional behaviour. I would really appreciate your swift help. Cheers & GB - D B D R 13:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'd be interested in having SVN access for wikifunctions2.dll
I've been programming in VB .NET for over a year now, and have done a range of programs. College coursework ones (currently still working on my 2nd year project with a mysql backend), and am always looking to develop knowledge in programming and try new stuff
Love to help out with it - If i knew C# (i know syntax wise its similar), to a better standard, i'd offer to help Martin and MaxSem out with AWB.. But learning C# is a side point
Suppose to help with testing, i'll have to work out something to get User:Reedy Boy bot status... But thats a side point
Cheers
Reedy Boy 20:33, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey do you know if anyone is doing the newsletter? it's almost time to deliver and it looks like no one has started yet... I see you're on break so you can't well... I left GPH a note. I myself can't take it on. Maybe the Beatles Project is a project whose time has come and went? If so maybe you and I need to do whatever needs doing to close it down, I dunno. Thoughts? ++ Lar: t/ c 00:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you revert the Macca page? I'm not sure how to do it, with all that "reverted using pop-ups" stuff. Some loony has wiped it all, and has even left his e-mail address on there...-- andreasegde 11:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. -- andreasegde 12:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to let you know that the Megadeth article is a FAC here, and as someone with a knowledge of the mighty FA process, as well as one that previously voted against this article back in August (before I got ahold of it), I'd like to ask if you could take another look at it, as it has been completely rewritten and cited. Thanks! Skeletor2112 05:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Just needing your advice Kingboyk (or do you prefer Steve?) on musical biographies... a problem I come across a lot is the listing of a musician's influences and the instruments they prefer. Personally I find it trivia that should be deleted, but other editors re-insert such info. How do you suggest dealing with such info? LuciferMorgan 22:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Now you're back Kingboyk, what's your advice on what I originally asked for advice for? LuciferMorgan 02:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin ( talk) 19:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Caught someone screwing with your userpage.. spurned lover? ;) Deizio talk 00:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey Steve, your an admin that I know (kind of) so I thought you'd be good to ask. Where would a person make general suggestions to wikipedia about operation? I seriously think WP should consider locking articles while they are FAs. I opened the Macedonia (terminology) article last night when my daughter was in the room, only to be subjected to a vandal's large depiction of his favorite attribute. Has locking FAs been discussed at all? I'd like to vote "yes" if it comes up to a vote. Thanks. ZincOrbie 19:13, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
We need your vote on Macca's talk page about which section to fork. (1,000 words less and we have it in the bag...) -- andreasegde 05:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, that article looks fishy to me, since you are an admin and WikiProject Musicians participant, maybe you can take the appropriate measures. I am not sure what to do about it. Cheers, BNutzer 15:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind knowing why you deleted User:Xkeeper/Mario_Adventure, since there is no reason given and (ironically) it was moved there by an admin as per my request.
Could you damn admins make up your mind on what you're supposed to do and what not? --
72.193.66.186 --
Xkeeper
19:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you even read the TfD before closing it?
If it's broke, fix it.
The "cartoonish" assertion is news to me and nobody complained at FAC.
Wikipedia:Templates for deletion clearly says that templates should be deleted if "redundant to another better-designed template". We have a whole category of redundant quotation templates which provide the exact same function. Which should be kept? — Omegatron 19:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
A suggestion has been made on the John Lennon talk page about how much information should go in. It would be nice of you to add a comment, if you wish to... -- andreasegde 14:40, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Can I request a few categories for it to run on? I've done at least 500 talk pages taggins with AWB in the past few days but theres still about 2500 (inc. possible duplicates) to go. RHB 22:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I have placed a move template and proposed the move by the book for List of trains in films. Since you had expressed this wish in the AfD, I thought I'd let you know. I hope it gets moved soon. Hoverfish Talk 20:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
An image you uploaded, Image:Cheltenham coat of arms.gif, was tagged with the {{ coatofarms}} copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as {{ seal}}. If you have any questions, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- 08:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to be on the bot approvals group, and since you yourself are in the group, it would be great if you can stop by and either support or oppose my request. Thank you! — Mets501 ( talk) 23:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I have a problem that I would like to impart to all you good 'Beatles project' editors, and it is this:
Please answer (on a stamped and self-addressed postcard please) on our talk page. (This might be more interesting than talking about MBEs... :) andreasegde, Mr Hornby, and Sir Sean de Garde 15:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I could be wrong, but I believe the link at the top of your talk page that marks it as a talk page, is broken. It's in the "This is a Wikipedia user talk page" section. Excuse me if it's supposed to be like that. Dsnider 23:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Kingboyk, I hope you're well. This is an article I've been working on over the past few days, and I wish to get it to FA status. I've been told it needs a copyedit, and the lead needs work. Since you've worked on a few music related articles, can you help me out in any way? Thanks for anything you be able to offer. LuciferMorgan 19:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I have made a request for membership on the bots approval group. I have received only one response by User:Mets501, who suggested I drop the group a line [11] and let you know about my request. Thanks. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 04:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions in the article :) If you can, please read it again and try to eliminate mistakes / weasel words (clean it up).
Thanks again. Detlef ♪ ♫ ∆ 01:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey. I noticed that you made the templates for Wikiprojects Beatles and Biography. I'd like to start an assessment/priority rating scale fo my wikiproject, but have no idea how to add the code in the template. How ould I go about doing that?-- Wizardman 17:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Kingboyk, I've just been fiddling with the above template, and have been by and large successful, except that the template seems to default to being hidden - could you persuade it to act contrarywise? Cheers – D B D 19:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Good evening. Per the discussion about privacy concerns expressed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays, date of birth should generally not be added to the biographies of living non-public or semi-public figures. So far, that policy has been interpreted fairly strictly with a pretty high bar being set for the definition of "public figures" who are assumed to have given up their rights to privacy.
By the same token, we should not be adding Category:Date of birth missing to articles unless we have made the case that the person meets the "public figures" threshold. Otherwise, we're just baiting new users into adding content even though the community has already said that we shouldn't include that particular data point. Category:Year of birth missing is okay but the exact date is often not. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 23:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Kingboy! I was just wondering if you are a still part of the albums assessment project, because we have a massive backlog of unassessed articles? I read your note about starting another wiki with "naked sleeves" and was wondering how a person would create a wiki? Also, how do you get your userpage to have a different font than Arial? Thanks.
Real96
01:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
You have gone from the KLF to The Beatles to The Wombles in a couple of months ?!
My dear old friend, are you slipping down the same old slope as me ? LOL. Keep on messing up the scene, same as me.
Derek R Bullamore 01:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey Steve. Hope you're keeping well both as I write this and as you read it. That's not to say I don't give a frig about all the time between those two points! .. or afterward. Aaaaaanyway.. I'm stealing your {{ WPKLF}} template verbatim. Well, that is to say that I'm stealing the last working version of the 21st of September, 2006 and I'm going to replace any relevant text etc.
If I fuck it up and it affects anything relating to The KLF or whatever, please let me know/offer assistance asap. Cheers and come back soon! -- Mal 04:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Are you and your colleague still supporting this plugin as there appears to be little or no movement on the plugin pages. Thanks :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/ (Desk) 10:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Robert Benfer. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Esn 04:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
ARE YOU LYING BECAUSE I CANT FIND ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 74.195.3.199 02:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)