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This is an archive of User talk:Lar from about 1 May 2007 through about 1 Jun 2007. Please do not comment here, use my current talk page for that, thanks. It is part of a series of archives, see the box at right for the list and to navigate to others. An index to all my talk page archives, automatically maintained by User:HBC Archive Indexerbot can be found at User:Lar/TalkArchiveIndex. |
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You could also mention his block at meta ( [1]). His list of wikipedia accounts is here: [2]. ShivaIdol 01:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
A silly goose for you, ;)
Phaedriel |
Thought you might be interested in this thread. WjB scribe 00:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Good evening, as you know, I decided to make a move towards adminship and nominate myself yesterday, as you could see, this enveavour was laregly unsuccessful, and I am quite frustrated and disappointed to learn of this. To be perfectly honest, I kind of knew it would not work at this particular time, but I still felt there was a slight chance. I am particularly frustrated because I feel a couple of users who opposed me did so for the wrong reasons. I have my doubts that RWR8189 did so for the right reasons because he had followed me around for around a month, and reverted just about every edit I made. And the "edit war" regarding the Soviet Union was based on valid info (I was still looking for the source), and it did NOT last for a month. Also I was criticised by Redvers on the grounds that I lacked civility and temprement, I'm sorry, but I still don't see any evidence that this user, an admin for that matter, holds either of these traits, but I am willing to forget about all that for now. It really bugs me though to see that my hard work has thus far been unnoticed, I've done enough to earn at least one barnstar, and others have received them for less work.
I don't think the reactions I received were accurately representitave of my abilities, but I realise there are some major issues in my editing style to be worked out. So here is the question to you, you are an administrator, you have been given approval by someone; given that, what can I do in the next five months or so ensure better support the next time I go for adminship, or better yet, what will it take to be nominated? Adminship remains a goal of mine and I remain more than convinced it is still attainable. Please advise? EnglishEfternamn talk contribs 00:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Lar. A new issue of the newsletter is available to read here. -- Vsh Bot ( t • c) 19:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
The April 2007 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 15:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, it appears Gmaxwell blocked me on Commons due to my recent RfA. Could you please request a review of that block on the commons' admin's noticeboard? Thank you very much. Er rab ee 17:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. The deletion request is here. As I've said before, I've taken all photographs, and only tried to prove my point when I wanted to have them deleted. If you call that a lie, I can live with that, but there is absolutely no evidence that would indicate future problems. I didn't edit or upload in Commons for 6 months, so there has been no need for a block. Only when I regained some faith in the future of Commons after I found out about the new licensing policy, I made one (legitimate) upload, and supplied it with a correct license tag. Er rab ee 19:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Sounds like an abuse of power to me, if what Errabee has said above is true. -- kingboyk 16:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Lar. This will take you back a bit... right back to when we first met, in fact :) I've been having another shifty through micronations articles, and continue to find cruft and unbalanced reporting. The debate we took part in last time didn't reach any conclusion, so I've moved the old category talk page to Wikipedia talk:Micronations and started work on a proposed guideline at Wikipedia:Micronations. Please take a look if you have the time. -- kingboyk 16:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I will decide later where to put this... {{Userlinks-an|Lar}} gives: Lar ( talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · search noticeboard archives)... I am dubious that i have been mentioned that many times on AN/I though :) ++ Lar: t/ c 06:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I've improved the regexp in {{ userlinks-an}} so that it works better on very short usernames like yours. There are still a lot of mentions shown there, but they do seem to be correct (it's sometimes very minor, like someone replying to you in a thread and mentioning you by name, which counts). -- ais523 16:26, 11 May 2007 ( U T C)
As you are in no way a meatpuppet I invite you, as someone who has worked closely with me at several times in the past, to comment at my RfA here. I shan't ask you to be honest, because I wouldn't expect anything else. Cheers. LessHeard vanU 01:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Steve has suggested you may be wanting the receipt of a bar of bullion, in the unlikely shape of a rectangle involving two rows of four regularly raised dimples on the top surface, to be paid into an account entitled "Cabal". It aint gonna happen. You will have to make do with my gratitude instead.
Um, any words of wisdom for a newbie admin? LessHeard vanU 23:03, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you recently processed my request at Wikipedia:IRC channels/wikipedia-en-admins to gain access to the admin IRC channel. For some reason though it is still telling me I need an invite to join, though I am logged into NickServ and everything; do you know what could be causing this? Krimpet ( talk) 20:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I'm about to file a Request for Comments on Big Sister (brothel) and would like to solicit your position statement on Talk:Big Sister (brothel). Thanks, AxelBoldt 01:10, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
In response to your question, it would seem my email had been disabled because Wikipedia now wants email addresses confirmed. This wasn't so when I initially enabled me email. I have enabled it. -- Cecropia 21:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Lar, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image ( Image:TIA 2006ToyFair LEGO Batman Promo Dscn7058a.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Lar/GallerySelfTaken. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot) -talk 01:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
The Let It Be... Naked article has been blocked because of the inclusion of copyrighted material. I hope you can help fix it so the rewritten article can be restored. Steelbeard1 13:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Lar. A new issue of the newsletter is available to read here. -- Vsh Bot ( t • c) 19:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, but I've forgotten the code for "noinclude", and it doesn't seem to be in Help:Magic words. Do you know it? Thanks. · AndonicO Talk 23:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Lar, I wanted to extend a belated by very heart-felt thanks to you for all your hard work in admin coaching. As you know, I was a little uncertain when we finally got started, but the thinking you prompted me to do really helped make my direction clear, and I really believe it more than prepared me. As I get started mopping floors, I hope you don't mind if I continue to occasionally knock on your door, and seek wisdom and counsel. Again, many thanks! Akradecki 04:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
One thing I have learnt from being involved in this mess - is that titled people, MPs and Bishops etc are exempt from deletion, as even the smallest stub on them has the possibility to expanded and their rank confers notability. I don't agree with it, I don't like but that is the way it seems to be. That may not be cast in wiki-law but many will troop and vote "keep" in those grounds were one of those people were nominated. Earlier this week a "General Arbuthnot" was almost saved, but was deleted when it was found his rank had been exaggerated [3]. However many voted to save him because he was a general, although that was the only information given about him. So the reality and truth of this situation is that rank and prestige give immunity to deletion. Giano 16:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Larry. I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. MaxSem 22:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:HermansHermits BestOfTheSixtiesAmazon.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 15:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
I've published a proposal to gauge the level of interest in setting up a micronation Wikiproject, which I thought might be of interest to you based on your past contributions. Comments and suggestions are welcome: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Micronations -- Gene_poole 01:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Lar, I would appreciate some feedback. I went to close Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jabir Hasan Muhamed Al Qahtani, and there were 2 keeps, 2 deleted and a merge. While I could have closed it as no-consensus, it seemed to me at the time that there really needed more input, so following the instructions at WP:DELPRO, I elected to relist it for further debate. Since I wasn't closing it, I felt that I wasn't violating process to put my view in the new discussion. However, another admin, User:Cactus.man has raised concern about the {{ relist}} process being a valid way to go (his comments are on my talk page), suggesting that the relist template be removed. Would you care to review my actions and comment on whether I used the process correctly, and if not, how I could have done it better? Thanks! AKRadecki 01:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
I recognize that this user page belongs to the Wikipedia project and not to me personally. As such, I recognize that I am expected to respectfully abide by community standards as to the presentation and content of this page, and that if I do not like these guidelines, I am welcome either to engage in reasonable discussion about it, to publish my material elsewhere, or to leave the project.
This is an archive of User talk:Lar from about 1 May 2007 through about 1 Jun 2007. Please do not comment here, use my current talk page for that, thanks. It is part of a series of archives, see the box at right for the list and to navigate to others. An index to all my talk page archives, automatically maintained by User:HBC Archive Indexerbot can be found at User:Lar/TalkArchiveIndex. |
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You could also mention his block at meta ( [1]). His list of wikipedia accounts is here: [2]. ShivaIdol 01:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
A silly goose for you, ;)
Phaedriel |
Thought you might be interested in this thread. WjB scribe 00:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Good evening, as you know, I decided to make a move towards adminship and nominate myself yesterday, as you could see, this enveavour was laregly unsuccessful, and I am quite frustrated and disappointed to learn of this. To be perfectly honest, I kind of knew it would not work at this particular time, but I still felt there was a slight chance. I am particularly frustrated because I feel a couple of users who opposed me did so for the wrong reasons. I have my doubts that RWR8189 did so for the right reasons because he had followed me around for around a month, and reverted just about every edit I made. And the "edit war" regarding the Soviet Union was based on valid info (I was still looking for the source), and it did NOT last for a month. Also I was criticised by Redvers on the grounds that I lacked civility and temprement, I'm sorry, but I still don't see any evidence that this user, an admin for that matter, holds either of these traits, but I am willing to forget about all that for now. It really bugs me though to see that my hard work has thus far been unnoticed, I've done enough to earn at least one barnstar, and others have received them for less work.
I don't think the reactions I received were accurately representitave of my abilities, but I realise there are some major issues in my editing style to be worked out. So here is the question to you, you are an administrator, you have been given approval by someone; given that, what can I do in the next five months or so ensure better support the next time I go for adminship, or better yet, what will it take to be nominated? Adminship remains a goal of mine and I remain more than convinced it is still attainable. Please advise? EnglishEfternamn talk contribs 00:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Lar. A new issue of the newsletter is available to read here. -- Vsh Bot ( t • c) 19:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
The April 2007 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 15:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, it appears Gmaxwell blocked me on Commons due to my recent RfA. Could you please request a review of that block on the commons' admin's noticeboard? Thank you very much. Er rab ee 17:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. The deletion request is here. As I've said before, I've taken all photographs, and only tried to prove my point when I wanted to have them deleted. If you call that a lie, I can live with that, but there is absolutely no evidence that would indicate future problems. I didn't edit or upload in Commons for 6 months, so there has been no need for a block. Only when I regained some faith in the future of Commons after I found out about the new licensing policy, I made one (legitimate) upload, and supplied it with a correct license tag. Er rab ee 19:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Sounds like an abuse of power to me, if what Errabee has said above is true. -- kingboyk 16:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Lar. This will take you back a bit... right back to when we first met, in fact :) I've been having another shifty through micronations articles, and continue to find cruft and unbalanced reporting. The debate we took part in last time didn't reach any conclusion, so I've moved the old category talk page to Wikipedia talk:Micronations and started work on a proposed guideline at Wikipedia:Micronations. Please take a look if you have the time. -- kingboyk 16:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I will decide later where to put this... {{Userlinks-an|Lar}} gives: Lar ( talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · search noticeboard archives)... I am dubious that i have been mentioned that many times on AN/I though :) ++ Lar: t/ c 06:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I've improved the regexp in {{ userlinks-an}} so that it works better on very short usernames like yours. There are still a lot of mentions shown there, but they do seem to be correct (it's sometimes very minor, like someone replying to you in a thread and mentioning you by name, which counts). -- ais523 16:26, 11 May 2007 ( U T C)
As you are in no way a meatpuppet I invite you, as someone who has worked closely with me at several times in the past, to comment at my RfA here. I shan't ask you to be honest, because I wouldn't expect anything else. Cheers. LessHeard vanU 01:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Steve has suggested you may be wanting the receipt of a bar of bullion, in the unlikely shape of a rectangle involving two rows of four regularly raised dimples on the top surface, to be paid into an account entitled "Cabal". It aint gonna happen. You will have to make do with my gratitude instead.
Um, any words of wisdom for a newbie admin? LessHeard vanU 23:03, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you recently processed my request at Wikipedia:IRC channels/wikipedia-en-admins to gain access to the admin IRC channel. For some reason though it is still telling me I need an invite to join, though I am logged into NickServ and everything; do you know what could be causing this? Krimpet ( talk) 20:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I'm about to file a Request for Comments on Big Sister (brothel) and would like to solicit your position statement on Talk:Big Sister (brothel). Thanks, AxelBoldt 01:10, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
In response to your question, it would seem my email had been disabled because Wikipedia now wants email addresses confirmed. This wasn't so when I initially enabled me email. I have enabled it. -- Cecropia 21:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Lar, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image ( Image:TIA 2006ToyFair LEGO Batman Promo Dscn7058a.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Lar/GallerySelfTaken. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot) -talk 01:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
The Let It Be... Naked article has been blocked because of the inclusion of copyrighted material. I hope you can help fix it so the rewritten article can be restored. Steelbeard1 13:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Lar. A new issue of the newsletter is available to read here. -- Vsh Bot ( t • c) 19:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, but I've forgotten the code for "noinclude", and it doesn't seem to be in Help:Magic words. Do you know it? Thanks. · AndonicO Talk 23:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Lar, I wanted to extend a belated by very heart-felt thanks to you for all your hard work in admin coaching. As you know, I was a little uncertain when we finally got started, but the thinking you prompted me to do really helped make my direction clear, and I really believe it more than prepared me. As I get started mopping floors, I hope you don't mind if I continue to occasionally knock on your door, and seek wisdom and counsel. Again, many thanks! Akradecki 04:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
One thing I have learnt from being involved in this mess - is that titled people, MPs and Bishops etc are exempt from deletion, as even the smallest stub on them has the possibility to expanded and their rank confers notability. I don't agree with it, I don't like but that is the way it seems to be. That may not be cast in wiki-law but many will troop and vote "keep" in those grounds were one of those people were nominated. Earlier this week a "General Arbuthnot" was almost saved, but was deleted when it was found his rank had been exaggerated [3]. However many voted to save him because he was a general, although that was the only information given about him. So the reality and truth of this situation is that rank and prestige give immunity to deletion. Giano 16:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Larry. I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. MaxSem 22:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:HermansHermits BestOfTheSixtiesAmazon.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 15:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
I've published a proposal to gauge the level of interest in setting up a micronation Wikiproject, which I thought might be of interest to you based on your past contributions. Comments and suggestions are welcome: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Micronations -- Gene_poole 01:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Lar, I would appreciate some feedback. I went to close Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jabir Hasan Muhamed Al Qahtani, and there were 2 keeps, 2 deleted and a merge. While I could have closed it as no-consensus, it seemed to me at the time that there really needed more input, so following the instructions at WP:DELPRO, I elected to relist it for further debate. Since I wasn't closing it, I felt that I wasn't violating process to put my view in the new discussion. However, another admin, User:Cactus.man has raised concern about the {{ relist}} process being a valid way to go (his comments are on my talk page), suggesting that the relist template be removed. Would you care to review my actions and comment on whether I used the process correctly, and if not, how I could have done it better? Thanks! AKRadecki 01:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)