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Thanks for these new userboxes I found! However, calling yourself a native American English man and using French spacing is sickening. Sickening! ~ UBeR 21:48, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean by French spacing; if you mean double-spacing after sentence-ending punctuation, I was actually taught to do that in American school, and the practice is recommended by many American style guides and such. Opposition to it seems to have arisen only in the last generation or so. I find the matter rather silly, since it is clearly an aid to readabilty. :-) — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib ツ 21:50, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
On May 6, 2007 ESPN will for the first time broadcast professional 3-cushion. It may also be the first time 3-cushion has ever been broadcast in the US. Migel Torres (a professional in Queens New York) told me this earlier today (in his best approximation of English), and also told me that he has been giving lessons to Mike Massey. I'm not sure what is being broadcast, but I know that Semih Sayginer will be playing. As you probably know, he performs the most spectacular artistic billiards exhibitions. Watched him year after year at Carom Cafe (Sang Lee's room [well actually Michael Kang's to be technical; Sang lee owned about a 16th but that's a long story]), and it is something to be seen. Since Mike Massey is getting lessons, I wouldn't be surprised if it's not 3-cushion per se, but Semih doing artistic shots, with Mike Massey tagging along as the face far more people know. Anyway, mark down the date. Semih's a bit of an asshole in person (he does great caricatures and makes fun of Blomdahl by imitating him right to his face) but he's incredible to watch. His stroke is really not of this planet.-- Fuhghettaboutit 03:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. I noticed you recently made some edits to this article. I wanted to point out that rather than creating a trivia section, it would have been preferable if you had incorporated any notable information into the body of the article (and deleted the rest). The guideline, Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles, explains why and how this should be done. Unfortunately, I do not have time to do it myself right now, but if you are interested in the article, perhaps you would like to take a crack at it. Thanks, and happy editing!-- Vbd ( talk) 10:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Here's the answer you requested at Template talk:Created with Inkscape: Inkscape is free/ open-source software. Templates such as this one point users and editors to free software they can use to create free works. Rl 15:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Bravo! Good insight! Brilliant! How about if we propose to everyone that the "Neutral" section should appear first for 24 hours to see what effect that has on the distribution of votes. Surely, who could object to the order being Neutral, Support, Oppose for 24 hours. We could propose that the switch occur at the beginning of the measurement period in the table. What do you think? -- Rednblu 08:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Because it's hard to understand in what order things were said. Why is top posting a bad idea?
Latin script has been written from top-left to bottom right for over two millenia. Define "intuitive". ;-)
-- Kim Bruning 10:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC) vi versus emacs, anti-aliased vs aliased, white background vs black background, top vs bottom posting, it's the holy wars! ;-)
I don't think that would be a bad idea for anyone involved in that debate, really. And yes, the number of people that support something is certainly a factor in determining consensus, but a "Support, why not?" or "Oppose, this is dumb" tends to get a lot less weight than a well-written, coherent rationale. Seraphimblade Talk to me 11:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! I notice that you made statements like "I'm not willing to violate WP:3RR over this, so additional eyes on the matter would be helpful". This sounds like you're asking for other people to help "your" side of a revert war, which is not a proper way to resolve anything. Please don't do that again, and instead discuss a more productive approach on the relevant talk page. >Radiant< 15:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Those are rather old threads and I'm not one to bear a grudge. I don't really see a reason to dig them up again. >Radiant< 08:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I have to say that "the rest is the rest!" There are only two variations on it: the extended rest and the one with three indentations for placing the cue, but I have *never heard the rest called the "cross rest". So in that respect the article is wrong and, IMHO, "cross rest" is overkill. But you do great work with that page and others, and I'm not going to change it but think you should. What about "a standard rest"? bigpad 09:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking that the "average" person reading the article would not need to know anything more than the player pictured was using "a rest". Anything more than this I think is unnecessary. And "the rest" is always understood as what you call the "cross rest". If a player wants something else, he will ask specifically for it. And I'd say that the varieties of spiders in use are not rests: they are spiders. Keep up the good work bigpad 15:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
You're invited to criticise me. — KNcyu38 ( talk • contribs) 10:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Due to your concerns raised on a RFA, I filed Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jeff Defender, please add evidence if you can. Thanks! Wooyi Talk, Editor review 00:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I am really impressed by your detective skills.
At WikiProject Spam, we don't so much deal with petty one-off spam but rather complex, multi-article, sometimes involving as many as 50 different domains subtly spammed one link at a time over many months using lots of socks or IPs. Our work involves a lot of stuff like what you did on this sockpuppet case as well as off-wikipedia searching of related domains, comments made in linkspamming forums, etc.
You're probably busy with other priorities on Wikipedia for now, but when you have the time, I encourage you to check out the talk page (where all the real work occurs). In particular, take a look at the work of Hu12 and Requestion -- probably the two best at the sleuthing part.
Again, nice work on the sockpuppet case! -- A. B. (talk) 12:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I put it under support for a reason. Read the hidden comment. -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your recent post at ATT, you might find this recent afd debate interesting. Thanks again for the nomination:-)-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I've went through the case and felt a checkuser is definitely needed, I've just filed it on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jeff Defender. Hopefully that will give the conclusion. Cheers! Wooyi Talk, Editor review 04:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! No, Stanton is not a typical Norwegian name - and not my real name I must admit. I've taken the name from the best movie ever: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is the name on the grave next to the unknown grave where the treasure is buried, remember??
"Stone village" would translate to something like "Steinby" in Norwegian. Cheers, and happy editing! ArchStanton 17:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Fuhghettaboutit Thanks. Xiner ( talk) 01:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey! There's no rush. The nomination instructions provide:
When you are ready, tell me and then we'll go live (I see no reason why it couldn't wait until tomorrow evening if that's better; it's late).-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know. A few things (lowercase names, mathbot, edit stats) already tripped me up. So no thank you. =P Xiner ( talk) 02:57, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
i admit i have done sily vandalism on wikipedia, and i am sorry. But i have also made over 100 constructive edits on ip addressess and on the account user:cherhillsnow. I promise i will never vandalise wikipedia again and i will only make legit edits. [The previous unsigned message was posted by 86.129.220.77 ( talk · contribs), 17:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
I know we haven't always seen eye to eye in the past, but I'm indebted to you for your help in my RfA in tracking down the Honda Pilot/Jeff Defender sockpuppets. Honda Pilot was obviously suspicious, but as an RfA candidate, I was powerless to make any accusations lest I be accused of harassing the opposers. Despite your personal reservations about me, you stepped forward to expose them and compiled an extremely detailed WP:SSP report. If you ever need help, don't hesitate to drop me a line. —dgies t c 20:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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Awarded to SMcCandlish for sleuthing out sockpuppets being used to subvert RfA. —dgies t c 20:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC) |
Sorry, I just undeleted the rollback of my unintential protection of your userpage;-) Seriously, now that I have these buttons, I'm scared to get my cursor to close to the top o' me screen. Baby steps shall be my mantra for a little while. Well I said it before, but, thanks for the nom, the support, creating {{ rp}}, inveighing with me against mean bot tagging, creating needed images, the arcane book comparisons, being a billiards fan...-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:59, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I would like to say a few things about people trying to "control the debate". I know there are a few bossy editors here, but please hear me out, because I was also there, together with PMAnderson, I spent a few hours designing a poll with him that I think at least deserved more attention. It received 4 positive votes and nobody was vehemently objecting to it, had people had more patience it could have lead to some better solutions, so I'm also not all that pleased about the consensus process, but I don't see why you are opposed to this group now. Why don't you think WAS4.250 would be neutral, he voted first support, and then listening to what opposition people were saying suggested a compromise based on transclusion. I think that's a bad idea, but I like his willingness to listen. Also, I have seen him here, arguing against SlimVirgin with not exactly the kindest of words, finally Crum gave a third opinion, but as you can see WAS and SV were quite opposed to each other, but that WAS can argue strongly why still remain rational and civil I think makes him very useful on this committee, don't you think? -- Merzul 23:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the barnstar, very much appreciated :) - Nick C 12:16, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello Stanton McCandlish. I've replaced WPILT logo.png in {{ WPILT banner}} with inline text styled by inline styles. Do you have any objection to this, or to deleting the now-unused image? —{ admin} Pathoschild 14:27:00, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
You might want to reconsider Mikkalai's project, outlined here. As far as I can see, it doesn't have to be a competing committee (at least for a long time), just a few people trying to work for real consensus on what the existing policy pages say, and whether they can usefully adopt ATT's language. As for the bullies: if you want to write up an RfC, I will endorse it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I haven't actually been running much with snooker articles for the past few weeks, partly due to holidays and time away from WP. What time I have had I have been investing it in modelling a 3D snooker table, (unfinished WIP render), partly for my own enjoyment, but I am also sure some renders of it can be put to good use in wikipedia articles at pertinent places! SFC9394 17:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just been bold and kicked the tires on this thing, let's see if she rolls. And god you made me hungry for posole dammit. Not going to drive down there today in the snow. Chris 18:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree 100% that all user categories should be renamed to actually be of encyclopedic use (i.e. change all "who likes", "who listens to", "who supports", etc.) in the long run, but I think it should be done in group noms. Nominating a single category like Category:Wikipedians who use Google is very likely to fail, but making a group nom called something like " Category:Wikipedians by website and all subcategories" has a decent chance of succeeding. Most people at UCFD, including myself, value consistency among user category names even if we disagree with the currently established naming convention, and are not likely to support renames of individual categories if the rename goes against the current (even if unofficial) naming conventions. I highly recommend going with group nominations, or I doubt you will get anything accomplished. VegaDark 09:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution at Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion#Category:Wikipedians_who_support_F.C._Copenhagen. I've responded to your suggestion there. -- Dweller 12:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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Awarded for your tireless work on articles relating to the field of pigmentation. Rockpocke t 09:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC) |
"Siamfarbenes means: color looks like that of a Siamese (cat). The mutation is incomplete dominant de:Marderkaninchen have one Copy of the gene and the de:Siamesenkaninchen has two copys. Kersti Nebelsiek 12:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi SMcCandlish,
I see a category Category:Temporal templates. Do you think Category:Time and date maintenance templates should be moved into it?
P.S. It looks like both you and I are categorizing templates this evening. If you want me to stop until you are finished, please let me know. Thank you.
-- Kevinkor2 04:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Stanton,
I can't get a reference in the above article to work. It's the one that relates to the amount of money Higgins is supposed to have squandered. Can you see what the error is and fix it, or let me know and I'll do it?
Sorry for my lack of expertise but, for the life of me, I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, bigpad 07:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I've located it ok now Stanton and page updated accordingly. That site uses frames, which I haven#t seen for some times. bigpad 22:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
My comment would have been more transparent if edit summaries supported italics: "Matrona doesn't derive from Matrona, it is Matrona". A bit of context: For many Celtic religion articles, a user had added 'etymology' sections with absurdly contorted language (along with over-linking, original research, and red-herring external links). As a result, many of these articles were dominated by long sections that actually said very little – or, in this case, alleged that a name was derived from itself (à la I'm My Own Grandpa). Cheers, Q·L· 1968 ☿ 08:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, would you be able to do that split you talked about? I am unsure how to, or what you mean by, a disambiguation page for this article. Normally these pages are used for duplications? And like you said, eight-ball and blackball are considerably different? Sandman30s 14:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Should all stub templtes incorporate a break as illustrated in Skippy (1931 film)? Rich Farmbrough, 20:51 21 April 2007 (GMT).
Fuhghettaboutit, did you catch the 3 hours of WPBA action on ESPN-2 today? Schweet. And it's actually from this year. I couldn't believe it. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 00:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you explain to me how this works, what effect would a abuse warning on the template have, and how would one go about asking for one.-- padraig3uk 21:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
This is a rough idea User:Padraig3uk/Sandbox what do you think.-- padraig3uk 22:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you see now why I wanted to do this, some of them are just determined to push their own POV on this matter.-- padraig3uk 21:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I changed it so that the word image and the size did not need to be entered into the article. Most infoboxs are done like this. Buc 17:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Er... would you please calm down? I said "wtf" in a light-hearted manner. Meaning: "Wtf? Why is this here twice? Editors who didn't notice eachother, maybe?", I didn't mean it as an offense. Do you actually mean that information should be mentioned twice in the same paragraph? Because that wouldn't make a lot of sense, would you agree? -- Sn0wflake 02:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
It's as useful as the WikiThanks flower, but I can use it for things that aren't directly related to me (whereas I use the flower for things I've benefited from). I've already given one within an hour of seeing it mentioned on your user page. Λυδαcιτγ 02:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
When I first started watching snooker on the BBC back in the mid 1990's Hamilton was frequently referred to as 'the machine' by the MC and by the commentators. As far as I can see in the article none of the nicknames have been attributed to a reliable source and I for one have not heard all of them mentioned on the BBC snooker coverage. I feel 'the machine' is as valid as any of the other names used, maybe if someone involved in writing the article knows Anthony this could be confirmed, along with the other nicknames. Also i did not intentionally change my IP address, I am on a wired network with multiple computers which i am informed is what causes it to change.
The Article on Anthony is merely a stub and I was seeking to expand it, if only a little. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.139.20.252 ( talk) 16:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC).
Thank you for the notice. Although the uninsured driver thing was inconclusive, at least we proved something. Anyways, as long as the Jeff Defender and his socks stay inactive in RFA, things will be fine. Wooyi Talk, Editor review 19:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
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Stanton, you have an "attribution needed" notice against the first para. of the White article, re his being 'considered' one of the most popular players ever" yet the Davis article has nothing against the claim that he is 'considered' one of the most successful players ever. Do you see any problems with this?
If we were to add that, from the crowds that attend White's matches and exhibitions, he is widely 'considered' .... or that, based on his world title and other championship wins, Davis is widely considered......, how would that fit in with Wiki policy? bigpad 08:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
This has nothing to do with my personal AWB scripts - it's a built-in feature of AWB. If you're unhappy about it, plesse raise on the AWB discussion page. Colonies Chris 07:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to instill some procedure into Glossary of cue sports terms. We're kind of getting to the point where this article needs to be sourced to hell-and-back or it'll become an AfD target, and we're also getting to the point where more than just two editors are interested in it. I'd like to suggest that henceforth new additions (and deletions, and major entry re-writes) be proposed in the relevant "proposals" talk sections. I'm committing to using them myself. While I think for the short term it's going to be three to five editors paying any attention at all, it's still a good start toward establishing some form of process to avoid later accusations along the lines of WP:OWN, a concern I've had for some time now (based on some really nasty AfD action I've observed starting around last Nov.) Disclaimer: I also have some nitpicks about your latest round of additions, and would rather have talked them out, and would rather now talk them out, than go in and do a bossy revert, which even a month ago I probably would have. >;-) The point being, I think the profile has very recently become high enough with that article that some slower consensus-seeking vs. faster WP:BOLD wikihaviour is probably called for now. Thoughts? — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 09:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
PS: A radically different way of putting this is also that about once every couple of months we get a noob come in and add/change/delete stuff like mad, and I think part of this is because there's little evidence of any process on the talk page, and a big pile of "do what thou willt" evidence to the contrary. That needs to change or things are going get really messy-like next time this happens. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 10:02, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Just you know, the username Klp88 was blocked indefinitely due to the reasons stated in WP:RFCN. Spellcast 12:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Nope, and has me a bit puzzled too. I'm provisionally chalking it up to me doing too sleepy to notice that AWB was doing that, and more to the point, wasn't even doing any stub-retagging (d'oh). Alai 18:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
You did a good job last night. 88.104.4.186 18:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Please do not ignore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ireland_national_rugby_union_team#Flags_and_shamrocks when making edits to Irish rugby player articles. Thanks Weejack48 22:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Rather than tweaking the existing wording, please have a look at the draft new wording, and comment if you wish. See talk page. Tony 00:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I think that image you removed from the Liam Neeson article was suppose to be there. Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation states that that image "should be placed on articles about people that have no current free image". So you probably shouldn't have removed it, since it is suppose to be there. 70.17.153.232 04:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Surely we're all allowed to change our mind and think again. Geni's protect reason is giving me second thought. Where exactly is this template used- I've never seen it... WjB scribe 06:19, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Please note that the above project page is currently being proposed for deletion. The discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Linkification, if you would wish to take part in the discussion. Thank you. John Carter 01:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey - In regards to our previous discussion on group noms to change naming conventions, I thought you might be interested in this UCFD i started. VegaDark 03:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I've suggested getting the Working Group together at Wikipedia_talk:Attribution/Working_Group to start talking about any potential compromise on the attribution policy issue. Perahaps you can add the page to your watchlist. I have also mentioned this page in the community discussion, so there is public awareness of this discussion. Hopefully you will be willing to participate. Thanks. zadignose 19:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for these new userboxes I found! However, calling yourself a native American English man and using French spacing is sickening. Sickening! ~ UBeR 21:48, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean by French spacing; if you mean double-spacing after sentence-ending punctuation, I was actually taught to do that in American school, and the practice is recommended by many American style guides and such. Opposition to it seems to have arisen only in the last generation or so. I find the matter rather silly, since it is clearly an aid to readabilty. :-) — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib ツ 21:50, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
On May 6, 2007 ESPN will for the first time broadcast professional 3-cushion. It may also be the first time 3-cushion has ever been broadcast in the US. Migel Torres (a professional in Queens New York) told me this earlier today (in his best approximation of English), and also told me that he has been giving lessons to Mike Massey. I'm not sure what is being broadcast, but I know that Semih Sayginer will be playing. As you probably know, he performs the most spectacular artistic billiards exhibitions. Watched him year after year at Carom Cafe (Sang Lee's room [well actually Michael Kang's to be technical; Sang lee owned about a 16th but that's a long story]), and it is something to be seen. Since Mike Massey is getting lessons, I wouldn't be surprised if it's not 3-cushion per se, but Semih doing artistic shots, with Mike Massey tagging along as the face far more people know. Anyway, mark down the date. Semih's a bit of an asshole in person (he does great caricatures and makes fun of Blomdahl by imitating him right to his face) but he's incredible to watch. His stroke is really not of this planet.-- Fuhghettaboutit 03:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. I noticed you recently made some edits to this article. I wanted to point out that rather than creating a trivia section, it would have been preferable if you had incorporated any notable information into the body of the article (and deleted the rest). The guideline, Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles, explains why and how this should be done. Unfortunately, I do not have time to do it myself right now, but if you are interested in the article, perhaps you would like to take a crack at it. Thanks, and happy editing!-- Vbd ( talk) 10:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Here's the answer you requested at Template talk:Created with Inkscape: Inkscape is free/ open-source software. Templates such as this one point users and editors to free software they can use to create free works. Rl 15:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Bravo! Good insight! Brilliant! How about if we propose to everyone that the "Neutral" section should appear first for 24 hours to see what effect that has on the distribution of votes. Surely, who could object to the order being Neutral, Support, Oppose for 24 hours. We could propose that the switch occur at the beginning of the measurement period in the table. What do you think? -- Rednblu 08:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Because it's hard to understand in what order things were said. Why is top posting a bad idea?
Latin script has been written from top-left to bottom right for over two millenia. Define "intuitive". ;-)
-- Kim Bruning 10:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC) vi versus emacs, anti-aliased vs aliased, white background vs black background, top vs bottom posting, it's the holy wars! ;-)
I don't think that would be a bad idea for anyone involved in that debate, really. And yes, the number of people that support something is certainly a factor in determining consensus, but a "Support, why not?" or "Oppose, this is dumb" tends to get a lot less weight than a well-written, coherent rationale. Seraphimblade Talk to me 11:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! I notice that you made statements like "I'm not willing to violate WP:3RR over this, so additional eyes on the matter would be helpful". This sounds like you're asking for other people to help "your" side of a revert war, which is not a proper way to resolve anything. Please don't do that again, and instead discuss a more productive approach on the relevant talk page. >Radiant< 15:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Those are rather old threads and I'm not one to bear a grudge. I don't really see a reason to dig them up again. >Radiant< 08:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I have to say that "the rest is the rest!" There are only two variations on it: the extended rest and the one with three indentations for placing the cue, but I have *never heard the rest called the "cross rest". So in that respect the article is wrong and, IMHO, "cross rest" is overkill. But you do great work with that page and others, and I'm not going to change it but think you should. What about "a standard rest"? bigpad 09:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking that the "average" person reading the article would not need to know anything more than the player pictured was using "a rest". Anything more than this I think is unnecessary. And "the rest" is always understood as what you call the "cross rest". If a player wants something else, he will ask specifically for it. And I'd say that the varieties of spiders in use are not rests: they are spiders. Keep up the good work bigpad 15:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
You're invited to criticise me. — KNcyu38 ( talk • contribs) 10:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Due to your concerns raised on a RFA, I filed Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jeff Defender, please add evidence if you can. Thanks! Wooyi Talk, Editor review 00:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I am really impressed by your detective skills.
At WikiProject Spam, we don't so much deal with petty one-off spam but rather complex, multi-article, sometimes involving as many as 50 different domains subtly spammed one link at a time over many months using lots of socks or IPs. Our work involves a lot of stuff like what you did on this sockpuppet case as well as off-wikipedia searching of related domains, comments made in linkspamming forums, etc.
You're probably busy with other priorities on Wikipedia for now, but when you have the time, I encourage you to check out the talk page (where all the real work occurs). In particular, take a look at the work of Hu12 and Requestion -- probably the two best at the sleuthing part.
Again, nice work on the sockpuppet case! -- A. B. (talk) 12:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I put it under support for a reason. Read the hidden comment. -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your recent post at ATT, you might find this recent afd debate interesting. Thanks again for the nomination:-)-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I've went through the case and felt a checkuser is definitely needed, I've just filed it on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jeff Defender. Hopefully that will give the conclusion. Cheers! Wooyi Talk, Editor review 04:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! No, Stanton is not a typical Norwegian name - and not my real name I must admit. I've taken the name from the best movie ever: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is the name on the grave next to the unknown grave where the treasure is buried, remember??
"Stone village" would translate to something like "Steinby" in Norwegian. Cheers, and happy editing! ArchStanton 17:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Fuhghettaboutit Thanks. Xiner ( talk) 01:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey! There's no rush. The nomination instructions provide:
When you are ready, tell me and then we'll go live (I see no reason why it couldn't wait until tomorrow evening if that's better; it's late).-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know. A few things (lowercase names, mathbot, edit stats) already tripped me up. So no thank you. =P Xiner ( talk) 02:57, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
i admit i have done sily vandalism on wikipedia, and i am sorry. But i have also made over 100 constructive edits on ip addressess and on the account user:cherhillsnow. I promise i will never vandalise wikipedia again and i will only make legit edits. [The previous unsigned message was posted by 86.129.220.77 ( talk · contribs), 17:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
I know we haven't always seen eye to eye in the past, but I'm indebted to you for your help in my RfA in tracking down the Honda Pilot/Jeff Defender sockpuppets. Honda Pilot was obviously suspicious, but as an RfA candidate, I was powerless to make any accusations lest I be accused of harassing the opposers. Despite your personal reservations about me, you stepped forward to expose them and compiled an extremely detailed WP:SSP report. If you ever need help, don't hesitate to drop me a line. —dgies t c 20:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry, I just undeleted the rollback of my unintential protection of your userpage;-) Seriously, now that I have these buttons, I'm scared to get my cursor to close to the top o' me screen. Baby steps shall be my mantra for a little while. Well I said it before, but, thanks for the nom, the support, creating {{ rp}}, inveighing with me against mean bot tagging, creating needed images, the arcane book comparisons, being a billiards fan...-- Fuhghettaboutit 02:59, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I would like to say a few things about people trying to "control the debate". I know there are a few bossy editors here, but please hear me out, because I was also there, together with PMAnderson, I spent a few hours designing a poll with him that I think at least deserved more attention. It received 4 positive votes and nobody was vehemently objecting to it, had people had more patience it could have lead to some better solutions, so I'm also not all that pleased about the consensus process, but I don't see why you are opposed to this group now. Why don't you think WAS4.250 would be neutral, he voted first support, and then listening to what opposition people were saying suggested a compromise based on transclusion. I think that's a bad idea, but I like his willingness to listen. Also, I have seen him here, arguing against SlimVirgin with not exactly the kindest of words, finally Crum gave a third opinion, but as you can see WAS and SV were quite opposed to each other, but that WAS can argue strongly why still remain rational and civil I think makes him very useful on this committee, don't you think? -- Merzul 23:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the barnstar, very much appreciated :) - Nick C 12:16, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello Stanton McCandlish. I've replaced WPILT logo.png in {{ WPILT banner}} with inline text styled by inline styles. Do you have any objection to this, or to deleting the now-unused image? —{ admin} Pathoschild 14:27:00, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
You might want to reconsider Mikkalai's project, outlined here. As far as I can see, it doesn't have to be a competing committee (at least for a long time), just a few people trying to work for real consensus on what the existing policy pages say, and whether they can usefully adopt ATT's language. As for the bullies: if you want to write up an RfC, I will endorse it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I haven't actually been running much with snooker articles for the past few weeks, partly due to holidays and time away from WP. What time I have had I have been investing it in modelling a 3D snooker table, (unfinished WIP render), partly for my own enjoyment, but I am also sure some renders of it can be put to good use in wikipedia articles at pertinent places! SFC9394 17:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just been bold and kicked the tires on this thing, let's see if she rolls. And god you made me hungry for posole dammit. Not going to drive down there today in the snow. Chris 18:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree 100% that all user categories should be renamed to actually be of encyclopedic use (i.e. change all "who likes", "who listens to", "who supports", etc.) in the long run, but I think it should be done in group noms. Nominating a single category like Category:Wikipedians who use Google is very likely to fail, but making a group nom called something like " Category:Wikipedians by website and all subcategories" has a decent chance of succeeding. Most people at UCFD, including myself, value consistency among user category names even if we disagree with the currently established naming convention, and are not likely to support renames of individual categories if the rename goes against the current (even if unofficial) naming conventions. I highly recommend going with group nominations, or I doubt you will get anything accomplished. VegaDark 09:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution at Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion#Category:Wikipedians_who_support_F.C._Copenhagen. I've responded to your suggestion there. -- Dweller 12:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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"Siamfarbenes means: color looks like that of a Siamese (cat). The mutation is incomplete dominant de:Marderkaninchen have one Copy of the gene and the de:Siamesenkaninchen has two copys. Kersti Nebelsiek 12:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi SMcCandlish,
I see a category Category:Temporal templates. Do you think Category:Time and date maintenance templates should be moved into it?
P.S. It looks like both you and I are categorizing templates this evening. If you want me to stop until you are finished, please let me know. Thank you.
-- Kevinkor2 04:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Stanton,
I can't get a reference in the above article to work. It's the one that relates to the amount of money Higgins is supposed to have squandered. Can you see what the error is and fix it, or let me know and I'll do it?
Sorry for my lack of expertise but, for the life of me, I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, bigpad 07:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I've located it ok now Stanton and page updated accordingly. That site uses frames, which I haven#t seen for some times. bigpad 22:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
My comment would have been more transparent if edit summaries supported italics: "Matrona doesn't derive from Matrona, it is Matrona". A bit of context: For many Celtic religion articles, a user had added 'etymology' sections with absurdly contorted language (along with over-linking, original research, and red-herring external links). As a result, many of these articles were dominated by long sections that actually said very little – or, in this case, alleged that a name was derived from itself (à la I'm My Own Grandpa). Cheers, Q·L· 1968 ☿ 08:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, would you be able to do that split you talked about? I am unsure how to, or what you mean by, a disambiguation page for this article. Normally these pages are used for duplications? And like you said, eight-ball and blackball are considerably different? Sandman30s 14:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Should all stub templtes incorporate a break as illustrated in Skippy (1931 film)? Rich Farmbrough, 20:51 21 April 2007 (GMT).
Fuhghettaboutit, did you catch the 3 hours of WPBA action on ESPN-2 today? Schweet. And it's actually from this year. I couldn't believe it. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 00:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you explain to me how this works, what effect would a abuse warning on the template have, and how would one go about asking for one.-- padraig3uk 21:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
This is a rough idea User:Padraig3uk/Sandbox what do you think.-- padraig3uk 22:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you see now why I wanted to do this, some of them are just determined to push their own POV on this matter.-- padraig3uk 21:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I changed it so that the word image and the size did not need to be entered into the article. Most infoboxs are done like this. Buc 17:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Er... would you please calm down? I said "wtf" in a light-hearted manner. Meaning: "Wtf? Why is this here twice? Editors who didn't notice eachother, maybe?", I didn't mean it as an offense. Do you actually mean that information should be mentioned twice in the same paragraph? Because that wouldn't make a lot of sense, would you agree? -- Sn0wflake 02:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
It's as useful as the WikiThanks flower, but I can use it for things that aren't directly related to me (whereas I use the flower for things I've benefited from). I've already given one within an hour of seeing it mentioned on your user page. Λυδαcιτγ 02:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
When I first started watching snooker on the BBC back in the mid 1990's Hamilton was frequently referred to as 'the machine' by the MC and by the commentators. As far as I can see in the article none of the nicknames have been attributed to a reliable source and I for one have not heard all of them mentioned on the BBC snooker coverage. I feel 'the machine' is as valid as any of the other names used, maybe if someone involved in writing the article knows Anthony this could be confirmed, along with the other nicknames. Also i did not intentionally change my IP address, I am on a wired network with multiple computers which i am informed is what causes it to change.
The Article on Anthony is merely a stub and I was seeking to expand it, if only a little. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.139.20.252 ( talk) 16:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC).
Thank you for the notice. Although the uninsured driver thing was inconclusive, at least we proved something. Anyways, as long as the Jeff Defender and his socks stay inactive in RFA, things will be fine. Wooyi Talk, Editor review 19:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
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Stanton, you have an "attribution needed" notice against the first para. of the White article, re his being 'considered' one of the most popular players ever" yet the Davis article has nothing against the claim that he is 'considered' one of the most successful players ever. Do you see any problems with this?
If we were to add that, from the crowds that attend White's matches and exhibitions, he is widely 'considered' .... or that, based on his world title and other championship wins, Davis is widely considered......, how would that fit in with Wiki policy? bigpad 08:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
This has nothing to do with my personal AWB scripts - it's a built-in feature of AWB. If you're unhappy about it, plesse raise on the AWB discussion page. Colonies Chris 07:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to instill some procedure into Glossary of cue sports terms. We're kind of getting to the point where this article needs to be sourced to hell-and-back or it'll become an AfD target, and we're also getting to the point where more than just two editors are interested in it. I'd like to suggest that henceforth new additions (and deletions, and major entry re-writes) be proposed in the relevant "proposals" talk sections. I'm committing to using them myself. While I think for the short term it's going to be three to five editors paying any attention at all, it's still a good start toward establishing some form of process to avoid later accusations along the lines of WP:OWN, a concern I've had for some time now (based on some really nasty AfD action I've observed starting around last Nov.) Disclaimer: I also have some nitpicks about your latest round of additions, and would rather have talked them out, and would rather now talk them out, than go in and do a bossy revert, which even a month ago I probably would have. >;-) The point being, I think the profile has very recently become high enough with that article that some slower consensus-seeking vs. faster WP:BOLD wikihaviour is probably called for now. Thoughts? — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 09:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
PS: A radically different way of putting this is also that about once every couple of months we get a noob come in and add/change/delete stuff like mad, and I think part of this is because there's little evidence of any process on the talk page, and a big pile of "do what thou willt" evidence to the contrary. That needs to change or things are going get really messy-like next time this happens. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont ‹(-¿-)› 10:02, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Just you know, the username Klp88 was blocked indefinitely due to the reasons stated in WP:RFCN. Spellcast 12:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Nope, and has me a bit puzzled too. I'm provisionally chalking it up to me doing too sleepy to notice that AWB was doing that, and more to the point, wasn't even doing any stub-retagging (d'oh). Alai 18:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
You did a good job last night. 88.104.4.186 18:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Please do not ignore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ireland_national_rugby_union_team#Flags_and_shamrocks when making edits to Irish rugby player articles. Thanks Weejack48 22:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Rather than tweaking the existing wording, please have a look at the draft new wording, and comment if you wish. See talk page. Tony 00:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I think that image you removed from the Liam Neeson article was suppose to be there. Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation states that that image "should be placed on articles about people that have no current free image". So you probably shouldn't have removed it, since it is suppose to be there. 70.17.153.232 04:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Surely we're all allowed to change our mind and think again. Geni's protect reason is giving me second thought. Where exactly is this template used- I've never seen it... WjB scribe 06:19, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Please note that the above project page is currently being proposed for deletion. The discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Linkification, if you would wish to take part in the discussion. Thank you. John Carter 01:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey - In regards to our previous discussion on group noms to change naming conventions, I thought you might be interested in this UCFD i started. VegaDark 03:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I've suggested getting the Working Group together at Wikipedia_talk:Attribution/Working_Group to start talking about any potential compromise on the attribution policy issue. Perahaps you can add the page to your watchlist. I have also mentioned this page in the community discussion, so there is public awareness of this discussion. Hopefully you will be willing to participate. Thanks. zadignose 19:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)