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Hi. Thanks for the support in the archived section I made last Saturday I think it was. For a while, I've been involved in a discussion over whether Dead Rising 1 and 2 were survival horror here. I thought it was closed and shut. Someone new popped up recently and launched something that seemed possibly like a personal attack. Was it? My responses here and here I hope didn't cross the line of personal attacks themselves? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 15:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Xeno- The new newsletter is ready to go. Would you mind delivering it? Here's the current issue. ( Guyinblack25 talk 02:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC))
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Per "As this page and its related subpagesc are automatically released under the GFDL, you are free (and encouraged) to copy whatever you wish, but I'd appreciate a quick note letting me know." I am letting you know that I have shamelessly stolen user talk:Xeno/Editnotice to use on my talk page. Cheers! t'shael chat 20:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
... but... but destroying Wikipedia isn't against policy. Pout. SHEFFIELDSTEEL TALK 19:47, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Re I had noticed some filters said disallow and others said warn in their heuristics; mine said warn, and that I could ignore the warning, and post anyway by hitting "save page." When I tried to save, it would not post, but kept returning to the same warning.
I did vacate the cache, clear history, delete cookies, turn off the computer, change browsers and the rest while doing the long list of edits in my abuse filter log, in case it was due to my browser settings.
In addition, the last administrator's noticeboard incidents tag on my account goes with another IP. It's not even an edit made by this IP. The program should not be attaching warnings to the wrong account.
At least, unlike anybot, it's victims are insiders, not the readers.
-- 69.226.103.13 ( talk) 06:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
A worthwhile article I think and something I am always bashing on about so although ChrisRDRT wrote it I am kinda the instigator! (But didn't suggest he wrote it, that credit goes to him.) I have subbed it and so you may wish to cast your eye over it once more.
ChrisRDRT particularly focuses on mass edits but actually it applies to every edit, I am kinda a serial incrememntal editor (see for example the nineteen edits I made to Ipswich to Ely Line the other day) but EVERY EDIT STANDS ON ITS OWN FEET i.e. at any point, a reader looking at that article will see an article that is more correct, more intelligible, and more appropriate than the previous version, you don't step backwards to go forwards. That can take some planning.
I have a bit of an essay on this on my user page and I might incorporate a little of that into this article since, as I say, I don't think it necesarily is confined to broad shallow edits but also deep narrow ones. So when I work on translating an article, for example, I do it bit by bit and each edit makes the article a little better. Not perfect of course, but it does not make it WORSE.
Best wishes and thanks for all your good work. SimonTrew ( talk) 17:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind closing this post for me? A couple editors, User:Hersfold (an admin) and User:User:Mrschimpf have said that the section requires no admin action. I attempted three times to boldly close the thread, but was reverted by User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (who started it). Since Hersfold has said it requires no admin action, having an admin close it would look better than me trying again. If you wish not to get in the middle, I will completely understand. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:40, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Per User talk:Vianello#As for some advices ( permalink), an admin from the Vietnamese Wikipedia could use some advice about dealing with page-move vandals. Since the admin that was asked doesn't know what to do to combat this vandalism, I've contacted you to see if you can give him some advice. If you can help, please reply at User talk:Vinhtantran#Re: Mass vandalism (to keep discussion centralized since I've posted this message at the talk pages of several admins). Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 00:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
This wouldn't disallow people from uploading images would it? Cause I upload, with F-URs, a good many for radio stations and television stations. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:36, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I was browsing the Portal (video game) and Narbacular Drop talk pages, and I noticed an edit war from which you had emerged victorious. I'll just say... Any normal person would have given up against such a recalcitrant opposing party. I usually ask myself "Is it worth it?" To me, it wasn't. To you it was. You rightfully defended yourself (dignifiably if I may add) and for that, you've earned my respect. Robert M Johnson ( talk) 16:50, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, can you please see the above case about Gossip--girls-xoxo ( talk · contribs)? You have blocked the user as a sock, and CheckUser has confirmed that they are unrelated. Cheers, Tiptoety talk 03:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Can you look at Special:Contributions/Hyper Lulz Beam and tell me if my duck sensor needs to be re-calibrated? -t'shaél chat 20:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Xeno, I really like the way you're archiving the Rorschach talk page and maintaining the section headers, especially the section headers that describe a specific argument. But I think you might have let one of the headers slip away into the archives by accident. [3] Argument Pro #5 is missing. I'd like to think that future readers will be able to look back and quickly and easily satisfy themselves that we considered all aspects. If they find their thoughts represented, then maybe that will inform them about the need to bring up old subjects, again. I know I've found this to be quite daunting. Your help is appreciated as I continue to lay down a structure upon which to better view the the arguments of my fellow wikipedians. Danglingdiagnosis ( talk) 07:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Full protection of a current event would be a bad idea, and I'm not quite sure about how "unquestionable" you want to get. These are pretty clearly in violation of the NFCC, and it would be nice if someone else would help remove them. Who's heading for a 3RR violation? J Milburn ( talk) 23:16, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey Xeno,
I have another task that could use somebody who uses tools. This AFD has 140 articles nominated in a mass nomination. I closed the AFD because with 140 items it is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss any of them intelligently, but I really do not want to go through 140 articles and removing the AFD notice tag and placing the "kept" tag on the talk page. Any chance you (or one of your TPS) could use one of your tools to do so?--- Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 00:58, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Wow. I just got my userpage vandalised. I'm like... popular or something. I believe the edit summary was referring to this , which I undid here (notice the edit summary). He has blanked his talk page to remove warnings on multiple occasions and, though I haven't had time to look through everything, doesn't seem to be very constructive an editor. *has a strange sense of glee that he got vandalised* -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 11:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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Because of all the sad faces I keep seeing recently. :) Cheers, your Friendly Neighborhood Talk Page Stalker 08:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC) |
Hey Xeno, thanks for your help. I tried emailing you that United Furniture Warehouse Article, let me know you you can't access it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.185.191.18 ( talk) 17:59, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Two of my articles, The Armed and These Are Lights were deleted yesterday for lack of notability. I sourced a newspaper article and a few official websites for the band and their album was produced by one of the most famous producers in their genre and the article had more content than those for some other similarly notable(in my opinion) bands, however I guess it wasn't enough to establish notability.
Regardless, can you please userfy the two pages for me so I can have the content off of them that I wrote because I would like to use it for a blurb elsewhere?
Thank you. Ashgromnies ( talk) 18:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for running the bot job. I can parse out a list of everyone who has participated if you'd like so that we can make sure not to leave anyone out, though we'd have to exclude the people already notified or who have participated in the new format. Gigs ( talk) 01:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I ran into the problem with a generic quantification wording such as 'common', 'mostly', 'best', 'worst', etc. as needing sourcing when there's some disagreement. "common among English speakers" maybe source it with the Google search results to back up the 'common'? This page has been surprisingly controversial so it's a suggestion to avoid a debate over the phrasing. Alatari ( talk) 04:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello thon in my back, I quote "Take two and call me in the morning" and since your comments are important to the disscussion, please write comments in the on going disscusion. GamerPro64 ( talk) 15:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently tried to upload a page about Feefo but it has been deleted. Could you please get it reposted or explain what changes need to be made? I have written the copy to follow the format and style of a number of other businesses posted on Wikipedia including Xerox, Amazon, Diebold etc and it has been written in a factual style simply explaining what the company is and what its product does without making any claims. I understand that you may not believe that Feefo is of enough interest to merit such a listing. However, it is a brand that is being seen on a large number of third party websites and has been used by many thousands of consumers in the UK. An increasing number of large brands such as eBay, Amazon, Debenhams, Asda etc are recognizing the value of customer feedback systems. Feefo is one of the leading providers of customer feedback systems and it is used by over 100 UK online retailers and websites. Over 325,000 customer feedback comments have been posted on these various websites by UK consumers through Feefo. Feefo is currently undergoing a rapid expansion programme and is launching in the USA, Germany and Australia. It is a brand that will be seen on a growing number of consumer facing websites, providing a kitemark of quality and trust for consumers. It is therefore a term and brand that is likely to be searched by consumers worldwide and Wikipedia is one of the first places they will look. Please can you reconsider the merits of having an entry for Feefo. Many thanks, Ed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edward Lennox ( talk • contribs) 16:19, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
[4]. Please note that not only does this IP not respond on the article's talk page, it does not even respond on its own talk page! -- RCS ( talk) 12:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Also do User:Allstarecho/wplgbt.js. Thanks. - ALLST✰R▼ echo wuz here 17:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Your recent edit summary at AN made me smile. When I first encountered the outage yesterday, I clicked on the fundraising link. Except that was down too because of the outage. Doh!-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your filter work. The abuse filter is a permanent record. The first reaction is that the user is a vandal, crook, pedophile, terrorist. That's why is it shocking when one sees their own username in the list! User F203 ( talk) 18:09, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Don't slap me with one. Law type! snype? 09:08, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thanks for the low-down. We was mentally unstable, so since we have been on new medication we think we want to give it another try. We'll see how it goes. -- Street Scholar ( talk) 18:45, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
There is a clear difference from people encouraging me in my position and posting second hand smears against someone else that, if posted by the original person, would be a clear violation of civil. Also, I wouldn't disrupt an RfA or RfB with such rumors and innuendo. Ottava Rima ( talk) 19:19, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello My name is Harald. I am trying to create an article but have a question and I would be most appreciative if you can help me with that. How do you paste a video file in the aricle? Can it be linked (URL) to another source/web page?
Can i create article in two different langueses let's say: English and Deutsch both about one classical artist (conductor)
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicfan1977 ( talk • contribs) 01:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
== External links == [http://www.video-location.com/video1/ Description of video]
Hello, Xeno. I'm a longtime Wikipedia user and created an account some time ago. I would like to begin contributing to the site but am intimidated by... well, everything. I found out about the adoption programme and would like your guidance. Thank you! (Please note that I am contacting several adopters at once) BlazerKnight ( talk) 01:47, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I have been poking around in your Wikiadopt page and it was extremely useful. Especially learning about the gadgets tab in preferences. Question: you mention "Other types of pages are graded outside this criteria. Lists are no more than that, long lists of topics that all relate to the main theme of the list. Lists don't provide any prose, and any references are there simply to confirm that the topic does meet the criteria for inclusion." What about lists like List of Bleach episodes (season 9) which not only has episode synopses, it is rated as a featured list. Is this a new development and the info you posted outdated?
Also I plan on uploading a low-res, personal screenshot for Ragnarok Online (from the Southeast-Asian version), transcluding Template:Non-free game screenshot and Template:Non-free use rationale, filling all needed fields. Any part of the procedure that I missed? Retroactively signed, BlazerKnight ( talk) 01:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Heya. Just wondering if there was a way to chat with you in real-time? Live Messenger is my communication tool of choice. I've done IRC before but don't currently have a chat client installed. Just as a platform to ask trivial questions. Of course, it's okay if you don't want to. BlazerKnight ( talk) 04:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I tried it in the public sandbox. Anyway, I see what the difference is now, but what practical applications would substitution have? Also, regarding the userbox itself, do you like the weather condition, purple prose and/or laughing at purple prose, a la the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest? :P BlazerKnight ( talk) 02:15, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah. Gigs ( talk) 23:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
-- I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{ Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 15:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I usurped this account with T'Shael. Please see here. :) Javért | Talk 15:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could review my recent RFA activity when you have the chance and maybe provide a few pointers. I was also fixing up some of my nomination questions when I remembered that we had an earlier run in on the whole New York State controversy. I was the one who notified you about it and I think that you moved it back. Thanks a lot. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 23:39, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for the text number which you left at Wikipedia: Village pump. ACEOREVIVED ( talk) 21:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
There is someone editing from CBS Radio HQ in New York via 170.20.11.116 and has been vandalizing pages. This has been happening every couple days, not enough to take to AIV or even ANI. Since this is a clear COI, is there something that can be done? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 23:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
While I don't agree with your interpretation of things or your decision to unblock those three accounts, I do not really have any objection to it. With the slashdot article, and the half dozen articles that followed it, we are basically in a flood of static and these three will not add much. Either I am wrong about at least two of those accounts being sock puppets of an existing user, or their continued editing will eventually betray which editor. Either way the result will be interesting. While generally on the same side of this debate I have very happy to see that we differ in some areas. I am not a fan of polarized debates, I think it is essential that there be nuance in the opinion of each person to come to a truly reasonable conclusion. Keep up the good work. Chillum 02:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Though perhaps you might have consulted the blocking administrator first. It is the considerate thing to do, and our blocking policy does recommend this practice when unblocking users. I accept that in cases of unambiguous error that such a consultation is not needed, but I think there is certainly some ambiguity here. Not a huge deal in my books, but I cannot speak for Jayron32. It occurs to me in hindsight that you may have consulted with Jayron via IRC or another venue, if so then kindly smack me with a trout.
Chillum 02:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Like I said, not a huge deal for me. Can I assume that the private evidence that you refer to is that P1 and ZG both had separate e-mail addresses issued by the same institution that they were able to receive a message from and respond to? If so, and these addresses are in line with their stories then I can understand your point of view. I am not asking for any details that would comprise privacy mind you.
I fully understand the need for private evidence in such circumstances and am willing to accept your interpretation and description of that evidence. I have relied on such evidence myself in the past. While I will try to assume good faith I will also keep my eyes open for the tell tale hints that true sock puppets invariably drop. Chillum 03:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Not that, after reviewing the full bredth of the discussion you had at the relevent talk pages, I necessarily disagree with you unblocking him, it would have been something of a courtesy to at least notify me that you were considering doing so. In general, its a good idea to bring the blocking admin into the discussion. -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 03:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I know nothing about slashdot but went on the website. In a section entitled "Your rights online" (clearly implying that the side in favor of suppression wants to limit people's rights) Gigs wrote ""Editors on Wikipedia are engaged in an epic battle over a few piece of paper smeared with ink. The 10 inkblot images that form the classic Rorschach test have fallen into the public domain, and so including them on Wikipedia would seem to be a simple choice. However, some editors have cited the American Psychological Association's statement that exposure of the images to the public is an unethical act, since prior exposure to the images could render them ineffective as a psychological test. Is the censorship of material appropriate, when the public exposure to that material may render it useless?" Now, if I went on a psychology listserve or website with a comparable message, I'd probably be blocked or sanctioned as quickly as dolphinfin was after having been falsely accused of sockpuppetry. Indeed, some people were even preemptively threatening the psychologists involved in the ROrschach discussion not to do such things (asking newcomer-psychologists in favor of suppression, "how did you find out about this discussion?"). But apparently canvassing by Gigs is acceptable? Why the double standard? Faustian ( talk) 14:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
They're back. Since you got involved last time, I figured you might want to know. I've attempted to reason with him/her once more, but I don't forsee me having much luck given his reaction last time. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 15:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
...is a [[survival horror]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://xyz.com|title=Dead Rising is a survival horror}}</ref>
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I have started migrating userboxes. Just did the first 3. And I'll be doing more today. I'll try to finish all of them today (in the Category:Jewish Wikipedians corner I adopted).
If the guys running bots to update the links need some reminder, could you please take care of that? Debresser ( talk) 05:54, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Should we also move school related templates? Like {{ User YU}}. Could you find a link to where this is mentioned? Debresser ( talk) 05:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Since this whole migration thing comes from the Germans, I had a look what they do with school related templates. They have kept them as templates. If so, I'm finished. I've moved 13 templates to userspace. I'll update you here, and you'll inform User:Xenobot/workspace. You need the old or the new names? Debresser ( talk) 06:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Debresser ( talk) 14:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
It's not going to work with AWB. Some pages transclude from the template and some from the userbox, and AWB doesn't catch those that transclude redirects, etc. Or manual (which is a no), or your bot (whenever you'll be ready to start it). Debresser ( talk) 23:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, this is it: the edit-warring IP is back, still refusing to renounce his scare quotes and to take into account what is written on the talk page. Could you semi-protect the article now? Thank you, -- RCS ( talk) 07:39, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
To make me happy, could you just unblock it for me. I noticed you bothered to restore his talkpage. Thanks, Pzrmd ( talk) 11:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
This guy has been warned numerous times for changing the distributor name in film-related articles such as this, despite being told again and again that the original distributor is what is labelled rather than what they currently are. While I don't mind all that much in terms of getting my edit count up, it's getting frustrating if the guy is just blind to edit summaries or if he's simply an idiot with nothing better to do. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 12:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I think we need a bot to help with this issue. Any chance you could come and take a look and offer a suggestion? Thanks. Chimpanzee - User | Talk | Contribs 22:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of User:Programmer13/Vandalism Patrol. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Drew Smith What I've done 04:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
per [6] do you plan to start an MfD sometime? Maybe answer this on my talk page, Jack already started a thread which is how I became aware again. Thanks. ++ Lar: t/ c 14:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi- Need your help and clarification about which template to use for creating stub templates. I had updated the instructions here: [7] and it got reverted, stating that the metastub templates were not deprecated. Could you straighten this out? Thanks much -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 01:12, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
In the past, you have raised a concern about my talk page "wizard" system. I have changed this to an FAQ-based system ( User talk:Stifle/FAQs), and would appreciate your feedback at User talk:Stifle/FAQs/feedback or elsewhere. Stifle ( talk) 12:02, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
What the sodding hell is wrong with this citation?
<ref name=L4D Logo><ref>{{cite journal|last = Amrich|first = Dan|date = July 2, 2009|title = Only on Xbox 360: Left 4 Dead 2|journal = Official Xbox Magazine UK|issue = 49|page = 43|publisher = Future Publishing|accessdate = July 21, 2009}}</ref>
I've tried everything I can think of, but I've given up. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 14:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
← Yes, I find myself typically writing foolish things prior to finishing my morning coffee. =) – xeno talk 12:44, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
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Re Sure, it should be very easy to add, as it already does this for CSD A1 and A3. I'll add A7 right now, are there any other CSDs you think it should ignore after page length has substantially increased? Cheers - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 17:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Please see this thread and consider giving new page creators some breathing room before tagging their pages for deletion. In this case, you tagged within 2 minutes of creation. Unless it's an attack page or something, give the editor some time to work with the article. Thanks, – xeno talk 17:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
That's the first time I have ever seen someone nom an AfD, then !vote to keep it. I understand your rationale, but it still made me chuckle. Thanks, Doc Tropics 18:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
This has nothing specific to do with the issue we discussed earlier, but I was would appreciate it if (as an active admin) you could give me your two cents on an issue I have discussed with other editors regarding AfD debates. The concern is, with the increase in traffic Wikipedia has seen over the last few years the proportion of editors concerned with notability seems to be diminishing rapidly. There are far more people editing on Wikipedia as a lark, that are disinterested in core principles such as notability and verifiability. Those that are working to improve the project as a whole seem to be relegated to a minority. And as the more project-minded editors are becoming a minority it is becoming harder and harder to maintain notability and accuracy of information in articles. I guess the question I am rambling towards is; As AfD debates are settled via a consensus, what happens when the majority of Wikipedians are unconcerned about foundational guidelines? I have talked to several senior editors in the past who have quit after debating extremely obvious AfD candidates (intelligently and calmly referring to Wikipedia policy) but have been drowned out in the consensus by people that didn't seem to be concerned with them (the term one such editor used to describe the situation as that the project is "fundamentally flawed"). This is an issue that has been of growing concern with me and has been the largest contributing factor for my moving from editing individual articles to new page and recent change patrol. I would be very interested if you could offer me any insights you have gleaned with your time editing here. Again, I know you're busy, but I thank you in advance for your time. LeilaniLad ( talk) 18:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, from looking at this discussion there does seem to be consensus to rollback the placeholder removal. Are you still willing to do that? I tried to do it myself but couldn't get it to work. The only difference I had with the script was that my browser automatically closed after I deleted an image/page. :) Garion96 (talk) 21:24, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
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1 16:29, 13 July 2009 Alice Stewart 2 14:34, 13 July 2009 Deborah Anderson 3 05:00, 13 July 2009 Dee Roscioli 4 04:41, 13 July 2009 Anna Madeley 5 03:39, 13 July 2009 Amina Annabi 6 15:17, 12 July 2009 Barbara Turner (basketball) 7 15:06, 12 July 2009 Valora Noland 8 13:49, 12 July 2009 Lisa Aziz 9 12:12, 12 July 2009 Susan Denberg 10 10:20, 12 July 2009 Trini Alvarado 11 13:07, 11 July 2009 Neena Gupta 12 12:26, 11 July 2009 Marlene Johnson 13 22:46, 8 July 2009 Shunza 14 13:17, 8 July 2009 Brittany Bock 15 02:51, 8 July 2009 Chris Connor 16 02:12, 8 July 2009 Esther McVey 17 01:57, 8 July 2009 Jennifer Rizzotti 18 17:55, 7 July 2009 Inka Grings 19 17:44, 7 July 2009 Joan Diener 20 14:01, 7 July 2009 Jan Francis 21 13:43, 7 July 2009 Joyce Jimenez 22 13:32, 7 July 2009 Rain Pryor 23 11:40, 7 July 2009 Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill 24 16:02, 6 July 2009 Justine Greening 25 09:31, 6 July 2009 Nicole DeHuff 26 07:06, 6 July 2009 Lesley Judd 27 06:47, 6 July 2009 Busy Philipps 28 02:46, 6 July 2009 Nancy Sit 29 00:32, 29 June 2009 Edward McMillan-Scott 30 06:17, 24 June 2009 Giovanni Lajolo 31 03:47, 24 June 2009 Frankie Banali 32 03:46, 24 June 2009 Jerry Uelsmann 33 01:58, 24 June 2009 Carlos Gomes Júnior 34 01:47, 24 June 2009 Steven Isserlis 35 04:32, 23 June 2009 Josef Masopust 36 04:18, 23 June 2009 Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory |
I thought you were going to create a bot. The best way to do this is with a bot. Are you doing it by hand or AWB instead?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 02:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I will respectfully defer to your judgment and I won't object either way. But please also keep in mind the recent block evasion/socking: [8], [9]. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 04:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering if you're bot could do this task. I'm asking everyone in the Template substitution bots category, so if someone already accepted the task (besides me), just ignore this. Thanks. AHRtbA== Talk 13:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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For being so helpful and saving a ton of time using Xenobot to tag WP:INDIANA's many untagged articles, I thank you. Cheers my Canadian friend! :) — Charles Edward ( Talk | Contribs) 14:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC) |
...very much for your recent assistance! I could eventually have accomplished that myself, but "eventually" could have been a dauntingly long time. Thanks again :) Doc Tropics 20:15, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Re With pleasure. Question for you - does that take care of the "unreferenced" issue? -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I just noticed you have been restoring image placeholders that had been removed with the link to an ANI discussion that asserts that no decision to remove these has been made. That is actually incorrect. A decision was reached to remove these placeholders at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Image placeholders last year. It appears that nobody has gotten around to doing it yet though. Just thought I'd give you a heads up. Plumadesabiduría ( talk) 14:46, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I saw that was semi-protected. That underlying IP range has also been rangeblocked for 1 week. I'm not sure if both are necessary. Perhaps you could lift the semi-protection unless you think that the IPs will start hopping around like moles. Thank you, MuZemike 16:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, how are you? I saw
this edit and though I'd make a small remark. It would be better to put leave the template {WPBiography}}
on top and put new templates below them, because it contains the important message with guidelines about biographies of living persons.
Debresser (
talk) 20:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Why do a few Wikipedians spell vote with an exclamation mark prefix? • S • C • A • R • C • E • 15:02, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Good day to you, I was woindering if there was already a BOT that does stuff with images. I have been working fairly closely with the Alt text issue that has been enforced lately and its possible that a bot could be useful for some things that are related to alt text of images. I was thinking about starting to work on one but since you seem to be in the know on bot related atuff and AWB I thought I would ask you if there was one already. Here are the things that I think I could reasonably do with an AWB assisted bot, but there are probably more.
Now 1, 2 and 4 would require regex and or a custom module, all would need consensus before I did them and I know I would need to get permission to run a bot and do a test run and I think we should address each one individually, but I think they are all doable. I was also thinking that having a page similar to the AWB typos page that shows what the bot is looking for would be useful. Sorry for the novel.-- Kumioko ( talk) 15:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
(undent)Ok thanks I will ask him what he thinks as well, the reason 3 becomes an issue is because I have seen in several cases where people slide alt text in before the caption. I have also seen.-- Kumioko ( talk) 16:46, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
A few comments. A lot of these seem to be cosmetic changes. While arguably helpful for editors, most of them will have absolutely no impact for readers (or on the HTML output of the page).
Also, as I'm sure you're aware, changing Image: to File: or {{ flagicon}} to {{ flag}} will have no impact. The syntax order, as far as I'm aware, has absolutely no impact on rendering. If our documentation says otherwise, it's likely wrong, though you're free to show me test cases. :-)
Adding a tag to articles needing alt text would be crazy. (a) I would imagine 99% of articles would be tagged; and (b) tagging would simply disrupt readers and provide very little benefit to editors.
Point 5 seems reasonable enough if I understand it correctly, though using a bot in place of a proper software solution (where alt text could be applied once for all image usage instances) seems a bit silly. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 17:08, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
What do you think about a new user rights group that gives members the ability not to leave a redirect behind when moving pages? You're a sensible chap, so I wanted to get your opinion. Thanks, Javert I knit sweaters, yo! 00:02, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
←In addition to having demonstrated a need for a "no redirect" right, I think time would be a major factor in granting it. Twenty-five hundred edits and three months, for instance. And apologies to xeno for hijacking his talk page. :) Javert I knit sweaters, yo! 00:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
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User:Xeno/Archive 16 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, Peace, A record of your Day will always be kept here. |
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:04, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
No objections to the changes - the text was deliberately left as plain as possible so that it could be manipulated in a text editor as need be for optimal bot formatting. If your changes accomplish that, then so much the better. Does this mean that you will be handling the bot request? :) Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 03:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Your Xenobot had the following notation for the Matilda Hunter (fictional character) page: closing AFD per Balloonman, result was KEEP without prejudice to individual re-nom. However, it appears as though someone's notation for speedy deletion took effect already and deleted the article. Can you explain why an article that was intentionally marked as KEEP then be subjected to a speedy delete? Thanks, Shymian ( talk) 09:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
On February 19, it seems you removed semi-protection, but the log doesn't show the initial protection. It doesn't appear the article was moved. Do you know why this is? Cheers, Enigma msg 11:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. In light of recent events and community concerns about the way in which content is transferred I have proposed a new wikiproject which would attempt to address any of the concerns and done in an environment where a major group of editors work together to transfer articles from other wikipedias in the most effective way possible without BLP or referencing problems. Please offer your thoughts at the proposal and whether or not you support or oppose the idea of a wikiproject dedicated to organizing a more efficient process of getting articles in different languages translated into English. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:59, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
* Cough* Chimpanzee - User | Talk | Contribs 13:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Can you or you bot organize my userboxes? Should I use the "|" symbol, or it just does'nt work for me? If it does'nt work for me, can you do that? JMBZ-12 ( talk) 16:38, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi xeno. I have not seen Franamax for a couple of days now. I finished updating the article to the best of my ability. User:Igorberger/Sandbox . I am just wondering what to do next? Thanks, Igor Berger ( talk) 16:33, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic, Just dropped by to say, i'm kindof back. Probably get back into Wikipedia probably when my own site is complete. ConnorJack ( talk) 19:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Where are the notes and what is going on?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 21:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
...for the kind words. They are greatly appreciated, as were your kind words earlier (in case I wasn't suitably grateful for them at the time...likely not, given the state of my so-called mind last week).
I just needed a couple of days to back off and cool down. Though this really wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision...it's been a while brewing, and things just came to a head with the ANI. Ah, well...I'm back, now, and don't intend leaving any time soon. :-)
Once again, many thanks. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 02:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I forgot about that. I've since added five appropriate tags to the page in addition to one that was already on there
• S • C
• A • R
• C • E • 02:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
In lieu of the wikibreak of Balloonman, I was wondering if you could tell me if you think that I should start up the ol' RFA preparation engine so that I can throw my hat in the ring in the next week or so. If so, would you be so gracious as to nominate me? Please answer at the time which best fits your schedule.
P.S.-Forgive the fanciness, I think that it adds more excitement to these rather drab talk pages. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 01:39, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
← Co-noms are suppos'd to go on before the transclusion. Oh well, saved me some writing =) – xeno talk 03:26, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
All those guys were done back when I had no idea what I was doing... I prodded a bunch more today, in fact :P If all my prods go through I'll have ~15 articles total I've created in my wiki-career. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk) 21:55, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, some of the stub templates transclude Portal:Switzerland/Stub that I use to generate Portal:Switzerland/New articles. As you are standardizing the messages, I was wondering in which part of the template I should put it, e.g. in Template:Switzerland-politician-stub. BTW thanks for your voice of reason these days! -- User: Docu at 04:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I delete pages? Can I delete pages that belong to me (i.e. user page (though that's not what I'm deleting)) or do I have to go to an admin for everything? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 10:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Might be a good idea to protect the page. -- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Would you please block me indefinitely and full-protect my userspace? -- JBC3 ( talk) 20:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hah, sorry about that! Staxringold talk contribs 21:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to take a moment to delivery a personal thank you (not "thank spam" :)) for your involvement in my RfA. (It passed 117-2-7 in case you hadn't seen.) It was an honor for me to have your support, as I have long considered you to be among the top administrators on Wikipedia. I appreciated your kind words about by bots and clue level and look forward to serving the community in my new role.
Thanks again, ThaddeusB ( talk) 04:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for posting on my page. I had given up on the issue, and frankly on the wikipedia itself. But I am willing to give it another try.
I have to say that Ward3000 work is truly commendable. He is truly a trooper. I can't believe he has been soooo patient for all this time. I don't doubt that he has lost his temper a few times (who wouldn't in all that time).
I am just concerned that the discussion format is terribly unorganized and it favors rambling vs rational argument. There are many arguments being brought up on both sides, as soon as any progress starts to be seen in one argument the losing side becomes disinterested and goes on to another argument. So there is never a conclusion.
I pointed out how it was to everybody's benefit to reach a true consensus instead of strongarming the others and that a prerequisite was that people should be willing to look for the greater good. I thought about blowing the whistle on this issue before but I did not because I thought more harm would come than good. But now the devil is completely out of the bottle, I really do think that situations like this alienate many valuable contributors. If they are not alienated already, not just psychologists but scientists in general (I know the scientific community is not a cohesive group).
Anyway, I am willing to help to engage in a rational argument If you think it's worth it.-- Dela Rabadilla ( talk) 03:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've seen this question raised at ANI and AN a few times, but never paid close attention. I know you're there fairly routinely. :) What's the consensus on handling admin status for admins who go bye bye? OTRS got an e-mail about a block issues in 2006, and I went to check on the blocking admin only to find that (though still an admin), he hasn't edited in... Well, in two days, it will be three years. Is the community all cool with this, or should somebody look into removing his admin status until and unless he decides to come back? ( [13]) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I change it so that it's more colourful? Like yours: you've put it in bold and "talk" is in superscript. Other have totally changed what the thing says. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 15:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
<font color="(insert
web color here)"> </font>
Ignore the second part. Most folk use Firefox which doesn't underline =) –
xeno
talk 16:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I know this issue has been drawn out to the point where every concievable argument pro and con has likely been covered, but there is one point I could not find in any of the (many) pages of discussion. Where there has been discussion of "unintentional harm" cause to readers who see the images without meaning to, no one seems to have brought up the point of people using the information presented to intentionally skew the results of said test. I have a cousin who does psychological work for the New York penal system and he stated that this test is widely used to help establish the mental health of inmates. He was less concerned that the images were posted than the fact that common interpritations for these images were included as well. His concern was that anyone who wished to skew the test towards an inaccurate favorable result would be readily assisted by the ease of availability of this information if it is included in Wikipedia. This is not so much a concern of mine, as my personal opinions don't enter into my actions on Wikipedia. However, it was (what appeared to be) a valid concern and I had not seen it included in the discussion. As an adendum, the reason I am posting this on your talk page is that I could not determine where on the voluminous discussion page of this article it would be appropriate to insert a new argument. Sorry to take up your time. LeilaniLad ( talk) 02:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Thanks for the support in the archived section I made last Saturday I think it was. For a while, I've been involved in a discussion over whether Dead Rising 1 and 2 were survival horror here. I thought it was closed and shut. Someone new popped up recently and launched something that seemed possibly like a personal attack. Was it? My responses here and here I hope didn't cross the line of personal attacks themselves? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 15:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Xeno- The new newsletter is ready to go. Would you mind delivering it? Here's the current issue. ( Guyinblack25 talk 02:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC))
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Per "As this page and its related subpagesc are automatically released under the GFDL, you are free (and encouraged) to copy whatever you wish, but I'd appreciate a quick note letting me know." I am letting you know that I have shamelessly stolen user talk:Xeno/Editnotice to use on my talk page. Cheers! t'shael chat 20:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
... but... but destroying Wikipedia isn't against policy. Pout. SHEFFIELDSTEEL TALK 19:47, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Re I had noticed some filters said disallow and others said warn in their heuristics; mine said warn, and that I could ignore the warning, and post anyway by hitting "save page." When I tried to save, it would not post, but kept returning to the same warning.
I did vacate the cache, clear history, delete cookies, turn off the computer, change browsers and the rest while doing the long list of edits in my abuse filter log, in case it was due to my browser settings.
In addition, the last administrator's noticeboard incidents tag on my account goes with another IP. It's not even an edit made by this IP. The program should not be attaching warnings to the wrong account.
At least, unlike anybot, it's victims are insiders, not the readers.
-- 69.226.103.13 ( talk) 06:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
A worthwhile article I think and something I am always bashing on about so although ChrisRDRT wrote it I am kinda the instigator! (But didn't suggest he wrote it, that credit goes to him.) I have subbed it and so you may wish to cast your eye over it once more.
ChrisRDRT particularly focuses on mass edits but actually it applies to every edit, I am kinda a serial incrememntal editor (see for example the nineteen edits I made to Ipswich to Ely Line the other day) but EVERY EDIT STANDS ON ITS OWN FEET i.e. at any point, a reader looking at that article will see an article that is more correct, more intelligible, and more appropriate than the previous version, you don't step backwards to go forwards. That can take some planning.
I have a bit of an essay on this on my user page and I might incorporate a little of that into this article since, as I say, I don't think it necesarily is confined to broad shallow edits but also deep narrow ones. So when I work on translating an article, for example, I do it bit by bit and each edit makes the article a little better. Not perfect of course, but it does not make it WORSE.
Best wishes and thanks for all your good work. SimonTrew ( talk) 17:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind closing this post for me? A couple editors, User:Hersfold (an admin) and User:User:Mrschimpf have said that the section requires no admin action. I attempted three times to boldly close the thread, but was reverted by User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (who started it). Since Hersfold has said it requires no admin action, having an admin close it would look better than me trying again. If you wish not to get in the middle, I will completely understand. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:40, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Per User talk:Vianello#As for some advices ( permalink), an admin from the Vietnamese Wikipedia could use some advice about dealing with page-move vandals. Since the admin that was asked doesn't know what to do to combat this vandalism, I've contacted you to see if you can give him some advice. If you can help, please reply at User talk:Vinhtantran#Re: Mass vandalism (to keep discussion centralized since I've posted this message at the talk pages of several admins). Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 00:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
This wouldn't disallow people from uploading images would it? Cause I upload, with F-URs, a good many for radio stations and television stations. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:36, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I was browsing the Portal (video game) and Narbacular Drop talk pages, and I noticed an edit war from which you had emerged victorious. I'll just say... Any normal person would have given up against such a recalcitrant opposing party. I usually ask myself "Is it worth it?" To me, it wasn't. To you it was. You rightfully defended yourself (dignifiably if I may add) and for that, you've earned my respect. Robert M Johnson ( talk) 16:50, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, can you please see the above case about Gossip--girls-xoxo ( talk · contribs)? You have blocked the user as a sock, and CheckUser has confirmed that they are unrelated. Cheers, Tiptoety talk 03:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Can you look at Special:Contributions/Hyper Lulz Beam and tell me if my duck sensor needs to be re-calibrated? -t'shaél chat 20:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Xeno, I really like the way you're archiving the Rorschach talk page and maintaining the section headers, especially the section headers that describe a specific argument. But I think you might have let one of the headers slip away into the archives by accident. [3] Argument Pro #5 is missing. I'd like to think that future readers will be able to look back and quickly and easily satisfy themselves that we considered all aspects. If they find their thoughts represented, then maybe that will inform them about the need to bring up old subjects, again. I know I've found this to be quite daunting. Your help is appreciated as I continue to lay down a structure upon which to better view the the arguments of my fellow wikipedians. Danglingdiagnosis ( talk) 07:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Full protection of a current event would be a bad idea, and I'm not quite sure about how "unquestionable" you want to get. These are pretty clearly in violation of the NFCC, and it would be nice if someone else would help remove them. Who's heading for a 3RR violation? J Milburn ( talk) 23:16, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey Xeno,
I have another task that could use somebody who uses tools. This AFD has 140 articles nominated in a mass nomination. I closed the AFD because with 140 items it is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss any of them intelligently, but I really do not want to go through 140 articles and removing the AFD notice tag and placing the "kept" tag on the talk page. Any chance you (or one of your TPS) could use one of your tools to do so?--- Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 00:58, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Wow. I just got my userpage vandalised. I'm like... popular or something. I believe the edit summary was referring to this , which I undid here (notice the edit summary). He has blanked his talk page to remove warnings on multiple occasions and, though I haven't had time to look through everything, doesn't seem to be very constructive an editor. *has a strange sense of glee that he got vandalised* -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 11:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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Because of all the sad faces I keep seeing recently. :) Cheers, your Friendly Neighborhood Talk Page Stalker 08:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC) |
Hey Xeno, thanks for your help. I tried emailing you that United Furniture Warehouse Article, let me know you you can't access it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.185.191.18 ( talk) 17:59, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Two of my articles, The Armed and These Are Lights were deleted yesterday for lack of notability. I sourced a newspaper article and a few official websites for the band and their album was produced by one of the most famous producers in their genre and the article had more content than those for some other similarly notable(in my opinion) bands, however I guess it wasn't enough to establish notability.
Regardless, can you please userfy the two pages for me so I can have the content off of them that I wrote because I would like to use it for a blurb elsewhere?
Thank you. Ashgromnies ( talk) 18:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for running the bot job. I can parse out a list of everyone who has participated if you'd like so that we can make sure not to leave anyone out, though we'd have to exclude the people already notified or who have participated in the new format. Gigs ( talk) 01:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I ran into the problem with a generic quantification wording such as 'common', 'mostly', 'best', 'worst', etc. as needing sourcing when there's some disagreement. "common among English speakers" maybe source it with the Google search results to back up the 'common'? This page has been surprisingly controversial so it's a suggestion to avoid a debate over the phrasing. Alatari ( talk) 04:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello thon in my back, I quote "Take two and call me in the morning" and since your comments are important to the disscussion, please write comments in the on going disscusion. GamerPro64 ( talk) 15:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently tried to upload a page about Feefo but it has been deleted. Could you please get it reposted or explain what changes need to be made? I have written the copy to follow the format and style of a number of other businesses posted on Wikipedia including Xerox, Amazon, Diebold etc and it has been written in a factual style simply explaining what the company is and what its product does without making any claims. I understand that you may not believe that Feefo is of enough interest to merit such a listing. However, it is a brand that is being seen on a large number of third party websites and has been used by many thousands of consumers in the UK. An increasing number of large brands such as eBay, Amazon, Debenhams, Asda etc are recognizing the value of customer feedback systems. Feefo is one of the leading providers of customer feedback systems and it is used by over 100 UK online retailers and websites. Over 325,000 customer feedback comments have been posted on these various websites by UK consumers through Feefo. Feefo is currently undergoing a rapid expansion programme and is launching in the USA, Germany and Australia. It is a brand that will be seen on a growing number of consumer facing websites, providing a kitemark of quality and trust for consumers. It is therefore a term and brand that is likely to be searched by consumers worldwide and Wikipedia is one of the first places they will look. Please can you reconsider the merits of having an entry for Feefo. Many thanks, Ed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edward Lennox ( talk • contribs) 16:19, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
[4]. Please note that not only does this IP not respond on the article's talk page, it does not even respond on its own talk page! -- RCS ( talk) 12:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Also do User:Allstarecho/wplgbt.js. Thanks. - ALLST✰R▼ echo wuz here 17:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Your recent edit summary at AN made me smile. When I first encountered the outage yesterday, I clicked on the fundraising link. Except that was down too because of the outage. Doh!-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your filter work. The abuse filter is a permanent record. The first reaction is that the user is a vandal, crook, pedophile, terrorist. That's why is it shocking when one sees their own username in the list! User F203 ( talk) 18:09, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Don't slap me with one. Law type! snype? 09:08, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thanks for the low-down. We was mentally unstable, so since we have been on new medication we think we want to give it another try. We'll see how it goes. -- Street Scholar ( talk) 18:45, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
There is a clear difference from people encouraging me in my position and posting second hand smears against someone else that, if posted by the original person, would be a clear violation of civil. Also, I wouldn't disrupt an RfA or RfB with such rumors and innuendo. Ottava Rima ( talk) 19:19, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello My name is Harald. I am trying to create an article but have a question and I would be most appreciative if you can help me with that. How do you paste a video file in the aricle? Can it be linked (URL) to another source/web page?
Can i create article in two different langueses let's say: English and Deutsch both about one classical artist (conductor)
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicfan1977 ( talk • contribs) 01:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
== External links == [http://www.video-location.com/video1/ Description of video]
Hello, Xeno. I'm a longtime Wikipedia user and created an account some time ago. I would like to begin contributing to the site but am intimidated by... well, everything. I found out about the adoption programme and would like your guidance. Thank you! (Please note that I am contacting several adopters at once) BlazerKnight ( talk) 01:47, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I have been poking around in your Wikiadopt page and it was extremely useful. Especially learning about the gadgets tab in preferences. Question: you mention "Other types of pages are graded outside this criteria. Lists are no more than that, long lists of topics that all relate to the main theme of the list. Lists don't provide any prose, and any references are there simply to confirm that the topic does meet the criteria for inclusion." What about lists like List of Bleach episodes (season 9) which not only has episode synopses, it is rated as a featured list. Is this a new development and the info you posted outdated?
Also I plan on uploading a low-res, personal screenshot for Ragnarok Online (from the Southeast-Asian version), transcluding Template:Non-free game screenshot and Template:Non-free use rationale, filling all needed fields. Any part of the procedure that I missed? Retroactively signed, BlazerKnight ( talk) 01:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Heya. Just wondering if there was a way to chat with you in real-time? Live Messenger is my communication tool of choice. I've done IRC before but don't currently have a chat client installed. Just as a platform to ask trivial questions. Of course, it's okay if you don't want to. BlazerKnight ( talk) 04:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I tried it in the public sandbox. Anyway, I see what the difference is now, but what practical applications would substitution have? Also, regarding the userbox itself, do you like the weather condition, purple prose and/or laughing at purple prose, a la the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest? :P BlazerKnight ( talk) 02:15, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah. Gigs ( talk) 23:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
-- I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{ Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 15:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I usurped this account with T'Shael. Please see here. :) Javért | Talk 15:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could review my recent RFA activity when you have the chance and maybe provide a few pointers. I was also fixing up some of my nomination questions when I remembered that we had an earlier run in on the whole New York State controversy. I was the one who notified you about it and I think that you moved it back. Thanks a lot. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 23:39, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for the text number which you left at Wikipedia: Village pump. ACEOREVIVED ( talk) 21:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
There is someone editing from CBS Radio HQ in New York via 170.20.11.116 and has been vandalizing pages. This has been happening every couple days, not enough to take to AIV or even ANI. Since this is a clear COI, is there something that can be done? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 23:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
While I don't agree with your interpretation of things or your decision to unblock those three accounts, I do not really have any objection to it. With the slashdot article, and the half dozen articles that followed it, we are basically in a flood of static and these three will not add much. Either I am wrong about at least two of those accounts being sock puppets of an existing user, or their continued editing will eventually betray which editor. Either way the result will be interesting. While generally on the same side of this debate I have very happy to see that we differ in some areas. I am not a fan of polarized debates, I think it is essential that there be nuance in the opinion of each person to come to a truly reasonable conclusion. Keep up the good work. Chillum 02:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Though perhaps you might have consulted the blocking administrator first. It is the considerate thing to do, and our blocking policy does recommend this practice when unblocking users. I accept that in cases of unambiguous error that such a consultation is not needed, but I think there is certainly some ambiguity here. Not a huge deal in my books, but I cannot speak for Jayron32. It occurs to me in hindsight that you may have consulted with Jayron via IRC or another venue, if so then kindly smack me with a trout.
Chillum 02:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Like I said, not a huge deal for me. Can I assume that the private evidence that you refer to is that P1 and ZG both had separate e-mail addresses issued by the same institution that they were able to receive a message from and respond to? If so, and these addresses are in line with their stories then I can understand your point of view. I am not asking for any details that would comprise privacy mind you.
I fully understand the need for private evidence in such circumstances and am willing to accept your interpretation and description of that evidence. I have relied on such evidence myself in the past. While I will try to assume good faith I will also keep my eyes open for the tell tale hints that true sock puppets invariably drop. Chillum 03:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Not that, after reviewing the full bredth of the discussion you had at the relevent talk pages, I necessarily disagree with you unblocking him, it would have been something of a courtesy to at least notify me that you were considering doing so. In general, its a good idea to bring the blocking admin into the discussion. -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 03:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I know nothing about slashdot but went on the website. In a section entitled "Your rights online" (clearly implying that the side in favor of suppression wants to limit people's rights) Gigs wrote ""Editors on Wikipedia are engaged in an epic battle over a few piece of paper smeared with ink. The 10 inkblot images that form the classic Rorschach test have fallen into the public domain, and so including them on Wikipedia would seem to be a simple choice. However, some editors have cited the American Psychological Association's statement that exposure of the images to the public is an unethical act, since prior exposure to the images could render them ineffective as a psychological test. Is the censorship of material appropriate, when the public exposure to that material may render it useless?" Now, if I went on a psychology listserve or website with a comparable message, I'd probably be blocked or sanctioned as quickly as dolphinfin was after having been falsely accused of sockpuppetry. Indeed, some people were even preemptively threatening the psychologists involved in the ROrschach discussion not to do such things (asking newcomer-psychologists in favor of suppression, "how did you find out about this discussion?"). But apparently canvassing by Gigs is acceptable? Why the double standard? Faustian ( talk) 14:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
They're back. Since you got involved last time, I figured you might want to know. I've attempted to reason with him/her once more, but I don't forsee me having much luck given his reaction last time. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 15:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
...is a [[survival horror]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://xyz.com|title=Dead Rising is a survival horror}}</ref>
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xeno
talk 15:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I have started migrating userboxes. Just did the first 3. And I'll be doing more today. I'll try to finish all of them today (in the Category:Jewish Wikipedians corner I adopted).
If the guys running bots to update the links need some reminder, could you please take care of that? Debresser ( talk) 05:54, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Should we also move school related templates? Like {{ User YU}}. Could you find a link to where this is mentioned? Debresser ( talk) 05:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Since this whole migration thing comes from the Germans, I had a look what they do with school related templates. They have kept them as templates. If so, I'm finished. I've moved 13 templates to userspace. I'll update you here, and you'll inform User:Xenobot/workspace. You need the old or the new names? Debresser ( talk) 06:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Debresser ( talk) 14:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
It's not going to work with AWB. Some pages transclude from the template and some from the userbox, and AWB doesn't catch those that transclude redirects, etc. Or manual (which is a no), or your bot (whenever you'll be ready to start it). Debresser ( talk) 23:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, this is it: the edit-warring IP is back, still refusing to renounce his scare quotes and to take into account what is written on the talk page. Could you semi-protect the article now? Thank you, -- RCS ( talk) 07:39, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
To make me happy, could you just unblock it for me. I noticed you bothered to restore his talkpage. Thanks, Pzrmd ( talk) 11:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
This guy has been warned numerous times for changing the distributor name in film-related articles such as this, despite being told again and again that the original distributor is what is labelled rather than what they currently are. While I don't mind all that much in terms of getting my edit count up, it's getting frustrating if the guy is just blind to edit summaries or if he's simply an idiot with nothing better to do. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 12:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I think we need a bot to help with this issue. Any chance you could come and take a look and offer a suggestion? Thanks. Chimpanzee - User | Talk | Contribs 22:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of User:Programmer13/Vandalism Patrol. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Drew Smith What I've done 04:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
per [6] do you plan to start an MfD sometime? Maybe answer this on my talk page, Jack already started a thread which is how I became aware again. Thanks. ++ Lar: t/ c 14:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi- Need your help and clarification about which template to use for creating stub templates. I had updated the instructions here: [7] and it got reverted, stating that the metastub templates were not deprecated. Could you straighten this out? Thanks much -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 01:12, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
In the past, you have raised a concern about my talk page "wizard" system. I have changed this to an FAQ-based system ( User talk:Stifle/FAQs), and would appreciate your feedback at User talk:Stifle/FAQs/feedback or elsewhere. Stifle ( talk) 12:02, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
What the sodding hell is wrong with this citation?
<ref name=L4D Logo><ref>{{cite journal|last = Amrich|first = Dan|date = July 2, 2009|title = Only on Xbox 360: Left 4 Dead 2|journal = Official Xbox Magazine UK|issue = 49|page = 43|publisher = Future Publishing|accessdate = July 21, 2009}}</ref>
I've tried everything I can think of, but I've given up. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 14:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
← Yes, I find myself typically writing foolish things prior to finishing my morning coffee. =) – xeno talk 12:44, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
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Re Sure, it should be very easy to add, as it already does this for CSD A1 and A3. I'll add A7 right now, are there any other CSDs you think it should ignore after page length has substantially increased? Cheers - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 17:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Please see this thread and consider giving new page creators some breathing room before tagging their pages for deletion. In this case, you tagged within 2 minutes of creation. Unless it's an attack page or something, give the editor some time to work with the article. Thanks, – xeno talk 17:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
That's the first time I have ever seen someone nom an AfD, then !vote to keep it. I understand your rationale, but it still made me chuckle. Thanks, Doc Tropics 18:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
This has nothing specific to do with the issue we discussed earlier, but I was would appreciate it if (as an active admin) you could give me your two cents on an issue I have discussed with other editors regarding AfD debates. The concern is, with the increase in traffic Wikipedia has seen over the last few years the proportion of editors concerned with notability seems to be diminishing rapidly. There are far more people editing on Wikipedia as a lark, that are disinterested in core principles such as notability and verifiability. Those that are working to improve the project as a whole seem to be relegated to a minority. And as the more project-minded editors are becoming a minority it is becoming harder and harder to maintain notability and accuracy of information in articles. I guess the question I am rambling towards is; As AfD debates are settled via a consensus, what happens when the majority of Wikipedians are unconcerned about foundational guidelines? I have talked to several senior editors in the past who have quit after debating extremely obvious AfD candidates (intelligently and calmly referring to Wikipedia policy) but have been drowned out in the consensus by people that didn't seem to be concerned with them (the term one such editor used to describe the situation as that the project is "fundamentally flawed"). This is an issue that has been of growing concern with me and has been the largest contributing factor for my moving from editing individual articles to new page and recent change patrol. I would be very interested if you could offer me any insights you have gleaned with your time editing here. Again, I know you're busy, but I thank you in advance for your time. LeilaniLad ( talk) 18:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, from looking at this discussion there does seem to be consensus to rollback the placeholder removal. Are you still willing to do that? I tried to do it myself but couldn't get it to work. The only difference I had with the script was that my browser automatically closed after I deleted an image/page. :) Garion96 (talk) 21:24, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
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I thought you were going to create a bot. The best way to do this is with a bot. Are you doing it by hand or AWB instead?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 02:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I will respectfully defer to your judgment and I won't object either way. But please also keep in mind the recent block evasion/socking: [8], [9]. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 04:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering if you're bot could do this task. I'm asking everyone in the Template substitution bots category, so if someone already accepted the task (besides me), just ignore this. Thanks. AHRtbA== Talk 13:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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For being so helpful and saving a ton of time using Xenobot to tag WP:INDIANA's many untagged articles, I thank you. Cheers my Canadian friend! :) — Charles Edward ( Talk | Contribs) 14:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC) |
...very much for your recent assistance! I could eventually have accomplished that myself, but "eventually" could have been a dauntingly long time. Thanks again :) Doc Tropics 20:15, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Re With pleasure. Question for you - does that take care of the "unreferenced" issue? -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I just noticed you have been restoring image placeholders that had been removed with the link to an ANI discussion that asserts that no decision to remove these has been made. That is actually incorrect. A decision was reached to remove these placeholders at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Image placeholders last year. It appears that nobody has gotten around to doing it yet though. Just thought I'd give you a heads up. Plumadesabiduría ( talk) 14:46, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I saw that was semi-protected. That underlying IP range has also been rangeblocked for 1 week. I'm not sure if both are necessary. Perhaps you could lift the semi-protection unless you think that the IPs will start hopping around like moles. Thank you, MuZemike 16:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, how are you? I saw
this edit and though I'd make a small remark. It would be better to put leave the template {WPBiography}}
on top and put new templates below them, because it contains the important message with guidelines about biographies of living persons.
Debresser (
talk) 20:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Why do a few Wikipedians spell vote with an exclamation mark prefix? • S • C • A • R • C • E • 15:02, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Good day to you, I was woindering if there was already a BOT that does stuff with images. I have been working fairly closely with the Alt text issue that has been enforced lately and its possible that a bot could be useful for some things that are related to alt text of images. I was thinking about starting to work on one but since you seem to be in the know on bot related atuff and AWB I thought I would ask you if there was one already. Here are the things that I think I could reasonably do with an AWB assisted bot, but there are probably more.
Now 1, 2 and 4 would require regex and or a custom module, all would need consensus before I did them and I know I would need to get permission to run a bot and do a test run and I think we should address each one individually, but I think they are all doable. I was also thinking that having a page similar to the AWB typos page that shows what the bot is looking for would be useful. Sorry for the novel.-- Kumioko ( talk) 15:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
(undent)Ok thanks I will ask him what he thinks as well, the reason 3 becomes an issue is because I have seen in several cases where people slide alt text in before the caption. I have also seen.-- Kumioko ( talk) 16:46, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
A few comments. A lot of these seem to be cosmetic changes. While arguably helpful for editors, most of them will have absolutely no impact for readers (or on the HTML output of the page).
Also, as I'm sure you're aware, changing Image: to File: or {{ flagicon}} to {{ flag}} will have no impact. The syntax order, as far as I'm aware, has absolutely no impact on rendering. If our documentation says otherwise, it's likely wrong, though you're free to show me test cases. :-)
Adding a tag to articles needing alt text would be crazy. (a) I would imagine 99% of articles would be tagged; and (b) tagging would simply disrupt readers and provide very little benefit to editors.
Point 5 seems reasonable enough if I understand it correctly, though using a bot in place of a proper software solution (where alt text could be applied once for all image usage instances) seems a bit silly. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 17:08, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
What do you think about a new user rights group that gives members the ability not to leave a redirect behind when moving pages? You're a sensible chap, so I wanted to get your opinion. Thanks, Javert I knit sweaters, yo! 00:02, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
←In addition to having demonstrated a need for a "no redirect" right, I think time would be a major factor in granting it. Twenty-five hundred edits and three months, for instance. And apologies to xeno for hijacking his talk page. :) Javert I knit sweaters, yo! 00:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
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For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:04, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
No objections to the changes - the text was deliberately left as plain as possible so that it could be manipulated in a text editor as need be for optimal bot formatting. If your changes accomplish that, then so much the better. Does this mean that you will be handling the bot request? :) Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 03:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Your Xenobot had the following notation for the Matilda Hunter (fictional character) page: closing AFD per Balloonman, result was KEEP without prejudice to individual re-nom. However, it appears as though someone's notation for speedy deletion took effect already and deleted the article. Can you explain why an article that was intentionally marked as KEEP then be subjected to a speedy delete? Thanks, Shymian ( talk) 09:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
On February 19, it seems you removed semi-protection, but the log doesn't show the initial protection. It doesn't appear the article was moved. Do you know why this is? Cheers, Enigma msg 11:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. In light of recent events and community concerns about the way in which content is transferred I have proposed a new wikiproject which would attempt to address any of the concerns and done in an environment where a major group of editors work together to transfer articles from other wikipedias in the most effective way possible without BLP or referencing problems. Please offer your thoughts at the proposal and whether or not you support or oppose the idea of a wikiproject dedicated to organizing a more efficient process of getting articles in different languages translated into English. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:59, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
* Cough* Chimpanzee - User | Talk | Contribs 13:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Can you or you bot organize my userboxes? Should I use the "|" symbol, or it just does'nt work for me? If it does'nt work for me, can you do that? JMBZ-12 ( talk) 16:38, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi xeno. I have not seen Franamax for a couple of days now. I finished updating the article to the best of my ability. User:Igorberger/Sandbox . I am just wondering what to do next? Thanks, Igor Berger ( talk) 16:33, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic, Just dropped by to say, i'm kindof back. Probably get back into Wikipedia probably when my own site is complete. ConnorJack ( talk) 19:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Where are the notes and what is going on?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 21:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
...for the kind words. They are greatly appreciated, as were your kind words earlier (in case I wasn't suitably grateful for them at the time...likely not, given the state of my so-called mind last week).
I just needed a couple of days to back off and cool down. Though this really wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision...it's been a while brewing, and things just came to a head with the ANI. Ah, well...I'm back, now, and don't intend leaving any time soon. :-)
Once again, many thanks. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 02:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I forgot about that. I've since added five appropriate tags to the page in addition to one that was already on there
• S • C
• A • R
• C • E • 02:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
In lieu of the wikibreak of Balloonman, I was wondering if you could tell me if you think that I should start up the ol' RFA preparation engine so that I can throw my hat in the ring in the next week or so. If so, would you be so gracious as to nominate me? Please answer at the time which best fits your schedule.
P.S.-Forgive the fanciness, I think that it adds more excitement to these rather drab talk pages. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 01:39, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
← Co-noms are suppos'd to go on before the transclusion. Oh well, saved me some writing =) – xeno talk 03:26, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
All those guys were done back when I had no idea what I was doing... I prodded a bunch more today, in fact :P If all my prods go through I'll have ~15 articles total I've created in my wiki-career. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk) 21:55, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, some of the stub templates transclude Portal:Switzerland/Stub that I use to generate Portal:Switzerland/New articles. As you are standardizing the messages, I was wondering in which part of the template I should put it, e.g. in Template:Switzerland-politician-stub. BTW thanks for your voice of reason these days! -- User: Docu at 04:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I delete pages? Can I delete pages that belong to me (i.e. user page (though that's not what I'm deleting)) or do I have to go to an admin for everything? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 10:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Might be a good idea to protect the page. -- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Would you please block me indefinitely and full-protect my userspace? -- JBC3 ( talk) 20:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hah, sorry about that! Staxringold talk contribs 21:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to take a moment to delivery a personal thank you (not "thank spam" :)) for your involvement in my RfA. (It passed 117-2-7 in case you hadn't seen.) It was an honor for me to have your support, as I have long considered you to be among the top administrators on Wikipedia. I appreciated your kind words about by bots and clue level and look forward to serving the community in my new role.
Thanks again, ThaddeusB ( talk) 04:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for posting on my page. I had given up on the issue, and frankly on the wikipedia itself. But I am willing to give it another try.
I have to say that Ward3000 work is truly commendable. He is truly a trooper. I can't believe he has been soooo patient for all this time. I don't doubt that he has lost his temper a few times (who wouldn't in all that time).
I am just concerned that the discussion format is terribly unorganized and it favors rambling vs rational argument. There are many arguments being brought up on both sides, as soon as any progress starts to be seen in one argument the losing side becomes disinterested and goes on to another argument. So there is never a conclusion.
I pointed out how it was to everybody's benefit to reach a true consensus instead of strongarming the others and that a prerequisite was that people should be willing to look for the greater good. I thought about blowing the whistle on this issue before but I did not because I thought more harm would come than good. But now the devil is completely out of the bottle, I really do think that situations like this alienate many valuable contributors. If they are not alienated already, not just psychologists but scientists in general (I know the scientific community is not a cohesive group).
Anyway, I am willing to help to engage in a rational argument If you think it's worth it.-- Dela Rabadilla ( talk) 03:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've seen this question raised at ANI and AN a few times, but never paid close attention. I know you're there fairly routinely. :) What's the consensus on handling admin status for admins who go bye bye? OTRS got an e-mail about a block issues in 2006, and I went to check on the blocking admin only to find that (though still an admin), he hasn't edited in... Well, in two days, it will be three years. Is the community all cool with this, or should somebody look into removing his admin status until and unless he decides to come back? ( [13]) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I change it so that it's more colourful? Like yours: you've put it in bold and "talk" is in superscript. Other have totally changed what the thing says. -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 15:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
<font color="(insert
web color here)"> </font>
Ignore the second part. Most folk use Firefox which doesn't underline =) –
xeno
talk 16:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I know this issue has been drawn out to the point where every concievable argument pro and con has likely been covered, but there is one point I could not find in any of the (many) pages of discussion. Where there has been discussion of "unintentional harm" cause to readers who see the images without meaning to, no one seems to have brought up the point of people using the information presented to intentionally skew the results of said test. I have a cousin who does psychological work for the New York penal system and he stated that this test is widely used to help establish the mental health of inmates. He was less concerned that the images were posted than the fact that common interpritations for these images were included as well. His concern was that anyone who wished to skew the test towards an inaccurate favorable result would be readily assisted by the ease of availability of this information if it is included in Wikipedia. This is not so much a concern of mine, as my personal opinions don't enter into my actions on Wikipedia. However, it was (what appeared to be) a valid concern and I had not seen it included in the discussion. As an adendum, the reason I am posting this on your talk page is that I could not determine where on the voluminous discussion page of this article it would be appropriate to insert a new argument. Sorry to take up your time. LeilaniLad ( talk) 02:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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