Talk page archive, 19 August 2005 to 19 September 2005

Hi, Antandrus. Thanks again for getting me out of a blue funk over Lutos?awski the other day. And I just want to express appreciation for the effort you're putting in to undo all this page-move vandalism; it can't be very enjoyable for you. The sooner the developers implement the edit-count bar to page moves the better; the biggest detriment to Wikipedia is that it's stopping you contributing to articles… -- RobertG ♬ talk 15:36, 19 August 2005 (UTC) reply

• 16:11, 19 August 2005 Antandrus blocked "User:ALL YOUR YELLOWCAKE ARE BELONG TO US" with an expiry time of indefinite (ALL YOU SOCKPUPPET ARE BLOCK BY US)

Redwolf24 00:10, 20 August 2005 (UTC) reply

ALL YOUR YELLOWCAKE ARE BELONG TO US sounds like my kind of guy! And by the way... Antandrus... you have charm... and wit. Adamwankenobi 23:34, 23 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the kind words of support on my RfA, Antandrus. I'll work hard to make them come true. Fernando Rizo T/ C 18:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Good shot! Badagnani 19:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC) reply

What's going on with the profane edit comments upon page moves? I've left an alert on WP:Vandalism, but it seems to be mostly out of your typical character as a normal and helpful contributor. - SocratesJedi | Talk 16:18, 22 August 2005 (UTC) reply

• Ah, okay. Sorry about the confusion. - SocratesJedi | Talk 17:17, 22 August 2005 (UTC) reply

My Arensky trumped by your Escobar! I wonder whether to be bold and enter plainchant under the category of constantly-changing time-signature… :-) -- RobertG ♬ talk 20:25, 22 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Nice work on the Presidio of Santa Barbara article. Since it's no longer missing and not even a stub, I've removed it from Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Other Counties to do. You should think about recommending the article for Did you know. For example, you could suggest: Did you know...that the Presidio of Santa Barbara, built by the Spanish in 1782, is the second oldest building in the state of California? BlankVerse ∅ 08:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC) reply

You're welcome! The standard way to show appreciation on the Wikipedia seems to be to award Barnstars, but I've seen them sometimes given for what I consider inappropriate reasons. I'd much rather just add a personal note to a person's page. Then, if I think someone is one of the good guys, I'll remember them and do one of my very rare votes at Requests for adminship.

I've been getting very depressed watching Missing Wikipedians. One of the more interesting remarks on that page is the quote taken from the goodbye on User:GK's page. I probably should just take the page off my watchlist. :-(

Since you have some GIS experience, I have a question for you. I've been doing some genealogy, but sometimes it's a real pain trying to keep track of where people have moved. I don't need anything real fancy—just something that would show county boundaries, allow the inputing of city locations and names, usually strait lines (with arrows?) between the cities, and some simple annotation capability. I've looked at some of the free and commercial GIS software out there, but all the descriptions might as well be written in Arabic, because they make no sense to me. Do you know if any of the simple free GIS programs, such as fGIS, might work for what I'm talking about. BlankVerse ∅ 04:52, 24 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the info. I hadn't even thought about exploring the Wikipedia for info, but I found this free program TNTlite that looked like it might be sufficient. What's also interesting for me is that their website has a bunch of tutorials for download, although with my current dialup account, it'd take forever to scarf them all up. For the cities, I'd probably want at least two attributes: date of first know residence, and the head of household. Would most GIS software programs allow me to enter all the coordinates, city names, and attributes into an Excel spreadsheet, and then import that data into the GIS program? BlankVerse ∅ 09:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your praise on my peer review and for creating the map, which I've copied to some other articles. I've submitted the article as a FAC and would appreciate your vote at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Jean_Schmidt. PedanticallySpeaking 17:05, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome, although I didn't intentionally block for the incidents that you mention... He/she has taken to putting rubbish in the England and United Kingdom articles. After a series of warnings and I block (for the England/UK stuff), I am now blocking this vandal on sight. JeremyA (talk) 04:09, 24 August 2005 (UTC) reply

If you live in the Gaviota area, I suppose you know a lot about Santa Barbara. Your contributions to Goleta (I live there) show that can add a lot of stuff to material about Santa Barbara county and these articles (about SB county) need a face lift, so I believe you can help me add and clean up "these" (those?) articles. Just telling you. -- Member 18:55, 24 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi Antandrus! Thanks for your support on my recent RFA. I'm now an administrator, and I wanted to come by and thank you for your generous and kind words. Reading your "support for this good-natured and exceptional Wikipedian" simply made me feel wonderful. You're also one of the Wikipedians I have a lot of respect for too!

I have yet to start an article on the History of harmony or History of tonality, but perhaps we could do some sort of collaborative effort on these article? I hope it would be something you'd enjoy doing. If you ever need an extra hand with something on Wikipedia, please feel free to let me know, and I'll do my best to help out. Thanks again for your support - and I'll see you around Wikipedia! -- HappyCamper 23:30, 24 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Presidio of Santa Barbara, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Congratulations. BlankVerse ∅ 12:39, 28 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Delphic Hymns, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I understand you annotated the music into Finale - could you produce a midi or a midi recorded as ogg file? It would be fascinating to listen to. -- Oldak Quill 14:58, 26 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Read a little higher up on my talk page (the heading is "Proxy vandals"), where BMIComp explained it to me last night. Joyous (talk) 16:45, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Antandrus, I need to know how you were able to block that vandalbot with the machine-breaking username. We're having a meltdown in #wikipedia and the guys in #mediawiki were particularly unhelpful. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:14, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

"Unhelpful" is not strong enough a word. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 18:30, 27 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Excellent work on reverting that vandal bot; I was on CDVF and all I could see were your reverts filling the screen. And well done on cracking the blocking system to work again. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 18:32, 27 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Hey, thanks! appreciate it! and keep up the good work yourself... it's making the Wiki a nicer place for all of us.  :-) Antandrus (talk) 19:26, 27 August 2005 (UTC) reply

You're welcome. And thanks. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 19:32, 27 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi Carnildo! I've noticed you are knowledgeable about image licensing issues (and from your talk page I seem not to be the first one to have noticed!) Can I have your opinion please, on [1] ? The source states clearly that it is available for educational, non-commercial use; what do you think is the right license tag? Thanks much, Antandrus (talk) 19:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Honestly? {{ ifd}} or {{ delete}}. Images with licenses that prohibit commercial use are no longer allowed on Wikipedia (see Jimbo's email of May 19 [2]), and it's probably not possible to claim fair use, since it should be possible for a Wikipedian to create a replacement photograph. -- Carnildo 05:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Hello, I'm trying to show some people off my friends list a new society, somewhat similar to WP:KC, Esperanza. Its still in its early stages but nonetheless I'd appreciate it were you to join. R e dwolf24 ( talk) 06:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the Rv, not sure what that was about. Oh well :) Cheers. ∞ Who ?¿? 21:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the compliment for the Grunion article, but that was mostly me just siphoning stuff off the Cal Fish & Game website (which is in the public domain) and then doing a little copy-editing, plus adding a little info on the two Baja Calif. grunion species.

It's interesting that a few weeks before I worked on that article I had just figured out how to add articles to my watchlist that had not yet been created. Since I had been thinking about creating an article on grunion, I used that as my text article. Then about a week after that I added another red-link to grunion in an article that I was editing. It was then I decided that the article had to be written and would be my very first brand-new Wikipedia article. I had already gathered all the material I needed from the F&G website and was doing my editing offline when I noticed on my watchlist that an anon had created a very stubby grunion article. Since I knew that I wanted to submit the grunion breeding info to Did you know, and there was a 36 hr. time limit for DYK, I quickly finished my offline editing and dumped everything in one big lump.

The article still needs some work, but much of the info that I want to add is not on the internet. I'll probably have to do a visit to my local state college library. I also want to add a range map, which I think should be pretty easy to do, but right now I only have a good description for the range of the California grunion species. I've also been trying to get some good photos for the article. BlankVerse ∅ 06:12, 29 August 2005 (UTC) reply

An article that you've edited before ( Vasco da Gama) is nominated for Article Improvement Drive. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 02:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Now why do you think it should be reverted? Can't you see how obvious the truth is? Global warming is only making hurricanes stronger every year so they'll have no choice but to build the city on stilts like Venice and Bangladesh, and rename it New Venice.

If you don't think so, then what will they do to prevent damage from a hurricane this strong next time??? I think the cost to restore the city is too great, wouldn't you say? Especially if it'll occur EVERY YEAR, as hurricanes get stronger & stronger (and they WILL). -- 129.130.38.232 03:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC) reply

OK, I will WP:AGF and answer you seriously. There is a big difference between a city which is recovering from a disastrous flood, and one that has accepted waterways as a part of its transportation infrastructure for hundreds of years. Unless I missed it, I have heard no one propose that New Orleans accept the permanent presence of deep water in all its streets. History is full of examples of cities that have come back from disasters as bad, if not worse, than this one, and gone on to become centers of culture at least equal to their status before. Did Amsterdam in 1953 decide to accept being permanently underwater? How many large cities leveled in the Second World War decided just to give up, and never to rebuild? Have a look at the bigger picture here. People are more resilient than you may think. Antandrus (talk) 15:26, 1 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks. Though I considered restoring the vandalism just because it was so humorous. But I decided teenagers (or those mentally so aged) are pointless to tease. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 05:11, 2005 September 3 (UTC)

Looks like we both noticed at the same time. Unfortunately I have to go out for a short time, I'll have to let you handle the cleanup. -- Curps 17:39, 3 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi, Antandrus. Thank you so much for your support and kind words on my bureaucratship nomination. Unfortunately, it didn't pass, but I intend to run again soon. If you'd like to be informed next time around, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks again! Andre ( talk) 05:09, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Hopefully he'll be gone in an hour. -- GraemeL ^(talk) 18:38, 4 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Spoke too soon 70.212.51.69 /sigh. -- GraemeL ^(talk) 18:42, 4 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks very much for your vote of support on my Jean Schmidt article. I'm pleased to say it is today's featured article of the day. PedanticallySpeaking 16:50, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

I'm even back for brief periods when I'm supposed to be on wikibreak! - so I saw your compliment on my talk page, it made my day. Thanks. -- RobertG ♬ talk 20:04, 7 September 2005 (UTC) reply

So long as I'm making the rounds of all these connected talk pages—all these people on break is depressing! And you still here quietly polishing the early music section of the Wiki and defending against the invasion of crud. I don't know what the protocol is about giving the same person another barnstar, so perhaps something else instead; a gesture of appreciation from somone who considers you a fine Wikipedian and friend. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Antandrus, thank you for reverting that rather disgusting vandalism from my user page recently. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 20:48, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Please block him. I've already given him test4, and he didn't stop vandalizing. Note that he has made some anti-semitic edits. Borisblue 03:38, 10 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi, thanks for voting for me in my RFA. I was really touched at how many people voted for me! -- Angr/ _{t?k t? mi} 22:46, 10 September 2005 (UTC) reply

That new log is quite nifty. Just wondering, does it matter if multiple admins block the same account? It looks like we both blocked it. -- HappyCamper 15:00, 11 September 2005 (UTC) reply

You're too fast! Every time I try to revert vandalism, you seem to have cleared it up first. Keep up the good work! -- GraemeL ^(talk) 19:29, 11 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Well, my RfA has not quite completed yet, but either way, I'd like to thank you for your vote and your support, regardless of the outcome. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 18:38, 12 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your support in my recent RFA! All those extra buttons might not be a big deal, but getting all this positive feedback sure is, please let me know if you have any problems or comments regarding how I use all these shiny new levers and cranks! Rx StrangeLove 00:12, 13 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi. Thanks for reverting the anon AOL vandal's attacks on my talk page. I only wish that the idiot would realise that I never see his work unless I go looking for it, thanks to the efforts of good folks like yourself, because he works in the middle of the night my time! -- Arwel 13:07, 17 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for catching that and reverting to a good version. I conflicted with you doing a manual revert after my javascript one found the other bad version. -- GraemeL ^(talk) 23:19, 17 September 2005 (UTC) reply

• Hello, I thank you for your support to my adminship. I shall surely come to you to get benefit of your experience. -- Bhadani 09:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC) reply
  

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Hello, I thank you for your support to my adminship. Please keep in touch. -- Bhadani 09:32, 18 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Hello Antandrus, the Charter for Esperanza is up. Take a looksie :) R e dwolf24 ( talk) 02:45, 19 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Here is the IP info for the vandal editor who has been vandalizing Qur'an and user:Zora. Can he/she be blocked?

82.121.163.46 (IP Address)

OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre OrgID: RIPE Address: P.O. Box 10096 City: Amsterdam StateProv: PostalCode: 1001EB Country: NL

ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43

NetRange: 82.0.0.0 - 82.255.255.255 CIDR: 82.0.0.0/8 NetName: 82-RIPE NetHandle: NET-82-0-0-0-1 Parent: NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET NameServer: NS3.NIC.FR NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois RegDate: 2002-11-23 Updated: 2004-03-16

-- a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 05:22, 19 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Roy Lopez again

Latest sock puppet and image vandalism. User:Jiff_PBR

He's not going away until the IPs he uses are blocked.

Stirling Newberry 15:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks. He's annoyed other people - and engaged in malicious behavior generally, I just seem to be the person he's decided he dislikes the most. Stirling Newberry 17:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC) reply

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