This file is an archive - please do not add new discussion here - add it to my Talk page
Yeah you are right. Central Asia stub seems to be dublicate. Feel free to go ahead with deletion. cs 07:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I've put together a draft of that message/infobox thing on my sandbox. Feel free to edit it to your liking. What pages do you think it should be on?
Any or all of these would be useful. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 13:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Grutness, Thank you for educating me about the stub categories, I really am grateful and appreciate your kind help. Thank you so much. -- Cyril Thomas 12:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Grutness, Thanks for the criminology-stub comments. I think the parent category should stay as it is, criminology is definitely fit to an umbrella term for many categories, still, it's better to seperate forensic science and medicine from the criminology category. Of course, criminology stub could be used as a secondary stub for those articles, including articles deals with forensic psychiatry and psychology, even criminal law, though criminology often acknowledges the descipline is the non-legal aspects of crime. Still, there are many divisions of arts and science criminology tag perfectly fits into, like victimology, correctional administration, police science, penology, law enforcement, criminological psychology, research on crime etc. Thanks for the supporting views.-- Cyril Thomas 02:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness... wha? 00:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your message, my apologies for not checking the guidelines first. WATP 15:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks very much for your message. I hope I have not caused any administrative or technical problems, as this was certainly not my intention. The stub seemed like the right thing to do, as there are many articles on Iranian actors and actresses. Atashparast 01:40, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, sorry to bother you, but I never got a final verdict on the Category:Pathology stubs proposal, and it's been a week. Should I go ahead and create the category? - Rustavo Talk/ Contribs 01:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you know of a wikipedia image version of the smiling/frowning masks? TonyTheTiger ( talk/ cont/ bio) 00:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for allerting me to the stub creation process. I've started on it. This is my first time. Please help me, I can see you're an expert. My main concern is adding the articles, not stubs used in the process. However, this is as good a time as any to learn more about Wiki stub issues and conventions. I'm sure it will come in useful later. Cheers. Alastair Haines 04:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your post. I've left a reply at WP:WSS/D explaining why I think the template should be kept. ( Extra3 15:10, 10 May 2007 (UTC))
Hi Grutness. I want to thank you for your explanation of your deletion of the Palestine geo stub and your help in creating a Palestine history stub for that category instead. I wanted to ask you, given your comments, how you would classify the area discussed in this article Seam Zone? Thanks. Tiamut 10:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Sure thing! I'd try to find more specific geo stub for the geo stubs. Thanks for the compliment! ;) - Time Immemorial 09:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, my bad....I noticed that about proposing stub types about ten minutes after I'd already created the template. I'll definitely remember it for the future, don't worry. This one was kind of a spur-of-the-moment caprice, I'm not overly attached to it or anything. Sorry for the inadvertant bending of rules... K. Lásztocska 01:08, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I just posted a response on the stub discovery page...I'm not an expert on Romanian geography but I'm quite the Transylvaniaphile. ;-) K. Lásztocska 01:18, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I moved "Austin-stub" to "Austin-TX-stub". This is my first stub template, so I didn't know that a proposal was necessary. I couldn't move the category, but I put it under Texas stubs.
So, should I move it to AustinTX-stub? Sa hm editor 19:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Already put this on Alai's talkpage, but he hasn't gotten back to me yet so I figured I'd as you as well. I've already taken care of creating the majority of the stub templates and subcats - I have five categories for the five major islands or groups of islands, and I"m down to the last one, which poses a problem. Maluku Islands and New Guinea are grouped together. What would you name the category? Also, there are the last two stub templates, for West Papua and Papua - can you think of templates for them that would avoid conflicts with anything in Papua New Guinea? Aelfthrytha 02:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
re: How stubs work
Hi FrankB - I see you've recently tried to use stub templates as thought hey were parameterised. They're not. Have a look at the correction I made to Spanish road to see how they should be formed :) Grutness... wha? 00:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Grutness - remember how you voted for me to be an admin there - another vote is in progress and I'd be grateful if you would take part in that too... Please have a look at mi:Wikipedia:Ngā tono whakatū kaiwhakahaere - Brian NZ has nominated me for bureaucrat at mi. Important because we have no active bureaucrat there at the moment, and it would be a milestone for the Wikipedia Māori. There is a need at the moment for bots etc to be flagged... Cheers Kahuroa 10:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
As you all know, some hacker cracked my password and I have been stripped of my admin powers. I can understand an admin. being blocked, but stripped of his powers without a fair hearing or consensus, I can't. I have stated that I changed my password and would like my powers back, however the chastizing going on in [ [1]] has sadden me. It doesn't matter how many articles you have written, contributions you have made or how many years you have dedicated to making this project a credible one. A hacker, it seems has the power of making people consider you an untrustful person and turning some people in the community against you.
I have never abused of my powers and I have used Wikipedia as a medium to educate others. Yes, I have no regrets about having made so many contributions to the Pedia. I exhort all of my friends here to make sure that their passwords are strong ones so that you will not have to go through what I am going through.
I did promise some of my friends a couple of articles and as a good Marine I will keep my promise. To my friends here, Thank you for your friendship. Tony the Marine 00:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
My adminship has been restored and let me tell you, we've got to very careful with our passwords. You know, despite the headache that this caused me, it really made me feel good to know how many friends I have in Wikipedia. The support has been incredible. I can't let my friends here down. Tony the Marine 04:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the thought, but I would like to pass on becoming an administrator at this time, although maybe in a few months. A couple of months ago, I found that things such as my nominations at WP:CFD would sometimes become magnets for personal attacks against me, and the merits of my discussion points or nominations would be lost. If I became an administrator at this time, I feel like my decisions could still attract such personal attacks, which I would rather not deal with right now. However, if things cool down in a couple of months, then I may be interested. Dr. Submillimeter 10:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Have raised this on the NZ noticeboard idf you'd like to comment. Cheers Kahuroa 00:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Grutness, Thanks for adding Robyn Hitchcock to the under reveiw section on the famous synesthetes page... If you could provide a couple of references for the quotes you mentioned on the talk page, that would be great. I'll start looking into later today when I have a chance. Best, Edhubbard 07:35, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, man... I seem to have stepped on the toe of a POV-pushing aggresive anon editor, which is a shame since I wish I hadn't gotten involved so that I could indefinitely block him. Anyway, I don't care much for most admins of the Wikipedia with their holier-than-thou approach to matters, so I'd like to ask you to perhaps have a look in the matter and act as you see fit. The wreck that is this person's Contributions page is here: [2]. If you don't feel like it or don't want to get involved, I understand perfectly. Best regards, -- Sn0wflake 17:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Seeing as your "my local" wikipedian could you block/restrict this guy, If he hasn't already been? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.165.67.10 A quick search will reveal he has turned lame vandalism into a career. Cheers! Paige Master 02:05, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
General maintenance is all that's required. To tell you the truth I don't even know that much about the Kabbalah. I'm still learning. But I have a natural aptitude for things magickal. Not that the Kabbalah is strictly that; maybe I should say mystical. I have a question for you what is a banner; is it the template that designates the project? Let me know. Lighthead 21:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the note and apologies for my belated response. And you're right, the New Zealand Maori isn't me (or, if you will, vice versa). I'm also not the Australian astronomer who has a Wikipedia article about him. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated Kamakuza, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Kamakuza satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamakuza and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Kamakuza during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. NB - I'm emphatically not AfDing it because there's anything wrong with it but just because it's already been transwikied but didn't want to prod it. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 19:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your vote of support for Wikipedia Rotuman! It's going towards what I feel will be a very important resource for the future of my language. Noa'ia! -- Mattbray 07:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Read this and this from that article's discussion page. I'm not going to go over this ground again; I'm certainly not the only one who remains unconvinced that these are malapropisms at all. + ILike2BeAnonymous 00:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
No problem! I just got tired of typing out both templates, so decided to combine them into one. Glad I could help. Hersfold ( talk/ work) 00:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Can I query why you restored the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club article? It clearly breaks the CSDa7 guidance in that it is about a fan club for a UK television series and the article has no external sources to backup its notability claim. If one Doctor Who fan club is to be allowed a separate article, hundreds more will demand one also; currently no other unofficial Doctor Who fan clubs do have articles in Wikipedia. -- The Missing Hour 09:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed from the old Stella Nova AfD discussion that you were advocating keep. As a New Zealand administrator who would be aware of the notability of the organization, I think you should know another administrator has deleted it without any discussion as non-notable. I've left them a comment that the deletion was probably incorrect and definitely out-of-process, but I thought you should be aware of the situation. TheRealFennShysa 21:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
This file is an archive - please do not add new discussion here - add it to my Talk page
Yeah you are right. Central Asia stub seems to be dublicate. Feel free to go ahead with deletion. cs 07:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I've put together a draft of that message/infobox thing on my sandbox. Feel free to edit it to your liking. What pages do you think it should be on?
Any or all of these would be useful. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 13:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Grutness, Thank you for educating me about the stub categories, I really am grateful and appreciate your kind help. Thank you so much. -- Cyril Thomas 12:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Grutness, Thanks for the criminology-stub comments. I think the parent category should stay as it is, criminology is definitely fit to an umbrella term for many categories, still, it's better to seperate forensic science and medicine from the criminology category. Of course, criminology stub could be used as a secondary stub for those articles, including articles deals with forensic psychiatry and psychology, even criminal law, though criminology often acknowledges the descipline is the non-legal aspects of crime. Still, there are many divisions of arts and science criminology tag perfectly fits into, like victimology, correctional administration, police science, penology, law enforcement, criminological psychology, research on crime etc. Thanks for the supporting views.-- Cyril Thomas 02:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness... wha? 00:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your message, my apologies for not checking the guidelines first. WATP 15:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks very much for your message. I hope I have not caused any administrative or technical problems, as this was certainly not my intention. The stub seemed like the right thing to do, as there are many articles on Iranian actors and actresses. Atashparast 01:40, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, sorry to bother you, but I never got a final verdict on the Category:Pathology stubs proposal, and it's been a week. Should I go ahead and create the category? - Rustavo Talk/ Contribs 01:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you know of a wikipedia image version of the smiling/frowning masks? TonyTheTiger ( talk/ cont/ bio) 00:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for allerting me to the stub creation process. I've started on it. This is my first time. Please help me, I can see you're an expert. My main concern is adding the articles, not stubs used in the process. However, this is as good a time as any to learn more about Wiki stub issues and conventions. I'm sure it will come in useful later. Cheers. Alastair Haines 04:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your post. I've left a reply at WP:WSS/D explaining why I think the template should be kept. ( Extra3 15:10, 10 May 2007 (UTC))
Hi Grutness. I want to thank you for your explanation of your deletion of the Palestine geo stub and your help in creating a Palestine history stub for that category instead. I wanted to ask you, given your comments, how you would classify the area discussed in this article Seam Zone? Thanks. Tiamut 10:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Sure thing! I'd try to find more specific geo stub for the geo stubs. Thanks for the compliment! ;) - Time Immemorial 09:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, my bad....I noticed that about proposing stub types about ten minutes after I'd already created the template. I'll definitely remember it for the future, don't worry. This one was kind of a spur-of-the-moment caprice, I'm not overly attached to it or anything. Sorry for the inadvertant bending of rules... K. Lásztocska 01:08, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I just posted a response on the stub discovery page...I'm not an expert on Romanian geography but I'm quite the Transylvaniaphile. ;-) K. Lásztocska 01:18, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I moved "Austin-stub" to "Austin-TX-stub". This is my first stub template, so I didn't know that a proposal was necessary. I couldn't move the category, but I put it under Texas stubs.
So, should I move it to AustinTX-stub? Sa hm editor 19:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Already put this on Alai's talkpage, but he hasn't gotten back to me yet so I figured I'd as you as well. I've already taken care of creating the majority of the stub templates and subcats - I have five categories for the five major islands or groups of islands, and I"m down to the last one, which poses a problem. Maluku Islands and New Guinea are grouped together. What would you name the category? Also, there are the last two stub templates, for West Papua and Papua - can you think of templates for them that would avoid conflicts with anything in Papua New Guinea? Aelfthrytha 02:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
re: How stubs work
Hi FrankB - I see you've recently tried to use stub templates as thought hey were parameterised. They're not. Have a look at the correction I made to Spanish road to see how they should be formed :) Grutness... wha? 00:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Grutness - remember how you voted for me to be an admin there - another vote is in progress and I'd be grateful if you would take part in that too... Please have a look at mi:Wikipedia:Ngā tono whakatū kaiwhakahaere - Brian NZ has nominated me for bureaucrat at mi. Important because we have no active bureaucrat there at the moment, and it would be a milestone for the Wikipedia Māori. There is a need at the moment for bots etc to be flagged... Cheers Kahuroa 10:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
As you all know, some hacker cracked my password and I have been stripped of my admin powers. I can understand an admin. being blocked, but stripped of his powers without a fair hearing or consensus, I can't. I have stated that I changed my password and would like my powers back, however the chastizing going on in [ [1]] has sadden me. It doesn't matter how many articles you have written, contributions you have made or how many years you have dedicated to making this project a credible one. A hacker, it seems has the power of making people consider you an untrustful person and turning some people in the community against you.
I have never abused of my powers and I have used Wikipedia as a medium to educate others. Yes, I have no regrets about having made so many contributions to the Pedia. I exhort all of my friends here to make sure that their passwords are strong ones so that you will not have to go through what I am going through.
I did promise some of my friends a couple of articles and as a good Marine I will keep my promise. To my friends here, Thank you for your friendship. Tony the Marine 00:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
My adminship has been restored and let me tell you, we've got to very careful with our passwords. You know, despite the headache that this caused me, it really made me feel good to know how many friends I have in Wikipedia. The support has been incredible. I can't let my friends here down. Tony the Marine 04:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the thought, but I would like to pass on becoming an administrator at this time, although maybe in a few months. A couple of months ago, I found that things such as my nominations at WP:CFD would sometimes become magnets for personal attacks against me, and the merits of my discussion points or nominations would be lost. If I became an administrator at this time, I feel like my decisions could still attract such personal attacks, which I would rather not deal with right now. However, if things cool down in a couple of months, then I may be interested. Dr. Submillimeter 10:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Have raised this on the NZ noticeboard idf you'd like to comment. Cheers Kahuroa 00:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Grutness, Thanks for adding Robyn Hitchcock to the under reveiw section on the famous synesthetes page... If you could provide a couple of references for the quotes you mentioned on the talk page, that would be great. I'll start looking into later today when I have a chance. Best, Edhubbard 07:35, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, man... I seem to have stepped on the toe of a POV-pushing aggresive anon editor, which is a shame since I wish I hadn't gotten involved so that I could indefinitely block him. Anyway, I don't care much for most admins of the Wikipedia with their holier-than-thou approach to matters, so I'd like to ask you to perhaps have a look in the matter and act as you see fit. The wreck that is this person's Contributions page is here: [2]. If you don't feel like it or don't want to get involved, I understand perfectly. Best regards, -- Sn0wflake 17:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Seeing as your "my local" wikipedian could you block/restrict this guy, If he hasn't already been? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.165.67.10 A quick search will reveal he has turned lame vandalism into a career. Cheers! Paige Master 02:05, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
General maintenance is all that's required. To tell you the truth I don't even know that much about the Kabbalah. I'm still learning. But I have a natural aptitude for things magickal. Not that the Kabbalah is strictly that; maybe I should say mystical. I have a question for you what is a banner; is it the template that designates the project? Let me know. Lighthead 21:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the note and apologies for my belated response. And you're right, the New Zealand Maori isn't me (or, if you will, vice versa). I'm also not the Australian astronomer who has a Wikipedia article about him. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated Kamakuza, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Kamakuza satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamakuza and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Kamakuza during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. NB - I'm emphatically not AfDing it because there's anything wrong with it but just because it's already been transwikied but didn't want to prod it. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 19:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your vote of support for Wikipedia Rotuman! It's going towards what I feel will be a very important resource for the future of my language. Noa'ia! -- Mattbray 07:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Read this and this from that article's discussion page. I'm not going to go over this ground again; I'm certainly not the only one who remains unconvinced that these are malapropisms at all. + ILike2BeAnonymous 00:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
No problem! I just got tired of typing out both templates, so decided to combine them into one. Glad I could help. Hersfold ( talk/ work) 00:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Can I query why you restored the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club article? It clearly breaks the CSDa7 guidance in that it is about a fan club for a UK television series and the article has no external sources to backup its notability claim. If one Doctor Who fan club is to be allowed a separate article, hundreds more will demand one also; currently no other unofficial Doctor Who fan clubs do have articles in Wikipedia. -- The Missing Hour 09:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed from the old Stella Nova AfD discussion that you were advocating keep. As a New Zealand administrator who would be aware of the notability of the organization, I think you should know another administrator has deleted it without any discussion as non-notable. I've left them a comment that the deletion was probably incorrect and definitely out-of-process, but I thought you should be aware of the situation. TheRealFennShysa 21:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)