MacGyverMagic
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Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
A review of June, July and August.
Who is this guy?
Threads since June.
And slop.
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
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welcome McGyver! I hope you enjoy your stay at wikihotel and decide to stay forever! It's free!!! lol
Anyways, jokes aside, welcome and have a great time here, Im looking forward to reading your articles.
God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Energy Bunny Martin
Reflecks 18:42, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hey McGwyver: I found you in the Recent changes page, this page had a question mark, meaning that obviously no one had welcomes you yet. Youre only the second person in two years I get to welcome aboard. I myself was welcomed by Mav.
My main subjects here are boxing and airlines. But everyonce in a while, I wander off, such as when I wrote about Menudo or Arrowhead Water or Grand Theft Auto: Vice City or anything else Im a fan of.
Thanks for your message, and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Bolthead Martin
PS: checking your user page, I thought you'd be interested in List of teen idols, I originated the page, feel free to update it as needed.
Archives and links
(If I perform a long archiving session the page will be temporarily protected using this notice)
- Archive 1 Oldest discussions.
- Archive 2 Oct. 10 - Nov. 23, 2004
- Archive 3 Nov. 24, 2004 - Feb. 1, 2005
- Archive 4 Feb. 2, 2005 - ?
- Archive 5 - includes Armenian Genocide dispute.
- Archive 6 - includes final discussion on dispute, also loads on DYK.
- Archive 7 - includes Signpost, more DYK, CU taskforce and DYKbot discussion.
- Archive 8 - vandal hunting, amino acids, vfd pages (Leeroy +purple).
- Archive 9 - glycosylation, mediation, Mr. Tan/Zanskar and Krill.
- Archive 10 - Mediation: Zanskar, Houston Chronicle and Ed Poor and other MedCom stuff. Magic and copyright & I Dream. Humanbot update.
- Archive 11
- Archive 12
- Archive 13
- Archive 14
- Archive 15
- Archive 16
- Archive 17
- Archive 18 - multiple deletion discission around November and Forensic odontology discussion with Shauri.
- Archive 19
- Archive 20
- Archive 21
- Archive 22
- Archive 23 - lots of DYK stuff at end including Children's Party at the Palace DYK feature and Bobblewik
- Archive 24 - DYK, HD and InterWallet
- Archive 25 - Children's TV, Flarn's userpage and several admin duties
- Archive 26 - entering Esperanza, barnstars, Countries I visited, Arbcom clerkship, Funkitron
- Archive 27 - September 2006 (includes Boô and Esperanza Userpage Award)
- Archive 28 - October 2006 (award received)
- Archive 29 - November 2006
- Archive 30
The Deletion Of Bonerficationism
so i heard that one of my favorite bands finnally got an article on wikipedia, well i go and look for it and find that its GONE, well not taking my friends for liars i search and find that you had deleted the article.
i ask you, why? they are an extremely good band and they deserve a page just like everyone else, just because they arent "main stream" like brittney spears or any of those other bands they need one just as much because they deserve one.
if little bands like The Aquabats have one, (even as awsome as they are) shouldnt Bonerficationism get one as well?
please contact me back on this issue for i am deeply worried that you might be railroading people on here for reason that they dont deserve
Sysop day
Hope you are having a great Sysop Anniversary (from Randfan)
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Wishing MacGyverMagic a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and Bearly541! Congrats for staying with Wikipedia this long and eventually becoming a Sysop! Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Have a great day!
--Randfan! Good job and have an annus mirabilis! |
- Congrats! I'm sure you have done and will continue to do a good job! Cheers! :) —Randfan!! 00:53, 15, December of the year Anno Domini 2006m (UTC)
Congratulations MacGyverMagic! It's you anniversary! Wooohooo! You deserve some credit for all your hard work. Great job mate! Keep up the Good work! Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . 3 10:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
archive
You might want to archive, your page is really, really long. :) —¡Randfan! 01:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Advise please
Hi Mgm, since you are an OTRS volunteer, I thought I'd ask you. I had requested Mindspillage to add me to OTRS volunteers some time back. Not sure if she has seen my message. I see other similar messages pending on her talk page as well. Know of any other OTRS admins, who I can speak to? — Lost(talk) 06:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks — Lost(talk) 09:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Clerk
What would I need to become an assistant clerk on the ArbCom? Are there prerequisites to joining? Culverin? Talk 09:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Movies that feature head explosions
I replied. —Doug Bell talk 11:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- Boy you sure got busy "fixing" that. Sorry for causing you all the needless effort. —Doug Bell talk 11:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Fishing fo Pike
I make no judgment on whether it is suitable for wikibooks, only on the suitability for for wikipedia, thus the delete. -- Whpq 13:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- After reading the article twice, I didn't feel as if it was suitable for Wikibooks. Others , more familiar with the requirements et al for WB can make that sort of call. --ElaragirlTalk|Count 15:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- If you mean this one [1], I didn't make any consideration for Wikibooks because I'm not familiar with it. I didn't think it should be merged into Pike. I voted delete because it's not suitable for Wikipedia. If it could be put into the Wikibooks as a how to guide I'd have no objection.--John Lake 18:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- After reading the article twice, I didn't feel as if it was suitable for Wikibooks. Others , more familiar with the requirements et al for WB can make that sort of call. --ElaragirlTalk|Count 15:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Sword of Christ
Hi, I see you unblocked User:Sword of Christ with the reason unblock to change duration. I assume you meant to increase the time on the ban but you seem to have left it unblocked. I will leave it as it is until I hear from you or the user starts up again. Thanks, HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 15:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Adminship Anniversary!
| Happy Adminship | from the Birthday Committee | |
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 Wishing MacGyverMagic a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! | ||
--lovelaughterlife♥talk? 23:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Puzzle (album)
I closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Puzzle (album) and redirected Puzzle (album) to Biffy Clyro. I've added it to my watchlist, so I'm not sure that preventively asking for a protect or sprotect is really necessary, but since you mentioned it I'm leaving this note ... There's something a bit odd about the edit box for your talk page. Doesn't seem to pick up that it's this page that should be edited if the subject is like [[page name]]. Not sure why that might be. Cheers ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:12, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- I did edit the text in the box, so that explains it. Thanks ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 18:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
FAC of bacteria
An editor has made some major changes to this article, could you please return to the FAC and provide some feedback on whether or not these are an improvement? TimVickers 21:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Masts for deletion
Hello. As the closing admin, I'm notifying the most active contributors to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of North Carolina Tower Chapel Hill, which has now been closed, in case they want to take any action about it. Best, Sandstein 12:00, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your help...
with that Category link for Category:National Film Board of Canada productions. Shawn in Montreal 18:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Mind Bending
Given the MFD, I would have thought it was mind-bendingly obvious that we were talking about the same pages. Joking apart: "This part will involve creating a faux article"...a bad start. Why not create a real article/stub? I did 2 today, plus a redirect. There are hundreds more articles that need writing.
"After you choose your topic, proceed to write an article (in the subpage, of course, not in the main namespace) on the topic. Articles should try and resemble the style of actual Wikipedia articles as much and should strive for featured article quality. (Of course, this cannot be reiterated enough: do not confuse these fictitious articles with real articles, do not create the articles in the main namespace, and do not submit these articles to the featured article candidates process.)"
Worse and worse. Why not write real FAs? There are billions more articles that need improving to FA status. If you want to learn how to do good research and write well-referenced articles then do so on real topics in the mainspace, which is what Wikipedia desperately needs! WP:GA is a good start as it is slightly less rigorous than FA. But I fail to see need for these fictitious articles, which, quite frankly, strike me as bizarre.
Oh, and one more thing. If people want to let off some steam by social networking - which does seem to be main point - per WP:NOT, they can do so elsewhere. Moreschi 19:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Re. User:Chempep
Thanks, I was not aware of the discussion on WP:ANI. I have reblocked indef this user on the grounds of inappropriate username. Regards.--Húsönd 22:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Request
Hi there,
Would you mind taking a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bryan_Brandenburg
It's there, just not on that log yet (everything gets auto-logged at b:Special:Log/import, I update the transwiki log once a week or so, though it's sort of redundant now). --SB_Johnny|talk|books 14:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thank you
Just wanted to say thanks for stopping by the AFD discussion. It needed an outside perspective. I've made some basic changes to the structure. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks again.
Heads Up
Hi again,
I think |Dallben isn't through yet and I think there's something fishy going on. The day after your decision, this appeared on the discussion page of Zygote Media Group:
"Bryan Brandenburg worked at Zygote Media Group from January 2005 to April 2006. User 3dscience respectfully declines to comment on any inquiries regarding his employment at Zygote Media Group."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Zygote_Media_Group
This is not what Wiki is for, is it? There are a number of edits from 3Dscience going on, which is fine, but this one seems out there.
Now the same day here's what Dallben put on his talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dallben/BrandenburgRewrite
There seems to an agenda with Dallben/Zygote to smear Brandenburg.
I jumped in on his deletion because there were red flags going up and I knew of some his companys.
This is bigger than me at this point.
Thanks for looking into this.
Not reblocked uzer User:Sword of Christ
Despite the userpage which says he's been blocked, the block log seems to show that he was not reblocked after you unblocked him. 68.39.174.238 04:15, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey long time no visit!
Hey dude! I see you work some on the commons regarding this pic which is certainly not a Luge, as the uploader added: "Note: The title was my own mistake, this is a BOBSLEIGH, not a Luge.", so I ask, is there a way to correct and rename images on the commons? The issue occurs more often than I'd like with maps and such, so I thought I'd ask and touch base as well. Drop or Xpost your answer on Fabartus so I see it soonest, assuming we're both on. Have a great holiday season! Best regards // FrankB 16:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks -- as I feared. Guess that improvement is still awaiting wishful fullfillment, no matter how long I take 'off' for RL matters! <g> Thanks // FrankB 21:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for you input. I will change it to "two etymologies have been suggested" and agree that you "settle in" an area.
Perhaps it is an older (archaic?) usage, but people can also "settle on" various bodies of water (in the sense that they settle on the banks of the creek, river, on the shore of a bay, etc.). Meginness (published in 1892 and one reference for the Farley story) uses "settled on White Deer Creek" and a search on Google with "settled on" in quotes and "creek" found many instances of this usage. The same is true for a "mill on a creek" (and one could argue that a water powered mill is at least partly in / on the water itself, though definitely not floating as you pointed out). See also the title of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss (where the Floss is a fictional river). Since it can be confusing, I will change the sentence in question to "settled on the banks of White Deer Hole Creek". I prefer to keep "built a mill on the creek" as that seems to be the preferred usage (and saying "on the banks of" twice would be awkward).
As for the relation between the two paragraphs, they are two different sources that give two different reasons for the name. My interpretation of WP:NOR is that I am not supposed to make a connection between them in the article, unless it is verifiable elsewhere (and it is not that I have found - Donehoo does not mention Meginness, and Meginness does not mention the Lenape name). What I tried to make clear by citing Donehoo's map names is that the earliest map name (1755) is the slightly garbled Lenape words for White Deer Hole Creek. A more corrupted version and its translation are on a slightly later map (1759), and by 1770 "White Deer hole" is the name on maps for good. The land was only opened to non-Native American settlers in 1768 (Treaty of Fort Stanwix) and the earliest settlers are 1769 or 1770, about the same time as the map with the modern name. We don't know a lot about the first settlers as they were all chased out and their homes burnt (and some killed) in the Big Runaway of 1778 and again in the Little Runaway of 1779. The Farley family arrives in 1787, 17 or 18 years after the first settlers, 32 years after the first mention of the Lenape name.
84 or so years later, John Farley talked about his life and related the story of someone killing a white deer near the hole where his father Caleb built the mill. The full quoatation is: "I was four years old when my father came here in 1787. We had plenty of red deer at that time. They could be seen every day when we stepped out of our cabins and went along through the valley or over the mountains. I never saw any white deer here, but a white deer is said to have been killed at an early day in a low hole or pond of water that once existed where my father built his mill, and that was the only white deer ever known in this valley." I think it is worth noting that Farley does not say who killed the deer - it could be a settler or a Native American (so could he perhaps be referring to a Lenape tradition passed down through the previous settlers?).
Sorry to be so long winded. I will make the changes and also put this on the article's talk page. Please ask if there are more questions you have. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch 17:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- My apologies. Having worked on the article so long I tend to get a bit myopic - thanks very much for pointing out my failure to make the relation of Farley's story to the name clear (especially when I didn't get it the first time you told me). I have edited the section in question and hope it is clearer and more understandable. If it is any consolation, my spouse (who is a native speaker of English) did not know the usage "settled on a creek" when I asked. Is it OK that I put our earlier exchange on the article's talk page? I was being bold. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch 22:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your support at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/White Deer Hole Creek. I have made the suggested changes. Please let me know if you have any concerns or suggestions for improvement. Yours, Ruhrfisch 17:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Good News!
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<font=3> Thanks again for your support and comments - White Deer Hole Creek made featured article! Take care, Ruhrfisch 17:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC) |
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Adminship
Hi. I see that you're an admin, and as someone who wishes to be recognized as such, I'd greatly appreciate your advice on how to go about achieving it. "It's not a big deal," but the process certainly makes it out to be so. I just want to be able to, for a start, close uncontroversial A/T/Cfd/m/r's. Later I'd move onto more heated debates that are reaching rough consensus. What do you think I should do now? Thanks a lot. Xiner 15:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Bad Idea?
I could use an assist (maybe two). I have a pet peeve, and thought I'd come up with a good concept for making chides to editors who leave incomplete documentation trails by creating sort of a wet diaper award. It seems to be drawing some adverse reactions, and even before I'd spammed a request to some others like this for brainstorming on how to shorten same and evolve it, as I'm not happy with it either. Subsequently, it's already drawn fire (here) before I could ask in help and get suggestions. Can you take a look and comment here. There has to be some way to let people know 'shallow edit actions' that reflect poorly on our pages need a talk note justification, no exceptions, thankyou. Much appreciated // FrankB 22:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Points taken.
Thanks. Xiner 14:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I think you're missing some context here. This is not a case of forking an existing, in use, page to work on a copy. It's a case of forking a page under discussion because of a content disagreement. Neither of these pages is more "current" than the other, both are under active development. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Image upload broken?
Thanks for the tips. Still no joy. The image is properly tagged .jpg, and I replaced the &.
Maybe I'll try it with a different browser -- though Firefox worked before...,
Thanks anyway -- Pete Tillman 18:41, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Cory Doctorow quote
You asked if I'm aware of Wikiquote.
Vaguely. Feel free to post this one there.
I have an addition to the Doctorow page re his free e.texts on my to-do list.
Thanks
Thanks for help page response.--Droll 04:48, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
RE: Your Message
The language used on the page makes it nonsensical.
Jonomacdrones 14:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Mastermynd
I don't have the audio, he just posted up the link to the interview on a bulletin of his Myspace License2Kill 20:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Colouring snag on infobox musician
If the infobox is being used on an individual who is solo and part of a group then you should use the "solo_singer" option in the infobox. Does that answer your question?--NeilEvans 20:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Alexis Bledel and Samaire Armstrong pictures
Hi, I was quite distressed that you deleted those two pictures, but I want to let you know that I've thoroughly researched image copyrights and am going to upload them again, this time with adequate info, I hope. Happy Evil Dude 00:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Becoming an arbitration clerk
I'd appreciate it if you showed me how to become an arbitration clerk. Yes, I know the general procedure: I'm interested in learning how the system works, and I'd like you to teach me the basics, if you don't mind. ŞρІϊţ ۞ ĨήƒϊήίтҰ (тąιк|соήтяївѕ) 02:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
{ {succession box} }
There is some misunderstanding here. I do not want to change that box but was interested in creating a similar one with different wording as a tradebox for professional sports:
The "preceded by" doesn't make sense here so I wanted to change the box (actually create a new box on the same model) Lost Kiwi(talk) 09:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Alexis Bledel and Samaire Armstrong pictures
Yeah, don't worry, that's what I did, I edited them. Hopefully, everything's fine now. Happy Evil Dude 16:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
About Sorin Cerin
Thank you!Is unacceptable what is happening with Sorin Cerin in contrib.page open by Jmabel!Please read. Thank you again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.114.26.107 (talk) 19:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
- I replied to you on my talk page. Let's try to keep the substantive parts of our conversation abou this in one place. And if you think what I'm doing is "unacceptable", please say so, I value your opinion much more than that of what appears to be the same anonymous user who keeps raising this issue. Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 23:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
getting info from deleted pages
In the help desk you stated that you could help get some deleted material if a reason was given.
The topic is "Cycle_studies" and I wish to review the page as it was before deletion so that I can consider whether a new article should be written with the same topic. The reasons for the original deletion were spurious to say the least. The talk page would be useful also. Please put a note on my talk page about where you put the material. Thanks. Ray Tomes 22:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. The reason I say spurious is that the account put forward in the proposal for deletion was full of factual errors. I quote "There is no recognized field of study called "cycle studies"; this article was created by User:RayTomes, who has created a number of articles pushing his own cranky theories, which derive from the vapid numerological mysticism of one Edward R. Dewey. In his UseNet postings, websites, and WP articles, Tomes attempts to present this material as a respectable mainstream science, which amounts to attempting to mislead our readers."
- Error 1 - Hillman states There is no recognized field of study called "cycle studies". Do a google search on "cycle studies" to find hundreds of thousands of pages.
- Error 2 - "RayTomes, who has created a number of articles pushing his own cranky theories". This is a lie. There was only one article on my theory, I did not create it, and it is not cranky.
- Error 3 - "vapid numerological mysticism of one Edward R. Dewey". This single phrase has an error in every word. The Dewey article is now in a quite good state. Dewey worked with and was supported in his work by many famous men including nobel prize winners. He never practiced numerology. His work was always clear and based on sound statistics and mathematics (as advised by experts).
- Error 4 - in his web site "Tomes attempts to present this material as a respectable mainstream science, which amounts to attempting to mislead our readers.". Hillman grossly distorts everything, even claiming that I started the FSC - remarkable as it started in 1941, six years before I was born. There are thousands of articles published in peer reviewed journals that report cycles found in every branch of science. The best of these look at the wider interdisciplinary relationships.
- The lies put forward by Hillman severely tainted the voting of people. If he gets involved again in the same manner I shall ask for him to be removed from wikipedia.
- Before I attempt to reinstate the pages I do want to see them to consider what form a new article might take. That is why I request being able to see the historical page before initiating any action. It would be silly to reinstate an inferior article and Hillman did much to butcher pages before putting them up for votes of deletion. Ray Tomes 11:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- My remark about Hillman was a general one. I am not in a position to state with regard to the particular article (as you are). The question still remains - can you please supply the article somewhere (perhaps in my talk space) so that I can see what it said just before it was deleted? Then I can take account of any valid criticism (unlike Hillman's) before considering writing a new article. Ray Tomes 21:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
MacGyver
Angus MacGyver is cool. I just saw your user name on the section listing what pages use an image on Image:Cake.jpg... I figured I'd leave this trivial note. :) The Duke of MacGyverMagic 14:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Film identification
Possibly A Step Toward Tomorrow (1996) IMDB [2] --Steve (Slf67) talk 00:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Your article, Oliver Smith (UK politician), was selected for DYK!
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On December 22, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Oliver Smith (UK politician), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. |
Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 22:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Mike Mendoza again
Hi Mgm. You responded to the problem surrounding this article, regarding the fact that Mike Mendoza founded a radio station, but is no longer involved with them. After weeks of peace, an IP has now started to remove the sentence stating that he is no longer involved, saying "The fact that he is not a presenter on Shalom does not mean he is not associated with it" - this is total nonsense, we know for certain that he is no longer associated with it because the subject told us, and while that doesn't meet WP:V we've sourced it as well as we can. I've already reverted once, but the anon persists. Could you help out? I may be the only one watching, and I can't be the only one reverting. I've no wish for the subject to get himself involved again. --Sam Blanning(talk) 00:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Genious!
Thanx MGM, I'll take a look at the code version to see how you did that. Crisco 1492 10:57, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays MacGyverMagic! | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 01:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
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May you and your family have a Merry Christmas, as well as any other Holiday you may celebrate. I hope that warmth, good cheer, and love surround you during these special days. May God bless you during the Holidays. | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 01:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC) | File:Julekort.jpg |
Re: Collapsible boxes
I tried playing around with a mock-up of the page on my sandbox and attempted transcluding a caption, but it didn't work; I'm not really sure how to make it work at this point. Apologies that I wasn't of more help - perhaps someone at the Village Pump can be more useful? Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I did not realize that this wasn't allowed. I apologize. Infomanager 00:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I think I've exhausted LexisNexis. Can you check other sources on them. Any info will do, but I'm particularly interested in finding out if I imagined something or if their debut album really went platinum or gold as I seem to remember. - Mgm|(talk) 11:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- It definitely went at least platinum. See on LexisNexis:"Singer Amy 'goes platinum' on TV" by Ian Townsend (relevant quote being "With other members of her classic/pop crossover group Angelis she received a platinum disc on GMTV to mark 350,000 copies of the sale of the album called Angelis."). I see it in The Oxford Times, but I guess it was mirrored by some other papers. See also [3]. --Gwern (contribs) 02:56 1 January 2007 (GMT)
Platinum
I didn't think of searching on individual members to get the article. Thanks for being smarter than me... --Mgm|(talk) 11:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- My secret sauce is first a long specific Google search string like "Angelis chorale Simon Cowell platinum gold", and then once I find something, I narrow it down in LexisNexis with the search string "Angelis platinum". :) --Gwern (contribs) 15:52 1 January 2007 (GMT)
More image stuff
Thanks for the image tip. I'll drop you a note when I've done that later this evening. I have another question. Would you have time to look at Talk:Serge Voronoff and see whether the Library of Congress image I linked to is usable by Wikipedia? (The general guidelines say that many, but not all, images are public ___domain, so we still need to check individually for each image). Suggestions for the appropriate licence would be good, though I'd like to do the upload myself if possible. Thanks. PS. I want to make sure the image rights are watertight, because when I've finished expanding Serge Voronoff, I want to put it up for a DYK + image. Carcharoth 18:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- Replied on my talk page. Thanks. BTW, Image:Erdbebenkreuz.JPG is now up (I created a new account, as the single-user log-in doesn't seem to have arrived yet). I had a closer look at the caption, and it simply seems to be an "Erdbebenkreuz" in Reinach. I've left Erdbebenkreuz as it is, as I suspect it is a German name for the memorial, meaning "Earthquake cross", but I linked "Reinach" to Reinach, Basel-Country as the most likely of the Reinachs on Wikipedia. So Basel earthquake now has a picture! Thanks for helping me through that process. Now to find a free picture of the big crack that can still be seen in the wall of Basel Cathedral! Carcharoth 20:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- PS. Which of "did experiments after which the cocktail called The Monkey Gland is named" and "dodgy HIV origins theory", do you think will fly best on DYK? Carcharoth 21:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the translation. Re the account on Commons, I tried creating one with the name I use here - but it said that name was taken. I tried logging in with the name and my password, but that failed. So I created a new account with the same password. The impression I got from here is that "Matching accounts that have the same email address or password will be unified automatically." - I used the same e-mail address and password, so hopefully the accounts will be merged. I'm not too bothered, but I would like to know if I missed a way to create an account with the same name. Thanks. Carcharoth 11:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- PS. Which of "did experiments after which the cocktail called The Monkey Gland is named" and "dodgy HIV origins theory", do you think will fly best on DYK? Carcharoth 21:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, Mgm, I said that the calendar isn't the problem, not the committee. JorcogaYell! 09:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I also said having a formal committee that we don't need at all is a problem. JorcogaYell! 10:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Good evening (GMT time); I am formally expressing my interest in becoming an ArbCom Clerk, and deciding on you as the best option with regards to my previous dealing with you as a honest and civil user. I am currently looking to donate a large portion of my time on Wikipedia to a Dispute Resolution organisation, and I have decided that the Arbitration Committee is the best option. I understand the function of a clerk, and I am one of the current Checkuser standby clerks.
I would appreciate an honest answer apropos of to my ability - in your opinion - to function as a successful and, above all, neutral clerk for the Arbitration Commitee.
Cheers and regards,
Anthonycfc [T • C] 21:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Re: Compatability Mode
Wow I had a whole long reply typed out and then I found your solution so I'll start all over I guess. Here goes:
- Right-click My Computer and go to Manage
- Select "Device Manager" under System Tools on the left pane.
- In the right pane open up "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
- Right-click "Primary IDE Channel" and go to Properties
- On the Advanced Settings tab select "PIO Only" / "No DMA" for Device 0 and 1.
Now try Simcity and see if you still have the problem. If you do, try performing the same operation on other IDE channels if there are more listed.
If you don't have an advanced settings tab at all under your IDE channels then you might have some crapola software that virtualizes the IDE channels.. uninstall it and try again (Intel Application Accelerator, etc).
Good luck. let me know if it works.
--frothT C 09:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
If you want to turn it back on just re-enable DMA. Personally I wouldn't disable it just to play sim city; I have a couple of components that depend on it.. however it's the solution that EA suggested. --frothT C 19:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Your Magic
Hey I saw you like to perform magic and I was wondering if you give away secrets and explanations on Wiki. I am a magician to so I was wondering. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SpiderMonkey625 (talk • contribs) 01:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC).
Him / her
We are both right. It is now hyper-solved, grammar and all. :) - Kittybrewster 13:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Remove | image_size = from code (copied from Template talk)
- I think you were supposed to enter px behind the number to indicate it was a size in pixels -otherwise the input is ignored by the template. - Mgm|(talk) 10:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- I was relatively new to Wikipedia back in October when I made the above post. It looks like the "How to Use" instructions above were clarified. Thanks for contacting me. -- Jreferee 15:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 16:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
AFD Abuse
Thank you for looking into this. User:PopPop PopMusic originally split the material from Project MKULTRA (reflected in this edit) into the new page (MKULTRA Pop Culture) and then nominated it for AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MKULTRA Pop Culture). I hope this is the information you requested. Wyatt Riot 15:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
MKultra AfD
Wha tI originaly meant in my comment was that it should not have been split in the first place, although I admit that I probably could have done a far better job in both my explanation and double-checkign to make sure the stuff was in the main article. Granted, I've never encountered an AfD like that before, but now I know how to handle it.--Wizardman 03:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Did you even look at what was written on the page? – [4]. — Nearly Headless Nick 13:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- If you are referring to 217.xxx., yes. I read their talk and they have indeed been warned multiple times. If you mean that AIV was cleared soon after you posted your message there, I can assure you it wasn't me but the bot attending to the page. If you are talking about something else, please be more specific. - Mgm|(talk) 13:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- The user was not warned for the day. This is a copy of what I said to the non-admin who reported it — Nearly Headless Nick 13:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
nEW mESSAGES
You have new messages at WP:AIV. — Nearly Headless Nick 13:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- He had already been warned at least 5 times and Had recieved a last warning. He had not been blocked since that last warning according to the block log and all the other warnings had been placed after the last warning. Correct me if I'm wrong but at that point don't you just go to WP:AIV? Since he has already recieved enough warning.--St.daniel 13:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- Look, its good that you are reverting vandalism and reporting vandals to WP:AIV. However, in this very case, you did not warn the user a single time this day. The IP might be shared by other users, how would they know that what they are doing is wrong? We need to assume good faith with the vandals and not retaliate with the their kind of retribution. However, I cannot blame you. We have another administrator who blocked him. Reply here if you want to; or read what the top of my page says. ;) — Nearly Headless Nick 13:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you
For understanding what I mean. I am copying another conversation from another user's talk page, because I can't repeat it again. :P — Nearly Headless Nick 13:39, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Do you have an explanation for this? – [5]. User does not have a long history of vandalism. You did not use appropriate warning templates on his talk page. How can you term it as Return vandal. One of these "blockable immediately IPs.? Incidentally, there was another administrator who did not care to look at the contributions / talk pages of the user and blocked, probably without checking. The top of the page says The vandal is active now, has received a proper set of warnings, and has vandalized after a last warning.. Please take care in future. — Nearly Headless Nick 13:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- The IP's talk page carried Template:Repeat vandal, which tells users that the IP may be blocked without further warning. Pascal followed our instructions here, which happen to be self-contradictory. Kusma (討論) 13:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- Look, we are human beings here, and we can apply common sense with a few things. Vandalism is not the enemy of Wikipedia, it gets us new editors. The vandals need to be warned and blocks are cast as a preventive measure. We do not apply the same level of retribution as vandals apply for us. — Nearly Headless Nick 14:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- I can't tell whether in this case a warning would have had the same (or a better) effect as a block. I would also probably have warned again before blocking. Anyway, I was just pointing out a way in which you can WP:AGF with Pascal's action. Kusma (討論) 14:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- Look, we are human beings here, and we can apply common sense with a few things. Vandalism is not the enemy of Wikipedia, it gets us new editors. The vandals need to be warned and blocks are cast as a preventive measure. We do not apply the same level of retribution as vandals apply for us. — Nearly Headless Nick 14:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
It looks like the deletion police are trying to circumvent a previous AFD again. See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of media personalities who have vandalised Wikipedia. As you voted keep, could you cast your vote again? - Ta bu shi da yu 23:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Seb Clover on DYK
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Thanks for your contributions. — ERcheck (talk) 05:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
GWRsailing
I don't know how to send Emails so: THe actual entry is quite long but is basically says he first crossed the atlantic in 1850, aged 18, and crossed the ocean almost 700 times during his life. His first crossing as a captain was 1856 (aged 24). I hope this helps.
Your advise
Bainer just closed it as to merge. However, I count at least 25 people who wanted it kept, and only about 5 people to merge! Clearly that is wrong. What should I do? I mean, people are pissed off at me as it is, and I doubt any admin will pay attention to me that the AFD was wrongly closed. Could I get your thoughts on what to do? Incidently, it's tough for me to admit that I stuffed up, especially when someone is going for the jugular. I should have also told all the delete people about the new MFD as well, and should I have my time again that is what I would do. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Because it's quite useful to point out where the media (not your run of the mill vandals) have been vandalising Wikipedia. Also, I realise that a judgement call is needed, but there are 20-25 people who were fairly definitely in the keep it as it was camp, and 15 people who wanted it gone totally, and yet only 5 people who argued for merging. What's the point of an AFD/MFD (or even participating in one) if you believe that consensus is listening to a minority? Besides which, this already went through another AFD, which appears to have been totally ignored. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- All right. Let's say someone goes ahead and vandalises Wikipedia from the media. We then all condemn him/her in unison, and point out that the media is always vandalising us, even though they are meant to be the bastions of objectivity and good sense, and only report on the news, as opposed to create it. A list like Wikipedia:List of media personalities who have vandalised Wikipedia would come in quite useful, so we can point out all the times this has happened. It would certainly show how the 4th estate deals with new and emerging media like Wikipedia. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Re: Ta bu's edit summaries
While I agree edit summaries are useful, I think you should consider not checking his edits all together. Anti-vandalism tools automatically drop edits by administrators (they're considered trustworthy). Ta bu was an administrator until he took a self-imposed wikibreak. I haven't checked his current status, but even if he's not an admin, I think checking his edits is a waste of time.
I can also see why he tought your message was automated, you generally don't explain what summaries are and where they appear to veteran users.
I think you should alter your checking method regardless. Vandals are getting cleverer and more of them are entering fake summaries to throw you off. Try using antivandal tools that make decisions based on content and unexplained changes of dates rather than relying on the edit summary. - Mgm|(talk) 12:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Since I posted the message to Ta Bu, I have changed {{User:Will Pittenger/SumCO}} to provide locations. There is a bug causing the URL parameter, {{{2}}}, to be ignored. I don't understand why, but I am able to repair it manually after I post. If you call it with the preview window, you should be able to test it and force it to display the text you don't see in the template's page.
- Also, it takes a lot of work to test whether someone is an admin or not. The status doesn't show up in the watchlist, recent changes, or anywhere else. I do have some JS anti-vandal tools installed. Client-side tools like Vandal Proof are not an option as I have no control over what is installed on this machine. (It's not mine. That machine appears to be down for the foreseeable future.) Will (Talk - contribs) 19:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)