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James Bond

Just a heads up

I just deleted a section in the main article by an anon who wanted to list all the "dead actors/actresses" who appeared in the Bond films. Don't ask me why. Anyway you might want to keep an eye out in case the anon doesn't take the hint and tries to put it back. If I spot it being created as a separate article I'll let you know as it'll definitely be AFD time if it does. 23skidoo 01:08, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Problem is a lot of these edits are being done by anons who may or may not know to look at the history page to see what happened (and read the reasons why). For all I know they might just think their entry got caught in the system somewhere. There's an anon trying to push some POV comments about Spock and Kirk being gay lovers at the two characters' pages and he/she/it isn't getting the hint, either. :-) 23skidoo 04:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

The worst part is, you know if you reply the anon will either not see it, not know to even look for it (leaving vandalism warnings on IP number pages is a pointless exercise), or some innocent bystander sharing the IP will see the message and accuse you of picking on him... oh well. Look at it this way -- you're an admin, they're not. That's a bright side! 23skidoo 05:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Films Wikiproject

You probably noticed, but I added the {{FilmsWikiProject}} tag to the Bond film articles. Looks like it's picking up speed and I've been adding titles to their list. I don't know if it does any good in the long run, but I figured it couldn't hurt to have them listed. 23skidoo 04:44, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Kingsley Amis

As you might have guessed from my edits to Colonel Sun, Robert Markham, etc. I finally got my hands on the Titan Books Colonel Sun volume. The introduction chapters have quite a bit of interesting info -- I for one was surprised to discover Amis actually DID want a film made of Colonel Sun. And he did think about doing a second Markham book, even though I had read elsewhere he always considered it a one-shot. Then again, Titan does seem to subscribe to the "Fleming didn't finish MWTGG" theory ... though at least they don't credit Amis as a ghostwriter or anything like that... 23skidoo 05:30, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Just to reply to your edit summary on MWGG, I took a look at Cork and Lycett and decided the Titan reference was worth mentioning separately as it both supported and disputed elements of both. For example, Lycett says the book was just edited; Titan called it an unfinished manuscript and there's a bit of a difference there. BTW I left of the "The" because when referring to a book title numerous times in a paragraph it's usually OK to leave off articles or just shorten further to key words like "Golden Gun". Cheers! 23skidoo 05:33, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree not a lot has been written about post-Fleming. The Bond Files is an exception that really goes into detail, but the lack of such info is why I found the Titan Books introduction so interesting. I know there's supposed to be a new book out about the Bond books but I do believe it's just about Fleming again. Of course Fleming created the character and his books are definitive, but at the same time, the output of Amis to Benson (not to mention Higler and the Moneypenny Diaries) has far outnumbered the original dozen or so books by Fleming. 23skidoo 05:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Changing the Bond movie infobox

I don't know about you, but I think having a line listing the distributor is just more trouble than it's worth (see NSNA for example). Maybe this line should simply be cut from the infobox altogether? After all, the films are all presently under one distrubutor anyway. Thoughts? 23skidoo 16:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

OK by me. Is there anyway of including an embedded message so folks like the NSNA anon don't keep changing them to whatever the current distributor is? 23skidoo 18:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll let you respond to the latest reverting at NSNA re:distributor. I'd rather not get into it with the anon. 23skidoo 22:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

None other than

Sorry about that. I just added that in since Pan is, next to Signet, the paperback company most associated with the classic Bond novels. 23skidoo 00:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Allies article

I'm about to butt up against the 3RR at List of James Bond allies. Someone is insisting on listing every single character who did anything for the good guys ... 23skidoo 22:13, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

And the same thing just happened at the Villains article. I mean, do we really need to list Michael Wilson's cameo as the guy who said "consider him slimed" in TND as a henchman? 23skidoo 08:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

If you have access to those types of figures, I say go for it! 23skidoo 21:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

That is interesting since MGM promotes the Brosnan Bonds as the most financially successful and I have in fact seen Moonraker characterised as a box office disappointment. I wonder where OHMSS and FYEO rank since they're usually listed as the Bond films that did the worst at the box office. Mind, you it is hard to compare films from today with 30 years ago ... even if you factor in inflation, other costs drag recent numbers down. I'm willing to bet Moore was paid a fraction of what Brosnan was, for example... plus Moonraker was not produced with the assumption that most of its profit would come from DVD sales as the Brosnan Bonds (at least TWINE and DAD) were. I also remember seeing one Bond (I think it was Moonraker) held over for something like 6 or 7 months when it came out, and that's pretty well unheard of for recent films except maybe Titanic. 23skidoo 02:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Higson books in main Bond article

Fair enough, but maybe we should include a link regarding the announcement of the next three books as I was under the impression they hadn't been announced. I'd caution against giving a year for any of the books in any event as we've already seen the first two published later than originally announced. 23skidoo 18:20, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Solange

Very good catch re: 007 in New York. I'd forgotten all about that. Have you checked other character names to see if they crop up elsewhere? I'm still waiting for some reference to Quantum of Solace to turn up. 23skidoo 17:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Fair use notation within articles

Have you ever seen this before? (See [1] ). At first I thought it was just someone being a bit too thorough, but then he cited Wikipedia:Image_description_page#Fair_use_rationale and said it was required to include the rationale within the articlespace. The article in question is up for FA status and someone marked it as requiring this before they'd support it. Now, you and I have added tons of images to the Bond articles -- and no doubt others -- but I have never come across this before. Is this a new policy? Seems kinda a pointless use of bytes if you ask me since it's easier to just click on the image and you have all the rationale info right there... 23skidoo 19:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I just received a note on my talk page about this. Seems it's one of those rules that's been around for awhile but is generally considered optional. 23skidoo 19:51, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I was more confused by the "commented out" stuff -- of course the images themselves need fair use rationale on their specific pages. I've never come across it anywhere else (the commented out statements, that is), and neither did the user who had to add it to the Illuminatus article. Got your note re: the e-mail confirmation. I might drop a comment on the town pump page because it really does look at first glance like the IMDb thing. Thanks - 23skidoo 20:18, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Craig

Gah, the anti-Craig contingent are getting to be as obnoxious if not moreso than the Kill Enterprise crowd were. I reverted the guy's POV change on Casino Royale and I also blocked him for violating 3RR for all the good it'll do... 23skidoo 21:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Like it or not, the anti-Craig attitude has gotten some media attention and I'm not against including the boycott site in the External Links (we listed Kill Enterprise under Star Trek Enterprise, after all). But the anon clearly has an issue ... although it's possible the anon simply didn't know to check the history to see that his changes were being reverted ... 23skidoo 23:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Casino Royale theme

I just reverted a dubious looking edit at James Bond music that a Melanie C song had been chosen for Casino Royale. I assume that's bogus ... I haven't heard anything, have you? On another matter, I couldn't help but notice the official-looking message re:Whittingham. Everything work out OK on that? 23skidoo 01:58, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Bond 22

I don't know if you've heard this, but according to the World Entertainment News Network (the syndicated service used by IMDb), Barbara Broccolli is apparently so pleased with Daniel Craig and so confident Casino Royale will be a hit that she has already started pre-production work on Bond 22. According to the article [2] the film will be an original story (so much for them doing Live and Let Die) and be an immediate sequel to Casino Royale. If they're already working on it, I guess we won't have to wait 4 years for the next Bond. That's assuming the WENN article is correct; I haven't seen anything else reporting this. 23skidoo 15:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)]

Fancruft

I'm going to AFD the two battle articles. The Blofeld trilogy I'm going to suggest merging withErnst Stavro Blofeld. 23skidoo 16:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

The AFDs for the battle articles are now up. On another matter, Koenig is trying to turn the Haley talk page into a blog again so I have given him a final warning and will start blocking him after this. (Nothing for you to do -- I'm just mentioning it to a fellow admin so it's on the record that I've been more than patient with the guy). 23skidoo 16:20, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

If you haven't already, check out Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle for the tanker where some guy is trying to convince people that the Mad Max 2 battle deserves as much coveage as the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Normandy! Right now the vote on that one is 2 delete, 2 keep. 23skidoo 22:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

You should see the guy's response. He cites a bunch of philosophy and is basically saying that no article should ever be deleted. I needed a good laugh. 23skidoo 13:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Good lord, now I just got my head bitten off on the Volcano AFD! What's gotten into some people lately? 23skidoo 01:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I'm not even looking at those AFDs anymore. 23skidoo 04:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Teaser trailer

Just FYI there's a French-language trailer for Casino Royale up at Youtube.[3] Looks pretty impressive. 23skidoo 14:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

On a related note, we'll have to keep an eye on the main Casino Royale article as I've had to revert a couple people who, obviously excited by the trailer, have been adding links to it and/or just pronouncing the trailer's existence with no rhyme or reason on the page ... perhaps they're unaware the movie article exists? I'm actually in danger of 3RR violation with one guy - I dropped a warning on his talk page but if he adds it again today I might not be able to revert it right away. 23skidoo 17:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Problem...

Earlier I noticed that all (or most) of the Sonic games were included in the Category:Computer and video game series templates, so I saw that the Template:SonicGames was including the category. I put the noinclude html code thing in, but the games still show up in the category. Do you know why it is this way? Thunderbrand 05:33, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't get it either. Only some of the Sonic games show up. I checked them all, and they do use the template not subst:template, so that itsn't the problem. I tried purging all the pages, no luck. Jacoplane 07:53, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Doing null edits on all the articles indeed removed them. cheers, Jacoplane 08:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks as well. Thunderbrand 20:34, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Virturoids

Salutations K1. Me and new user Tenshouzan are working on overhalling the Virtual On video game page, and we just completed the new Virturoids page. Could you look at it and provide some feedback..? It'd be much appreciated. Thanks. -MegamanZero|Talk 19:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

MobyGames link practice

A debate has broken out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer and video games about whether or not to link to MobyGames, and a lot of Moby links have been reverted. I recall that before I joined you were involved in a debate about what to link to in game articles. Can we get the benefit of your input? Thanks. Coll7 22:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

This is odd!

For some reason your talk page has been archived here: http://www.echostatic.com/K1Bond007.html Cheers! 23skidoo 02:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Unicode

Hey, I think you accidentally messed up the unicode in this edit :

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Almeida&diff=35360607&oldid=35359998

I don't actually know what that line is for, I couldn't see it anywhere in the article.. I thought it was one of those language things. Anyway, should be fixed.--Paraphelion 06:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, sorry about that, my mistake. I haven't seen too many nondisplayable characters in Firefox UTF-8.--Paraphelion 20:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Getting ridiculous

OK, I think the image copyright police are getting out of control. I was just forced to delete the image at Sheena Easton because -- and I am NOT making this up as you'll see it on my talk page -- I could not provide the phone number and/or mailing address of the publicist who issued the image a quarter of a century ago. (Apparently just saying it's copyright a certain company isn't good enough). I tell ya, if someone put forth a motion to elmininate all images from Wikipedia (and in all seriousness there are plenty of reasons that such a move would be good from a bandwidth/server load perspective) I'd be hard pressed not to support it. 23skidoo 19:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted image

Image:007.svg, which you used on your userpage, is copyrighted (see the licence at the image description page). We can use it in an article under the Fair use provision of US law, but I can't see how you can claim fair use on a userpage. Therefore I have removed the image.--Commander Keane 12:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Living people category

What do you think about this Living People category that's been created. I'm sure you've seen editors going around adding people to it. I actually reverted the first one I saw because I thought it was bad faith. I was going to CFD it only to find it's a pet project of Jimbo's and (get this) it is actually forbidden to nominate it for CFD. I personally think it's the most pointless idea going -- why create a category that could in theory have 6 billion names? I'm so puzzled by it as to be almost speechless... 23skidoo 12:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm with you. I think part of the problem is no one has explained in detail why it's needed. There is some vague notion that it's supposed to help editors (i.e. people like you and me) keep track of articles that could contain libel. Obviously some Wikipedians really have a lot of free time. I have a watchlist and I look for B.S. - that's enough as far as I'm concerned. If I wanted to really be a pain, I could go onto CFD and vote "keep" for all categories up for nomination based upon this precedent alone. 23skidoo 21:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I can't help wonder if the floodgates have now been opened. I'm having AFD's in the process of defeat for (get this) a List of films with things in boxes (or "unexposed contents"), and an extremely crystal ball speculative article on a Canadian election that hasn't even been announced yet. At this rate I might just hang up my admin spurs and focus on working on articles. It's not bad enough to say "this place is going to hell" but I've certainly noticed a downturn in quality of some of the articles being kept around here. 23skidoo 16:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Dorm

Hello, Kevin

I live in Normal and I saw your discussion question about where to put the dorm with 4000 residents-- how about the "dormitory" article?

My handle is Finko... I am not logged in now...

cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.113.144.119 (talk • contribs) .

4000? Where is this discussion located? Watterson only holds 2000 or so, so that can't be the one you're talking about. K1Bond007 03:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Proposal for "Wikipedia is not a fan site"

Hi, K,

A while back, after the Lost (TV series) pages started getting crufty, I floated a proposal that "Wikipedia is not a fan site" for What Wikipedia is not. I've cleaned up the proposal material, and in anticipation of polling, put it up for review at: User_talk:Leflyman/Not_a_Fansite. As your interests cover a variety of fandoms, I'd be pleased to have your input and suggestions. You may also want to review the comments when I first brought it up on the talk page for What Wikipedia is not in November, which I've copied to the bottom of my "sub-page". Let me know what you think! --LeFlyman 01:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Previous comment

I left previous comment about {SCRUFF} clan

I'm starfltcdrjr :P

Current computer and video games events

Hey, I'm curious what your opinion is of Current computer and video games events. Do you think it's a good idea, and if so, how could it be improved? Perhaps post your reply on WPCVG so the whole WikiProject sees. Thanks, Jaco plane 00:15, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

James Bond locations

Hi, I notice you're a James Bond fan :) I just started James Bond locations and was wondering if you could write a section on where the books were set in? (I have seen all the movies but havent read the books) Regards -- Astrokey44|talk 10:24, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

James Bond Portal is under attack

Cyberjunkie has nominated for deletion the template that gives portals round corners. The same template the James Bond portal uses. He's trying to delete 3 templates I created. Please help maintain selective design amongst portals and support these three templates. Here's the link: Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#Portal:Box-header-round. They are listed sequentially. There isn't much time left, and it's lucky I found out at all. --Go for it! 03:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD opinion

Hey, what's your opinion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GoldenEye Doom 2 Total Conversion? Have you heard of this mod? Cheers, jaco plane 02:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Titanic

Maybe I'm a lone wolf crying in the wilderness, but I am opposing the decision by an editor to delete rather interesting sections on deleted scenes and spoofs in the Titanic (1997 film) article. If this were some two-bit film I could support it, but this is arguably the biggest film (financially) of all time and therefore demands a bit more detailed approach. Anyway, I started a snap poll in the talk page on this issue and I invite you to take a look and vote yay or nay as you see fit. PS. I definitely have no complaints about Eva Green being cast as the new Bond girl or the guy from King Arther as Le Chiffe. A black Felix worked fine with Bernie Casey and is no different than having him be young then old then young then old ... Cheers! 23skidoo 05:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello from a vandal

This is too funny. I've got a guy with his shorts in a knot over at Viper Room who has not only accused me of vandalism, but claims to have reported me as such. (Of course I can find no evidence of this). I'm just shaking my head. BTW thanks for the input on Titanic. Your friendly neighborhood vandal, 23skidoo 22:15, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Need assistance on an admin matter

Over at Talk:Bill Haley there's a user who has basically turned it into his own blog/Haley reference site. I don't think this guy sleeps - he seems to be adding to it every few minutes. Much of it is nonsense and unexplained (problem is his first language isn't English). I've already asked him to stop posting material that has nothing to do with the article, but still he persists. A colleague of mine was being flamed by this fellow so joined wikipedia in order to defend himself, and ended up receiving nonsensical e-mails from this fellow to the extent that he blocked the guy's e-mails. Problem is I can't do much at my end becaue I have become involved with the argument (plus the Bill Haley articles are to me what the James Bond articles are to you) and therefore cannot claim impartiality. So far, this user's conduct is not affecting the main article though I have had to revert some minor changes he made. But the talk page has been rendered useless on this and a couple of related articles (but mainly this one). If you have a few minutes, could you take a look at the page and, if you wish, make comment to this fellow and/or refer him to someone else? We need some third parties involved. I've already received a complaint about this guy from a sysop at the French Wikipedia (you can see the related comments on my Talk Page). I'm not identifying the user in question here as I don't want him doing a "What links here" but believe me, you'll know who I'm talking about. Thanks! 23skidoo 17:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Knowledge of the subject matter isn't really an issue here - in fact I was kinda hoping you weren't too familiar with Haley because that would allow you to see what is important and not important to someone who couldn't care less who recorded the original version of "Charmaine" (I'm a longtime fan of Haley and I couldn't care less). Problem was this past month I was so busy with "real world" matters that I wasn't able to keep the reins on and by the time I got back to it, things had gotten out of control. I was not, however, aware that Talk Pages could be edited, so I'll remember that for next time. 23skidoo 01:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Looks like the block on me was either removed or expired. Thanks again for the assist. Meanwhile I'm going to place another request on Koenig's page about his conduct on the talk page for Haley, for what good it'll do. 23skidoo 18:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Just as an update, looks like this user is up to the same old thing at Talk:The Beach Boys, most recently posting something linking the song "Ten Little Indians" with a racist rhyme called "Ten Little N---ers". Yeah I have no idea what the Beach Boys link is either (except they recorded the song ... once). I deleted that nonsense and put yet another request on his talk page that he read WP:NOT (I do think there's a language issue -- maybe he doesn't understand it.) There's a sysop from the French Wikipedia who considers him to be an outright vandal though I haven't seen him exhibiting that behavior -- just clueless newbie type stuff. 23skidoo 19:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I know there's not much you can do at your end, but I figured I should keep a third party informed on this, lest I be accused of heavy handedness. Also, if this continues I may call for RFC so it helps if I have indicated the situation to another admin, just for the record. 23skidoo 23:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think we have to worry. Looks like the Fr.Wikipedia sysop I mentioned has declared war on the guy. Maybe it had something to do with our friend calling him a "murderer" on his talk page? That would tend to tick someone off... 23skidoo 00:42, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

E-mailing

I was following the postings on Curps page as I was leaving him a message. I can't send e-mail to anyone and it's possible it might be connected with the e-mail confirmation thing. However my concern is -- is this the same as what IMDb does and that every single edit I do results in me receiving a "confirmation" e-mail? That's why I haven't done it because otherwise my inbox would get loaded very quickly with such "receipts". Does this happen? If it does, then I'll just have to do without the function. Cheers. 23skidoo 20:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

bond map

ok thanks for pointing that out, Ive added Iceland, but I dont know what the other mistakes he referred to on the talk page are? -- Astrokey44|talk 05:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Bond Image

Thanks for the heads up. When you made this edit I actually saw it right away on my Watchlist and proceeded to enlarged the picture's pixels on the Casino Royale page and add an alternate caption. I agree with what you did and you're right we don't need both pics. CrazyInSane 17:18, 10 March 2006 (UTC).

Damaging remarks re Jack Whittingham

Dear KI Bond007

I write as Jack Whittingham's daughter and with my brother Jon, heir to his estate to complain about unsubstantiated references to our father in your otherwise excellent article on Thunderball, copy from which has been taken up by the Wikipedia Encyclopedia website dated September 2005 and which are extremely damaging.

The reference comes from your article on Thunderball which states that during the 1963 court case against Fleming for Plagairism and False Attribution of Rights, our father Jack Whittingham "due to financial difficulties" "backed out and sold his part of the rights to Kevin McClory"

These totally untrue, inaccurate and unsubstantiated remarks are extremely damaging to our late father's excellent and unblemished professional reputation.

The facts are that he was, at that time, considered one of the top ten British screenwriters who, having completed a very successful and financially rewarding run of films with Ealing studios had gone out on his own as a freelance writer, and, was at that time being woed by Walt Disney himself. (see "Thunderball years" on my website www.sylvanmason.com which contains complimentary comments from Fleming himself)

He had absolutely no 'financial difficulties' whatsoever, and we as a familly were enjoying a substantial lifestyle due to him being at the pinnacle of his career, however, as the Thunderball case grew larger and larger and with 999 documents as evidence, threatened to become one of the longest running court cases in history with legal costs that could prove astronomical; and as he had NO RIGHTS at all in the screenplay, having assigned them 3 years previously on completion of the screenplay, to Kevin McClory in a fairly standard Film Institute contract which (sadly for our family bearing in mind that Video and DVD had yet to be invented) assigned "all rights of whatsoever nature" to Kevin McClory; he was advised to step down as co-plaintiff which would carry legal responsibility for costs should they lose, and carry on as prinical witness to support Kevin who he felt had been wronged.

My father said, at the time, and it might help you to understand his predicament to know, that Kevin McClory had absolutely "everything to gain" from this court case due to having financial backing by a South African millionaire friend, and his new wife Bobo Seigrist - heiress to the Hawker Siddely aircraft company, whilst my father had "everything to lose". He had no rights in the screenplay should they win, and 50% liability for the costs should they lose. With two children in expensive boarding schools, he took the advice to drop co-plaintiveness status, and carried on loyally supporting Kevin as principal witness in spite of the same heart problems that Fleming was experiencing at the time. Problems which they amicably shared letters about during the case, and which killed them both in the end.

My father who was described, even by Kevin McClory, who later abandoned him after the case, as "the most honorable man he had ever met" was very torn between his friendship and affection for Ian Fleming and his loyalty to Kevin whose plight he defended because he felt it was the right thing to do, in addition to the fact that his professional reputation was also at stake

If he was going to take any "money" he could have done so, when it was 'allegedly' alluded to by the other side in letters which I still have. That would have been far more lucrative but my father would never have contemplated that.

I would very much like you to correct this information in an article please. I would be happy to supply photographs of my father and others involved during the court case.

I have already edited the Wikipedia article..

I look forward to hearing from you

Yours sincerely

Sylvan Whittingham Mason

c.c. Jonathan Whittingham, Aimi Whittingham Mason, Messrs Carter-Ruck & Partners

I look forward to hearing from you. —This unsigned comment is by Sylvan mason (talk • contribs) .

Vandalism heads up

I've just blocked User:TuomasTumour for 7 days for vandalism. His usual M.O. is to insert the words "hen fap" into articles, though he's also been more creative. The reason I mention this is the last time I blocked him he proceeded to vandalise my user page (I think you caught one) and other articles using anon IPs ... though of course he isn't smart enough to choose another catchphrase so I know immediately who is doing it. If you spot any "hen fap" appearances by anon IPs, please let me know as I'm trying to track the guy for possible reporting as a serial vandal. Thanks. 23skidoo 00:45, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Octopussy track listing

As of your recent edit, the track listing for Octopussy soundtrack is as follows:

"All Time High" - Rita Coolidge
"Bond Look Alike"
"009 Gets the Knife and Gobinda Attacks"
"That's My Little Octopussy"
"Arrival at the Island of Octopussy"
"Bond at the Monsoon Palace"
"Bond Meets Octopussy"
"Yo-Yo Fight and Death of Vijay"
"The Chase Bond Theme"
"The Palace Fight"
"All Time High"
"The Chase Bomb Theme"
"The Palace Fight"
"All Time High" - Rita Coolidge

Why the heck would the last three tracks be repeated? Isn't the reason why there's 14 tracks in the 1997 edition is because they threw in those three lines of dialog? It doesn't quite make sense to me. -TonicBH 20:56, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Concerning User:Brian O Herrity

Hi, I noticed that you temporarily blocked User:Brian O Herrity after repeatedly uploading copyrighted images. It seems that since his block has expired he continues to upload copyrighted images either claiming to be the author of them or simply not providing the proper information (I count 5 more as of March 24, assuming that's when he was allowed to edit articles again).

Needless to say, this is getting increasingly annoying, and I have personally went behind him and cleaned up several articles he has made a mess out of with either copyrighted images or bad information/bad editing. The numerous notices on his talk page don't seem to phase him. Is there anything that can be done? How many warnings will he receive before he's banned altogether? Thanks. C.J. 18:39, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Have you noticed...

... That Wikipedia is now automatically adding to your Watchlist any talk pages you leave messages on? I just left a whack of NovelsWikiProject tags on pages (I figured it wouldn't hurt to have the Bond articles added) and then I went to a bunch of articles that I know aren't on my watchlist ... they are now! 23skidoo 23:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject: Gamecruft

I've decided to create a WikiProject devoted to discussing what articles qualify as gamecruft, and what do not. Contact me if you are interested, or have questions. - A Link to the Past (talk) 03:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

This is how it will be:

Part 1: Gather up articles that are believed to be in need of being merged or redirected.
Part 2: Gather up people to discuss what articles deserve to stay, and what do not.
Part 3: Discuss this as a group.
Part 4: Act on our discussion.
Part 5: Hopefully, this part will involve us doing the same against the Pokémon articles, Fire Emblem articles or Final Fantasy articles. - A Link to the Past (talk) 03:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Sortkeys

Greetings, 007! I was told that when you use the "|*" (pipe+asterisk) sortkey for a sub-cat, it forces it to appear at the beginning of the parent category's sub-cat list, rather than spreading the sub-cats out if the category has more than 200 articles. (See Category:Film stubs for an example. I have gathered from various sources that this is desirable, and more so than the alternative "| " (pipe+space), which seems to be reserved for one "high-importance" sub-cat. The reason for adding to a sub-cat that would ordinarily fall correctly under its first letter is to clump it together with the other asterisked sub-cats. If this messes up someone else's method, please don't hesitate to revert it. Cheers, Her Pegship 04:20, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, while I disagree with your "huge mistake" comment, it is true to say that in many instances, lots of tasks that could in theory be fixed with a little bit of coding in the MediaWiki software, in actual fact get fixed by lots and lots of manual effort. (Partly as the coding effort is more difficult to co-ordinate, I suppose, and to do on a "gradualist" basis.) So yes, in this case top-sorting is being done by manual effort, and if they change the code for category listings, then firstly, nothing will immediate "break", but secondly, yes, they'd doubtless simply all get manually shifted back over time... Alai 15:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)