The following messages chronicle my adventures as a young punk Wiki editor, who registered at 19:07 April 17, 2009, a date considered in some circles to be the holiest of holy days. And wholly so.
Please, read the messages below and take the opportunity to learn more about your future ruler.
Im just trying to create a helpful summary of the organization, sorry if it came off as an advertisement. I would be happy to let you or someone else work on the page in my place, since I'm not very experiencedHaddowc (talk) 21:53, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Haddowc
is there any way you could undo the edits you did to remove my material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Haddowc (talk • contribs) 22:52, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Reverting your userpage vandalism is really no problem. If it is your wish, I can increase the status of your page to semi-protection, so that anonymous users can't edit it. Regards, - Gilliam (talk) 17:00, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help in removing vandalism from Slope Day! —Notyourbroom (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
No problem! Wow, I don't think I've ever seen such a huge amount of vandalism in one place before. Thanks for clearing the majority of what we only scratched. ^_^ a littleinsignificant 19:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
, you can either put it in your page instead of the old one, ignore it and just type whatever you like to show or do nothig and discard it. Whatever you do, I´m glad to have you as adoptee, and if you´re still online now perhaps I can help you somehow. (you can delete this message if you want to keep clear your talk page, any messages here) - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. --
Yes, that should cover it, can you help with the cite refs though? Many of the refs that I implemented were bare refs, or just hyperlinks. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 20:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, and thanks, I am going to start to change all of them, or at least most, and help would be appreciated now, so tell me if your in. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 19:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
You see all the Gullan and Cranston refs? They are refering to ref 15, so I changed ref 15 to <ref name= Gullan and Cranston>{{cite book |last=Gullan |first=P.J. |coauthors=P.S. Cranston |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford |date=2005 |edition=3 |pages=22–48 |isbn=1-4051-1113-5}</ref> and tested it on 16, and it works, so change all the refs with Gullan and Cranston, like refs 22 - 29, to just <ref name= Gullan and Cranston>, that should help a lot, thanks for your help too! Bugboy52.4 (talk) 20:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Try it with <ref name= Gullan and Cranston>{{cite book |last=Gullan |first=P.J. |coauthors=P.S. Cranston |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford |date=2005 |edition=3 |pages= |isbn=1-4051-1113-5}</ref> where the pages are those stated in the ref. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 22:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
If you want a list, refs 9, 18, 19, 49, 50, 52, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70 - 76, 82 need to be cited, but I wouldn't make you do all that. I will do 66 - 82, deal? Bugboy52.4 (talk) 00:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
No Problem, it was my job in the first place and I thank you for your help, so I give you this Barnstar...
The Original Barnstar
I, Bugboy52.40, here by award you the original barnstar for your help with improving the Insects article. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 19:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I am sorry to say but it seems we have more work to do.... see Insect talk page. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 13:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I have lost track, are all of the needed revisions done, I feel like I am being pulled apart here, I am also have Trombiculidae for GAN too (* Note to self - I HATE REFS!!!) Bugboy52.4 (talk) 00:20, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
sigh*, thank goodness, lets hope this doesn't fail. Alright just give me the go ahead when you think all the refs are fixed, and try to make sure. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 15:05, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for signing my autograph book. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 21:14, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I merged a couple pairs of refs. The way to do this is through the use of ref name=blabla notation within the XML used within wikipedia coding. I didn't notice any other occurrences of possible ref mergers. Thegreatdr (talk) 22:58, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Do you know what the difference between a bare ref and a cite ref is (for the current Insect GA review)? a little insignificant 14:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, in an article you can put a reference like this: "<ref>Gullan and Cranston, 57.</ref>" (taken from the article: Insect). This is a way to cite reference, but it´s primitive, more like... too simple, naked or incomplete; that kind of reference will only show the text: Gullan and Cranston, 57. (as seen in the reference #16). However, there is the proper template to cite references in a more correct or complete way like this: "<ref>{{cite book |last=Gullan |first=P.J. |coauthors=P.S. Cranston |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford |date=2005 |edition=3 |pages=22–48 |isbn=1-4051-1113-5}}</ref>" (as seen in reference #15). This template shows the reference with it´s proper format, and not only the text typed by someone (which in some cases could not be true), as you see in this better citation, the editor who write it has the ISBN of the book and he putted it in the template, which makes the information more reliable. Each pipe mark (|) separates the sections of the reference, you can find how to use these templates here (for books) and here (for web citations).
In this other reference: "<ref>{{Cite book |title=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>" (reference #3) you can see that the user who wrote it also put the title as a link to a page that actually talks about that book.
No problem; I'm glad I could help. People constantly say that the discussions never happened, but I saw it by accident one day when I found WP:PTEST, which had the discussion linked. MelicansMatkin (talk) 23:23, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Come on back. The nom didn't check well enough before her nomination. The film had indeed received coverage and reviews 17 years ago and so I expanded and sourced the article to show just that. However, the sweetest gem the nom missed is that the film was screened at a festival 14 years after its release, and WP:NF specifically instructs that makes it notable in that "The film was given a commercial re-release, or screened in a festival, at least five years after initial release.". Schmidt,MICHAEL Q. 11:01, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Run's House. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 20:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Oops! My mistake! It looks like you did several edits each adding/removing a small piece. Taken in part the bit I was rolling back was the addition of "middletown new york." which you subsequently removed yourself! I apologize and I would recommend that you make all of your edits in a single edit rather than sporadic ones that may be seen as random sentences being inserted into an article. You can always Show Preview if you're not sure how an edit will look. Thanks e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 19:46, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Not a problem at all; it was my mistake really. However I have to mention that vandalism was (for some reason) high yesterday and it was hard to fight against the tide of malicious edits. Happy Editing and I hope to see you around the Wikipedia! e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 19:57, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I couldn´t answer earlier, my computer got wrecked
About creating new bios, yes, they are highly vulnerable to deletion, however, an article can always be upgraded or embellished to meet the qualities of a well-redactedarticle. If an article (in this case, the bio) has good source references, then that make it more hard to be deleted, and even if it's proposed for deletion, there is a discussion about such choice.
If you think you have good reference information to create the article, then don´t think it twice, be bold and do it! It is always good to do whatever to make wikipedia better and don´t worry, I´ll make sure you won´t get bitten, even if you make a mistake. - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. -- 07:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I have a question for you: Can you see the typeface on my signature? or is it just an oversized dark-green text that says "Damërung"? - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. -- 07:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey. Even though I closed the M*A*S*H AfD you participated in as a no consensus defaulting to keep and you concurred with the nominator's suggestion of deletion, I have to say that your way of phrasing your delete suggestion ("Article is...A little insignificant) utilizing your signature made me chuckle. Onetwothree... 16:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I was just bored cuz I had nothin' to do today, so I tried creating a duplicate of Google here, tell me how it cam out. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 15:57, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 19:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking you're right. I got Bubbles out – doesn't look like the category will be expanding, as interesting a concept as I thought it was. PasswordUsername (talk) 11:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Look at the child cannibailsm aticle. You have one section on blood libel. You have another on "Ritual practice myths" which is about blood libel. You have the Swift and Popular Culture sections which are about fictional works. There's no discussion of actual child cannibalism. The article itself is blood libel, in the sense that it alleges that this practice occurs, when it actually does not appear to, based on any reliable sources. -Chunky Rice (talk) 17:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I disagree - There's no content worth saving here. Child cannibalism simply does not exist as the article represents it. It should redirect to either blood libel or cannibalism. I plan on bringing it to AfD when I have time. -Chunky Rice (talk) 21:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions. A quick word: The removal of material was explained by User:JBsupreme in his edit summary- he removed it as unsourced and unattributed to a reliable third pary source. See WP:BLP. just a littleinsignificant 16:09, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. The removal of all the text appears to be harsh and transforms the article into a two liner, a totally uninterresting articles. I came to read about this singer. Thankfully, I know about the history and I was able to read what I wanted from the version burried in the history. Before leaving, I thought that it might serve other peoples unaware of the system to restore the tex, so that's what I did. You thought otherwise and I regret it. Sometimes, best is the enemy of good. 129.98.60.199 (talk) 17:28, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I have [2] rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. –Juliancolton | Talk 21:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
No problem. Good luck! –Juliancolton | Talk 21:30, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
About this issue, I understand why you make that redirection, on one hand, you use an article-class title (caption) to redirect to a wikipedia-class section, and that is not a good idea (as I asume). In the other hand, the caption that you used is not something that (as I can see) could be needed to create an article (unless there could be a movie or book or whatever named "Vandalism warnings" which need to use that title). In case that such circumstance or similar arrives, the redirectional page could be changed as easy as it was created by you. So in conclusion:
I´m glad that you were very bold in doing this
This doesn´t disturbs or makes problem with anything, so probably, there won´t be any needing for removing it
Don´t worry if it is found for the community that it has to be erased or changed, i have the page on my watchlist
As you can see in wikipedia-class sections, most of them has shortcuts ( exactly like this one ([[WP:SC]])). They are initials instead of full words (like your redirection) that redirect to a wikipedia page, with the same intention as yours in make things easier, so if you still have doubts in your decision, you can change it to a shortcut (they are used not only in pages, but in sections of pages also)
Sorry for delaying, but I have been busy in other wikimedia projects and wikisites beyond wikimedia
You can use the shoutbox in my talk page, it´s a useful tool that helps in synergy and cooperation edits for online users preventing overflooding (in talkpage sections). Principally prevents overflooding because you can place smaller comments there instead of making an entire new section to place it. I can install it in your page if you want (I hope to spread it to other wikipedians). - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. -- 02:05, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
p.s. Due the extremely obvious nature of This page, it is not my real secret page.... muahahahaha... (you can try find the real one) - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. -- 07:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
What infobox do you mean? is it my shoutbox? - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. -- 21:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I have delivered and installed successfully your new (first generation) shoutbox, make good use of it. - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_. -- 04:13, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Talk page shoutbox ver. 1.0
Owner´s manual
1. Introduction
The shoutbox is a useful tool where smaller comments are posted. Examples are, "thanks for .....", "are you online?", "nice edit", "I´ve finished the ......", etc. It can also be used as a semi-instant messaging box where conversations can be held. These are some advantages of using a shoutbox:
Avoids the need of creating a whole new section to place a small comment
As consequence of the previous, it prevents overflooding in the talk page (a talk page will be filled eventually with more comments, and the user may have to create archives for storage of the previous discussions, the use of this tool allows to keep clean or compact the talk page, and prevents the early need to use archives)
For users that are online, this can facilitate the synergy in cooperative edits on wikipedia. For example; if two or more users are working in real time on an article, articles of the same list or articles within the same category, they can communicate about progress or coordination tasks (again, avoiding overflooding)
The shoutbox is intended to be in the talk page, so the user gets inmediate notification of a new message. My intentions in creating this chat-tool are to help in wikipedia´s improvement and enhancement, not to be confused with a WP:NOT violation. The idea of using a shoutbox in talk pages was originally mine (I don´t know of other user who had the same idea as me previously), however, it was inspired by: ♥Soccer5525♥Talk To Me! (so I´m giving his/her corresponding credits)
2. Use & maintenance
To place a new comment in the shoutbox, a text in the bottom says "Please make comments at the top. Click here to shout" and it redirects to the edit section of the page. The shoutbox is a fixed object that must be in the first (on top) part of the edit section (the source code) so a user can see an arrow which leads him where to place the comment. The reply is suposed to be in the respective shoutbox of the other wikipedian.
Image of the shoutbox source code, highlighting the section in which you can alter the position of the shoutbox
You can change the position in where the shoutbox is placed; in the picture, you can see a line highlighted, that is the code for the positioning stuff. The number "20px" means that the object will separate 20 pixels from the right margins (and 50 pixels (px) from the top margins). The proper separation varies in each user talk page. You can also change the word "right" for "left" and "top" for "bottom" and the code will work accordingly. The code highlighted in the left means that the position from margins will be taken as of the page and not the screen. For example: if you change the word "absolute" for "fixed", the position will be separated from the screen margins (which are not the same). In consequence, the object (in this case, the shoutbox) will stick to the screen, no matter if you scroll down the page. Also, in the section marked below, if you change the word "collapsible" for "collapsible collapsed", with this you can make the shoutbox to stay collapsed all the time by default (untill you press the button "show"), keeping the shoutbox even more compact.
Periodically you must manually clean (delete) the past comments, so the shoutbox is kept clean.
3. Technical support
Feel free to send me a message to fix something, answer a question or help in some way. - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_. -- 17:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Request to participate in University of Washington survey on tool to quickly understand Wikipedians’ reputations[edit]
Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington. In April, we met with some local Wikipedians to learn what they would like to know about other editors’ history and activities (within Wikipedia) when interacting with them on talk pages. The goal of those sessions was to gather feedback to help design an embedded application that could quickly communicate useful information about other Wikipedians. We have now created a few images that we feel represent some of what our participants thought was important. We would appreciate it if you took a few minutes of your time to complete an online survey that investigates whether or not these images would be useful to you. Your quick contribution would be very valuable to our research group and ultimately to Wikipedia. (When finished, the code for this application will be given over to the Wikipedia community to use and/or adjust as they see fit.)
Willing to spend a few minutes taking our survey? Click this link.
Please feel free to share the link with other Wikipedians. The more feedback, the better!
The survey is completely anonymous and takes less than 10 minutes to complete. All data is used for university research purposes only.
Thank you for your time! If you have any questions about our research or research group, please visit our user page. Commprac01 (talk) 21:11, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
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You seem to have warned User:Elizabethmarhors incorrectly; you jumped to a final warning right away. Usually vandals get at least 2 warnings before final warning (personally, I start with uw-vandalism2, then go up to 3 or 4); the only exception is when their first instance of vandalism is already a serious offence (for example, libellous BLP violations, posting someone's personal information, etc.). I will still block the user if she vandalizes again after that warning, but many other admins would not, and would say that the user was not warned appropriately and can be re-reported later. Please try to warn appropriately in the future. Thanks, rʨanaɢtalk/contribs 22:39, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
No worries; I have done the same thing, and personally I don't always agree with Wikipedia's guideline of giving them so many warnings. In cases like this user, where it's clear what the user is here for, it seems ridiculous to give an obvious vandal so many second chances. But it is the standard, so there's not much I can do about it...so I follow it not because I want to be nice to the vandals, but for pragmatic reasons: if I warn them properly, I can get their asses blocked more quickly :) rʨanaɢtalk/contribs 00:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello, maybe you can help me with something. For months, I have been dealing with an IP vandal who continues to add fan fiction to numerous articles associated with Days of Our Lives. I see that you just warned them not to vandalize another page, Sabrina Spellman. The IP is 85.226.66.142. He/she keeps ignoring vandalism warnings, and continues to disrupt this site. Also, if you look at my contributions, I have had to deal with him/her in the past when their IP changes everytime, usually to revert fan fiction. Anything we can do? Perhaps a range block? Thanks. Rm994 (talk) 00:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Well, that is a very good idea. I don't have any admin priveledges to block anyone though, and yes...I have been frantically scrambling to try and revert as many edits as possible. It's exhausting! If these vandals put as much time into making this site right, as they do making it wrong, we'd have an even more awesome site. Thanks for your help :) Rm994 (talk) 03:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I, Damërung, hereby give you this award, for all your contributions, increasing skills and your hard work here on wikipedia. I will focus more in giving you a little more support (before you surpass me). I wish more users could be as great as you. - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_. -- 07:06, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Sure, have any ideas? Like colors or any other user that look kool that I should base it on. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 17:27, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for the late response, I decided to have dinner. Anyway, that should be easy, but that's it? just a white menu with blue dashed border? You don't want a background color with borders for the text like mine? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 22:13, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Here's a quick draft (excluding the menu, becuase I used my own just to show :). Bugboy52.4 | =-= 22:37, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Whatever you want, it is your userpage. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 00:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Well, actually, if you ask me it looks better with the blue background that I had, rather than the cornflowerblue. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 00:27, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
If you want, I can design some new icons for the menu. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 00:55, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Here you will place the acronym or initials of the place in where you live (example:CA if you live in California, U.S. if you don´t want to be too specific or even something like this: [[United States|U.S.]] with the hyperlink to the country)
Note: Do not use more than 5 initials (4 if using periods (like in: D.F.)) or the clock will look bad.
Option 3
Here you can place any of the available colors of the background of the clock (6 primary, 3 extra, 2 special and 1 default). They are: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, pink, brown, gray, tangerine and fusion
Note: If you leave option 3 in blank (without putting anything), the default will be grass-green.
Option 4
Do not put anything in this slot unless the time displayed in the clock does not coincide with your local time (due to daylight saving time). In that case, you put +1 or -1 to set the time with one extra hour or one hour less.
Note: Only works with parameters: +1, -1, +2 and -2
In conclusion, if for example you put {{User:Damërung/Templates/Clock 1 | -6 | [[Mexico city|D.F.]] | green | +1}} you will display a green clock saying: "D.F. time" with the current time in Mexico city and adding one extra hour due summer time. You can also put the clock template in an own subpage of yours like: 'User:A little insignificant/Archive1/Clock 1' instead of transcluding it from my user space. You can always remove this message if you want by deleting the template transclussion here in your talk page.
I also took the freedom to install it in a suggested place. - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_. -- 14:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Your request for Page Protection is placed on the wrong section on the page, its located under requests for unprotection. There is also already a request for protection open.
[3][4]Sephiroth storm (talk) 07:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
no problem. :) Sephiroth storm (talk) 00:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey! I finally finished my new sub-section (after the shop) designed for the develop and guidance of adoptees through wikipedia. It took me long to design it, and in the end, I still have some trouble with the interface (caused by the wiki´s software), but I placed it in a provisional section here to open it as soon as possible (now). In this section I will post helpful information for each adoptee depending on his/her specialty, the path in wikipedia (like someone working more in translations or someone else working more in nominations, etc...) and the contributions made (monitored). As you´re the most exceptional of the four (and the first one), you started with three levels of develop (soon four), and I will periodocally add more stuff and notifying you at the shoutbox. Later, I could start making the award for finding my secret page (again, you the first). Come C, it´s still small, but it´ll grew bigger. - Damërung...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_. -- 08:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
It looks awesome! Thanks for the tips, I do need to work on the new users issue. I've noticed that some new users go through months of editing seeing nothing on their talk pages but automated templates ({{subst:uw-vandalism1}}, {{subst:welcome}}, {{subst:3RR}}, etc.) I'll try to be more personal and assume good faith (again, something I've had issues with in the past.) a littleinsignificant 18:39, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Ah. I think I'd just delete that sentence then; I agree it's unreferenced and not really useful. Regards, Jgm (talk) 00:21, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
I've restored the sentence about the etymology; the etymology is taken from the Online Etymology Dictionary (hereafter EtymOnline to prevent confusion with the other OED), which I would hope can be considered a reliable source for a claim about a word's etymology although I don't know if it's ever been vetted by a group of Wikipedians. Most of its information is taken from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and if people doubt the integrity of EtymOnline then it would not be hard to ask someone with OED access to go check what their entry on lollipop is. (I used to have access, but at present I do not.) I like template:lollipop by the way. -- SoapTalk/Contributions 03:33, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hello again, I need your help once again. If you look at my recent edits, I have been mercilessly correcting additions from that same IP that is relentlessly destroying Days of Our Lives related articles. Any thoughts on how we can stop it? Thanks again! Rm994 (talk) 22:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome, but I do feel that editing anonymously is the better option for me at this stage. 123.211.141.151 (talk) 14:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you also want to participate? You can be member 0002 of the Article Writing Monastery of July 15-20th (name can be changed if it sounds goofy). If we have at least 2 members, preferably at least 3, then I will deem the effort a partial success! User F203 (talk) 23:07, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Enemies?? The ANI posts are gone! There were a number of responses. Did someone blank it? Or move it to an obscure place? User F203 (talk) 16:06, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. So it WAS moved to an obscure place.
Could you be member 0002? One is a lonely number. Also, I'm thinking of making it July 20-24th since the 20th is a Monday...easier to remember. Also WP is acting up (error messages) so after this, I'm logging off. User F203 (talk) 16:32, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I didn´t even know of the existence of that page, how did you find that out? I think that project is very original and I´ll join soon. Anyway, sorry if I delay in responding or updating your section in the academy, its just that I´ve been contributing outside wikipedia (en) in meta for the elections of the board of trustees, mostly translating (my specialty, but I´ll not place it in the academy as one of my specialties untill I can master more at least another language (russian or german)). By the way, (just to be sure) do you find my new signature inapropriate in any way? (I was told to change it again because the yellow is hard to be read, and I agreed to do it, updating my museum). - ☩Damërung☩. -- 20:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for signing up for the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Wikipedia stands to benefit from the improvements in the article space as a result of this campaign. This is a double reminder. First, the campaign begins on July 18, 2009 at 00:00 (UTC). Second, please remember to log any articles you have worked on during the campaign at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/Log. Thanks again for your participation! --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 21:11, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I moved your nom to July 18 when the article was created. Also, I had unknowingly created a nom myself earlier today. I appreciate your help and feel kind of bad. I'm not sure how to combine them or what to do. Maybe have a look and let me know what you think. Cheers. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:40, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I merged them and just left mine as an alt hook. Thanks for your help! :) ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:55, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, why did you change you username? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 14:29, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
No, I like your old username, but if you like this username keep it, it is yours :) Anyway, what happened to Damerung and everybody else, I don't see them around as much often? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 23:02, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
They were devoured by evil werewolves! lol. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 23:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! You recently reported an IP at AIV that had not committed an amount of vandalism which is usually considered for a block (I'm not an admin, btw). ...
IP has received a level 1 and level 2 warning only. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 19:03, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if this was a misunderstanding or a mistake, but make sure you familiarize yourself with the workings of AIV if you haven't already, because it saves a lot of time for the admins if they can just review the vandal's accounts. Re-report the user if they continue to vandalize past the final warning. Thanks! ceranthor 19:23, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
No no no no! Everyone appreciates enthusiastic editors, don't worry about it. I just wanted to let you know since you seem like the type who likes to improve on their mistakes. Keep up the good work. ceranthor 20:11, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
And btw, it doesn't waste admin's time, it doesn't really harden their jobs at all, it justs becomes monotonous for them to block vandal after vandal and so that saves them just a little bit of time. ceranthor 20:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, you seem to have a great personality yourself - may a healthy and happy friendship endure! ceranthor 20:34, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Gee, I thought folks would appreciate me asking about them before doing them.
By "cutie pie" I'm referring to templates, that though might be useful, are novel and even funny.
By galleries, I'm not so sure, Wikicommons has some explicit stuff. Consider this: (ejaculation). "Nekkid" is a colloquialism for nude, nude's as per commonfolk might percieve nude art, and maybe more explicit stuff. Can I have a photo gallery of such, or should I create a sub-page--with, I suppose, appropriate notice on the link, and discliamers on the page?
Now, am I permitted to re-post my questions?68.179.108.25 (talk) 20:04, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Hardly a problem and your intentions are good. wikiluv. Have a nice weekend. :-D 68.179.108.25 (talk) 20:28, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
No problem! I'm working on insect stubs anyway (not beetles, but moths), so little effort to spice yours up a little. If you're planning on making more, please do, there are 100,000's of species to be added.. :) Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:45, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Apologies for deleting your edit; I can't figure out what happened (there was no edit conflict warning). I also deleted some other people's edits, but I've fixed them now. -- SoapTalk/Contributions 02:07, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for undoing that - I thought I had restored it myself, but it seems you beat me to it. A fumbled mouse click on my watchlist meant I clicked on 'rollback' rather than 'diff'. Clumsy!
Re this edit [5], the user was already notified right away, [6] they like to constantly blank things. You need about 15 different versions to see their real talk page.--Crossmr (talk) 23:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Sure go ahead. I hope it works. Its occasionally sketchy and sometimes the bot doesn't archive when its supposed to. I rarely get a straight answer as to why, so sometimes I need to manually archive, but its mostly good. I really wish the community would take a stand and insist on archiving anything that isn't vandalism. It makes it so hard to read talk pages.--Crossmr (talk) 15:40, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
"cleaned up, more factual, less pov and weasel " was the reason you gave to explain your undo.
"More factual"-- the statements have attached referenced sources, but you deliverately ignored them.
"Less pov"-- the original statement said "misconception", now replaced by "notion", and you think "misconception" is less pov than "notion", great.
"Less weasel"--you deleted statements with references,citing "more factual"; you rejected the word "notion" and used "misconception", citing "less pov".
Thanks and its ok I understand. Heck if I was in your position I would have belived the same thing and you dont need to give me anything. (You can sign my signature page though. FREE Barnstar!!)--ColdplayExpert 19:54, 20 September 2009 (UTC) :)
Thanks for signing my sig. page :)--ColdplayExpert 11:05, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar, se ya around!!--ColdplayExpert 17:46, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I have taken off your speedy-deletion tag, because WP:CSD#A1 is really not appropriate - first, it says explicitly "This applies only to very short articles" and this article is enormous, and second, the contest is actually clear. I agree it's not a suitable article, but I can't think of a suitable speedy - I can't find a source from which it has been copied, so G12 won't do - and I thnk it'll have to be PRODded. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:41, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Yes, the speedy criteria are actually quite tightly drawn. I used to be very reluctant to PROD because I thought a PROD would inevitably be taken off, so on to all the hassle of AfD; but I find that if you express the reason clearly, with links to policies, surprisingly often the authors get the message and do not contest. I keep
{{subst:prod|this is an [[WP:V|unsourced]] [[WP:NEO|neologism]] and Wikipedia is [[WP:NAD|not a dictionary]].}}
set up in a text file so I can cut and paste it, it is so often useful for things where one might be tempted to try {{db-nocontext}} or {{db-vandalism}} but neither really applies. There's good advice about speedy tagging from an experienced admin at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:32, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
I didn't take offense! But I really had thought that I was pretty consistent in the nature of my complaint. The going around in circles you and others complain about is actually just what happens on talk pages when Stevertigo gets involved. I can understand why you can see this as an obstacle to understanding the nature of the problem. It is like my trying to tell you that the problem is fog, and your saying that you cannot SEE the problem because of all the fog (I do not mean to criticize you). Stevertigo cannot justify any change he wishes to make to an article, once one raises NOR and NPOV concerns. But that does not make him stop, he just explains he has a conceptual apporach as if thse made NPOV and NOR irrelevant. Maybe it is hard to explain but really I have tried my best. Slrubenstein | Talk 19:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Blocking him seems harsh if this is the first time you have encountered him. But if you (I really mean "if one" and I really mean "if anyone") had dealt with Tigo several times, or since I think 2003 when he first became active, one would consider banning appropriate. This is one of the reasons for wp:de - to deal with problems that appear minor in any one single case but are actually part of a much larger pattern, only visible in several cases. You or another editor complained when I brought up a case from 2003 (although I did so solely at the request of another editor who wanted to know what I was referring to). Perhaps you (or whomever it was) thought 2003 is ancient history. My point is that in six years of editors' complaining, he has not changed his behavior. In fact, his M.O. is exactly the same now as it was in 2003. And if you look at areas he has been involved in between 2003 and now you see a consistenct pattern.
Wikipedia used to be small enough that virtually anything anyone did was apparent, or soon apparent, to all other editors and an editor who was consistently tendentious was easily banned. Usually given an indef ban until he or she appeared at the list-serve with a mea culpa asking to be restored. In some cases, the user really had reformed and today continues to be a constructive editor. In some cases the mea culpa was BS and the user was banned again. The problem today is that someone can take Stevertigo to AN/I and for most administrators, each new conflict is completely new, editors haven't been around long enough, or WIkipedia is now big enough, so that this is their first encounter with Stevertigo. Jayjg has had many encounters with Stevertigo as have I which is (I propose) why our responses are different. If my "prosecution case" :-) seems week it is because for the most part I am just fed up with Sevetigo. That sounds like a weak case but let me put it into perspective: has he ever written or made a substantive contribution to an article? None that I know of. He just does not do research. He makes things up (original research) and thank goodness usually doesn't get away with it. But he likes people to listen to his ideas, like the guy at the bar who sits down next to you and won't go away. The equivalent here is taking over talk pages.
Andto be frank, I am disappointed no one else cared about the "hebe" in the utterly gratuitous "hebetudisnous" that SV levelled against another editor. There was a time when such behavior here simply was not tolaerated.
All this said, if you think you can mediate, go ahead. Iwill try my best to step aside. My guess is that now that he has a seat at the "AN/I" bar, he doesn't need to pester people at Holocaust Deial. We can close the AN/I thread - but I woulod ask you to check in on him once in a while, maybe once a month, and see where he has spent a lot of time on the talk page. I bet you will see the same pattern. Slrubenstein | Talk 01:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Well, I do hope this means people can refocus on more constructive things. As for me - well, I'm glad to refocus on articles. I hope that the ultimate result of all of this will be positive. Slrubenstein | Talk 17:35, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
really? i saw your comment on my editor review and i dont know why you said that no one ever seems to care
about me the only time someone talks to me is about something bad i did i always get shot down alot of my edits
are deemed bad and i feel like no one likes me
most of my edits arent huge and i feel little compared to everyone else
this is coming from the heart man
i feel like i always get stepped on and squished and no one ever appreciates the little things i do
i one day wanna write a good article the one i wanna do it with is Brooke Logan but i feel that no one
will ever help me with it
Hello my dear adoptee... I hope you're good for today. I send you this message to discuss some matters:
First
About the academy, I have successfully updated it with some new stuff, and I also considered the time I was absent, so I added lot o' stuff (accordingly). As always, most of the tips are related to things that can be specially useful for you (depending on your contributions, direction and workshop here). For example; you were talking to me about the adminship, and I know that you decided to postpone it a little bit, but anyway I added some useful info (intro) of functions related to admins (page protection) that can be more useful in the future. I also started the fouth level of knowledge "Advanced formatting" and I´ll keep updating. I´m always open for any doubt or question
Second
Congratulations for your new promotion within wikipedia´s service stages. Maybe you didn´t noticed, but you´re now a Rank-A1 user, and I now deliver to you this barnstar (that is still under construction, but you have the first prototype) which includes all the elements of the award of the stage in the form of a barnstar. So here it is:
- Service Rank-A1
This editor is a Journeyman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge and the Wikipedia Little Red Book.
I think that's all. - ☩Damërung☩. -- 08:28, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
What? thanks i just dont see why people think im good[edit]
i got the barnstar my first real one! not some cheap guestbook barnstar or secret page barnstar
you should see my ip Special:Contributions/65.35.57.23 look back thorugh the edits YIKES i was a Vandal but i guess look how far i have come i revert vandilism (sorry im still a bit on the bad side of spelling) when i see it most of my edits are fixing typos and just adding new info really nothing major
i havent done anything major yet sep maybe make this stub Matthew Gahan and add new info to Blair Cramer which hadent been edited in months i will try to do some major stuff in the future Like Rewrite Brooke Logan and for some reason i dont see my self as a good editor i see myself as one of those editors who cant
do nothing and what mistakes are you talking bout? i myself can barley remember what i did 5 days ago with out someone reminding me
Would you like your talk page archiving? :)
Also, where did you get the little menu thing on your user page i.e Home, Talk etc
Maybe not necessarily yours, but is there some page where it has multiple designs or something? Thanks, --ScythreTalkContribs 21:11, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello, A little insignificant. You have new messages at Scythre's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hi, I haven't heard from you, so I wonder if you noticed that I've replied to your request for editor review? If you have any questions, please let me know.
Regards, LK (talk) 14:03, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Responses aren't really necessary, it's just that people usually drop by with a short note. Just wanted to make sure you saw it is all. 8-) BTW, it might not be a good idea to mark all your talk page edits as minor. In general, minor edits are: 1) rv of obvious vandalism, 2) Spelling, formatting & grammar fixes 3) layout, rearrangement of pictures, sentences or paragraphs, & 3) correcting internal or external links. Best, LK (talk) 01:27, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey, thanks ofr the message, I have responded on my talk page so I hope you lokkk at it. (from now on If you comment there I will respond there unless otherwise stated). Cheers!--ColdplayExpert 10:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
You recently chimed in on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WoWWiki (4th nomination). Since that time, many 3rd party sources were found and added. This is just a note to see if these additions would alter your thoughts on the articles Deletion nomination, as you indicated sources were your concern. Hooper (talk) 00:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, A little insignificant. You have new messages at Spongefrog's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Since it has been over 30 days since you requested to be reviewed, I've gone ahead and archived your request as part of my effort to cleanup Editor Review. You may view your review here. Thanks & happy editing. If you have any questions, please message me on my talk page. =D Netalarmtalk 05:18, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello A little insignificant. Thankyou for participating in my recent RfA. I appreciate it. As you know, it failed (probably due to my own interference), but...there's always next year, Lord Spongefrog,(I am the Czar of all Russias!) 19:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for delaying the deletion. Out of 10 groups I am overseeing (Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/User:Piotrus/Fall_2009#Articles_edited) this one seems to be really struggling; if you could explain to them on the article's talk page why the article is not acceptable as it is now and what they need to do to make it a proper stub, I'd appreciate it. I will of course do so myself, but I also want to have them engage in discussion with other community members (and in interactions that don't involve them getting a "your article was deleted" bot notices :D). Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
... and I appreciate your good intentions, but it seems to me that LotLE is well-entrenched in his POV pushing. And he has some energetic defenders, whom I suspect of working with him as a tag team. 64.208.230.145 (talk) 20:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey! can you help me nominate the world war II article for GA, Im not sure why, the instructions are a little confusing to me.--ColdplayExpert 23:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
The former midnight comet is helping so never mind :)--ColdplayExpert 23:40, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I have removed the {{db-repost}} that you placed on Print design as the prior version had been speedily deleted, which is explicitly exempted from a WP:CSD#G4 deletion. However, as the article is entirely non-encyclopedic, I have placed a {{prod}} instead. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure that removing the prod and putting a {{db-spam}} on the page was really the solution. The page is not openly promotional, since it does not mention any particular company to turn to for your print design solutions. I think the prod, as worded, was probably the best route to deletion of this poor article. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:43, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Please, take some serious action against user:AurangzebMarwat who is continuously removing citation needed tags from the article Mullazai. He is unable to provide reference and links for almost 90% of the article, which is created by him. I would be extremely obliged, if you could kindly, take some serious action against this user who is banned and now given the last warning for edit wars. Please 119.153.78.131 (talk) 17:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I am really grateful to you for your quick action. I hope that the articl wouldn't be vandalise as per wishes of a user, rather edited according to wiki's policies. 119.153.78.131 (talk) 18:48, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I am also a resident of Mullazai. I cannot tolerate further foul edits by AurangzebMarwat. Please, take good care of him. He once again edited, though I have reverted to article to your last edit. PakhtunZalmay (talk) 07:19, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
PakhtunZalmay, show your identity,,you sounds like a person from northern districts of NWFP,who dont have any idea,THe Village Mullazai is situated in Southern districts of NWFP,i am direct descendent of Mullazai,you might be setller. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AurangzebMarwat (talk • contribs) 16:19, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Enough, both of you shut it.
AurangzebMarwat, I am not User:PakhtunZalmay, so don't post this to my talkpage.
PakhtunZalmay, I am not an administrator, so I cannot and will not block the other user.
I have requested full protection of the page for now, so nobody edits the article Mullazai until this dispute is resolved.
I notice that Talk:Insect/GA3 has been inactive for the better part of a week. Are you and/or Bugboy planning to resume work on the article soon? I realize the review's been unusually long, but I think the article has improved significantly and is quite near GA quality. Given that, I don't plan on raising any additional concerns.
I consider the remaining work to consist of addressing the unstruck concerns listed on the review page. Note that these are mostly clustered in the lower half of the linked review page. There's also an unstruck concern about mini-paragraphs in the 'Comments from previous reviews' section, one unstruck concern in the 'Lead' section and an unstruck concern in the 'Respiration and circulation' section. Feel free to pass over the unstruck concerns in the 'Classification' section -- I'll finish work on these as time permits, and don't consider their fulfillment necessary to reach GA status. Emw (talk) 18:41, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for removing the vandalism from my user page. I don't usually look at that (and didn't have it watched at the time) so I completely missed. Thanks again dude. --ҚЯĀŽΨÇÉV13other crap 00:44, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Haha. Good way to think of it. Honestly, I'm not someone with an ego and I'm kind of a WikiGnome: I don't like getting credit. So I'm not 100% sure how the vandals found my page haha. That's why I'm a drummer. No spotlight. --ҚЯĀŽΨÇÉV13other crap 01:17, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Funny you should mention accidentally clicking my rollback button. I meant to click it on a certain page, and clicked it on another haha. I undid it, of course. Silly me. And are you Canadian? Because you added "eh" and only my Canadian friends/family do that. And indeed I am a drummer. --ҚЯĀŽΨÇÉV13other crap 01:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Never heard of her. Might check her out. What style of novel does she write? And I was born in Canada, but I actually live in Ohio heh. It's boring here. --ҚЯĀŽΨÇÉV13other crap 23:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about Twinkle, I'm sure it will help but I don't think it addresses the core issue of making such functions immediately available to all users, and even anonymous editors to some extent. Eldaran (talk) 02:22, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, A little insignificant. You have new messages at MuffledThud's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
I hope you don't mind, but I deleted your CSD template on this page. You added it while I was working on a redirect. --SquidSK(1MC•log) 18:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
The trouble was...insignificant. Cheers! --SquidSK(1MC•log) 18:06, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm confused on Bergur Snorrason, and I'm hoping you can enlighten me.
I came across your A7 speedy request on this one, but there's a claim of importance so it doesn't qualify for A7. A google search leads me to believe this is a hoax, so I changed your A7 to A3, but in looking at the history I see you already went the opposite direction. Help! --Fabrictramp | talk to me 18:24, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
A little award for a little insignificant.. cause you did nothing!....
JUST KIDDING, now for the GRAND....
Bugboy52.4's Insect-related Barnstar
I, Bugboy52.4, hereby award the greatest award for all insect-related article edits, contributions, or just helping me or a fellow editor A LOT.
Reason: You endured a lot of these (like 3!!!) and one would have been enough, but not for you. So unlike your name, you do a lot more then you (or anybody else in the world for that matter) could do, and kept going and did more then me :P !! The GA PASSED!!! -- 02:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Have a good one... maybe we will do another one some day... like tomorrow!! rofl... jk. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 02:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
You recently listed the article Cristobal Lander for PROD. To my knowledge, this article meets CSD A1 as well, and I have tagged the article. Since I am somewhat new here, is this "legal" to do? Or does it interfere with other stuff somewhere? Smithers(Talk) 16:39, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Well, first of all, since you completed the request for certain task that I placed (help in bringing the Insect article into GA status (which is now)). I deliver you the corresponding bounty:
- The Bio-star (spec 2)
Awarded to you for helping with all your contributions during the Insect GA upgrade. Having successfully earned the bounty that I placed for this task. Keep up the good work! - ☩Damërung☩. -- 16:23, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Second
This section appears to contradict real facts. Please wait untill this user completes his duty so this can be true.
I already updated the academy with some other tips that I came across while I was semi-active (busy in real life)
Third
I hope you´re not mad at me or leave wikipedia forever since I wasnt paying much attention to you (JK..lol)
Fourth
I think the wikicup is somewhat long, and therefore I thought it was a good idea to propose a wikicontest which will be in shorter periods (like in the spanish wikipedia). I may create it, but what do you think about it? Current discussion is being held here
Fifth
You may be interested in archiving your talkpage (a little long)
Yes, I think that states it all. - ☩Damërung☩. -- 16:23, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
You have been invited to join WikiProject Insects!! Join today and work with me and other members (project just made 22:44, 19 November 2009 (UTC)) in a collaboration on improving insect orders and creating pages of insect families. Things like insect-related awards, userboxes, topicons, ect. are also coming soon.
You would probably be considered a founding member!! Bugboy52.4 | =-= 22:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Don't burn out so fast! For a relatively new user, you are showing remarkable humor and understanding. This process takes some time to learn, and you seem to be picking it up quickly. For example, I thoroughly enjoyed your humorous comment on my talk page when I didn't find your secret page. Please come back, but take a step back from some of your recent stress-inducers. Empty your watchlist and edit somewhere else. But, the point I'm trying to make is COME BACK! We need people like you here. Acps110 (talk) 06:15, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I haven't really kept to my wikibreak at all very well so far. :) Acps110, I was only thinking of taking a break over the weekend, so I'll be back on the 23rd. But I think you're right, I do need to take a step back from the CSD stuff. Do you have any suggestions for articles I could edit when I get back? A little insignificantGiving thanks to all that is me 13:53, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Whoo-hoo! Welcome back! ;-) I don't know what kind of articles to recommend to you. I only stumbled upon you by seeing your name on the User:SuggestBot/Requests page. I will issue you a challenge... It's yours if you choose to accept it. Take a look at this link, specifically the pie chart. [7] My challenge to you is to get your main namespace edits up to 40%, a five percent increase. A good way that I find to get sucked into editing the main space is to just read Wikipedia. I start finding things to fix, and it just cascades from there. See what you can find in the main space to improve/add to/spell check/etc. If you concentrate on main space editing, then some of your stress with the procedural stuff will lessen. Acps110 (talk) 14:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Up to 40%? I didn't... holy expletive, how did that happen?! I guess because of all the CSD and vandal righting = user talk warnings, but still... Wow, that's a huge problem. Now I'm going to feel bad whenever I make a user talk edit. In fact, I feel bad about this one. A little insignificantGiving thanks to all that is me 15:34, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
NO, NO! I could have asked you to raise it to 50%. A 5% increase is a manageable goal! ;-) FWIW, My main space percentages have been dropping somewhat lately because I have been adding template welcome messages to a lot of IP users. The user talk pages are there to be used. I'm just suggesting priorities for you to help you decrease your Wikistress. Come to think of it, have you seen this? Or Category:Wikipedia humor? (There are some great April Fool's Jokes in that category.) Might help. Acps110 (talk) 17:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
What was going on with WP:NEWT and you? I never really patrolled pages, and don't really understand WP:NEWT anyway. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 00:37, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Ah... it's complicated. About a month ago I started new page patrolling using Twinkle. The basic premise is that new articles are fed it through Special:Newpages, and the patrollers have to catch every single one of them. Using Special:Newpages, every article has to be either marked as patrolled (i.e. no big issues, it's good to go) or tagged for speedy deletion (i.e. vandal articles, advertising, etc.)
Every article has to be checked. And there are thousands of articles that are constantly coming in, all the time, every day. Check out Special:Newpages sometime, you'll see what I mean. It's hectic, and it's frantic, and its an incredibly stressful and busy job. On top of that, it's a thankless task- the only recognition you'll ever get for your work is a complaint from some company that doesn't want their article deleted. My point is, it has to happen, it requires a ton of people, and it's unhappy work.
This is what I was doing when WP:NEWT was founded. WP:NEWT was an attempt to see how new editors who made new articles were received at Special:Newpages, and if these newbies felt bitten by the patrollers there. So the participants in WP:NEWT created new accounts and wrote new articles to see if they would be tagged and deleted unthinkingly. And if they were, they would reveal their other account and talk to the patroller about being welcoming to newcomers.
It was nice and all, but the people who started WP:NEWT didn't expect some of the consequences. New page patrollers are stressed enough already, they didn't need the added worry that the next article they tagged may be "booby-trapped," as it were. And as more people joined WP:NEWT, it got out of hand. People would create articles full of ridiculous, unsourced nonsense, and use them to bait patrollers into tagging them, and then they would whip out their other account, "Ha! I'm actually a distinguished admin! You failed!!" A lot of NPPs ended up quitting when they were confronted. We need those people. As of now, there is a backlog of a month of unpatrolled pages that have slipped through. Over 10,000 articles to be taken care of.
Anyway, I ramble. My stress about WP:NEWT stems from my feeling that they became part of the problem, when they never thought to be part of the solution. I'm not focusing on new page patrolling anymore. Gimme some new Insect article to GA-ify. A little insignificantGiving thanks to all that is me
Wow, if you look at a chart of my edits, you would see that for two days it went up to 2,000... thats because I got a bot that allowed me to create large amounts of articles in minutes, and I didn't now that people had to tag them so... yea, I found out I had to go through a whole process of getting my acount taged, now I'm a autoreviewer. So I guess I have some experience their. And that sucks.. is it still backed up?
Anyway, sense I created a new wikiproject, you can check on the main page to see whats the recent article being improved on the top at WP:INS, oh, glad your back!!! Bugboy52.4 | =-= 03:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, A little insignificant. You have new messages at Taqi Haider's talk page. Message added 07:06, 21 November 2009 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hi, I was wondering if you could help me make my User page like yours? chat with me on my talk page if you accept.
kaminski825 (talk) 14:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Lol... i put "monobox.js," yea, it should be User:A little insignificant/monobook.js, once you add that script, you will see a dot (might be white)in the top right corner, click on that and a scrowl will come down with options (eg., online, offline, away, ect.) if the pages exist, an automated script will edit the pages. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 20:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
You din't have to delete the other script, you can have multiple scripts.... you can slo have it disigned and stuff in case you want it more "colorful." Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 22:57, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Message from a bot notifying me of a discussion I was active in :P[edit]
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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Run's House. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 20:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
exactly like this one ([[WP:SC]])). They are initials instead of full words (like your redirection) that redirect to a wikipedia page, with the same intention as yours in make things easier, so if you still have doubts in your decision, you can change it to a shortcut (they are used not only in pages, but in sections of pages also)
- The Exceptional Newcomer Award
- Service Rank-A1
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- The Bio-star (spec 2)
