User talk:Nichalp/Archive25

RFA

Thanks for asking. What I usually do is page through the user's contributions in Wikipedia and Wikipedia_talk namespaces. These days, there have been a lot of nominations with a substantial lack of those (other than AFD votes, but that hardly counts for experience in my view). I believe an Admin should have reasonable experience with a couple of WikiProcesses, because admins are often called upon to adjudicate them, and because it's part of "common knowledge" I expect of established users. I realize that my criterion for adminship is more stringent than most (indeed, many people use the criterion "he seems friendly enough"), but that's really not a problem; when I oppose someone, my point is to advise them of things that could be improved; my point is not that the nomination must fail. I do hope that if/when a candidate that I opposed passes, he can still take the advice to heart and thereby improve himself (and indeed, I've gotten some positive responses along those lines). HTH! R adiant _>|< 10:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Use of images

Can you please answer Aravind's question here. Thanks, Tintin 16:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

India edits on German WP

Hi Nicholas, I see you are also on German WP for ""India edits". Since my German is better than my English in the meantime, I'd like to offer you my help for any major edits or anything else. ;-)

Please copy my original post when replying on my user discussion. Thx. --Predator capitalism 05:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

Thanks a bunch for clarifying that for me. Your help is appreciated.

--Aravind Parvatikar 06:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nichalp, thanks a ton for the heads up. I knew it was before 1945 pics, but some how wrongly calculated it as 50 years :-P Thanks again. --Gurubrahma 11:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Tintin 14:42, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Emblem

Sure. Will do as time permits. But give me a better, high-res base image, preferably tif. --rgds. Miljoshi | talk 14:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dell, Inc. peer review

Hey, I've seen you around peer review and FAC doing some pretty good work on helping people improve articles - I'm trying to get Dell to featured status and put it into peer review here, can you take a look at it for me please? Thanks — Wackymacs 21:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

External link policy question

Hi, I had a question about policy for external links. My undergrad school is BUET, and I have created/edited the article a lot. Currently, the article links to the official univ website. However, there are alumni sites of the univ, and I would like to add those alumni sites to the page. Normally, this wouldn't have been a question to ask you, but the thing is, I am the maintainer of one of those alumni websites [1]. So, I'm confused whether there is a conflict of interest in my adding this alumni site to the university page. I'd like to hear your opinion on that. The alumni site is non-commercial, FYI. Thanks. --Ragib 05:48, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PS: A belated merry christmas (I hope you had a great one), and a happy new year. --Ragib 05:48, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your questions 1. According to Google search, there is [2] which doesn't seem to be maintained now, the official alumni association [3] which does not have a webpage yet. The site I maintain is the Computer Science departmental alumni site [4]. All these sites I mentioned appear at the top 10 of google search for "BUET Alumni" [5]. So, this search ranking measure may be the answer to your question regarding popularity. Thanks. --Ragib 02:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Had missed this out

Hi, just noticed a couple of your articles Flora and fauna of Chennai and Flora and fauna of Mumbai. Great idea but too bad it hasnt grown much. Look forward to more on that front. Shyamal 09:49, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

E-mail (Re:your vote at my RfA)

I am not sure what you mean. I have my e-mail address publicly displayed on my user page. Yes, I am displaying it in an obfuscated form to prevent it from being collected by spammers. - Mike Rosoft 10:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry. I am not going to allow you to dictate my user settings. If you want to e-mail me, you know what to do. - Mike Rosoft 23:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Panama Canal

Hi, I guess we're having a bit of a mis-communication over Panama Canal and inline links. So let's try to clear it up here. 2 points:

I have twice asked you what the specific problem is with aural rendering of inline links. You haven't responded. I'd love to know, because if there's a serious problem here, other articles that I've worked on need to be changed.
I have tried to point out that the inline link to the ACP is a style which is specifically recommended by WP:MOS-L, in the section titled "Internal Links", which — I believe — is the section that applies to links inline with the main text of the article. I'd like to know whether you agree that this is the rule that applies, but you haven't responded. Again, if there's a problem with inline link speech conversion, this manual needs to change, so this could really do with being cleared up.

Maybe you can let me know the answers to these two points? BTW, I reverted your link change, because I think a working link is better than a broken link. Maybe I'll get around to writing that ACP article and change it back. Cheers. — Johantheghost 12:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for the response. Yes, that makes sense. It doesn't actually look too bad in this case, but if it was mid-sentence it would be particularly horrible, and I can see how the aural rendering would be nasty. So: OK, I'll research and write an ACP article and change the link. And we obviously need to get the MoS fixed. — Johantheghost 13:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

E-mail

I have thought about it for some time, and I have finally decided to enable e-mails from other users. Presumedly, this serves to allow users who do not have e-mail accounts of their own to contact me. If my previous comments seemed too harsh, I apologize for that; I am rather sensitive to people making demands on me for reasons I see as arbitrary. - Mike Rosoft 16:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Indian cricket Userbox

Hi nick,

i've introduced a userbox for Indian cricket fans that goes something like this:

India Zindabad!
This user supports the
Indian Cricket team.

Spread the word! अमेय आरयन AMbroodEY 17:06, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I prefer not to use userboxes for now. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:24, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wai-Wai disambiguation

Hi!

I created a stub Wai-Wai (people) for the ethnic group of people in Guyana and Brazil. Could we create a disambiguation page for this group and the Wai-Wai food article? Camillus^{talk|contribs} 02:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Style question

Hello, Nichalp. In Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Dennis, you asked me to not use left aligned images at the start of a new section. That had been the style that WikiProject Tropical cyclones had adopted, and it is hard-coded in templates, so now there are some questions about it, mostly where is it stated that it is the accepted Wikipedia style. I'm sure it is, but I can't find it anywhere in the Manual of Style or the supplemental manuals. Can you help me by telling me where is that specified? Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 07:14, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

...for your message on my talk page, jguk 10:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Name change

I have now requested that my name be changed to Voice of All. Thanks.Voice of All (MTG)^T|@|ESP 21:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Per: here, I did not mean to get you upset. I really want to see this article become an FA, so I was on the edge. Didn't mean to be offensive, cheers! ε γκυκλοπαίδεια* 21:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]