User talk:BradBeattie
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[edit] Image:Large format camera lens.jpg
Could you change the white background of Image:Large format camera lens.jpg to transparent, please? Thanks very much, --Gphototalk 14:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Sure thing. I'm on it! --Brad Beattie (talk) 14:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks very much! --Gphototalk 14:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Image as requested. It's uploaded as a PNG as JPEG doesn't support transparency. The edges might have a little harshness to them as the image I was working with wasn't really high-res. Still, it should be good enough. Anything else I can help you with? --Brad Beattie (talk) 14:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Webcomic barnstar
<-- I think Mr. Noyes was talking about this, too. I see you did remove it from your user page. 204.50.64.129 19:11, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reply
Just a quick note to apologise for the delay in my reply, at the time I looked to rely I noticed you'd been snapped up for coaching already (fast worker!) Do let me know if I can help in any way regardless :) Glen 23:54, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- No worries. I appreciate the reply though. I wouldn't mind any feedback you have on the work I'm doing. Am I making the most constructive use of my time? Is there something I should be focusing on more? Any suggestions would be the awesome. Thanks again. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your support with my RfA. My nomination succeeded and I have been issued a shiny new mop. I browsed your photo gallery and the Eliica car is pretty cool. The speed they reached is impressive. -- Gogo Dodo 04:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contested WP:PRODs
Please do not re-add a PROD tag after it has been removed. Once the tag has been removed (for any reason other than blanking vandalism), the page should go to WP:AFD as a contested WP:PROD. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 13:55, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Apologies. It was a quick reaction to the prod being removed with no edit summary. I see at WP:PROD#Conflicts that even in that case the prod should not be restored. It won't happen again. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 15:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- It is a common and understandable reaction. However, since the admin processing the expired PRODs will nominate the article at AFD instead of deleting it, it will only slow down deletion of the article. Perhaps you want to comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wondermark. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 16:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Cool. Done and done. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 17:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit Conflicts
Dang, you just me to the punch on two reverts in about 5 minutes. I lost the edit conflicts to you at both Rosa Parks and Evolution. Keep up the good work : ) Doc Tropics 16:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- Heh. That's one of the advantages of building your own custom software to fight vandalism, I gather. I'm going to head to bed soon. Enjoy the hunt! --Brad Beattie (talk) 16:46, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My Bad with Popups
Oops, sorry for the dolphin mistake. Sometimes I do jump the gun a little. Probably because I use a combo of VP, Vandal Fighter, and Popups. I forget where I'm at on occasion. Then there's the factor that need to be on secure pages on https://secure.wikimedia.org/ or I get involuntarily booted out of my account. That tends to make me a little twitchy. I'll be more careful. Thanks for the heads-up. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 03:51, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Response to counter-vandalism
what's this all aboot, eh? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.195.249.9 (talk • contribs).
[edit] block 216.226.127.120
I've given a 3hour block but problem returns next level is 1 week. might be worth documenting this editors efforts and contacting the the college who say they'll deal with it. Gnangarra 14:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] National dances?
I saw the edit to your user page and created this. Not much, but it's something to start with. *shrugs* --Brad Beattie (talk) 15:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Very cool. Where'd you get the info? I'm offline for the next few hours. --Fang Aili talk 17:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Many google searches for the term "the national dance of". --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- Cool.. I will have to work on that soon.
- It's at List of national dances now. I'm working on adding sources. --Fang Aili talk 19:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- BTW, do you mind if I move some of your images to Commons? --Fang Aili talk 15:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
How about I move all of them? Gimme half an hour here. :) Actually, it's gonna take a while for me to do that. Probably longer than 30 minutes. Considering I have to head to bed soon, go nuts with what you want to move. It's all good. --Brad Beattie (talk) 16:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Oh OK
Thanks for the information. 59.92.63.37 14:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User page
Hi! I saw you are creating user pages, could you create one for me? Dvyjones 19:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Can do, but yours already looks nice. What do you want me to do to it? --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I've copied the basic idea of my page over to yours. There's a difference in flow considering the number of userboxes you have. Personally, I prefer to just add myself to the categories and leave only a few user boxes. Take a look at the code in User:BradBeattie/Userboxes. It starts with userboxes, but also adds the categories. Anywho, that's a matter of personal taste. If there's anything else I can help you with, lemme know! :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 13:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] about my signature
hi! just received your PM, pardon me because english is only my second language, but i cant completely comprehend as to the link youve given. does it mean my signature is bothersome? may i kindly know why? cheers †Bloodpack† 14:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hi there! No worries, it's not bothersome. I was just concerned that the signature takes 3 lines code. If you could make it shorter like †Bloodpack†, that would be awesome. It's your choice, of course. Just a suggestion. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 14:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Britannica/new article creation/etc
Regarding our conversation the other day, I'm still looking for the project or page that is working on filling out our coverage of articles in Britannica. Meanwhile, I found Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia, which is interesting. :) --Fang Aili talk 16:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Behold, Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics! Looks like this is actually done, and now needs verification/updating. There are lots of other redlinked article lists there too. --Fang Aili talk 16:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Admin coaching request pages
Please comment here. Thanks! --Fang Aili talk 19:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Done and done. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 03:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thank you for reverting vandalism to my user page. Best regards.--Húsönd 14:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- Any time. Glad to be of service. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 14:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can
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[edit] Reverting my UserPage
I just wanted to thank you for reverting the blanking of my userpage. I've been busy in the real world and haven't been checking in much. Have a good one, and keep the vandals at bay! →Bobby← 19:50, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expert-subject
Thanks. The explanation should still go onto the expert template (as boldly visible as reasonable), because I am not going to be the only one asking that... MadMaxDog 07:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Request for comments
Hey there Aeropagitica, a while back you provided some insightful comments on my RFA. If you have a moment, could you take a look at what I've been up to over the past while and provide any pointers where you see fit? Thanks. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 03:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- Good afternoon Brad, or should I say konishiwa as you appear to be in Tokyo as I type this? I have reviewed your last five hundred edits in the user Talk and Wikipedia spaces, as they are the areas that I made a particular point of noting at your RfA. My particular concerns were to do with warning vandals and justifying your opinions on XfD discussions with reference to policies and guidelines. In the two months since your RfA took place, I can see that you have made substantial and successful attempts to communicate with vandals and to back your opinions up with policies. I really like editors who do this as it makes it easy for me and any other person to instantly review your reasoning in order to support you - no one has to redo your work as all of your working-out is included! On this basis, using your current performance as a baseline, I would have no problem in supporting you if you decide to go for another RfA in the New Year. Even if you don't, this is the sort of performance that new editors should be able to look at and use as a model for their own Wiki-careers. I hope that this information is useful to you. Regards and happy editing, (aeropagitica) 17:48, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Webcomics barnstar
Hi there. I'm R. Noyes, the creator of Cat Town, a website whose Wikipedia entry was deleted a few weeks back in a CfD you spearheaded. I'm not mad that the article was deleted. I took no part in its creation or maintenance, I kept out of the initial VfD to avoid a conflict of interest, and I haven't been active in Wikipedia for so long that I hadn't even known there was a second, much less third call for deletion of the article.
Frankly, I was initially flattered that someone took the time to write an article about a silly little thing I had done primarily to amuse myself and some friends, and I gave the author permission to include the logo picture in the article, but I really didn't feel it important enough for me to leap in and boldly defend should it come under fire (and besides, on Wikipedia, an author who boldly leaps in to defend something of hir own has pretty much lost the fight right there.) The project wasn't mainstream, I didn't advertise it, and honestly it's been inactive in over 7 months so techically it's not current anymore. I didn't feel offended by the first VfD, and when I read over the other two this evening, I didn't feel offended by them, either. I know Wikipedia policy is all bureaucracy and a squeakiest wheel competition besides, so why waste time and energy being a blowhard about it?
I am offended, however, in the barnstar you received from hahnch in honor of the article's deletion. How something can be deemed so insignificant yet garner Wikipedia's high accolade with an extremely POV and mean-spirited explanation upon its deletion is beyond me, but that's not the point. I'd probably have to take that up with hahnch. You seem to be a good and vigilant editor, you're doing your part to help make Wikipedia into what you think is a better place, and that's great, but displaying such an insulting note betrays your good faith and good intentions as an editor. I've received my fair share of angry email from people who didn't think Cat Town was funny, and I was never bothered by them -- to each his own, really. But for some reason, that barnstar hurt. It felt like I was watching two 5th graders gleefully gloating over a frog they'd just stomped on for no other reason than to stomp on a frog. Surely Wikipedia isn't helped by such mean-spirited jubilation, but again, perhaps that's something that's all hahnch's doing in the first place.
I'm not asking you to remove the barnstar, though I guess technically I could edit it out if I wanted to and you could put it back in and then we'd have a revert war and accomplish absolutely nothing except for hilariously snarky insults in our edit summary fields. It's your call, really. Please just keep in mind that on the Internet, especially on a public web site such as Wikipedia, your words and actions and the reactions to them can be seen by anybody and everybody. And that often there can be another person behind another monitor who, whether you know it or not, is directly affected by such actions. I just wanted to point that out and to, uh, thank you for ruining my dinner tonight.
Take care, and keep up the good fight, whatever you perceive it to be. Spatch 02:28, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hey there. I'd like to apologize for the barnstar that was previously displayed on my user page. I had a habit of displaying any recognition that people presented me with there, but have since revised that policy. You are very much correct in that it wasn't charitable of Hahnchen to single out your comic and say such harsh things nor should I have blindly displayed the barnstar. It has been removed from my user page and will remain so.
- In all truth, the nomination of Cat Town's article for deletion had no value judgement associated with it. I was looking through the web comics category looking to see if anything met the speedy deletion criteria "web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject." I'm sorry that the end result of that effort conveyed a sense of mean-spiritedness; that was never my intention. --Brad Beattie (talk) 15:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hi.Are you Elnuko ?
Hi.Are you Elnuko ? If so why you're calling yourself proud canadian BradBeattie from Osaka?
Is it magic trick or what?
[edit] Webcomic Lucy Lastique
I'm the creator of this online comic ("Jaxtraw") and little surprised that it's been deleted. How are these things decided? The article's been there for some time, and a few people chose to edit it so presumably thought it in some sense worthy. I don't know what a comic has to be to be "notable"- is this a matter of personal preferences among editors? The comic itself has been running for over 5 years now, so it's hardly a flash in the pan, abandoned comic languishing in a corner of Keenspace or whatever they call it these days. Is it just because it's "adult"? I may be being overly defensive here, but I wonder if somebody just flicked past it checking all these many articles and presumed it's just some porn site, which is far from the truth.
If nothing else, as that rare thing, a webcomic supporting itself financially by readers' subscriptions, it's notable, surely?82.71.30.178 20:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.74.5.206 (talk) 13:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC).
