User talk:GRuban

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Contents 1 Karl Josef Weinmair stub 2 Boot Hill wikilink fix 2.1 Good article 3 Adenture 4 Adventurer 5 Kathy Lloyd 6 Barnstar 7 Dungeons & Dragons 8 Home and Away 9 RPG WikiProject 10 Marcelle Karp 11 The Feminists 12 Awzal 13 Mao Zedong 14 Alexa Dixon 15 Casca Rufio Longinius 16 More Liberty Dollar 17 Java/RMS 18 Psionics (role-playing game_s_) 19 Muhammad Awzal 20 Reverted vandalism to my page 21 Austin Purfleet hoax 22 charities accused of ties to terrorism 23 Thanks! 24 Appreciation 25 Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Geo Swan 26 Thanks, and an apology 27 Image Tagging for Image:CarolynLilipaly.jpg

[edit] Karl Josef Weinmair stub

Thanks for making the stub. Good job on finding the info about it. I was having a heck of a time trying to locate anything.--DBEndy 03:03, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boot Hill wikilink fix

No worries. Thanks for the fix.--Azathar 03:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Good article

I just wanted to speak up and say good job on the Boot Hill (role-playing game) article. The Bearded One 22:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adenture

Noticed your edit to Adventure, diff. I know you are probably new, but Wikipedia is not a dictionary so definitions like that don't go on disambiguation pages. There is already a link to wiktionary on that page. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) has more info about the style of disambigation pages.--Commander Keane 01:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adventurer

Hiya! I'm sorry for putting that redirect back in. I found that page on my vandal patrols, and I made a snap judgment as to what was going on, and to me it looked as if a vandal was removing a redirect to put in an article, so I just went "Bye bye, vandal edits!" and reverted. Sorry about that! Mo0[talk] 20:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kathy Lloyd

Hi! I removed the redlink a while back as she isn't particularly notable (nn = lazy shorthand for not notable) in her field. There's quite a few hits on her name as she's a nude model; there's always lots of hits for page 3 girls, porn stars etc because there's so many porn sites with the same content. But I may be wrong - if you think she's notable, by all means start an article. Regards Proto t c 23:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Angelbo 04:14, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dungeons & Dragons

Hi. I apologise for the length of this post, but I think I'd like to request some assistance. You posted a question on my talk page, regarding my efforts in the Dungeons & Dragons category. I have answered that question, but have since come to my senses regarding the scope of my plans. A few days ago I stumbled onto the Wikipedia pages related to Dungeons & Dragons, and found them .. lacking. They lacked cohesion and content, above all, and while content needn't be my speciality in these matters, creation cohesion seemed feasable. All that was required, I thought, was that someone read every article, and then organise them. I have recategorised a number of articles, making the categorisation of the articles, in my view, much clearer.

What remains is much more daunting, and may require the creation of a WikiProject. I feel that a core of Dungeons & Dragons related articles should be established, covering general concepts such as character classes, armour class and hit points, which should have internally consistent style, and should avoid redirecting internally. Upon this framework, the other articles could be added. Such as articles pertaining to specific monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons worlds, or to specific continents and countries in different campaign settings.

When I started reading, I quickly identified a number of pages that I felt should exist, but were missing. Almost immediately, I found that a number of different articles refered directly to articles for specific character classes, such as cleric. But while the cleric article may mention Dungeons & Dragons, it seems to merely mention the concept, and probably won't grow into a fully detailed article. The creation of a new article seemed warranted. Similarly, the article on Rogue (character class) didn't exist, with most pages refering to the Thief (character class) article instead, which hardly seemed to cover the Dungeons & Dragons Rogue. Again, a new page should be created, but I concluded that it would be best to create articles for all base classes, to set them apart from game classes in Final Fantasy and other role-playing games. The same logic applies to general articles such as Magic-User, divine magic (vs. Arcane magic), which cover anything but relevant topics: They should be found and tagged, and possibly redirected or expanded.

I'll grant you that I haven't given much thought to the actual content of these class articles, mostly because I am not quite sure how much of the game mechanics may be explained through Wikipedia. But creating decent stubs is not a bad thing, I feel.

The more I think about it, the more the need for a forum of some type grows. Perhaps I will set up a WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons. Would you help/join? -- Ec5618 02:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Home and Away

Hi, you have voted in the afd for various Home&Away character articles. I have had a go at combining all the articles in a single article (which I admit still needs a lot of work). You can find it at Current Home and Away characters. I suggest we keep this article are either delete or re-direct the others. What do you think? Thanks, Evil Eye 13:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RPG WikiProject

Hello, I'm toying with the idea of a WikiProject for roleplaying games. I see that you've edited RPG articles and I thought I should ask you what you think of the idea. Do you think it could be done and would you be interested in helping out? I'm a long-time reader, but I haven't hardly edited anything yet, so I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions you might have. I've talked a bit about it on my blog.

I don't want to start anything without following through, and I want to avoid starting something I can't finish. But a WikiProject would be a good way to coordinate efforts, and it would be easier to attract more people to improve RPG articles, don't you think? Jonas Karlsson 16:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

And now I've started it, after getting enough people interested. It's over here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Role-playing_games. The project page is still a mess, but we'll get it up and running soon. Jonas Karlsson 12:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marcelle Karp

Great job on the Marcelle Karp article! Thanks! – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 17:52, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Feminists

Thanks for your work on The Feminists, but it probably isn't the best choice to add an expansion request for to the Systematic Bias template. There just isn't more stuff on Google about them - I looked fairly extensively. The article is incomplete, but without off-web research, it's going to stay that way. I suspect there are more productive articles to expand to add to the CSB template. GRuban 16:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Do I understand you to be saying that CSB should only look into topics that are already well-covered on the Web? As one of the people who started CSB, I can say without qualification that one of the main goals of the project was to improve coverage in areas that are not well-covered on the web. That is precisely one of Wikipedia's systemic biases: if something is not already on the Web someplace, it tends to slip through our cracks. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

(suitably humbled and abashed) Well, um, no, your excellency, sir. This unworthy one was merely daring to suggest that other articles that are at least somewhat more covered on the Web might be more productive, in the sense that if we added them to the template, they would actually get expanded, while The Feminists, no matter how worthy, would quite possibly stay more or less the size it was until Ti-Grace Atkinson joined the Eagle Forum. But please forgive my presumption as youthful inexperience, your plenipotentiaryness, and I shall not speak of it again. Jmabel is always right. I will work harder. (pounds head on floor repeatedly, and backs away on his knees) GRuban 13:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to ask you to apologize for the tone of that, but I am going to say that if you continue to address me in that tone, expect to make an enemy. I don't know about you, but probably a third of what I do is from print, and I doubt that I'm the only Wikipedian who still knows how to read a book. If you want to remove that particular request of mine from the template, fine. But if you want to argue that Wikipedia can become a first-rate general reference while writing only on topics that are already well-covered online, I think you are dead wrong. -- Jmabel | Talk 16:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi GRuban, I just wanted to drop you a line after seeing yet again CSB request that you've filled. It's appreciated. Cheers, BanyanTree 15:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the appreciation! It's, umm ... appreciated! GRuban 17:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Awzal

Thanks for giving Muhammad Awzal a start! I think I put his name on the CSB request list somewhere in November or December and quite frankly I didn't expect something to come from it, at least not that soon. It's really great to see WP:CSB work! Keep it up, — mark ✎ 20:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks! Unfortunately, I couldn't find much more about Muhammad Awzal than what I wrote, so someone else will have to do the expansion. GRuban 21:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Maybe you'd better try to ask for a help in Wikipedia:Translation_into_English. Vermondo 09:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I did. Looks like there are a number of Italian->English requests pending there, though, so it might take a while. I hope I'm not reduced to using the Google translation to work from. GRuban 12:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mao Zedong

Hi, could you possibly re-edit the page? You still have one try left before you hit the 3Rs rule. It would also add support to our case against that guy if he reverts again. John Smith's 19:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

All righty. GRuban 19:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alexa Dixon

Thank you for working on the aged requests page. There are a number of requests that probably don't actually deserve articles, such as Alexa Dixon. To keep them from being relisted the important thing is to remove them from the main request page, because it is from those pages that the list is regenerated each month. - SimonP 14:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Casca Rufio Longinius

Sure, no problems. On review of the page, it actually seems quite reasonable. At the time that I tagged it, it was somewhat confusing, and I didn't understand the apparent signifigance of the character. None the less you have made a good job of the article. Thanks for the great contribution. Bobby1011 00:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More Liberty Dollar

After further research and reflection, I've come to believe that the Liberty Dollar entry should be merged with "Private currency" or "Community money" and redirected accordingly. This merge would help put this controversial topic into a broader context it desperately needs. Thank you for your participation. BrianGCrawfordMA 18:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Java/RMS

If you want to say "RMS doesn't program in Java," that's fine. The nonsequiteur and unfunny joke about the island of Java is nonencyclopedic. It doesn't particularly matter to me whether RMS put it there or not -- his puns are just as inappropriate in an encyclopedia as everyone else's (except, of course, for those in the pun article. :-) Nandesuka 06:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Psionics (role-playing game_s_)

Please, join me at Talk:Psionics (role-playing game) and help me to understand this page move. -Harmil 21:54, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

 : I'm going to be bold and move it back. The article is about Psi in all RPGs, not in one RPG, and most of Category:Role-playing game terms uses the plural. This is my one "revert", I won't continue a revert war without discussion, but I think this was just a well-meaning mistake by the mover. GRuban 22:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm really sorry. I had thought you were the person who moved the page. Thanks for moving it back, and sorry for pestering you. -Harmil 22:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muhammad Awzal

Thank you four your appreciation of the article I wrote on it.wiki. Unfortunately in this moment I'm quite busy and have no time to translate it into English. Anyway, I wrote a call for translators in the talk page of it.wiki and I hope you'll find someone who can help. Later on, I'll look at the English page, and if the work is not yet done, I'll consider translating the page myself. Good luck --Vermondo 16:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverted vandalism to my page

Hi there, thanks for sticking up for me. I have a very short memory. Have we met before? Cheers. PizzaMargherita 13:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

HI ja'! -- GRuban 13:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

LOL, I told you I have a short memory :D........ By the way, have we met before? PizzaMargherita 14:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Austin Purfleet hoax

Hi George. I've rolled back and reverted all their edits apart from the creation of the Tromlitz article. It was mostly manual work, but I think it needed doing! User:81.6.228.171 is also part of this nonsense, as is User:Chrisman66, although the latter has yet to do anything other than comment at the deletion page and create his own user page. Presumably these are all sock puppets of a single person with two much time on their hands. I've given them warnings (other than User:Chrisman66) that they'll be blocked if they carry on. Keep your eyes peeled! CLW 17:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

And a splendid tale, was Purfleet's. Will it be archived anywhere, or lost forever? I might write the book one day. --JamesMcFurlong 22:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] charities accused of ties to terrorism

I left a note for the guy who moved charities accused of ties to terrorism to charities accused of ties to terrorism.

I blame him for the loss of the article's talk page. -- Geo Swan 13:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the vote of confidence. -- Geo Swan 20:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Appreciation

I appreciated your comments regarding La Convivencia on my user talk page. I'm thinking it might be nice to start an Esperanza type of editor base called La Convivencia to really hit home the need for such a spirit. Netscott 20:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Geo Swan

You expressed interest in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Geo Swan, and I think your view would be helpful since you edited Charities accused of ties to terrorism. KI 21:01, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

• Oh, my. I hope my asking to be notified if there was an RFC didn't bring it into being. I commented, but I'm not at all sure it was what you had in mind. Please, de-escalate, sheathe your weapons, return your bombers to the launch bays. It's over. Please. Go edit Chad articles, I've read some you've written, they're quite well done, and as a WP:CSD member, I'm quite happy that someone is editing them, we need more articles on the third world. But please stop the litigation, it's simply not constructive. You want GS to leave you alone? I'm sure he will, as your RFA expires today. Done. No more. Please. -- GRuban 21:52, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks, and an apology

Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attempts to remain neutral and talk sense to KI and I.

Yes, you were correct that, barring a last minute flood of supporters, KI's candidacy was almost certain to fail. But I reached different conclusions about whether there was reason to keep trying to state my concerns over their candidacy.

You were absolutely correct that I planned to stop talking about my concern about KI when his candidacy came to an end.

So, that apology. Later, on April 7th, I realized that although I remembered important talk page exchanges -- they had happened on my personal talk page. I was almost certainly completely mistaken about that

I was in the midst of acknowledging that mistake, when I was shocked to see he had filed a complaint against me on the Administrator's noticeboard. After two notes on their talk page, which I still consider were civil, triggered that unexpected escalation, it didn't feel safe to do what what I should have done -- acknowledged the mistake as early as I discovered it. I overlooked how the acknowledgement might concern you. Sorry. -- Geo Swan 01:47, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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