User talk:Mike Garcia/Archive20050610
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[edit] The Calm That Killed the Storm
On a personal note, might I ask why this album was pushed back to September 13, 2005? as you added to the article. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:42, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
- The reason why is right here. -- Mike Garcia 01:09, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
- Read it, and a funny thing. I have no idea why half the people on the forum site that it links to have to trash the band. Thanks for the link anyway. -- Riffsyphon1024 04:42, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Infectious Grooves
Greate job...i saw that you posted an album about Infectious Grooves. Cool man !! QUESTION : From where do you take all the information for the albums ? --PET 02:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yes I did! And I have discovered music websites like Allmusic.com, Artistdirect.com, Tower.com and tons of webistes. -- Mike Garcia 04:23, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
artistdirect.com is greate. Thanks. --PET 04:28, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
hey Mike. I have added some albums :) Do you want to check my work ? See my user page. --PET 01:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Skin Yard
Please see what I wrote on the talk page of Skin Yard. I worked for a long time on that article, and you may not agree with what I've done, but it is not vandalism, and was done with the intention of improving a stub. If you want the 3 albums to have their own articles then I will not redirect them. If we cannot agree, I hope to have a vote on the matter and find a consensus. Just because you created the article does not mean you "own" it and have the right to revert edits without discussion. All the information from the album articles was moved to the Skin Yard article - and improved to create uniformity. The article is not too long, I just removed the Album Boxes as they were too big. As the band no longer even exists, I doubt there will ever be much to add to the article. --Silversmith 22:15, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hello Mike!
Hey Mike, How are you? This is me again, your best friend, you know, from the JP page. I hope everything is all and well with you. I see you're a big album specialist. Maybe you can wikify Priest's albums? That would be a really great help.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
"Grim Reaper", "Joe", or, in other words
[edit] Three revert rule
You have been blocked for 24 hours under the three revert rule. If you wish to appeal please contact another administrator or the mailing list.Geni 23:00, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] AMG Advice
Hey Mike. Short advice, always check more sites for the album released year. It seems that AMG has manny albums with +1 year !! I saw this on several albums. Album 3 from Violent Femmes is released in 1988... conforming the OFFICIAL SITE and Rate Your Music...but stupid AMG has the date at 1989. I just reverted some pages that a user has modified. Doh...this is so anoying. --PET 06:21, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] IMPORTANT
Mike, I sent you an email. Please read it and answer me immediately. Danny 23:04, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Mike. Thanks for your email. I sent you another one with some questions. Please answer them. Thanks. Danny 00:25, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Mike. Another important question for you in email. Danny 00:51, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Mike, please answer my last email. Danny 01:09, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Music
Do you randomly add albums or you add albums from the band's you like. Cos it seems you...add albums from the bands that i like :) --PET 04:25, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
- I just have a good taste of music, man. That's why I've created several albums! -- Mike Garcia 21:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
Hi Mike, I've noticed that you've been making additions to Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. While I have no doubt that you are making these edits in good faith, it seems that there is some disagreement about what users should be included in the list. Please check out the discusstion at Wikipedia talk:Missing Wikipedians#Trimming for more details. May I suggest that before you add anything to the list, you should bring it up on the above talk page and discuss whether that user should be included in the main list? Thanks, Deathphoenix 14:17, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
- This is just my personal opinion, but I think that you need to start using a more conservative criteria for who is missing and who is not. For example, some who hasn't edited in a few weeks and has left no goodbye message may not be "missing" but may be on vacation or has had real life interfere with their participation on the Wikipedia. For another example, those editors who have been permanently banned from the Wikipedia are not "missing" and should probably be put in a separate section or even on a separate page (I think there is already a list of banned users somewhere—perhaps connected to WP:RFAR or WP:AN).
- If you really want to look for missing Wikipedians, a good place to start might be to look at some of the WikiProjects that have turned inactive. I am sure that you will probably find quite a few Wikipedians among the listed participants that will show significant contributions to the Wikipedia (<2,000 edits would be my criteria), but who are no longer editing at all, and are not listed on the Missing Wikipedia page. You might also look through the various WikiProject edit summaries (as well as the edit summaries for the various Regional Notice Boards) looking for people who have removed themselves from the lists of participants.
- Another place that you might look is at very old RFCs. I have a strong feeling that it shouldn't be too hard to find missing Wikipedians among both those who have had RFCs filed against them (but were never banned), plus those who have filed RFCs (either against other editors, or for article disputes). BlankVerse ∅ 08:24, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
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- Here's a freebie for you to add to Missing Wikipedians: User:Mic, last edit 27 September 2004, 18,370 edits BlankVerse ∅ 13:56, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] User:Hilary Duff
I removed User:Hilary Duff from the list of missing wikipedians. The user had less than 20 edits, and nearly all of them were on talk pages of other users. I venture to say the user was not significant enough to list as missing. Kingturtle 23:03, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
- oops. sorry. the rollback feature reverted all of your changes, not solely the Duff change. Kingturtle 23:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] please do not escalate
mike, please do not further the Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians into an edit war. even if you believe that you are not at fault, and that others are pushing an edit war - please do not further it. review Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot, if you haven't recently. cheers! Kingturtle 01:48, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
- You are in violation of Wikipedia:Three-revert rule, and I have reported this incident. Please stop this behavior. Kingturtle 21:34, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
You seem to be under the impression, Mike, that you have some special right to edit the Missing Wikipedians page that I do not. You are incorrect. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:43, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding Missing Wikipedians
Hello, Mike. I just want to let you know that no one was picking on you. ANYONE who reverts more than 3 times in a 24 hour period gets blocked...
Let's work together and agree on who belongs on the Missing Wikipedians page. I have started a section on the Talk page to see how long people should be missing before they get listed. Please add what you think. In the meanwhile, let's not make changes to the Missing Wikipedians page until we decide.
If you have any questions about this, please let me know.
--Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:02, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Mike. What Dante said sounds like a good idea. Everyone should decide together how long someone should be missing before including them. Some people think two weeks is too short. How long do you think? Danny 23:57, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Suicidal Tendencies
I noticed you changed "Suicidal Tendencies" to "The Suicidal Tendencies". That looks weird to me. I've never heard the band referred to with "The" at the beginning. Perhaps you felt that the plural "Tendencies" must be followed by "are" instead of "is". If it were not a proper name, that would be true. In the case of proper names, the singular verb is used. There are many examples along the lines of "Wings is a band", not "The Wings are a band". When the band normally has a "the" in front (such as "The Beatles", even though the band name is simply "Beatles"), it is common to see both plural and singular verbs. Since Suicidal Tendencies has never been popularized as The Suicidal Tendencies, I thought the addition of "The" and changing "is" to "are" simply looks strange - though I agree that MS Word will claim it is proper grammer (and I'm not one to argue with the paperclip guy). Kainaw 14:09, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] X&Y and Rate Your Music
Besides the fact no one outside the media has heard X&Y in its entirety, Rate Your Music is hardly a "Professional Review" site. :-) --Madchester 02:49, 2005 May 26 (UTC)
Please stop adding RYM links to the "Professional Review" section Mike (or should I say OBD_Lives :). It is not a professional review site, and the rating is an AVERAGE that is constantly recalculated, hence it will always be changing. Maintaining up to date average ratings from RYM would obviously be a nightmare. Save us the trouble and delete the ones you've made already. --jiy 06:21, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] AMA Requests
Please refrain from making further requests for assistance to the AMA for the time being. Not only are they frequently not situations in which our intervention is appropriate, but when they are it is usually because of poor behavior and misconduct on your part, not that of other users'. If you encounter a serious difficulty please attempt to discuss it with other users on that page first, then with User:Danny as he is tasked with assisting you. Alternatively you might personally submit the matter to comment or mediation. At the moment, however, you seem to be coming to us as soon as you encounter a user with which you disagree, rather than talking it through with them first, and not only does that inspire further conflicts with other users but takes away valuable time that could be spending on legitimate requests. It has been noted to you that your requests are inappropriate several times; please take heed of this fact.
If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me. Wally 20:59, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Teleincision
I don't mean to be very brash about the removal of this from the discography, but I recall reading that you should edit this site judiciously according to what you think is best, regardless of stepping on others' feelings...
Well, Teleincision is not confirmed. I am in Tool Army, I have heard nothing about Teleincision. If you have some form of proof, please let me know and I will stop taking it off of the discography.
Thank you VERY much for understanding my qualms about people adding things in about Tool that they aren't even sure of. The discography section is purely a list of facts, not a speculative part of the article. What Teleincision is or if it exists or will exist is not confirmed...
Either way if I am acting out by doing this, I am sorry I didn't observe some wiki rule and I will try to correct that behavior. But until I learn otherwise, I see what I am doing as preserving fact over hopeful fiction. --Cassius987 05:33, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- It seems like you're still at it, but please listen to me. This is not a you versus me issue, or a you versus anyone issue, it's a fact versus fiction issue, a matter of quality and integrity. This is especially important for me to observe as a fan of Tool, seeing how their message has been misconstrued by many in the past (and it is the people's right to interpret and potentially misconstrue art, in a way). The thing is, the Tool article is not called: Speculations About Tool, What We Want To See From Tool, or Teleincision Is For Real Dude!! It's a fact-based beast with very little room for speculation. Besides the introductory part of the article, in fact, there is NO room for speculation. Please understand where all of us are coming from. You may think you are doing the right thing, but the truth is, you are clinging to a meme of information as if it were a part of you and as if by deleting it we are deleting you. That is not how wikipedia works. Open your third eye along with your first two and begin to feel peace and understand.--Cassius987 05:19, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Dear Mike Garcia. Please take a look at the Tool Talk Page and join us in our discussion before inserting Teleincsion. I invited you earlier, on my talk page, on Cassius' talk page and on the AMA Requests for assistance page. I have supplied links in my statetment at the Teleincision talk page where you can see that the release is a hoax. One user of one of the boards even listed the real tracklist, showing that the distributed archive only contains known bootleg live material off Lateralus and Aenima. Cassius987, MrHate and I agree that there is reason to remove the Teleincison entry. As far as I recall, you even voted yes on the Vote for Deletion petition. ---Johnnyw 22:41, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
[edit] American Idiot
WB, why do you keep removing the image of Green Day's new album American Idiot that was uplodaed by me? -- Mike Garcia | talk 20:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I was going to ask the same question. The albumcover I uploaded is of higher quality and has a better resolution than the one you have uploaded. I seriously do not think Wikipedia is a place to fight about "my picture has to stay" kind of a place. If we get a better picture, it is natural that we would replace the old picture with the new picture. "restoring my own image, get your own image, WB"? Does it really matter if it is yours or mine? Do you think I am trying to keep as many picture of "mine" everywhere? Wikipedia is for the common good, not your self-esteem. You can keep your picture on as long as possible, if that makes you happy. I didn't upload that picture to upset you or say you suck, or to in anyway say I am better than you. WB 23:52, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] School articles
Please don't bother creating posts about schools that consist of no more than "X is a school in Y." If you care about the subject, please take the time to write something meaningful—insubstantial posts like these just cause cleanup problems for everyone else, and fuel the fires of the contentious school deletion issue. Postdlf 00:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
