User talk:Scoutersig

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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Requests for help 3 Paying attention 4 Vincent van Gogh 5 Grinbot's "hidden" link 6 9/11 Jewish conspiracy 7 Sigma Chi... 8 Current mac project collaboration 9 WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request 10 Gay kingdom flag 11 Happy to help 12 RE: Reverts 13 Camp Whitsett 14 Flag infobox on Gay and Lesbian Kingdom 15 David Beckham 16 vandal 17 Reversion of edits on User:Gooku1bil 18 Secession list 19 Please sign your posts 20 iTunes Images 21 AFD rationales 22 Re: Blocking 23 Canyon live oak 24 IP Vandalism... 25 Re: Being an admin 26 Sigma Chi 27 No more speedy deletion? How about 'plain' deletion then? 28 Attack on Pearl Harbor umpires 29 Isaac Asimov 30 Discussion about WikiProject:California assessments 31 WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities 32 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Scoutersig, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Requests for help

Scouting: Camp Whitsett
I would like to add a page/file/link to "Camp Whitsett," which is now a little stub-segment in Scouting in California. I would like to make it, just for, you know, personal vanity and glory; but could someone help me find out how?? lol sheesh. Thanks. -Greg P.S. Also, I did not realize that there was a difference between "[]" symbols and "{}" symbols. Is there some litterature I can read about that?

Hi Greg! I'm not sure scouting camps are individually notable, so it might be best to just expand the information about "Camp Whitsett" in the Scouting in California article. However, you can read more about starting new pages at Wikipedia:New page. As for your second question, The "[[]]" makes a link and the "{{}}" includes a template. Wikipedia:Editing help has more info. I hope this helps! Henrik 16:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Scouting: Order of the Arrow by lodge/council in State
Yes. For more detail, see the local articles section of the Scouting Project's RulesStandards page at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scouting/RulesStandards#Local_articles_.28Councils_and_smaller_entities.29. Thanks for joining the project and helping! YIS, Rlevse 10:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Second/side page I want to add a page to my user page (you know, scoutersig/secondpage type) to showcase some maps. Erm, how do I do that?

Just go to the page and create it. User:Scoutersig/secondpage --pgk 18:21, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Blocking Blockheads, AKA: Vandals Can I--a non-administrator--block repeated vandals? I'm having a hard time sifting through the wikipolicy. Am I allowed? I just got done (though he may strike again) multi-reverting a vandal at Galileo Galilei. Thanks.Scoutersig 16:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Only administrators have the technical ability to block vandals. However, if you come across a vandal who continues to vandalise after repeated warnings (i.e. after you've reached the {{subst:test4}} or at least {{subst:test3}} stage of warnings), you can go to WP:AIV and it's likely an admin will block them. --ais523 16:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

My signature is broken I tried to make a 'cool' signature like other people have, but it didn't work out so well, and after trying to make it return to normal... I have a signature that won't link to my page at all--it is just text. help! Scoutersig 18:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

If you clear the Signature box, and uncheck the Raw signature checkbox, everything should be fine. If that doesn't work, post back here with the contents of the Signature box and checkbox, and I'll try to help you further. —P^urpleRA^IN 19:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

If you want help designing a signature, let me know what you're trying to do, and I'll see if I can help. —P^urpleRA^IN 19:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

This should be what you're looking for:

—[[User:Scoutersig|Scouter]][[User talk:Scoutersig|Sig]]

which looks like this: —ScouterSig

The "Sig" part doesn't show up as a link on this page because it is a self-reference. On every other page it should be a link.

The — just inserts a line before the sig (like on mine). Feel free to remove it or replace it with just a hyphen if you like.

Make sure you have the Raw signature box checked when using this signature, or it won't work properly. —P^urpleRA^IN 16:43, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paying attention

Hey, don't worry about it. That's how you find out what stuff does. :) --JiFish(^Talk/_Contrib) 11:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vincent van Gogh

Thanks for your note on the above and adding it to your watchlist. Let's see how we get on! Tyrenius 00:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grinbot's "hidden" link

Hello!

That link in cartography is an interwiki link, it builds up the language links in the left bottom box. The one in question linked to the sicilian language site. The bot's sole purpose is to update these links between the different languages - most bots around do just that.

Have a nice day! --grin ✎ 21:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9/11 Jewish conspiracy

The history of that article says simple cut-and-paste from original/parent article. What article is the parent? It looks like it might have been 9/11 conspiracy theories. If it is, I speculate that the new article is redundant. --Midnightcomm 03:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks like a split of 9/11 conspiracy theories. --Midnightcomm 03:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

See my talk page. Thanks. Morton devonshire 20:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sigma Chi...

In Hoc Brother! Batman2005 00:55, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

IHSV, Brother Scoutersig! Drsowell 18:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current mac project collaboration

The current WP:MAC collaboration is Apple II family. Please devote some time to improve this article to featured status. — Wackymacs 14:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gay kingdom flag

The Gay & Lesbaian Kingdom is a micronation, not a real country. It uses the rainbow flag. Their flag is already listed on the Wikipedia article page on micronation flags. If it is being listed on the national flags page it should definitely be removed. PS: It is a good idea to sign your comments so people know who you are. --Centauri 21:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. --Gene_poole 02:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy to help

stealer! I spent so many hours on that box and now you take it and use it for your own evil designs! No, im kidding. Its cool. Post it on the new user boxes page so other people can use it. (You prob should reformat it though. Its outside of the normal boxes)--Samwisep86 23:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Reverts

You can install Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups and use them for example. feydey 12:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Camp Whitsett

FYI. --evrik ^(talk) 16:52, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flag infobox on Gay and Lesbian Kingdom

Ah. I didn't notice that it added it to a category. I suppose it can easily be fixed by substing the template and editing out the category. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 22:12, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

All done. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 22:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Beckham

Thank you for that hilarious edit summary! :-) -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 07:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] vandal

(copied)

User_talk:84.53.80.194 is at his vandalism again. Scoutersig 14:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Have reported the ip here. Is there anything else that can be done? Rex the first ^{talk | contribs} 14:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I suppose that, no, there isn't much else to be done. I just saw that you had berated him before, so I thought I'd notify some of the people who did that kind of thing. Thanks. Scoutersig 14:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion of edits on User:Gooku1bil

If you read what the page says, you will see that it specifically states NOT to revert any edits by me (211.28.235.242) to his page. you will note that he himself wrote that (check edit history).

The previous unsigned comment was left by an apparently unlogged-in User:Gooku1bil
Scoutersig 04:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Secession list

Looks good so far...I'd like to see a bit more about the context of the various movements. We already have a similar article for Canada; you can review it at Secessionist movements of Canada if you'd like to see how it's handled. For what it's worth, though, we treat internal new-provinces-from-existing-provinces secessions in a separate article at Proposals for new Canadian provinces and territories. Bearcat 19:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Scoutersig! Thanks for asking my advice. Did you notice that I replied on the list's talk page? — Sebastian (talk) 19:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I replied on User_talk:SebastianHelm#Secession work. Please let's keep the discussion together - your place or mine? ;-) — Sebastian (talk) 17:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please sign your posts

Hi there, I noticed that your edit to both WP:AIV and the user you reported were unsigned. Could you please remember to sign your posts on talk pages and project pages in future. Regards LittleOldMe 20:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] iTunes Images

If you look more closely at the article Microsoft Windows. You will see many 'icons' of various versions of the operating system throughout the article. For example the Windows Hybrid 16/32 and the Windows 16 bit OS sections both have icons for those versions. The [Microsoft_Windows#History|Windows History]] section also has the icon for Windows 2001. Note this is all the same article. I should also point out that Microsoft Windows is not a featured article.

In any case, the icons have been moved from the logo section to the history or version section which is more appropriate. The entire removal of the previous version icons in the reasoning of the 'contemporary' one is fine does not seem very encyclopedic. Mkdw^talk 10:29, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFD rationales

Please give much better rationales at AFD than "non-notable X". Please follow the advice in User:Uncle G/On notability#Giving_rationales_at_AFD. Uncle G 19:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Blocking

Most kind! If there's no argument, I'll move it to my honors page. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 19:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canyon live oak

This is of course the ultimate question one asks....what constitutes importance? Within project California there are over 10,000 articles and ultimately about 10 percent will be rated as High priority (about one or two percent will become top priority). Look at the other california articles rated high: Ahwahnee Hotel, Hoover Tower, Bishop Pine, etc. My own opinion is that canyon live oak easily merits the high designation as a tree of many uses and a tree that prehistorically had a dominant status in california, thus influencing evolution of many other species. this topic as all ratings are open to debate, but the "mid" category has some amazingly unimportant items like minor politicians, little known streams, etc. i stick by my assessment. let me know your thoughts. regards Anlace 23:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC).

[edit] IP Vandalism...

Looks like the vandalism is slow, so I guess it's not to big of a deal. ---J.S ^(T/C) 16:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Being an admin

Yes, you are allowed to say that. Anyway, keep up the good work and you may be an administrator yourself one day – Gurch 18:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sigma Chi

Yeah, I did get it from you. I was trying to figure out how to make them and ran across your profile via the sigma chi page. You should add it to the userbox list. In Hoc! Acidskater 21:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Do you know of a way to get the Sigma Chi page closed so that only actual Sigs can edit it? If so lets do it. I spoke to Eric Bolt from HQ and he said it was a good idea. In Hoc! Acidskater 16:34, 6 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] No more speedy deletion? How about 'plain' deletion then?

I think that britishinsurance.com is definitely something that should be deleted: it is only three sentences long. I know that length (or shortness) is not a thing alone for deletion; but I honestly think that the text of this article should just be moved into the Virgin Birth page due to the fact that it is the only page that links to britishinsurance.com. After looking at the criterea again, I'll agree that it should not have been 'speedy deletion,' but I'm going to put a 'regular 'deletion tag on there now. Scoutersig 22:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Great, that's what AfD is for as you know... now go get 'em dog. Reswobslc 23:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I find your accusion of spam very rude. As a Wikipedian of 4 years, I am hardly adding spam by this article. Astrotrain 00:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attack on Pearl Harbor umpires

Yes, umpires. War games and military exercises have umpires. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC) They would take measurements and decide what would have happened had real bombs fallen instead of practice bombs or sacks of paint or flour. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Isaac Asimov

Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion about WikiProject:California assessments

Hi there. You might be interested in the discussion about WikiProject California assessments taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Assessment#Importance scale. I noticed that you have discussed this in the past with User:Anlace. Mike Dillon 06:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities

A HA! I finally got you to follow my example and join the project. I was wondering when you were going to to join, you person addicted to wikipedia Samwisep86 22:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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