User talk:TantalumTelluride/Archive9

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[edit] My Signature

Last I checked, WP:SIG said "Images in signatures are discouraged" and that is the closest to violation I have. I believe I am in compliance with WP:SIG. Also, the Rfa was a mere encouragement to me to work harder, so maybe I can get the privelages some day. :) With WikiLove, ~Linuxerist A/C/E/P/S/T/Z 03:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I was not in realisation of that. I guess I will remove it to comply. I would have as soon as it happened, had I known. :\ Thanks for alerting me. ~Linuxerist A/C/E/P/S/T/Z 03:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Once BabelFish can do Esperanto, then I can. ;) ~Linuxerist A/C/E/P/S/T/Z This test will remain here until images are reallowed in signatures. 04:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My sig

No not at all they are chinese chracters, so I think you must be missing the proper rendering support. I can see them fine. ILovePlankton

[edit] Footer

Hey, thnx for the advice on the talk page footer. It took me awhile to get around to it, cause I thought it'd be a big pain in the @$$, but it wasn't at all. THNX again :) Joe I 02:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A haiku of thanks

Thanks for your support

In my RfA, which passed!

Wise I'll try to be.

I really honored that you wanted to nominate too (as seen by the severe repremanding of HighwayCello for doing it first ;) ). Your support means so much to me, and the gender-confusion provided me with quite a few laughs! Thanks again.

-- Natalya 03:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Welcome back (full-length version)

Thanks for the welcome back. Yeah, I really tried to give it away after a while, didn't I? ;-) A monobook first edit is getting more common believe it or not. I see at least one a day. Although, you don't see a name change in the Monobook everyday. Moe Epsilon --> DGX. I'm glad someone on Wikipedia believes I can still become an admin here because I am starting to loose faith myself. But no problem if I don't get it, there are more things that are important than the ability to block, protect and delete. Cheers, and thanks again! The King of Kings 06:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: cactions.js bugs

Have fixed the problems with ampersands/double quotes in page titles. Problem was with passing the page name as a parameter in the URL, ie. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strange_Titled_Article – the quotes don't work, and the ampersands introduce a new parameter. Fortunately, characters can of course be represented by %nn in URLs, nn being the ASCII hex code for the character.

Long and short of it is, it works now (!) but if you find any more problem characters, please let me know. Have also now added a link to Mathbot's edit summary tool in user options, per Hexagon1. Enjoy! haz (user talk) 07:22, 6 June 2006

About that e-mail I sent you. My e-mail is currently on the blink. You may not have received it or replied to it, but if you have, I haven't received it. Blasted spam filter... If you did reply, could you repost it on my talk page? Thanks. haz (user talk) 16:44, 7 June 2006

[edit] Evil!

Here is an 6/6/6, aka Evil Day, greeting for you friend. These type of messages promote WikiLove in an unknown way. Spread this evil love to others by making a derivative work of this... Or another evil something that is flowing about. The King of Kings 20:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taylor Swift

You're right, the place of birth on my Taylor Swift article was wrong - it was in fact Wyomissing, PA, not OLD Wyomissing, PA. I've edited to correct this. Thank you very much for spotting it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Db3811 (talk • contribs) 20:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Logging In

Yeah, that was me siging in the comments. I'll try to rememeber to sign in more often ;) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nog64 (talk • contribs) 20:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. --TantalumTelluride 20:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On June 12, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cowboy Copas, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] re:adminship

Sure, thanks. Herostratus 03:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cowboy Copas

Thanks for creating a nice entry for this almost-forgotten artist. Jim, K7JEB

[edit] My RfA

Hello, TantalumTelluride/Archive9, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Kukini 05:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hi TantalumTelluride/Archive9, thank you for voting in my RFA which failed eventually at a result of (91/51/8). I do not plan to run for adminship until a later date. Once again, I would like to thank you for voting. --Terence Ong _{(talk | contribs)} 14:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP Country Music

"Not my kind of country" - I joined up because you had dropped a banner on the talk page for Charlie Poole. You were thinking of Charlie Poole as a rustic version of the "country form" - I was thinking of him as a polished version. I am not really interested in modern forms of country music like Bluegrass, Nashville and Urban Cowboy sounds. Apart from the celebration of rural life and predominance of 4/4, there isn't much similarity between the music I am interested in (old-time Appalachian) and the forms under the "country music project" banner. Maybe someday I'll start a "traditional banjo" project.... Good luck with your endeavors - Juneappal 21:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'd like your take on this

Hey!

I've been 'bugged' by my hot button issue of the default skin hiding categories from the user for around two months, and this related thing punched the button pretty much dead center as the same point has been nagging at me as is made by the originator. Seems to me a VP listing ought be made on both, as it were, by at least a mention 'synopsis' with link, and the common debate on kept this page. This seems preferable, as both VP:Technical and VP:policy are certainly apropo venues for a link posting, and I think we've all seen some of the bad effects of the current trend. This point made by the originator is sparse, but on point and imho, important. By keeping the discussion there, it can be similarly referenced on other BB's (Meta for one), and there are a few others. I'm much too focused on wikiEditing to keep up with all the discussion forums, so where should it go, should it be given a seperate venue (Yet another 'proposed guideline'!), or what? In sum, seems to me the 'Internal links' section with such a category template would solve both problems with minimal edit dislocation.

My confidence is high that a structural problem in presentation is present under current standards (editorial guidelines), but my crystal ball shattered some years back <g>, so I can't measure it's severity there and it's hard to gauge it's exact magnitude using anything but inductive reasoning. Personally, I rarely visit the nether regions of a web-page, and admittedly tend to attribute that to other 'oldsters' as well. I guess the key question is: If one is reading casually, what reason have they, 'our customer-readers' for looking lower down past the references? Advice? Best regards! // FrankB 15:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Country-music collaboration

You supported Hank Williams, which has been selected as WikiProject Country Music's next Collaboration. Please help improve this article to featured-article standards. --TantalumTelluride 15:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Your User Name

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I had honestly not considered this possibility when I registered, and "Leebot" (and variations on it) is simply my typical online handle.

At the present time, I don't believe a name change is warranted, however. The first reason for this is simply that although there's an off-chance of initial confusion, it's obvious with very little work that I'm not a bot. The second reason is that I'd prefer to keep name continuity over different communities, so that people who know me can recognize me.

I will, however, put a brief note on my User Page about this, just in case. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DrLeebot (talk • contribs) 13:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject NASCAR proposed standards

WikiProject NASCAR needs your help! We are in the process of forming our proposed standards which, when complete, will hopefully become a Wikipedia guideline. The guidelines will help editors understand Wikipedia consensus about things like which NASCAR-related articles meet notability standards. Please stop by and let us know what you think! Recury 22:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DVD+R/W's RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which ended with the result of (74/0/0). If there is anything I can help with feel free to ask. Also, if there is anything I am doing wrong, please point that out as well. I look forward to working with you in the future. Highest regards, DVD+ R/W 02:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks!

Thanks for voting! Hello TantalumTelluride/Archive9, and thank you so much for voting in my recent RfA. I am pleased to inform you that it passed with a final tally of (119/1/3), into the WP:100, so I have now been cleared for adminship and will soon be soaring above the clouds. I was overjoyed, shocked, and humbled by the tally, and, most importantly, all the support. Thank you. If there is ever anything you need, you know where you can find me. Take care.

--Pilot|guy 22:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How about this one!

I thought I was on wiki-break. Hah! Thank God for friends and email! Lend some vote help please!

re: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_15#Fabartus_user_categories This is a bit of spiteful non-sense— at least on the admin cats, imho. Thanks. // FrankB 18:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: "Projects" (thanks for the NCH :-)

I really appreciate your comprehensive explanation of the relationship between diverse aspects of "projects" in the Wiki-realm. Along with ad lib editing and acquiring the tools to facilitate that, I do try to make progress in learning the fundamentals (and frankly have some difficultly reading the more technical explanations.) Hence my frequent appearances at the NCH page: not only my own queries, but also reading others. (That's the main reason I quickly stopped putting {{helpme}} tags on my talk page.)

Other than that, I've gathered only a first, vague impression of what goes on at the meta level. It's rather awesome! I do like the idea of "community" and hope as time goes on to become more of a presence in helping others. Meanwhile I'm just trying to be considerate and conscientious, even though I still find the communications channels a bit creaky (but that's partly my nature, and hopefully will become more natural in time, with practice :-)

I'm always glad to read your responses; they do help a great deal. Thanks so much! Deborahjay 23:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thank you!

I don't mind reading, but finding it all is tedious!

[edit] A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

For the welcome! Bufflo 11:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This and that

Hello TantalumTelluride : - ) I'm looking forward to working with you at the WikiProject Country Music. I'm glad that you nominated Herostratus for admin. I think I was more nervous during his RFA than my own. I think so highly of him that I would have been very disappointed if his RFA did not go through. As you said, all's well that ends well. Take care, FloNight ^talk 01:48, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi TantalumTelluride. Hey thanks for nominating me for admin. I figured if anyone did that it would be a bit of a ride, and that the nominator would be subject to possible embarassment as I can be a bit frank and contrary at times. However, I did make it, which is good. So thanks! Herostratus 07:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NewUser needs input

Newbie User_talk:Rdengrove#2 contacted me[1] about a large rewrite he did on Mephistopheles, and I plead 'ignorance', save for superficial passing familiarity. If you've got some knowledge in the area (or perhaps, instead on or about 'Faust'), or just want to be 'welcoming', see if you can lend a hand. Thanks! // FrankB 16:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)