User talk:Akcarver

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[edit] A warm welcome from Bottesiηi

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Happy editing! — ßottesiηi Tell me what's up 21:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kaavya Viswanathan

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that when you ran the spellcheck on Kaavya Viswanathan, there were edits made between when you must have copied the latest version of the article to a spell-checking word processor, and when you pasted it back in. What happened was you inadvertently deleted those edits, because the version of the article you were spell-checking didn't have them in it yet. Thanks for catching those errors in the text, but just be careful next time that you don't accidently wipe out some changes. Dylan 22:50, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki full dates...

Good cleanup of the Apple Computer article. I just wanted to point out that you should Wiki full dates even if they have already been linked to previously in the article. Thanks. PaulC/T+ 20:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish-singer-stub

Hi, I noticed on recent changes that you created a new stub template, unfortunatly I can not see that you have proposed it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, as all new stub templates should be, usually before they are created. I'm guessing that you didn't know that, it's ok, as long as you do it now. It might be smart to make an estimate of how many articles that would use the template, 60 articles is usually the cut-off-point. Happy editing. --Eivindt@c 01:03, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't really know how many articles it might entail for this category. I can't imagine more than sixty.
That's too bad, I thought it would be around 50-70 at least, {{Singer-stub}} has only 14 Irish as far as I can tell. [1] --Eivindt@c 01:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I thought that the cutoff meant that if there were more than 60, it'd be disallowed. I could easily see upwards of that with diligent searching through the database.
Do'h! Actually my bad, should've been more clear. There's another problem, it should be renamed {{Ireland-singer-stub}}, so it's more in line with our other stubs. And remember to sign your posts with ~~~~, it makes it easier for everyone to see who made the comment. Good luck. --Eivindt@c 01:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tragically hip

HIP This user is tragically hip!




Something like this? --Eivindt@c 02:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. I have a different idea for the look of the box itself, but that's basically it. Now I want to create the User template so others may use it. What's involved in that? Alan 03:04, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

How do you want it to look? I just made a quick draft.
You just create a new template User:UBX/TTH and then copy and paste the box. And then list it in the list of userboxes. --Eivindt@c 03:13, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some odd edits you've made

Why have you continued to edit What is...Cliff Clavin? (Cheers), changing a quote that includes the phrase "I lost on Jeopardy" to link to the song, and you say you are fixing a ref. Wikilinks do not reference anything, and the quote has nothing to do with the song. What's up? Staxringold talkcontribs 01:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. References are external websites/books/articles/etc that prove a certain fact is true (Joe Shmoe was born MONTH DAY, YEAR with a reference to an article asserting that birthday). What you are doing is linking a phrase to a song with the same name. That is excess linking, and vandalism now that you have been told what it is. Please cease and desist. Staxringold talkcontribs 01:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Incorrect. At most and only if you can find a source to reference the statement it's maybe worth a mention in the trivia section. However, Cliff Clavin saying the phrase off-handedly does not warrant a direct link to a Weird Al song. He was not singing nor referring to the song. Stop, it is vandalism. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
You have been blocked from editing for violating Wikipedia policy against Continuing to vandalize in that link despite warnings. There was no connection between the song and a statement on Cheers other than four generic words referring to losing on a game show.. To contest this block, please reply here on your talk page by adding the text {{unblock}} along with the reason you believe the block is unjustified, or email the blocking administrator or any administrator from this list. Note to sysops: Unblocking yourself should almost never be done. If you disagree with the block, contact another administrator. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
A perfectly cool-headed response. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Just a note, it is a warnable offense to remove past warnings from your talk page. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't worry about it. I believe it's frowned upon as it can come off as trying to hide prior warnings from admins who are looking at your edit history down the road. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New templates

To start a new template, just start a new file, but with the prefix Template:, fx User:UBX/TTH. Or you could start a new file in your userspace fx User:Akcarver/TTH and then use {{User:Akcarver/TTH}} on your userpage, I would recommend the latter as some Wikipedians frown upon the usage of Template namespace for non-editing related issues, such as stating your favorite bands, opinions and similar, and might list it for deletion. Happy editing. --Eivindt@c 21:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

What the above said. Remember that in order for a Template to work and be hunky-dory it needs to be in the template namespace (Not "Joe" but "Template:Joe"). Example: Template:StargateTech, a template I wrote up (though has now been heavily modified). Staxringold talkcontribs 02:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Just for future reference, if you want to report a vandal I'd use Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism for quick responses. Staxringold talkcontribs 19:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, Stax.Alan 20:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pat MacDonald (musician)

I moved the page, but for future notice you can make such moves yourself. Up next to the history and edit tabs you should have a tab marked "Move" that lets you move pages to new titles. Staxringold talkcontribs 04:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Stax! There're so many features of Wikipedia, I can't keep up with them all!

[edit] Apostrophe Abuse

I undid your removal of apostrophes in template:User Apostrophe Abuse. They are supposed to be there to be funny. Reywas92 18:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: ASUE Infobox

No. Its unnecessary and overcluttered for an infobox.--CyberGhostface 20:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LDSInfobox

The religious leaders infoboxes reached concensus some time ago to leave the right border off - see discussion at Template talk:Infobox pope - and this concensus has survived several attempts to force the infobox class onto the template. --Trödel 03:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Although it is not exactly the same - the design elemnts are consistent with the rest of wikipedia. There are those that agree with you see Template talk:Infobox Pope#Uglybox. However, I would prefer we stay with the prior style which has been in use for quite some time. Thx for editing the template - I hadn't realized that the recent changes had made the template not work quite right. --Trödel 04:01, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV tag

I'd appreciate your thoughts here. --uriah923(talk) 22:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help

The Thomas Jacky Peters article seems to be a complete fabrication. I can't find any reference to this person or his supposed works anywhere but here. Who do I talk to about submitting this article for deletion as utter nonsense/possible original research/complete bollocks/whatever?

{{db-nonsense}} or you could open up an WP:AfD. Cbrown1023 21:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:FILMS Newsletter

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I'm flattered that you proposed the idea to me. However, please post it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films to get the communities view on this... Cbrown1023 03:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Golden Space Needle

Hi Akcarver, I just wanted you to know that lately the Seattle International Film Festival article included a full list of winners. Should we think of redirecting Golden Space Needle there or do you think it should be another article? Hoverfish 22:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I am also of your opinion. But we should discuss it also with User:Jmabel, who has compiled the table of winners lately. It would be good to find all winners in one page. Some big film awards have separate years in separate pages with year navigation, plus pages with each award (say, Best Director) for all years. For SIFF, I think we would end up with many little stub-like articles like this. One idea is if we break the over-compacted table in several tables under GSP award. Glad we're on the move one way or the other. As it is, only top-grossing films get all the attention. Hoverfish 06:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, Jmabel gave consent, provided it's easy to find. We should make sure links are given in SIFF in the proper section. I will do the changes later today. Hoverfish 07:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I misread your message yesterday and moved in a haste. I Now see GSP is not the right name for the other awards, so I will try to solve this right away. Hoverfish 13:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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