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Contents

[edit] Deadend sorting

Hi there! You expressed some concern about my miscategorization of dead end pages. While that is indeed true, I feel obliged to point out that the mistakes you've seen are my 'earlier' work. While I was doing that, some people from WP:WSS pointed me to the list of stub templates, and I've made far less mistakes since I've studied that. Before that it was rather easy to get confused between the plethora of tags. Yours, Radiant_* 15:15, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] button spider

Hi,

I saw your change. "Black widow" equates to "Latrodectus mactans", and I don't think mactans is what they have in southern Africa. Do you know what the species actually is?

I'll have to check things out. It is pretty pointless to call the article "black widow spiders" if we are talking about all the different kinds of "widow spiders" -- all of which seems to be about equally dangerous and otherwise about the same too. P0M 00:51, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] EB2004

I just happened to notice this: Cork Tree (Phellodendron according to EB) is not the same as Cork Oak (Quercus Suber). I'll break the link. Unfortunately some of us say "always look at the EB2004 entry to doublecheck" and others say "never look at the EB2004 entry to guard against unintentional plagiarism"... David Brooks 23:41, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Humanbot update 08 June 2005

Version two-two released today includes in that green box a nice count of how many articles are left. This more or less co-incides with the event of hitting only 1000 articles remaining. Also, I have re-arranged the User:Humanbot page to make it easier to get to the right stuff. Progress charts, wikicookies, wikilove and a more thorough spelling check is promised when this is completed. (and also when the exam pressure eases off a little on me) r3m0t talk 17:40, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC) Note: If you think this message was too trivial for a mailing, tell me and I'll stick to more important announcements on the list.

[edit] Thank you for your support

Thank you for your support of my candidacy for adminship. Kelly Martin 15:26, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:17, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Humanbot update 13 June 2005

The spelling2 project (to work on secondary namespaces) was opened and finished. Progress charts will be available soon.

Version six-three tracks who made the edits, and rankings are available. Much of the work was done while I was asleep, explaining my low place ;).

The next project, which may even be released today, will probably fix incorrectly capitalised headings, particularly "See Also" and "External Links".

The mailing list has grown to 24 people and while that is very nice for my ego, it is rather difficult to send out updates. This is why I did not send out a notice that the spelling2 project had opened. From now on, then, you must watch User:Humanbot/announce for updates. r3m0t talk 12:04, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jack of Diamonds

Sorry, what mistake are you talking about? The page didn't exist until I created it. Gdr 12:57, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)

I still don't understand what you're trying to tell me. Why was I wrong to create the page? Gdr 13:01, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)

Let me check this with you: you believe I was wrong to redirect from a topic to an article covering that topic when there were other possible meanings for that topic? If you're right, then how can anyone make any redirects at all?

I note that you yourself made a redirect today from Jacques Grevin to an article on the 16th century author, despite the existence of a television producer with the same name. Was your redirect a mistake too? Gdr 13:27, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support

Hi! thank you for your support for my admin candidacy. I have now been promoted—I hope that you will always feel that I am a responsible administrator. JeremyA 05:17, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nuttall pages

Can you please not remove the sections on the pages because they really help when doing pruning work so you don't get lost (and they can possibly help for seeing if you want to create an article). If sections have like 2 or 3 in them you can combine them but please don't just remove them. Thanks gren 12:44, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Okay, either way... I'll prune pages that have sections (I do it manually) and you can do the others or something. gren 13:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:32, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Sorry about that. Though it should disambiguate at least a little bit ;) Dysprosia 09:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BYT RFA

please see my reply on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BrandonYusufToropov, thanks. dab (ᛏ) 08:50, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA vote

Thank you for supporting my nomination, Bluemoose. I agree that my edit count is a tad low - I was not planning on a potential self-nom until I reached around the 2,000-3,000-edit mark. However, I felt that accepting a good-faith nomination from another user would be proper. --FCYTravis 23:33, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfA for Sn0wflake

Thank you very much for your support and compliment, Bluemoose. I will make my best to be a fair and well-pondered admin. --Sn0wflake 18:39, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Missing articles template

I'm a little confused why you removed mention of the music encyclopedia articles. The project page is quite clear: The main goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia available. It would seem that the topics from an encyclopedia of music would be on topic. Gmaxwell 16:51, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ah I just noticed you didn't completely remove it but rather moved it to not from encyclopedias. This is inaccurate. The list of topics I posted are from an encyclopedia of music. I see how you could misunderstand this, so I'll go fix it. Gmaxwell 16:59, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Perfect competition diagram

Hi, thanks a lot for agreeing to do this. If you have a degree in economics you probably know a lot more about it than me, but I basically wanted a simple diagram with the horizontal demand curve, and the marginal cost and average cost spinning off that, in equilibrium. I found a similar diagram at http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/dc/farming/theory/th12.htm . I'm not sure if it's necessary to show how the price changes if the firm is making abnormal profit, or whether it's best to keep it simple. Thanks, Inebriatedonkey 28 June 2005 08:18 (UTC)

-Perfect! Thanks a lot Inebriatedonkey 28 June 2005 09:05 (UTC)

I see that you are removing all the computer viruses. Please make sure to make each virus a redirect to the List of computer viruses and to list it there, as we have been doing. Danny 29 June 2005 09:55 (UTC)

Ah, much more clever than my old technique of adding them one by one. Great. You will likely find that there are some lists in which the computer viruses haven't been separated yet and placed on the bottom. Danny 29 June 2005 10:19 (UTC)

[edit] "new EB04 stub. This ones for you pete!"

Thanks! Much appreciated! Pcb21| Pete 30 June 2005 16:40 (UTC)

[edit] EB04

Is there any particular reason that you removed a couple of my annotations on Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics/27? Bluap 1 July 2005 10:35 (UTC)

In particular, for Ulick de Burgh, Marquess and 5th Earl of Clanricarde and Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl Of, Viscount Knebworth of Knebworth, 3rd Baron Lytton of Knebworth Lytton Bluap 1 July 2005 11:38 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

Thanks, Bluemoose, for your support of my RfA. I appreciate the vote of confidence, and I'll try not to let you down! --Spangineer (háblame) July 4, 2005 03:54 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi Bluemoose, I just wanted to say thanks for you support of my RfA :-) Craigy (talk) July 5, 2005 20:31 (UTC)

[edit] Your vote on Talrias' RFA

Hi Bluemoose, thanks for taking time to vote on my RfA. I'm grateful for you voicing your reason to oppose - I do indeed see your point and whether or not I become an admin at the end of it, I will be contributing to more articles, more often. Talrias (t | e | c) 7 July 2005 16:58 (UTC)


[edit] U

Thanks for the note. You are right I did make that link, and as I was writing the target article, I started getting problems connecting to Wikipedia. They appear to be resolved now, so will carry on building the target. Thanks again for your vigilance, Pcb21| Pete 9 July 2005 09:56 (UTC)

[edit] Catholic

Just an idea I was tossing around. I removed it. --DanielCD 03:10, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure exactly how they did the others, but I'm going to look at it today and see what I can come up with. If it's too tedious, I may ask User:Danny if he knows how they did the others. --DanielCD 13:20, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 14:30, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

The mop is mine!
The mop is mine!

Thanks for voting in my RfA; I promise I'll wield my sacred mop with care. If you ever need me for anything, you know where to find me. Thanks again! -- Essjay · Talk 15:25, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for supporting me

Hello, just a quick note to express my gratitude for your support of my RfA. I'm sure I'll become a familiar face on places like the Administrator's Noticeboard and Requests for Adminship, as well as the murkier parts of my new job. "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." (Luke 12:48, NIV) Never was a truer word spoken. I feel empowered, yes, but not in the "oooh cool delete button!" way I was kind of expecting. Already I feel the weight of the responsibility I have now been entrusted with, a weight that will no doubt reduce given time. Thank you for believing in me. :) GarrettTalk 10:35, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1911 and 2004

There is also 1911x2004xNuttall, which is way shorter, and I already did the easy ones ;-) --Magnus Manske 17:25, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

There is now User:Magnus Manske/1911xNuttall - enjoy :-) --Magnus Manske 09:01, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting blue links (but hopefully not bluemooses)

Hi! The way I got around it was to first create the page in WP, then cut and paste the list from the article into Microsoft Word. From there:

  1. Hit ctrl-h to find and replace
  2. Click on "More"
  3. Click on "Special" and select "Any character"
  4. Click on Format->Font->Font color and select blue (WP blue links are standard Word blue)
  5. Leave "Replace with" blank, hit "Replace all", and it'll just strip out any text in blue.

The only problem, of course, is that by cutting and pasting from the article page rather than the edit page, you lose all wiki formatting, so try to do as much as you can in one go rather than having to do too many rounds of this. --OpenToppedBus - My Talk 16:16, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Encarta list

Great! Another step in becoming the worlds most complete encyclopedia. For "switching" the names, I vaguely remember writing a tiny script, which I could do again; or a regular expression might do it, in some advanced text editor. I could send you the script, or you could send me the list. I don't have a script for removing blue links, though. I could write one, or you could ask someone from the EB lists, they seem to have scripts/bots for this. Or you could use the tip right above this message; as there will be no wiki markup to speak of, that should be no problem.

Hey, more combination lists! EB1911xEB2004xME2004; EB1911xEB2004xME2004xNuttall; OK, the last one would probably be blank ;-) --Magnus Manske 20:57, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

For switching from Smith, David to David Smith, I used a query in Microsoft Access. It was slightly fiddly, and there's probably an easier way in Excel, but Access is what I know best. I've foolishly now deleted the database, but I can probably redo it, so if you don't come up with another solution, paste the whole lot up on a user page and I'll see what I can do with it. OpenToppedBus - My Talk 08:43, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
No problem; the real b***h will be to manually purge the existing titles... --Magnus Manske 09:24, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject game theory?

Hi there non-blue-non-moose. Treborbassett suggested that you might be someone interested in a wikiproject on game theory. I'm sending out feelers to see if we have the suggested 5-10 people interested. Would you be interested? Do you know any others that might be as well? --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 09:39, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Blue - good suggestion about wikiproject economics. The problem for me is that I know almost nothing (read: absolutely nothing) about economics outside of game theory. I really wouldn't feel terribly confident organizing things outside of game theory. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 22:55, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
I would be happy to work with you on a wikiproject economics. The things that I think game theory would benefit from are (1) some standarization. If you look at my entries on particular games I have tried to have some standarization (like always having a equilibrium analysis section), but there are other standardization problems. For instance, the notation is not consistent, especially the appearance of matrices. And (2) we are missing basically all of the standard equilibrium refinements. I have a short list on my userpage, but I'm sure there are more. Finally, (3) we don't have much on experimental results, with the recent exception of Wragge's work. I thought a wikiproject might encourage attention and provide a centeralized location for standarization. Hopefully it might also get some others to help contribute. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 23:25, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
Blue - Sweet, I hardly expected it to come together so fast. Anyway, I'll be wiki-ing tomorrow afternoon in US Pacific time. I'll gladly help out with specific tasks if you like. Chat with you more once its underway. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 08:50, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, the wikiportal probably would duplicate much work that a wikiproject economics would do. I have given some thought to this as well, one benefit of doing a wikiproject on game theory alone would be to get some other disciplines involved. I am a philosopher working on game theory and there is also game theory work in political science, computer science, math, and biology. Maybe it would be worth me poking around some more and seeing if I can drum up more interest. What do you think? --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 21:40, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

I've posted some notes on talk pages to see if folks are interested. For the time being would you mind taking a look at this page: User:Kzollman/Matrix? Feel free to add comments and other options if you can think of them. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 06:40, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA! Thunderbrand 15:06, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stripping blues

OK, blues stripped from Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry. Let me know when you want me to do Maths. By the way, it's pretty obvious, But I thought I should just check that you've spotted the truncations, like Blomstrand-Jörgensen Theo... on the chemistry list. OpenToppedBus - My Talk 09:22, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

First two maths lists stripped. Word keeps crashing when I try the third, but I'll persevere - might not be today, though. OpenToppedBus - My Talk 14:25, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:00, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Missing science topics/Maths

Ok, I finished fixing all the ellipses in that one at least. Please apply your LOWER method to that one too. Then we can relatively easily go back and fix the ones in the second column that were supposed to be proper names. I'm not sure exactly how you do the lower thing, so if you want to tell me, I can eventually do others. Thanks - Taxman Talk 06:14, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Not sure what's happening with Page 3 - every time I try to copy and paste it into Word to strip out the blue links, it's crashing Word (and sometimes Internet Explorer as well). I'll keep trying but you may end up having to do that one manually (unless you can find anyone else who can do it). OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 08:46, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
OK, all done. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 11:11, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weisstein biographies

Hi Bluemoose. I've just been having a look at the Weisstein biographies indexes. If ever you have the time to pull all of them into one place, I'm prepared to take on the task of stripping out dates and turning them round from surname, firstname, so that they become useable WP lists. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:55, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Done, and more easily than I expected. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 16:40, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging

I'm referring the issue to the village pump (technical) Superm401 | Talk 19:14, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

Thanks for your support. --Briangotts (talk) 23:49, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support

The mop is mine!
The mop is mine!

Thank you for voting to support my RFA. I've been promoted, and I promise to wield the mop with good faith, patience, and fairness... except when I'm exterminating vandals with the M-16 recoilless nuclear Gatling mop. --malathion talk 07:45, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Func's RfA :)

Bluemoose, much appreciation for your vote on my RfA! :)

Please never hesitate to let me know if you have concerns with any administrative action I may make.

Func( t, c, e,  ) 18:32, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edward P. L. Tsang

You deleted Edward P. L. Tsang but not its talk page, where there is some discusion of the notability of the subject. I thought this was marginal under CSD A7 (fails to assert notability) but I didn't feel strongly enough to remove the tag, nor to put it on VfU. But you might want to take another look at it in connection with the talk page, and then either undelete it, or delete the talk page. DES (talk) 22:33, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for supporting my nomination. AlistairMcMillan 09:23, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You're not blue?!

"I am neither blue nor a moose" WHAT! false advertising >:-O Wikipedia really needs more mooses... Redwolf24 01:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nuttall Letter L

Damn you're good! Martin - The non-blue non-moose 10:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Thanks, I spend quite a lot of time on Wikipedia, and find that making the missing Nuttall articles is very easy and quick to do. I'm quite proud of getting letter L done. :P — Wackymacs 11:07, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Admin

Hi there. Thank you for your kind comments. I would certainly be interested. I need to read up a bit and see being an admin entails. I have been working hard on the 1911 stuff because I figured it would be best to knock that out first since it's easiest and so eliminate the crossovers from it. But yes, I am interested. --DanielCD 12:58, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

I would accept your nominatin for adminship. As the article says, it's not really a big deal, and the new abilities might make some things easier. Let me know what the process is and feel free to get the ball rolling. --DanielCD 21:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link spam

I saw your warning on the talk page of 24.4.17.22 (talk · contribs · block log) and I thought you might want to know that he has been at it again. Rl 05:42, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr

Hoi Martin,

I've added the Perl script which creates the lists to the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr.

I've thrown away the database dumps of de.wikipedia and fr.wikipedia after running the scripts, as they were simply too large to keep on my hard drive, so I can't quickly count the number of articles without English wikilink. I think there will be a huge number; and many of them will be of local interest to Germany or France only. (Which does not mean we don't need an article on en.wikipedia, of course.)

I'm now downloading the dump of the Dutch wikipedia. It's not as useful to have a list of missing articles from that wikipedia, as there are not nearly as many editors who can translate the Dutch articles. Besides, many of those articles will already be in either the de or the fr list. But at least I will count the number of missing articles. Eugene van der Pijll 15:47, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Number of languages Number of articles Articles
20 1 nl:Volkslied
17 1 nl:Metanet
15 1 nl:GNU/Linux
13 3 nl:Paganisme nl:Thermische geleidbaarheid nl:753 v. Chr.
12 1 nl:Paolo Maldini
10 5 nl:Columbia Broadcasting System nl:Final Fantasy nl:Kubus ...
9 8 nl:Bosnische taal nl:Hydraulica nl:Maple ...
8 7 nl:Dag van Europa nl:Diesellocomotief nl:Nynorsk ...
7 13 nl:American Broadcasting Company nl:Espírito Santo nl:Magnoliidae ...
6 28 nl:Bokmål nl:Egelskop nl:Enduro ...
5 75 nl:ADR (Transport over land) nl:Abdij van Cluny nl:Alpenwatersalamander ...
4 230 nl:Aapjesorchis nl:Aardmuis nl:Abas (koning van Argos) ...
3 826 nl:AZF-ramp nl:Aak (schip) nl:Aangebrande orchis ...
2 4656 nl:'s-Gravenzande nl:2 Brothers on the 4th Floor nl:A.F.Th. van der Heijden ...
1 31495 nl:$1 nl:'Eua nl:'Round Midnight ...
Total 37350

[edit] Fernando Rizo's RfA

Martin, I want to thank you for supporting my RfA earlier this week. I've been promoted, and I promise to do my best with the new responsibility. Thanks again. Fernando Rizo T/C 17:07, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Martin: Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I received many votes from editors that I encounter frequently, which is re-assuring, but I am honoured that you and others that I don't know through Wikipedia saw fit to support the nomination. The admin powers will enable me to patrol for vandals more effectively, amongst other things. I promise to use my new powers for good, and not to inflict the retribution on my enemies that they so richly deserve, as tempting as that may be. Congratulations on your own promotion. ;-) Thanks again, Kevin. Ground Zero 13:04, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Me too, thanks for your show of support at my request for adminship! By the way, even though I have 2000 pages on my watchlist, most of them are just those city articles stubs I made, so realistically only 20 or so pages pop up on my watch list per day. :p Coffee 08:38, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] White Snakeroot

I saw your question on Gdr's talk page about snakeroot. Species classification keeps evolving, so when quoting a species name, it is usually necessary to quote the authority who made that classification. "Ageratina altissima (L.) King & H.E. Robins [=Eupatorium rugosum Houtt.]" means that the species is 'Ageratina altissima' according to King & Robins, but 'Eupartorium rugosum' according to Houtt. The genus page Snakeroot says that the Eurpatorium genus was split into two, with Ageratina being created as the new genus. I guess that this means that we should stick with Ageratina altissima as the species name. Bluap 14:53, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Why do you remove links to museum?

Why do you do this? These museum's show material of the kind which the article mentions. That's why I put them there!

They are to a German language website, that also appears to have very little content. Do not add them again. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 18:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Yes they are German Websites - but they lead to the best museum in this field and they get lots of visitors from all over the world - if you are interested in these topics the are very intersting - guide tours are available in German, English, French and even Japanese if requested. I am a frequent guest so I know them quite well
Yes, I am sure it is great, but this is an encyclopedia, not a directory of museums. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 18:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
The are a great source of knowlegde and on there web site there is a lot of information about the topics where I placed them
But it is in german, hence useless on an english language site, plus it looks too much like advertising anyway. You could always write an article about the museum! (if it doesnt already exist) that would be welcome i am sure. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 18:52, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
I disagree and I request assistance - a museum if a valuable source of information and supports the idea of an encyclopedia - if you want to see and touch the stuff the article is about.


[edit] Source of Encarta Article List?

Martin, can you clarify how the list of Encarta articles was intitially generated, and from what source (online? CD?). Do you have a relationship with Encarta?

[edit] Columbia Encyclopedia

Has there been any thought for generating the Columbia Encyclopedia lists again? About a month ago I was going to start doing that very thing until I read Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles#Copyright.3F. I reread it this afternoon and some of the article talk and the impression was, with implied consent of continued work on the Britannica lists, as well as generation of the Encarta list that Columbia could be created and worked on. Would you support me if I created this list? Reflex Reaction 20:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Game theory again

Hey Blue -

I have started Wikipedia:WikiProject Game theory. I have 5 to 6 people interested plus two or three folks that may join once it gets started up. I need to do a bunch of stuff, like advertising and such, will I will do over the next few days. Hope to see you there, and thanks for your help! --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 23:42, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CSD proposal

Good idea. But... please cancel the vote for now and allow it to have some more discussion. Also, please advertise it on WP:RFC and in the village pump to get input. And also, clearly state something like "vote shall run for one week and 70% support is required to pass". The proposal as it stands now will likely be voted down because it hasn't been properly discussed (even if it has been discussed at that talk page, as I know, that is not a highly visible area), and likely because it is too long and complex as written (KISS principle), and likely because you haven't cited any examples. Good idea, but requires some work. Good luck! Radiant_>|< 17:56, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Business and Economics

Hi there! I have started a Business and Economics wikiproject. I hope you can participate in it. Its still very rudimentary, since there are only 2 participants, but if more people can join in, we can get some activity going on. Regards. pamri 16:37, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cactus pictures

Hi, when you upload commons images like Image:Echinocactus grusonii.jpg where there is already an existing image, please don't overwrite it - give your image a unique name instead. Not only does it have the effect of silently erasing somebody else's work, but it can be very confusing, because the image description page becomes wrong (the image summary doesn't get put on the page), plus you don't know whether the captions of the image's uses make specific reference to characteristics of the previous image (whether the cactus is single or multiple trunks, etc). I've re-uploaded your image to Image:Echinocactus grusonii kew.jpg. Stan 13:24, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Aha, I didn't think about software being responsible! Seems like a bug, one could inadvertantly overwrite a whole lot of images. Stan 16:42, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
It occurs to me that the software would be safe to use if you appended a unique string to each image name, such as "(bluemoose)". Some image uploaders, like aka and arpingstone, do this habitually - I've often thought I ought to take up the practice too. Some nice plant pics you've uploaded BTW! Stan 20:36, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Smileys TFD

As discussed somewhere in that long and complicated vote, the smileys are taken from a GAIM extension pack with a free license. Dragons flight 17:03, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for supporting my RFA and for your kind comment. Rl 12:55, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

Hi Martin, thanks for the message. Basically, yes, it's you (or any other admin who works through the copyvios) who makes the call once the seven day period is up (although we're a little behind that at the moment -- I'm just working through the August 19th copyvios). Essentially for each listed violation load up the article history and check it against the listed source to see if it's been copied. If it hasn't, or the source is already GFDL, revert the page to the pre-copyvio version with an appropriate note. If it has been copied, do the following:

  • Check to see if there is a claim of permission on the talk page. If so, follow it up by email to a contact address from the source website (see Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission for instructions and some boilerplate text). If they don't reply within 7 days (I keep User:Ngb/Possible copyright violations under investigation to keep track of permission requests I'm waiting to hear on) then delete the page. If you get a reply denying permission, then delete the page. If you get a reply confirming permission, follow the instructions on Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission (forward it to the Foundation, make a note on the article's talk page) and revert the article to the pre-copyvio version with an appropriate note.
  • Check the history before you delete an article. Sometimes the whole history is contaminated by the copyvio (often there's only one edit before the notice was added) in which case the page can just be deleted. In other cases (there may be clean revisions before the copyvio was introduced, or the copyvio may only affect one section), delete the page and then restore the untainted revisions using the undelete function.
  • Check before you delete to see if the article has been rewritten at /Temp (linked to from the copyvio notice). If so, once you've deleted the copyvio move the clean version from /Temp.

Once you've processed a copyvio (either deleted it or removed the notice) remove it from WP:CP. For things I am working on on an ongoing basis I try to make a practice of annotating the entries on WP:CP with notes as to what I'm doing. Not everyone does this but I think it is helpful so that we don't get lots of us trying to simultaneously solve the same problem.

I've managed to make this more complicated than it really is. Essentially the best plan is to just start working through the list: if you come across something you're not sure about or that you don't know how to deal with just leave it and someone else will pick it up: gradually you'll get more confident about dealing with these things. (I did in just a few days.) Even if you just want to work through and delete the obvious copyvios with only one edit, that will help the rest of us massively.

Thanks for your help!

--Ngb ?!? 15:34, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I do keep on meaning to do that, actually (and to set it out in a simpler way than I managed here). I'll get round to it at some point. :) --Ngb ?!? 16:05, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Ok, I've gone ahead and written Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins. Any additions? --Ngb ?!? 16:36, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Korean military ranks

you made Korean military ranks, then blanked it, was this an accident? I have reverted it now before it got speedy deleted. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 15:17, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I also noticed that Korean military ranks is a cut and paste move on Comparative military ranks of Korea (which I was heavily involoved in writing). Please sue the "Move Page" feature instead of cutting and pasting into new articles as this disrupts the edit history. -Husnock 16:34, 3 September 2005 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dainamo"

Thank you and sorry. I blanked this as I realised I was, in fact, making a mistake and wished the original article and title to remain the same. Dainamo 07:55, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Thanks for your confidence - I appreciate it. I suspect my level of contributions may have to tail off quite soon, so we'll see how it's going in a few months. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 08:35, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Notification for speedy copyvios

I have proposed a template and an addition to teh proposal wording at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/Patent copyvio material#Notifying the submittor. Please take a look and let me know your views. DES (talk) 15:35, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the thnaks

I quite enjoy being a "policeman". I like it better though when I find a article that I can add to. CambridgeBayWeather 10:46, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks but I think it's better to wait a while. I've only been here since June and I think it's probably a bit quick. I've looked at others that had only been in a while with under 2000 edits and ....! CambridgeBayWeather 02:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi there. Thanks for the ITHAWO support on my RfA; I was shocked to receive so much support. Please do keep an eye on me and my logs as I learn my way around the new buttons. Thanks again. -Splash 14:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moves and deleting redirects

In cases like normal good and inferior good where there had only been one edit and that was a redirect to the old article title, you do not need to delete the redirect before a move. See Moving_over_a_redirect.--Henrygb 22:47, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Hi, thanks for voting for me in my RFA. I was really touched at how many people voted for me! --Angr/tɔk tə mi 22:50, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Thanks for your support on my RfA...I'll try to be good Lectonar 10:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank you very kindly for your support for my nomination. I promise your trust will not be misplaced; I may occasionally be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0(scribble) 21:54, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Android79's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA. android79 22:20, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

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