User talk:Brian0918/Archive 09

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Contents 1 You're awesome 2 Godmode script 3 Thanks for your support 4 Thanks for voting on my RfA 5 Thanks for voting on my RfA 6 RFA 7 godmode-light.js works again 8 RfA 9 Time to call back the favour... 10 Generation Y 11 Thanks for your support 12 Func's RfA :) 13 BaronLarf's RFA 14 Sorry I'm new here 15 Unwelcome welcomes 16 Thanks for the Welcome 17 Thanks 18 GNAA 19 RossNixon 20 Blocked users 21 RFA 22 List of places in Alabama 23 Thank your for your support 24 Template:User 25 3RR violation 26 Unblock 27 Thanks 28 Thanks 29 Thanks 30 Thanks for the welcome...

[edit] You're awesome

I love your Bosh wikistress meter! It's hilarious and very clever! --Zantastik talk 22:30, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Godmode script

The godmode script adds a "rollback" button in two situations: a user's contribution page and the most recent diff of a page. Be warned however that the script is currently broken since the most recent database change (the rollback button always fails), and I still haven't found out what was wrong with it. Regards, Sam Hocevar 17:08, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support

Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". Cheers, --MarkSweep 02:10, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for voting on my RfA

Hi, Thanks for voting on my RfA. Having been elected, I hope to justify your faith in me. Thanks again. --Ragib 05:46, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for voting on my RfA

Hi, Thanks for voting on my RfA. Having been elected, I hope to justify your faith in me. Thanks again. --Ragib 05:47, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

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

[edit] godmode-light.js works again

Hi! I found out what was causing godmode-light to fail. It was malformed HTML in the edit pages, and is now fixed. Regards. Sam Hocevar 14:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Thank you for leaving your opinion at my RfA. I will do my best to serve the Wikipedia community as an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Time to call back the favour...

Hi Brian, I didn't really want to bother all the people I ask to visit my semi FPC page to find out if these images are good enough to be FPC's Image:Cat03.jpg and Image:Cat02.jpg so I thought I'd ask you first for a quick opinion

• I like the colors on Cat03 a little more, but I think Cat02 is more in focus. I would suggest rotating them clockwise so that the black edge is vertical, and then cropping it accordingly. You may also be able to use the heal brush or clone stamp to get rid of the red thing in the background, although that would be more difficult on Cat02. People at FPC don't seem to be able to get past distractions in the background. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-9 14:44

[edit] Generation Y

The Generation Y article and title are offensive. As a millenial you should do something about it. -The Masked Millenial

[edit] Thanks for your support

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 07:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Func's RfA :)

Brian0918, thank you for supporting my RfA, much appreciated! :)

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

Func( t, c, e,  ) 00:59, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I will have you know that I am very carefully personalizing each and evry thank you. For instance...well, you know, your name is Brian0918. I could have just said User: thank you.... ;-) Thanks again. :) Func( t, c, e,  ) 02:23, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BaronLarf's RFA

Brian — Thanks for your support on my recent RFA. Please let me know if I can help with any particular administrative responsibilities, or if you have any problems with the way I use the admin tools. Oh, and nice signature; I almost blocked ya instead of thanking you. ;^) Cheers. --BaronLarf 12:33, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry I'm new here

Hdn't realised it was a breach of etiquette (I suppose you'll come and spank me now?) - but thanks for the compliment Taxwoman 16:13, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unwelcome welcomes

Um, sorry.... Complain here if you want. :) Sango123 20:58, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the Welcome

I appreciate it :) By the way, are you allowed to use smilies or lol(s) on this place, lol?

J.W. Hasan, 03:04, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for supporting my nomination. AlistairMcMillan 09:32, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GNAA

please see Talk:GNAA#Summary_of_my_remarks_to_Brian0918.

[edit] RossNixon

Ross Nixon (who I see you have history with) - his comments on the creationism talk page were just too much :) →Raul654 00:23, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked users

Hi, I think you should unblock the people you blocked for editing on the GNAA page. One of them clearly deserved to be blocked for the personal attacks, but not an undefinite block. The others you seem to have blocked for so-called vandalism on the article, while they were just promoting a different version of the article (that I happen to support, and hence would not have called most of the edits vandalism). The accusations of vandalism were definitely exaggerated, especially since you were also taking place in the edit war and no one else was supporting your views. Therefore I suggest you unblock all these people, and ask a third party to block them instead, so that they can have a fresh view at the issue. Regards, Sam Hocevar 14:07, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I didn’t know about the threatening email from User:pigger. But this user has been on IRC for a while and he admitted on several occasions on #wikipedia that his last comment was inappropriate, that he thought he deserved to be blocked, but not forever. I know he is a GNAA member and most of them have been a pain in the ass for ages, but I have often been a mediator between these people and the Wikipedians, and my personal feeling is that the ones with registered accounts who do real contributions (and judging from his latest contributions he seems to be one of them) have been acting very nicely. He apparently does not want to contribute anonymously or under another account (and this argument from you is strange: if you have no doubt he’ll register another account, why the block at all?), and was just following the advice he was given on #wikipedia (which is, ask to be unblocked and settle the edit war issue that is happening on the GNAA article through an RfC). Therefore I think he should be unblocked so that he can defend himself, and you should post the email threat somewhere so that the community can decide whether he should be blocked or not (through an RfC on him for instance). Cheers, Sam Hocevar 16:59, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

You're joking, right? No, I won't accept. --SPUI (talk) 01:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of places in Alabama

Geepers, that thing is a monster at 500k. Maybe it should be split up alphabetically? SchmuckyTheCat 22:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank your for your support

I'd like to thank you for your support on my recent RfA. Your confidence in me is greatly appreceated, and I will do my very best to ensure that it was not misplaced. -Loren 01:05, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User

The new addition is fine for people who want to use this in the future (with underscore conversion) but perhaps it would be nicer to implement this in Template:User2 so that pages like Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress/Willy_on_Wheels#Accounts (which works fine with spaces EXCEPT for the new addition) don't require an overhaul. This would make everyone happy, in my opinion. Adam^Rock 18:58, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Adam^Rock 19:04, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR violation

I have blocked you for 24 hours for a violation of the three revert rule on the article GNAA. Please try to resolve the dispute through other means when your block expires. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 18:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

• Actually, as is plainly visible to anyone who looks at the article's history, I only reverted 3 times. The fourth edit was an attempt to organize the articles according to the talk page. It was obviously not a reversion. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-19 18:47
  • Your fourth revert [1] re-inserted your preferred version with *Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at the top. The edit history of this page shows a ludicrous amount of reverting going on. The next time this happens, I think it would be better to simply post a request for protection on Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection rather than engaging in revert warring, because this is highly disruptive, and unproductive. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 19:04, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
    • It was NOT a revert, though. You may want to read WP:3RR. I rearranged the articles according to notability, and changed "alphabetical order" to "in order of notability". I can forgive you for being new to adminship, but keeping this up is ridiculous. The article was already previously protected, but then unprotected while discussion was going on on the talk page, causing the revert war to start up again. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-19 19:07
      • Again, your fourth revert [2] did not merely resort the disambiguation options, but re-inserted the version you desired. I don't see much point in going around in circles over this, so this will be my last reply. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 19:19, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
        • Yes, but it was not a revert. Reversion means taking a previous version and reimplementing it as the current version. This version (from the fourth edit) never existed previously, so you can't claim it was a reversion. This is why I told you to read WP:3RR. It's alright to admit you're wrong once in a while. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-19 19:20

[edit] Unblock

I have unblocked Brian0918. He was not warned about his 3RR violation (if such it be) before being blocked. Please read blocking policy, David | Talk 19:33, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

On further investigation, Brian0918 did not violate the 3RR. He reverted twice (at 14:40 [3] and 16:52 [4]) and then made a different edit at 17:55 [5]. Even if the 17:55 edit was regarded as a revert (which it is plainly not), then that would be the third revert and not the fourth. This block was wrongly applied. David | Talk 19:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hello Brian, thank you very much for introducing me to the English Wiki. I use the german Wikipedia for about half a year and I think I know very much about it, but everytime I have a new look around in the world of wiki, I make new experiences, I think I do not know more than half of the whole system, but I try to learn :) -I mainly work @ the english wiki for links to the german one (robot- I think it's called like this:).. I also hope I can spend some time expanding the English encyclopedia, so lets write :) --Sandro1988 20:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for sending me the articles!

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for sending me the articles! Thelb4 20:49, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome...

But I am confused. Your page indicates you on a WikiBreak. Does this not mean you are not to contribute while on a break?

Also, for what reason did you welcome me? Was it based on seeing I have contributed modifications recently? If so, did you see any, and finally if so, can you please provide feedback on any contributions?

Thanks, David Henderson 21:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)