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[edit] Bah!

I just noticed your edits on Puni Puni Poemi.... I was planning to try and have a big go at the page at some point. Looks like someone beat me to it!!!! :( - Xgkkp 21:08, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

  • feel free to work on it some more - the page is by no means perfect now. - Grm wnr 13:19, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I know, I wasn't being serious :)... - Xgkkp 16:44, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Halo work

Would you be willing to join me in my crusade to fix up and organize Wikipedia's content on Halo? It would be greatly appreciated. LockeShocke 01:53, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

  • I'm willing, but I can't promise that I will have time for it in the next two weeks. Also, I'm not very familiar with the subject and it IS a daunting task... Sounds like Wikipedia. Count me in 8) --Grm wnr 23:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Thanks, see my user page and the link to my /Halo section. It's a rough start for a to-do list. LockeShocke 03:43, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Your signature...

...is really annoying. Every time I edit something with your sig on it I'm presented with

<span style="font-family:monospace"> [[User:Grm_wnr|grm]]_[[User_talk:Grm_wnr|wnr]]</span> <span style="border:1px solid black;font-size:x-small"><span style="background-color:white">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:yellow">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:cyan">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:limegreen">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:magenta">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:red">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:blue">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:black">&nbsp;</span></span>

And all this to get a freaking colored bar?! Here's a PNG, free of charge: Image:ColoredBar.png. Sorry, it's not as clever. :-) I find it amusing that this image is smaller than the HTML that encoded its rendering on my platform. JRM 11:06, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I went a bit overboard with that as well... I'm changing it anyway. --grm_wnr Esc 11:08, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Hey, nice work on stub sorting - David Gerard 01:03, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Thanks! Still a lot to do, however. And don't get me started on substubs... --grm_wnr Esc 09:08, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Enigma

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for helping me manage the catagories about their albums! =) I'm still relatively new to using catagories... --Andylkl (talk) 08:07, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Music stubs

I'd be willing to help with music stub sorting. Where should I start? One easy thing would be to start putting all the record labels and/or instruments into your new categories; would that be the most useful? --Wahoofive 21:51, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! That would probably the most useful thing to do at the moment, since I've shelved my idea of genre music stubs for now. We can tackle that later. I'd suggest you start at the end of the alphabet, because I'm working from the beginning right now. Oh, and it would be nice if you could list yourself on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting page. -- grm_wnr Esc 21:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've done letters Y and Z (and Ü), including three VFD nominations. Not sure what to do with Ysaÿe Quartet (a classical string quartet). Hate to call them a band; is that what you've been doing? --Wahoofive 23:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'd use {{band-stub}}, since the stub message says This article on a band or other musical ensemble is a stub. By the way, I'm nearly done with A and B (I got a bit held up because I had to tweak the Categories) -- grm_wnr Esc 00:03, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Finished W and X. Not sure what to do with Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, a cantata by Bach. Hardly qualifies as a song, and there's no place to put classical compositions. Also, I'm new to this stub-sorting thing; do you find you do lots of other things during the process of sorting, like VFD, {{cleanup}}, redirects, and the like? --Wahoofive 23:06, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm leaving classical compositions largely in {{music-stub}} for now, unless they are really songs. And I do other tagging if it's really obvious, but probably not as thoroughly as I should. I relatively often drop a {{wikify}} or a {{copyvio}} though, and remove stub notices altogether if the article clearly is not a stub, but I tend to leave them in if the article isn't in any categories. And I never, ever use {{substub}}. I redirect when I know of a duplication, but I don't actively search for dupes. Basically, with big projects like this, I sacrifice complete tagging for speed. -- grm_wnr Esc 23:16, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm the one who commented out Opera-stubs, since it was questioned on the Stub-sorting-criteria page. (Also, since at first it wasn't appearing as a subcategory of music-stubs, I though maybe it had been deleted.) Since it seems there's no problem with it, it's fine that you uncommented it again. I should have done it myself. I've even been putting things in that category. Sorry. —Wahoofive | Talk 03:49, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think I should have checked the page history before wondering aloud. Your edit summary is perfectly clear on this one, so I should be the one to say sorry. But really, we both shouldn't ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 03:54, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NATO: teh b0rken

Hi Grammy, I managed to pull in all the templates on Ranks and insignia of NATO by substing them all while enclosing the substs in HTML comment markers (apparently this works fine). This rendered right away, so it is the table syntax, not the templates, that are causing problems. Right now everything is commented out. silsor 02:15, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

That's cool. Did you ever test if normal HTML tables are less stressful on the servers? I think I'm going to try this out sometime soon. -- grm_wnr Esc 09:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Yes, HTML tables should render very quickly. I think there are some inefficiencies with the wiki table syntax parser. silsor 20:14, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Teleprompter

Hey Grammy, I just happened on your teleprompter image. Nice work, but I think the mirror in your illustration is generally called a 'one way' mirror. (Think of all those TV cops standing behind the one-way glass listening to confessions.:)Bookandcoffee 04:53, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Actually, in all prompters I've seen, that would be referred to as a "glass pane" ;). Much cheaper, and it works quite well (that's why the shroud is important). It's a holdover from the illustration I've replaced, and I think I'll change that as sooon as I find the time. -- grm_wnr Esc 08:17, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding M-II/Panasonic MII

Hello Grammy, I got your messages you sent me regarding my and your articles regarding M-II and Panasonic MII, and I was thinking the exact same thing, to just merge my article with yours and give it a different name, like you suggested, and changing the aforementioned article names to redirects. Is this alright if I go ahead with this?

About the photos in my M-II article, I'll go ahead and take them down for now (with the exception of the MII logo, which I'll tag with a {{logo}}). I'll also temporarily take offline as well some photos i've used in my other articles, to prevent any copyright fracas, or deletion marking. I'll contact the original holders of the photos via e-mail to see if they're OK with myself using them in an article.

Pardon my amateurishness about the use of the photos, I thought that a "courtesy" credit would suffice. Goes to show you how much I know about copyright stipulations :P. I'm also kinda new at the whole Wikipedia thing. I've contributed and added to quite a few articles, not to brag, but I've been a member here for a little under three months, and I'm still learning new things about Wiki as I go along, especially copyright stipulations :).

But anyways, thanks for the feedback! misternuvistor 23:37, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MII correction...

I went ahead and merged the two MII articles, it's now officially under MII (videocassette format). I went and updated all other links pointing to the old articles (now redirects) to point to the new merged article, just to neaten up things.

Oh, and thanks for taking care of the {{logo}} tag for the MII logo image, I never thought of putting it on the page for the image itself. Once again, something new I've learned... :) :).

Thanks again. misternuvistor 03:36, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Grm wnr. Hedley 19:00, 11 Jun 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 ® 23:19, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations! II

Congratulations on becoming an admin! Not many people would be better qualified for the job, as I see it. Cheers! --Sn0wflake 00:35, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! Kelly Martin 17:47, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
Ditto Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Congrats. You've done great stub-sorting work - much of it administrative already. If tyou do the same sort of work as an admin in general, you'll be a fine administrator. Grutness...wha? 01:31, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations 3

Good getting such a good consensus. I didn't think it would be that big, but now you've got it, use it wisely :p Hedley 20:31, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs 4 Sydney Wikiproject

Yeah, I deleted the category, but I'm not entirely sure why... go ahead and recreate it! I won't oppose this move: actually, it's probably a good move. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tables on Euroway

Hi, thanks for fixing the timetables on Euroway, you are more 1337 at formatting wikicode than I am. bbx 1 July 2005 20:28 (UTC)

Looking at the subtables, you're not quite un-1337 at tables yourself :) Anyway, no problem at all. -- grm_wnr Esc 1 July 2005 20:33 (UTC)

[edit] "Merge" template voting

I've set up two separate votes on the "merge" templates' discussion page. One pertains to the templates' wording, and the other pertains to the templates' visual design. Users may vote on neither, either or both of these issues.

Please note that I've posted this invitation on the talk pages of everyone who has expressed a preference for either wording and/or visual design. —Lifeisunfair 3 July 2005 19:48 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Cool, thanks for doing that OmegaWikipedia 8 July 2005 12:41 (UTC)

Oh wow, I didn't realize you had restubbed all the stubs too. Great work. It's really appreciated OmegaWikipedia2 8 July 2005 17:42 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the talk page cleanup

Thanks for de-vandalizing my talk page! Don't know how long it will last, but it's nice and clean for now. :-) FreplySpang (talk) 21:43, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Drum and bass cleanup

Hi there, thanks for adding your name to the list. I'm planning on starting an actual Wikiproject quite soon (probably next week) to clean up the drum and bass articles, if only for a place to make a comprehensive list of all the ones that need doing and suggestions (formatting, discography sources) on how to improve existing ones.

As you can tell from the small list on my page, there are a number of major figures/labels who have very small articles, and some don't have one at all. Once I start the project, I'm going to try and recruit as many people as possible. I'll drop you a line when I start the project, as I'd like to gather as many suggestions as possible. I'm also hoping to make a little logo and a template, but I don't know enough about the wiki software to do that yet. Thanks! illWill 00:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] The Sandbox

The sandbox must be deleted. potatoeman57

[edit] ir-3?

Shouldn't that be ir-0? ir-3 would be someone with an advanced understanding of irony. ...or you could resort to punishment and say that you have an advanced understanding of ironing. BlankVerse ∅ 03:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Album-stubs

Back in April you removed a stub from Just Another Band From L.A. saying that they were to be removed from album with complete infoboxes. Do you know where that is in stub-sorty project? If you could link me that'd be great. gren グレン 14:56, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I always used text as my basis... but, not sure what I'll do, but I'll take that into account. In any case, less text should be needed for album stubs than for most if it has track list / box. gren グレン 15:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Willy with 100% more wheels

How did you find this "sleeper sock"? Is there some sort of Special:Newusers-type page now? ~~ N (t/c) 14:39, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Willy (now with 10% more wheels!) (talk • contribs)

Now blocked. If it's an innocent user, he has the worst luck in choosing user names EVER. But I'm curious, how did you find that one? He doesnÄt seem to have made any contributions yet. -- grm_wnr Esc 14:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Went through the user list, and by manually editing the offset in the address bar, found my way to the users that began with Willy, somewhere around 388,000 users in. Then looked at the ones there, mostly focusing on the ones without user pages or discussion pages. (Red links) Checked contribution lists for those, again looking for empty pages. This was the only one in that range that was so obviously a WoW puppet, and had not already been used, and had no notice in User or Talk about a preemptive block, as some others did. I'm not sure how to actually check the block status of a user. Not being an admin, I may not even have that power, which is why I worded my comment how I did.
If I could search the user list for "*Willy*" I suspect I could find others, but for now this method is only good for catching obvious ones that start with "Willy", "Willie", or similar. TexasAndroid 14:48, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Finding WoW sleepers

And so the great hunt for WoW sleeper socks is on. I assume you're using Kbdank71's browser search strategy to find the ones you're blocking. Happy hunting. This may, in the short term, make a major dent in the ability of the WoW clones to assault Wikipedia. In the long term, though, it's just gonna make them use less obvious names. But any calm in the storm is welcome. (Please reply here. I have it bookmarked. :) ) TexasAndroid 16:52, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I guess it's only giving us a bit of breathing space. In the long run, I'm very much hoping for a technical solution. And I'm quite sure that he has quite a few names up his sleeve that we don't find. But since he's stepping up the frequency of his attack lately, this might be very worthwhile for the time being. -- grm_wnr Esc 16:56, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A Barnstar for You

I hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your heroic efforts in repairing and repelling the Willy on Wheels vandal — Bratschetalk 5 pillars (KC)
I hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your heroic efforts in repairing and repelling the Willy on Wheels vandal — Bratschetalk 5 pillars (KC)

[edit] Fag bomb

Thanks; I'd been looking ages for someone who might know the specifics, etc. of the bomb itself. Shem(talk) 00:53, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for cleaning the vandalism on my user page! :) GinaDana 21:33, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect for Image: namespace EXIF information

I don't understand. Good redirects and all, but what does the edit summary mean? :) mholland 23:16, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. mholland 23:28, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sony Mavica copyvio

Oh, thanks for catching that. My "wikify" routine usually consists of googling a portion of the article I'm working on, and that paragraph sure seemed copyvio-ish. Luck of the cursor, you might say. :) Your boldness does seems like a better result than deleting the entire article, though. By the way, how does one only delete certain revisions of an article? Just curious: I might have to do that some day. Cheers, Bratschetalk | Esperanza 02:49, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Prompter image

sorry for my german post, but on your commons user page is a sign, that you can speak german, so i just post my question here again, because you have not replied yet to it. if you want me i will translate it, but until then, here it is

Moin, ich habe deine Neuzeichnung des Teleprompterbildes Image:Tpschematic2nocaptions.png gesehen, welches ich sehr gut finde vor Allem wegen den Platzhaltern anstelle der Schrift, und nun würde ich gerne wissen, ob du das "Männchen" im Bild auch selber gemalt hast. Ich selber kann wenig mit Bildbearbeitungssoftware umgehen und noch weniger kann ich Menschen malen. deswegen wollte ich wissen, ob du dafür eine Vorlage hattest, oder ob du das auch selber gemalt hattest.
Für mich geht es darum, dass wir auf de:Benutzer Diskussion:Andreas -horn- Hornig/Bildwerkstatt für einige Artikel aus dem Bereich Fernsehtechnik Bilder erstellen und ich auch gerne etwas für den Artikel Sehfeld und Betrachtungsabstand machen würde. Und da möchte ich gerne auch so eine tolle schemenhafte Figur einbauen, wie bei dir, nur kann ich die nicht selber erstellen. Ich würde mich also freuen, dich dort zu sehen und mir/uns dort zu helfen.

Grüße, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 19:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

hi Grm, i will come back to your offer. but we should decide where to work. either on my germen user site, or here on [[User:Andreas -horn- Hornig/Think Tank]9 in english, but we should not mix several languages. this posting was just an exception, bevcause i was to lazy to translate an existing post. but i would like to work with you (where ever and in what ever of both languages). as you can see, there are a lot of missing pics we could do :D. greets, Andreas

[edit] For all those null edits...

For fixing the Image: categories with endless null edits, I award you this Workingman's Barnstar. Kelly Martin 19:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
For fixing the Image: categories with endless null edits, I award you this Workingman's Barnstar. Kelly Martin 19:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

For all those tedious edits that you did (or made something else do).... Sorry, there just isn't a Null Barnstar, and I'm not up to making a blank image just now.... Kelly Martin 19:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] U-Bahn

So I've done a lot of clean up of your translation. Thank you for it! Can I ask you to also help translate the seperate U-Bahn linie articles? The current versions in English are pathetic. I'm going to keep cleaning it up in the image of the currently featured in English MTR article. What do you think so far? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:57, 19 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Firefox extension

Would you happen to know how to make a firefox extension using Javascript? It would be very simple and used to fight vandalism. The basic idea is to feed RC diff's into firefox, and let it determine which pages contain text (such as an obscenity) listed in a file. For pages that don't contain anything on this list, the tab is closed. The others remain open and ready to be examined. If you can't figure out how to hookup the IRC RC output into firefox, then it could be used with WP:CDVF to open new tabs in firefox to be checked. I found a guide to making extensions, but it says you need to know Javascript. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 03:51


[edit] Late Night Tales

I've spent a fair while on all those Late Night Tales albums, and as a relatively new user I'd not thought about making a category for 'em. Now I see it - makes total sense. I may move on to do the DJ-Kicks albums if I can muster the energy, so if you fancy making a cat for those too... Good job, from one Gram to another. Gram 21:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I tried to add categories - Category:Aim albums and Category:Grand Central Records albums. I'm not sure what I've done exactly, but they don't seem to work. The former should contain the following: Cold Water Music Hinterland (album) Stars on 33 (Aim album) Means of Production Fabric Live 17

And the latter should contain these: Cold Water Music Hinterland (album) Means of Production The Main Event (album) Superhero Music And The Big Red Nebula Band Take My Drum To England Useless Wooden Toys Rae Road Into The Depths Northern Sulphuric Soul Sleepwalking (album) Nocturnal Activity

Maybe you could assist me, either by explaining where I've gone awry, or by creating these categories correctly for me? Cheers. Gram 00:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

I'm glad at least someone is awake =) Thanks for correcting all my stupid errors on Apple Macintosh, and for your contributions to the article. Let's get this article to FAS! TDS (talk • contribs) 15:03, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank you very much for supporting my rather contentious request for adminship, but now that I've been promoted, I'd like to do a little dance here *DANCES*. If you have any specific issues/problems with me, please feel free to state them on my talk page so that I can work to prevent them in the future, and thanks once again!  ALKIVAR™ 07:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] And you thought the Apple Macintosh TOC was long...

Xbox 360 - that is a monster of a TOC. TDS (talk • contribs) 17:01, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apple Macintosh Featured Article Candidate

Seems like we still have a long way to go in terms of copy editing =X At least the feed back is good. TDS (talk • contribs) 00:21, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Great copyediting - sorry I was not around to respond to much of the feedback on the FAC nom. I'm taking a minor wikibreak. Good work =) TDS (talk • contribs) 02:40, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GraemeL's RFA

Hi Grm wnr,

I am now an administrator and would like to thank you for your support on my RfA. This message is really for you and not the result of a tab completion mixup. I was very surprised at the number of votes and amount of and kind comments that I gathered. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I mess up in the use of my new powers. --GraemeL (talk) 15:08, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apple Macintosh

Well done with your work towards this article, it looks a lot lot better now. Keep it up, I hope it becomes featured and ends up on the Main Page soon. — Wackymacs 16:26, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image protection for the MainPage

Hey, grm_wnr, there's no need to apologise. It's better to be safe than sorry. ... Good job with Merkel's pic. Those people at ITN keep forgetting. We all have to keep an eye on the image there. ... Happy editing. :-) -- PFHLai 06:18, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Citation issues

You may be interested in reference/citation content/format issues in Talk:Global cooling#Citation format poll (see preceding discussion) and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/SEWilco#Response. (SEWilco 06:09, 30 November 2005 (UTC))

[edit] WikiProject Macintosh

I have started a WikiProject that aims to improve all Apple Macintosh related articles to featured article standard. The project is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Macintosh, I hope you are interested in becoming a participant in the project to improve hundreds of articles in a group of valuable Wikipedians. Thanks! — Wackymacs 12:00, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Stub Category

Hello; I was wondering why you used "µ" to signify stub articles in this template. I'm assuming that it was to keep the stub section seperate so that they're more easily identifiable, but I was hoping to get a more concrete answer from you, and to find if there was a reason that you chose that symbol in paticular. Thanks so much, Blackcap (talk) 01:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

O.K., never mind, someone showed me the discussion that took place over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Very unhappy with over promotion of stub-categories. Thanks anyhow, Blackcap (talk) 06:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Grammy:

First off, the username "Grm wnr" makes me think of "Grim Weiner," which amuses me insanely.

Secondly, thanks for nominating me for RFA.

Thirdly, thanks for being a source of useful procedural information on how this here Wiki thing works.

Looking forward to making Wiki a better place, and bugging you a lot for information on how to do so.

All the best.
→ Ξxtreme Unction {yakłblah} 12:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:MacModels

I have no idea how you made this or how to change it, but it's a component in Apple Mac, which we've been trying to get to FA (be sure to vote here). I'd like you to revisit the aforementioned template and improve it. For instance, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh can be abbreviated TAM for short, not 20th anniv. M., which is longer than the bar representing its production time. So if you could change this and just tweak the template, we'd all appreciate it. HereToHelp (talk) 15:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Back in action

Hey there! Sorry I was away for so long. I was very busy in the past few weeks. See you around the Wiki, and on IRC. TDS (talk • contribs) 13:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion re: merging Jungle music and Drum and bass

please join the discussion regarding merging these two articles. We need as many voices as possible. Themindset 11:21, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

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