User talk:Improbcat
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[edit] Art cars
Hey thanks for helping out with the art car stuff. I'm amused that given your general record with spelling you corrected some of my spelling errors :)
Anyway, I was wondering if you had any pics of artcars from the east coast that you'd be willing to contribute. One criticism that (nameless) made that I think was valid is that most of the cars represented on the page are west coast. I mostly only have pictures of west coast cars at this point since I didn't even get my digicam until shortly before I moved here. Do you have anything from rhode rally or artscape? I think the article could use a good pics of a bunch of cars parked for a parade or show. I'd also like a good shot of a gluey - especially one of the ones with lots of really random seemingly unrelated stuff. And, ya know, any other pics you have that are of stuff not covered so far. Plymouths 19:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I just let the spell checker in Firefox do most of it, and found a few Capitalization errors and such. I put some links in your discussion page, I also have the pics from artscape '03 that I never got around to uploading. I'll sort through them for any particularly good ones and email you them or upload them.Improbcat 14:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Please sign your post at [Hutman Artcars AfD]. You make some interesting points and I'd hate for anyone to overlook your remarks because they're unsigned. Doczilla 18:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you listed a bunch of (unnamed)'s images for deletion. It seems like maybe one or two of them might actually be useable in the art cars article - magnet truck IS a reasonable example of the use of magnets. Or do you think that would just encourage him too much? Plymouths 18:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- I have no strong opinion either way. I marked them because they were all orphaned, same way I deleted the links he put in a few places to his article once it was deleted. I you are planning to use the images feel free to note it and I'll withdraw the deletion request.Improbcat 20:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dealing with Vandals
Hi there - good work on reverting vandal edits! As a quick (and standard) way of dealing with vandal edits you can post a series of warning messages to their talk pages automatically. The code to post is {{subst:test1}} ~~~~ and that will automatically create a warning. The warning scale is flexible, but can be summarised as test1 for curious test edits, possibly not vandalism just people testing whether they actually can edit pages. test2 if they keep going, test3 for a serious warning and finally test4 as a last "red hand" warning that if they vandalise again they will be blocked. Alternatively if we have someone who is very clearly a vandal then you can posts {{subst:bv}} ~~~~, which is the blatant vandal warning. An account can only (normally) be blocked if it's talk page has a couple of test warnings and a test4 or a bv warning on it - that way the admin who is checking whether the IP can be blocked knows that the person has been given a fair chance to stop and follow the rules - and mostly avoids people being put off wikipedia by being blocked for doing very little (and then not coming back and adding something good). I hope this has been some help to enable you to better deal with the vandal problems, Best Wishes, SFC9394 21:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tyler Dhein
Thanks for the assist...I don't claim to be the nicest person in the world, but I like to think I at least am civil enough to answer most legitimate questions. --Mhking 19:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding your edits to At The Throne of Judgment:
Your recent edit to At The Throne of Judgment (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses, phone numbers, YouTube, Geocities, Myspace, Facebook, blog, forum, or other such free-hosting website links to a page. Please note that such links are generally to be avoided. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II 18:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- By the way, although this bot is going screwy, I did remove the speedy tag from the article because it seems to assert notability as being signed by a notable record label. I also removed the myspace link and spammish language, though, and warned the author not to put it back in. If you still think the subject isn't notable, you can always submit it at WP:AFD. Kafziel Talk 18:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- No, I have no argument with your tag removal. At the time I speedied it I missed that they were signed and noted only the reference to and link to their myspace. Improbcat 18:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Error in vandalism reporting
Improbcat: When I visited Wikipedia today, I found a message regarding vandalism of the Miracle-Gro page. Here is what you wrote:
Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to the Miracle-gro page. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Improbcat 18:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
If you check the history, you'll find that a person at this IP address didn't vandalize the page, but rather removed the vandalism. My daughter (age 10) had been on the Miracle-Gro page to learn what chemicals are in it for a science project, noticed the "My NAME IS VICKY" text, and took the initiative to remove it herself, and told me about it that day. If you look at the history of that page, it will bear this out.
Just what vandalism are you suggesting we did to that page?
- This comment was posted by 70.118.67.236, and responded to on their talk page. Improbcat 20:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lewis Paul
I do not understand why you saw fit to add FOUR tags to my new article. This was a missing article identified in the Insutrial Revolution Template. While I was writing it, an Admin (not you) saw fit to delete where I had started it. The result was that I lost most of what I had initially written. He appears to have reinstated my article, enabling me to continue it, but in the meantime I lost what it had taken half an hour to an hour to write. I had to repeat this work. Perhaps I was less careful with my spelling than the first time (but is that surprising?) I am very prone to making typos and I expect that is all I had done. I was careful to cite all my sources (in Furhter Reading). It is possible that you added tags before I had finsihed, but I would ask you to reconsider the tags that you have added in the light of what I have put on the discussion page. I would also suggest that you beware of putting such tags on very new articles that may still be under construction. Peterkingiron 19:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- My above reaction was partly due to frustration at the loss of a lot of hard work to the Admin. I have not found a way of running a spell checker on Wiki (except by removing the text to Word (or such like). If there is a way of doing so, I will happily do this myslef as a matter of course. Perhaps I should have used the heading 'references' rather than 'further reading'. However, on one of my early articles, when I put 'sources' some one changed that to 'further reading'; perhaps that editor was mistaken. I am changing this now. Peterkingiron 20:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Andres Lopez redirect
Please take a moment to read the five pillars of wikipedia and about the redirect you did to the andres lopez article, please notice there is MOVE link on top of every page, its function is to transfer not only the article but the history of the article and the talk page. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or any wikipedian, you can also write your question along with {{help me}} on this talk page, save it and someone will assist you shortly.--((F3rn4nd0 ))(BLA BLA BLA) 17:42, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
yep, I noticed after posting your message, I apologize. That user created two articles. --((F3rn4nd0 ))(BLA BLA BLA) 17:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reality (Stephen Colbert)
Did you even read the article? Did you see that I took time and effort to make it factual, NPV and linked from Reality (disambiguation). I would really appreciate an explanation to this deletion. It was not grandiose, self-serving, or angled in any way. It was factual and relevant to a real issue the effects Wikipedia.
Please explain your actions to delete the article within 5 minutes of its posting and not even having the courtesy to email me regarding it.
I think you are being overly aggressive simply for the fact that it related to Stephen Colbert - which was not the focus of the article.
Did you read it? --Mespinola 02:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Respond to on the User_talk:Mespinola page Improbcat 03:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] They aren't nonsense!
If you would read the actual articles, you would see there is no mention of it being a nonsense word! Even if it was a nonsense word, so is the Jabberwocky Poem, are you going to take that way too? Stop being a fascist, its my page, I'll do what I want you hoe (tool). Leave me alone meanie. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AADDCC (talk • contribs) 01:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
- Responded on User talk:AADDCC. -Improbcat 01:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
