User talk:Jay32183

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Hello, Jay32183, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Reyk YO! 20:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The thing with the Xiaolin Showdown list of episodes is not working. You can have the pictues but we need to have it in the same format as before with the shen gong wu and listing the xiaolin showdowns Herb-Sewell13:36, 30 June 2006

May be so, but suppose we don't have enough pictues, and now we'll have to write a shortened synopsis for every episode. Herb-Sewell13:55, 30 June 2006

Dude, all I'm saying is that the new format is really hard to people who are trying to improve the articles of the episodesHerb-Sewell 00:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Color scheme?

I can see that you changed the value for "color scheme" but I cannot see any difference at List of Xiaolin Showdown episodes. Should it look different somehow? Ryulong 00:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I guess my problem is that I'm using Internet Explorer, then. Is there any way to alter the code so it's useful for IE users? Ryulong 00:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hay jaw

I saw you using my AWB settings, however you deleted a "for" here. I'm not sure exactly what you're doing but if you need help pelase contact me. --mboverload@ 01:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup in aisle Xiaolin Showdown

King bryan (talk • contribs) has been inserting a lot of useless and horrible grammatically structured information into many articles. Clean-up may be necessary. Ryūlóng 08:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for helping orphan the stack of Kimiko screenshots from the Xiaolin Showdown episode entries. Dr Zak 14:49, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use images in lists

Hello, I see you have contributed your thoughts to Wikipedia talk:Fair use/Fair use images in lists. It's been dead for a while, but I have archived it and taken a new fresh start. I hope this time we will be able to achieve something as I have summarized the main points of both sides (feel free to improve them) and I call you to express your support or oppose on the concrete proposal that I have formulated. Thanks, Renata 02:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Super Mario 64

I'm glad you're trying to improve the article. As much as I would love to make over the article of one of the greatest games ever made, I've got my hands full with another one. :) But I'd still like to help you out, so here is the section "THE MAKING OF MARIO" from Steven L. Kent's book, The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World (2001). Here is an Amazon link detailing the book so that you can cite it properly. I don't believe Amazon mentions the location of publication, but it is New York. Without further ado, here is the text, taken from pages 529 and 530:

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda, Yoshi, and Star Fox, entered the video game industry with a unique philosophy that was always reflected in his games. "When you draw a laughing face, your face should laugh," he once explained in an interview. "When you draw an angry face, your face should be angry. The character will capture your emotion. The emotions and fun in a game are not made while thinking about business."

By the time Nintendo launched Nintendo 64 (N64), Miyamoto had been creating games for nearly twenty years. He had witnessed and aided the evolution of the business, software, and technology of video gaming. His first game, Donkey Kong, was created by a five-man team and contained approximately 20K of code. Now, as he made the flagship game for N64, his team had swollen to more than fifty members. Instead of 20K, he and his team would write 8 megabytes of code - more than 400 times more code than in Donkey Kong. Instead of designing levels that fit on a single screen, they created enormous 3D landscapes complete with trees, castles, and dinosaurs. Adapting to this new challenge, Miyamoto created a new philosophy. While most game designers were coming up with features, then building their games around them, Miyamoto worked on creating expressive landscapes, then created ways to use them.

"One thing that was different with Super Mario 64 was [that] we wanted to make some snow mountain, a really big one. That came first, and afterward we asked [each other] for the ideas about how to make use of this mountain.

It was as if we were building up an amusement park. We first found our location. We purchased the mountain, and afterward, we thought of some interesting things we wanted to implement on the mountain." - Shigeru Miyamoto

Super Mario 64, Miyamoto's lead game for N64, did a better job of bringing a two-dimensional side-scrolling game into the world of 3D than any game before it. To accomplish this, Miyamoto's team used all of the old characters and objects made popular in early Mario games, then incorporated new devices that could only occur in a 3D environment. The big end battles, for instance, pitted Mario against a much larger foe on a huge 3D platform. The only way for Mario to win was to circle around the enemy.

Building from Miyamoto's amusement park analogy, Super Mario 64 included huge slides and other kinds of activities that bought true variety to the game. Everybody at Nintendo recognized the game as a masterpiece; the only problem was that Miyamoto was taking too long to build it. According to Hiroshi Imanishi, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi's right-hand man, the release of N64 was delayed until Miyamoto was satisfied with Super Mario 64. The delay would have been even longer, but Yamauchi finally told Miyamoto that the game was good enough.

If you have access to academic databases such as LexisNexis, Academic Search Premier, or Proquest (search for old New York Times articles), I would highly recommend those. If not, I can always try to add in stuff later. Good luck! --Tristam 06:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Consensus gathering at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)

Hello. Thank you for offering your opinion and "vote" to Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#Episode Article Naming conventions! We notice that there may have been confusing in collecting the opinions of yourselves and others. Thus, we would appreciate it if you took the time to voting again at the poll. Please choose "#Support" or "#Oppose" for the first option. Additionally, you may also make a completely separate vote for which disambiguation title with be used.

For example, you may vote to support the first policy and then support the convention that articles have the disambiguation suffix "(<series> episode)" appended to their name. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 21:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sopranos LOE

I will start the expansion of the episode summaries tomorrow, because in my time zone it's getting late. I think that one paragraph of 5 sentences per epiosde should do the trick. Once I do, you can copyedit them as you see fit. —Cliff smith 05:30, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Karkonosze/Giant Mountains/Krkonoše

Just in case you're interested, there's a new Karkonosze → Giant Mountains or Krkonoše vote here. Cheers! +Hexagon1 (t) 07:08, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Help please

People keep inserting fanon on the "Kimiko Tohomiko" and "Raimundo Pedrosa" articles...and frankly, I'm getting sick of it. The statements went from fan speculations to being considered as actual facts, and the same users keep posting it, it's ridiculous. Is there a function to at least prevent non-registered users from making edits? Gah, some help would greatly be appreciated :(

[edit] Tainted poll?

Hi. Sorry to bother you. You participated in a television episode article naming poll which now lives at this location. Some feel that wording changes have compromised the results of that poll. If you don't mind, could you please take a look at what is there now and add a quick note at WT:TV-NC#Looking for anyone who objects to the last poll to say whether your feelings on the matter remain the same? Of course you can feel free to read over the entirety of both links for more information. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Jack Spicer

No, you went about it the right way. I did it wrong. I've put things back and put a {{db-move}} speedy deletion tag on Jack Spicer so Jack Spicer (poet) can be moved back there. Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

A pearl among administrators - Can't sleep, clown will eat me (talk • contribs) - has fixed things up. Magic ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation request

A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television), and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 03:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Naming convention

Well it's not specific enough just putting "Lost" or "Futurama" in parentheses when some pages have "episode" as well. --SilvaStorm

[edit] Peer review?

Hi, I just want to ask if you'd like to do a peer review of the Luigi article at Wikipedia:Peer review/Luigi. —The Great Llamamoo? 01:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civility

A sentence such as "Suggesting a poll is spitting in the face of everyone who has participated in the discussion and is the most disruptive and uncivil behavior that one can engage in at this point." is not particularly helpful. [1]Could I suggest that mundane editorial disagreements are most likely to resolve quickly and productively when editors observe the following:

  • Remain polite per WP:Civility.
  • Solicit feedback and ask questions.
  • Keep the discussion focused. Concentrate on a small set of related matters and resolve them to the satisfaction of all parties.
  • Focus on the subject rather than on the personalities of the editors.

Thanks! --Elonka 01:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon World

Please see Talk:Dragon World dispute for your vote on whether we should keep the Human (Dragon World) article or have it merged into Dragon World. Thanks! Power level (Dragon Ball) 15:51, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Mediation

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[edit] Where's that diff???!!!

Hi. You made this comment earlier re: the old Star Trek naming convention. Where is the original discussion that explained all that? I need the diff for my RFAR statement! Thanks.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 19:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi Jay! Thanks for helping in my PR. I'll add a "Development" section to Rise of Nations as you said when I begin to attempt to feature it. | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 20:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paulins Kill Featured Article Candidacy

I thank you for your comments and suggestions on how to improve the Paulins Kill article in order to make it worthy of being named a Featured Article.

So far, I think all the issues have been addressed with the sole exception of the listy Flora and fauna section. Now there are two ideas on how to tackle that, and there are possibly others. If you could weigh in on what the preferrable method to tackle this in the next day or two, I'll be able to fix it before Christmas. Also, in addition, if you could take a second look at the article and its candidacy and examine whether the edits made in response to the FAC page comments address your concerns adequeately, I'd be much obliged. —ExplorerCDT 01:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] A Series of Unfortunate Events

Project Logo Hello, Jay32183 and thank you for your contributions on articles related to A Series of Unfortunate Events. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject A Series of Unfortunate Events, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of A Series of Unfortunate Events and related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Clamster5 02:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Okay, finished a season

Hey, as per your request of informing you, I have just finished Season 4 of the x-files articles.. I think I'm getting the hang of this :P .. Anyway, I should have Seasons 5 and 6 done in about 24 hours :P .. --Illyria05-- 07:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, um, I've figured out how to edit the template, so Season 5 will have everything correct, as will when I do future seasons... --Illyria05-- 17:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paulins Kill FAC

You commented on that featured article candidacy for the article Paulins Kill 4 weeks ago. It is still a candidate. Your concerns have been addressed, will you please read through the article and offer your support? —ExplorerCDT 20:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Even if you can't support, could you add a little note as to whether you think your concerns have been adequately addressed or not. —ExplorerCDT 21:49, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paulins Kill now a Featured Article

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[edit] AfD Nomination: Omi (Xiaolin Showdown)

I've nominated the article Omi (Xiaolin Showdown) for deletion under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Omi (Xiaolin Showdown) satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. I have explained why in the nomination space (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Omi (Xiaolin Showdown). Don't forget to add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of each of your comments to sign them. You are free to edit the content of Omi (Xiaolin Showdown) during the discussion, but please do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top). Doing so will not end the discussion. If there are articles in publications independent of the show's producers and which are verifiable and reliable (not blogs or fansites or mirrors of the Wikipedia article), please add them to the article as inline references. Regards. Edison 16:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Birds of Paradise (Xiaolin Showdown)

Ok...no problem. Sorry about that!--Salvax T - C--21:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Episode List vandal

Hey Jay, I hate to be the whistle blower, but that anonymous user who keeps ading season four has done it again. I checked out his talk page and found that he's already received his last warning. I think it's unfortunately time to block him. Seabiscuit_1982 16:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of My Family episodes

Following your comments I have enlarged the text, I'm sure you will agree that this is now big enough, although it can be made bigger if needed. Otherwise I don't see what is wrong with this table now; if you feel that who wrote each episodes is necessary (I don't think it personally), this could be added to the existing table. You say a reformatting has been requested, by whom and can I see their reasons for this? On another point, when you originally changed the series one table, you also changed the capitalisation of the episodes titles. The capitalisation before was the correct capitalisation according to the episodes themselves and it would be appreciated if in future you could check this before changing it? Thank you. --Berks105 11:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Firstly, while you have showed me when the request was made I see no reason given. It worries me that the Wikiproject is trying to install an episode guide format without first having got support from outside the Wikiproject group. Secondly, you say the show takes artistic licence with the titles. That is immaterial, the fact is the episode titles that appear on the show itself are the official ones, grammatically right or not. Quoting from TV.com is like quoting from IMDb, neither are reliable, the actual episodes are reliable as this were we get the titles from in the first place, we can't change them just because they aren't grammatically correct. The summaries I enlarged to 100%, not 90% as you say, and if you want them larger still I can do that. --Berks105 10:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Firstly, with regards to the text size. As I have said I think its big enough, and I cannot work out to enlarge it so only the summaries are the same size as the titles. I still argue with the "correct capitalisation"; you are being very arrogant here. The fact is we get the episode titles from the episodes, therefore by the same token we have to use the capitalisation they use. If we don't we might as well just change the episode titles if we don't like them! I remain unhappy with the 'standard format' as I believe it does not suit all episode lists. --Berks105 10:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In-line citations

I've userfied Omi's article. You can use it to work on refs.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 00:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AIV

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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of X-Men 1992 TV Series episodes

This list could do with some more independent opinions. Is your position a support or object? Colin°Talk 12:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, just noticed your support. Colin°Talk 12:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Dad's Army episodes

Two questions - are the fan/unofficial sites I have in references ok? The other is can references be solely made up of book page numbers (with ISBN's etc?) - from one of the existing book references. Thanks, RHB Talk - Edits 13:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

And can teh mini synopses have spoilers in? RHB Talk - Edits 13:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Dad's Army episodes

I've done some heavy editing. Would you consider taking another look and reconsidering your vote? Thanks for your input, RHB Talk - Edits 01:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Its been removed from the FLC page, but apparently not yet failed - as in template on the flc page? Should I relist it now that all editors concerns have been met? Thanks, RHB Talk - Edits 21:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Category:Candidates for speedy deletion

I've reverted your removal of the nogallery tag at CAT:CSD. There are way too many images up for deletion right now. This causes severe lag time if someone tries to load the page and has to wait for all those images to load. You said that "admins need to know what they're deleting". Well they do...they click the image's link which takes them to the image's page where they view it and delete it. It's the same as if they were going to an article. Metros232 19:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The original adding of the tag did not include that explanation in the edit summary. I assumed some one had missed the fair use exemption decision for the page. Jay32183 19:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
The original edit summary wasn't descriptive because almost all us administrators who patrol CSDs know why it was added. Sometimes it's added with a comment saying "+nogallery tag, over 100 images" or something like that, but it's understood by most why it's added when it is, Metros232 19:15, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naked News

First of all, stop menacing me. Second, everything was fine with the Naked News photos until, I created new articles this week with Naked News pictures. Third, I've created profile, only for Yukiko Kimura, Whitney Saint-John, Erica Stevens & Alex Pantos. These profiles have been tagged; as far as I'm concerned, the other pictures of the Naked News profile don't have neither sources information. So, I don't understand, why everything was fine until I create some profile and then, pictures are subjet to deletion. So please explain this sudden change.VincentG 23:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

In the information box under the picture of Christine Kerr it's written (without the brackets): [241×180 (9,752 bytes) (Naked News newscaster Christine Kerr. screenshot)] Is it what you want me to write with the files I uploaded? Because like I told you, the only files that are tagged are the ones I've uploaded. The other pictures of the other girl's profile are not tagged. So, I will comply...but if the other pictures don't comply tag them as well. But like I said, I'm eager to learn, but I demand justice and some good explanations. See you man.VincentG 01:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I deleted the pictures that I have uploaded. It is not clear enough for me; so in that case, I think it's better to wait and find a solution to post the pictures.VincentG 02:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No rationale templates

I realize you apparently disagree with it, but the general opinion on the wider forum (and wider forum discussions override template talk pages which draw only a small minority of editors) holds that screenshot templates do in fact give a minimal fair use rationale sufficient to protect them from speedy deletion under I6. This is especially true for the image under contention, since the Disney tag gives as much substantial defense as a detailed rationale would.

Of course, the lack of any image source makes the issue rather academic for this particular case, but I strongly advise you to not act against policy page consensus here. --tjstrf talk 05:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I suggest you read the highly sensible discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 16#Can we clarify I6? where it was concluded that not only is there no consensus for what you are doing, but that norationale tagging images which have the correct template is pretty much just laziness since all the necessary information to write the rationale (except possibly the source) is present in the tag. It would take 30 seconds to put a rationale on those images you are presently mass-tagging, which means a loss of maybe 15 seconds for you but which would save the project as a whole in wasted labour because someone else has to go and add it since you won't. The tags that no rationale deletion properly applies to are grouped at present under Category:Wikipedia:Generic fair use tags. --tjstrf talk 19:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
The discussion I linked to says that the distinction of "Generic fair use tags" was made so that it also covered the near-variants such as fairusein2 and so on. And even if what you say was true, your tagging for deletion rather than fixing the problems is unproductive. If the image is an album cover, how many seconds does it take to type that the image is rationalized under fair use in articles where it is an illustration of the album it represents? Certainly less time than it took for you to tag it and then another person to add that same text. --tjstrf talk 19:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William Monahan article at FAC

Hello. I noted that you are a resident of Massachusetts. I wonder if you would mind doing a review of my article on one of your fellow Bostonians, William Monahan? I'm running the article through WP:FAC and I'm trying to get as many opinions as I can. Your comments would be of great help. Perhaps you could even write up Monahan's early years in a more interesting way? I talk at length about his years in MA and I see that you went to the same university as him. Anyways, I'd be interested in what you think about the article.-BillDeanCarter 03:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kepler at FAC

Jay, thanks for your kind words about the Johannes Kepler article. I've completed what I had intended to add before going for going for FA.--ragesoss 21:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smile!

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[edit] Pro Tour

I like what you've done in your sandbox. Any chance of it being rolled out? Shadowin 21:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question about AnnaSophia Robb page

Hello, my experience here is very little so I didn't get why did you delete photo of AnnaSophia from her page. Was it violating any legal stuff?

[edit] New look at Representative peer

Changes at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Representative peer; pls revisit. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:02, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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