User talk:Ravenhull
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Hi and a belated welcome!
A user with a redlinked talk page doing a revert? How did you manage to edit this long without someone stopping by before? ;) I assume that you're already familiar with basic editing, but I'll point you towards the Manual of Style for the tome of editing, The Signpost for an quick update on the goings-on in the community, and Featured Article Candidates if you want to contribute to an area where you'll have plenty of exposure to other users.
If you have any questions, feel free to drop a line at the Village Pump or at my talk page. Cheers, BanyanTree 03:00, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] SCA
Thanks for the additions to the SCA page! Brendano 21:30, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Ravenhull, you're on top of it. I was just testing to see how quickly an obvious error would be corrected. Two minutes. Good time.
- Yeah, I put him up to it. Please forgive me. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 16:43, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] VfD nomination
I hope you didn't take my comments of your VfD nominations personally. VfD has grown very quickly as the rest of the encyclopedia has grown, and it seems to be approaching an unmanageable size. Many users are looking for ways to cut the traffic down.
Please make liberal use of {{attention}}, {{stub}}, {{cleanup}}, {{expand}}, {{peer review}}, {{NPOV}}, {{unencyclopedic}} and other tags to draw attention to articles that are good subjects, but need some help being developed.
Nominating an article to Votes for Deletion should be a last resort when you're pretty sure than an article just doesn't belong. --Unfocused 16:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Norrbyskär
I deleted your VfD tag on this article, as after a couple of days you had still not made a VfD subpage or listed it. If you still insist on nominating it for deletion, you can go ahead and do so. Uppland 15:02, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Katrina
Hi Donovan. I cannot believe that you could possibly attribute these remarks to little ole me. I think that the author meant them to be humorous, but I could see that under the circumstances, not. Leistung 16:02, 31 August 2005 (CET)
- I made an assumption, and I'm sure you know the old saying about that. (I certainly made an ass out of myself in that case.) What I saw was you saying that 'you should not delete what you don't aggree with' and given the difference of opinion you have been involved with, I assumed you had basicly lost your temper. I once again hope that you accept my appology. Donovan Ravenhull 14:26, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Protection on Combat ration
Thanks for the message; I've unprotected the page. I'm sure the vandalism is over now. :) Never fail to leave me a message if there's some admin-level task that I can do for you. Cheers, Bratschetalk | Esperanza 02:39, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] USS Alabama (BB-60)
Well the reason I replaced the image on that page was because you really couldn't see the whole ship. And while a prespective from the deck is nice, I just wanted to see the whole thing. In regard to your question, Yes I do think it would still be nice to have a picture of the ships as it stands now, a museum ship, either before or after Katrina. That said, perhaps we should re-add the other picture somewhere in the article. If you'd like to add somewhere feel free, I'll keep a watch of the page and we can use the page discussion should there be any question of it. Thanks for stopping by my talk page and letting me know. -- Malo 21:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Reverting vandals
Hi, just a tip, when you revert a vandal, please be sure to add a {{test}} template to their user talk page. This allows us to persuade them to stop from future vandalism, and if not we've now warned them enough so that we can block them for repeated vandalism. Thanks! ALKIVAR™
01:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- Looking at the history of the latest ones I've personally dealt with, most have one or two edits, not sure 'testing' them would be worth the effort. Those that I see that have a list of edits, I at least look at what 'Test-com' they are currently at. Thanks for the comments though. Donovan Ravenhull 03:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] AIV vs VIP
Hi Ravenhull. I noticed you added an entry to Vandalism in Progress. That page is only for very specific cases, as described by the page's guidelines. Your alert would be better placed on Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV), where it will usually be processed within minutes. Many alerts that are incorrectly placed on Vandalism in Progress are never dealt with, simply because they become old before an administrator gets to them. Thanks for your efforts. :) --lightdarkness (talk) 01:16, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] From SCA discussion
Yeah, an article discussion is the wrong place for it I know. So I'm replying here. You asked (I'm paraphrasing) why I called the statement from the SCA article "political correctness amok". I answer with a question. Historically, did the majority of female medieval knights choose to be addressed as "sir" or "dame"? Applejuicefool 03:26, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] SFU-stub
Hi - it has come to our notice that you have recently created a new stub type. As it clearly states at WP:STUB, at the top of most stub categories, on the template page for new Wikiprojects and in many other places on Wikipedia, new stub types should be proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies, and whether better use could be made of a WikiProject-specific talk page template.
In the case of your new stub type, it is already covered by existing stub types, it is not named according to stub naming guidelines, and it does not reach the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type (in fact, even if every single item in Cat:Star Fleet Universe were a stub there would still be fewer stubs that usually required for a new stub type). Your new stub type is currently listed for deletion at WP:SFD - please feel free to make any comments there as to any reason why it should be kept. And please, in future, propose new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 06:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
