User talk:Scottanon

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Warned my fist vandal today. Let's see if I come to regret it. Scottanon 05:33, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

From the vandalised page on December 23, 2005 "Socttanon is a pedophilic, beastality loving homosexual who plans to rape all dogs to free them from the truth. He is also a proud faggot of the Liberal Party of Canada." I finally get my name in print, and they can't even spell it right. Oh, well.

1 Your vandal
2 Substing copyvio
3 The Movie Spoiler
4 F1 portal featured article
5 Selected articles on Portal:F1
6 Permission to use photos

[edit] Your vandal

I've blocked the most recent one for 24 hours. I also noticed your request for semi protection. I'd like to wait and see if he switches IPs and comes back. If he does, let me know and I'll semi protect both Egale Canada and CBC Newsworld. --GraemeL ^(talk) 16:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I have little doubt he will return, but discretion is the better part of valor. Scottanon 16:12, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Our anon vandal is back. Any change of getting semi protection on CBC Newsworld? Thanks Scottanon 03:29, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Substing copyvio

Please see my reply at Template talk:Copyvio#subst:the date?. -Splash^talk 23:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll fix it. Scottanon 03:25, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Movie Spoiler

I reverted because that site simply repeats the info present in the plot summary present in the article. I didn't really think it was needed for that reason. The Wookieepedian 17:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, as long as we're discussing it like this, it's not a revert war. ;) But seriously, the reason the Star Wars Wiki article is allowed to stay is because their take on the films are different, since they're allowed to tell it in-universe, and can give details and features that a general interest encyclopedia like this one does not have. The Wookieepedian 03:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I like The Movie Spoiler. Thanks, Scottanon, for putting the links. I restored the two links and have often put links myself. I use Template:msp (talk, backlinks, edit).--Patrick 13:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F1 portal featured article

The F1 portal (in which I assume you have some degree of interest, as your name is listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One) is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One#Suggestions_for_Featured_Article: and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected articles on Portal:F1

Hello again.

I dropped notes round a while back to those who have listed themselves at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One to ask for suggestions for selected articles on portal:Formula One. There was a pretty good response, both in terms of how it might work and of articles suggested. Damon Hill came out with the most support and was brought up to Good Article standard after a lot of work by Skully Collins and others before going on as the F1 portal selected article a couple of weeks ago. It is now at Featured Article Candidates as a Featured Article candidate (why not drop by and see if you can help polish it further?).

Several people who responded to the original request suggested that a monthly or bi-weekly 'Selected Article' could act as a catalyst for an improvement drive to get more articles up to a higher standard. Although it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I started, this seemed to work pretty well for the Damon Hill article, so I've drafted up a process for doing this more regularly. See Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management_of_selected_articles for details. Essentially the suggestion is that we vote for an article to improve every couple of weeks and at the end of the improvement process the article goes on the portal as the new 'Selected Article'. I'd be grateful for any comments on how this might work - I'm sure some of you are more familiar with things 'Wiki' than me - as well as your votes for the next candidate (by 16 July).

You may also want to help with the article Gilles Villeneuve, which was the next most popular after Damon Hill. The idea is to try and get it up to GA standard by 16 July and then put it on the portal as the 'Selected Article'. I hope you can help! 4u1e 18:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)