User talk:ST47/Archive12

[edit] My RfA

Hey ST47,

I just would like to thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 54/13/11. I appreciate the trust expressed by members of the community, and will do my best to uphold it.

Naturally, I am still becoming accustomed to using the new tools, so if you have suggestions or feedback, or need anything please let me know. - Gilliam 20:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Tips

You have "greatly" improved since you last RFA, your name is springing up everywhere and from what I see you have been civil. I think that you would pass an RFA now, I would nominate you if you would like. Email me okay if you accept my offer. I will take a larger scope of your "editing" tomorrow. Just continue to be active in XFD's citing "policy", and keep up the vandal/spam fight. Cheers! ~ Arjun 01:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the recommendations, I will consider the nom offer and email you in a few weeks. ST47Talk 21:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Approval and Criticism

Hi ST47, I'll be happy to share my thought with you regarding your upcoming RFA. So here it is, Approval, Criticism and things that made me go "hhhhhm?"

• You are a valiant vandalism fighter. Me like.
• Your contribution level seems nice and stable, a couple of spikes downward and upward at time, but good overall.
• I like how you helped User:Black Falcon with his userpage.
• The January Myspace link removals. A couple of the removed pages were offical myspace hompages of the artists, which are AFAIK exceptions to the "links to be avoided rule". Still, only very few of the removals were undone, and looking at the content of them not much was lost. Personally I'd call them borderline cases, but I think you might watch out for these, least wikidrama ensues. Still serious props for wading through that swamp and filtering out a majority of pointless links.
• You are getting pretty good with AWB, from what I saw in the history, though there have been some hickups in the past.
• One issue that may (again) be raised during the RFA that a large number of your edits are semiautomated or anti-vandlism, though personally I feel the whole issue a varation of the old "a wikipedian should use use half of his edits to improve articles, half of his edits to create new ones and half of his edits to fight vandalisms" "but that are three halves" "so he'll have to edit a bit more" joke.

All in all, you have grown nicely in the last few months, and unless some editor presents some compelling reasons that you should not be admin, I have not problems with giving you my support. CharonX/talk 03:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! ST47Talk 21:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFA comments

Hey there ST47. I'm on a bit of a wikibreak right now (but I still check my messages regularly, how sad is that?). Once the weekend rolls around and I have a bit of time, I'll go through your contributions from the past 3 months and pass on whatever advice I can. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 03:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

LOL! Thanks, I eagerly await your opinions :D ST47Talk 21:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA

You look like your doing an OK job but your mainspace contributions are a bit spartan, a lot of people doubt it but contributing to articles/copy editing is very important. Mostly because to be a good sysop you need to still be an editor as well, as for example if you help mediate a dispute between two users its always going to be best to approach it from an editors perspective to understand bot of their problems, etc. Anyway, if you did some small edits here and there you'll receive my support :-) thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 08:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Small edits it shall be. I was actually looking at the category of articles needing copyedits the other day, I'll look into it more come the weekend. ST47Talk 21:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Okey Dokey

Sorry About the Template. Didn't know. Just thought it would be a time saver. I'll do that. RED skunk^TALK 00:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

[edit] My RfA

Good afternoon (GMT time); thanks for your comments in my RfA. I'm currently compiling a list of objectives for the future, and I am curious about one of your posts: "...unfamiliarity with policy...". I'd like to do my reading and I'm wondering if you could graciously provide a few examples?

Your co-operation in this is greatly appreciated; some of those fancy "RfA-thank-boxes-with-big-sad-face" will follow later :).

Don't hesitate to call on me if you need anything!

Yours,
Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 16:57, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Mostly, the misuse of AWB and VP may have shown you as someone who could use tools in unaccepted ways, and there were a few diffs presented by myself and sagacious that showed incivility, so WP:CIVIL and definitely WP:NPA, and perhaps WP:POINT to a degree. ST47Talk 19:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank You, ST47/Archive12 for your Support! Thank you for your support in my RfA, which closed at 111 / 1 / 2. I am humbled and rather shocked to see such kind comments and for it to reach WP:100. Please feel free to leave a note if I have made a mistake or if you need anything, I will start out slow and tackle the harder work once I get accustomed to the tools. Thank you once more, I simply cannot express in words my gratitude.

...fly on littlewing. ~ Arjun 19:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Okay, your request for comments:

You posted a request on my talk page for me to comment on what you could improve on further since your last RfA. Well firstly, the above (albeit sarcastic humour) notices about balls of fire & signing posts would probably be of some concern to some people at any future RfA. Although I don't particularly have anything against it, some people have been known to oppose for that sort of thing & even for things as mundane as those joke "You have new message" bars at the top of pages. So I'd advise you either to tone it down a little bit or move some portions of it to a subpage based on your Wikipolicies & such where it would be out of the spotlight. It may also be seen as some sort of problem to newbies & such - Don't worry, if there's a problem with anything you do, someone will argue it.

Further, although your edit count it way up, from your edit stats, you seem to make smaller edits to many articles, rather than small & large ones to just one or two. This may seem to some people that you partake in "gnommish" (See WP:Gnome) activities rather than large substantial edits. A testament to this would be the fact that you don't have any GA's or FA's under your belt. Some people could, & quite rightly, argue that you have made no substantial edits to Wikipedia & only make smaller edits that only count as edit count stacking. This may or may not be correct, but I'd suggest that you pick one or two articles & try & make as many edits to them as possible. This way it will show that you can stick to a single project & that you can make meaningful large edits to better a page. Getting an article to GA or FA would do wonders for your future RfA as well.

Other than that, don't forget that quantity is no substitute for quality, so again make sure you don't only stick to gnommish work. So, as you'd probably know, keep your cool in tough situations & keep out of trouble, be civil & helpful & knowledgable about different laws on here & you'll be an admin in no time. It wouldn't hurt socialising around the place too, as the more people you know, the more you're likely to be elected (which is unfortunate, as RfA's are turning into popularity contests nowadays...). I'd have no problem supporting you in a couple of months if you continue on your current track & maybe take into consideration the points I've made above. Have a great day man, :) Spawn Man 22:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - there were opposes last time regarding my talk page, perhaps I'd better remove that. I really don't know where to contribute to article building, I was going to try to grab a few pages and copyedit one of these days. Thanks for your comments and I'll keep them in mind! ST47Talk 23:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Why not pick an article you know a lot about or that you really like. Add a few paragraphs & in your RfA, you can link to them to show that you can add large amounts of writing rather than just small edits here & there. If you can do that, then you can discount all objections raised by people pointing at your large amounts of smaller edits. Hope this helps. Good luck. :) Spawn Man 23:12, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scouts Musulmans Algériens

Would you please stop reverting this back to Algerian Muslim Scouts. A debate about this has been raging for weeks. I am trying to mediate it. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/Translations mediation. There is one user who argues strongly that this translation is not verifiable as being used by the organisation. I am hoping we can side step the disagreement by a different solution. I would prefer it if it was left as the French title, which the organisation does actually use, for now. The application of WP guidelines for the naming of scout organisations is not straight forward. Thanks. --Bduke 22:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Word of thanks for ST47 Good morning (GMT time); I'd like to thank you for supporting, opposing, taking a neutral stance to, closing, suggesting I close or otherwise contributing to my recent RfA; unfortunately, I felt that although there were more support than oppose votes, the weight of the latter was too great for me to accept the promotion with so many not trusting me with the janitor's trolley - I therefore decided to end my nomination prematurely. The feedback I received was invaluable, and I am striving to start afresh with all of the advice my fellow Wikipedians offered. In order to meet the aim of adapting to your advice, I've drew up a list of aims (located here) which I intend to follow from this point onwards. If you have any further advice or comments for me, don't hesitate to post me a message at my talk page where it will be graciously and humbly accepted. Once again, thank you and I do hope to bump into you around the encyclopedia! Regards, Anthonycfc [T • C]

Behavioural Aims: edit  1. -- whenever I feel myself getting a bit down, as a result of Bipolar depression, I will immediately walk away from the computer: Wikipedia is not a place for emotions as extreme and downright dangerous as Bipolar stimulates. Arjun 2. -- take a wikibreak instead of declaring inactivity: the "can't-be-bothered" feeling is probably just Bipolar related, and will pass. ST47 3. -- be extra careful with RCP work; continue to not used VP; if using AWB, make sure that it's only to article space and monitor edits more closely! 4. -- make sure I ask another MedCom member for help rather than User:Essjay, so as to not appear as if I'm wiki-stalking; don't edit Essjay's talk page (again, Wiki-stalking); don't use the phrase ABCO(?/.) 5. -- don't bother going in for any more positions - don't want to appear power-hungry.Ral315 Participation Aims: edit  1. -- XfD debates. 2. -- RCP work: keep up volume; don't hesitate to report to AIV if necessary. 3. -- Village Pump self 3.1 -- Village Pump Policy Debates self 4. -- Continue with the Virtual Classroom, courtesy of The Transhumanist. self 5. -- WP:GAC reviews. self 6. -- Article collaberation with TT. Just about to start; self.

Don't hesitate to add to these - just drop me a message so I know!

[edit] Shortcutting Sir Walterhouse

I'm just about to speedy User:Sir Walterhouse, as there's no original content on the page (it's all copies of articles or other user pages, concatenated) save for a homophobic rant. I've nixed the MfD, since it's unnecessary process for a useless page.

I'll also invite Sir Walterhouse to contribute to the encyclopedia. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Garion96's RFA

Thank you for your support in my request for adminship which closed successfully last night. Feel free to let me know if I can help you with something or if I have made a mistake. I would also like to encourage you to vote often (just in case you don't) on other candidates since we need more admins. Happy editing, Garion96 (talk) 23:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] STBot question

Hi there, I've been working on the article Guigemar, an article that I wrote from scratch. I noticed that your bot had removed the poetry and France stubs from it, and I was a little curious how your bot works. I imagine that it must check the file size, and if it exceeds a certain threshold, the bot removes any stub markers. Anyway, just curious. Thanks. --Kyoko 14:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You are correct, it is based on length of the article - I think it counts words. ST47Talk 21:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Donald Kraig

I don't mind if you delete that page, and may delete it myself. My entry was based on a spelling error. End of story. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thaddeus Slamp (talk • contribs) 16:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Philip III of France

Listed in April 3 births but has April 30 at the beginning of the article. I would have made corrections but unable to determine (after some web page searching) if it should be the 3rd or the 30th. Can you help? Thanks, Daytrivia 03:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you remove my edit to Tracy Jordan

This information comes from the show broadcast on NBC. BabuBhatt 06:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

If the information you added was not relevant, it should not be added. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

The information was relevant, as it was about the personal life of Tracy Jordan, the subject of the srticle. Is this ST47? or Will? BabuBhatt 07:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Who signed? Will (Talk - contribs) 07:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Why do you respond this person's talk page?BabuBhatt 07:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I may not know the exact reasoning used, but I can certainly spot one reason. Besides, you can wait for ST47 to drop by and see it, or I can work with you on it now. You might as well get something. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I reverted because it looks very much like vandalism, sorry. ST47Talk 12:15, 16 February 2007 (UTC)