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Message from Dweller

If you could post at User:Glen S's talk page and draw his attention to my talk page, I'd be grateful, for reasons that will be obvious once you go there. Thanks, old boy. --81.144.177.106 16:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC) (Dweller in disguise)

Thanks

For passing that on, all sorted now :) Glen 10:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Churchy

Hi. Thanks for passing on the message to Glen. I've got patchy access today and dunno if I'll be around much. Thanks for finishing the domestic section when my monobooks sent my PC haywire yesterday. One small point - have you seen my comment on the article talk page re season naming? I think the Peer Review is sufficiently advanced to make it worth taking this to ALoan for his copy edit before FAC. Opinion? Your turn to gloriously nom. --Dweller 12:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I did see it, I think it ought to be 1992-93 etc (with the en dash, naturally!). I'd like to do a bit more on Church odi post-1999 and maybe some highlights of the two world cups before i get it copyedited. But that shouldn't be too far off... still waiting on Colly...! The Rambling Man 13:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Argh. I think my new tools are still killing my 'puter. I've added a bunch of stuff twice only for the machine to crash. Here's two fantastic sources in case I crash again. ([1]) ([2]) --Dweller 16:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm having "great fun" removing and adding tools and seeing if that improves stability. I was pretty fed up with popups anyway (as you know) mainly for its habit of screwing things up when I highlighted (during editing) any text including a wikilink. Anyway, what's next with Churchy? I think the Peer Review's got very confusing and any collaborators could do with a to-do list somewhere, somehow. You ready for copyedit request? One last thing - please contribute when you have a mo, to Blnguyen's peer review request on Harb. He's done wonders. --Dweller 17:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the message. Right, what's left to do. Hmmm.
  1. A bit more ODI information between the World Cups.
  2. Better flow to the personal life section, too many individual sentences I think.
  3. Distribution of the "playing style" information throughout, or a more Style and ability sort of thing to include his high rankings, his best-in-history wicket-keeping.
Then copyedit, then FA nom. Easy! Will check out Harb ASAP. The Rambling Man 17:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, taking them 1 by 1:

  1. Agreed. I'll help if the 'puter lets me.
  2. I'll take a look at that now.
  3. I think that kind of stuff is better in an achievements section like we did for Colly. Easier to find. Perhaps the playing style could therefore be put in his early career, where we could either remark on how it developed, or contrasted etc. (eg "he developed his aggressive style..." or "at this stage he had yet to develop his aggressive style...")

What thinkest thou? Nom tonight or tomorrow? --Dweller 17:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool. I'm going to be offline in about 20 minutes until tomorrow so the nom will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm most concerned over point 1 really, so if you can hit that hardest, and the rest, no doubt, will come up in the FA nom. Also, there are a fair few [citation needed] still which could do with sourcing or removing. I believe Blnguyen added them so he may be able to help... The Rambling Man 17:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

2 is done. Laptop went mad last night. --Dweller 09:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Awesome. Get yourself a Powerbook, they don't go mad, they just make you happy! So, what's left - the odd citation needed is still there. We can either just delete the tags and see if they get picked up at review, or comment out the phrases requiring the citations... Once that's done, and hopefully once ALoan's copyedited it (I've asked already), it'll go to FA nom. Hurrah! The Rambling Man 09:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Working my way down the "cn"s. Is this ([3]) a reliable source? --Dweller 10:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Not particularly but it's better than nothing. It's equivalent to an official fansite I suppose... The Rambling Man 10:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: George McCartney, et al

FYI: For sorting purposes all surnames starting with "Mc" should be categorised as "Mac"; check with Admin. Noticeboard for more info. 24.136.99.194 21:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Fine. Provide me a link to such a decision and I'll be more than happy to go along with it. The Rambling Man 21:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your support in my recent RfA which passed unanimously - thus proving that you can indeed fool some of the people some of the time. I'm still coming to terms with the new functionality I have, but so far nothing bad has happened. As always, if there's anything you need to let me know, just drop me a line on my Talk page. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 10:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for your congratulations =] The crats haven't closed it yet, and I'm waiting! --Deryck C. 10:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Rambling man: militaryphotos net

hi, I took your advice re the last edit, so i went to the 4chan page to see what is clearly acceptable in a wiki page for a chat room.

It listed controversies, so i have done the same since these matters have in fact been controversies. further on the page i see: " Wikipedia articles should not exist only to describe the nature, appearance or services a website offers, but should describe the site in an encyclopedic manner, offering detail on a website's achievements, impact or historical significance, which can be significantly more up-to-date than most reference sources since we can incorporate new developments and facts as they are made known. See current events for examples."

I hope this is what you meant, and my edits meet with your approval —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.174.104.13 (talk) 10:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

I see you are still editing my contribution. Be kind enough to respond to what I have written to you?

You need to edit with a neutral point of view (see WP:NPOV) otherwise all your edits will be removed. The Rambling Man 16:22, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage

Hi Rambling,

As the Subject/headline says already, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. I'm not used to having the vandalism come when I'm not even around. That usually only happens when I'm actively reverting and leaving warnings. Is it wrong that this makes me feel a little bit happy?... Oh well, thanks again. --Onorem 00:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

And thanks for cleaning mine as well. (Nuggetboy) (talk) (contribs) 04:57, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Entrusted with the Bucket!

Yes, my identical copy of bucket-and-mop =]
Yes, my identical copy of bucket-and-mop =]

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. Thanks for your vote, I've received an overwhelming 96% support and successfully took a copy of bucket-and-mop from the main office!

School graduation exam and HKCEE are both pressing in, so I might become inactive for a while. But soon after that, I look forward to working with you!

Haha, it is the "real" celebration now. --Deryck C. 03:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Colly

Hey, no problem. Always glad to help. Cheers, HornetMike 19:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Astounding. Fantastic. Roll on Adam Gilchrist. --Dweller 21:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations. I didn't do much though.. only the pic...and two sentences...I guess the pic is the bottleneck though. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:05, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

please block 66.228.70.170

Can you block User talk:66.228.70.170?--he vandalized the page on Ryan Bennett, and I noticed you already warned him. Thanks Reds0xfan 16:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

boring

r u a wikipedia nerd? No offense, just asking! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Moi2468 (talk • contribs) 19:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

Yes. No offence taken. The Rambling Man 19:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Brilliant. Must remember to cite that conversation when you run for admin. --Dweller 20:40, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes indeed! But most importantly, we need Gilchrist to be copyedited and then he can go for FA. I don't think we'll make the World Cup deadline, but we should still try. We're pretty close... Oh, and noticed that Donald Bradman wasn't even a GA. BAD. So at some point I'll turn my attention to him because he was in my well-known extremely limited knowledge of the leather-on-willow sport the greatest cricketer in the history of the game. But Gilly first... The Rambling Man 20:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Does ALoan need a nudge? I noticed between us we've now dealt with all the {{cn}}s which is obviously good! --Dweller 20:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, I've been tempted to nom it already, and deal with the flak on a case-by-case basis... but since I've made about 200 edits, it ought not be me who nom's it... (wink wink, nudgie budgie...) The Rambling Man 20:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Done. --Dweller 21:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Coolio, bring on the onslaught... The Rambling Man 21:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

'Ello, guv. How are you? I hope you know, you've bumped the queue with my personalised thank you messages for support on my RfA. Steadily making my way through and just had to get to you before I retire for the night, so... Thank you. It was an unexpected turnout and I really was expecting the odd oppose or optional question, and still don't know why it didn't arise. But thank you for the kind words, and moreover, the trust. I know you will be joining "us" very soon, my friend. :) Bubba hotep 23:21, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your support on my RfA. It passed with 55/0/0. I'll try my best to be worthy of the trust the community has put in me. If there are any of my actions you have a problem with or a question about, please feel free to discuss this with me and if needed to revert me. If there is anything else I can help you with (backlogs, comments, ...), you can always contact me on my talk page. Fram 14:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Adam Gilchrist

Hey. Blngyuen's comments really deflated me. (See the article talk page) Not because I disagree (although I do disagree with some) but because there's so much to do. And I'm bonkers busy IRL so am restricting myself to more trivial WP stuff at the moment. My main contention with Blnguyen would be that we don't need even to comment on every series/season for a player of such longevity. The Winston Churchill article can't possibly deal with every year of his career, to give an extreme example, and remain coherent. We should focus on highlights and lowlights. Having said that, many of the comments he's made do refer to highlights and lowlights. Lol. What say you. btw well done last night, grumble, rumble, grrr --Dweller 10:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, me too but I'm slowly grinding through it all. I won't be mentioning every series and every ODI tournament, but, mark my words, by the time this is over, this'll be the most heavily referenced article in Wikipedia... Speaking of last night, when's the next derby match?! The Rambling Man 10:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Ramblers, I have nothing more to add/comment on this. (I usually avoid commenting on FAC pages). Tintin 13:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Your name in lights

WP:NA --Dweller 12:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, there'll need to be a 25,000+ category soon...! The Rambling Man 12:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

A request...

Just completed the latest lesson for the VC. Would you proofread/edit it please?

BTW, I've looked over your contributions again. Your participation in deletion debates is good.

The main objection in your RfA was "Lack of policy experience". The basic reasoning is, that it is impossible for avid editors to read pages without editing them, so if you've read the policies and guidelines, that would show up in your contributions. On guidelines you can generally make minor changes directly to the guidelines themselves. With policies, unless it is fixing grammar or typos, you pretty much need to post the edits you want to make to the talk page for approval - but that becomes habit after you get used to it. So my advice is that you start proofreading the P&G's, and see where that takes you. I see David Fuchs has prepared a nomination for you. Before you accept another nom, you should probably get in around 1000 meaningful edits to policy and guidelines pages and their respective talk pages (and Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), and about 500 edits in dispute resolution RFCs, s, some mediation, etc. Then ask User:Chacor and User:Arjun what they think you still need to work on, if anything. Good luck, and have fun. The Transhumanist   13:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there TH, been a while. Yeah, I've been offered a nom, and User:Dweller has been more than supportive in the meantime, and has been encouraging me to consider applying. Since the failed RFA, Dweller and I have had two collaborations promoted to FA and we're working on a third, all in the space of a month or so, and I've very much enjoyed it. I'm beginning to notice something of a cabalist feel to the RFA process lately, I'm not sure if I like it, and as such I may bide my time a bit longer. The emphasis on edit count in certain areas of WP is understandable but I can't remember the number of people who failed based on lack of Wiki-space edits who then just spend two weeks at AFD to get above a magic number, then, probably never return. I think that if I were to re-run, it'd be based on my contributions to improving the WP, vandal-hunting, a genuine interest in other users welfare within Wikpedia and more than a passing, edit-boosting interest in AFD's. So we'll see. Thanks for your comments though, very interesting to see where I may be picked up again should I go through the torture one more time...! I'll proofread your lesson ASAP. Cheers for now! The Rambling Man 13:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. And good luck! The Transhumanist   14:11, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

1877-78 Australian cricket season

All you have added is the content copied from the reference. That reference has links to the games, still doesn't tell me why that game was notable. I played back yard cricket many years ago in the summer of whenever - so what? Even if I had played first class cricket, so what? (Well it would be a big deal if I was also writing on wikipedia in the 21st century too but ... That cricket was played does not make an article. Can you please explain why you feel differently? This is not the bodyline series, the first of the Ashes series, or the first test tour captained by James Lillywhite, the underarm bowling incident of 1981, ... there are plenty of seasons that are notable. There are no doubt plenty that are not. Saying people played a game is not content.--Golden Wattle talk 20:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Sure, and this isn't a paper encyclopaedia, but to be honest I'm not sure it's important either way. If you en-masse AFD several dozen articles without much content I'm positive they'll be deleted eventually. However, in the future, it might prove useful for WP to contain some detail of historical seasons of cricket if it contains historic seasons. I can't see a good reason to have a patchy coverage of the history of a sport if people would (a) contribute to it and (b) possibly find it useful at any point in the future. However, I completely respect your feelings, the WP:CRICKET team have added a lot of stubs lately to make red links blue. I can understand that WP should not become WP:NOT in particular regard to becoming a repository of miscellany but similarly we have dozens and dozens of pages which are well populated for test tours etc - do you anticipate that you'll AFD those as well? I acknowledge that the lack of content is a concern in most cases but are you going to AFD every tour article? Look at Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005-06 for example, it's not notable particularly but are you going to AFD it or leave it because it's a comprehensive, cited article? I'm not looking to change the world but I'm interested in your opinion as well. The Rambling Man 22:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Notability is one point, but I would not query a comprehensive article like Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005-06 or similar where it is saying something. I am prepared to add content (and have been doing so)for those seasons which are obviously notable. The rest I think are better as red links, with a template available to recreate if and when somebody decides to do so. Perhaps a redirect from non-notable seasons to a broad history might be OK (I realise that is a blue link) but ... Not fixed in my views except I am anti "the season happened" and no more plus the reference doesn't even give more. Regards--Golden Wattle talk 23:13, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey there

How you doing? I think we (you)'re very close to FA with Gilly. Raul's style seems to be to wait a few days once the FAC goes quiet. Though it'd be really helpful if Blnguyen would find a mo to go retract his oppose, his talk page makes me think he's got bigger fish to fry right now, poor bloke. I'm half way through assessing the Michael Jordan FA nom. It's interesting being on the other side of the fence for once. I feel sorry for the article nominator, who's worked so hard on the article. He's a bit too close to it, and feels every comment. Interesting comparison with the similarly solo efforts of the Wonderbra proposer. Anyway, night night. --Dweller 22:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Cool, interesting hearing it. I read his comments about MJ but haven't spent any time looking at the article. I've added another plea on WT:CRIC to try to get more support for Gilly, and, as I said, 192 citations must make it #1 in the whole of WP for cites?! Anyway, got to keep on going and hope it works for Raul eventually. Not going to beat the start of the WC but to be fair, 2 FA's between us ain't bad...! Tomorrow's... The Rambling Man 22:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, forgot to tell you. I posted a question about citations at the Misc ref desk a day or two ago. Gilly needs to top 200 IIRC. --Dweller 22:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm Back

I'm back from my wikibreak. How are you doing? Have a nice week and god bles :) --James, La gloria è a dio 02:39, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks Rambling Man. I will do as you advise. DR. Martin Hesselius 12:56, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Refs & Adam Gilchrist

Hey, just wanted to quickly thank you for going through my unsightly references and merging them! All the best... The Rambling Man 08:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I had a look at it because I wondered what the brouhaha was all about that it was overcited; it does seem quite overcited, so I tried to reduce some of it, but there is much more that could be done. There are numerous statements that don't seem to warrant multiple inline citations, and many instances (still) of the same citation being used in subsequent sentences, when one citation should be able to cover multiple facts. Perhaps you all can work on reducing further. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I need your help over at the VC

I was wondering if you could help me with the new student. I've set up a section for him at User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Dweller. I thought it might be fun to start off grilling him with questions. Also, have you tried your hand at scrutinizing someone's contributions yet? We'll be doing that next. Hope to see you there. The Transhumanist   05:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Gilly

Hey, I've just gone and supported.Everything looks fine to me - excellent work once again. Bit worried about the game this evening, it's a bit weird not being the underdog for once. HornetMike 13:12, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thansk for reverting the vandalism(?) on my user page and thanks for refering to it as an article. It was a great honour. :-) --Rettetast 14:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Good evening (GMT time); I'll keep this brief .. I'd like to nominate you for adminship, if you're still interested.

Let me know;

Kind regards,
anthonycfc [talk] 17:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Cheers for supporting my Rfa which as your aware from your congrats, passed successfully! Just a quick question>, are you planning to run for adminship anytime soon? Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 19:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, seriously, get a few more months of editing behind you since your last Rfa, and if you want, I'd be more than happy to nominate you at the end of April, beginning of May. I really think you'd do great work Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 20:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a lot for welcoming me back to wikipedia :) Have a nice week and god bless. --James, La gloria è a dio 22:18, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

how do i make an archive

Thx Ramb Man. How did u find me/notice me? Also, how do i make an archive?Lilkunta 14:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC).

O ok; I did read that page, but it is confusing

Hi there. Firstly, your question about archiving talk pages. May I boldly suggest that you have a look at this page which should help you understand what you need to do to archive talk pages! Secondly, I noticed you editing while I was on recent change patrol, saw you had left a nice edit summary but had no talk page, so I welcomed you! All the best, let me know if I can help with anything else. The Rambling Man 16:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Umm, okay. I looked on that page(recent change patrol) & I didnt see myself. I was freaked out by being contacted not in reference to an edit, but bc I recently made a correction. Anyways, I did read that page (this page) and was very confused. That page really needs to be made easier to understand. I just want to know what it the text to insert. I think it is this ( I put a space in subt so the words/text/command appears ): add wernbot( Template:S ubst: User:Werdnabot/Archiver/Template )?Lilkunta 17:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

What is my monobook, what does it do exactly (when I reading WP:POPUPS) Trampton 08:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

User:Trampton/monobook.js is your javascript page. The page doesn't do anything actually, but the MediaWiki software checks it when you log on, and if there are any scripts in there, it runs those scripts. Assuming you use the monobook skin, and you want a javascript to run whenever you log on, simply place the javascript on your monobook.js page. Currently you have Lupin's Navigation Popups installed on that page. To use popups, hover your mouse cursor over any link. You will see a quick view into the contents of the file the link points to. The Transhumanist   11:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I was just about to say that! Thanks Transhumanist... The Rambling Man 11:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Rather now than later...

User_talk:Ed_g2s#Photo_removal :-( --Dweller 12:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

You got a doppelganger!

You got a fan: User:The Ramblinq Man :-D =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Now that I like... I guess I'll have to AFD it until it turns into an attack page... But thanks for letting me know! The Rambling Man 15:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I've given him a warning. Apparently your account got hijacked. Michaelas10 (Talk) 15:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Wow, is this the start of some awful wiki-identity fraud?! Arghhhh.... The Rambling Man 15:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

That's hilarious. Two "Rumbles". Perhaps one of them has decent taste in choosing a football team to support. --Dweller 15:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, he/she seems to have similar (poor) tastes to me... The Rambling Man 15:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Taken care of. HighInBC(Need help? Ask me) 17:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I thought for a moment there, you were putting up your own username for comment. I thought "Not again! Who's complained now?!". By the way, you could jump on the username usurpation bandwagon and change to BK now. :) Bubba hotep 17:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I'm pretty comfortable in my new RFA-safe identity! The Rambling Man 17:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Happy St. Patrick's Day

This user would like to wish you a happy St. Patrick's Day.

Trampton 12:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

Re: You AFD

It's no problem, at least the situation appears to have been resolved. I probably would have asked for a second opinion sooner or later anyway. :) --Coredesat 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Edit counts

How does one get their edit count (without counting 1 by 1, that is)? Use the force 01:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

The Oldest Cricket Bat Award

The oldest cricket bat is awarded in recognition of sterling contributions to WikiProject Cricket. This award has been made to you in recognition of a magnificent effort in getting three cricket articles to FA status. Not bad for someone who doesn't know much about cricket.
The oldest cricket bat is awarded in recognition of sterling contributions to WikiProject Cricket.
This award has been made to you in recognition of a magnificent effort in getting three cricket articles to FA status. Not bad for someone who doesn't know much about cricket.

Well deserved. --Dweller 10:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Love it. More, I want MORE... articles that is... The Rambling Man 10:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Taking Ipswich Town F.C. and Norwich City F.C. to Featured Article

IIRC, we decided to do ITFC and NCFC next, in that order. --Dweller 10:53, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't sure we'd decided on an order, but yes, sounds good to me. I guess a trip over to Wikiproject football to state our intent is in order? The Rambling Man 10:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, and some blatant notice on the article talk page. If someone with my user page stamps {{cn}} all over the ITFC article, it'd be reasonable for someone to assume vandalism! --Dweller 10:56, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Don't suppose there's any chance of 3 points on Saturday? No? Thought not. :( Bubba hotep 10:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
The way we're playing right now? We just lost 2-0 at home to the other pride of Anglia (Southend), so anything's possible... The Rambling Man 11:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikiproject football informed of our intentions and invited to join in the fun... The Rambling Man 11:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Dare I suggest Sheffield Wednesday F.C. as our template? It made FA last September and got onto the main page in January this year. The Rambling Man 11:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Nice message and yes, great. I know someone who might be able to supply some "home-made" photos when we get to NCFC. --Dweller 11:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Funny you should say that, I was hoping to be able to provide some external ITFC pictures at least... the statues of Robson and Ramsey too... The Rambling Man 11:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Whilst all the FA club articles are good (they're FAs, duh) I'd suggest that Arsenal is the best, if you were to use one club as a template. It's a bit more difficult to drive football clubs to FA as generally it requires books rather than web resources. Nonetheless I'll keep a look out on what you're doing and if I can help I will. HornetMike 11:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Cool, good advice, Arsenal it is then. Thanks for your support Mike. The Rambling Man 11:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I've dropped a line to the person who seems to have designed the graph at SWFC, which would be a great addition to each article. In terms of books, I have Canary Citizens. You got any ITFC stuff? The club websites usually have sketchy history stuff. We can get recent years' stuff from BBC Online and some newspapers, esp. local ones. --Dweller 12:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

ITFC talk page

Please see my posts there. Particularly the one relating to the club's history. --Dweller 16:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Check out Arsenal's daughter article on notable players. Dig that groovy table. (Except some of the controls didn't work for me!) --Dweller 17:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, way cool. You need Firefox mate, that way you won't see the slash across the away shirt, and your controls will work. You get all you deserve for using IE6! The Rambling Man 17:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
By the way, a good resource (although doubtful for citations) is Pride of Anglia, it's stat-astic. The Rambling Man 17:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Right, that's it. I'm downoading Firefox NOW. Great job with the graph, btw. --Dweller 12:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Ipswich Town F.C. article

Nice work on the Ipswich Town article, but why have you put the "out on loan" players back in to the current squad section? It's common practice across the UK football articles to put these players in a separate section. - fchd 13:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd thought about it since and I'll prbably put them back... Although I prefer the current format to be honest. The template doesn't behave nicely on the on-loan section. I'll restore it... The Rambling Man 13:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Done. The Rambling Man 14:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Going well and now beginning to "look" like an FA. Nice work on the images. You crafty so and so with the away kit! I'm concerned that the last reference in the article is actually our first footnote. Whatcha fink? PS Nice results yesterday. --Dweller 18:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey, good to hear from you. Yeah, I think so, the peer review approaches I reckon. The images, well, I was over in Ipswich today and thought I'd get Alf and Bobby on 'film'. I've also got one of each stand, but couldn't think of a nice way of introducing them to supercede what's already there. If you're interested, check out User:The Rambling Man/pictures, although North & South stands don't seem to like being in the gallery - click on them, they're still there. The footnote, hmm, yes, perhaps I'll look at doing something cleverer than that. Results, very good, except I'm sure Bubba hotep wouldn't agree! I heard Luton fans were storming the directors box after we scored our second! The Rambling Man 18:42, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Could be worse. Look what happened to poor Bob Woolmer after his team went out of the World Cup! --Dweller 20:09, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Holey moley, this WC is crazy, a week in and we've got Woolmer having a heavy night after Ireland literally whip Pakistan, and then there's the 'Flintoff-pedalo-gate' which, frankly, is hilarious. If we get beaten by Canada in the next half hour then at least we can all enjoy the spectacle rather than getting worked up by any of it... The Rambling Man 20:44, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Blimey, Woolmer's gone. That sucks. Take back what I said, the WC isn't worth all this... The Rambling Man 21:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Yup. The Ultimate Umpire gave him out. --Dweller 14:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Article

Hello Rambling Man, could you please tell me what is the problem with the article I edited today on Raquel Partnoy? Thanks, Ming.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.136.185.58 (talk • contribs).

Vandal Proof

I'm on the waiting list for approval. Is it worth having? --Dweller 14:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's useful for when you get fed up with writing prose and generating good citations! Given that I made about 5000 edits in two weeks when I first got it, on the odd occasion I'll fire it up and spend half an hour giving the vandals a good whacking. You'll enjoy it. The Rambling Man 14:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Lol. On my other machine, I'm enjoying Firefox and the non admin tools I nicked from the Transhumanist. If only there was an automated AfD listing gizmo. It's a right pain. --Dweller 14:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, creating the AFD templates and putting all the right bits in the right places is a pain, I'm not even sure the automated listing process it offers works that well... The Rambling Man 14:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, have a great break. Don't eat too many sardines. I'm stunned by your faith in me, which I'll do my best to ensure you truly regret. You can expect to return to find a stub article saying "The Horsies were founded a few years ago and since then have achieved marginally more than Peterborough United F.C., while their fans have regressed on the evolutionary scale." Fancy cancelling those tickets? --Dweller 07:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Nah, it's snowing here so I'm looking forward to some sunshine! Did you see the peer review so far? Recentism. I knew, I bloody knew it.... What to do? The Rambling Man 07:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

For a true vandalism fighter...

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
is hereby awarded to The Rambling Man for going beyond the call of duty in the fight against vandalism, for racking up thousands upon thousands of edits of vandalism cleanup, and for being an instructor at the Virtual classroom - writing for it the definitive guide on vandalism. The Transhumanist   23:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

your support for Chris Lawson

Are you sure you want to support this guy? Look at his source/quote for making the Red Baron jewish. read the discussion page on it. See the opposers views on his request page. It scares me. JohnHistory 08:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)JohnHistory


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Manfred_von_Richthofen


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Clawson

Thanks for your concern. I'll speak with Chris Lawson about this, but may I suggest you familiarise yourself with Wikipedia:Canvassing which frowns on your cross-posting & partisan votestacking. The Rambling Man 09:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


I was just informed, I didn't know. Alternatively, I added a discussion thread on the request site. Also, look at the diffs provided by Kncyu38 over at Lawson's admin request page. Chris Lawson calls people who disagree with him anti-semitic, and quacks for no apparent reason other then to get his way. Agian, I just wanted to let you guys/gals know is all. Not trying to doing anything wrong. JohnHistory 10:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC)JohnHistory

ITFC

Hi. I've asked ALoan for a copyedit before we go to FAC. Any chance you can fix the dud reference (I think it's number 23). Can't get my head round it. Cheers. --Dweller 20:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Ref fixed, when it's a <ref name = blah/>, it's a reference to another named reference which, for the first useage, would be <ref name = blah>{{Cite web | blah}}</ref>. This reference (I would guess) went Pete Tong because the original <ref name = blah> has either been deleted or commented out in the history reshaping. Anyway, I remembered which ref I used so it's fixed now. They call me Mr Citation (some of the time...). Would be nice to see what ALoan comes up with. If it's done before mid-Sunday then put it up for FA, I look forward to the results! The Rambling Man 22:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Ta muchly. Yep, I'd prefer to wait till copyedit before nominating. I've also asked the guy who had a problem with the Cricket World Cup images to cast an eye over the pix in this article, just in case. --Dweller 22:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
How dare you!! All but one image here I've taken myself and I've uploaded to Commons with the right licence and source information. But cool, not a problem for a second check! Copyedit is fine, as long as ALoan digs a footie article... We've got a few more Peer review comments from Oldelpaso, nothing too dramatic but worth attending to before too long... I've made a start... The Rambling Man 22:48, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I think I've coped with all but one, the one about the record on winning division post-promotion, and it'd be good if Oldelpaso could help with a decent citation for that one so we can just add it in... The Rambling Man 23:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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