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[edit] WP:AWB

Hi, Aervanath; sorry, I can't approve your use for AWB yet because you need 500 edits to Mainspace, and you only have 200+. If you can make a good case for needing the tool despite this, another Admin will consider it in due course. Thanks. Please feel free to re-apply. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 22:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the laugh

with this edit summary re: attempted de-orphaning :) TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 05:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Not so much a joke, but the fact that there's an orphanage project and attempts to de-orphan, I was tired and it was easy to laugh TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 13:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria Theatre (Halifax)

Hi there. I have rewritten the article on the Victoria Theatre (Halifax). I'd be grateful if you would review the article and perhaps this may change your opinion on the AfD! -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 10:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Unified orphan/de-orphan process

Thank you for notifying me about the discussion. I've commented. Cheers,--Lights (talk) 14:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Message

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Hey, You have another new message =] ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 15:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SmackBot

Yes it did a big catchup. Rich Farmbrough, 21:18 31 May 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Thanks

I'm still learning to use wikipedia, and I have Autisism so your help is welcomed. Retro Agnostic (talk) 06:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Do-DatedAI

Hi. What exactly does this template? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC) This template has only use inside Articleissues. I don't think is useful. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It's a specific modification of the DatedAI template so that the do-attempt tag can display both the dates of the de-orphan attempt and the original date it was tagged as an orphan. This is the way {{do-attempt}} is written, so I wanted to bring {{articleissues}} into compliance with that. Unfortunately, {{DatedAI}} doesn't give you the flexibility to use two different dates like that. Do-DatedAI does.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 17:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Better create a code inside Articleissues. One more template makes things more difficult. -- 17:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I guess I'll hardcode it in.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 17:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Y Done--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 17:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!! Can you tag {{db-author}} the Do-DatedAI as well? You are doing a nice job with orphan articles. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Already done.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 18:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] template talk:articleissues archival

Hi,

I've reverted the recent archival of this talk page. There are edits within the last 12 hours on the threads in question, so this is definitely not the time to start archiving them. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I was planning on moving those discussions back on to the current page. Is there a general reason why that's not recommended? Or was I just moving too slowly?--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 15:18, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
The active thread is so near the top (in terms of code size in the page) that it's really not worth it right now; you'd end up only archiving 18k or so. For what it's worth I personally prefer manually moving old threads rather than the move-and-then-move-thread-back method, which keeps the primary page history in one thread. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ESL

What is it? (from your userpage) Shoombooly (talk) 19:44, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

See English language learning and teaching. I'm really more of an EFL teacher now, though.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 19:56, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Gotcha. Hope you don't mind me being nosy :) Shoombooly (talk) 20:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Join the club! Nosy Non-nosy people don't do much de-orphaning, I think.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Orphans are added faster than i can undo them, so get to work ;)Shoombooly (talk) 20:14, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Actually, what I wrote was the opposite of what I meant. I meant that people who weren't nosy wouldn't be out there poking around in cat:orphan trying to figure out was going on, as we are. But, actually, I think we're doing ok. I managed to get ahead of the rush for a bit last night, and actually start working on the ones that had been orphaned longer than just an hour or so. If we can do that every day, we'll be set. Too bad I'm going on vacation next week. Once I get back, though, we'll see if we can't power our way through these!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
See, that's what happens when you go from ESL to EFL!! *grins* Shoombooly (talk) 20:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks again!!

As you can see, I'm on a roll. Basically, I'm searching my iPod for notable singles to write songs about. While some like "Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)" are sorta well-known, Other songs such as those by Billy Murray are very obscure, even if they were popular back in their day. So having your help de-orphan them has been quite helpfull! Retro Agnostic (talk) 19:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. By the way, all I did was remove the tag from Porpoise Song. I didn't actually add any links to it, because I saw you were in the process of doing so. You don't need to add the orphan tag if you're just going to de-orphan it 2 minutes later! I'm glad to see you adding so many quality articles, though. Good job!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:02, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I add the orphan tag because often I don't know whether I'm actually gonna be able to de-orphan a article. I didn't know that it ("Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)") has appeared on many albums, and even been covered by a folk group. BTW, I'm writting another article at the moment, It's actually a very popular song from the 60's that nobody has bothered to write an article about. Retro Agnostic (talk) 20:10, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{articleissues}}

I did consider it, and have done so before, but do the other project pages get them in their lists that way? Shoombooly (talk) 20:36, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they do. It's really easy to set up, actually. I've already added three templates to it.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 06:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nokia 1600

Hi, I want your take on this. (and i want to know if there's anything that needs fixing in my replies :P Shoombooly (talk) 18:52, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I have voted for deletion over there. I think you will find your arguments well covered over at Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (especially at WP:WAX), which, while only an essay, and not having policy or guideline status, is pretty good advice to follow, in my opinion. I disagree partly with the WP:PERNOM, since I think that it is frequently a valid argument, but the rest is pretty dead on.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 19:28, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes but I'm opposing deletion because it has survived deletion twice, give it a break! There were plenty of people for keeping it the first times around, why the urge to get rid of this article? I am beginning to think the nominator might have had one of those phones and didn't like it ;) When there has been consensus, with the desire to keep it and improve it, wait till it improves, there's no deadline after all (i believe you said so yourself when i urged everyone to get rid of the backlog in about 3 days in Orphanage :-P) Shoombooly (talk) 19:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
You're right, I did say that, and as I recall you argued against me. We seem to have influenced each other to switch sides! :) However, even though there is no deadline, I think that in this case it doesn't matter how long we wait, the article will NEVER be improved, because there's just nothing notable about it. It would be different if I could see a possibility of it being improved, but this time I just can't.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
You do realize I might make it my mission to get the Nokia 1600 article to featured status now, right? Shoombooly (talk) 20:24, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
If you do, I will a) be very surprised (which I will be, anyway, if you can even expand the current article with any useful info), and b) congratulate you heartily. Forgive me if I am very skeptical of that possibility, though. But good luck, anyway!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Don't be a dick :P There, I said it! Gone is your pride at not being a dick!! (i love reading userpages) hehe...anyway, if i dig long enough i might find all sorts of interesting stuff about that phone. It has unique buttons (one buton for 2 digits), was the cheapest nokia with color screen, etc. If an article lives for 2 years, it's notable enough for me! Shoombooly (talk) 21:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I will remove that line from my page, then. (On second thought, I'll be a liar as well as a dick, and not.) :)
I'd be really careful with the "if it lives for 2 years" notability argument. I've successfully speedied and prodded several articles from the 2003/2004 orphan lists. Just because it's survived doesn't make it notable. You should check out WP:BJAODN for some crazy stuff that survived quite a while before it was deleted/fixed.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 21:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, i know, but this is different it survived 2 AfD debates!!!. You can't compare it with all that silly stuff that was orphaned and nobody ever noticed...I'm sure we can agree on that? Shoombooly (talk) 21:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, I don't know about you, but the fact that the first debate had a no consensus result discounts it in my eyes. And plenty of articles have been deleted after more afd's than this one has. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fiction that breaks the fourth wall (4th nomination).--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 21:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)