User talk:Condem/Archive 2

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UK Userbox

Hi Hayter, this might be a stupid question (and if it is, forgive me, I'm quite new), but why can't we have two userboxes, one saying "lives in" and one saying "come from", each linking to a different category? Con Dem^Talk 02:25, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

We can, and we do. There was already {{User British}} before but some people didn't like that because they weren't overly proud of where they came from. So when this discussion began, I created {{User British2}}, which shares the same style as the one under vote, but is designed to indicate nationality rather than location, as I believe this one is. The point of contention is whether {{User United Kingdom}} is a location or nationality indicator. I believe the former, but if it is the latter, then {{User British2}} is redundant and should be deleted.

Don't worry about asking such questions - most established users on WP remember being new themselves. - Hayter 10:53, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

UK userbox vote

Hi there Keith! I noticed that you voted on the issue of what the UK userbox should say. I wondered if you might like to explain your vote briefly on the page, as "Signatures without included reasoning are liable to recieve a lower vote weight (i.e. their vote may not be fully credited during counting)" according to the poll authors. Con Dem^Talk 21:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorted, thanks. theKeith

21:50, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Your change of vote

I was just wondering why you changed your vote on this. While you may have changed your userbox to a newly created one, the vote is actually about the one already in existance .. if you follow me. There is also userboxes to denote nationality and people who are ex-pats not living in the UK.

I'm moving to the USA this year. I have been using this UK userbox to denote the fact that I live in the UK, and using another userbox to denote my nationality. When I move to the USA though, I will change the userbox to reflect my new status. The name and category and format all conform to the other boxes listed in the location page - it was merely the text that needed refining.. as what has happened with all the regional boxes (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) without protest. All of them now read "lives in", except for the UK userbox. --Mal 08:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Left you a reply on my talk page mate. --Mal 13:14, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

And another reply. Can I assume you have my talk page on your watchlist for the minute? --Mal 11:51, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Although I feel everyone is acting in good faith, may I ask you to make your vote based on evidence presented in the poll page or in public talk pages (ie. the templates talk page). Under the terms of this poll which I am attempting to moderate, users are not to attempt to sway someones vote, but each voter is to try and make their own informed decision. Such private communication can result in a bias result or partially informed voters. I am only notifing you, and you are not under any obligation to change anything (you vote is back where it was anyway!). Since some feel the creation of the resident template was disruptive in itself (ie, it swayed your vote and possibly others), it is probably best if your vote doesn't change again anyway. Just wanted to inform you (to create a more open discussion). I do however hope you understand my consern. There is certainly no blame connected with you (or anyone infact), I am merely trying to insure good faith is retained. Thanks! Ian13/talk 19:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Just an example of what I what I mean:

Code

Result

This user comes from
The United Kingdom.

This user comes from France.

Image:Germanymap-stub.jpg

This user comes from Germany.

This user comes from the United States of America.

This user comes from Burkina Faso.

This user comes from Australia.

I have copied this from a public talk page where Mal's argument was put forth. Ian13/talk 09:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

WikiCurator

Would you become a curator for the WikiMuseum called Eisenhower institute? Please reply on my talk page and sign your name on Curators section if you want to join. It is like a WikiProject except its going to be bigger. General Eisenhower 22:14, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh and will you vote for me for adminship. If I become adminship, I will help Wikipedia into an age of prosperity. General Eisenhower 00:21, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I officially meet all requirements. A little over a month of contributions; 500 or more edits; already got the request down. So I am running. General Eisenhower 00:38, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza

Welcome, Condem/Archive 2, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections are right now.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, please see the IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

George Money^{Talk Contribs}

23:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I too would like to welcome you. Cheers! _-M ^o P-_ 00:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Myself as well. Welcome! —

nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 05:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

I am officially running for adminship. Thank you so much Condem. Cross your fingers for me. General Eisenhower 01:17, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

It is pointless trying to run for adminship. I will always be deleted from the adminship list. General Eisenhower 17:36, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Easter

Happy Easter to you, too! --George Money^{Talk Contribs 03:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{Thank you! :) I was going to send the picture to the left to you and tell you to "dig into these", but I see someone's beaten me to it. Happy Easter to you. --Mal 03:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{Happy Easter!}

^{They were laid by a chocolate bunny. Go on, take them! :P _-M ^o P-_ 04:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{Happy Easter! :D _-M ^o P-_ 04:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{In return, here's a pretty solid-gold one for you. :-)}

^{James F. (talk) 13:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{Re: Squidward's house merge}

^{Hi there, Condem! After looking at those pages, I also feel it would be better to remerge Squidward's house and Spongebob's Pineapple with Bikini_Bottom#Homes. Let's go for it! I'll see what I can do for now. -- RattleMan 22:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{OK, I've merged both into Bikini_Bottom#Homes, which I think is the best move. Tell me what you think! -- RattleMan 22:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)}

^{Editor review}

^{Can you review me at my editor review. Thanks--GeorgeMoney^{Talk Contribs} 00:30, 19 April 2006 (UTC)}

I reviewed you at your Editor Review page; follow what I said there, and you should be good to go. But you've done very well so far! _-M ^o P-_ 01:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. and if you want, review me too ;P _-M ^o P-_ 01:17, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello!

Belated Happy Easter to you! Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 15:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Wrong Guess

Wrong guess... :) Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 23:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Nope, try again. :-) Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 11:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm giving you a clue.

All the names you have guessed have one thing in common. Look at the other side. Think of the word Opposite. :-) Take Care Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 23:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Nope. Think of the word Opposite.

(Major Clue No.2 = I'm not French. :-) ) Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 00:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

:) Yes. I'm not a guy. Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 09:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

people got the first two parts of my name right. ( Mary Jane ). My name sounds like a Fictional character's name. Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 09:43, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Question

Hey there. Primary colours of disgracefulness was the first page I've nominated for deletion, and after briefly perusing Wikipedia:Deletion I couldn't figure out whether or not I could immediately nominate it for speedy deletion (which I thought it merited)...there wasn't a nice little three step process for speedy deleting something. Could you clear this up? Thanks! Keppa 01:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello Condem

As you are the person who provided Keppa with instructions on page deletions, I ask you to read this exchange http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Keppa&action=edit&section=3 with an eye toward providing more explicit guidance on when to delete and when not to delete. Keppa's over-enthusiastic use of deletion cost me time. Now Keppa is demanding more of my time, specifically that I stop and explain to Keppa what Keppa did. Clearly Keppa does not understand the process.

As Keppa's tutor on this subject, perhaps you will provide more detailed instruction --a caveat perhaps?---so Keppa does not continue to demand attention after being too quick to delete pages that are being worked on. As a volunteer, like you, with limited time to give, I appreciate any effort you can spare in resolving this. Thanks. skywriter 11:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

This would indeed be useful of you if Keppa had done what Skywriter alleges. I read through all of the material MoP provided me with and while I'm obviously inexperienced with deletion I believe I am going about it in an acceptable way. What's more, I didn't delete the page that Skywriter claims I did. Skywriter is unable to provide proof that I did, he/she just keeps making these spurious claims and getting more and more upset as I try to figure out what he/she is talking about. Sorry to waste your time. Keppa 17:55, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. I appreciate your help! Keppa 18:56, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk page

"Please don't blank your talk page, it is considered rude on Wikipedia"? It's his talk page, Alegoo92 can do what the hell he likes with it. Please elaborate! --84.65.156.77 15:19, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Signature

I love your signature! It's so pretty! Sergeant Snopake, 15:31, 22 of April 2006

Thanks for your advice, it was much appreciated! S.S, 21:45, 22 of April 2006

Wikibreak

I am going on wikibreak. My sucessor has not created account until after I sent this message. But his name will be PaleoGenious.

General E isenhower Way down in Kokomo

Went on break for a day. Now I feel like I can fight stubs and very small articles. General_Eisenhower (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Community Justice

Welcome to Wikipedia:Community Justice! _-M ^o P-_ 03:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on joining. Oh and you like my new signature? I got it for when I run for adminship. General_Eisenhower (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights)

You did not. Stop using it. NSL E _(T+C) at 01:47 UTC (2006-04-25)

Gen Eis

Thanks for your note. I realise it may have been a bit harsh, but for some users, anything less doesn't really work. I don't know about this user, but since he's even tried running for admin before I'm not sure just saying "don't use it" would work. His warning stands, although if you can think of a better way to phrase it, feel free to change my comments (and link to this diff in the edit summary, so others understand the changing of the comment). NSL E _(T+C) at 01:46 UTC (2006-04-25)

Go ahead, although the point of the italics was to make sure he didn't miss it, as I'm not going to take ignorance as an excuse if/when I do need to block him. NSL E _(T+C) at 01:54 UTC (2006-04-25)

LAtino

Hi! Could you keep an eye on the Latino article for vandalism by User: HenryMarks

Cheers!--Burgas00 18:49, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Mass welcoming

Am I allowed to welcome over 50 users or more a day? Ihave been doing a lot of that. General Eisenhower 01:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

You are allowed to welcome as many people as you like, but please remember to subst: the templates and use edit summaries. If you make your own template, maybe you would want to put it here. Thanks, --George Money^{Talk Contribs} 01:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi I'm new

Hello I'm new to wikipedia. I like your user page. The League of Crazy Men 16:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

At the moment I only have around 70 edits. The League of Crazy M en 11:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem

I didn't even notice :) Qtoktok 23:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandal Help

Hi, I see you've inserted the {{helpme}} tag. Can I help you with something? --Pilot|guy 01:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Recently I reverted some vandal edits to Mattie Stepanek. I warned the IP on the talk page, but he's changed the messages to say something else. What should I do? The user is User:24.54.42.123. He also removed a PROD notice I put up recently, without explanation, on Paul Phoenix (singer). Should I put it back up? Con D e m^Talk 01:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

I reverted the edits on both occasions, and warned the user on both occasions. In the future you can use {{subst:wr}} for talk page warning removals. --Pilot|guy 01:21, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks for your help! Con D e m^Talk 01:29, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

May the Force be with you.

Dear Condem/Archive 2,

Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your faith in me, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to my RFA; for it shows that at least I'm doing something right. :) I've started working to improve myself already, and I hope that next time, things run better, and maybe, just maybe, one day we can bask on the shores of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M o P-_ 21:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

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My Signature

Dear Condem, I have changed my sig to make it only 3 lines. Can you change your vote at Wikipedia:Signature Poll/GeorgeMoney to oppose?

Below is a box that shows how my poll is doing:

Click show to see GeorgeMoney's signature poll. At WP:SIGPOLL Vote here

Thanks, --GeorgeMoney^{Talk Contribs} 02:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC).

Narrow Minded

When I said that users who claim GeorgeMoney's signature was too long were narrow-minded on the sigpoll, I didn't mean you. You're fun! Sergeant Snopake 9:33, 8 May 2006