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[edit] Creating a WikiProject

Hi! I want to create a WikiProject, in order to discuss and create some standards for articles about Portuguese municipalities and parishes. Can I just create it without asking anybody or do I need to discuss it with the community? How did you manage to create the WikiProject Porto? Cheers! Afonso Silva 14:14, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I created WikiProject Portuguese Geography. I think it is a viable topic, as there are several other similar projects. As you may notice there, I created it in order to create some guidelines before starting creating and translating the articles about Portuguese parishes and in order to improve the articles about municipalities. Other major objective is to create a standard, which I believe to be a major concern in an encyclopedia. I hope it attracts more contributors, but, as you know, Portugal lacks editors. I didn't knew that you were leaving, I hope you return or keep contact, and, despite not being a perfect country, I also hope you enjoyed Portugal. Cheers!

[edit] Thanks so much Deizio

 Dude, I wanted to thank you so much for your support the last little while! Thanks for taking the time to vote on my request for adminship, and for your note of congratulations. Look forward to working with you as an admin! To quote you That really was a Nice one! Take care man -- Samir धर्म 08:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] (hello, yew must be new...)

Hilarious. maxcap 01:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DVD+R/W's RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which ended with the result of (74/0/0). If there is anything I can help with feel free to ask. Also, if there is anything I am doing wrong, please point that out as well. I look forward to working with you in the future.

Highest regards, DVD+ R/W 01:44, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your support

Dear Deiz/archive5,
Thank you very much for your support on my recent RfA. I am pleased to announce that it passed with a tally of 72/11/1, and I am now an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the tools, but please let me know if there are any admin jobs I can do to help you, now or in the future. —Cuiviénen 02:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi, thanks for your comments on my talk page. I have been doing a bit of RC Patrolling lately, and yes, I have been around before, however, my old account was lynch mobbed when I was asked to mediate in a dispute. I have been away for a while now, and I have just decided to come back.Abcdefghijklm 10:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

P.S. my username actually has reason to it, it symbolises the letters of the alpahabet leading up to the first letter of my surname. As I am a philosopher, I use it to symbolise thigs in the past. Although, after my RC Patrolling, I do see why it might be seen as controvertial! Thanks again!Abcdefghijklm 10:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gregoire AfD

Save your edits, please. I lost mine, rewrote and saved whilst you were adding the Major Edit tag. The Editrix 23:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frederico Chaves Guedes

I see there has been an influx of vandalism on the page. Good job it's protected now! Good catch! I have also not been able to find information that confirms he is affiliated with a particular religion either, it's not even as if it's important in terms of his sporting ability, which is why he is on here in the first place! Abcdefghijklm 11:20, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Office Space

Replied at Talk:Office Space#Trivia_2. Thanks for your diligence - LeflymanTalk 00:02, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: IMDb

Hi Michael, just wondering about your IMDb = notability standard, especially given your contradicting votes at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Formula (2002) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Haynes. IMDb attempts to include all actors, films, tv shows, crew members etc. and is, in that regard, an indiscriminate collection of information. It is also a commercial site where anyone can pay to become listed, either for "involvement" in something they came up with themselves, or by buying a credit, for example the 4,500 "producers" of The 1 Second Film, who paid $1 for their status.

Basically, having an IMDb listing does not in anyway guarantee notability, it is simply the case that a great many notable people are listed in IMDb. Using this as the sole criteria to keep ignores WP:BIO and the other established notability guidelines. I hope you see where I'm coming from? nice one, Deizio talk 13:56, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Incase you haven't seen by my voting habits, i'm mainly an inclusionist, so I look for any excuse to keep a page. I never knew IMDB was commercial though; it's like i've been citing the yellow pages in AfD! (though slightly different) Anyway, you probably want to read: User talk:WCityMike#People's Comments on My AfD Votes, he's been deleting stuff at a rate of 50E99 pages a day for a while, I hope he never makes admin or the encyclopedia will be halved! To keep with my inclusionist values (no it isn't a religion) I voted keep on a whole tonne of things he nominated yesterday based on 2 things: google hits & IMDB listing. You are robably right in saying it doesn't gain a page notability, so I suppose I should do my research next time, eh? I'm going on a short wikibreak so you wont have to put up with opinion-based votes from me for the next few days :-). See you around. MichaelBillington 00:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bravos 100 Funniest Movies

I will answer you on my talk page. --JeffW 14:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Juicy girl

Article 134 is very general, indeed. To be honest, I'm not sure if the article specifically mentions bar fines or not, but the military interprets it as banning bar fines. They also ask bars near military bases to display posters listing some practices -- including bar fines -- which are banned by article 134. I'll try to take a picture when I have time.--ThreeAnswers 01:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Correio da Manhã / JN

Correio da Manhã is market leader in Portugal since 2003. Sources:

  • [1] (Portuguese)
  • [2] (Portuguese)

[edit] Flipperazine (or whatever)

Thanks! I think I've been erring a little too much on the side of deletion and have been trying to overcompensate -- glad you flipperized this one. NawlinWiki 03:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mitch Hedberg

Oh, no, the article definitely doesn't need to be protected for very long, it's just that there have been quite a few edit battles between anon users, especially open mic vs. open mike. This has gone on for quite a while, among other random, but not frequent, acts of vandalism. I just hope that a few days of semi-protection will either make the anon users involved either register or stop, either of which is acceptable.--the Dannycas 20:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

    • It says that it's semi-protected, but doesn't have the lock in the corner. I'll be on vacation for a while, so feel free to unprotect whenever. --the Dannycas 02:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CooperYoung

Ah, gotcha, thanks for that! Bit like grown-up tic-tac-toe maybe, in that inexperienced players would probably get regularly whupped, whereas good players would tend to have a lotta (long and drawn-out) stalemates.. at least until total random chance helped out. :-)

Shame it's likely getting deleted, I'm starting to think maybe a merge back to the inventor's article would be more appropriate, especially since that's already chock-full of unsubstantiated "facts"... --DaveG12345 03:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re my RFA

I replyed to your oppose vote, thanks Jaranda wat's sup 00:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support in my RfA!

Thanks for voting!
Hello Deiz/archive5, and thanks for your support in my recent RfA. I'm pleased to announce that it passed with a final tally of (96/0/0). I was overwhelmed by all of the nice comments and votes of confidence from everyone. Thanks again, and see you around! OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BB7

(this is a copy of text from my own userpage(User_talk:Celardore).

I stand by my edit. I quote:
"Aisleyne is also noted for her strong Jamaican accent and has been accused by other members of the house (most vocally by Grace) of being a wigger."
end quote. My reasons for the edit I made are as follows:
  • 'Jamaican' accent. Unjustified - Aisleyne does not have a Jamaican accent, imitation of an accent does not count as a true 'accent'.
  • 'Most vocally by Grace' - Fair enough, Grace was vocal about this but is it really encyclopedic?
  • 'Wigger' - this is a disparaging term.
I find addition of this information to be anti-useful. It's all he says she says kinda stuff. I've copied this information to your talk page for convinence. Thanks, I'm not meaning to be harmful. I read the information as subtle attacks on the subject, which should not be allowed. I'm all open to discussion however, I was exercising my right to be BOLD. Cheers. Celardore 00:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

(end copy)

I've replied on my talk page. Thanks for your input. Celardore 01:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I changed my username

Hello! I'm Afonso Silva, I changed my username to Mário. Cheers! Mário 09:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this name is better, much shorter. I noticed him, he mostly edits articles related to Portuguese football, culture and some locations. His moves seem to be changing the original name in Portuguese to the English name. He, and other Portuguese contributors create a lots of pages with Portuguese names when an English translation would be obvious. However, he reverted our move of Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto to Greater Porto, perhaps while trying to keep consistency with the remaining metropolitan areas he created. It was surely a good faith edit, I just don't know if it should be reverted back, given that now the remaining articles are named like that. Good luck with your new life, wherever you live now. You never told me what made you come to Portugal. Cheers! Mário 22:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hwacha

Hi Deiz! Do you remember User:Wikimachine? I voted for you to be administrator. I've come to ask for help.

There's this article, Hwacha, that I've spent much time on and made it from a assortment of junks to a beautiful stub. But others are trying very hard to make the article not a stub.

The article itself is not very in-depth, and I've tried all possibilities of trying to make it more in-depth and making it less fake and exaggerated.

There also is a vote that I made on whether to exclude the popular culture section. Some people are way to crazy about games and just for games they put popular culture section. Then they excuse their action by saying that other articles such as trebuchet have them too. I'm really sorry if they do and are in horrendous status, but that's out of my knowledge base and I am busy keeping people from messing up the articles within my interests.

Could you validate the vote? Because this another user is trying to look all official and administrative and saying that the vote is not valid. I bet that he's not even in the adminship.

The discussion on the popular culture section is 3 months old now. I think a vote is necessary.

Another thing is that there has been this revert war between my stub and the original, overly bloated, fake, uncited bogus.

Seriously, many of the claims here are untrue, obvious, or unwarranted. Please do me a favor by cleaning up the situation. Thank you very much. (Wikimachine 04:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC))

[edit] My RfA thanks

Hello Deiz/archive5, and thank you for your support at my Request for Adminship, which succeeded with an overwhelming final count of (105/2/0). I was very pleased with the outpouring of kind words from the community that has now entrusted me with these tools, from the classroom, the lesson in human psychology and the international resource known as Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. Please feel free to leave me plenty of requests, monitor my actions (through the admin desk on my userpage) and, if you find yourself in the mood, listen to some of what I do in real life. In any case, keep up the great work and have a fabulous day. Grandmasterka 06:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Ooh, me too!

Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations!
To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well!
♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 00:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
By the way, I've got a WP:CHILLOUT page up and needing revision in my userspace if you're still interested in helping. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 00:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] For Your Information

I have recently changed my username from Abcdefghijklm to User:Seivad. This message has been left for anyone who has left a message on my old talk page. Thank You, Seivad 17:20, 19 July 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Poor show

As an admin you should be aware what article talk pages and user pages are for - and pointing to your link to a softcore gallery on your user page isn't it[3][4].

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#What not to use a talk page for...

Thanks/wangi 22:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe not Deacon Brodies, can still smell the pish in the toilets from here, but yeah that's a better approach!
If she does a bit more, makes herself a bit more notable (not just a bunny in the headlights) then it's probably a reference in her article ;) /wangi 22:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pages listed on Categories for deletion

Discussion on CFD - proposal to merge all subcats of Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from Scottish constituencies up into the main cat. Relevant categories which would be deleted are:

I think that this is a rather important discussion for editors interested in Scotland-related articles, especially Scottish politics and Scottish biographical articles (particularly local history). Please have a read and ponder, and contribute to the debate if you like. Thanks --Mais oui! 17:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

It would also be relevant in this context to consider the discussions in the parent category for the UK parliament: Category talk:British MPs. I find it regrettable that Mais oui! has engaged in a restructuring of that category without entering into the discussions there. --BrownHairedGirl 18:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_23#Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_Scottish_constituencies is just about to close. I would really appreciate your contribution, because this debate needs some serious input. --Mais oui! 09:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CFD again for "Entertainers by age upon death"

They are trying to delete this group of categories for the 4th time. Closing soon. (You voted to keep in January) --Blainster 10:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland

Pre-script: we are currently undergoing peer review, see: Wikipedia:Peer review/Scotland.

I am beginning to think that the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board is not the best vehicle for pushing up the quality of the Scotland article (we ought to try to get it to WP:FA, in order to get into Wikipedia:Version 0.5, or, failing that, Wikipedia:Version 1.0), and the other key Scottish articles. It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that we really ought to start up the long-mooted WikiProject Scotland.

Most of the stuff at the notice board (at least on the bottom half) is actually WikiProject material anyway, and the Talk page is really being used as a WikiProject talk already! The notice board should be just that: for bunging up brief notices and signposts. I am thinking of launching a Wikiproject and correspondingly radically clearing out, and chopping down, the noticeboard (a re-launch if you like). The Scotland Portal concept is fine (but currently mediocre/undynamic content), but in stasis: it needs a good kick up the jacksie.

For comparison, have a look at:

And, if you are at a loose end, have a look at:

Thoughts? Please express them here. --Mais oui! 19:59, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Following a successful period of consultation WikiProject Scotland has now been launched. As a participant in the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board I wonder if you may be interested in this new endeavour too? If so, please sign-up here. The WikiProject will be replacing some of the functions of the notice board, especially those in the lower half.
While I am here, please also have a look at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Scotland and give it a "Watch". It was started up by User:Visviva a few days ago, after long being mooted at the notice board, and effectively replaces all the AfD listings at the notice board. Being a transclusion of all the on-going discussions it is a much more useful tool.
Even if you do not want to spend too much time on the WikiProject, please give it a "Watch" and feel free to contribute to Talk page discussions: the more contributors the merrier.
All the best. --Mais oui! 11:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)