User talk:Dreaded Walrus/Archives/February 2007

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Why are you messing with my user "talk" page?

You took it upon yourself to remove some material from there without explanation here; care to let me know why? And please refrain from doing so in the future. +ILike2BeAnonymous 19:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I removed the "WikiHalo" from your userpage because it was awarded illegitimately by User:AwarderofHalos, who went round adding Halos to random users. See here. The WP:HALO project is about awarding Halos to users who the community decides (via the voting process seen here) are worthy. As your Halo was awarded at random, and the proper processes were not gone through, it is not a legitimate Halo, and therefore having it on your userpage implies endorsement where there is none.

This is the reason I removed it last time (I didn't mention a reason because I felt the removal of the Halo by User:67.68.5.189 back in January was for the same reason.

Due to the reasons provided in my first paragraph above, I shall be removing the Halo again. It is nothing personal against you, but the Halo is not there legally (for want of a better term).

Also, that was your Userpage, not your talk page. Thanks. --Dreaded Walrus 20:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, my bad, that was my userpage.

So tell me, "Dreaded Walrus" (is that what your friends call you?); just how do you know that this wikihalo was wrongly awarded to me? Isn't that kind of an epistemological impossibility? I mean, how can you climb inside that user's head to determine that it was erroneously awarded?

Not that I really give a shit about wikihalos one way or the other. +ILike2BeAnonymous 20:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

My friends (outside of the internet, anyway) don't call me Dreaded Walrus, just as your real life friends don't call you ILike2BeAnonymous. But that is neither here nor there.

With regards to how I know that particular Halo is unwarranted, you will see above I linked to the nomination process for receiving a Wikihalo. The user that added the Wikihalo to you (and to many others within a very short period of time) did not put you up for nomination, he simply added the template to all of your userpages, with the exact same stock wording each time. He was blocked indefinitely for his actions, if I remember correctly.

Perhaps one day someone will nominate you for a Wikihalo, and you may well receive one then.

You will notice I didn't remove the Barnstar on your userpage, as that doesn't require a nomination process or any nonsense like that, and the user who gave it to you was not breaking any kind of rules themselves.

Again, I hope you take none of this personally, as that is certainly not the intention. --Dreaded Walrus 21:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Nope, no harm, no foul. You have to understand I'm a bit irritated, as you're only one of about 3 editors the last couple days who's been doing this kind of meta-editing on either my user page or my talk page. +ILike2BeAnonymous 21:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Adding Gamevideos links

I'm new to linking and editing to Wiki and looking more at the guidelines you sent over I can see I was skipping some steps sorry! I'll add to the talk page instead. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

-Jay —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jayfresh006 (talk • contribs) 19:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC).