User talk:Dreaded Walrus/Archives/July 2007

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Umm

I posted a reply (I think) on my "my talk" page, but I don't think it alerts you with the new message? So, I will just post one here. Thanks for the cheatsheet link. Helps quite a bit. Um, how do I reply to someones message so that they know I replied?NastalgicCam 05:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I added your talk page to my watchlist, so, when I click on that button at the top of every page that says "my watchlist", it shows me the current status of every page on my watchlist, and who made the most recent changes. That's how I saw that you needed help earlier. I would have responded to your most recent message sooner, but I was away from the computer. Rest assured, I will see any message you leave on your talk page, though. Likewise, if someone is waiting for a response from you on a page, they will probably have it on their own watchlist. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 05:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Oh, ok, cool. I'm used to a forum system really, so I usually have an inbox, as do others. It would be nice if a feature like that was added to Wikipedia. Nice way to sort out messages =) NastalgicCam 21:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

bad form

where are the guidelines on this bad form, so i may become more familiar with them?Cholga is a SUPERSTAR¡Talk2Cholga!Sexy Contribs 18:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

"Bad form" isn't the name of any particular guideline. I meant it's bad form to copy and paste the same message to multiple users on multiple pages. As for that, please see our guidelines on canvassing. More appropriate to this particular case would be WP:MULTI. If you need more information, that section used to be an entire page, here. Have a read through those, especially those last two. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 04:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks from User:Jade1984

And i'm really sorry. I do this loads of times but...I know it's really bad. Anyways thank you. Jade1984 05:45, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem, just make sure you explain to Fluence, as he was probably the most worried of everyone (and for obvious reasons). You should specify an email address at Special:Preferences, so that you two can talk about this in perhaps a bit more of a private manner than here on your talk pages.

Well Ok...and what's wrong with my talk page. It's getting deleted but then it comes back on again. Don't know it sounds kind of creepy. 59.183.132.148 14:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Shit man I did sign in. I was signed in when I wrote the above message. Is something wrong with Wikipedia?- Jade1984

Not that I'm aware of. Perhaps your session is expiring? Are you using a proxy to edit Wikipedia? Make sure that next time you log in, you tick the "remember me" box (that might not be the exact name). --Dreaded Walrus t c 11:06, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Help

I have finally decided to take up your offer of help, please can you help me to fix my little problem, not sure what this is going to look like --Krummy2 12:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

0051 This user [http://tools.wikimedia.de/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=krummy2=enwiki has made 51 pointless contributions.

[1]


Hmm, I must admit, tables and other such things are not specialities of mine, so I can't particularly help you there. What I can link you to, is {{User contrib}}, which is very similar to what you are looking for. Example:

{{user contrib|50}}

would make
50+ This user has made over 50 contributions to Wikipedia.




If you wanted to customise it a bit, you could substitute it by using {{subst:usercontrib|50}}, and then work with that code, to see what you can make. --Dreaded Walrus t c 13:31, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


You are a living God --Krummy2 08:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Haha, thanks. :P --Dreaded Walrus t c 08:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Again thanks for clearing up the editing page thing on my user page

Krummy2 10:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem. As a general rule of thumb, the more advanced pages (anything that isn't located at PAGE NAME, such as Tennis, or PAGE NAME/SUB PAGE, such as Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 2007) have to be linked externally. Examples would be editing my userpage, checking a page's history, checking the logs of a specific page, and other such things. --Dreaded Walrus t c 11:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Another question

Hey, sorry to bother you again but I have another question for you. DOes Wikipedia use a standard HTML/CSS system as well? I was wondering if it is possible to add things like DIV to user profiles and pages. NastalgicCam 13:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

As above, coding isn't really a strong point of mine, but there is a rather comprehensive list of markup here, and maybe this could be of use to you. Let me know how you get on. --Dreaded Walrus t c 14:00, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Right-o. Thanks very much, you see, I can type HTML and CSS, but this Wiki-language is a bit strange.
I used to be able to do a bit of HTML, when I was younger, but, without practice, it kinda faded. I should also tell you that much of the most commonly used markup appears either on the toolbar just above the edit window, or, if you scroll down, there is a clickable list of markup, that instantly inserts it where the cursor is. I find myself using both regularly. --Dreaded Walrus t c 14:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
I've been using that often myself. It's useful because Wiki seems to use commands instead of a markup, or at least a made-up markup. Eventually I will learn more about this crazy website and (hopefully) become an active contributor. =) NastalgicCam 14:25, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Aha! Found something else you might like. Look here: Meta:Help:HTML in wikitext. As for getting used to wikitext itself, you may be interested in keeping this handy, similarly to the cheatsheet I linked you previously. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 14:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
YOu are amazing mate. Thank you thank you thank you. =) NastalgicCam 15:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Haha, no problems. You just let me know if you need any more help with anything at all, and I'll try to help as best I can. --Dreaded Walrus t c 15:37, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Then expect a billion questions! D= Heh. Is there a community on Wiki, or is it simply "professional", in the sense that people only discuss the topics and pages.NastalgicCam 15:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

(resetting indentation) Well, we have mailing lists, and IRC channels. Though I'm not at all active in either of them. If you've added your email address to your preferences, you can also email anyone else that has added their email address. There is a button on the left hand side, in the toolbox. This will reveal your email address to that user though, when your email arrives in their inbox. So don't start emailing someone who doesn't like you for whatever reason. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 15:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

AHHHH!! IRC! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Bah, I always hated those =P. As for E-mail, that seems as if it would be the most obvious, ya? I might get to work on my Wiki User Page today, try to mess with CSS , maybe place a DIV over it =). NastalgicCam 16:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
I've probably already pointed this out to you, but if you want somewhere to practice, you can always try things out at the sandbox, or you can even create your own personal sandbox in your userspace, if you want. To create a page in your userspace, just go to, for example, User:NastalgicCam/Sandbox, and edit. Be sure to remember to preface it with "User:NastalgicCam" though, case-sensitive, otherwise it will be created as a subpage of some other User's page, which would be bad. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 16:10, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah yeah, I played with the sandbox earlier. I just made an image for the header of my user page which is now up, I just made my own template. Wasn't too difficult (as long as you have banner experience).` It's rather basic for now, but you can check it out if you want. NastalgicCam 16:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
It's not bad, though if all you want is an image to display, you don't need to create a template for that. Just type [[Image:Example.jpg]] (in your case, this would be Image:Qxz-ad-23153675347as.gif). Also, the template you created ({{Qxz-ad}}) is very similarly named to an existing template {{Qxz-ads}}, which is used by a lot of people (including me, on my page). This means that people who could be looking for {{Qxz-ads}} might accidentally type {{Qxz-ad}}, and get your template rather than the one they intended. With your permission, I'd like to change the template you created to redirect to the more established template. If you like, I could move your template to a new name if you like (such as {{NastalgicCam-header}}, as an example), though like I say, if all you are using it for is a single static image, then you don't need a template for it. It would be like creating a template to put the words "hello!". It's just a strain on the server :). As an aside, you have, on your user page, {{Qxz-ad#23153675347as}}. Everything after and including the hash symbol (#) isn't recognised in templates, and it is therefore useless as far as your template goes. You just need to use {{Qxz-ad}}. Let me know what your thoughts on all this are, and I'll act accordingly. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 16:37, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Doh! I feel stupid now =P. In that case, um, feel free to delete the template, for I will just use the code for the static image. See, I got confused thinking that it would be a thumbnail image with the caption, which is not what I wanted. So yeah, you can remove that template if you know how to, I will just make a static one.NastalgicCam 16:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, don't worry. We all make mistakes. If you do want to embed a thumbnail image, do it like this:
image caption
image caption
 :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 16:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Yea yea. I ended up putting a thumbnail image of myself in there with the caption "It's me!". I'm basically making it a profile like one that would be of a celebrity on Wiki or anyone who has a profile made for them.NastalgicCam 17:21, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

And

Thank you for your support on the Mademoiselle K page. It just seemed like all my typing hard work was going to go to waste. Thanks once again :-) Jade1984 15:00, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem at all. I must admit I'd never heard of her myself (I don't follow music), but a quick Google leads me to believe she may well be notable enough. This is where I usually say "If you have any questions or need any help, feel free to ask", but I you're probably more experienced than me when it comes to working on articles. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 15:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh no it's nothing like that really but thanks anyways :D! I actually heard of her last month, she's gaining popularity though. She sings in French, so maybe not many people know about her. Jade1984 06:24, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

My new sign.

I made a sign for me, like others have, because I didn't like the basic one. I hope you don't mind that I used yours as a reference (for the "sup" tags really). I didn't copy any of your coding, just used it as a reference because when I tried using standard CSS on it, it said invalid *shrugs*. -CamT|C 07:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem at all, it looks good. :)
Oh, and just as an aside, I saw you requested help on how to revert changes. You may be interested in reading Help:Reverting. Let me know if that helps you at all (you could try making a test edit to your own page, and then reverting it, to see if it worked. :) ) --Dreaded Walrus t c 08:00, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, a few minutes after making that help post I deleted it because I found that same page. Someone had put something stupid, like "PEEEEEEE POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!" on the main talk page but I didn't know how to fix it! =O -CamT|C 08:18, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
I saw that. [2] It was reverted a minute later though anyway, so that's okay. Still, feel free to go ahead and revert any vandalism you see, and you'll be improving the encyclopedia. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 08:24, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Makes me feel warm and fuzzy when I do it. =) Also, do I have permission to edit any page as need be? I see a lot of grammar problems I could change, but don't know if I will get a slap on the wrist and sent to the corner. -CamT|C 08:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, thanks for making the edit to my E-mail adress yesterday, I just decided to make it a mailto link for now. I may remove it though. -CamT|C 08:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
No problem. Also, there are only a few pages that regular users aren't able to edit (the main page being one example), but if you see another page, any other page that needs anything changing, removing, added to it, we have one particular guideline, that is perhaps far more important for our newer users to remember than for our older ones, and that is, Be bold. To elaborate, if you see a change that needs doing, whether it's poor formatting, grammar errors, spelling errors, typos, do it! As long as it isn't blatant vandalism, then even if your changes were seen as bad and reverted, you probably won't get slapped with a warning or owt. Perhaps the main thing you should be aware of when making changes are American and British English differences. Remember that you shouldn't, for example, go through the article on American football, and change all spelling to British English, and you shouldn't go through the article on, say, Harry Potter, and change all spelling to American English. Apart from that, really do be bold. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 08:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Ahh ahh, ok, ok. I just have a lot of fear of screwing something up, even though it can be fixed, I don't want a reputation like that =/. -CamT|C 08:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hehe thanks

Thanks for the comment, and the edit with the IMDB tag. You feel like my Wikipedia Big Brother =P. It's cool. -CamT|C 07:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Haha, no problem. I've just been checking your contributions every now and then, and I must say, your edits to actual articles have all been excellent. I can't see you getting any legitimate warnings on your talk page any time soon. And I'll let you into a little secret here: I've never actually created an article myself (apart from redirects to other articles, and talk pages, that kind of thing) , so at this rate, you'll soon be the one teaching me things. :P --Dreaded Walrus t c 07:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Ha, I panicked at first not knowing how to really start the coding, so I borrowed some codes from other film pages (to make the table) -CamT|C 07:41, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Um, also, I made a few pages so when people search something like "warcrat movie", "warcraft film", etc, they are redirected to that page. That's allowed right? I only made about three pages of what I thought would be "common" searches. I just didn't know if it puts too much of a strain on the servers? -CamT|C 07:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I saw the redirect pages that you created, and those are all fine, and definitely useful. It would only really be a bother if you redirected Warcraft to the film, or if you created redirects that people aren't going to type, such as The Warcraft film that's going to be released in 2008, probably. To be honest, the article should probably be located at Warcraft (film), as we tend to prefer the term film to movie here on Wikipedia, but that article is already a redirect, so if you wanted to move the article over, you'd have to ask an admin to do it. --Dreaded Walrus t c 07:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Should I both do you think? Considering that anyone who types in warcraft film will be taken there. Or is it an issue of the headline saying "Warcraft (film)" as instead of "Warcraft (movie)"? If so, I will change it.
As for the making redirect pages, I understand that. I added a link to the film page in the Warcraft universe page, but not actually redirect the entire page. -CamT|C 08:00, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

On a personal note.

Do you play World of Warcraft? I noticed some of your Blizzard edits and was just curious. I'm actually reactivating my account tomorrow after leaving Star Wars Galaxies for the second time. =P -CamT|C 08:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

R.E. Dereck Poliink

Sorry I could not resist checking if he had left wikipedia or he had decided to keep his prying nose out of my affairs, the nonce, who the hell did he think he was, "I pridemyself on never vandalising any article on wikipedia" he had only been a member for two days! --Krummy2 08:45, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

External links confused with SEO

Greetings! My placing of Geocities link for a chocolate chip cookie RECIPE has no effect on its search engine ranking. Again, it is a recipe, and rare enough that warranted being hosted on Geocities. This is a Yahoo's-own-ads supported hosting out of which I have no reward. I have had other pages posted briefly, which provide significant, academic-encyclopedic info. They have been taken down by narrow-minded crusaders bearing the torch against anything identifiable as Geocities. I will not clamor, though.Have a great 4th of J Bo Basil 20:13, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

No user that is removing your links (as I last did one month ago) is under the impression that it is SEO. Wikipedia has used nofollow tags for a long time now. However, that doesn't affect the fact that some people add links to Wikipedia to increase traffic to their page, for whatever reason. Why add a link to your recipe for chocolate chip cookies on our article on chocolate chip? Shouldn't that be added to our page on chocolate chip cookies? However, on that page, we already have links to four recipes in the external links section (and four notable recipes at that), and also a link to a Wikibooks cookbook on them. So, the question is, why do we need yet another chocolate chip cookie recipe? --Dreaded Walrus t c 05:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Which part of the country do you live? Where I lived and came from, which is Midwest and Northeast, has always preferred Entennman's. It's not a flashy, fashion-associated brand. Their cookies are in such demand that they have undergone a lot of changes. As a result of the changes, the original, non-diet, non-reduced fat recipe is almost forgotten save for very few places on the web, mine included.
Thus, we are not talking about a link to a software download, to adult content, to an on-line commerce. It's chocolate cookies. What else is wrong with that? It's logical to think of Chocolate Chip, Cookies, Chocolate, and other related topic pages to place the recipe therein, within their external link sections.It's almost an act of public service! I am still interested in pursuing the matter in this amicable fashion (though the link enforcement affair starts looking hilarious).
If I could, I would send you a batch from my wife's weekly bakeathon. Bo Basil 08:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
This is the bit where I admit I'm not from the same country as you. I was born in Yorkshire, and currently live in the Northwest of England, though I was in New Hampshire for the second half of April, and plan on moving over there if not next year, then some time in the next two or three. Just another reason why it would be impractical for you to send me some cookies in the foreseeable future, though I'm sure I would love them almost infinitely more than the toothbreakingly-hard cookies I have to buy from supermarkets round here.
I am all for homemade recipes over the big-brand equivalent. My grandmother would make dandelion and burdock much nicer than that of Barr. She would make Yorkshire puddings of much higher quality than that of big brands or private label manufacturers.
However, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a mere collection of recipes. Indeed, the only recipe in our article on Yorkshire puddings was removed on June 30, and I have to say that I am not against that change. We try to avoid having huge sections with quotations from one person or another because that's what Wikiquotes is for. We try to avoid having definitions of words, because that's what Wiktionary is for. And likewise, we try to avoid recipes on Wikipedia because that's what Wikibooks is for.
So please, take this as an invitation. Go to Chocolate Chip Cookies on Wikibooks, and include your recipe. The Wikibooks Cookbook is exactly that. It is a place for recipes. Sorry I took so long to respond to your message, I hope you haven't been waiting all this time. Feel free to respond here, and I will reply as soon as I get the chance. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 09:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Great. Thanks for the info. The subject has been resolved.Bo Basil 20:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! I'm glad I could help, and I apologise if I took a while to get there. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions in the future. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 20:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Me again

I'm sorry I do not know what you mean about editing other peoples comments, not guilty.

Krummy2 10:04, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Not you, it was User:Dereck poliink. See here, where he changes your response to me to say "your clearly a wonderful person and i think your a real nice guy". Sorry I didn't make it clearer that it was him and not you. --Dreaded Walrus t c 10:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)


ahh i see, sorry about your page history it will teach me to be logged in and leave my computer. Krummy2 10:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem, just be sure that you don't leave it logged in if you one day become ad admin, as then the bad stuff really happens. :P --Dreaded Walrus t c 12:29, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Dereck Poliink is a hoax, friends idea of a joke... very, very, very funny looking back. Krummy2 13:16, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Something's wrong

Ok, someone moved the Warcraft movie page to redirect to the Warcraft universe page where there is only a tiny article on the movie. They haven't dont this for Transformers, Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc, they all had their own movie pages. Why would someone do that? I'm seriously pissed. Please get back to me soon. -CamT|C 11:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I went in and changed the redirect. So it's safe, for now. -CamT|C 11:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
(after edit conflict) I think the reason they did that is because of the reasons stated at WP:CRYSTAL. That is, there is not much known about the film yet other than that it's been announced. It was originally deleted around the same time this year. See here, and see also this one. I wouldn't take it as anything personal against, as you did a good job on the article. The problem is, that just not enough is know about it yet. Feel free to recreate the article, when more is known. Does this make sense? --Dreaded Walrus t c 11:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, firstly, there is enough of the article to confirm that it is being made and will be released which for a person who doesn't entirely know whether it will or not, can be reassuring to confirm that it will. Also, how can be consider this "Crystal Balling", yet there are pages that are predicting events 100 googol (100 to the 100th power) years away? It' doesn't make sense. If you are going to delete pages becuase people aren't sure what will/won't happen, then I say remove all the pages past the 21st century. -CamT|C 11:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
(edit conflict) The difference between the Warcraft film, and, say, Speed Racer, which you mention on another page, is that if you look at Speed Racer, there is a lot known about the film. There is a full list of the cast, with citations, there is an outline of the plot, with citations. There is a history of the project, and of the production, with citations. There is information on the marketing of the film, with citations. In total, there are 29 citations for the article, and links to the official site, among others.
There is, unfortunately, not as much known about the Warcraft film at the moment. I will be busy for the next 3+ hours, so you'll have to forgive me taking a while to respond. I'll try to help you more when I get back, but until then, don't revert his changes, alright? I'll respond to your newest message then. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 11:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm just a little furious at the moment is all. I don't why someone would even bother doing this. There thousands of pages with little information but no one edits them. -CamT|C 12:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Walrus, I didn't see your request to centralize the discussion here. I already left a comment to Cam at the user's talk page, explaining my reasoning. Assuming good faith, I did some research and found some minor film coverage about script development, which I've included here. I'm not sure if Cam completely understands the application of WP:CRYSTAL and WP:CFORK to creating an article of a future film; Spider-Man 4 and the Superman Returns sequel don't have their own articles because there's no actual production yet. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

He's my "mentor" =P. I go to him when I have problems, and he was helping to discuss why it was deleted. It's not an attack on him, trust me. -CamT|C 14:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Trolling

How was what I wrote on the Wikipedia Main Page deemed "trolling"?--GOD 15:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Because it had the potential to stir up emotions, and your comment had no potential (or intent) to actually contribute to the discussion. Saying that all Americans are "not cultured" is just as incorrect a stereotype as saying that all us British have bad teeth/ are butlers. Do you see? --Dreaded Walrus t c 19:50, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes I agree but comeon they were just a tad un cultured weren't they, I know where most places are in the US and if they have sports teams and if I don't i would do a bit of research so that I wouldn't look a complete fool. I am new and I shall learn to not make such comments in the future--GOD 11:55, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem, we all make mistakes when we're new. If you need any help at all, feel free to ask. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 12:00, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks--GOD 13:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that you had given a code for a table in a previous conversation, I took it upon myself to rip it to my user page but now it is not working, it only notes edits I have made to either my user page or a users talk page, do you know what is wrong?--GOD 13:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not certain I follow. What code? What table? Could you rephrase your request? --Dreaded Walrus t c 13:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, sorry. It was an edit counter given to user:krummy2 so I took the code, it was the one which looked a bit like (user contrib|50). Well, that edit counter counts all the edits which I make, with an edit summary or not, green and red respectively and it should show a table underneath saying where exactly you have edited BUT mine only shows the edits I have made to either my User Page or a talk page, not for discussions on articles, I have not edited on someone else's user page. Hope you can tell what is wrong, sorry for my bad grammar. --GOD 08:59, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry that I took your talk page information box from your discussion page without saying anything, and this edit counter. --GOD 08:59, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Trolls

Thanks for the revert. I appear to have been adopted by some small trolls of the "Andrew is gay" variety. They're not very amusing, but they're not very annoying either. Acroterion (talk) 13:56, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem at all. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 13:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that

Thanks for fixing the grammar mistake in the custom template I ripped from your talk page :) I'm curious, how did you find out who was using it? --Android Mouse 04:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I just read your user page, and I must say, I'm flattered :D Thanks again! --Android Mouse 04:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
You're flattered? I'm the one that's flattered! :P
Yeah, but seriously, nice to see that I'm good at doing something other than reverting things here and there. As it happens though, I actually only noticed you had it by pure coincidence. I saw User:Anchor Link Bot going about its work a couple of weeks back, and was going to post a little message saying congratulations (when a few people were saying they couldn't see the point e.t.c.), but I got sidetracked. And I remembered about it today when seeing this edit, but when I got there, I found you had the template thing there. I was quite honoured, to say the least. :)
As for the others, I saw FM07GOD had taken it while I was responding to him one time, and Acroterion posted a message on my talk page at the time. The other two I found through Google. But yes, good work with the bots. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 05:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
It must have been a slow night if you were going around taking out commas! It's so hard to get good customer service these days ... Acroterion (talk) 11:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

New articles

Is there a way to see the new artcles that have been created ie the recent articles? --GOD 10:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

There most certainly is. Special:Newpages. Beware, as there's a lot of awful stuff that gets created all the time, and is deleted a little bit later. It's quite fast moving at times. :P --Dreaded Walrus t c 11:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou this is most pleasing. --GOD 12:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and just for future reference, you can find a list of special Special:Specialpages. --Dreaded Walrus t c 12:19, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I will take a look, thanks. --GOD 09:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Great work! ;)

Image:Working_Man's_Barnstar.png
For your hard work and efforts into reverting vandalism and trolls on Habbo Hotel, and helping to improve the article as a whole. Your work is greatly appreciated. Sebi [talk] 04:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

The Slow, Beautiful Plague Spreads

Dust Filter is using your template now; the infection source was probably my page. Acroterion (talk) 11:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Muhahaha, thanks. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 14:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks from User:ElKevbo

Thanks for the support. I don't begrudge him or her the opportunity to try to start from a clean slate and it seems that he or she has done that admirably well. But I object to his or her continued actions related to that particular article. The opportunity to attempt to start over does not, IMHO, extend to ignoring the past when past behavior is continuing into the present. --ElKevbo 01:51, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I've been involved in that page for a short while, and while I don't have much of an opinion on whether he is or isn't the same person (though consensus from those that know better than me suggest he may be), I don't agree that we should edit other people's comments so that they reflect our own opinion. That's just madness. We would have anti-war websites with a direct quote from Churchill claiming he said "This was a waste of taxpayer's money". :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 02:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Somewhere in Indiana

Somewhere in Indiana, around midnight, a boy sticks an official-looking tag on my talk page. About five minutes later, a Walrus reverts it. Thanks to the Walrus, may he be dreaded in Indiana. I think I'll take AuburnPilot up on semi-protecting the userpage, though. Acroterion (talk) 14:17, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

The kiddies are busy, but you were on them in one minute. Thanks for the watchful eye. Acroterion (talk) 21:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I like the addition to your userpage, Mr. Wiki-Hitler, sockpuppet-of-many. You may be familiar with Godwin's law? Acroterion (talk) 21:21, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Yes. Though even by those rules, this must be some kind of record. I got compared to Hitler without any discussion! :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 22:22, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Once again, thanks for the troll revert, and thanks in advance for future reverts, as he's likely to be with us for a while. Acroterion (talk) 12:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
By the way, I opened a checkuser here [3], if you're interested in the process - not that we'll know specifics, but the conclusions should be published. The troll's now stalking my edit history, so he's already modified the RFCU (and been reverted). Acroterion (talk) 17:40, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


RE: Servisair

Thanks for independently removing the copyvio on Servisair. Much appreciated. Onnaghar (Talk) 20:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Speedy tags on Lee Baker, Jack Compton, Ade Manchester

These were all put for up for speedy because the notability critera arrived at by concensus for footballers is they must have played a first team game for a side in a fully professional league. This is something that none have these have achieved, nor do their articles assert to have met this. Nuttah68 19:31, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Good point. I am tired, and got confused between friendly matches and professional matches (I had not read the notability guidelines for people in quite a while). Feel free to re-add the tags. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 19:42, 31 July 2007 (UTC)