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[edit] Welcome!

[edit] SamSpade

Welcome to the Wikipedia I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

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(Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 21:53, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiacc

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] New user box

Hello Firestorm, It's Moe Epsilon. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! — Moe ε 04:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Invasion, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 18:31, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] medcabal

Hi there -- I saw that you were listed as a medcabal member; as a fellow medcabalist, I thought I'd drop you a line to say that there are a number of new cases that have been added recently and there seem to be too many for the "regulars" to handle. I suggest giving it a shot! (If you forgot you signed up for the cabal, and want off, sorry to bother you!) Yours, Sdedeo (tips) 19:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My talk page

Do not take it upon yourself to re-add other people's comments to my talk page. Reposting the comments of someone who makes personal attacks against me on his/her user page and accuses me of being a "Satanist Apologist" on the talk page of the article he/she got all bent out of shape on really is not a good idea. DreamGuy 01:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

  • I only reposted the one relevant comment, which did not come across to me as vandalism. If I was mistaken, then I appologize, however, the comment seemed relevant to me. I assumed that you had reverted to an earlier version to remove vandal comments, and that one got caught in the middle. However, i'd appreciate it if you did not order me around. You have absolutely no authority over me, and need I remind you that you do not own your user page (under the terms of the GFDL). Personally, I think you need a refresher in[[{WP:FAITH|Assuming Good Faith]]. Firestorm 01:08, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Apology accepted. But, by the way, I *DO* own my own talk page, per the policies here on Wikipedia. I can and will remove anything I find inappropriate. I can and am ordering you to not restore things I deleted or to modify anyone else's comments. Any GFDL issues are handled by the history page. DreamGuy 01:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invasion

I just want to let you know that Invasion which you voted for as a COTW is now being considered for a featured article. Leave your input at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Invasion. RENTAFOR LET? 03:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation

The Mediation Cabal needs your support. You are listed as an active mediator ready to accept assignments. If you don't want to take the case on, just say so at the bottom of the request and delegate it to someone else. --Fasten 10:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Selected Voting

Make sure to vote for the selected article for next week at Portal:Star Wars/Vote. Jedi6 03:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Collaboration of the week

Make sure to vote for the Star Wars Collaboration of the week for next week at Wikipedia:Star Wars Collaboration of the week. Jedi6 03:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey, what's up with the collaboration for the week? Why's it not updated? It says it must not have been updated since Sep. Are you still working on this project, or is the collaboration dead? Please answer either here, on my talk, or on the project page discussion ! :) Thanks! Cactus Guru 05:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars voting

Please make sure you vote for the Star Wars selected article, list and picture by Monday. Jedi6 10:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Collaboration

Image:Star Wars Tie-Fighter-Vaders.jpg You showed support for the Star Wars Collaboration of the week.
This week Heir to the Empire was selected to be improved to featured article status. We hope you can contribute.

[edit] ContiE has impersonated me on other wikis

Hi, I'm in a potentially awkward position with an Administrator. I have read the Wiki pages on dispute resolution but I'm still not sure how to proceed.

The Admin ContiE has a personal grudge against me for reasons I do not fully understand. He has been this way since I began frequenting wikipedia.

I have done work improving the furvert article. He has basically gone on a crusade against any edit I make. He controls every furry category article and several others ruthlessly. He is an iron fist and bans anyone he edit wars with. I had uploaded pictures and he deleted them with no talking. He seems to believe I am every person he has had an edit war against. He is always using personal attacks, calling me troll without reason. I uploaded them again and he voted them for deleted, but to his surprise the person who runs the images, thank you Nv8200p, found they were acceptable once I tagged them properly. Just recently he removed both the images without himself discussing it in the talk page (unless he was the same person who discussed only one) with the edit here [1] Then ContiE assumed bad faith, added his constant insult of troll in the talk page. It appears on a completed different wiki, a comedy one in all things, somebody else stole my username and I believe this was Conti himself and uploaded them. ContiE showed it as his reason. While vandalism like his, I would revert and mention it, he would ban me permanently if I undid his edit. That is why I am asking admins for help. He holds a couple of accounts on wikipedia and I think they are administrators so I have to be careful who I tell about this. Arights 07:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for editing Jar Jar Binks

Hi, thanks for removing vandalism from the Jar Jar Binks article. Keep up the good work. Have a nice day.

Cheers --Starionwolf 00:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Star Wars newsletter

Project updates
Greetings, Star Wars editors! Deckiller here. It's the first edition of the WikiProject Star Wars newsletter, and yes, it's a semi-ripoff of the Esperenza newsletter. I think it's important to begin with some good news: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Jabba the Hutt have reached featured article status! Kudos to the editors who helped obtain these achievements!

WikiProject Star Wars is also on a mission to improve Star Wars articles using the following ideas:

  • An out of universe perspective versus an in universe perspective (see Wikipedia:Writing about fiction and the future ammendments to our manual of style)
  • Evolving lists into regular articles
  • Moving excess information and specifics to Wookieepedia (and providing links to Wookieepedia per the "see also" and/or "external links" sections)
  • Enhanced communication amongst WikiProject members
  • More to come

These should provide the basic steps needed to improve and "encyclopedia-fy" the Star Wars series of articles.
Things to do
There are plenty of Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars/things to do. An update to the page is coming very soon, and it will represent the new and exciting changes that Star Wars pages will be receiving!
Out-of-universe versus in-universe perspectives
Although details are forthcoming, I would like to take this time to explain the gist of this concept. Wikipedia has generally agreed that fictional articles should write about the topic from a "real world" perspective, focusing on real world issues and topics, with a section or two for plot synopsis and so on. Jabba the Hutt is a solid character example, and Clone Wars (Star Wars) is quickly moving toward an out of universe perspective.
Article evolution

As many of you know, lists of minor Star Wars-related themes are very common on Wikipedia; however, since these may be seen as violations of Wikipedia policy (and having seperate articles would breach even more policies), the tentative solution is to create general articles on a list's topic (for example, turning List of Star Wars devices into Technology of Star Wars, which allows us to cover everything from hyperspace to comlinks in a general encyclopedic fashion). This can be very tough for some broad topics, so the key is organization. I encourage all editors to list their ideas on the WikiProject talk page. It will be a very difficult — but tangible — effort.

For an example, let me point you to the Final Fantasy WikiProject. Some of us over at that WikiProject decided to turn various components of Final Fantasy X, such as Pyreflies, Yevon, and the backstory — into an article describing the world of Spira. Location descriptions were given a List of locations in Spira article, and the details themselves were placed on the Spira (Final Fantasy X) page. This is a decent template to follow — however, we will need to place priority on out-of-universe, "real life" topics and perspectives in realtion to the article.

Sounds confusing, eh? It won't, for examples will be popping up left and right in the near future!
Signed...
— Deckiller 03:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Research Survey Request

Hello, I am a member of a research group at Palo Alto Research Center (formerly known as Xerox PARC) studying how conflicts occur and resolve on Wikipedia. Due to your experience in conflict resolution on Wikipedia (e.g., as a member of the Mediation Cabal) we’re extremely interested in your insights on this topic. We have a survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=400792384029 which we are inviting a few selected Wikipedians to participate in, and we would be extremely appreciative if you would take the time to complete it. As a token of our gratitude, we would like to present you with a PARC research star upon completion. Thank you for your time.

Parc wiki researcher 00:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
PARC User Interface Research Group

Image:ResearchStar.gif We've awarded you this PARC research star in recognition for your contribution to research about conflict in Wikipedia. Thank you for your help!!! --Parc wiki researcher 21:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SW Collabaration....

Hello just dropping in to let you know that I'm organizing a huge Star Wars collabaration, if you want just go to this discussion page..... Cheers, --Sadow (talk | contr.) 19:51, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Greedo.jpg

Hello, Firestorm. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Greedo.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Firestorm. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 06:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Imperial sd group.jpg

Hello, Firestorm. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Imperial sd group.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Firestorm. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 09:07, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Psionics

i appreciate your position in returning a great deal of deleted material in this article. however, most of what you returned has been challenged with {{fact}} tags. anything which has been legitimately so challenged, and which has not subsequently been cited, is subject to immediate, unilateral deletion. if you want it to stay, please cite sources for the statements there within wikipedia's Verifiability Criteria. thank you. Whateley23 04:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

Hello Firestorm

I just saw you tagged National Identity and Language for speedy deletion, while this article may be unencyclopedic being unencyclopedic is not a criteria for speedy deletion. Next time I advise you to use {{subst:prod|reason}} or go through the WP:AFD process when deleting those kind of article.

I'm taking care of that particular article right now and made a clear explanation on the talk page of both the article and the author talk page to explain what are your concern. And tagged for proposed deletion this article. if the author can't completly rewrite this article in a matter of 5 days. - Esurnir 05:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of Grand Admiral Martio Batch

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Grand Admiral Martio Batch, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Grand Admiral Martio Batch is a redirect to a non-existent page (CSD R1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Grand Admiral Martio Batch, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. CSDWarnBot 04:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Sith article

This article is rife with uncited information, in-universe cruft. I posted a request that cignificant citation work should occur or information would be removed. None has occurred, and I am about to start removing those parts which aren't cited from the article and most of it will end up on the discussion page until it can be cited. I invite you to assist in this process, as it appears you have an interest in the subject matter.- Arcayne (cast a spell) 19:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rhino novel AfD

Thank you so much - that was rather embarassing. Is it permissable to remove the back and forth about the tech problem so as to not confuse the AfD? I wouldn't want to be accused of removing comments from an AfD - somebody could use rollback on me. ;) Pairadox (talk) 09:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem at all, it seems as if at some point you called the article {{subst:*pagename*}} instead of *pagename*. I don't think anybody would have a problem removing it, but you never know, so it might be best to make a note that you had a technical problem and those comments are related to that. Personally, I don't have a problem with it, but you never know how others would react. Firestorm (talk) 09:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Kewl. BTW, is your name related to a certain flame-haired hero? Pairadox (talk) 09:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
No, its not, its actually an extremely obscure Star Wars reference. If you have any questions about how things work around AFD or the wiki in general, please feel free to ask. Firestorm (talk) 09:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
(Running for Star Wars encyclopedia) Thanks. I've actually done my fair share of AfD noms; that's what made this so horrifying. I know how to do them. Ah well, probably a sign I should get some sleep. Pairadox (talk) 09:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)