User talk:Ianblair23/Archive 1

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Hi lanblair23,

If your page MOVIE ONE intends to discuss the whole Australian TV Movie Channel system, it should probably be on a page titled Movie Network (Australian). On Wikipedia, we try to title pages after the general topic, not one part of the topic.

Thanks for joining Wikipedia! Alba 03:52, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Future events

Hi there, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm sorry to say that some of the things you recently wrote are nominated for deletion. Please don't take it personal! There's an article called Wikipedia is not, which shows that 'WP is not a crystal ball'. People are often uncomfortable about articles on future events, such as the 2006 Commonwealth games. However, your contributions on past or current events in the Commonwealth would be much appreciated! Yours, Radiant_* 12:20, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ianblair23, and sorry that I had to put your articles on the 2006 Commonwealth Games up for deletion. On the Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games consensus seems to be a recomendation that you userfy those articles. That simply means to move all the content on those pages to a subpage of your userpage. If you want to do this, and in case you don't already know how; you subpage simply by creating a page along the lines of User:Ianblair23/2006 Commonwealth Games and placing your contributions there. You might also want to put a link to the subpages on your userpage to avoid forgetting where it is. I don't know yet what consensus is on the templates (Wikipedia:Templates for deletion) but if the consensus there is to keep there will be no need for you to userfy. Also, there is no rule against you voting keep on deletion debates, even for your own articles, but remember to state that you're the creator. Good luck, and happy editing! Sjakkalle 15:07, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Commonwealth Games images

Hi, I see you are uploading lost of logos related to the Commonwealth Games, a few things you should note: the prefered format for images is .jpg, all those images will need to be tagged to provide copyright information for other users, I suggest where you are uploading images that are logos you tag them with {{logo}}. Thanks --nixie 06:45, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Songs

Songs should be in quotes not italics - see Style Guide. I have reverted. HelenWatt 06:09, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Logos tagged as GFDL

Hi there, I recently came across a few images of logos from Australian TV shows you uploaded and tagged as being licensed under the GFDL. This is incorrect, as these logos are copyrighted and only the copyright holder can release the image under the GFDL. As nixie pointed out above, there is a tag for claiming fair use of a copyrighted logo: {{logo}}. For other copyrighted pictures for which you are claiming fair use, you can use the {{fairuse}} tag. Other tags are listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. I've taken the liberty of correcting the most recent batch you mistagged. I urge you to go through the photos you've uploaded and add appropriate tags for all of them, though (see Wikipedia:Untagged images for reasons why). Thanks, Eliot 18:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Syntax

What is the difference between ==Members== and == Members ==? They look exactly the same on my screen. Adam 01:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax ^τεχ 06:56, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Song template

Thanks for steering me to the song template. However, it appears that the page didn't have a true 'template' in the Wikipedia sense, just a format that people wanted to standardize upon. I've gone ahead and created a template based upon that format at Template:Song infobox, and incorporated that template at Imagine (song). If you edit that page, you'll see that it is now a lot easier to put in that standardized format. Cheers. --Arcadian 13:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

2006 Commonwealth Games sports

use [[Category:2006 Commonwealth Games]] as your category. Using 2006 in sport or Commonwealth Games is not helpful if everyone did that for say, the Olympics... 67.68.223.250 11:54, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Proposal/3-C

Hello! Sorry to bother you, but since you voted on the earlier CSD proposal about unremarkable bands, it would be appreciated if you cast your vote for this version. It has been reworded to address concerns raised against the earlier wording. Please take a look at it and consider if you support or oppose it. Yours, Radiant_>|< 08:52, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Australia user categorisation

Abt. your edit to Wikipedia:User categorisation regarding Australia, I appreciate your help! However, the links you striked and emboldened are not actually finished as far as the tasks outlined in the User Categorisation project. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia page, once this has been completed, should simply point to the new category. Nothing should be lost - that is, everything currently on the Wikipedians/Australia page should migrate to somewhere inside the Category:Australian Wikipedians page. Also, I didn't actually check in-depth, but every single user listed on the Wikipedians/Australia page should either have their Talk pages altered or their user page altered so they can be included in the new system (not to undo past categorization by thousands of users). Thanks again for your help, I just thought I would let you know that the pages you marked as being finished aren't actually finished yet. --thereverendeg 02:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• Yes thank you for that I realised that as soon as I did it. I have now just listed the states and territories sub categories on the main page -- Ianblair23 03:02, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Indeed I saw that you did! I made quite a few (some were pretty big) mistakes when I first went about starting this project - everything was such a tangled mess! Most of those problems have been worked out and now the real changes are finally taking place. Thanks again for your help, I'm going to list you on the participants list.

Australian user categorisation

Hi. Could you make sure that the page Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia is moved to the new Category page? I don't want the history of that page (which extends back a very long way) to be lost by a copy-and-paste move. - Mark 13:40, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• Of course Mark, no edit history will be lost -- Ianblair23 13:43, 31 July 2005 (UTC).
  • Thank you. :) Having said that, history has already been lost on that page (and my own entry is marked as being by the Conversion Script, which is incredibly irritating). I wish there was a way to get this old history back, but nobody back then saw the importance of making regular database dumps. - Mark 13:59, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:12, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

MacKillop Catholic College

As per my move, I believe that MacKillop Catholic College should have ACT in its title to disambiguate it from other MacKillop Catholic Colleges. It had already been confused with one in Victoria as per the incorrect web link. Moving and removing is very confusing and will now proabbly have to be fixed by an admin.--AYArktos 22:45, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

My user page vandalism

Because, for some reason, the html coding for that diff ends in "&diff=0", which will always be the most recent edit to the page. Why it does that I don't know, it's a mistake. In any case, in case there's any confusion, I certainly don't mean to imply your edit was vandalism. Slac speak up! 06:35, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Random Acts of Kindness

Here you go. That's for fixing up my User page. -- A Link to the Past 13:07, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

National Treasure

Note that your disambiguation efforts are for nought. There's nothing stopping National Treasure and national treasure from coexisting. Cburnett 06:16, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Australian school stubs

I thought it would be useful to have a discussion about what we expect to see in an Australian school stub - for example, perhaps the minimum standard of a stub article should include location and level of school, ... and further what criteria we should use to destub an article. For example for destubbing of Australian geography stubs see Category talk:Australia geography stubs. I thought the best place for the discussion would be on the category discussion page. Regards--AYArktos 22:31, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Sydney suburbs

Don't you think these are just a bit short? Doing a little bit of research wouldn't hurt, and having seen your stuff in the past, I know you can do a lot better than these not-awfully-useful substubs. Ambi 10:00, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your concern Ambi, but rest assured this is only the start. Living in the City of Blacktown for most of my life, I will strive to see these articles grow. BTW I'm glad to see that you have returned. -- Ianblair23 10:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah, that's a relief. Sorry to be so terse - I've seen a few too many of these left for others to clean up over the years. Ambi 12:55, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Sydney LGAs

When you are creating the new pages, could you please take a second to check that the council seat entry in the lga box is a link. In the ones I added recently, I made sure they were links so they could be simply pasted into the new council articles, but there were some already filled as just text which I didn't fix at the time. JPD 09:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Page moves

Done. Just let me know if there's any others that need doing. :) Ambi 10:06, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

TBSDY's user page

TBSDY deleted his user page and talk page as an indication that he's leaving. There was a discussion about this on WP:ANI. I restored the edit history of his pages and blanked the pages. This is preferred over deleting them. Cheers, --MarkSweep✍ 08:46, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Titanic, the movie. Or the (film.

Hello. I see that you are changing from "Titanic (1997 movie)" to "Titanic ((1997 film)". Fine, but:

• You have a superfluous parenthesis in the "correct" version.
• I don't think there's any need to update links in talk pages and expired RFA procedures, etc. Offhand I don't know the policy about this, but in general it's undesirable to fiddle, however trivially, with others' signed contributions, and I see no compelling reason to make changes such as this one, as (i) the redirect will do the job, and (ii) there are unlikely to be so many referrals from talk pages.

-- Hoary 07:10, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello hello, I seem to have got that wrong. Red links to "Titanic ((1997 film)" were popping up in edit summaries on my watchlist, but when I went to the pages sure enough there were blue links to "Titanic (1997 film)". Perhaps there's instead a bug in the rendering of edit summaries.

Incidentally, I view the content of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs (a page in which you've just made a lot of small fixes) in appalled disbelief. If these are the hundred best, what can the rest be like? -- Hoary 08:46, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for making link more clear

I saw your edits to my (unsuccessful) RfA and my last archive, where you make clear that I was speaking of the RMS Titanic ship.

Thank you.

--GordonWatts 21:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Film names

Thanks for your work on correcting the wikilinks for movies based on novels, etc. I caught one small, ambiguous mistake (League of the South), but the other Gone with the Wind (film) dabs that I checked looked good. That kind of routine editing work really helps the project. Cheers, -Willmcw 02:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

RE: Chart question

Remove the quotation mark before the last ). That should make it work. Also, if the user has more than 174 days on which they edited, then the $B$175 notation needs to be increased an appropriate amount. --Durin 13:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

WikiFun Round 9

I have closed the Round, due to the fact that the round was stale and no one was able to answer the two final questions. You may take a look at the two final answers. --AllyUnion (talk) 06:28, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

pinkmonkey.com

I noticed that you polished this external link:

• MonkeyNotes Online Study Guide for Gone with the Wind at PinkMonkey.com

It's one of many similar links to the same website, which seems to have a large amount of advertising. I posted a "no spam" message on the talk page of the editor who added the link, and am mulling over whether to remove the added links. Any thoughts? -Willmcw 23:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

G'day Willmcw

Yes according to their contributions page, 70.247.196.80 has added the PinkMonkey.com link to To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Poisonwood Bible, Gone with the Wind, The Giver, The Da Vinci Code, The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter and The Secret Life of Bees.

As of this post only the link added to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn article has been reverted.

I have never visited PinkMonkey.com before. So I had a quick flick through the site and I found that they have "over 400 Free Book Notes / Study Guides / Online Chapter Summary Notes". However they also have a significant amount of advertising as well. In my opinion these links should be reverted and / or replaced with a more appropriate study guide site.

What do you think?

Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 23:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

It looks like we both have reservations about this site, and another editor has expressed an opinion by reverting one. I'm going to go ahead and revert them all. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. -Willmcw 23:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Ianblair23. Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. And thanks also for your kind words: I found them quite encouraging . I hope I'm able to live up to the confidence placed in me. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 03:48, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

Please don't assume that IMDB is the font of all knowledge. It contains very many mistakes. Jooler 06:44, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Australia television templates

May I just say that these templates are awesome. I've been meaning to do something like this (perhaps along the lines of the American timetable articles) for ages, but quite gotten around to it. I just wonder if it might be better to limit them to the Australian programs, however; this wouldn't scale particularly well if every station added a template to some of the popular American programs. Ambi 05:12, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for that. I just happen to stumble across this template for Thursday nights in the US and I just loved it. So I created some Aussie ones.

I haven't created one for Saturday nights as it's rear for a series to be shown on a regular Saturday night primetime timeslot (the only one I can think of is Hey Hey It's Saturday). Usually family films are the norm. Also I have only included the three commercial stations and from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM. Do you think that these should include ABC or even SBS and should these go all the way to 11:30 PM? Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 05:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I think they should cover ABC and SBS; they also have programs running all the time and a reasonable audience. Not quite sure whether they should go all the way until 11.30 - that could really go either way, and I'm not sure whether there's much on at that hour which is overly notable. Ambi 05:29, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for butting in here guys - I think these may be more useful if they were done one template per network, (for example, have Template:Australia primetime seven, which has five columns, one for each weeknight, and each row is a timeslot. That way they can be included in (e.g.) Seven Network, whereas the current templates wouldn't be appropriate for (e.g.) Tuesday. I guess "Tuesdays TV viewing" doesn't sound as useful as "Seven's TV shows". -- Chuq 05:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Something along the lines of this:

Ianblair23 (talk) 06:10, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, looks good! In my description I had columns=days, but I don't think it makes a difference. Something else I thought about - won't these become outdated quickly? Schedules change all the time. -- Chuq 06:19, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ian, FYI: these templates have been listed for deletion. pfctdayelise 12:34, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, I have gone ahead and created the following three far more maintainable tempates as a compromise Template:Australia primetime seven, Template:Australia primetime nine & Template:Australia primetime ten. These templates will be placed on the page of the relevant network and on the relevant Australian programme pages. Thankyou -- Ianblair23 (talk) 02:41, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Confirmation of move...

... before I move it... do you want "Dare To Be Stupid" (capital T) to be moved to "Dare to Be Stupid" (lowercase t)? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:56, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes mate, please change "Dare To Be Stupid" to "Dare to Be Stupid" as the word "to" is a preposition, and according to the naming convention all prepositions in album titles are to be in lowercase. Cheers --

Please vote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Ramallite

Ready for an adminship bid?

I think you're ready to be an admin, and I'm certainly ready to nominate you. Your contributions are outstanding! Please let me know your inclination. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:45, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

BD2412, I very humbly accept your offer to nominate me for adminship. I have been here for just under a year and I feel I'm ready to step up. Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 21:21, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

As you have participated in RfA's before, I'm sure you're familiar with the questions - I'll have your RfA page up within the hour! BD2412 T 21:40, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you vey much -- Ianblair23 (talk) 21:43, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok BD2412, I have accepted the nomination, answered the questions and posted my nomination. Thank you once again for nominating me and let the voting begin!! :) -- Ianblair23 (talk) 00:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

RfA questions

I -
I'm about to put some questions on your RfA under the "comments" section. Take your time, and maybe pass your answers by someone else before commiting them to paper electrons.
brenneman^(t)(c) 01:44, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and it's "BD2412's nomination" and "rational, calm editor". I could care less, but some people are funny...
brenneman^(t)(c) 02:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

User: Tcatron565

You're not supposed to edit user pages. Only talk pages.

Your RfA

You forgot to sign your acceptance. -- DS1953 ^talk 16:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Templates

I'm glad to see the admin nomination is going well - I think you'll do a fine job. Thanks for the concern about exams; finally, they're over, and I think I passed, which in the circumstances makes me very happy. :)

Those templates look good to me - have you started putting them on articles yet? Ambi 03:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

I'm pleased to inform you that you are now an administrator. Please consider reading all the material on the administrators' reading list before testing out your new privileges. Though everything you do, excluding image deletions and page history merges, is reversible, you should nevertheless be very careful with your sysop capabilities. For instructions, please see the administrators' how-to guide. Good luck! — Dan | Talk 03:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations indeed - I'm glad to have been here for it! BD2412 T 03:21, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations from me as well!--Sean|Black 02:14, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations. I'm hoping to get there myself one day. Cnwb 02:23, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• And congrats from me. Well done. -- Ian ≡ talk 03:29, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations, and you're quite welcome! --Merovingian 04:03, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations! 57/0/0 is a pretty impressive stat. :) pfctdayelise 06:20, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations and you are very welcome from "Kahn".--Dakota ^{t e} 06:31, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations from me as well; glad I could help. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:01, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks

I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA, and to congratulate you on your promotion. As I wrote, I was looking forward to feedback from the community, and I would like to let you know that you should please feel free to leave any further feedback for me you may have for me in the future at my Talk page. Thanks again. Jkelly 08:44, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Cnwb's RfA

Ian,

Thanks so very much for supporting my Request for Admin. The final result was 38/0/0. I'm looking forward to spending my summer holidays shut away in a darkened room, drinking G&Ts and playing with my new tools ;-) Please accept this Tim Tam as a token of my gratitude. Cnwb 22:58, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Heya

Did you notice the new changes to Municipality of Strathfield? Great stuff! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:04, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Ian, thanks for your support on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) --bainer (talk) 00:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Alan Jones

Why did you change my edit? It is as valid as the recent comment on his right wing leanings. 203.19.11.64 14:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

The Sydney Morning Herald

Hey, I noticed you have edited this page in the past. Would you mind having a look at this latest edit, if it hasn't already been reverted? Figuring out what is NPOV in cases like this just pains me. (Yeah, I'm chickening out, but I figure someone should look at it.) The anon seems to be pretty good WP:FAITH, so maybe they just haven't wrapped their head around WP:V and WP:NPOV. Or maybe it's all valid and it's me with the problem. Ack! See! This is why I'm handballing it to you. :)

cheers, pfctdayelise 15:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Birthday!

Newspaper covers

Which do you think make better newspaper covers for Wikipedia articles: covers with major stories (including extra-large headlines, black borders, coloured banners, etc. as happened after 9/11 or the Cronulla riots), or covers that reflect what a newspaper would typically look like on any given day? I would choose the latter -- even though those covers are more mundane, at least they're more realistic. Would you protest if I replaced the December 12 images with those from more "ordinary" editions? --Humehwy 05:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

A Star Is Born

Hi Ian, I wasn't sure about what was correct convention regarding capitalising the "I" in "Is" but that sounds fine. I'm still going through fixing links to other articles, so I'll do them as "A Star Is Born" from now on and hopefully over the next few days all the articles/links will be right. thanks Rossrs 02:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

A certain user page

Sorry to bother but can you take a look at this[1]. I didn't see this name on the list. It is near the bottom of the Babel Template. Saw that you are possibly online via filter changes and think it might need admin attention.--Dakota ^{? e} 03:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Newtown High School of the Performing Arts

Hi there, just wanting your opinion on whether Newtown High School of the Performing Arts is a "selective high school"? User:Joestella says that it is, but I disagree with him: see User_talk:Joestella#Newtown_High_School_of_the_Performing_Arts_2. I guess it goes back to what we should include as a "selective school"? In its current form, it includes academically selective only I would say? enochlau (talk) 01:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

School regions

Any more thoughts on dividing the state school pages, as discussed at WP:AWNB? Ambi 23:21, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Heya Ian!

Merry Christmas to you as well mate! It's been a fantastic year on Wikipedia, I gotta say :) Ta bu shi da yu 06:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Zambia Commonwealth Games.gif has been listed for deletion

--Romeo Bravo 19:50, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Wishes

I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 17:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Merging Hilary Duff single articles to album pages

See Talk:Metamorphosis (Hilary Duff album). Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 16:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

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