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Can you do a edit count report for me?

I'm not a heavy editor by any means, but I still think your reports provide some fun stats. Thanks.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 11:16, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure thing, here's your report. Cheers, Icey 14:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 15:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Do me! Do me! Er... my stats, that is. It's kinda fun to see which hours you edit the most, etc. — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 22:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Riana! Here's your report. Hopefully you're too busy working on assignments to notice this message :) Icey 16:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
No, I wasn't :( and I really should be... although I'm almost done :) Ta very much, that was an interesting read! Your reports are fun. Keep it up! — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 06:53, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Icey, would it be terribly greedy of me to request another edit report? Regards, — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 05:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Riana, here's your old report and new report. Icey 16:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Ta very much! — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 03:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for catching that my User page had been vandalized. I don't check in too often. I appreciate the revert. Danahuff 11:27, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Toolserver account

Hello Icey,
please send your prefered login-name, your realname and the public part of your ssh-key to image:zedler-admins.png. We will then create your account soon. --DaB.

Thanks DaB, I've sent the details. Icey 19:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the reverts on my page. I appreciate it greatly. I wish there was a way that user pages could be locked for edit exclusively for the user in question and administrators. Thanks again! :) -- Coil 07:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

@pt

Hello Icey. Your ITIS works at pt.wikipedia or another projects outside the english wikipedia? --Slade (TheJoker) 21:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Slade, the script will only work with the English language versions of all the projects. It would also work with any site that uses the MediaWiki software, even if they aren't owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, as long as they are in English. It wouldn't work with any foreign language sites, although it could be adapted to work with them. I'm close to getting an account on the toolserver, so when I have time I may improve it to work with other languages. Icey 23:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the chemical formulas

Great job on the structural formulas! Just one thing: the insides of the rings of Image:A23187.svg are white rather than transparent, so they look bad on a colored background. That should be easy to fix, right? —Keenan Pepper 22:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks Keenan. I'll look out for more in the future. I've sorted the transparency on that image. While I've got your attention, would this image be correct for Sulfatide? And is Theanine the same as L-Theanine? If so, then possibly this and this would be useful to base a diagram on. Oh, I converted the Nitrous acid diagram from JPEG to SVG as well. Perhaps the next thing I should do is to actually learn what they mean! Icey 00:32, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure about sulfatide: the article says it's a class of several compounds, but the web page has a structure for only one. L- and R- refer to chirality. In this case, L-theanine is the "normal" version and R-theanine is the "weird" backwards version that probably isn't important (although you never know). —Keenan Pepper 20:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I see, thanks for explaining that to me. I'll keep a look out for any more chemical structures that need to be made. Icey 20:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Edit count request

Hey, I'd just like to request an edit count report. I intend to run in an RfA sometime in the nearish future, but want to know (in some detail) what my current editing statistics are looking like. Thanks! RandyWang (chat me up/fix me up) 07:51, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Randy, here's your report. Good luck with your RfA! Icey 12:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Greedy?

Hey Icey, I requested a report about six weeks ago, and received it - would it be greedy to request another if you have a spare moment please? Thanks heaps, - Glen 04:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC) PS: I attempted to wikicode the html and ended up with this page :)

Hi Glen, that's not greedy at all! Here's your old report and new report. The wikified version is interesting, that would be a really useful feature to have, I'll add that to my to-do list. Icey 20:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks so much, Ive just been nommed in an RfA so perfect timing :) - FYI the HTML --> wiki converter is here - there's a couple of formatting changes required (specifically it doesn't like the "#" formatting when doing page sections) but otherwise its really handy. Thanks again! - Glen 00:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Niftyness. I'll probably rewrite the outputting sections of my script to handle wiki syntax as well as HTML though, rather than converting it. Maybe there will be time to do that tonight. I'll also check out your RfA later :) Icey 07:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Iceyboard link blacklisted by spam filter

Hello, it seems that your iceyboard link has been "blacklisted" by the Wikipedia spam filter. I tried to vote support earlier on in this RFA and it was blocked by spam filter because your link was on the page.--Jersey Devil 20:27, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info Jersey. It looks like someone blocked the whole of no-ip(.net/.biz/.info/.org) and all sites owned by that company. That's a bit weird, since it'll block a lot of legitimate sites. I've posted a removal request on the spam blacklist talk page. Icey 22:12, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
My site has now been white-listed, peace has been restored :) Icey 20:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Bomberman template

Thank you, your help was much appreciated! --SevereTireDamage 04:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Report?

I requested it a number of weeks ago and I'd love to get it again. Any chance? Thanks =). alphaChimp laudare 02:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Alphachimp, I'm glad you like it! Here's your old report and new report. Icey 07:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Update request

Could I request an update of my report? It's been 500 edits since the last one ;) --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 16:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Shreshth91, here's your updated report. Icey 22:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Editcount report request

Hello! Could you please run a report on my edits with your script? I have been looking for a milestone measurement tool and discovered your page through Google. I am sure that there is another milestone count tool out there but I can't seem to find it for the life of me. Regards,  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  23:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi (aeropagitica), I've run you a report. I hope it's useful to you. Icey 23:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Special request

Could I have a report for Philc 0780? I have to coach him according to Esperanza admin coaching program. For this, could I request a larger section on most frequently edited pages, and most frequently used edit summaries. I've found these give me a better idea of what kind of an editor the person is, which is vital for this program. Apart from that, the rest is comprehensive enough. If you can't, a normal status report will suffice. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Shreshth91, I've changed the frequently edited article count to 100 and the frequently used summaries to 100. The summaries doesn't display 100 entries because it discounts any summary that's only used once. Here's Philc 0780's report. Icey 15:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
WOW! Thanks a lot! That's really great. BTW, when do you plan to host the tool on the Toolserver? --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 17:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Tropico Screentshot

Hi! It looks like you may have created the image [hppt://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tropico_screenshot.jpg] which has been removed from the Tropico page due to concerns about its copyright status. If you created the screenshot, can you make a note about it on the image page? Hopefully that would clear up the copyright concerns. Thanks! TMS63112 16:41, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi TMS63112. You can see who created the image by looking at the file history. It was uploaded back in 2004 by Neutrality. I just uploaded a small version because the page had a {{fair use reduce}} template on it. Icey 16:46, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

180px size limit

Hi, why do you think 180px is the definite size limit for fair use images? --Marc Lacoste 17:22, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Marc, there doesn't seem to be an official maximum size, so I look at the articles that the image is used in and then use the largest size that it's being displayed at. Which is usually between 180px to 300px. That way the article remains the same and the image is modified to be compliant with fair use. Win-win! Fair use of these images is for analysis on the subject in the article, so I think keeping the image the same size inside the article as outside shows that we aren't giving preference to the image being used out of context. If you disagree please let me know or feel free to revert any of the changes I have made. Icey 17:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
In fact, I came upon that because of the small size of Uprising of 1953 in East Germany images, which I have reverted. My thumbnail size is at 300px in my preferences - and could be higher in the future for high res screens- and I wasn't seeing many details in those photos. I often click on the thumbnails, which are not a full reprensentation in my mind, but an invitaion to enlarge a photo, and to obtain the detail of a print. I invite you to continue the debate in Template talk:Fair use reduced to settle something. --Marc Lacoste 18:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC) (feel free to move this start there)


Caffein

Your pictures have h little problem. The CH3 groups on the left side of the molecules look like that CH3- and they should elook like H3C- . With ISIS its simplejust make a C and the with the left mouse button change the properties from C(hide H) to C(show H) and they are on the right spot. The CH3 on top of the molecule also suffer from the methode to type the whole CH3 group, the bond ends not at the C but between c and H3.--Stone 09:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Stone. Thanks for pointing that out. When I get home I'll try to work out what you just said and then get it sorted :) Icey 11:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Icey: I went and made all the necessary changes to the molecule images, but my attempts to convert them into SVG didn't work out very well, so they're all PNG right now. I hate to ask, but would you mind converting them to SVG again? Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 05:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Aye, sorry, I meant to do them yesterday but ended up working loads of overtime and was too exhausted to do much in the evening. If I get away on time today I'll get them sorted. Icey 06:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I made the SVG images match the PNG versions. Feel free to add them to the article or let me know if there's any problems with them. I don't suppose you could delete the Caffeine.svg image hosted on en so the commons one takes it's place for that filename? Here's the images: Image:Caffeine_and_adenosine.svg, Image:Caffeine_metabolites.svg, commons:Image:Caffeine.svg. Icey 19:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Icey, they look great! I swapped them into the article. Consider en:caffeine.svg as good as deleted. – ClockworkSoul 00:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for .png-ifying the new images for the caffeine article! Nitpick: a few N are still black instead of blue. DMacks 01:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Oooh sorry, I forgot to say, I sorted that :) Icey 02:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Itis Request

May you please display some statistics for User:DaGizza, ie) me. Thanks a lot. GizzaChat © 06:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Gizza, here's your report. I hope it's useful to you. Icey 07:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Featured Picture
An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:IsometricFlaw_2.svg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution!


Congratulations, and thanks for creating the image. -- Moondigger 02:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:IsometricFlaw 2.svg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on October 23, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 18:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Caffeine

I'm no chemist but is there any reason the lower left of Image:Caffeine.svg is H3C rather than CH3 like the other sections? -Ravedave (help name my baby) 14:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

The bond attaches specifically to the carbon atom of the CH<3 group, so writing it as "H3C" and aligned as it is makes this chemical fact clear and avoids requiring the bond to cross over the "H3" part of the label. DMacks 16:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining that. Icey 16:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks guys! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 17:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Itis

I'll take an itis report too, why not. Looks cool. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 17:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Excellent timing! I'm offering a great deal on Itis reports at the moment. Every purchase includes a free report for your baby! Here's your report. The free report can only be redeemed in the next four years, so forget about enrolling them into school and all that stuff, get them into Wikipedia instead! Icey 19:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

big thumbs up

Image:Hand with thumbs up.jpg

For the fabulous ITIS, and for being so nice when certain people (*cough* no names) get greedy and ask for new reports :) Cheers! — riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 16:05, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks riana :) I shall aim for the other thumb now! Icey 21:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Hehe! I read 'no food awards', and I took some time thinking about the thumbs up, and whether it qualified. ;) — riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 07:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Don't worry, I'm not that messed up :) Icey 12:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


It's always the crazy ones who say that. *backs away* — riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 15:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

(no title needed)

Wow that was pretty funny. I laughed pretty good when I read that. If I was the kinda person, I'd put lol or rofl (I don't usually put that in userpages comments though). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clyde_Miller (talk • contribs)

Ha - I'm glad you like it! If you have any ideas for things you would like to know the HTML/CSS of, feel free to ask me and I'll add it in for you. Icey 22:15, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

ITIS

Can you make an ITIS (Icey's Tabular Individual Statistics) report for me? - Mgm|(talk) 14:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

It is done. Wow, that's a lot of edits. I hope the report is useful to you. Icey 15:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

re: Fix Please!:-D on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

Help, I don't know how to use it! Thanks.100110100 09:03, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi 100110100, I've replied in the discussion. Icey 12:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank you, but you can't edit the history. What will it switch the page to from history?100110100 22:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I've replied in the discussion. Icey 22:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I, ClockworkSoul, hereby award you with the EMC² Barnstar for all of the time and effort that you put into helping to raise caffeine to featured article status! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I, ClockworkSoul, hereby award you with the EMC² Barnstar for all of the time and effort that you put into helping to raise caffeine to featured article status! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

As you probably know, caffeine has at last been promoted to featured article status. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into raising my beloved article to its current level of quality. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, now that caffeine star is just brilliant! Thanks! – ClockworkSoul 19:11, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Mnemosyne

Outside of Wikipedia, but good job on Mnemosyne! One thing I'd like to suggest is allowing user to enter the name of the node as soon as the node is created, like how we can name the folder in Windows as soon as we create it. Anyways, well done! —Jared Hunt September 6, 2006, 12:48 (UTC)

Aye, that would be useful... so done! —Icey 18:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Great, a new version! Thanks. —Jared Hunt September 7, 2006, 00:49 (UTC)

GTA III images

Hi. In the last peer review for Grand Theft Auto III, you offered to provide specific screenshots from the game. Seeing you have a point about the article lacking in-mission screenshots, I though you would like to do the honors of taking them. Besides, someone else should provide the screenshots for now, because my version of GTA III appears to have an unusual graphical glitch that doesn't display surrounding shading (a possibly localized problem), and I have been the only uploader to provide in-game screenshots of the game.

Now, I'm having a hard time figuring out what screenshot would reflect a mission the best. I had a thought on using a collage of four screenshots to depict four portions of a typical GTA III mission, particularly the "Bomb the Base: Act II" mission, which is completely perfect for depicting the following:

  • A cut scene after activating the mission trigger (8-Ball talking to the player; the player doesn't speak).
  • The player driving an NPC (8-Ball) to a location (The city's harbor).
  • The player aiming a sniper rifle in first-person view at a gang member (Specifically, Colombian Cartel members on the ship while 8-Ball runs into the ship to plant the explosion).
  • A cut scene in the middle of the mission (The Cartel ship sinking after suffering damage from 8-Ball's bomb).
  • The game displaying the money award upon completion of the mission.

Another point of concern is the issue of fair use; there are now 10 fair use images in the article; eight screenshot images (actually represented by seven images) and two box art images. I'm planning to include three different PS2 regional box arts (UK-international, Australian and German) in place of a PC UK-international version, a collage of four scenes depicting a locale in various times of the day and weather, and the aforementioned mission collage. Putting way too many images may be pushing the policy, so we should sit down and think about what images should be omitted or modified ahead of the additions. It may also be a good idea to provide low-resolution images (400px in length for each image should be enough) for the purpose of complying with fair use policy of using low-resolution but sufficiently detailed images.

Fell free to respond at my talk page or the GTA III article talk page. Thanks. ╫ ２５ ◀RingADing▶ 17:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC) ╫

Hi 25. That seems like an excellent choice of mission for demonstrating a lot of things. I remember reading/seeing somewhere that the makers were proud of that mission, because it demonstrated what GTA3 was capable of.
I've gone through Bomb da Base and taken loads of screenshots. They cover everything you asked for and a load more scenes of that mission that may be beneficial to you. You can download the screenshots. Note that the file is over 7MB in size, but I assume you have a fast connection, so that wont be a problem. Let me know if it is and I'll figure something out.
I agree with 400 pixels, so I've converted all the screenshots to 400x300 and PNG format. It sounds like the article is going to have a lot of images, so perhaps the best way to ensure we are using them fairly is to e-mail Rockstar Games. We could explain the purpose of Wikipedia and why the images are being used, along with saying they are small low resolution images. I imagine they'll be fine with that. Icey 19:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, although the zip file from your site is non-existant. I'll see if I can contact Rockstar in the future. Thanks again. :) ╫ ２５ ◀RingADing▶ 18:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC) ╫
Ooooooh yes. I've fixed that, it'll work fine now. Icey 22:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. The images look a little rough with the resizing, but it shouldn't be an issue. I'll see what I can do. ╫ ２５ ◀RingADing▶ 10:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC) ╫
Cool. If you let me know which ones you want to use, I can send you the original normal-size images if you like. Icey 12:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

ITIS

Hi Icey, its been a long time since I requested a report from you. So could I have one puh-lease? -- Lost(talk) 14:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lost. You can indeed, here's your report. Icey 16:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot -- Lost(talk) 06:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I need a fresh one too, it's so long ago that my previous requests have been moved to your talk page archives already :) Thanks in advance again! --Pelotastalk 00:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Peoltas, here's a new report for you. Icey 12:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

FLCL

I was just rereading your peer review suggestions for FLCL (still not at FA but oh, how we try). I got a kick out of your request for an endspoiler template, and here's why.

I invented the endspoiler template, which I saw as a logical counterpart to the spoiler template - an assumption that would ultimately be taken up as correct. However, the endspoiler template started from very humble beginnings, and I introduced it to the world simply by sticking it in random articles, where (at first) it was often removed. In fact, I believe either the first or second article it was ever run it was FLCL - and now you see why I laugh. It's been reinserted now. -Litefantastic 20:36, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd be most happy if the all spoiler tags were removed from all articles. Although, if people insist on adding a spoiler tag, it makes sense to have an ending one so the reader knows where to skip down to. Icey 22:41, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

POTD

Thanks for your help with Image:IsometricFlaw 2.svg. I just got a message that it will be on the main page on October 23, 2006! Algr 20:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Cool! I like that the description is about the image, instead of a general description of isometric projection :) Icey 16:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

ITIS

Could you please update my report? I just got my 7000th edit. Thanks in advance. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Shreshth, apologies for the delay. Here's your report. Icey 16:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:Rebellion.JPG

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Report for me please!

Hi Icey!
I just stumbled upon that great looking report you make! Do you think you could please make one for me? Thanks, --Fir0002 12:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Commandos2 Whiskey Natasha.gif

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Film4 spoken article

You mispronounced Johnny Vaughan's name - just thought I'd point that out! - Lee Stanley 04:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lee. Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately I no longer have a microphone, I just borrowed someone else's before. Icey 12:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


Announcement

Announcement
The "Help name my baby" Poll has closed :). Greta Annette was born 12/12/06. She weighs 6lbs 14oz and is 19inches long. Mother and baby are both doing fine. Thanks for all the suggestions!

To keep this slightly Wikipedia related I have started Adopt a State, so adopt your state article today!
Congratulations Ravedave :) --Icey 17:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series has been deleted

Per consensus in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series (2nd nomination). I've taken the liberty of including backups of some latest revisions, as well as all the article's images, and copying (and expanding) a small portion of the contents into the GTA Wikia. You can help out whenever you see fit. ╫ ２５ ◀RingADing▶ 09:40, 31 December 2006 (UTC) ╫