User talk:Mr.Z-man/Archive 6

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Contents

Database locking issues

float Hopefully these help! :D (Going back to beat up on the CentralAuth tool now, the db hates me...) ~Kylu (u|t) 02:19, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Hyacinth Chen Nursing School

I was about to tag this but paused. Is it non-notable? -WarthogDemon 02:26, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Chris Mounsey

You deleted Chris mounsey[1], but Chris Mounsey is still there. I think this is because someone changed "mounsey" to "Mounsey" during the AfD. Could you please delete Chris Mounsey as well? Thank you. Qworty (talk) 21:20, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for proposing that you request a proposal for requesting proposals.

Excellent timing, by the way. — Coren (talk) 00:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Conflicts in Ming Dynasty

Hi, Mr.Z-man. Could you please have a look at the article Ming Dynasty? I pasted a map, ming_1443.png, drawn by Sinomap Press, ISBN 7503103841. However there are some guys who don't agree with the position of Tibet in the map, even though I cited plenty of sources to prove that Tibet was in Ming China at that period. The discussion is in deadlock at present, I beg you to make a judgment in the article, please just stay neutral! Thanks!--LaGrandefr (talk) 11:05, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Administrators don't pass judgments and I'm a little too busy to get involved with a mediation. You should try dispute resolution if you can't come to a consensus. Mr.Z-man 17:11, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Awarding Barnstar

The Barnstar of Good Humor
Aprils fools day was a blast. Loads of users lightened up to have good old fashion fun. I want to thank you for taking part in editing this page in particular and even though I may not know you, embrace the same talk pages, or even edit with you in the near future, I'd like to award you this Barnstar for making Wikipedia a fun environment in which to contribute. Until next year. :) SynergeticMaggot (talk) 13:05, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

How do i create a Wikipedia page for my company?

Please help me to create a wiki page for my company, Aztecsoft.

For more info about our company, please visit, http://www.aztecsoft.com/

Also, take a look at our awards page, http://www.aztecsoft.com/advantage_aztecsoft/our_successes/awards/. We have won so many awards and the recent one was the "Pink Slip" award, from Times of India.

There are many of our competitors who have a page in Wikipedia, but if we try to create a page, it is not happening. So, we need to your guidance to create a page in Wikipedia.org.

Pratheepraj (talk) 09:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

You really shouldn't write about your own company. Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against it. I would suggest requesting it on the requested articles list and if it is notable, someone will create it eventually. I would suggest this site instead where you are encouraged to write about yourself. Mr.Z-man 17:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Mr.Z-Man, Thank you, I have requested for it and will try to create a page in http://www.mywikibiz.com/ Pratheepraj (talk) 06:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: Speedy closeof AFD

Mr. Z-Man,

I see you closed the AFD on Deaths_in_2008. I'm curious about that. The list (it's a list and not an article) appears violate both WP:NOT#DIR and WP:NOT#MEM. Wouldn't policy trump consensus , rather than the other way around ? F.U.R hurts Wikipedia 18:46, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

No, policy not proscriptive. Except for the rules on copyright and foundation issues like NPOV, consensus almost always trumps policy. I would suggest you review the policy you cited as well. WP:NOT#MEMORIAL is to prevent articles that only serve as memorial. This was a list, it wasn't memorializing anything. I don't see how NOT#DIRECTORY applies at all, unless you consider every list to be a violation of it. Mr.Z-man 20:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Re

I thought the images were not representative images of the railway stations. But it was my mistake not to use edit summary and I did not understand by doing so I will be accused of "vandalism". I have self-reverted my edits. So can you bring the twinkle back. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 21:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

So what should I do now? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 21:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Help requested

Hello, since you are an adminstrator who has previously given advice to User:Otolemur crassicaudatus about inappropriate tagging, can I ask you to take a look at his actions on Peterloo Massacre (which I have been involved in), in particular a section about eyewitness testimony? I and at least one other editor believe he tagged inappropriately without explanation and without prior discussion on the talk page with experienced editors who had already reached a consensus about the section's relevance and inclusion. I posted a message about this, along with another editor, on the editor's talk page (now deleted by him) and got in reply a note directing me to WP:CIVIL and WP:HARASSMENT which I believe was inappropriate, as I pointed out in a response both on my talk page and on the editor's talk page. I should point out that this is not the first time I and others have disagreed with his overly-zealous tagging of articles: one recent one also on an article I have an interest in (Smallthorne) led to him making a totally inappropriate edit summary which I took to WP:Wikiquette alerts which he then apologized about. I feel there may be a greater problem emerging, and I hope he can be counselled to amend his overly-zealous tagging to prevent it getting worse.  DDStretch  (talk) 00:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

As an extra complaint, I see his edit summary when he removed my message about removing the tag is described as "trolling". I take great exception to this, and feel that some action is probably needed to prevent similar issues arising: a look through his talk page history is illuminating here.  DDStretch  (talk) 00:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

refTools script

It seems it is adding the year as 3908. Is it supposed to do that?   jj137 (talk) 00:38, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, that's odd, its always worked correctly for me. Anyway, I changed the date function to one that should hopefully work better. Mr.Z-man 01:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
OK, it seems to work fine now.   jj137 (talk) 03:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Quitting...

Hello. you don't know me, but I have decided to quit Wikipedia, and to make sure I don't come back on, I am asking you to ban my account. Thank you. Javascap (talk) 18:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

We're sorry to hear you're leaving. While we can't ban you, you are welcome to use WikiBreak Enforcer to stop you from logging in. GlassCobra 18:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

My RFA has closed

My RFA that you weighed in on earlier has closed as no consensus to promote, at a final tally of 120/47/13. I thank you for your feedback and comments there, and I'm going to be considering all the various advice and comments presented. I might end up at RFA again some day, or not. If you see me there again in the future, perhaps you might consider a Support !vote. If not, not, and no hard feelings. The pen is still mightier than the mop! See you around, and thanks again. Lawrence § t/e 18:19, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For signing Majorly's userpage Being a great buddy IRC Phoenix-wiki 21:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

My RfA...

Thank you...
...for your participation in my RFA, which closed with 85 supports, 2 neutrals and 1 oppose. I'm extremely grateful for all the the kind comments from so many brilliant Wikipedians I've come to respect and admire, as well as many others I've not yet had the pleasure of working with, and I'll do my best to put my shiny new mop and bucket to good use! Once again, thank you (for the cheatsheet too...) ;)
EyeSerenetalk 16:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply

I asked a question that would help me. I see what you mean though, and I intend to ask questions that would help others decide wheater to vote support, oppose, or nuetral from now on.--Ryan (talk) 23:30, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

My Sandbox

What made you think this was "temporary" or unused, please? --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 04:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Ohh..look a shiny!

Image:WikiMedal for Janitorial Services.png WikiMedal for Janitorial Services
For all your great work clearing at the backlog at CAT:TEMP, I Tiptoety award you this really shiny thing! Tiptoety talk 04:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

You are Marked for Assassination by Igor Berger

See: http://www.londonfetishscene.com/wipi/index.php/User:Igorberger#BuzzKill (or were, apparently the Inquisitor pardoned you) and... Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Igorberger_harrassment

Thought you should know. Life.temp (talk) 09:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Hockeyalltheway25

I noticed you deleted this as a temporary user page earlier today (it's on my watchlist because I originally reported him as vandalism-only, so I've been keeping an eye on him). I just thought you should know that his indef. block was reversed after he apologized, so there should have been no need to delete his talk page. If you could restore it so the history would be intact, that would be lovely. Gromlakh (talk) 13:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I altered your block

Hi, I undid your block of User:Ikilledyourmom and redid it as a hard block. I am not sure if you meant to make this a soft block, but with a name like that we really don't want them creating another account. I hope this is not controversial to you. (1 == 2)Until 22:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Nope, no problem. Mr.Z-man 22:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
With a name like that he should be in jail. (This is intended to be a Joke) – ThatWikiGuy (talk|Where am I co-king?) 22:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

User: Toldasidw

I noticed you deleted a BV by user:Toldasidw. The exact same antihellenic BV accompanied by warez ads was perpetrated by him yesterday. All his posts are BV's and ads to dubious sites. Would it be possible that he be banned. On a long term basis? Thanks.Xenovatis (talk) 21:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what you are talking about. user:Toldasidw is a sockpuppet of the banned User:Grawp. Mr.Z-man 21:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Blocked indef.[2] Thanks.Xenovatis (talk) 22:03, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Request to block 205.155.207.3

You blocked user 205.155.207.3 a few months ago. in recent days they/him/her has been performing acts of vandilism. I'm not entirely sure how to block a user or request to block a user, but you seem to have blocked him/her/them a few months ago so I imagine you could do it again. Danshil (talk) 20:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Re-blocked. In the future, such reports should be made on WP:AIV. Mr.Z-man 22:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


js help

Hi, can you write a script so I can have a button in my tool bar, which when pressed places this in the edit form;

== Happy Birthday! ==

{{subst:Happy Birthday}}

and places Happy Birthday! in the edit summery? Thanks. – ThatWikiGuy (talk|Where am I co-king?) 22:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

function happybirthdaybutton() {
  if (mwCustomEditButtons && document.getElementById('toolbar')) {
    button = document.createElement('a');
    button.href = "javascript:HappyBirthday()";
    button.title = "Birthday";
    buttonimage = document.createElement('img');
    buttonimage.src = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Button_smiley_face_smile.png";
    buttonimage.alt = "Birthday";
    button.appendChild(buttonimage);
    document.getElementById('toolbar').appendChild(button);
  }
}
function HappyBirthday() {
  document.getElementById('wpSummary').value = "Happy Birthday!"
  HBstring = '==Happy Birthday!==\n'+
    '{{subs'+'t:Happy Birthday}} ~~'+'~~';
 
  insertTags(HBstring, '', '');
}
hookEvent("load", happybirthdaybutton);
That should do it. Mr.Z-man 23:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm guessing your good a js script. – ThatWikiGuy (talk|Co-kingship) 23:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

refTools problem

Figured out that the problem I was having at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Random updating of my own sig? was related to refTools. Giving you a heads up.

Additional information I failed to provide before: Safari 3.0.4 on Mac OSX 10.5.2. Unverified on my 3.0.11 version under OSX 10.4 at home, but this issue *just* popped up this morning. EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I suck at wikibreaks too

I suck so much at taking wikibreaks, I almost always fail. (1 == 2)Until 02:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

For your userpage...

I have been digging around, and I found this in the attic.

This editor is a Veteran Editor III, and is entitled to display this Silver Editor Star.
This editor is a Veteran Editor III, and is entitled to display this Silver Editor Star.


Seems your able to display it. :) Hope there is room on your userpage. Best, NonvocalScream (talk) 00:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Reference error checking

refTools is a really great tool. What we could really use is a tool to check for broken refs. I think the major problem I see is when a ref is not properly closed and article text appears in the references section. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 14:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs

Hi, I saw your work at Wikipedia:FlaggedRevs fact sheet, and just wanted to point you towards my request at Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions#Documentation update?, in case you could help. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Backlog at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user

Caution There is currently a backlog of 52 users at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user. Please consider offering adoption to one or more of these users. Don't forget to change their {{adoptme}} template to {{adoptoffer|Mr.Z-man/Archive 6}}. Thank you for your continued participation in Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. xenocidic (talk) 19:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure if your this good but...

...can you create a third party watchlist?

Like I could add pages in, have multiple watchlists.

Maybe I could have variables like;

  • notify - Shows a message, that doesn't disappear until you visit the page in question, when the page is edited
  • email - get email when the page is edited
  • list - which list it goes in

Maybe it could be like a tab (replaces watch/unwatch) and opens up like a twinkle/friendly like window? Would love to hear from you. I use greasemonkey and firefox, so... – ThatWikiGuy (talk | life | The all seeing eye) 20:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

You can create a semi-watchlist by creating a page like User:ThatWikiGuy/watchlist, add links to any page you want to watch, then see the changes with Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:ThatWikiGuy/watchlist. What you want would be fairly difficult, and probably impossible with javascript. You could probably do all but the email notification in Javascript, but it wouldn't be the kind of script I could write in a few minutes. For email notification, you'll need a bot watching the live RC feed on IRC. I think there are some implementations of this in Python or Perl, but I wouldn't know where to find them, User:ST47 or User:SQL may know. Mr.Z-man 23:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, scraping the email notification, do you think we could work on it? The thing I want the most is the my watchlist link to be changed to a pull down menu (custonizable) and the notify - Shows a message, that doesn't disappear until you visit the page in question, when the page is edited. Do you think we could do that? Using the Special:RecentChangesLinked? – ThatWikiGuy (talk | life | "I got my eye on you") 23:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and it could be like a tab (replaces watch/unwatch) and a pulldown menu for the Watch this page radio button on the edit forms, if thats posssible. – ThatWikiGuy (talk | life | "I got my eye on you") 23:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Notification with Javascript would be pretty difficult as well. You may want to ask on WP:US/R for a button to add a link to your watchlist page, that might actually be do-able. Mr.Z-man 23:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Grawp

I think they're all fixed now. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Prince Jam Kamal Khan?

I had just finished declining speedy and trying to add a little more context. Are you sure you mean A1?--Kubigula (talk) 05:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

The context didn't seem significantly more than in the first revision, but I've undeleted it as you feel you can improve it. Mr.Z-man 05:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Cheers. I'll probably play with it a little. I think it's over the A1 hurdle, though I don't know if the guy is actually notable or not.--Kubigula (talk) 05:40, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Cite book template

Why did you remove the "in" from before the "editor" field in the {{cite book}} template? Pages which entries that I've converted to use the template now look odd. Besides, a consensus hadn't been reached in the template's talk page. This seems too arbitrary without the implementation of all the other change requests that would make this an appropriate move. Please revert! -- alexgieg (talk) 15:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I removed it because it looked really strange whenever you provided an editor. I don't think any normal citation format (MLA, APA, etc) puts an "in" before the editors' names. I've reverted for now, but I'd appreciate if you could point me to some cases where this looks remotely correct. Mr.Z-man 19:41, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert. As for its usage, it's for when you have an anthology made of chapters each by a different authors, and you want to specify that the author/chapter you're specifying is "in" that other author's work.
Now, the template's talk discussion, Template talk:Cite_book#template error: editor, is precisely about the fact that in many cases people are using this field for other purposes, such as when the whole book is by one author alone, but its edited by someone else. In these cases sure, the "in" word doesn't make sense. Some suggestions have been made to solve this, such as adding an "editor2=" field to contemplate these cases, or some other way to distinguish when it's an anthology, a critical edition or something else. No consensus has been reached however.
My take is that the whole template requires a lot more brainstorming, then a rewrite from the ground up. But the way things are, people who are relying on it for documenting anthologies, as is my case, expect the "in" to be there. If it disappeared a lot of manual work, maybe even a bot, would be required to place it back where it's expected to be. -- alexgieg (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 04:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Question

I was wondering why you deleted Moulton's userpage [3]. FeloniousMonk (talk) 01:32, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The user was indefinitely blocked and there was no significant content or history that seemed to be worth keeping. The {{indef}} template categorized it into CAT:TEMP and it was deleted as part of a semi-regular purge of the pages in that category. Mr.Z-man 01:38, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I'm restoring the page with another template and links to the discussion for his ban since he's now recruiting meat puppets offsite. FeloniousMonk (talk) 05:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Mr.Z-man/movereverttest.js

I found this script of yours recently while looking through the noticeboard discussions. I haven't manage to get it to work however. I've been testing it in userspace by using my alternate account to move the page after I create it. Is the script glitchy with Firefox or something? Appreciate your help :)...¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 04:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep its a Firefox problem. I just tested the script in IE and it worked beautifully! Hope it wouldn't be too pushy of me to beg you to make it Firefox compatible :P...¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 04:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
It should work fine in FF, FF3 at least. Also, I wouldn't use User:Mr.Z-man/movereverttest.js just yet. I've only tested it twice and it didn't work so well the last time (it deleted pages before trying to move them) and I haven't tested it at all since my last change. User:Mr.Z-man/moverevert.js should be more stable. Mr.Z-man 05:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Seems you spotted the problem. I installed the beta of Firefox 3 and it worked fine. I hadn't gone for FF3 because I don't like installing betas of software. I am too afraid of the kinks that might come with it. But hey, installing your script encouraged me to install an update that wasn't so bad after all and provided me a powerful tool to stop vandal page movers in their tracks ;). Thanks!¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 06:48, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Guess I'll have to get FF3 too then. - Rjd0060 (talk) 14:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Autoconfirmed Poll

When the page was split from the VP, I wasn't certain where to place your thoughts, and so added them to the talk page. Please feel free to either move them to where you wish, or further comment, or whatever. - jc37 23:19, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Rfb participation thanks

Hello, Mr.Z..

I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the project-wide discussions regarding my candidacy for bureaucratship. After bureaucratic discussion, the bureaucrats decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect their decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. If you have any further suggestions or comments as to how you think I could help the project, please let me know. Once again, thank you for your support, and best of luck at WT:BAG! -- Avi (talk) 18:10, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

cite book revert

hello. i was just wondering why you reverted your removal of the 'in' within thre {{cite book}} editor field. i've been trying to get rid of that quirk for more than a year. --emerson7 15:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

See the section about this a few sections above. I plan to take a look at it to see if there is any easy way to fix it, eventually. Mr.Z-man 17:57, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Restore my user talk page

When I am (inevitably) promoted I will enjoy the privilege of viewing deleted talk page hilarity, but I presently lack such power. In the meantime, please restore my talk page to its rightful state. Thanks, The Fat Man Who Left but Returned a Short While Later (talk) 02:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Wow, that was really, really fast. Thanks.--The Fat Man Who Left but Returned a Short While Later (talk) 02:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to BAG!

It appears your BAG nom succeeded! Please see User:SQL/How_to_close_a_BRFA before trying to close a BRFA. I'm always available if you need anything! SQLQuery me! 21:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

Hello again. The Highly Active Users project has gone through a complete revamping per popular demand. We believe this new format will make it easier for new editors to find assistance. However, with the new format, I must again ask you to verify your information on this page. I attempted to translate the data from the old version to the new, but with the extensive changes, I may have made some errors. Thanks again. Useight (talk) 04:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)