User talk:Nishkid64/Archive 20

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

DYK question on Hurricane Bob (1979)

Why was this selected for DYK? It was a substantial article months ago. Just curious.-Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 18:55, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Good call. I was rapidly doing the DYK update, and I had not checked the article history. I have removed it from the Main Page and added replacements. It's annoying when the Next Update editors add mistaken DYKs or add extraneous markings on the page (such as extra quotation marks). Sigh. Nishkid64 19:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK and ...that

Thanks for the notice, Nishkid. Right now many of the DYK entries on the frontpage are missing the "that". Would you please edit the protected page? Thx. - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 19:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, how come you sent my article to DYK directly, bypassing the "next update" stage? Just curious... - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 19:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
How do you mean, imbalanced? Not even? - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 19:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Ss Whatpulsesettings.JPG)

Thanks for uploading Image:Ss Whatpulsesettings.JPG. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. This is an automated message from BJBot 20:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, What's the Story, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On January 29, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article What's the Story, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 18:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Woot! Thank you, Nishkid! :) Firsfron of Ronchester 20:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Please exercise more care!

Please exercise more care when adding items to DYK Next Update. I found that you left several extraneous marks with the DYK hooks, and I had to clean them up after I saw them on the Main Page. The point of DYK is to showcase Wikipedia's finest new articles. We need to maintain a good rep also for our neatness and uniformity on the page. Also, please don't remove the word "that" from DYK hooks. They are to remain there, until it is agreed to remove them. So, in the future please exercise more care with DYK, as it does end up on the Main Page. I still thank you for your help in adding items to Next Update. Thanks, Nishkid64 19:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I looked back to see what my errors were and I saw that I let two extra quotation marks in carelessly. I hope there was nothing more than that. I apologize for the error. A situation in real life demanded my attention so I didn't re-read a few times when done like I usually do. I think you should drop a note to whoever posted them onto the main page that there should always be a final proof read. The post onto the main page is almost the same as a traditional editor saying "okay, send it to print" (except, lucky us, we can make changes after print too). Sorry again for the error, keep up your good work. Shaundakulbara 01:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I am the admin who did the next update. I fixed it up, but I appeared to miss some after it was already on the Main Page. I made the necessary corrections, but I just wanted to remind you as it is always best to go to the source. Thanks, Nishkid64 01:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Oops, sorry Nish! I guess put my foot in my mouth since you scolding yourself would be a little silly. Anyway, thanks again for making the corrections and pointing them out. Shaundakulbara 11:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Hurricane Bob DYK

Why on earth did you change Hurricane Bob with Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov?!! Camptown 19:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  • You'd better answer the question! Camptown 19:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Why on earth did you add Hurricane Bob when it wasn't even qualified for DYK?
Nah, I'm just kidding around. I removed Hurricane Bob after a user informed me that the article was already significant (it was around 7KB, definitely not a stub) nearly a month ago, and the significant expansion this week would not qualify it for DYK. In the future, please look at the article history to make sure a user did not mistakenly nominate an ineligible item for DYK. Nishkid64 19:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
If you read even more carefully, you would notice that the article was in the so called sandbox till Jan 22. It's therefore perfectly eligible. Fore some reason the artilce has been held up because of this misunderstanding. Camptown 19:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

"

  • ...that 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?Mitchazenia(9400+edits) 20:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Not a new article as defined at #Suggestions. 5050 characters long as of December 27. Art LaPella 05:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
        • It was actually in sandbox until yesterday. Generally it is accepted the time starts when the article is moved to mainspace. Hurricanehink (talk) 16:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
          • Oops, sorry. Art LaPella 00:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

"

    • Was it in the sandbox in April 2006? Because according to its history, it was long then too . . . -Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 20:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
      • I looked at the history, I see that before it was moved to the sandbox (that's an awfully long time in the sandbox, by the way), it was already long enough to preclude it from DYK...-Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 20:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


Nishkid64, sorry for the rough tone, but this drives me nuts! The article was indeed in the sandbox till just some days ago. And therefore eligible for DYK (as the main issue is when an article hits the main space). Camptown 20:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  • The article was created on April 7, 2006 as LNBS Main Article: Hurricane Bob (1979), moved to User:HurricaneCraze32/Hurricane Bob (1979) on April 19, 2006, and finally moved to the main space on Jan 23, 2007. The time before Jan 23 does not disqualify the article according to the 5 day rule. Camptown 20:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Do you view the time as LNBS Main Article: Hurricane Bob (1979) also as sandbox time? If so I agree, but if not, if that was mainspace (the name confuses me) then perhaps not. Let's just do the fair thing for this article (it is nommed again I see), and see if there is policy to be derived from this going forward. I again suggest taking this to the talk page so others can comment. ++Lar: t/c 21:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
      • That's certainly the crux of the matter. I relied to the information provided by Hurricanehink that LNBS Main Article: Hurricane Bob (1979) was not an item within the main space. If he is wrong, that's the end of the case. Camptown 09:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Camptown, don't worry my friend, Nishkid wasn't giving anyone a hard time on purpose I don't think. There is something screwy about this article's history, it looks like it WAS in mainspace, but then got moved into a sandbox, then back out again. That just seems odd. Without putting too fine a point on it, articles should be new (to mainspace), or truly unstubbed, to be eligible. Certainly articles created in a sandbox, invisible to all, are new to mainspace when they get moved. But an article that was previously live, and was big when it was live, and then went away, and came back? Maybe not. I looked and looked at the history and I can't tell. To be generous, maybe we should have let it slid. But if Nishkid had, would that mean that the next article shouldn't have? I honestly don't know. How about we have some better recounting of this article's history from the author and then have a discussion about it on the talk page (WPT:DYK) and see if there is a principle to derive here. Neither of you should assume the other person means badly, we all want to keep our readers amused and amazed and interested... Hope that helps. ++Lar: t/c 20:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It probably was in mainspace, because at that time Hurricanecraze32 (now Mitchazenia) had no idea what he was doing, as a relatively new user. I think that that does mean that Bob should be excluded from DYK and declared ineligible. – Chacor 10:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's back up on the front page now as there had been no update for 15 hours and it was the only article already in "Next Update". Let's let it go and discuss the future eligibility of such articles on the talk page. Adding it back into next update while it was still under discussion here was not a productive move though. Yomanganitalk 10:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Agree with Yomangani. Further, I would like to see some of these threads moved over to the talk page (or recapped there) as there are points worth preserving... I support the one time inclusion of htis article, to give it and the author a break, it was rather confusing provenance, without it necessarily setting a precedent. ++Lar: t/c 12:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I guess since my opinion's been quiet, i had made LNBS Main Article: Hurricane Bob (1979) because at the time i was still a new user. There was all the criticism about it at the time, which at the time, was not acceptable and also a stub. April 23rd's almost a year ago and i remade my Bob article, better than it used to be.Mitchazenia(9400+edits) 13:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The article was created in mainspace, however given the absurd title (which corresponds to the User's main sandbox at the time), I feel it was the users intent to create it as a sandbox; it was moved to his userspace by another user following discovery of the article. See the last thread here, this seems to corroborate my viewpoint. As the user's intent was not to put the article in mainspace, but had made a naive error (but still in good faith); I don't think this should count for DYK purposes. As an aside I don't think Nishkid's talkpage is the best place for this discussion - would it be better to move it to WT:DYK?--Nilfanion (talk) 17:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK of Hurricane Bob, redux

You know that a contested article may be eligible even after 5 day. I therefore returned the article to next update, since you didn't provide any material objection to the article, such as qulity concerns etc. Camptown 09:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I strongly object to this. Quality concerns usually doesn't exclude articles from DYK, but ineligibility does. – Chacor 10:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
In general I agree, but when we have a situation where a little flexibility and kindness will result in a more harmonious outcome I'd rather not see us stand on the letter of our guidelines. In this case, despite everything, I think I would have cut this article a break, as Nishkid did. (and not let it be a precedent) I think we ought to be discussing this on the DYK talk, and would even advocate moving these threads over there. Camptown, please consider trying to choose a more descriptive heading than DYK, there are several of those already on the page.... it helps make conversations easier to find later. ++Lar: t/c 12:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

RELATED QUESION: Before I open my noob mouth about it elsewhere, I have a question I'll pose since I see Nish, Camp & Lar all looking here. Is Miyamoto Yuriko eligible for DYK? There is a dispute about it in the DYK pool. Thanks sirs. Shaundakulbara 18:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for helping Mr. Nish. You are a DYK hero! Shaundakulbara 21:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Crash Nitro Kart

Thank you for fully protecting Crash Nitro Kart; I was getting sick of the revert war. I hope it can be sorted out soon enough. --HubHikari 16:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for January 29th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost
Weekly Delivery


Volume 3, Issue 5 29 January 2007 About the Signpost
Foundation names advisory board, new hires Court decisions citing Wikipedia proliferate
Microsoft approach to improving articles opens can of worms WikiWorld comic: "Hyperthymesia"
News and notes: Investigation board deprecated, milestones Features and admins
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Home  |  Archives  |  Newsroom  |  Tip Line  |  Single-Page View Shortcut : WP:POST

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 18:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Abram Lincoln Harris, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On January 30, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Abram Lincoln Harris, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.


Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 21:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions! Nareklm 21:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Appropriate?

Hi, can I ask you to look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CyberAnth#.22Windows_into_Wikipedia_Hall_of_Shame.22 . I find it troubling. Mallanox 00:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for rvv my user page... KatalavenoTC 01:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy Valentines Day!

 I wish you and your family have a wonderful Valentines Day!
Kamope · talk · contributions 11:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Can you please put back my edit in Armenian_language

There was edit wars and they removed my edit. I noticed they said Tacentral was bad reference, so you can remove that reference. I have another reference there. Thank you.Angine 09:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I am not an expert on the matter, by any means, and I would rather not get myself involve myself with the article. For now, just go to the talk page and try to discuss with other users. That's the best solution. Nishkid64 22:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit request

Howdy, since you turned down my unprotect request, can you please edit {{Ice hockey}} for me? We are adding assessment and instructions to the template. Please replace the current template with the contents of User:Mus Musculus/sandbox. Thanks --Mus Musculus 16:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I got someone else to help. --Mus Musculus 20:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

about WP:AIV

I was testing a function in my script, but got an adit conflict when I was going to remove it. →AzaToth 20:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK update

Hi Nishkid64,

If you have a minute, could you update the dyk page? Thank you ahead. --Riurik (discuss) 21:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia

Err... personal attacks? "Every so often some hopelessly optimistic administrator suffers a bout of commitment to the project's ideals and unprotects this page." I don't think that's a personal attack; I've looked at the protection log and the page history and I think it's a fairly accurate description of what happens. I stand by that statement. I'm perfectly aware of what the project does and does not tolerate — I can read well enough to penetrate the waffle that is the average policy page here. As for the unprotection, I don't really understand your reasoning. The nature of this article (second most popular in the project, over 60,000 views per day) means that people are watching it like a hawk all the time, semi-protection or not; the extra people (or person... so far I've only seen one) that show up for the ACID collaboration make a negligible difference. So there are many pairs of eyes on the article — but said pairs of eyes have better things to do than revert and re-revert edits from users who clearly have nothing useful to contribute. Furthermore, as I mentioned in the unprotection request and on the talk page, the article is in the middle of a rewrite (which has been going on for a week now and predates the ACID collaboration), and while the first six days' changes are neatly recorded in the history and on my watchlist, the seventh day is a complete mess and it's difficult to see who did what and when; not surprisingly, none of the anonymous edits added anything useful – Qxz 23:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't call me "hopeless optimistic" and don't go on and say "finally, someone with sense" after SlimVirgin re-protected the page. There are many newly registered users and IPs that participate in ACIDs, and with the semi-protection, they will not be able to edit. I unprotected the page (and would only keep it unprotected for 3-4 days) so that these users could freely edit the page. As I said, there are hundreds of people who are watching the page, and dozens of them spend their time looking at their watchlist or RC patrol. These people can surely spend their time reverting vandalism on Wikipedia, as it is what they came here to do. As for the article history, that shouldn't matter. People can just go back into the history if they really want to see the constructive improvements to the article. Also, I want to stress that I did not unprotect because I was being optimistic and hoped vandalism would die down. I unprotected only because it was this week's ACID, and I would have unprotected by the end of the week. Nishkid64 23:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
"Hopelessly optimistic" refers to everyone who has ever unprotected that page (or any other very heavily-vandalised page), not just you. Similarly, the comment about lack of sense was directed at the administrative team in general — also including, for example, those who feel the need to enforce somewhat petty rules about how you can warn vandals and when. I'm sorry if you feel anything was directed solely at you. In the unlikely event that an anonymous or newly-registered user wishes to participate in an ACID collaboration, we have {{editprotected}}, and if the page is as well-watched as it seems to be, {{editprotected}} requests there should be dealt with switfly – Qxz 23:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you again

Have a cool one with our thanks!
Have a cool one with our thanks!
Thanks again, oh great one, for protecting the poor editors of horse from another round of life in the nonsense vandalism salt mines!!! Here's a lemonade on us! Montanabw 00:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Unprotection of Talk:Reality

You actually support keeping the TALK page protected until February 10th when the article itself is scheduled to be unprotected in 2 days???? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 01:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

St. George's Cathedral, Lviv

Hi there, Don't you think it was a litte bit premature to move St. George's Cathedral, Lviv to the Main page, only a day after the article was created and nominated.... by Riurik himself...? --Camptown 22:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, it was my fault. I should not have chosen my own nom for next update. The fault is all mine.--Riurik (discuss) 22:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to have to ask (especially because the DYK admins have helped me by choosing my articles in the past) but I for one have a B-class biography on 25 January, and maybe eight or ten other people have nominations dated the 25th. Three newer ones went up in Riurik's update. Is there any chance of the ones that were skipped making the main page? Thank you. -Susanlesch 23:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Almost everyone made it! I bet this will make the next week even harder for you to fit everybody in DYK. Thank you for adding Jeannette Piccard which received some good feedback as a result. A picture for you by Dominique Toussaint from the Commons Picture of the Year contest. Thank you and best wishes. -Susanlesch 02:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Gottfried Haberler

Hi, I marked that article as copyvio since in the first version there were a few sentences which were identical to those found on the website. Since there was no earlier version to revert to, I marked it as a copyvio. I'm not sure I used the right template, I'm not really familiar with en.wiki procedures (I'm a sysop on it.wiki). Sorry if I caused trouble. Regards --Cruccone 19:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for the congrats and the Support in my recently ending RFA. I am sure I will look to you for advice with vandal fighting and possible work in the future with WP:DYK. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

sprotection on Derek Jeter

Hi. As you seem to be the admin who semi-protected the Derek Jeter article, you might like to know that you must have missed something. The article is being vandalized as we speak by anons. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 23:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

No no no. Silly me! I should have figured it out and just removed it myself. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 03:21, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Urdu keyboard on DYK

Thanks for the kind gesture which is both encouraging and satisfying--IsleScapeTalk 00:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Arjun's RFA

Hello Nish. I've created Arjun's RFA subpage. You may add your nom anytime now. Best regards, Húsönd 03:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK Award


DYK AWARD
I give this DYK Award to you Nishkid64 in gratitude and commendation for all the work you do to keep DYK running at high standards. Best wishes for the future on Wikipedia and in the real world as well. - House of Scandal 11:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I second that, great job! ~ Arjun 15:34, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Definitely. Keep up the great work (or else the main page will be a mess)! Cheers, S.D. ¿п? § 18:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

The Temptress

I want to get my article The Temptress as a DYK feature could you help with referencing? It still needs a bit of info and some copy editing. DO you think it has potential? It started as a three line sub stub and I built it from scratch. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 22:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

This definitely has potential. I did some minor fixes with the images, as they looked too obtrusive and did not fit in well with the article layout. Two of the pictures are not thumbs, and I would appreciate it if you could make them thumbs and put an image caption stating what the picture is depicting. I'll find references for certain parts of the article, and after that I think it is DYK-ready. Nishkid64 23:37, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

True...

I was wanting the !vote biting to stop but I didn't want to get caught in the crossfire</Stevie Ray Vaughan>. Lol, the vote is completely valid (and completely true!). Cheers my friend. ~ Arjun 00:50, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

this however is just plain weird! ~ Arjun 00:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah once again that always happens, I was so surprised to go a whole day without opposition. We'll have to see how the rest plays out though. And about the IP I wondered that lol...I am loved <3 ~ Arjun 01:00, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Wow! You are fast at those credits....

I notice in the DYK Suggestions list that there are a lot of nominations left for Jan 28 and Jan 29 — which, according to the posted rule of 5 days, have expired. Has that rule changed? I noticed that in the most recent update there were Jan 27 and Jan 28 articles. — ERcheck (talk) 15:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The rule has not changed, but we have been backlogged lately, due to the lack of updating. I've been doing my normal twice-daily updates, but whenever I go back on the next day, I see DYK has not been updated for 10+ hours at a time (yesterday, it wasn't updated for 23 hours!). Hopefully, if we get more admins in Europe or other places to update, then we can fix the backlog issues. Nishkid64 15:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
So, it is appropriate to move Jan 28 and Jan 29, even though there are still a lot of articles listed, to the expired list? — ERcheck (talk) 15:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't think we can get past this backlog if we keep going back to items that are nearly 7-8 days old. Send Jan 28 + Jan 29 to expired, and add January 30th items. Nishkid64 15:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Evil Inc

If you are responsible for deleting the article on my daily comic strip, Evil Inc, may I ask you to reconsider that decision?

Evil Inc is not a webcomic, it is a newspaper comic strip with a Web presence.

Evil Inc is a daily comic strip that has over 11,000 daily readers (as of Jan. 2007). It is a spin-off of my first comic, Greystone Inn, which was launched Feb 2000.

Later this month, I will celebrate seven years of creating a daily comic strip on a Monday-through-Saturday schedule. That's over 2,000 comics.

Evil Inc appears in several daily newspapers -- as did Greystone Inn. My two other comic projects, Courting Disaster and Phables, appear in newspapers (including the Philadelphia Daily News) as well.

The Philadelphia Daily News is the largest newspaper to carry these comics. It has a daily circulation of roughly 130,000. Newspaper readers are not included in the estimate of daily readers cited above. Adding even 1% of the circulation, though, adds another thousand or so daily readers.

There are two Evil Inc graphic novels, distributed worldwide by Diamond Distribution.

I am also the author of "The Everything Cartooning Book," published and distributed worldwide by Adams Media.

I find the Wikipedia entry on my strip to be a good resource for new readers. I would be very disappointed to see it disappear. Guigar 16:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)Brad Guigar

I'm sorry that I had to delete your article. Your article was sent to WP:AFD a week ago, and the community consensus on the fate of the article was to delete it. (See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evil Inc.) As an admin, I am entrusted by the community to close such AfDs on the general consensus of other Wikipedia editors. 3 people requested the article to be deleted, and one person requested it to be kept. Therefore, I had to delete the article because more people wanted it to be deleted, than kept. If you still disagree with what happened to the article, you can surely sent it to WP:DRV and proclaim your case in front of other Wikipedia editors who will review your information and determine if the article should be restored back, or kept as deleted. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me. Nishkid64 22:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I have to say, I find your attitude baffling.

I have offered very strong evidence why the entry for my comic strip was unjustly deleted and you tell me that *I* have to go through some sort of bureaucracy to have it un-deleted.

The way I see it, the mistake made here was *yours* not *mine.*

I feel that since *you* put the entry up for deletion, then -- if you agree that it was a mistake -- you should be the one who corrects that mistake.

If you do not feel the original step to delete the entry was a mistake, I have to say, I am equally confused.

What am I missing?

I did not put the article up for deletion. Some other editor did, and after 5 days (that's how long AfDs run for), I closed the AfD since the consensus was clearly delete. Since the article was deleted under AfD, you will have to go to WP:DRV and present your reasoning for keeping the article, there. Unfortunately, I cannot overturn the AfD consensus and restore the article back. Please go to WP:DRV if you wish to pursue this matter further. Thanks, Nishkid64 23:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Evil Inc.. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. The Shroud 16:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Semiprotection of Super Bowl XLI

I noticed you recently semi-protected this article with the comment, "Keeping this page protected until the Super Bowl has passed and the vandals have left."[1] Quite frankly (like last year's Super Bowl, 2006 FIFA World Cup, and other high profile sporting events articles), when the game is underway, the articles have generally been unprotected to allow anon user to edit -- similar to how the TFA, other pages linked from the main page, and other high-profile articles are treated. So do not be surprised if I or another admin removes the protection when the game starts. (Of course, after the game ends, it's a different story...) Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, WP:SPP#When not to use semi-protection clearly states that semi-protection should not be used, "As a preemptive measure against vandalism before any vandalism has occurred." In my opinion, there was not enough IP anon vandalism before you changed the protection setting to warrant it.[2] Therefore, I do question your reason to do it. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 18:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I know that my protection reasoning goes against WP:SEMI. I was well aware of that before I made my decision. Knowing that this page is going to be vandalized heavily, I ignored the rules and semi-protected anyway. If you want to unprotect the page once the game starts, then I'm perfectly fine with that. However, I request the page be protected until at least 0:00 UTC, because undoubtedly most IP edits will be Super Bowl predictions, and such. Thanks. Nishkid64 18:33, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK thanks

Thanks for leaving a note on my talk page. I'll try to nominate more articles. | AndonicO Talk · Sign Here 20:45, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK credits

Thanks for taking care of those - I only had five minutes but didn't want the next update to sit there for another 10 hours. Yomanganitalk 23:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

RFA talk pages

Hi. I'm looking at the talk pages of past RFAs, and notice you put up the stats for one of the users, so I'd like to ask you a question that I've been wondering for a while. I know that the stats, generated by Wannabe Kate, aren't automatically tacked onto RFAs, so who does it and when? Thanks a lot. Xiner (talk, email) 23:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It's basically whoever sees it first. If they see the talk page of an RfA is redlinked, they can go do the editcount at wannabe Kate's, and then copy and paste it to the RfA talk page. Nishkid64 23:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Ah, mystery solved. Thank you! Xiner (talk, email) 23:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Exile142000school ipExile142000

63.238.223.66.

Exile142000school ipExile142000

63.238.223.66.

Another cathedral

Nishkid, could you have a look at the Cathedral of Vannes which I made 2 days ago. Any chances to go to DYK level? It may become boring but these Gothic buildings are really poorly covered here. Today I also immencely expanded the Cathedral of Tours but the photos I took when visited it were junk, so I cannot make it any better from this side.
GGenov 21:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey, there's no problem with having articles on cathedrals appear on DYK every once in a while. Heck, I had 20 of my articles on politicians on DYK in just two weeks!
Great work with the articles, by the way. They look really great for DYK. Just nominate Basilica Cathedral St. Peter and St. Patern, Vannes and Cathedral of Tours at T:DYKT and hopefully, you'll see them on the Main Page in a few days. =) Nishkid64 23:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I'll do that.
GGenov 08:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

what?

How is it considered vandilism? I thought that was what this site was based on. Since u are a "wiki administrator", u must have heard about the Steven Colbert thing on your site. So is that why i couldn't add anything to the elephants page? I was just seeing if it would work putting my friends name in there. Sorry if I have troubled you in any way.

-Johnny G.

HI PLEASE HELP

Please help me in preventing the vandalism on the Jat article. There has been non-stop vandalism of that article for the last months now with the deleting sections of Jat kingdoms in Punjab being vandalized as well by this User:Sikh-history he kept on vandalising. He has been deleting sections of Jat kingdoms in Punjab. He has been warned from vandalism on other articles for the last two months. I do not have the expertise you have can you please do me a favour (I would be really greatful) can you get this new user permanent blocked or long temporary block. As you are expert on wikipedia it would take you minutes to do due to his consistent vandalism he has been warned many times, you can see on his user talk page. Please help!--Indian50 17:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Problems with Henchman 2000 still

He still continues to re-add the mini-game examples to just about every Mario Party article. It's POV cruft. Wikipedia isn't a guide to listing what mini-games are in each game, yet he wont realize it. I've talked to one other admin about this, but nothing has been done yet. Page protection isn't needed yet: but I think soon it might be needed. He wont listen to reason at all about this. RobJ1981 20:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK Img

I think the river image is rather bad-looking at 100px. I vote switcheroo - but it's up to you. - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 21:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thankoo - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 21:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey Nishkid64,

I just would like to thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 54/13/11. I appreciate the trust expressed by members of the community, and will do my best to uphold it.

Naturally, I am still becoming accustomed to using the new tools, so if you have suggestions or feedback, or need anything please let me know. - Gilliam 21:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyright licenses

Hey is there anyway we can remove some parts on this? [3] this part? "Please list this image for deletion if they do." i mean theres no need, lets do it for all if just for one, i find it disturbing and keeps your image under strict measures 24/7 Nareklm 00:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Biography of living persons adminship

"Biography of Living Persons Administrators ("BLP Admins") carry out a specialized, narrowly tailored administrative role within Wikipedia." Please see WP:BLPADMIN to offer your thoughts on this proposal. CyberAnth 03:38, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Signpost updated for February 5th, 2007.

The Wikipedia Signpost
Weekly Delivery


Volume 3, Issue 6 5 February 2007 About the Signpost
Foundation organizational changes enacted Group of arbitrators makes public statement about IRC
AstroTurf PR firm discovered astroturfing WikiWorld comic: "Clabbers"
News and notes: More legal citations, milestones Wikipedia in the News
Features and admins Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Home  |  Archives  |  Newsroom  |  Tip Line  |  Single-Page View Shortcut : WP:POST

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 05:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

woot woot!

Guess what! I finally got my first featured item earlier today! Portal:Hinduism was promoted, such hard work with friends paid off :). Cheers buddy. ~ Arjun 20:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Indianapolis Colts

Hi, I noticed you semi-protected the Colts page after I requested it. It was the first time I used that and wasn't sure if the request would be fulfilled. BuickCenturyDriver 02:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, judging from the vandalism it's been getting since the Colts won the Super Bowl, it was definitely going to be semi-protected. If you're ever unsure about page protection in the future, read WP:SEMI and other such protection policies. =) Nishkid64 02:45, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Uhg, PLEASE unblock this 216.20.9.22

this is part of my school network, im taking steps to stop vandalism by checking logs each time i get on this. please unblock it. its registered to weston public schools or minuteman.

216.20.9.22 thanks much Gamersedge 16:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Why exactly do you want it unblocked? Your school IP keeps vandalizing every time we unblock. The block is also under "anon only", so it shouldn't be affecting you either. Nishkid64 22:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Temptress

Lovely work on Mark McDermott!! THe Temptress is a great new article but it had too many screen images for front page 1926 just evades pd old I think!! I am impressed Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)