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[edit] Hello,

I hope you like Wikipedia. You'll get finnicky users that delete your stuff (and replace it with much lesser quality articles, afraid of change, or cruddy grammar). As far as logging out, I haven't logged out due to convenience. Good luck, like your contribs. Jedo1507r

[edit] Red River of Tennessee-Kentucky

Hi:

Sorry that it took me a while to get back with you – since I received my current employment I am of needs devoting less time to Wikipedia than when I was self-employed as I was when I took up the "Rivers of Tennessee" project as my own last summer. You certainly have my permission to merge your Red River with mine; not that you need it. It is problematic that there are two (at least) Red Rivers at least partially in Kentucky; I faced similar problems with the fact that there are two Piney Rivers in Tennessee and two Elk Rivers; this I "solved" by designating the Pineys as Piney River (East Tennessee) and Piney River (Middle Tennessee), and the two Elks as East Tennessee and (I think) Tennessee-Alabama; perhaps a poor choice as the East Tennessee Elk actually rises in North Carolina and its most famous feature, a large waterfall, is actually in that state (by about a half-mile), I think that in "inherited" the title for the Middle Tennessee / Alabama Elk as it is just a major expansion of a preexixting article IIRC.

Welcome to Wikipeida. In my experience there has been a dearth of editors with expertise/interest/experience in our area; if you want some more insights into Tennessee history and politics that are essentially my own, check out Tennessee State Constitution, John S. Wilder, James O. Naifeh, many of the articles in the governors of Tennessee series, and Clarksville's own Riley Darnell. Regards, Rlquall 12:21, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Howdy

Welcome to Wikipedia.

I wasn't trying to step on your toes with the changes to the Category:Nashville. Just FYI though, generally when you are creating a Category, it should always be a sub-category of another category (for instance, I made Category:Nashville a sub category of Category:Cities in Tennessee and Davidson County, Tennessee. Doing that will tie it into the larger Category structures and make it findable with just a few clicks from the main page.

Also, if you want to link to a category page (like I did above) just add a colon in front of the word "Category" like this: [[:Category:Nashville]]. I thought you might like to know that for your user page where you listed the categories you created.

Kevin Rector 16:09, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the information on the linking, as I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Works just like photo links with the colon. Also thanks for making the categories link into each other. I wasn't thinking. Riffsyphon1024 18:42, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
No problem, that's the beauty of the Wikipedia, it's such a collaborative thing. I've been around a bit longer than you, so I have picked up a few "tricks of the trade" and I'm happy to pass them on. I tried to help find some articles related to Nashville. Here's another "trick of the trade": I went to google, then did an advanced search limiting my results to the en.wikipedia.org domain, and I was able to find quite a few Nashville related articles. That's a good way to find articles related to a particular topic. Another is to go to the Nashville, Tennessee article and click the "what links here" button. Kevin Rector 14:50, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)
Yea, I noticed that Google can be used to search the site, as one time while searching for info to add to a article I was working on, I pulled up the very article on Google as the number one search. It got me nowhere trying to look for something that wasn't there. Lol. Riffsyphon1024 00:35, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Articles

Sure, I can help you out with the Star Wars articles. I've got plenty of knowledge to contribute, although I'm going to have to get re-acquainted with the information, since I haven't been taking as much of an interest in Star Wars lately as I used to, but no matter there. bob rulz 06:11, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

It's not right for Revenge of the Sith to be PG-13 since all other Star Wars movies are rated PG, i fear it could cause an unpopular controversy and i hope it doesn't have any cuss words and sexuality (including brief nudity) in it. - John-1107
That's not the reason for the rating. I sensed beheadings. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Well there's no beheadings, instead there will be Imperial clone stormtrooper execution squads of unknown, unseen Sith agents led by Darth Vader that will kill a lot of Jedi and Republic loyalist Imperial senators of the future Resistance/Rebel Alliance in cold blood. Even the young child Padawans of the Jedi Bear Clan cannot defeat them. - John-1107 8:16 P.M. 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Yea, if it seems reminicent of the Hitler dictatorship, then we have reason to raise the ratings. Still, I feel that someone will succumb to a beheading... -- Riffsyphon1024 02:25, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
How many Star Wars characters will get beheaded and who is going to get beheaded?

The story didn't say much of a Star Wars character getting beheaded. - John-1107

Oh, I can't tell you that. That would spoil the movie for you. However, I'll say this: beheadings are done by lightsabers nowadays. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:58, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I would consider General Grievous to be the predecessor of Darth Vader because

  • They were once organic beings.
  • They suffered injuries so they have to wear cyborg implants and armor with breathing mask helmets that conceal their entire bodies. - John-1107
There's not a connection there though. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:14, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well the historical origin section of the article about General Grievous states that when he was still a Kaleesh, the Confederacy and Darth Sidious had his shuttle crashed. They sent his body to Geonosis and had him rebuilt into a cyborg droid general meaning that the rare revolutionary technology of transforming an organic being into a cyborg (as in the case of Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader) was developed during the Clone Wars and it started with Grievous. - John-1107 11:04 A.M. 12 March 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Everyking

The whole thing really picked up steam in late November, as I recall, with Everyking fending waves of successive editors until people had had enough. More detail than you can shake a stick at on Everyking's obsession and how far he's willing to go is available at

Note that the result of the RfAr was that he's not allowed to make ANY reverts to Ashlee Simpson-related articles (except for obvious vandalism). The ruling was effective Jan 24th; he reverted an Ashlee Simpson article 14 hours later and got the first of three 24-hour blocks he's received since for violating the ArbCom ruling.

Also toss in the fact that he has three times nominated the album article for Feature Article Candidate in as many months and you've got some notion of his monomania. The thing is, he's normally a good editor -- last time I checked, he had something on order of 20,000+ edits -- but there's this fanboy obsession with this pre-fab pop princess that's flushed much of his hard-earned reputation away.

If you want to see Everyking Ashlee-mania unplugged, check out the Ashlee Simpson Show article. This is an article that doesn't cry out for an editor's red pen, it cries out for a chainsaw. But I, for one, don't have the strength or interest in tackling it. Hell, I don't even have cable TV. --Calton 05:53, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • LOL, and a good thing too. Last time she sang at a big event (i.e. the Orange Bowl), she was boo'd. I saw it coming from a mile away, and IMO she can't sing. Not worth my time to obsess about. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:17, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

So when is Everyking going to stop reverting? Lord knows, given his history of the gaming the system every chance he gets if he doesn't get his way on Ashlee. He does avoid obvious violations of the rules, mostly, so if you were to revert October 24, it's doubtful he'd respond immediately -- at least, until one minute past the 3-reverts-per-24-hours limit. Of course, when someone added the bit about Ashlee's PR people astroturfing message forums to Ashlee Simpson, he immediately launched into reverting -- even though it was a guaranteed blocking offense.

In my personal opinion, reverting October 24, since it involves Ashlee Simpson, counts as a violation of his ArbCom restriction on reverting Ashlee Simpson-related articles, but admins are probably more conservative than I am on that score. If they weren't, I'm sure one of them would have blocked him by now. I suppose I ought to ask explicitly. --Calton 16:52, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • So why can't they just ban him indefinitely? -- Riffsyphon1024 18:39, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)


[edit] "Why do people get so pissed at us?"

Yep, It's our cross to bear.  :) RickK 06:49, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

I presume you're referring to my one way conversation with RickK.
I got pissed off with him, because a) he kept deleting everything I wrote, which was extremely irritating, b) wouldn't give an explanation (although he has begun to now).
There's a good few reasons... as many as you can think of probably. If RickK had behaved in a mature manner and actually discussed with me, well, who knows. Instead of defusing a situation, he actually inflamed it. Some people in the computer world lack social skills.
    • Well you got one thing right. -- Riffsyphon1024 07:12, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ?

Would you mind not being a bitch towards new users who don't have the hang of this whole thing yet?--Rentastrawberry 05:58, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

  • I'm sorry. But in being a loyal Wikipedian it is my duty to find substandard articles and present them to Vfd. If your articles are improved upon, then they may have a chance of survival. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:01, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ever been to chiguata?

I noticed you did some "some wikification" to the article of Chiguata. Wondered if you been there? User:Dynamax

  • No, just the usual wikification cleanup procedures. Sounds like a nice place though. -- Riffsyphon1024 07:21, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars

You might want to take a look at Kyp Durron and see if you can merge it somewhere, may also be a copyvio--nixie 05:12, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • Couldn't have been a copy-vio as there were numerous spelling errors in it. I wikifyed it, and I don't think it needs a merge, as there is enough information there to retain its status as an article. I will look for an image of Kyp to further enhance the article. -- Riffsyphon1024 05:50, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks--nixie 00:20, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the invite Riffsyphon! I recently registered; I'll look around to see what I can add. --qrc 21:58, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

GRider has listed a bunch of Star Wars stuff for deletion today, you might want to check it out--nixie 02:29, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the notice. I will attempt to merge those articles he has submitted for deletion. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:41, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
    • Is he nuts? I just had to secure about 7 more articles under the gun. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:59, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
      • I think he's trying to make a point, but going the wrong way about it. I agree that many of these pages don't need articles and would be difficult to make into articles, but since the community has already decided that Star Wars is ok for wikipedia, the information shouldn't be deleted, it should be merged to an appropriate list/summary article, I think the Star Wars editors have been particularly effective at doing this. Keep up the good work. --nixie 04:30, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      • While it occurs to me mabye it would be good to have wikiproject:star wars, so article that need clean-up, merging etc can be sent there, rather than vfd--nixie 04:41, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More Star Wars

Here's one that GRider hasn't found yet, Barriss offee--nixie 06:22, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Actually, someone else found it, and listed it here on vfd, where it's just passed into /Old. He helpfully only added the vfd notice to the article itself on 16:09, Mar 24, 2005. Thought you might want to take a look at it. —Korath (Talk) 02:28, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Another new page Kelnobi for you, I think it's actually about Kenobi.--nixie 00:38, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: reverting vandalism

Don't mention it! We all have to look out for each other, too. — Knowledge Seeker দ (talk) 09:04, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Squyres image

Hi. I noticed that you tagged Image:Steven squyres backdrop.jpg as public domain. That seems suprising and unusual for a news company photo to me. Are you sure? Source, please? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 20:29, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • You can retag it if you need to. I'm still trying to understand what tags represent what, and there is nothing said of news companies. Sorry if PD is way off what it should be tagged. Also, I just realized that the article I made for Steven Squyres is a duplicate, with the other one being Steve Squyres. And I was so sure I had it. Damn. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:25, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • OK, read up on Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Things from commercial enterprises like news companies are generally copyrighted (and most of their web sites do have a copyright notice saying so). We might sometimes use such images under fair use, but free images are always better for us. NASA images are commonly public domain, so if we can find a good PD-USGov-NASA image of him, that would be preferable. Let me know if I might help answer some questions. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 00:44, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • P.S.: Good job of merging the articles! -- Infrogmation
      • I have posted his picture from the Cornell site, however it is used almost everywhere else. Other pics I've seen are from newssites and not much from NASA that's in good quality. I'll keep looking, if I have to replace this one. Hopefully, it's sufficient. -- Riffsyphon1024 01:43, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VFD: Trade Federation PAC

I wish that this article be reinstated so that I may Transwiki it to Star Wars Wiki. The new wiki was created just days ago and I forgot about this article, as GRider had been submitting numerous Star Wars articles for deletion in the Great Lucascruft Purge. If this article can be recovered, I will put it in the new wiki. Your help will be appreciated. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:16, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)

I've restored it temporarily. Let me know when you've got it. dbenbenn | talk 22:53, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I have transwikied the article but since two larger articles on Wikipedia link to it, I have made it a redirect to Wikicities:c:StarWars:Trade Federation PAC. Is that fair to do? -- Riffsyphon1024 23:01, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
Okay. I've deleted it again. Feel free to do whatever you want with the red link. But I think a redirect offsite is considered a bad idea in general. If you're willing, it would be good to start an article to hold all those short Star Wars vehicle stubs; then you could make a redirect there. dbenbenn | talk 02:04, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There are is a list of vehicles. I can move the vehicles' articles themselves and then link from there to the SWW. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:25, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Transwiking

Removing any article from Wikipedia requires the consensus of the community. Please stop unilaterally redirecting Star Wars articles off site. - SimonP 23:24, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)

If these articles are to be deleted anyway, I am simply putting them where they need to be, as many members of the community have agreed on before. A Star Wars Wiki was needed because of the many articles regarding the subject could not stand on their own on this site. Deletion already happened for one article today which I had to ask to be reinstated temporarily so I could move that to Star Wars Wiki. Normally it would not have survived in Wikipedia. As for the ones that have been voted to keep or merge I have left those alone to see what happens. But I believe this action is justified. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:39, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
But none of there are going to be deleted. GRider nominates dozens of articles per day in an attempt to prove a point, but hardly any of them ever get deleted. - SimonP 23:45, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
But some like Order D6-66 would be deleted if not merged, however for the Star Wars Wiki, this article could reasonably hold up by itself as a stub there. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:49, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
It's fine to copy articles to the Star Wars wiki, but VfD results should be respected. If an article is to be merged it should be left as a redirect to where it was merged, not to an external site. If the vote, as in this case, is to delete the article then it should be deleted. However, I am certain that if this article was ever rewritten as a stub or longer it would be kept. - SimonP 00:05, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
This Order D6-66 is only a stub as best, and because it is not of importance to the Wikipedia, only to the SWW, it would be deleted for sure. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:14, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Hi there, I think the point is that it's not for you to decide unilaterally what is of importance to Wikipedia... Anyway never mind about that, I have merged a fair few of the articles (and thanks BTW for correcting my typos, there may be a few more around) (actually checking in MSWord "Subsidiaries" isn't a typo, but there probably are others) however I have to wait for consensus to emerge on some of them. Please don't let this put you off contributing SW stuff on Wikipedia, I'm sure once there are a few articles that group minor characters/planet etc then this will all blow over and the SW wiki and Wikipedia will co-exist peacefully :-) -- Lochaber 19:52, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Of course this won't do anything to prevent me from contributing new articles, but have you noticed how many there are that most people feel should be moved. When it comes to planets, there are dozens that could develop full articles, but to people outside the hardcore fans of Star Wars, they will appear unencyclopedic and they will Vfd them (refer to Rhen Var for an example of this). And so far the planet count is up to 234 on the list. No one would want all those planets floating around by themselves with articles on Wikipedia, but on SWW, ah, then it is most acceptable if that is to be the place for detailed info and new articles on minor things, irrevalent to the existing saga. All articles here that can stand on their own, will. But you wouldn't want an article on the Cowl Crucible here. Never heard of it? Exactly my point. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:27, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
Well.... Maybe people wouldn't want a seperate article on the Cowl Crucible here, but they wouldn't object to it being included in some other SW article... and actually if it becomes a reasonably substantial article like Darth Traya or Tyvokka then people are more than likely happy to keep it... I think it also needs to be pointed out that when ppl like GRider and Radiant! nominate articles they don't always want them to be deleted - see the nomination for Tyvokka, GRider wanted it merged but when he saw that it was a bit substantial to merge he thought it was best to bring to discussion...
As far as the planet are concerned, a lot of the planets on Planets from Star Wars don't have anything written about them so no, one wouldn't want an article on them... personally I think of those articles like the ones in Minor characters in Star Wars as kind of holding areas, as you noted, if the entries get big enough then they can get de-merged however there's no point in de-merging something into a stub like Rhen Var. On the Star Wars Wiki, it's cool, they can create all the tiny articles they want, but here if things don't get expanded reasonably quickly they will be nominated, like stub articles on many other topics. Anyway see my further comments on SW planets on Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Rhen Var. I'm happy to trawl through the articles and merge/redirect them into other articles. -- Lochaber 10:07, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As far as subsidiaries goes - I don't know what it sounds like when you pronounce it but it does sound like it has an i to me... Anyway I can't spell for sh!t so I always go with what MS word tells me! :-) -- Lochaber 10:07, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More Star Wars - "Minor" articles

Hello again, I had previously posted in the Rhen Var Vfd that I was going to create articles called Minor planets for Star Wars and List of major planets of Star Wars, according to whether they had reasonably long articles or not. However then I noticed that you had previously merged all content from Minor races in Star Wars into List of Star Wars races. Anyway, the reason I wanted to split them out is that the articles can get very long if they are including everything, for example the list of races is at 59K which is already longer than recommended in Wikipedia:Article size (32K is not really a technical limit as far as I'm aware but it's easier on the eye when articles are not so long). So I'm still going to go ahead with splitting the Planets article if you think that's fine, please don't merge them to create some kind of super article.

Anyway, I have some proposals on Talk:List of Star Wars races that I would like you to comment on if appropriate. -- Lochaber 11:53, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GRider

Regarding GRider's 'Socratic' VfD nominations and the ensuing reactions by voters, please read and comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/GRider2. Thanks. Radiant_* 10:29, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Planets TOC

I like what you've done with the Table of Contents at Planets of Star Wars. This should have been the TOC used when the list started getting past 100 planets, however I was untrained in the ways of the Wiki. -- Riffsyphon1024 17:14, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm not that trained in the ways of the Wiki either so there might be an even better way of doing it. I know there are a few other TOC templates around, I just picked that one b/c I thought it looked best out of the ones I saw. -- Lochaber 18:02, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I searched for them and found four. I used one of them for the planets article that was copied to Wookieepedia, and am in process of doing the same format to that. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:23, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oh! Mr. Porter! VFD

Hi there--

Another user and I have done a rewrite of the Oh! Mr Porter! article in the hopes of making it worthy of keeping. I'm wondering if you'd take a look at the new article, and reconsider your vote to delete it . Thanks!

Best wishes, Jacobw 18:52, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Jokes? We ain't got no stinking Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense!

Hey Riffsyphon1024, Regarding Wikipedia talk:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, I would like to lobby you to change your vote from supporting

"Nonsense? Nonsense? We don't need no stinking bad jokes and other deleted nonsense!"

to supporting

"Bad Jokes? We ain't got no stinking Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense!"

The reason I make this request is that the title is a pun on the quote "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!", and "Bad Jokes" is a much better pun on the word "Badges" than "nonsense" is. Thanks for your involvement in BJAODN! Kevyn 17:52, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting vandalism

In the case of Fourvin's vandalism, I noticed there was no "Redirected from" message, and in that case, there were at least two ways of reverting. In that instance, I reverted from the recent changes page, choosing the diff link for the difference between the two versions, opened the last good version for editing, and then saved it. If you missed the edit on recent changes you could just go directly to the history page by entering your PAGE_TITLE, (in this case "User talk:Riffsyphon1024") like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PAGE_TITLE&action=history --Viriditas | Talk 10:10, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:JesusHadBetterBeInYourHeart

Question, do you think this person went after me because I reported their crimes on the Vandalism page? I know he/she left a message to give Him a chance, but with what that user did, I will say no. Zscout370 03:15, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • I know that the first thing any vandal would do is exact revenge on those who reported them. A good thing to do in those cases is not make a link back to your pages when you sign your name. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:16, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
    • So I just type my name and that is it? If that is the case, then thank you. Zscout370 03:20, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      • Yea, and chances are, the person will then have to really Wiki-educated to find your pages. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:23, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apatite

Steven, are you sure that Image:Apatite.jpg is in public domain? What's its origin? -Diego UFCG 22:48, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Actually, that was a while back and it was a Google image. I may not have known how to classify it, and hoped that it was fair use. Search for "apatite" and if you find that it violates a copyright law, then remove it. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:43, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
I found a identical image at [1]. I doubt that there is the real source. I would upload it into Commons, therefore I mustn't yet. I had put the template:Unknown. -Diego UFCG 17:03, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rlquall up for admin vote

One of the most prolific Tennessee Wikipedians, Rlquall, is currently being voted on for Adminship. If you'd like to support his nomination, cast a vote on the Request for adminship page. Thanks. Kaldari 19:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GRider

Probably, but at least now we can prove that he knew. I figured it would be bad form to block him for editing deletion pages without a warning. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 03:07, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Town gas

Thanks for helping with Town gas Klonimus 11:09, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] problem user, copyrighted images

Thanks for the tip about User:Pazuzu413. If you can identify the source just put an {{imagevio|sourceurl}} on the image page, and list at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. I'll look into his other uploads tomorrow. --Duk 04:13, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yeh, finding the source is sometimes hard, I usually use google too. To make the url show in the copyvio box see Algolite for an example: {{imagevio|url=http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/scwc/species/algolites.htm}}, (sorry, didn't type it right in the earlier comment). --Duk 04:42, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars wiki Invite

Thanks for the invitation. Though I must let you know that I am a relative newcomer to the Star Wars universe, however I have known about it for quite a long time.

I will try my best to contribute, starting next week .. (exam time...trying to stay away from "distractions"). LG-犬夜叉 19:43, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your "no life" stub

I thought it was funny, so I decided to improve on it a bit. I hope you like it. :) – ClockworkSoul 17:27, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Looks good. I also see you have too much time on your hands. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:46, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
    • Actually no. I do, however, have a surplus of tasks to avoid. ;) – ClockworkSoul 00:15, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oh, and another thing

Could you drop by Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals? We're having trouble reaching a consensus on the Science and Mathematics star, and we were hoping that you might change your two (ahem ;) ) votes for the name to one of the front-runners? – ClockworkSoul 00:15, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Star Wars wikipedia

Greetings! I JUST discovered the Star Wars Wikipedia you started! I love it! I was the one responsible for the Naboo major rewrite on 11 Nov 04, when I myself just discovered the wikipedia. I didnt have an acct at first, then created one under Wildorchid- then forgot my access code, now am back as drachenfyre. I saw that there was a Star Wars Wikipedia through the SOE Galaxies forums: were you the one to post there? I am gald to see my contrabutions in Naboo and Corellia are going to good use.Drachenfyre

Hello, Drachenfyre. I was not around in November, but signed up for Wikipedia on Jan 5, 2005. Also I haven't been to the SOE Galaxies forums, so it must have been someone else, and I might have a good idea who. Also, I should let you know that I only was a co-founder. Credit for getting the wiki off the ground goes to WhiteBoy. I hope you do make good contributions at Wookieepedia. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:30, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Riffsyphon, regarding the Toshi/Tosche Station, if you have a reference book that you think is valid, feel free to edit the Toshi station article as you see fit. My one reference was a webpage, and I'm not sure as to the validity of it.
- Goldbot 12:38, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Garcia's message

Hello, Riffsyphon1024. I just answered you at my talk page. -- Mike Garcia | talk 01:09, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Eagle Nebula - NASA.jpg

Hi, I noticed you tagged this image with a NASA PD tag. I listed it on possibly unfree images because it's not a NASA image, but actually comes from this page. The NOAO terms of use seem to be incompatible with the GFDL. It's definitely not NASA PD, anyway, so I changed the tag back to PUI. Worldtraveller 08:18, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Sorry. I did not see that. Too many assumptions on my part. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:51, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright tags

Thanks for uploading Image:Sun crusher.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, BCKILLa 10:52, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

  • The image was from a Google search. It may or may not be under copyright, but if there are numerous copies floating around on the internet, then does that make it {{fairuse}}? -- Riffsyphon1024 05:27, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • Also technically, it is a redundant image as I found a better image for the article it was on, and was going to have it deleted anyway. -- Riffsyphon1024 05:32, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BJAODN - The Curmudgeon Title Passes

Ha. And you thought I was difficult. I reluctantly cede my title of BJAODN First Curmudgeon to Proto. He even voted against my precious "Blueberry Island," but I don't mind. It's the curmudgeon demotion that stings. --Mothperson 12:52, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

  • I'm lost, what are you referring to. I haven't been to BJAODN in a while. -- Riffsyphon1024 19:47, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars articles by user 68.4.91.67

I noticed that an anon user [2] was creating a handful of Star Wars articles that all looked like possible copyvios but I could only find one (Fenn Shysa) on the web. That source material was itself apparently a transcript from some kind of print Star Wars encyclopedia which is where I suspect the other articles might be coming from. Anyway, I left a note for the user, but being an anon it's hard to say whether she/he will see it. I thought I'd look around for a Star Wars uh, afficionado like yourself who might know how to check this out. Any thoughts? --Lee Hunter 00:55, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • Oh gee, I got so much catching up to do since I've been gone from Wikipedia and working on the Wookieepedia. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:32, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neighborhoods of Nashville

If I were to start a small project involving the more "minor" neighborhoods of Nashville (i.e., Inglewood, Belleshire, Claylick, Joelton, Whites Creek, etc.) would you have any interest in helping with it? The bigger neighborhoods like Antioch, Bellevue, Donelson, Green Hills, and Hermitage already have articles. Do you even think this to be worth pursuing? I'm also asking some of the other Nashville contributors (Kaldari, Ichabod, Kevin Rector, RivGuySC what they think, FWIW. Thanks, Rlquall 03:24, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • I might be interested, although I'd have to really cut back on my Wookieepedia contributions. I was just in Whites Creek this last weekend, and I think I can whip something up. How many other towns/neighborhoods do we need? -- Riffsyphon1024 03:47, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Call to Action

Whereas, much good discussion and work has previously occured on the Barnstar and award proposal page,

Whereas, the level of discussion and progress on the abovementioned page has dropped to a record level of none; no constructive commments have been made on existing awards since May 17, 2005,

Whereas, many "Vote or Die!" have been left open, namely two, as a result of this lack of discussion,

Whereas, nine proposals lie untouched by Wikipedian hands,

Whereas, you have previously commented and helped on the abovementioned page,

Therefore, I, who have absolutely no command in ordering this whatsoever, instruct you, Riffsyphon1024/Archive 1, to return to the barnstar commitment and further the creation of Wikipedian awards; vote liberally and spread your constructive comments.

(Signed) Cmd. Bratschetalk 5 pillars of the Barnstarium Army, 03:19, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

  • Whereas, I needed to take a break for once, and whereas was working on another wiki. However I will return and see what I can do. -- Riffsyphon1024 09:30, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Vote for deletion alert

I see from the page history for Cut Ending to Knights of the Old Republic II that you once edited it. I thought you would like to know that there is a VfD on that page now at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Cut_Ending_to_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic_II. Please stop in there and comment on this vote! --maru 15:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Will revamp some of them soon.

SGCommand

[edit] Wookieepedia

Hmm, I like the sound of this Star Wars Wiki. I looked through it and I just think I might do it. Thanks for letting me know about it. bob rulz 23:50, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to Eh

Of course i am ok. my user page is not demented, but i'm trying to reduce the size of the page so it can still be preferable for me to print and show it to my friends. As the former anonymous user 206.255.32.51, can you still recognize me as John-1107? --John-1107 16:22, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your interest in creating logos, barnstars, or your past artistic ability! Thus, I just wanted to let you know that the pre-round, an artistic competition, is now open at Wikipedia:Mind Benders (Shortcut: WP:MIND)! The competition is open to everyone and is seeking a logo/trophy, similar to Barnstars, to be placed on every winner's page. We urge you to help us out and submit an entry! Afterwards, the normal rounds, each consisting of ten or more fun, logical, brain-stimulating questions will open. Why don't you give it a try when it opens! Look forward to seeing your contribution. Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:56, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reply #2

I was redirecting my user pages because i needed a better name for me and my pages. I would go by many aliases/disguises in order to confuse and fool my opponents. You would call me the Master of Disguise of Wikipedia. If my aliases and redirects of my user pages confuse you, then i'm sorry - my apologies, please forgive me. --Ed Telerionus 20:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your Mind Benders entry

Thank you for your entry- looks good! Note that I have added information on the judging at WP:MIND. Judging will be an open vote (everyone with an account, including people who submitted entries, are eligible), and the vote will begin after the deadline for entries on July 16. Thank you once again! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 22:39, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)