User talk:Simonwright

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[edit] Image sizes/Whirlpool

OK, 200px sounds reasonable. And you aren't doing it to satisfy me dude, you're doing to satisfy the x amount of policies and guidelines that determine how Wikipedia is run. BTW, why blank your talk page? How else are people supposed to reply to you? Peter1968 (talk) 05:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

There are no specific policies about image sizes that I can find -- and if there are, they're certainly not applied very well. And they certainly don't specify postage stamp sizes as you decided. The original sizes I used were within the bounds of other uses of that template I have seen across wikipedia, so as far as I'm concerned, the original sizes already satisfied "policy". ... Also, the talk pages have to be the dumbest part of Wikipedia. Sure, if you use the site frequently, they might make some weird kind of sense. But do I reply to you on your talk page (as you have done, therefore breaking up the conversation in the oddest possible way) or do I reply underneath your comment (as I'm doing now) where I have no idea if you're going to be alerted or not...?--Simon Wright (talk) 06:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

No, you're spot on. They're not applied very well. Still, when I first saw the Whirlpool stuff, in my mind they looked a touch big and since being bold is all the rage around here, I changed it to something I deemed more appropriate. The size you have them at now seems to be OK. But, don't be surprised if someone changes them. Such is the nature of Wikipedia.
The policies and guidelines I was harping on about are generally the ones concerning advertising, conflicts of interest (you are Whirlpool's principal after all) and the like.
Re: talk pages. No, the user pages are the dumbest things here - the talk pages actually serve a proper purpose: communication. Yes, the threads here can be absurd in how they're fragmented. Usually, person A posts on B's talk page and B posts on A. Stupid? Absolutely - but it's how it's done 99% of the time.
As for being alerted, I've added this talk page to my watchlist. Peter1968 (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. Well received. --Simon Wright (talk) 15:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unique?

Pretty strong word to describe an internet forum, and probably one you'd have dramas proving. Not going to challenge it though - it's trivial. Just as an FYI, phpBB (with a mod) and vBulletin (and IPB etc) have functionality whereby you can tell if someone has edited and/or deleted a post. Anyhow, the sources look cool and I've taken the tag off. Peter1968 (talk) 06:56, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Really? I have a couple of friends who run forums, one is phpbb and the other is IPB and they really want to add the type of transparent moderation which Whirlpool has implemented. If you could let me know where to find these mods I'd greatly appreciate it.
I'm quite sure vBulletin hasn't implemented anything similar, at least last time I checked (about 6-9 months ago)
It's also worth noting that the specific lack of a feature is a "feature" that many packages lack. For example, the ability for moderators to edit posts -- Whirlpool does not have that "feature", which is itself a feature. --Simon Wright (talk) 07:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
To name a vBulletin example - Milphotos is a vBulletin forum that shows if posts have been deleted and/or edited. Having never run a VB site, I don't know whether that's included or its a plug-in/mod.
The Soft Delete mod for phpBB 3.x essentially does the same thing, but allows the "soft deleted" post to remain in the forum viewable by superusers pretty much the way you do things at WP. You may've caught me out with IPB, but when I used the free iteration of it some years ago, you could delete a post and it'd leave a pointer in the thread saying why it was deleted. I'm assuming the modern pay-for version of IPB has something similar. You'd hope so, anyway.
Still, folks may well be on dicey Wikiepdia ground trying to say why WP is unique or it does things better than Forum x and it's not really what Wikipedia is about. Does WP do things differently than 99% of forums out there? Most likely. Is that notable enough to be mentioned here? That's the thing, isn't it? Peter1968 (talk) 07:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Ahh yes, but the article doesn't say "unique" does it.
I can't find any deleted posts on the milphotos site. I'm quite sure it's not part of vBulletin though.
Some forums/plugins have started adding deletion pointers, but I've yet to see the feature implemented quite as completely as we have. I really don't think plug-ins could ever quite implement such a necessarily core feature very well.
e.g [1] --Simon Wright (talk) 08:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Top Chef.

Hey, sorry for appearing hostile in my reply to your post on the Top Chef Chicago talk page. I think I was a bit irate, because I had not seen the chart at the top and just scrolled to the bottom to see if anyone new replied to my IN +/- explanation...but I digress.

That was a REALLY good observation on your part, and you're right when you say it was notable that the producers allowed such a goof to occur. Idk how I could fit it in on the main article, but it would be worthwhile, perhaps. Now I have to watch these episodes again. I should include that in my recaps, even =P. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinemaniac86 (talkcontribs) 14:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)