User talk:SorryGuy/Archive 1

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Welcome from Redwolf24

Welcome!

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Redwolf24 (Talk) 01:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC) The current date and time is 10 June 2008 T 04:24 UTC.

P.S. I like messages :-P

Welcome!

I noticed that when you gave me message you did not sign it. opps :). Please put ~~~~ after each of your comments.

And I noticed that RedWolf24 greated you(Welcome Committee, not all Wikis have this), he is also an admin, and is one of my favorite wikipedians. Good luck!Voice of All^T|@|ESP 22:28, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Also, note that Wikipedia(En) is having serious server errors and lagg right now; it has slowed down lately but is not usually this bad :-(.Voice of All^T|@|ESP 22:29, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Elwood Buchanan

Hi. You recently voted to delete the Elwood Buchanan article. I've since done quite a bit of work on it and wondered if you might like to give it another look. Thanks. Perodicticus 18:17, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks

Thanks for the comments, I'll give your school a look-see as soon as I get the time to give it it's due! Staxringold 06:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge Vote on Ultraviolet map

Hi I was thinking about taking this whole merge discussion in an entirely different direction. Instead of merging the info on the poorly named Ultraviolet map into the unfocused The DHARMA Initiative. How about we expand on Silentplanet's idea and create sub sections on known Hatches?

Remember the "The DHARMA Initiative" article is supposed to focus on what it is. Adding more information to "the Swan" only shows that this hatch should be expanded upon in another article. The title of this article after all is not "The DHARMA Hatches." To me it looks like we should put in some information about what exactly the DHARMA Initiative is. We should give some history on it maybe include the information on the film and then some brief information about the hatches and what they are. Hatches that we know more about like "The Swan" should have its own page that would then contain information such as "the Map", "The Timer", etc... I think that this is a more reasonable solution and would also make it a more logical solution as an encyclopedia article. Please let me know what you think (in your talk page)! And if you do agree please note that on your merge vote! Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 04:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello from RMS Oceanic

Hey, Sorry! This is to prove I actually do exist. See the Flying Kipper? That was MY work! :) Glad to see another MTGSer around! RMS Oceanic 21:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks for your welcome message...

i am really new in this community and don't know much about editing sites. i just try to put some information about me and some of these userboxes on my userpage. thanks again! wish you a nice day,

-corinna 05:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Middle-earth!

Hello, SorryGuy/Archive 1! Thank you for joining WikiProject Middle-earth and contributing to improve Tolkien-related articles. We are glad to have you join in the effort! Here're some good links and subpages related to our WikiProject.

If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask on our talk page. Thank you for your contributions and have fun editing!—Mirlen 14:59, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza

Welcome, SorryGuy/Archive 1, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member, you might be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee, JoanneB, Titoxd and FireFox. The April elections have begun.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me via email or talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, please see the IRC Tutorial, which was written by one of our members. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! _-M ^o P-_ 23:40, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, no problem! ^_^ Is it really? Everyone says its bright, and I've been wanting to change it for a few weeks now. _-M ^o P-_ 00:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to welcome you as well. (MoP is too fast for me). — nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 00:51, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

They were laid by a chocolate bunny. Go on, take them! :P _-M ^o P-_ 04:59, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter! :D _-M ^o P-_ 04:59, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Just sending some chocolate bunnies from one fellow WP:ME (Middle-earth) member to another. :) —Mirlen 19:37, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Update

There is a poll/proposal concerning the renaming of our WikiProject. Please vote here to share your opinion! —Mirlen 19:35, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar Awarded

SorryGuy is hereby awarded the Original Barnstar for great work on the development of The Preuss School UCSD. Kukini 05:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Community Justice

Welcome to Wikipedia:Community Justice! Computerjoe's talk 09:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Gracias

Hi there... just wanted to thank you for your support. If you ever need anything, just drop me a line and I'll do what I can.--Rockero 00:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

No reason to be sorry anymore

Dear SG, I appreciate your vote and your kind words in my RFA. It has passed with an unexpected 114/2/2 and I feel honored by this show of confidence in me. Cheers! ←Humus sapiens ну? 04:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Kindness Campaign!

Just my way of saying thanks to newcomers to the Kindness Campaign... a delicious home-baked chocolate chip cookie! Yum. :D ~Kylu (u|t) 22:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Infobox Tolkien

Just letting you know that there's a new proposal of the syntax by Carcharoth here, so please share your opinion as a WP:ME participant. —Mirlen 22:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Reminder"

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

— Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 03:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Community Justice Newsletter

Community Justice Newsletter

Welcome Previously, various notices regarding Community Justice have gone out to our members; though this is the first actual newsletter. This issue will contain information regarding decisions made on the first meeting, our new council, and more...! If you wish to unsubscribe to future newsletters, please add your name to Wikipedia:Community Justice/Do Not Spam. New Council Following our first elections, a new council has been elected.Computerjoe and Ian13 remain as chairman and chief executive (respectively); while Eddieh, Wiki alf and Xchrisblackx are replaced as councillors by Ilyanep, Osbus and Covington. The Giant Puffin and Pureblade remain as councillors. Member Conduct In the last meeting, the conduct of 4 members was discussed. Ethnopunk will be put on probation, supervised by Ian13, if he/she is incivil during this probation, he/she will be expelled from WP:CJ; the same was decided for Misza13 (voluntarily), and his probation will be supervised by Computerjoe. No action will be taken against Computerjoe. Barnstar The Civility Barnstar which our members have designed has been sent to Barnstar and award proposals. We'd appreciate your feedback! Also, we are planning to make a Community Justice barnstar to give to hard-working CJ members. If you're a budding designer, consider trying to make it, then post your proposal to WT:CJ! Name and logo change There has been no consensus reached regarding changing our name and/or logo neither at WT:CJ nor at WT:CJ/M/1. While suggestions are still welcome, no action will be taken at this time. Programs We are going to try to create programs to more actively involve our members. If you have any ideas, please drop a line at WT:CJ. We will try to work with WP:ESP on one of these programs, at some point in the future. Thanks! Thank you for your time. If you need anything, feel free to comment at WT:CJ or come into our IRC channel [1]. Computerjoe wishes to extend his thanks to User:Robchurch, a non-member who assisted in making {{tracker}} redundant, as well as Misza13 for his continued support and to the whole of this and the previous council. This newsletter was delivered by CJBot, written by Computerjoe, with technical help from Misza13. Computerjoe's talk 19:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Concordia newsletter

Concordia Newsletter

Community Justice is no more. It has been reformed to Concordia. Membership has been transferred.

Concordia is an organization of editors on Wikipedia that strive to encourage civility and fair treatment among all editors in the Wikipedian community, from the Wikignome to the Wikiholic. The project was designed to have a friendly and helpful environment to support any unfortunate Wikipedians that have become victims of incivility, hostility, or continual disrespect.

We currently need help in getting going, and making the community understand our aims. We work for civility. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you have ideas, let us know at our talk page, or on the IRC channel. We aim to spread civility in every way we can.

Should you wish to unsubscribe to future newsletters, please add your name to Wikipedia:Concordia/Do Not Spam.

Thank you for your time. If you need anything, feel free to comment at WT:CCD or come into our IRC channel [2].

- The Concordia council. Delivered by Ian13 13:26, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

LotR

Hi -- just a note to say that although I'm currently opposing the FAC nomination for the LotR article, I really think you've done some very good work here. The article is a lot better for your time and attention. I hope to see it as a successful FAC. Good luck! Mike Christie 14:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I no longer oppose on the grounds of length, or of needed introduction prior to the backstory. My only remaining concern is the references. I am not concerned about WP:LEAD, though I understand others may have issues there. Personally I do think there is more that could be cut, but it's now close enough for me not to worry about length. I'm watching the article and the FAC and will be reviewing my opposition as you work on it. Good luck. Feel free to nudge me to review my vote when you have done more work on the refs. Mike Christie 02:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

LOTR themes

Thank you for the notification, though when I saw the page I was doubtless confused by the lack of information regarding something so famous with Tolkien's work.

I apologise to those who didn't like it being a general list, and I do have difficulty on knowing how to write a new page. Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

So I've added that page now as a link. Is everything fine?

My RFA

SorryGuy/Archive 1, thank you for participating in my RfA. It passed with an amazingly unopposed 77/0/1. Thanks for the support everybody! If you see me doing anything wrong, want to ask me something, or just want to yell in my general direction, leave me a note on my talk page. I promise to try and knock out Wikipedia's problems wherever I may find them!

Staxringold _talk^contribs 20:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

wait

Hello, you just put {{categorize}} on two articles I made, literally less than 5 minutes after they were created. Next time, give the author of the new article at least 5 or 10 minutes before adding {{categorize}}, it's annoying and can create an edit conflict pretty easily. — a thing 06:45, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

LotR book cites

Damn, you're quick! Good work on getting some of those cites together. Can I request you add page numbers when you have a chance? I won't hold up voting for FA on that basis, but I do think page numbers are worth while for book cites. Thanks. Mike Christie 05:18, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi; just changed to weak support on LotR FA; thanks for letting me know about the cites. Mike Christie 04:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Lindsay Lohan

By the way, the reversion was correct, as IMDb, user-edited, is not a reliable source; on the other hand, you are also correct in that it was not vandalism. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 03:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Happy editing! :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 04:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

More citation

Hey, sorry to be a pain ;), I did some more referencing, mainly in the plot section, other stuff to, really. I also took down some notes when I was reading, which you can see at User:HighwayCello/Noms#Lord of the Rings FAC. It's mainly style issues, the whole back plot has something up with the tenses, it's almost like it's not happened, which isn't good when you're talking about a backstory. Anyway, happy editting and good luck, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 21:42, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Good work on the citations

Can I add my voice to the chorus of approval on the citation work you've been doing! Great stuff.

About the citations for plot details, which HighwayCello mentions above, I've commented on this over at User talk:HighwayCello. Maybe the whole discussion should be taken to the talk page of the article itself? Carcharoth 21:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Dear SorryGuy/Archive 1,
Thank you very much for your support on my recent RfA. I am pleased to announce that it passed with a tally of 72/11/1, and I am now an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the tools, but please let me know if there are any admin jobs I can do to help you, now or in the future. —Cuiviénen 02:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:Featured Picture Candidate

Hello. I've addressed your concern at the FP Candidate page:

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding

Please feel free to engage in further discussion of the image. Thank you.

–ArmadniGeneral (talk • contribs) 02:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for your vote in my RFA, which succeeded with a final tally of 66-0-4. If there's anything I can help you with now that I'm an admin, please let me know on my talk page. Again, thanks! Mangojuicetalk 21:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Middle-earth video games

Hi there. I see you are on a wiki-break, but I was wondering if you would be able to do an article (or ask someone who might be able to do the article) on the recent (2003) computer game of The Hobbit? It is mentioned at The Hobbit (video game) and at Middle-earth in video games that you created recently. As this is a recent game, it should be possible to find enough for an article, unlike the early efforts (your article lists 8), of which only War in Middle-earth and The Hobbit (video game) have articles. Do you think the WikiProject Computer and video games might be able to help? Carcharoth 10:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Misza13's pile!

Thank you for contributing the impressive the pile of supports gathered on my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 0x0104/0x01/0x00. I'm happy that so many people have put faith in my abilities as an admin and promise to use the tools wisely and do my best not to let you down. If I ever may be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page. Misza13, the rouge-on-demand admin wishes you happy editing! NOTE: This message has been encrypted with the sophisticated ROT-26 algorithm. Ability to decipher it indicates a properly functioning optical sensor array.