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Geo-stubs

Hi, o Paranoid One! Good work on the stub sorting. for future reference, you can give places in the Dominican Republic (or any of the west indian islands the template Caribbean-geo-stub, rather than just geo-stub... it puts them in a slightly more precise category. Keep up the good work and welcome aboard! Grutness|hello? 10:18, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I missed that. Thanks. There seem to be a number of amalgamated templates for geographic location. They should come in handy.
Thanks for the welcome, too.
--TheParanoidOne 10:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Much to my frustration, I sat down one afternoon and worked my way through every *#&@( link in the (I think) category:Stub page and found not one dog article. And yet many of them still have the incorrect stub msg! So I don't know why I didn't find them-- and thanks for fixing them as you find them. I've been working my way alphabetically through all the dog breed articles but have made it only through J. Sigh.

Question, though--you added dog-stub to 2 articles that it had been removed from, Hungarian Vizsla and Pudelpointer. Both articles have at least a minimum amount of info about the breed's appearance, history, and temperament, and so it doesn't seem accurate to call them stubs--hence removal of the msg. So I'm curious what criteria you're using to put the msg back in? Elf | Talk 16:39, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No logical criteria, unfortunately (still new to this). I usually check if something has been de-stubbed previously, before I mark it as a stub. I must have missed those. Sorry! If you think there is sufficient information in them (I know nothing about dogs) then please remove the tags as you see fit.
--TheParanoidOne 16:52, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. We're lucky to get this much info in an article about a breed--lots of people created articles along the lines of "The Border Collie is a breed of dog."  :-) Elf | Talk 17:18, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Gielgud a stub?

Hi, what is so stubby about Gielgud Theatre? In other words, what is missing? Please explain!

Thanks in advance, and all the best, <KF> 22:06, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't really say what was missing per se. I just got the impression that it doesn't seem to be as fleshed out as some of the other theatre articles (eg. Warehouse Theatre), or even some of the theatre articles that are marked as stubs (eg. Royal National Theatre). Feel free to unstub it if you think that there's enough information there. :) --TheParanoidOne 22:49, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OpenTalk

You marked OpenTalk as needing cleanup. While I agree it's a mess, I don't think it's worth the effort. It's a rumored name that nobody abelieved at the time that was proven wrong. I've been trying to think of how to nominate it for deletion, but if you know how to do that I'd definitely support it. --Steven Fisher 00:31, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion is probably what you are after. I've never nominated anything myself, but it seems reasonably straightforward. --TheParanoidOne 09:38, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

nb: there is already two stub categories that already describe both aspects of the article at Quantrix. Dysprosia 01:06, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

CleanUp: Hai Sing Catholic School

hi, i've seen you've marked this article for cleanup, maybe you can tell me more specifically what you look forward to be arranged? Information is limited to this article at the moment. Cheers - Sir Luis 01:38, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Deadend

Sorry, I was in the middle of my daily update of the page when I ran into an edit conflict with you. I thought I had redone your edits, but I guess I missed Sallybrook. Skipping Salar ud-din Muhammad Khan, however, was deliberate as it is still a deadend page. Despite signifigant improvement it does not yet link to any other articles, only to redlinks, a template, and a category. - SimonP 21:55, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, OK. Understood. --TheParanoidOne 21:58, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your stub sorting! You designated Hendecagram as a geometry-stub, and my bot which looks for math articles through math categories found it and made a link to it from the list of mathematical topics. So now that stub is no longer an orfan, but rather, it is in the family, and we will take good care of it. :)

In short, you are doing great work. Classified stubs are, as you know, much easier to locate and deal with. Keep on doing that! Oleg Alexandrov 22:38, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Copyvios

Legit sources: WP:PD.

Biography.ms: see Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#Biography.ms. I ran across this while clearing copyvios and just had a gut feeling that it was a mirror not crediting us. I verified with the Wayback machine and by looking at the many different articles on Biography.ms which were all the same as wikipedia articles that had long development histories. Later, I found the wikipedia page mentioned above.

PS. several people have made the same mistake with Biography.ms

It can be frustrating, and I hope the two pages you mentioned don't scare you off from copyvio patrol. --Duk 06:01, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Sutcliff book articles

Hi there,

If you say they're stubs, then I am sure they are stubs. But can you suggest how I can turn the content of The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers into articles rather than stubs? I was concerned that they were too short, but not sure what would make them better: see the comments on the talk page for the books' author for my concerns.

Telsa 17:14, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Okey-doke, thanks! --Telsa 09:40, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

It's not paranoia

Remember, it’s not paranoia if they are really out to get you! :]

Bio-stub in userspace

Thanks for the note--I've 'nowiki'ed it out. I guess I gotta be more careful when I copy things from the article space--some else had noticed that section had Categories and removed them earlier. Niteowlneils 20:47, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

small tag

Yes, it is intentional, I want it to be two levels smaller than normal text. --Joy [shallot] 20:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:37, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Tibet-stub

Thanks...what do you want me to discuss about it? --Hottentot

Bengali vowels

Hi Paranoid One

I noticed you changed the vowel placement on the Bengali script page. For me, the vowel placement was working before, and now there is the little Unicode dotted circle carrying each vowel diacritic instead of the kô itself. For me, at least, the vowels no longer work. I don't know if that has to do with the fact that I use Mozilla Firefox. Does it look better now on IE/whatever browser you are using?

If it's just my browser, I'm of course fine with the change! I just want to make sure it's not also more confusing on other browsers.

Thanks! --SameerKhan 19:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Eek! Unicode and browser compatibility whackiness. Oh dear.
I've looked into it and the results are both interesting, puzzling and ever so slightly frustrating. I'll move this, and my findings, to the Bengali script talk page. Perhaps a wider audience can give some insight. --TheParanoidOne 20:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Acc-stub

Well, almost all the stubs are short-handed. Eco, biz, bio, etc. So why not acc? Accounting is just too long. Is there any specific reason you asking? Renata3 20:26, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Actually, no. They are not. Have a browse through the stub types list. There are many stub types which are more verbose than accounting.
I am asking as a participant of the Stub sorting project who take care of all the stub types. If length of template name is the only reason for the change, then I will revert it. It would be appreciated if in future, you could please consult with the project (or at least make them aware) if you are going to make any changes to stub types. Thanks. --TheParanoidOne 20:39, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
Don't be so bureaucratic :) Ok, I'm sorry for the confussion. But still I will be the one that is gonna be dealing with accounting and acc stubs (that's my long term goal - lots of detailed acc articles). So don't be grumpy, enjoy some sun outside :) Renata3 21:57, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hard to enjoy the sun. It's been raining all day. ;) --TheParanoidOne 22:34, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Transformers stub

Hey there, sorry for the early mistakes with the Transformers stub and category. I'm not so MUCH of a newby now, but I do think there is a use for the Transformers-stub, being that it has a large amount of subjects and characters. I think it's too large to just be in the toys category. Thoughts? MistaTee 15:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I haven't seen evidence to point in either direction, so I have no comments right now. If I recall correctly, it is up for deletion, so the only thing I can suggest is to make your case there. --TheParanoidOne 21:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

You da man! Thanks for two modifications..Still learning!

Social Technology

Dear freind,

Thank you. I hope this will be fine. I have added this to my article in the weblog http://neeray.blogspot.com also.

Social Technology

Copyright (c) 2005 Nirupma Kapoor. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document titled "Social Technology" under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being “Social Technology is the art and craft of applying technology and social knowledge to enhance the human condition. “ with the Front-Cover Texts being “Social Technology”, and with the Back-Cover Texts being “At this point in time we need to integrate all knowledge. • With information and communication technology we can gather thoughts and opinions of all the people on the earth. • We can have true democracy; Voting on issues not simply voting for people who are unable to take care of the major issues.• Ethics: Which values are universal? Honesty? Compassion? Which values/norms and practice vary from culture? We can determine this by using information technology.• Voluntary Experiments by social groups can help us try new social formations and observe their advantages. “.

A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Some how my last talk with this message is not showing on the copyright problems page. Please let me know if anything else is required.

Best regards, Nirupma Kapoor

I would imagine that would be OK, but the people on the copyright problems page would know for definite. If you are unable to edit the page (it is a little ... high volume) then try a more general question on the suitability of this notice on the copyright problems talk page. The talk page is lower volume so you should have no problems. --TheParanoidOne 19:08, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Dear friend,

Thank you for all your help. I could edit the copyright problems page today.

Best regards, Nirupma

Dear friend,

Please tell me what will happen to the article on Social Technology now.

Best regards, Nirupma

To be honest, I do not know. That is something to be discussed between you and the people on the Copyright Problems page. I only tagged a potential copyright infringement. Unfortunately, that is the extent of my involvement. --TheParanoidOne 20:14, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Dear friend,

Thank you for formatting my article on Social Technology. I will try and extend this in the next few days. I am trying to add a section every day.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Please correct any errors that I make.


Best regards, Nirupma neeray 18:31, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello to you too!

Always glad to see a familiar face! It's a small world indeed! How the heck did you stumble over me!? -- fdewaele 22:50 24 November 2005 (CET)

A question

So... over a year on wikipedia... 14,000 edits... how come you're not an admin? If you're interested in standing I'd gladly nominate you! I think you'd be a shoo-in for the job. Grutness...wha? 09:02, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. Interesting question and an intriguing idea. I've been looking through WP:RFA and my contributions and I'm not sure how "qualified" I am for the task, but if you feel that it would be worthwhile, please feel free to nominate me. I have nothing to lose :) --TheParanoidOne 23:10, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

It's true you haven't been active on some of the things like the Village Pump or policy pages, but I'd say you've had enough interaction with the community to be recognised as a good potential admin. Anyway, I've made up the RfA subpage at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/TheParanoidOne. Just follow the instructions at the bottom of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/nominate to start the voting - good luck! Grutness...wha? 00:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Accepted. For better or for worse. Eek! --TheParanoidOne 15:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Another question

I was wondering if you could help me, dear sir, with a dilemma of mine? I'm trying to make a reference page for Hunger, which is a very rare Metallica song, but I can't do anything without messing up the WikiOrder (i.e, Hunger the page is redirected from World Hunger, and I'm not sure how to get around that without messing something up). Thanks in advance. --Master of Puppets 22:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Something like Hunger (Metallica) should be fine. I think you might want to remove the song from the See Also section of the Hunger page, as it's not really relevant to the article. You could have something like the following, at the top of that page:
For the song Hunger by Metallica, see Hunger (Metallica)
You might also want to have a quick scan through Wikipedia:Disambiguation which talks about how to deal with items that have multiple meanings. --TheParanoidOne 22:41, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks mate. It's much appreciated.--Pastor of Muppets 01:51, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

You know, neither Metallica, nor Megadeth, nor both of them together have a song by the name "Hunger". Metallica and Megadeth have never worked together at all. The song entitled "Hunger" is actually by a band by the name of Eternal Decision. Megadeth and Metallica currently don't have any plans to work together. --G VOLTT 02:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I know nothing about any of those groups. The example above was given purely to demonstrate how a disambiguation link should be worded. --TheParanoidOne 06:28, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Email id

See User talk:Ronline#Email id =Nichalp «Talk»= 03:49, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

OK. Makes sense. --TheParanoidOne 08:41, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Invertebrate stub category

Hi - I was trying to have invertebrate stub showing under the letter "I" in the list of animal stub sub-categories. You seem to have fixed it! Thanks--A Y Arktos 10:40, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Mind you it is not under the letter "I" in the subcategory lsting at Category:Animals now :-(--A Y Arktos 10:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
It shouldn't be. All stub categories are supposed to go at the end, out of the way (in the main categories, that is). --TheParanoidOne 19:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining :-)--A Y Arktos 20:07, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

You're a sysop!

Hi, TheParanoidOne/Archive1, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop

Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp «Talk»=

Please also add your name to WP:LA. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:03, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'll add my name to the list. --TheParanoidOne 15:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Congrats! FireFox 19:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations, and you're welcome! Mushroom 00:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Congrats - see, I told you. No problems at all :). If you need help with any of your new superpowers, drop me a line! Grutness...wha? 00:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for congratulations, everyone. --TheParanoidOne 21:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Another question

I was wondering, how would I insert trivia/"fun facts"/etc. into a page? I have a fact about the Loonie that I would like to put in, but I'm not sure how I should go about doing so. Your assistance is much appreciated, thanks. =) --Master of Puppets 02:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, assuming it fits in with the flow of the page, I don't see there being a problem with having a "Trivia" section. Be bold. If it all goes horribly wrong, there's always the great big undo button. :) --TheParanoidOne 21:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA

Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. It'll take me that long to thank everyone who voted anyway! Thank you, oh great Paranoid One, for your support - really, I wasn't one already, but it looks like I will be soon - and I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 17:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

My user page

Thanks for reverting the vandalism. Thunderbrand 18:35, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem. --TheParanoidOne 19:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Mea-stub/MEA-expand

Thanks, I was going to comment there again, but decided I was rather repeating myself. I'd say the MEA-expand idea is certainly the best option on the table, and seems perfectly reasonable and feasible to me. Go for it, it no-one objects or counter-suggests in, say, another day. Alai 23:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikicode

Hello good sir! Sorry that I'm being such a troublesome newcomer, but I was wondering if you could help me sort out this code;

[[User:Master of Puppets| <font color="red">Master of Puppets</font>]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Master of Puppets|(<font color="red">M<font color="blue">A<font color="green">S</small></sup><small><sup><font color="red>T<font color="blue">E<font color="green">R<font color="red">'''!'''</small></sup> <small><sup><font color="red">M<font color="blue">A<font color="green">S </small></sup><small><sup><font color="red>T<font color="blue">E<font color="green">R<font color="red">'''!''')]]</font></small></sup>

Now, that should look like this; Master of Puppets(MASTER! MAS TER!)

The escalating letters weren't meant to be, but I can live with that... my query is, why is the Preferences rejecting it? It tells me that this is an invalid raw signature, and to check the HTML tags. I know nothing of any HTML being used in my signature, and all I wanted was for the letters to have different coloring... sigh, I'm bamboozled by this stupid code, and I just wanted to see if you could help me piece together this bumbling mass of confusion. --Master of Puppets 00:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

First of all, are you sure you want to do this? It makes things a bit ... nasty for those who like to view diffs of pages. Secondly, there are a few nesting problems with your HTML. But what exactly do you want it to look like? Like this: User:Master of Puppets(MASTER!MASTER!), but with colour? --TheParanoidOne 06:21, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
That pretty much sums it up; like I said, the escalating letters just happened as a byproduct; all I want what you wrote, but yes, with red and green alternating color (MASTER!MASTER!). Or something similar. Thanks muchos for helping me out, though. --Master of Puppets 18:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
OK, here are two based on what you have said above:
Though I would definitely prefer that you use the latter. Hopefully the reasoning will be obvious, once you see the HTML. :) --TheParanoidOne 23:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, I don't think it's a good idea to have a red link for your name as it could cause confusion. It would look like you don't have a user page. --TheParanoidOne 23:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Re:Category renaming

To be honest I'm not sure that it is all laid out neatly anywhere. You could try hunting through Category:Wikipedia categorization, and there is a wikiproject that might be able to help (Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories). Other than that though, I'm not sure. Was there any one thing in particular that was being a problem? Grutness...wha? 02:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Well currently it was for the mea-stub category. But there are others at WP:SFD that I wanted to clear out as well. Thanks for the links. I'll have a look. --TheParanoidOne 06:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

The Arcane and Dubious Realms of WP:SFD

Greetings!

During my recent RFA, I pointed out that I was more interested in travelling the less-travelled roads of the Wikipedia infrastructure, particularly the various xFD pages where "x" isn't "A" or "I". Well, apparently my comments were compelling, and I was given Sysop statuse. Since then, a few other admins and I have recently brought WP:RFD into some semblance of cohesion, and now I seek to expand my horizons.

I have been reading (and reading and reading, and then re-reading, etc) WP:SFD. I confess that it's a little byzantine at first blush, and it's taking me several passes to take it all in. But I would like to help out in whatever capacity I can. You seem to be one of the prime movers of WP:SFD, so I'm hoping you might have some advice on how I might ease myself into the world of WP:SFD in a constructive fashion. Any tips for a newbie admin?

Thanks for your time,
→ Ξxtreme Unction {yakłblah} 20:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Any tips for a newbie admin? Note that I'm only 4 days newer than you ;).
Anyway, I came to SFD via my work on WP:WSS so I'm not really sure what advice I can offer someone wanting to jump straight into SFD. In terms of admin duties, as you will see from the page, the main problem at the moment is the backlog. Some of this is due to non-straightforward outcomes and some of it because people just haven't got around to it. You might like to close off and log some of the obvious keep/delete ones to give you a feel for the page. There are of course non-admin things such as voting on/discussing nominations, orphaning any items that need orphaning, and so on.
You mention the word "byzantine". A little strong, perhaps, but I understand the sentiment. I think the seeming complexity comes from the fact that the page covers templates, categories and redirects so it needs a subset of the information from WP:TFD, WP:CFD and WP:RFD. "Jack of all trades, master of none" ... perhaps.
I'm not sure I've done a particularly good job of "selling" SFD, but if you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them. --TheParanoidOne 23:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
No, you've been most helpful. Thank you.
I guess my primary concern is more one of "feel" than anything else. At the time I was nominated for RFA, WP:RFD was pretty much ignored, had a backlog dating back 45 days, and nobody was showing much interest. So when I got the mop and bucket, there were no toes to step on when I started working on RFD.
WP:SFD, on the other hand, gives the impression of a well-established process, with regular participation by a core group of folks. In other words, many toes to potentially step on for the admin who might inadvertently allow his enthusiasm to exceed his experience.
I would indeed like to help clear out the backlog, and if you think that's a safe way for me to get my feet wet, I'll start poking around tomorrow.
All the best.
→ Ξxtreme Unction {yakłblah} 23:54, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Sanity Check requested

Okay, I finally took the plunge in WP:SFD. I was studying the discussion about {{California State Highway Stub}}, and had just decided to move the stub to {{California-State-Highway-stub}} when I noticed that you'd edited the list at WP:STUBS. So it looks like you either moved the stub already or you're going to very shortly.

With that in mind, I removed the discussion for {{California State Highway Stub}} from SFD and archived it at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/Deleted/November 2005.

Would you mind taking a look at what I've done and making sure I've done it properly? If so, what's the next step from here?

Thanks,
→ Ξxtreme Unction|yakkity yak 23:42, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Looks good to me. I usually leave the logging till last though. As long as the discussion is still there, someone will attempt to carry out the relevant maintenance for it. If it's no longer there, nobody knows that there might still be work to be done for it. Having said that though, great start. I also liked WP:STUBS :). --TheParanoidOne 23:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Good to hear, and glad you liked WP:STUBS. I was gobsmacked that it didn't exist already.
So what's left to be done for {{California State Highway Stub}}? I see that it's a redirect, and that it has a lot of incoming links. Do we need to go through and change the incoming pages to reflect the new stub? Or will that be done by a bot? Or does it matter since it's a redirect anyways?
Inquiring minds wanna know...
→ Ξxtreme Unction|yakkity yak 00:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Apart from the actual rename, the main thing I did was to update various pages (such as the the stub types page, etc) to reflect the new name. This included fixing a double redirect. As for deleting the redirect created, I know that you have received some generic information on the SFD talk page. In this particular instance though, I didn't think deleting the redirect was particularly critical so my next step would have been just to log it.
An alternative example would be the mea-stub rename (to MEA-expand). We wanted to get rid of the -stub completely, hence I added it to the "to orphan" section and Mairibot is currently going through and orphaning it. Eventually the redirect will be deleted. --TheParanoidOne 13:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry?

You deleted some Galicia related stubs but I was not able to find any reason for that (as specified in WP:SPD). Could you give me some extra explanation? --Stoni(talk) 14:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

  • {{Galicia-geo-stub}}
  • {{Galicia-bio-stub}}
  • {{Galicia-hist-stub}}
  • {{Galicia-writer-stub}}
The logged SFD discussion can be found here. The main reason would be the third item in the list you linked to, namely: "Their scope is too limited - As a rule of thumb, there should be at least 50 appropriate stubs in existence". --TheParanoidOne 15:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the information. The presence of Galicia related articles at English Wikipedia is still too limited. We are trying to get more people working on it. --Stoni(talk) 15:52, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Singapore stub cat

Hi, since Category:Singapore-related stubs are now going to be deleted as a stub category for deletion. Could you do something about the many stub articles that are under that stub to move to the new stub category? Thank you. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. --Terence Ong Talk 16:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi there. I have added it to the "To orphan" section of the WP:SFD page so they should all get pushed through shortly. --TheParanoidOne 17:15, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

American scientist stubs

By my reading, the clear preference there was to rename US scientist stubs as American scientist stubs not United States scientist stubs. Grutness originally favored the form you created, but changed his mind when the relevant naming convention for categories was pointed out. Caerwine Caerwhine 19:41, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Having read the discussion thoroughly again, I guess you're right. Though the way I read it, the acceptance by Grutness was grudging, at best. I'll change it. --TheParanoidOne 19:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

RfA

(From Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mathwiz2020):

  • No email address provided. --TheParanoidOne 21:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Sorry about that - I just fixed that. (There was one provided, I just disabled e-mail from other users, but it's enabled now). — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 21:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

I have enabled my email, as per the requests at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Crotalus horridus. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 01:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

TPO-bot

Your bot has been granted a bot flag now. =) Jon Harald Søby 16:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Fest-stub

Hi. It appears several stubs were orphaned when {{fest-stub}} got renamed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Template:Fest-stub

I can tag them with the new {{festival-stub}}, but I just want to make sure there weren't other plans for doing something else. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 12:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it seems that Whatlinkshere is a little bit buggy, and I was using it to make the changes. I think I've figured out how to get it to work correctly, so I'll do that and get my bot to make the changes. --TheParanoidOne 13:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
They should all be done now. --TheParanoidOne 17:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Parys

I notice you posted an opppose and comment on this, please be aware the user created that page on 2nd Jan but didn't list it (I guess part of the failed process you mention), todays listing also wasn't by that user but by the other opposing user User:Getcrunk --pgk(talk) 20:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 48/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis Mr. Mojo risin' 21:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Antipope stub

Your deletion of the antipope stub was incorrect. Firstly, there was no consensus behind it. Secondly, as was pointed out, such a stub is needed because the use of any of the alternatives would breach NPOV rules. We can't use pope because they are not regarded as popes. We cannot use Catholic because their status within Catholicism is disputed. We cannot use Christian because that too is disputed. The only option is to use one specific to them that matches their general historiograph description, which is antipope. In that instance, as there is no alternative, the fact that the numbers of those who would use the category is below the normal minimum number is immaterial as some stub has to be used and there is no alternative designation that does not run the risk of edit wars and breach NPOV. So that one is the only one that can be used. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 00:34, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

The way I read the discussion, the concensus was to merge the stubs with the "Pope stubs" category, as nether was excessively large. Hence my actions. --TheParanoidOne 09:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
It seemed to me that reasons given in the votes to merge were not well thought out and simply following "a rule of thumb" for its own sake rather than look at the discussion -- all the weight given to the bureacratic stub-sorters and none given to people speaking to the content itself. patsw 19:28, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for directing me to the discussion

I never would have found that there. -GTBacchus(talk) 07:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Category:Gopher stubs

I noticed you deleted this category. Is there a reason you did not delete its associated talk page as well? It's linking to Gopher Tortoise, an article that we've got on the request list for WikiProject Florida, and it's taking up space on the Whatlinkshere page for it. Thanks! ℬastique▼parℓer♥voir♑ 03:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

An oversight on my part, which has now been rectified. Thanks for pointing it out. --TheParanoidOne 14:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Lorren Daro Showbiz History copyvio

It appears I made a mistake and hastily tagged the page before I'd fully researched it. I have removed the copyvio tag and replaced it with a cleanup tag. Nach0king 12:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

  • I thought "By Bob Simon, former staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine." indicated that it was under copyright, but apparently not. Nach0king 12:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Image sizes, tigers and bears, oh my...

Hello there good sir, I was just wondering if you could help me out with my dilemma... I was wondering if there's a limit to the size of pictures you can upload, or if it's frowned upon when you upload a 1MB image. Thanks in advance! --MasTer of Puppets Picture Service 13:28, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know of any restrictions, but given that fact that an image such as Apollo 15 Space Suit David Scott.jpg (7981k in size!) can reach featured picture status, I don't think it's an issue. --TheParanoidOne 14:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! --MasTer of Puppets Picture Service 21:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Your Comment on my RfA

Thanks for the comment on my RfA - I have now enabled email. ComputerJoe 21:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

AVG

Hey, could you let me know about the queston at Talk:AVG Anti-Virus when you get a chance? I used AVG at one point but I was pretty annoyed by the message it added to my email sigs. I was just wondering when this practice ended, and why the decision was made to end it. - McCart42 16:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Responded on article talk page. --TheParanoidOne 22:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

for correcting the link to the image on my temporary translation page when you deleted the redundant image. ...appreciate it.  :) --Mmounties 23:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem :) --TheParanoidOne 23:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Atlanta Symphony Center

Hey, a little quick on the trigger there - from listing for speedy delete to deleted in mere minutes? Please undelete as you deleted while I was expanding (ok, basicly creating) the article. AUTiger ʃ talk/work 21:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

The article hadn't been touched since 4th December 2005 and consisted of just an external link. This is a clear candidate for speedy deletion. Hence I deleted it ... speedily ;) If you have more to add to it, that's great. I'll restore it. --TheParanoidOne 21:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
I would recommend that you remove the speedy tag from it, before it gets deleted again. --TheParanoidOne 21:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
I guess I missed it before it was deleted again, but I have recreated with actual content. AUTiger ʃ talk/work 23:36, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Steven Wallace

Do you still think the article is a stub? Royalbroil 15:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Other than headings and one or two additional sentences, it hasn't really changed much. I would say that it still is, but you decide :) --TheParanoidOne 15:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki

Hi. Saw that you removed the blank image. Actually I put the blank image in many articles and am currently in the process of replacing those images. - Aksi great 16:54, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Er, OK. Seems a strange way to do things considering that not having an image doesn't break anything. But it's your prerogative. --TheParanoidOne 17:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar award

I hereby award this Editor's Barnstar to you for your continuous work at Stub types for deletion. Conscious 08:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
I hereby award this Editor's Barnstar to you for your continuous work at Stub types for deletion. Conscious 08:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Source code

I am cautous about realeasing this. The page counts, if this is a major issue can be proggramed into the bot in about 15 min. The only reason that I have refrianed from doing so, is that the bot uses the < symol to tell it where the end of the line is. The < symbol does not make sense when used with pages. <10 pages does not look as good as < 2000. To change this it would take more time to change my regex formulas.Eagle (talk) (desk)

I am willing to show the regex formulas, as this is the one area that I can use help.

The red links require some new functionality, and is a bit more complex, but agian I will do this my self.Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I will re-enter the dates on the next running. That is not a problem. The bot won't run for at least 2-3 weeks as it is undergoing a overhaul to take care of a redlink problem.Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC) (though I may run it to fix the dates...)

ottawa-bio-stub

There's no consensus, 70% is required. That discussion has 1 keep, 1 delete and 3 merge. IMHO that's no consensus. Ardenn 05:46, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

In this instance, merge and delete have the same consequences for the stub articles, so they are the same thing. So that's 1 keep and 4 merge/deletes which would be above the threshold you gave. --TheParanoidOne 05:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Checking up :)

Hey-lo there old friend! ^_^ I don't know if you remember me, but you welcomed me a long while back in November to the Wonderful World of Wikipedia. Without your help I probably wouldn't be around today, so I thank you, and also remind you that if I can ever do anything to help, tell me! Cheers! :D M o P 06:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Its ok, I'm frequently caught up in work and find myself not voting on RFAs or not responding to comments... but what can you do, eh? Anyway, thanks for the kind words, and this signature better be good; spent long sleepness nights over it. :P Take care! _-M o P-_ 22:23, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Stub Sorting

I've reverted the first example you provided, however the second one had no broken links so I'm uncertain as to your question. The change was to conform the existing pages towards Stub Sorting standards, no deception was intended. Please assume good faith, thx. Netkinetic 23:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Would that I had been more paranoid! <G> I left an answer for you. But the short form is: I goofed, probably part of sliding into a need for better glasses as the near vision's been a real b**tch the last year plus. Maybe I ought to change the user name to 'Bifocals'. FrankB 04:11, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Paranoid, thx for asking before reverting, I do really appreciate that consideration. As to the methodology behind why the stub was moved from the top to the bottom of the page, the Auto Wiki Browser is used to conform all pages to certain set standards and a standard here apparently is for stub notations to be on the bottom of any individual page. Hope that helps. Netkinetic 05:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Well after each AWB edit, the editor using it visually checks the make sure the edit is correct. However the software simply keys in on all stubs within a certain set of search criteria (for instance, a particular category) and hence every item tagged "stub" with that configuration is selected. It may be a question best directed towards the developers. I'm still learning some of the nuances of the interface, so my apologies on any inconvenience. Netkinetic 05:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Renaming-logging

I think it was intentional (IIRC), but I won't swear it's not a error of interpretation. Are we logging as "deleted" moves where nothing is actually deleted (i.e. neither the existing template nor category)? As that's effectively a "no admin action required", does that actually need to be logged in that manner? (As in the instance where Cyde renamed biosci-stub in mid-discussion, which I initially found odd (and still do, somewhat), but isn't exactly an "early closure" as such.) Alai 20:51, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Good point, I'd missed that. Perhaps the log should be explicitly renamed as "deleted or removed", if that's the intention even where no deletions are carried out. Alai 20:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

They were laid by a chocolate bunny. Go on, take them! :P _-M o P-_ 04:39, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
They were laid by a chocolate bunny. Go on, take them! :P _-M o P-_ 04:39, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter! :D _-M o P-_ 04:39, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Canada-athlete-stub

That looked like three renames, and one oppose to me; why did you close as a no-rename? Alai 17:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Because it seems I've lost the ability to read. And count. Oops! I'm doing the rename now and have moved the log to the right place. Thanks for pointing it out. --TheParanoidOne 18:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the reminder. I'm still struggling to do edits and all. Thank you for being around to help. Thanks for the guidance and the observations - 7258 04:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. --TheParanoidOne 05:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks and apologies

I made so many mistakes in the editing and I had to meet deadlines related to my work and studies. I think you did the best thing. For the time being, I'll just stick to minor edits and will just ask more senior members and administrators for help in relation to categories. At the moment, the whole process for me can be so bewildering. My apologies for my mistakes. And thank you very much for your kindness, patience and assistance. - 7258 04:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. If you have any concerns about a category, I suggest you bring it up on the talk page first, before taking any actions. --TheParanoidOne 05:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

TPO-bot niggle

I was a bit surprised to notice that {{France-journalist-stub}} had nothing linking to it, as it had some "upmerged population" after being on SFD. Turns out it'd been turned into a redirect, and each use replaced by bot. That seems counterproductive to me, as the whole point of upmerging is to keep the template and currently linked articles "pre-sorted" in case of a future split. (I'd personally also have preferred to keep a distinct template, but that's a nicety.) Alai 22:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Noted. --TheParanoidOne 05:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the housekeeping

Thank you for unobtrusively adding comments where appropriate. I did not realize user- and talkpage namespace was included in interwiki linkage. --Ministry of Truth 22:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Template delete

Thanks for letting me know about the right delete option to use. I'll have to study all these things and get up to speed with it. All the best. --Jack 18:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Wiki languages

I would like to be able to edit pages in different languages than english. But it seems my english wikipedia login isn't valid when I switch to Swedish or German. I have been searching thru the FAQ:s without any luck in this matter and so I figured you might know if I have to register thrice, once for every language, or is there is a smarter way of going about? Manos1394 10:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

At the moment, the logins are independent of each other, so unfortunately you will have to register three times. I seem to recall reading something a long time ago about making logins universal, but I don't remember clearly. The best place to ask would be at the Village Pump (Technical). Hope that helps. --TheParanoidOne 13:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. I'll check up on the link and see what plans there are for the future in this area. Manos1394 09:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I found out that this page has info regarding the matter. Plans for single-user login are underway, and will probably be implemented soon. Manos1394 10:19, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

image fix

Hello TheParanoidOne! I noticed that you fixed the problem with the image name on S.O.S. Mathematics. How did you do that? Jay Gatsby(talk) 22:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I edited the file name to remove the extraneous characters in it, as per your section at WP:VPT. --TheParanoidOne 22:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
How did you see the extraneous characters in the file name? When I looked at the article, I couldn't see any extra characters in the edit box. I could only see the extra characters when looking at the HTML source code for the link. Jay Gatsby(talk) 22:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Here is the original version. I use Opera which shows up a symbol which is an arrow pointing up and then right. Using Firefox and Internet Explorer I cannot see it. Googling for the hex code for the symbol (as mentioned in the VPT section) shows that it is a LRM (Left-to-Right Mark, U+200E, UTF8: E2 80 8E) which correlates with the symbol I see, and also explains why it's not normally visible. --TheParanoidOne 22:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi TheParanoidOne! Thanks for the info! Even though I could not see the symbol in my broswer (Firefox), I was still able to delete it with the backspace key. Jay Gatsby(talk) 22:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I think I figured it out. Thank you for fixing the article, by the way! Jay Gatsby(talk) 22:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

History of Ukraine stubs

Bless you. Is there a "raging against the dying of the light" award, I wonder? Alai 05:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Haha. I've been watching the "discussion" with both amusement and frustration but haven't had a chance to comment before now. :) --TheParanoidOne 05:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

WSS/P involution

Eep. That's very strange indeed. Still seems to be there in the page source, but just doesn't seem to get displayed in the browser! I wonder if I managed to make the wiki source disappear up its own... well, whichever. Maybe it's related to the size of the page, or else the number of headers... Alai 06:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Phew, nothing so drastic... just a missing }}, believe it or not! Alai 06:18, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Quite so. But now I'm in an agony of suspense wondering what the comment was/is going to be... Alai 02:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Counting Crows

Regarding your recent edit, what is a "speedied image"? ≡ DISHWASHEЯRAT ↔ (TALK) 17:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

An image that was removed ("speedily deleted") because it matched one of the Criteria for Speedy Deletion. In this case, specifically item 7 in the images/media section of that page. --TheParanoidOne 18:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Cheers for that. Please post or message a proper citation for that request. Thanks. ≡ DISHWASHEЯRAT ↔ (TALK) 19:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand your request. Please clarify. --TheParanoidOne 19:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Apologies

Thanks for removing the deletion tag, I added it by mistake to the article as it was meant for another one. Whysquared 17:05, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Renaming

See: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 14# Orthodox Christian categories. IZAK 17:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Why 'Speedy Delete' Katherine Liddy image?

Hello mate,

Thats a genuine photo. Why remove it?

Because it matched one of the speedy deletion criteria, specifically CSD I3. --TheParanoidOne 11:18, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Carmel Gunning

Hi,

I had the permission of the website to use the picture of Carmel Gunning that you deleted. Can you please restore.

regards

Vintagekits 22:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi mate, have I done it correctly this time?? regards and thanks for your help! Vintagekits 10:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Paramount and Pathe News photos

Hi,

I work at the company that holds the rights to Paramount and Pathe news...I put together both of those entries here, we own the rights to the pictures since we own the rights to Paramount and Pathe News...how else would I have been able to put key info in both entries if I didn't look at both those newsreels everyday? Please advise...thanks...

--Stoogeyp 23:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC) Hi you removed one my photo from the crab-eating macaque page. It is a photo taken by me, how do I tag it correctly so it is not removed. When uploading it, I check the box saying it was my photo. thanks, mdg

Images question

Ah, I did not realize that, but thank you. So even though there's a large listed backlog of images needing info, unless I have that source info, there's nothing I can do to help? Just curious. Thanks again. | Mr. Darcy talk 21:00, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that is the case. Ideally the people who uploaded the images would provide the information. --TheParanoidOne 21:02, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks. | Mr. Darcy talk 21:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Bass saxophone photo

Hi, would you please "speedily" restore the photo you deleted without first communicating with me? As explained in some detail on that photo's page, I had written permission from Jay C. Easton, the photographer, for the use of that photo. Would you be more careful in the future about this type of thing? Thanks, I appreciate it. Badagnani 04:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Bembo type specimen

Hello. Are you saying there was no license with the Bembo type specimen? I teach an advanced typography course and believe I remember my student, the creator of the illustration you have speedily deleted, choosing one, and also declaring herself as the creator. Might my student (a new wikipedian) have been contacted first with opportunity to rectify this if she had not selected a license? My memory is that she did. My best, JimCApitol3 21:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Harold "H" Nelson

I don't know what I did wrong to get the image deleted... Is it correct now?

Ta!

TL

Re:Speedy deletion of ....

Just thought I'd say that I wasn't taking that criteria to apply because it's listed in the articles category, not images. But looking at that notice, I didn't make what I was thinking, very clear. Thanks - Рэдхот 12:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)