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User talk:Cloudbound/Archive 1
DSG logosHi. I am new to Wikipedia and I've started off by updating some articles with images. I have noticed you have renamed and altered copyright details for PC World (store) and The Link (retailer) logos I had added. I was wondering what the reason for this was and hoped you could explain this. BTW please don't see this as a complaint; if there are rules I have missed, I like to find out about them :-). One other thing, although some of the company websites still refer to DSG retail, the parent company for PC World & The Link, and therefore the copyright holder, has been known as DSG International since last month. In fact, they haven't been called DSG Retail for several years, but some of their sites were obviously never updated to reflect that! --Throup 22:03, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Barnstar Your RfAI have removed your self-nomination for adminship from Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, because it was not properly formed. Please do not write your nomination directly on the RfA page. Instead, create a separate nomination subpage Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wikiwoohoo, copy&paste the RfA nomination template from the RfA page to there, and fill in the form by giving your user name, RfA ending time, and responses to the candidate questions. — JIP | Talk 15:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC) Old account and RfAI saw your note at User talk:FireFox regarding your old account. I went to Special:Listusers and dug around. What I came up with the following possible accounts:
On most of these accounts, there is no edit history. You can check the list yourself here and here. Do any of those look familiar too you? If so, please let me know as soon as possible. I've looked at the edit histories of all of these, and the only candidates that I found that made any sense were Grant, Grantslaw (I don't think this one is correct), and Grantwin. On your RfA, it is highly unlikely that it will pass because people have become very focused on the number of edits admin nominees have these days. In the five oppose votes that have been registered so far, not a single user has come up with any other reason to oppose than pure edit counts/time on Wikipedia. I think their reasoning is flawed. I have looked at a number of your edits and found you to be a helpful, courteous person. You are making solid contributions to Wikipedia. Your distribution of edits across namespaces shows an interest in things beyond writing articles [1], in addition to work on articles. These are great qualities in favor of your being an admin. I would like to note some things that I think you need to improve on before being an admin:
Under my admin voting measures, you qualify very well with the exception of the above two points. I'd vote in favor of you being an admin if it were not for the above two points. If you increase your participation level and maintain it for a month, and increase your use of edit summaries, I'll nominate you myself. I think you're otherwise very well qualified. I would like to raise one additional point however. Since late June, I've been keeping statistics on the admin nomination process. What I have found is that admin nominees with less than 2,000 edits have only a 48% chance of successful nominations. Once you clear 2,000 edits, that figure rises to 83%..a full 35% increase! You can see more information about this study at my admin nominee charts page. I think if you increase edit summaries and raise your activity level, we can get you the admin tools before you get to 2,000 edits. But, be aware of the study; you will have to answer people's concerns if you are nominated again before 2,000 edits. All the best, --Durin 21:52, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
2012 Legacy MapThank you for changing the copyright violation. I have just got back from holiday and had forgotten all about that and the other copyright violations I have made (none on pupose though). Time to set about clearing my name, though not tonight. I'm going to bed. Greaterlondoner 19:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC) RFAAs you know, your RFA nom was rejected. You may try again after sometime. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:06, 12 October 2005 (UTC) MediationI noticed you added your name to the list of active mediators, but I can't find a successful mediation nomination for you. Are you aware that mediator is a formal position on Wikipedia and that you must be approved by the Mediation Committee? -- Essjay · Talk 01:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC) Your RFA DoneIts done here: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wikiwoohoo2 I voted neutral cause its too soon --JAranda | watz sup 20:48, 12 November 2005 (UTC) RFA closedHi! I have prematurely closed your RFA as it is clearly failing. This does not mean that you can't be an admin, hang around for sometime on WP, do some valued work and be civil. This will help the next time you seek adminship. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC) RfA nominationYes, I would nominate you but probably in a few months. Mid January would possibly be a good timre and I'll review you properly then if you remind me. Keep up the good work! :) --Celestianpower háblame 17:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC) nice guy!!!!Special:Log/newusers Wikipedia:WikiProject Kindness Campaign Welcoming CommitteeA user at 212.85.6.26 (contribs, talk), an IP address known for vandalism, added your user name to the list of Welcoming Committee members. You are welcome to leave your name there if you would like to join. But if you don't want to be a member, you should probably remove it. Thanks. --TantalumTelluride 15:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if the address can be blocked again already, but I think his rampage for today is over. A couple of users have put messages on the IP's talk page explaining that the address belongs to a computer in a public library. This is a strange case because the user is committing very unusual types of vandalism. You might want to keep an eye on its contributions to make sure it doesn't sign anything else with your user name. --TantalumTelluride 22:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC) Fair use imagesHi, I notice you have been replacing some small unfree (aka "fair use") images with bigger versions. Please don't. The "the bigger the better" rule does not apply to that kind of images (see Wikipedia:Fair use#Policy and Wikipedia:Image use policy#Fair use considerations for details). "Fair use" is a legal "defence" that "forgive" our use of low resolution versions of copyrighted images without permission if scertain conditions are met. Generaly speaking to be on the safe side it's best to keep images used under "fair use" as small as possible (big enough to show what needs to be shown, but no bigger). There is unfortunately no policy or guideline that define exactly where "low resolution" ends, but IMHO such images very rarely need to be bigger than "thumbnail" sized (~200px give or take), unless there is small text that must be visible for the image to make sense or something like that. Thanks for understanding. --Sherool (talk) 17:33, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
John/Jon SopelHello there. I'd noticed that you'd recently contributed to the John Sopel article, and just wanted to let know that I'm afraid I've inadvertedly undone your work. My apologies. It's all explained here [2]. Crisso 16:48, 22 November 2005 (UTC) AfD of SopelHi - thought you might like to know you forgot the {{subst:afd2}} template in your nomination, which was causing it not to appear properly in the deletion logs. I've fixed it for you. — Haeleth Talk 23:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC) image deletionIf you can provide me with a list or something sure.Geni 17:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
WikiprojectHow do I join WikiProject British TV Channels? smurrayinchester(User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 13:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC) Nice one! chocolateboy 21:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC) Deleting imagesI've killed the orphans but some still appear in a lot of articles.Geni 20:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Actually, I thought I had posted that for deletion; I probably had a browser crash, got distracted, and forgot about it. :) tregoweth 22:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC) WishesI wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 16:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC) BBC World peer reviewI have changed some of my comments at the peer review to reflect your changes - lots of things still need to be changed such as the lead, better referencing with footnotes, and fair use rationales on the images. Please see the peer review page. — Wackymacs 10:53, 28 December 2005 (UTC) BBC World peer review IIHi Wikiwoohoo. I left some comments on the BBC World's talkpage. Happy editing.Katsam 11:31, 28 December 2005 (UTC) ImageGo ahead. It was only a temporary picture, anyway. I hope you enjoy South Africa! smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 16:38, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Goodbye!All the best over the next 8 months - you'll be missed! -- 9cds(talk) 20:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Have a good time, see ya when you get back MrWeeble Talk Brit tv 21:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Important messageIt's been deleted. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 19:50, 28 June 2006 (UTC) Speedy deletionsHi. When you list an image for speedy deletion could you link to the replacement image rather than to the page the replacement image is on - it just makes it easier. Thanks. Also - why does Image:Af (03).JPG.jpg replace Image:BBCannaford.jpg? They look identical. Thanks. Secretlondon 11:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi. With the image above, I had listed that as a speedy deletion candidate, since I had uploaded a replacement for it: IMage:BBC Breakfast.png. Therefore the image you have notified me about can be deleted as such. Thanks for letting me know though. :) Wikiwoohoo 14:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Listing images for deletionHello, Wikiwoohoo. I noticed that you recently listed Image:Bbc.gif and Image:BBCNews06c-1-.jpeg for deletion. I have just two quick comments I would like to make. First, it is important that you notify the uploader when you nominate an image for deletion; you can accomplish this by simply pasting
Seamus215Do you know anything about the new idents, or a BBC WOrld revamp for the set?Seamus215 17:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Edit countUsername Wikiwoohoo Total edits 1978 Distinct pages edited 806 Average edits/page 2.454 First edit 22:13, 7 August 2005 (main) 988 Talk 58 User 127 User talk 135 Image 463 Image talk 1 Template 17 Template talk 2 Category 8 Wikipedia 151 Wikipedia talk 28 Any further questions, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. ViridaeTalk 13:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
My RfA LanguagesHi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 13:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
AMA CoordinatorYou should probably consult with User:The Thadman, who has apparently been working as acting coordinator in the absence of a process for choosing one. I haven't been involved in the AMA for some time, but efforts to make it a more useful part of resolving disputes are certainly welcome. --Michael Snow 23:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC) re:AMA availabilityHi Steve. This is just to confirm that I am available to take AMA cases, and if the position is still vacant, am interested in the position of AMA Coordinator. I have left a message regarding this at Wikipedia:AMA Coordinator. I had previously contacted Michael Snow and he passed me onto you. Wikiwoohoo 23:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Advocacy requestHeyo, Steve Caruso here. There is a Request for assistance by Zephyrad (talk) on Second-class citizen. Would you be willing to take their case? If you will, please leave a note and sign under the entry on WP:AMARQ and change "(pending)" in the heading to "(open)." When you're finished with the case, set it to "(closed)". If you're not able to take the case, please leave me a message on my talk page so I can continue searching for a willing Advocate. Many thanks! אמר Steve Caruso (desk/AMA/vote for me) 23:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Followup:
On an unrelated note... you may want to peruse (or refer to someone to peruse) the contributions of CyberSongs, who apparently claims to have invented, predicted, or precipitated every other technological development and trend since rippled toilet paper, offering "proof" in the form of links to his own blog or Web pages, or message boards where he has posted essentially the same unverified/unverifiable claims. (I believe this falls under "circular arguments"; correct me if I'm wrong.) Meanwhile anyone who disagrees, or asks for hard evidence or outside substantiation, is merely "censoring" him, and/or spelling out their own doom. (He and I tangled awhile back, when he inserted a number of POV comments, non-sequitors and unrelated matter into another of my articles [ Songshark ], which I promptly reverted or moved to its talk page. He replied sometime later with a number of further POV remarks and personal attacks, which I answered point-by-point... and never received a response.) There is a difference between "inventing" or "discovering" something, and merely observing "I'll bet this is going to be big someday!" He doesn't appear to know the difference, and I don't see validation or proof of anything, except possibly his own humbug, naiveté, or delusions of grandeur. (Anyone with as much education and experience as he boasts on his user and talk pages alone ought to be either too busy to make contributions to Wikipedia, too rich to care, or at least be able to have a better writer working on his behalf, IMO.) – Thanks for your time. Zephyrad 00:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC) That other matterYeah, the warnings and dialogue you're referring to came overnight, after I noticed this guy had posted even more self-serving fluff, and it kinda got my goat. I referred one page (discussing his "company") for speedy deletion as advertising, and proposed another (claiming to have developed or "proven" the Unified Field Equation – again through his "company") for deletion as original research (and a possible hoax, since he took primary credit for "completing Einstein's work" in this area, and how it would affect the price of tea in China). A MONGO took action (deleting both pages), prompting the guy to flip out, claim everyone was trying to suppress or "screw with" him, and asking who made the proposal so he could sue them (me) for defamation. Konstable then intervened, and also dropped me a note about using the word "hoax", despite the qualifier. I gave a largely rhetorical reply, explained where/how I found that as grounds (in Wikipedia's own guidelines, no less), and he seemed satisfied. So yes, there are indeed admins onto this person now, and it'll be interesting to see what develops. I have nothing personal against him, but I do hate to see anyone's time and energies wasted, or anyone misled, by this sort of garbazhe. Meanwhile, I see no reason to stop editing on Wikipedia (despite one person's grumpiness, and I'm glad someone else mentioned that in the help pages); it's an outlet, a chance to share what I know and keep my writing skills in shape... and if I want to toot my own horn, I have my own, off-Wiki pages for that. ;-) – Thanks. Zephyrad 05:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)  Hi Wikiwoohoo! You've signed up to be a judge for the Esperanza User Page Award! You'll have three user pages to examine. The user pages you get coincide with your signup number. So if you signed up to be a judge in spot 1 than you will get nominations 1-3. Pick your favorite one, and list it in the finalist section. After all 5 judges have chosen a finalist it's time to award them 1-10 points in the four categories:
Please see the Scores section on this page for additional information on your job as a judge. Keep in mind that your scores are confidential! Email Shreshth91 with your scores and final picks. As soon as all the scores have been tallied, a winner will be announced! Thanks. May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC) Greetings, Wikiwoohoo. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Buchanan-Hermit for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.
Re: userpageThanks for the congratulations message. Yeah, it did take a lot of planning but once I started making it, thing went quite smoothly. A bit time-consuming but it was worth it. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 17:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC) License tagging for Image:BBC Edward Stourton.jpgThanks for uploading Image:BBC Edward Stourton.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images. For more information on using images, see the following pages: This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 20:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Advocacy requestHeyo, Steve Caruso here. There is a Request for assistance by Thankyoubaby (talk) on Deja Vu (Beyoncé song). Would you be willing to take their case? If you will, please leave a note and sign under the entry on WP:AMARQ and change "(pending)" in the heading to "(open)." When you're finished with the case, set it to "(closed)". If you're not able to take the case, please leave me a message on my talk page so I can continue searching for a willing Advocate. Many thanks! אמר Steve Caruso (desk/AMA) 13:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC) AMA RequestHi, thanks for contacting me. My problem is with User:Tigermichal over the article Deja Vu (Beyoncé song). Basically, I haven't added anything to the page, I was just watching it. There was some paragraphs on the page about how Beyonce's fans had a petition for a reshoot for the video, and one about the song "underperforing" at radio compared to her last singles, and Tigermichal kept removing them, while I kept putting them back because it's Point of View to not have them, and I think it's encyclopedic to keep them. The petition was mentioned on the TV show Extra, and the other one (which has been readded now) is just explaining the charts. So after I did a few reverts and told Tigermichal of the problem, he went after me, so I went for help. It's not that big of a deal, and I've just ignored that page now anyways, I just think this user is a bit problematic, especially if you look at his talk page... Thanks,
BBC newsYes, I remember reviewing the BBC news article. However, I don't get much time these days to participate in WP, so I won't be able to review it. I'm really sorry about that. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC) Milla JovovichThe user in question edits from 213.240.3.* IP (see [3]). The problems are that he wants to portray Milla's origin as being Montenegrin. While this is partly true, he abuses the fallacy of equivocation, as the word "Montenegrin" could have two meanings:
While Milla's family does come from Montenegro, it is not a part of Montenegrin nation (which I could elaborate, if you want to know more). To that end, for example in [4], he removes references about her knowledge of Serbian language and misinterprets reference about her Serbian origin. A compromise is possible, for example by saying that she is Montenegrin Serb by origin, but I don't believe that the user would listen to it. Nikola 20:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
WP:ESP/UPA template to judgesJust letting you know I fixed the error in the template you gave to the five judges - the current overseer is Celestianpower, and that's who we'll be sending our scores to. However, thanks for filling in and distributing the templates - as I'm going to be doing it next time, I was wondering what the {{????}} link is to add them to pages, or if it's manual submission by copy-and-paste. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 02:37, 10 September 2006 (UTC) VandalSorry, I'm afraid I missed your original message... still, good to see it's been worked out! smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 16:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC) BBC NewsIn response to your question, yes definitely it should be summarized. The details should be placed in the sub-articles if they exist. You may also want to look at the article I worked on, The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is also a news medium, for ideas on how you might want to format the BBC News article. Medvedenko 02:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC) Mediation Cabal case: advocate review requestedWikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-05 Pravknight/FeloniousMonk has been reviewed by two mediators and in their opinion the case seems more an advocacy request than a mediation request. I'd appreciate it if you'd take a peek and determine if this is the case or not? Thanks! ~Kylu (u|t) 22:21, 10 October 2006 (UTC) 
ArchivesGenerally it's best to keep archives; you never know when you might need them again. Still, if you still want them deleted, drop a line. Laïka 21:14, 11 October 2006 (UTC) But why? Why!?Why do you appear to have only one barnstar to your name? What on earth has caused this oversight? Cheeses, you must have more than one to your name. I only hope someone, somewhere, feels it a good idea to give you one. A barnstar, I mean. ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:28, 16 October 2006 (UTC) (shiftily looking left and right to see if anyone has.) Welcome!
 Hi, and welcome to the BBC WikiProject! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the British Broadcasting Corporation. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Unisouth 19:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC) ImageWould you mind fixing the link on this one? Thanks! --Fang Aili talk 21:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Aeon & Wikiwoohoo,Alrighty guys, here's a rediculously crazy situation: On top of the 10 cases piling up, new people joining the organization, and other crazy stuff hitting the fan... my wife and I are expecting our new daughter to arrive any day now. :-) As a result, I'm going to be out of full swing for a couple of weeks and I need you guys to do your best to keep the AMA afloat. The Wikiholic that I am, I know that I won't be away completely, but my appearences will be unpredictable at best. I trust you guys, as you've proven that you know how to keep cool during crunchtime, and if at any time things get too unruly to handle, send me an email and I'll see if I can drop by to help out. :-) Wish me luck! אמר Steve Caruso (desk/AMA) 15:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC) BBC PortalI see that you removed my link to the BBC Portal from Bbc.co.uk. Can you let me know (or point me at the appropriate policy) when portal links should and should not be used? I assumed that portals were like categories in that anything which falls into the subject area which the category or portal covers should be linked to it. By that reasoning it would make sense for all BBC related articles to be linked to the BBC Portal. All the main London Underground articles seem to be linked to the Tube Portal. I am sure that I am missing something here but I am not sure what. --DanielRigal 23:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC) Greetings, Wikiwoohoo. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to MacGyverMagic for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.
We Have an Advocate ProblemOne user who is a new advocate is appairently not very much help, telling advocees to just seek medcab or request arbitration. Discussion on WT:AMA#Don't you guys screen your advocates?. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 23:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC) User page award - a thank youThanks for the award. Re: Semi-protect functionHi. I'm not an admin but I was wondering if this would still allow me to semi-protect certain pages that have been vandalised quite often within the past few days. If not, how could I go about having this assigned to articles? Wikiwoohoo 20:01, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Award of a Barnstar
BBC WikiProject: BBC2 identsI noticed there wasn't a page in existence relating to the BBC2 idents of 1991-2001, so I would like to start by creating a page for this. However, if it's okay, I request help with supplying the pictures as I'm not entirely sure how to use this yet, and don't wish to make any copyright blunders. If you, or someone else, can help when I'm done I'll appreciate it. Thanks. - Psychic Potato 10:56, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Thanks for that. I also used MHP [5] for the Paper Cut-out and Crystal Ball pictures. I'll continue to make some more progress tomorrow. - Psychic Potato 16:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC) I agree with your recent edits, a few details which I missed out first time round. However, could there be a Copper Cut-Out image with the older BBC logo perhaps, as it looks out of place? Also, I think there should be a section on Christmas & special programme specific idents such as Red Dwarf Night. If either of us has the time, it would make a reasonable addition. -- Psychic Potato 10:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC) The Tireless Contribution Barnstar
Agreed, excellent work done on the BBC News 24 article :). Now just to get BBC News to GA status (its a GAC at the moment). RHB 21:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC) ThanksFor your kind welcome, I've been to the meeting page and looked around. I still feel new, it will take me a while to learn what to do and the right way to do it, but I hope to become an avid contributer. At the moment though, I'm inundated. Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 00:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC) PS: Nice Username. |
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