User talk:Cryptic/archive-1

{{welcome}} Alai 09:18, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion tags

Could you please use {{db|reason}} instead of {{delete}}. If you provide a reason for your speedy tag, it makes life for the deleting admin a lot easier. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:22, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Esrum-hillerup

Greetings. Esrum-hillerup wasn't just a copyvio, it's a hoax! I've listed it in votes for deletion. Kind regards. --RobertG ♬ talk 08:41, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Carl Hewitt

Carl Hewitt holds the copyright on this material. The material from the Stanford page comes from the biographical material he provided to them for a lecture which he delivered there. This material is covered by the GNU license.CarlHewitt 11:16, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ellastone

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Ellastone, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text borrowed from web sites. For more information, take a look at our policy library. Happy editing! --Cryptic (talk) 14:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Thankyou for bringing the copyright violation to light. I must admit that I did not realise that it would have caused problems! I have rewritten the article on the Ellastone/Temp page, including new information of my own (I am a resident of Ellastone), as stated in the Discussion page for Ellastone. Is the article still in violation? Or can it be relisted? Cheers. Jhomayne 16:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ellastone/Temp looks much better, thanks. In about a week, an administrator will delete Ellastone and move Ellastone/Temp over it, so the copyright violation is no longer in the article's history; if you wish, you can accelerate the process by asking one to do a speedy deletion. The easiest way to do so would be to add {{db|submitted in error - I have written a replacement at [[Ellastone/Temp]]}} at the top of Ellastone. --Cryptic (talk) 16:52, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Excellent. Thank you very much. Jhomayne 16:55, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/I1

Dragon's Flight pointed out a serious omission to this proposal: that the image description page of WikiCommons should include the content of the one on Wikipedia. I have reworded the proposal to include that. Because the wording changed, I have hidden your vote; please read the new version and see if you support it now, and reinstate your vote under the appropriate section depending on whether you do. Yours, Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 08:17 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/11

...had an improper clarification that you objected to. I've reworded the clarification to make it actually clarifying, but nothing changed to the proposal itself. Please take another look at it. Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 08:27 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3

PBurka pointed out that an important omission from this proposal: a band could meet WP:MUSIC criterion #5 (sharing a member with a famous band) and still be speedily deletable by this criterion. I've added a sentence to the proposal to reflect this: it now reads An article about a musician or music group that does not assert having released at least one album, nor having had media coverage, nor having a member that is or was also part of a well-known music group. If the assertion is disputed or controversial, it should be taken to VFD instead. Please consider if you support this new wording, and change your vote accordingly. Yours, Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 10:00 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you with the requests above. Those two proposals were the only two that had an important omission and required a quick fix while there were still relatively few voters. I'm sure there'll be plenty more discussion, but no more significant changes. I've extended the voting period by one day to ensure they get their proper time. Thank you for your consideration. Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 10:05 (UTC)

Link colors

Thanks for your help with that minor problem. I'd tried exiting Opera and running it again, going downstairs and frying a steak, but it was only your forced reload instructions that got things back to normal. Cheers, –Hajor 7 July 2005 04:26 (UTC)

CSD P1 redirect

You just changed the redirect on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/P1 in suich as way as to make it point to the revcised proposal P1B. P1 is still a live proposal, please don't hide it by accident. There have been so many reverts in this area that I don't want to simply revert your change here. DES 7 July 2005 21:14 (UTC)

I only pointed it at where its target redirect (then Wikipedia:Expeditious deletion) went - janitorial work, nothing more. I have no opinion where the redirect should point, so long as it's not a non-functional double. —Cryptic (talk) 7 July 2005 21:38 (UTC)

Ok I have, i think fixed it. Didn't want to seem to be brash gove recent events here. DES 7 July 2005 21:45 (UTC)

American Nihilist Underground Society

Hi. You recently replaced this redirect with {{deletedpage}}, but didn't protect the article, so it's still receiving periodic vandalism. If it was an oversight not to protect it, could you please do so? If it was intentional, I think the page is doing more harm now than it was as a redirect, and I would appreciate it if you clarified your intentions. Thank you. —Cryptic (talk) 04:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Noel (talk) 18:50, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar!

I just awarded you a barnstar [my first] on your userpage. Congrats. And thanks. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 04:51, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

I thought I had proofread that Harry Potter update sufficiently, seems one can always benefit from a careful editor!

—Hobart 06:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Resulting the CSD proposal

Thanks very much for you help pointing out suffrage problems in the Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal. I would like to ask if you would be willing, at the end, to be the one to review results and post the conclusions. -- Netoholic @ 16:55, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm willing, but don't think that it's appropriate. I've made quite a few people unhappy by pointing out low-edit voters on the proposal, and I'm still very new myself. —Cryptic (talk) 02:43, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Don't worry about it, I had intended to ask whichever admins happen to be around at the time the vote closes. It should be simple math but there's little reason not to ask two or three opinions on that, just to keep it formal. After edits such as this one, you should probably take Netoholic's opinion regarding this vote with a grain of sand. Radiant_>|< 09:31, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

CSD expansion closed yet?

I'm just curious if any of the proposals for speedy deletion criteria have closed yet, just because this edit, seems to have already integrated two of the proposals, and I hadn't thought they were yet ratified. Thanks, Silles Sellis 13:07, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, not for another day yet. There's discussion about the diff you cite at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Recent changes. —Cryptic (talk) 13:18, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you. Silles Sellis 13:29, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re deltion of Rambot image

go for it, i dont care, it innacurate anyways Supersaiyanplough|^(talk) 02:16, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiThanks

Hey thanks for all your recent help at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Old/Transwiki, the transwiki log, and transwikiing in general. I just thought you should know it's been noticed and appreciated. So thanks again, and keep it up! Dmcdevit·t 02:29, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Transwiki

Thanks for working on the transwiki to wikisource. Is it possible to hold off on transwiking lists and tables for the moment? I am trying to convince people that lists and tables that are supplements to articles on wikipedia should be kept on wikicommons and not wikisource. CSN 03:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Since I don't follow Wikisource at all, I would appreciate it if you could inform me when this is resolved (and, if it's decided not to keep these on Wikisource, which articles they used to be so I can see about getting them undeleted on Wikipedia). —Cryptic (talk) 03:30, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, go ahead and transwiki whatever you'd like. Things aren't moving any too fast over at Wikisource. Once everything is transwiki'd to Source it'll be easier to establish a clear policy for where all this stuff should be and then move it whereever it belongs. Thanks for waiting. CSN 00:23, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re the snape template

You dont think its a good idea? Ok thats cool. Supersaiyanplough|^(talk) 05:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not while it's still in your userspace and the formatting issues you mentioned on the talk page are unresolved, no. —Cryptic (talk) 05:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Its only in my userspace while i let people look at it and decide what they think, and I am trying to resolve that problem. What if I fix it, and move it to a proper template? Supersaiyanplough|^(talk) 10:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kodocha

Since you seem to know how, can you please move Kodocha to Kodomo no Omocha? That's really where it belongs, as Kodocha is more of a short-hand way of writing it, as opposed to the actual title. Alternatively, you could move the article to Kodocha: Sana's Stage (proposed English title), but yesterday I changed all the links (on 'list of anime', Miho Obana (author)'s page, etc.) to be Kodomo no Omocha, so it'd be easiest to just put it there. (preceding unsigned comment by 195.92.168.164 19:51, 20 July 2005 (UTC))[reply]

See Wikipedia:Requested moves. —Cryptic (talk) 06:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Reading spark plugs for racing

Why was this page speedy deleted? There was a VfD. The decision of the VfD is at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Reading spark plugs for racing and it was to transwiki. The tag at the time clearly indicated that if it could be reworked, it shouldn't be transwiki'd. I and the original author reworked it. Furthermore, I notified all the original VfD participants of that and their comments to keep the article are now logged in the talk page. Can you please restore the article? (You can respond at the article talk page.) Thanks. Samw 21:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was Dmcdevit who transwikied the article and Master Thief Garrett who deleted it. My involvement was only peripheral, in that I tagged the article as a speedy after it had been listed in the "Have been transwikied and await deletion" section of the transwiki queue (this section is now obsolete, since the new CSD case for vfd'd-and-transwikied articles took effect), and the talk page after it had been orphaned.

I do not recall whether the article was still tagged {{move to wikisource}} when I tagged it, and since I was performing neither the transwiki nor the deletion, I did not compare the article to the state it was in when it was vfd'd. If it was indeed different enough that the vfd should not apply, I suggest that you list it at Votes for undeletion; as I am not an administrator, I cannot restore the article. My own opinion is that the article as transwikied still reads like a how-to, which are better suited to Wikibooks. —Cryptic (talk) 23:55, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Grand Theft Auto IV

Hi, Please stop trying to get Grand Theft Auto IV Deleted! This event will happen. Plus, if Harry Potter: Book Seven is allowed on Wikipedia, so is Grand Theft Auto IV - Agent003

Do not remove speedy tags from articles you have created. —Cryptic (talk) 18:44, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I will Remove it, as it is Vandalism! - Agent003

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Cryptic (talk) 18:49, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

YOU ARE THE VANDAL !! NOT ME !! - Agent003

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Cryptic (talk) 18:52, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If you keep vandalising you WILL be Blocked!! - Agent003

Agent003

Please reconsider your decision not to block Agent003; he has escalated to vandalism of my user page, despite his announcement that he has left Wikipedia. [1] [2] —Cryptic (talk) 19:45, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked Agent003 for ½ hour; hopefully that will give him some time to cool off. JYolkowski // talk 19:59, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. (And I apologize for the inappropriate post on WP:AIV; I would have sworn "recreation vandalism" was listed on Wikipedia:Vandalism, but the only pages I'm finding on google that mention it now are Category:Pelican shit and some old TFD discussions.) —Cryptic (talk) 20:05, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A request

Hey there. You've been doing some great work transwikiing. I saw the note about using a script to do transwikiing on your user page. FYI, there is currently no Wiktionary bot; I used to have it, but the recent software upgrade broke it. Since then, I've been looking around for a replacement, and meanwhile the backlog has been building (from zero it's now at ~250). I was just wondering if you'd be willing to share your script so I can continue helping with the transwikis as well. I hope this doesn't sound presumptuous or anything in asking for a copy of your own work, but I just think I can help out. Thanks! --Dmcdevit·t 05:41, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Quick answer: it's in User:Cryptic/standard.js and b:User:Cryptic/standard.js, if you speak enough JavaScript to separate out the relevant bits. Slow answer: I've been meaning to separate out the relevant bits myself, make them skin-neutral, and document them anyway; since you asked, I'll see about doing so today or tomorrow, most likely, and put them into User:Cryptic/transwiki.js. —Cryptic (talk) 05:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That'll be great. I'm about as fluent in Javascript as I am in any other computer language (meaning zero :), although I did make a BASIC program on my graphing calculator once), so sorry about that. I may need some instructions. Well, thanks! --Dmcdevit·t 06:38, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I tried out the script, but uh, I had problems on the other-wiki side of it, (Wiktionary in this case). At each of the steps, the wikification, and transwiki log and edit summaries, etc. on Wiktionary, it just gave me an error message. But it worked fine on Wikipedia. Ideas? --Dmcdevit·t 01:51, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

I don't see a wikt:User:Dmcdevit/monobook.js, or anything in any of the other skins' js files. Was it deleted? Or was it under a different user name? And what was the error message it gave you? —Cryptic (talk) 19:56, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have a different username there, could that be it? Anyway, it's at wikt:User:McBot/monobook.js. When I click the edit summary tab I get

(the text of function transwiki_summary())

clicking wikify history gives me:

(the text of function transwiki_history())

And I have no "log entry" button at all. Nothing wrong at all with the Wikipedia end of it though. Maybe I messed it up somehow, but I can't figure it out. --Dmcdevit·t 20:16, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

The first problem is fixed by this diff. The second is because you use underscores instead of spaces in the value of transwiki_log_location. —Cryptic (talk) 20:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, it's working well. This is great script. I plan on plowing through as much of the Wiktionary backlog as I can over the weekend, though I'm pretty busy right now. Thanks. Oh and I took the liberty of adding that last little step to your instructions. Anyway, thanks again. --Dmcdevit·t 21:16, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Oh yes, and one more thing. Transwiki to WikiNews is technically illegal, since WikiNews is public domain, not GFDL. Might want to remove that... --Dmcdevit·t 05:55, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

{{TOCright}}

Why did you but the TfD tag back on {{TOCright}} less than a month after it was voted to be kept? DES 13:57, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Because Raul654 listed it on WP:TFD. —Cryptic (talk) 18:07, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. that makes sense. I see someone else de-listed it again. DES 20:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anagoge

I updated an English Wikipedia link to anagoge to make it look at the wiktionary article but it isn't there yet. I'm contemplating undeleting the Wikipedia copy. Is there a delay in this kind of transwiki? --Tony Sidaway^Talk 00:36, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Transwikied pages stay in the Transwiki: pseudo-namespace until someone at the other project moves it out. Anagogue is currently residing at wikt:Transwiki:Anagoge. —Cryptic (talk) 00:44, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

nn-bio redirs

Thanks for fgixing the double redirs via nn-bio. I was workign my way throught the pages that had to be fixed, you got to these before i did. Thanks. DES ^(talk) 23:58, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Transclusion in speedy delete templates

Several of the speedy deletion tempaltes were recently edited to remove the transclusion of {{db-reason}}, specifically {{db-repost}} and {{db-nonsense}}. I have started a discussion of this at Template talk:Db-reason#Transclusion. I am reluctant to simply revert without discussuion given recent developemts on these tempaltes, and my involvement in the TfDs and Renames. Your voice would be welcome on tjhis issue. DES ^(talk) 18:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

GamerWiki

The GamerWiki entry was removed from List of wikis and you referred to the GamerWiki page's deletion in June. There are other, similar, sites, listed on the List of wikis, and I would like to re-list it, but do not want it to just be deleted again. If there is policy being applied in this case, then others in the list should also be removed under the same criteria. Others in the list also have a page that I used as a template to describe the GamerWiki entry, so was confused as to why this was also deleted. -- Tyagi 00:17, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There was no formal policy being applied, no; my removal was prompted by your rewrite of the article and Weyes' comment on the vfd. A comparison of list of wikis to SwitchWiki shows that our article is not remotely meant to be exhaustive, though I'm not sure what its criteria are. I rather suspect that a wiki with 356 articles and an Alexa rank currently at 2.8 million falls short of the threshold, however. —Cryptic (talk) 12:12, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I understand the reasoning that GamerWiki does not currently have the traffic, content, and Internet profile for the List of wikis. However, looking at similar sites to GamerWiki on the list, namely Gamingwiki and Encyclopedia Gamia, they have comparable rankings and levels of content. So I can either re-add GamerWiki to the list, but not create an article page for it, or we can look at cleaning through the list to remove those smaller sites that have been added. -- 20:32, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Before you send me a note about the placement of VFDs

Sorry. Thanks for cleaning up after me... Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:51, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Adamwankenobi

Thanks for the notification; I blocked his new account. Please tell me if you notice any others! Regards — Dan | Talk 19:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My goal is not vandalism. What I did to ALinkToThePast was merely to make him aware, as I had tried, that the "cleanup" template didn't need to be at the top of pages because they were too vague. We are now in discussion over this, and are trying to reach a consensus. TheAlternateReality 20:24, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You win

I will stop adding the shadows of the empire project to the star wars films category. I changed the article itself to state that the project is the closest in star wars continuity to a movie, without actually being a movie. Sounds like a fair compromise, eh? TheAlternateReality 22:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, we all win when the silly reverts end. ;)- Dr Haggis - Talk 22:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sense of humor

At least tell me you laughed? Agriculture 03:58, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Delisting Items

hello, why are you relisting items that should have not been listed for deletion in the first place? i thank you.(Cathytreks 21:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Please do not remove Images for deletion notices from image pages or remove other people's comments in votes for deletion pages. The notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of an image, and removing them is considered vandalism. If you oppose its deletion, you may comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. —Cryptic (talk) 21:56, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

re: deletion

IT WAS NOT A TEST. PLEASE DO NOT EDIT MY POSTS. THANK YOU. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.21.8 (talk • contribs) apparently referring to this

Ty

Ty for telling me that AFD subpages need a start in the beggining i just follow the way it was formed in the edit page and my AFD keeps getting stuck. TY --Aranda56 04:23, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinks in afd summaries

Please update your autovfd script; it's still leaving redlinks to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/whatever as the summaries on the afd daily logs. The appropriate line is

document.editform.wpSummary.value = 'Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/' + target + '';

in function autovfd(); it needs to change to

document.editform.wpSummary.value = 'Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/' + target + '';

Thank you. —Cryptic (talk) 22:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, I'm not sure which AfD you're referring to. I fixed it a couple days ago e.g. Controversial science has a bluelink to AfD. Was this Fender bender? That got messed with by a vandal doing a bunch of moves (not WoW). -Splash 23:02, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's just your edit summaries (so it's purely cosmetic, but still annoying). See the history of the daily log pages. —Cryptic (talk) 23:06, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Aaaaahhh, I see. Should have read your message more carefully; was distracted at the time. Will fix it now. -Splash 23:09, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category Question

Hello, O Cryptic One. What does this kind of edit to a category label do, exactly? I'm referring to the change in the Newbery Medal cat., rather than the 2001 book cat. addition. Joyous (talk) 18:57, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

It sorts the article title under S in the category, instead of A. —Cryptic (talk) 19:04, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ohhhh. Thanks very much. Learned something today. Joyous (talk) 19:05, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Hurricane Katrina

In concern of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#Government_response_issues , Wikipedia is an International website, not only for US. so pls use "US. President" instead of "President" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.95.183.79 (talk • contribs)

cough —Cryptic (talk) 08:18, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Protected page...

...is now protected. Gotta run! - Lucky 6.9 05:55, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hurrican Katharina Info Box

hi, you did undo my edit but the sentence should read Highest sustained winds as agreed in the discussion, if you are unable to change it to that, please leave it alone for a admin fixing it accordingly. If you find you changed it to the right thing, then please enter discussion.

(Wilhelm.peter 09:36, 7 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for helping me out with the 2 table situation! I greatly appreciate it, especially after looking through numerous help articles with no avail.

--Kurthalomieu J. McCool 04:39, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

And thank you also for reverting the vandalism to my talk page. Much obliged. Fernando Rizo T/C 11:12, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

Thanks for correcting my redirect of the everdead. It was my first attempt at redirect. See you around. Psy guy ^(talk) 18:16, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Removing stray <br/>

Cryptic,
Thanks for fixing my mistake on the CSD. I must admit I'm an addict when it comes to the line break. You've given me something else to be paraoid about. ^_^;
brenneman^(t)^(c) 05:27, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fair Use

Thanks for changing that, and don't worry, you're not intruding. I'm not one of those people who freaks out when someone edits a page in their user space. Redwolf24 (talk) 22:25, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ifd

When you put an image on the Ifd page, please post a message on the uploader's talk page. The process at the top of the Ifd page lists this as a requirement and it seems only fair. I could not find any evidence of a notice to uploader for Image:0755312635.02.amazon.co.uk.jpg so I posted an image deletion warning and relisted on today's ifd page. --Thanks --Nv8200p (talk) 15:11, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Then I suggest you bring it up with the originally nominator, who was not me, instead. —Cryptic (talk) 15:25, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The original nominator was the uploader! I missed it. Sorry I bothered you --Nv8200p (talk) 15:50, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]