User talk:DVD R W/Archive8

Most of my Wikipedia accounts are named User:DVD R W, but on irc I am schwartz and the Commons User:Schwartz.

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Same vandal as last night

As you have probably noticed, last night's vandal (user:216.165.96.96, 24.47.242.1 and 68.175.108.175) is continuing it from 128.122.88.132 and 216.165.112.100. Evading a block by using another ip is grounds for extending the block of the original ip or account, is it not?--Srleffler 05:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Modern architecture

I nearly reverted this [1] but then stopped when I remembered something about Loos likening ornament to a tatooed man (a 1900's shortcut for criminality) - It's quite possible he also said all art is erotic - what's your take on it? --Mcginnly | Natter 13:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really know if that phrase was in that essay, I thought it was "Ornament and Crime" though - a discussion somewhat implying one was the other, maybe it has been translated to "Ornament is Crime." Why ask me and not User:JoeLeff? Why not cites for the other quotes? DVD+ R/W 05:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Architecture notability

To counter spurious time consuming AfD's, I've had a stab at a draft policy for architectural notability here. I've attempted to restrict the scope of the proposal to actual 'works of architecture', architects, building technology and legal aspects of the profession. Buildings and structures notability enmasse should probably be a separate enterprise, or at least a later one. I need to give some thought to threshold notability and have shied away from minor works by major architects, because buildings are not like music or literature, they cannot generally be ignored by the public and play some kind of role in most built environments, so I argue the impact is beyond just they're effectiveness or otherwise as a work of art. Comments (by anyone) gladly received. Cheers --Mcginnly | Natter 21:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't hear of many AfDs for architecture articles - so you counter non-existant AfDs with a spurious time-consuming policy page? ;-) DVD+ R/W 05:55, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS Happy Hanukkah! --Mcginnly | Natter 01:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. DVD+ R/W 05:55, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Happy Hanukkah -- I just noticed your candles. :) Dina 20:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's about time! (since it was all your doing...) Dina 03:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aga Khan Award for Architecture peer review

Hi DVD! I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to read the Aga Khan Award for Architecture article and for providing your comments and advise. It is much appreciated; your ideas will be useful in improving the article. I will also give further thought to the featured lists suggestion. Thanks again! -- Aylahs ^(talk) 15:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the News photo

Much better. Thanks. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. - Darwinek 19:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for removing vandalism from my userpage, AND thank you for blocking the offender. Very much appreciated. Jay†Litman 21:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks #2

...for protecting my talk page. I was going to do it myself pretty soon. Some sort of an open proxy or something, eh? —Wknight94 (talk) 03:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

np, I don't know how to tell if they are open proxies- if they are they can be blocked indef though. DVD+ R/W 03:18, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like I'll get to protect yours pretty soon.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 03:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the revert. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 09:42, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Synagogues

You welcome. Yes I am using the Polish Synagogues Portal :). From your previous contributions I suppose you know French language. Maybe you will be interested in translating some articles from fr:Catégorie:Synagogue française. Regards. - Darwinek 12:18, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I can translate both. I am just not so sure how to name both in English. "Maisel Synagogue" and "Jubilee Synagogue" ? Any suggestions ? - Darwinek 10:19, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. :) - Darwinek 12:35, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, Darwinek. DVD+ R/W 06:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re [2] Hey, DVD RW! Happy New Year mate. I hope you have a fantastic one! :) Sarah 12:49, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your pleas of innocence concerning your alleged involvement in the Melbourne DVD controversy are unconvincing. You're a shifty character and I shall be keeping an eye on you so you better smarten up my friend! Sarah 06:16, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for rev

thanks for reverting my talk page. West Brom 4ever 13:20, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons greetings and a happy new year

Seasons greetings - hope you have had a good one - I was unable to move to the computer yesterday such was the weight of turkey ballast trimming my stomach. I've nominated the portal for featured status and it seems to be getting ok reviews so far. Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Architecture. cheers. --Mcginnly | Natter 01:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bnei Hazir tomb

Why would a Cohanim family be called Hazir? That's pretty weird. Anyway, it's up. Enjoy! El_C 06:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Center for Human Dignity

$200-million dollars. Not cheap. And quite the human (or rather, posthumous) dignity spot. Enjoy! El_C 04:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ladybug

Essjay, thanks again for your help the other day, but I still am not seeing an image. This is what I tried:

/* Orange bar of death */

.usermessage {
    background:  url('http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Tarsier-GG.jpg') top right no-repeat;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    padding-left: 20px;
    text-transform: none;
    height: 35px;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border: none;
    color: #000000;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 115%;
    margin: 2em 0em 1em 0em;
    padding: 0.5em 1em;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Can you help? Holiday cheers, DVD+ R/W 01:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When you link the image, you should use the link you get when you click "Download high resolution version (1600x2400, 990 KB)" under the image on the description page, in this case, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Tarsier-GG.jpg. There is a caution, however; whatever the image looks like on that page is exactly what it will look like in the usermessage, so unless you want a giant image, you should scale it down to be the size you want to see (take a look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Nuvola_apps_ktip_50px.png, which is exactly what I see; if I'd used http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Nuvola_apps_ktip.png, it would be that size. If you need help scaling it, I'll be happy to do so. Essjay (Talk) 01:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This IP

Oh bother! My second mistake on WP:AIV in 24h! Looks like the user blanked his talk page and I didn't check the page history ... bother. Anyway, happy New Year! Yuser31415 20:19, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

don't worry about it, happy new year to you too. DVD+ R/W 20:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Yuser31415 20:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Featured portal candidate

The portal's currently up as a featured portal candidate. It's been generally well received but some input would be appreciated regarding the news section. The comments have been that a news section should reflect current events, as the section is not updated massively regularly, the reviewers feel it's not really reflecting current events. I've argued that architectural news is rather scant and suggested renaming the section to something like "Architecture in 2006-2007" but I'm not sure they'll go for this. Other suggestions include a "Architecture in this month" section. What should we do? I've opened a debate thread here --Mcginnly | Natter 01:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Timely revert

Thanks for reverting the work of some nutter on my user page. Occasionally I wonder if these people are "tired and emotional", or mentally ill, or what; but then I reconsider and quickly decide that I have more important things to think about. -- Hoary 11:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, no problem Hoary. Indeed, there are more important things to think about. DVD+ R/W 12:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK?

What ails you my friend - you sound really blue? --Mcginnly | Natter 17:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

nothing ails me, I'm fine. DVD+ R/W 18:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles with sigs

Its special:pages Cross-name space links. Its rather fun wiki gnome work. Dina 03:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commons

Hello. Sure, I have account as commons:User:Darwinek, with nice gallery :). I have get these images from PL wiki, they are sourceless there, so it would be rather difficult to upload it to Commonz without a source. - Darwinek 22:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I contacted him when I was starting all these articles and it seems like he found some photos and bet it was PD since the photos are really old and photographers are very probably dead. To be honest, it isn't 100% sure they are PD. - Darwinek 22:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Waitin' for his reply. - Darwinek 22:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ARCH

The portal's got featured status! nice one. Dogears is sorting out the autorotation bells and whistles. --Mcginnly | Natter 09:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

heh I think it looks better without that star on it. the FPCs are interesting to hear what other editors and portal connoisseurs say. it won't go on the main page though so I don't really get how it is featured. DVD+ R/W 21:58, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Humbug ;-) I like the idea of Portal connoisseurs browsing the electro delights of content presentation

"Ah! a superb example of subject reductivism",

"indeed and the navigation is so effortless I found my mouse was trembling with the excitement"

"For me it worked on 4 levels"

"I counted nine".......--Mcginnly | Natter 01:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well you did most of it so congratulations to you :-) DVD+ R/W 02:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, there's no I in TEAM......--Mcginnly | Natter 10:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your comments on my user talk page

You made comments on my user talk page (User talk:80.43.115.72) about vandalism to the Judaism page, however I have not made any edits to that page, and looking through the page history myself, I do not see my IP address there anywhere. Could you clear this up for me? 80.43.115.72 15:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

it was this [3] from your contribs and the next edit as well. DVD+ R/W 21:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How is that possible? I didn't type that, and no one else in my household would have typed it either! 80.47.134.99 23:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And how come I now have a different IP address? 80.47.134.99 23:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My Request for Adminship

Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me. By the way, all is forgiven regarding what you said on IRC the other day and I hope I see you go for the bit on Commons soon!--Nilfanion (talk) 22:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice picture

I'll nominate it for the SA - we're running low. --Mcginnly | Natter 15:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ok sure DVD+ R/W 15:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pics

I've made the change you suggested. I plan to transfer move my digital contributions to the Commons under one name but haven't gotten around to it.

A reader posted a note reminding us that Image:ChiatDay Gehry.jpg is only a portion of the building. The two-story white building to the left of the picture (north) is the bulk of the Gehry-designed structure. I'd like to go back and get the whole building.

Nice photograph on your user page. Ah, Tri-X, I knew it well, and I miss it (especially now with my digitial camera flashing gibberish. Tri-X was trustworthy.) You clearly know how to get the best from it. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 08:03, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Harassment socks

Thanks for the help. I think I touched off a nerve when I discovered some undisclosed copyvios by User:Primetime. Ironically enough, it wouldn't have occurred to me to look if he hadn't apparently attempted some low-level revenge on me. --Calton | Talk 05:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Calton, I protected your page for now. DVD+ R/W 05:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion sought

Re. the latest shit storm - what's your opinion of the channel? - nice place to get things sorted or bitchy cabal lair? --Mcginnly | Natter 14:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really have anything to say about this, sorry. dvd rw 18:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]