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Advertisement - Please join the talk on if all articles brought to DRV should be fully restored and open for editing by default. brenneman(t)(c)15:18, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you
for fixing my edit count thing...doesn't it get to you when you click that on someone's page and it says it's moved? :P Thanks! --ViolinGirl♪19:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.
In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)
Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpowerháblame16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC) Message delivered by Rune.welsh using AWB. If you wish to recieve no further messages of this ilk, please sign your name here.
Splash
You recently gave me a warning over putting up a deletion message on the user Splash's user page. This was merely a test to see how it works, and please do not hold it against me in the future. I hope we can maintain our peaceful relationship on this active site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.27.98.238 (talk • contribs) 23:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much, and i hope we can still be friends 66.27.98.23803:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipediology Elections
Voting for the positon of Regent Ñ will begin on February 5th at the voting page. All candidates should list themselves there before then. Please take the time to vote, and become more active in the Wikipediology Institute. Thanks - Pureblade | Θ04:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey there....
Congratulations, Titoxd/Archive10! Your user page has been nominated for the Esperanza User Page Award! Five judges will look over your user page and award it 1-10 points in four categories:
Attractiveness: general layout, considering colour scheme and/or use of tables if applicable
Usefulness: links to subpages or editing aids, helpful information
Interesting-ness: quirky, unique, captivating, or funny content
General niceness: at the judges' discretion
But first, you must be chosen as a finalist. If your user page is chosen as one of the five finalists, you'll have the chance to win an award created just for having a great user page!
Hey Tito, sorry to see that you removed your userpage. We had already sent the judges 3 random user pages to look over....you doing that has put us on the spot :-D. Do you mind if I put your page back up and strike it out instead of removing it? Thanks KnowledgeOfSelf | talk21:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Tito! I remember you saying on IRC you wouldn't want it nominated....I think it was Phaedriel who nominated you...I had hoped that you had the issues you had with your userpage resolved by the time this officially started. I wanted you to be nominated and others felt you should have been as well. You do have a great user page! <Cough> :-P KnowledgeOfSelf | talk21:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for voting on the FAC page for History of Miami, Florida. The first image problem about Hurricane Andrew has been fixed, and the other image has been removed. Could you please comment on the article/reconsider your vote? Thanks, AndyZ20:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
For your kind support of my Rfa, which passed. And for the kind words. If you should ever have any complaints about my admin actions, please let me know. Also, should you ever need my help with anything, please do not hesitate to ask! Thanks again! All the best Banez17:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you!
P.S. Calculus homework sucks doesnt it? :) Cheers
Re: Edit counter
Great work! I finally had some spare time today, popped in my Java IDE/JDK CD, and copied all the source code at the project page. Great work! It's going to take me some time to look through all the progress that has been made. By the way, at here I see you're using maps to sort the contribs - could you expand on that a little furthur? (Videlicet, I'm having a bit of trouble following that code right now.) Secondly, I note that User:Flcelloguy/Tool/Help (the link that you added for help) hasn't been created yet; would you like me to write it at a subpage of the Wikiproject? Finally, I was looking through the code and thinking it would be easy to add a scan for certain key words - perhaps inputted by the user, or in a provided text file, to scan edit summaries. (In other words, a user interested could see if another user ever had any profanities in the edit summary, etc.) I added the link to the menu in the MainGUI fine, but couldn't figure out where the actual code for that would go. Would you mind helping me on that? Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy (A note?) 20:05, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice. By the way, I presume you're running Java 1.5 already? I tried running it on an alternate computer, which has 1.4.2 (the previous version), I got several compiler errors. Perhaps this should be mentioned somewhere? Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Your content merger at 22:49, 1 February 2006: [2]
Sheesh, could I not finish off the end of the daily logs and listen to my wife nag me for a few minutes without you rushing in and implementing the changes already? ;-) Is there a Speedy Gonzalez Barnstar lying around? Thanks, Deathphoenix22:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
hahaha... I guess I started from the start of the AfD closing process, you started from the end... and we whacked heads in the middle. --Deathphoenix23:33, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Admin Coaching
Hey Tito I signed up to be a coach, I'm just curious to know if there is a sub page somewhere with tips or guidelines for the coaches? Or a page with a little more information on the program itself? KnowledgeOfSelf | talk23:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I wish more stuff was automatic (like protected page list and protection tags). It does get a bit tedious sometimes. Oh well...:)Voice of AllT|@|ESP06:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Actually I have just been informed that there is an autoAFD closer. Sweet. Here it is:
Source code. Click show to expand.
//this helps automate AfD closing by adding a 'close' tab to AfD debates
//written by [[User:Johnleemk]] based on [[Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/test-n.js]] by [[User:Celestianpower]]
function afdaddlilink(url, name)
{
var na = document.createElement('a');
na.setAttribute('href', url);
var txt = document.createTextNode(name);
na.appendChild(txt);
var li = document.createElement('li');
li.appendChild(na);
return li;
}
function result()
{
var close = prompt("Result of debate?")
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
t.value = "{{subst:" + "at" + "}} '''" + close + "'''. " + "~" + "~" + "~" + "~" + '\n' + '\n' + t.value;
if (t.value.length > 0)
t.value += '\n';
t.value += "{{subst:" + "ab" + "}}";
f.wpSummary.value = "Closing debate; result was " + close;
}
function relist()
{
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
if (t.value.length > 0)
t.value += '\n';
t.value += "{{subst:" + "relist" + "|~" + "~" + "~" + "~}}";
f.wpSummary.value = "Relisting debate";
}
function keep()
{
var date = prompt("Nomination was made when?")
var votepage = prompt("Vote page is? (Enter 'd' for default.)")
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
// If default votepage...
if (votepage=="d")
{
var temp = document.editform.action.split("/w/index.php?title=");
var temp = temp[1].split("&action=submit");
var temp = temp[0].substring(5);
var votepage = temp;
}
t.value = "{{subst:" + "oldafdfull" + "|date=" + date + "|votepage=" + votepage + "}}" + '\n' + '\n' + t.value;
f.wpSummary.value = "Article survived AfD";
}
function no_consensus()
{
var date = prompt("Nomination was made when?")
var votepage = prompt("Vote page is? (Enter 'd' for default.)")
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
// If default votepage...
if (votepage=="d")
{
var temp = document.editform.action.split("/w/index.php?title=");
var temp = temp[1].split("&action=submit");
var temp = temp[0].substring(5);
var votepage = temp;
}
t.value = "{{subst:" + "oldafdfull" + "|date=" + date + "|result='''no consensus'''|votepage=" + votepage + "}}" + '\n' + '\n' + t.value;
f.wpSummary.value = "Article survived AfD with no consensus";
}
function redirect()
{
var date = prompt("Nomination was made when?")
var redirect = prompt("Redirect to?")
var votepage = prompt("Vote page is? (Enter 'd' for default.)")
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
// If default votepage...
if (votepage=="d")
{
var temp = document.editform.action.split("/w/index.php?title=");
var temp = temp[1].split("&action=submit");
var temp = temp[0].substring(5);
var votepage = temp;
}
t.value = "{{subst:" + "oldafdfull" + "|date=" + date + "|result='''redirect to [[" + redirect + "]]'''|votepage=" + votepage + "}}" + '\n' + '\n' + t.value;
f.wpSummary.value = "Article redirected to [[" + redirect + "]] as per AfD";
}
function merge()
{
var date = prompt("Nomination was made when?")
var redirect = prompt("Merge and redirect to?")
var votepage = prompt("Vote page is? (Enter 'd' for default.)")
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
// If default votepage...
if (votepage=="d")
{
var temp = document.editform.action.split("/w/index.php?title=");
var temp = temp[1].split("&action=submit");
var temp = temp[0].substring(5);
var votepage = temp;
}
t.value = "{{subst:" + "oldafdfull" + "|date=" + date + "|result='''merge and redirect to [[" + redirect + "]]'''|votepage=" + votepage + "}}" + '\n' + '\n' + t.value;
f.wpSummary.value = "Article merged and redirected to [[" + redirect + "]] as per AfD";
}
function other()
{
var date = prompt("Nomination was made when?")
var result = prompt("Result was?")
var votepage = prompt("Vote page is? (Enter 'd' for default.)")
var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
// If default votepage...
if (votepage=="d")
{
var temp = document.editform.action.split("/w/index.php?title=");
var temp = temp[1].split("&action=submit");
var temp = temp[0].substring(5);
var votepage = temp;
}
t.value = "{{subst:" + "oldafdfull" + "|date=" + date + "|result='''" + result + "'''|votepage=" + votepage + "}}" + '\n' + '\n' + t.value;
f.wpSummary.value = "AfDed; result was " + result;
}
function add_afd_tabs()
{
var c1 = document.getElementById('column-one');
var tabs = c1.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];
// Only add for pages with the right string somewhere in the title
if (document.title.indexOf("Editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/") != -1)
{
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:result()',"close"));
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:relist()',"relist"));
}
if (document.title.indexOf("Editing Talk:") != -1)
{
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:keep()',"keep"));
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:no_consensus()',"no consensus"));
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:redirect()',"redirect"));
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:merge()',"merge"));
tabs.appendChild(afdaddlilink('javascript:other()',"other"));
}
}
addOnloadHook(add_afd_tabs);
//end AfD closing script
Hi ... I haven't heard from JoanneB or Mailer diablo yet, so I'll drop them notes on their respective talk pages. And thank you for noticing my work on the Congress IP incident! I was beginning to think it was all for nothing! --Aaron02:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
One more thing, you remove your comment from my talk page, you accusing me of vandalism? What bloody joke!
See the AFD entry for Whidden Hall for more information. If you believe it has been incorrectly tagged, express that opinion on the Articles for Deletion page. --lightdarkness04:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for noticing. But I think it was a bit harsh for you to label me as a vandal and since I "can't" remove your comments in my discussion page. 24.57.131.1805:17, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final vote count consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama(spit)05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Template move
I think Template:Infobox hurricane season full should be moved to Template:Infobox hurricane season. Because of a complex series of editing, the two templates were split apart but have since been merged again. The latter is currently a redirect (but is the template used everywhere). Can you make this move (old edits of the regular template could be archived by moving it out of the way somewhere)? — jdorje (talk) 20:51, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Re: Coaching
Whenever you've got time. UTC evenings are best for me if you want to do it over IRC, but otherwise I keep an eye on my talk page even if I don't edit. You were about to introduce me to the wonders of speedy deletion, by the way. Saludos. -- RuneWelsh | ταλκ00:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Tito!
Hi! Sorry about the belated reply - as you may have seen, I was dealing with quite a heavy week at work, and in the last days I was only able to make a few minor edits. I saw you withdrew the nomination of your userpage for the Esperanza award, and I completely respect that. Imho, you're too humble - your userpage rocks! But of course, I'll let you be the judge of that ;) Kisses! Phædriel ♥ tell me - 01:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
You might want to re-check the Negroponte article...
I see that you were the Administrator who (absolutely correctly IMHO) put the NPOV tag on the John Negroponte article. Shortly after you did that, it was removed by someone else, and additional edits (all negative, of course) made to the page. Frankly, I have no personal opinion about Negroponte, but I sure can tell a completely biased article when I see one. As a regular Wikipedia user, I honestly have no idea what to do about this, and feel quite powerless. 95% of that article (indeed, every single thing except for about a paragraph of biographcial facts) has obviously been written by a small cadre of people who have a deep, passionate animus against the man. To read it, any neutral third party would come away convinced that this guy is Hitler's cousin, with no redeeming attributes whatsoever.
But a simple reality check would tell you that a guy doesn't get appointed as Ambassador to the UN, our first Ambassador to postwar Iraq, and then DIrector of National Intelligence, all with overwhelming support from BOTH sides of the political aisle, if he is the devil incarnate. The problem, of course, is that a few activists with keyboards are using the bully puplit of Wikipedia to make their case, and no objective, disininterested expert (let alone a 'supporter' of his) happens to want to take the time to correct the record (or add enough 'positive' stuff to balance out the article.)
As I understand it, Wikipedia is not a courtroom or a debate tournament, where one side can win by default just because the other one doesn't show up. It is, instead, trying to make its reputation by channeling the 'wisdom of the crowd'. So what is a crowd member to do who is neither a Negroponte partisan, nor has the specific knowledge to 'fight back' on the subject's behalf? I'm outraged not for Negroponte, but for what things like this do to Wikipedia. I've just been in too many discussions with stodgy academics and parents and experts who dismiss Wikipedia out of hand (or ban their students from referencing it), and all they have to do is point to an article like this. Any poor high school kid who turned in a school paper based on that entry would get an F!
Aside from making comments in the page's history, and telling an administrator (you), both of which I've done, what else can someone with only common sense and a guiding light of objectivity do? If I sound somewhat anguished here, it's because I think I've stumbled across one of the dark secrets of Wilkipedia: this whole 'openess', 'crowd-editing' paradigm only works when you have antagonists on both sides of an issue canceling each other out. If there's only one partisan, the system seems to have no way to compensate...and the result of that is a platform that will never be taken seriously by the mainstream [sigh]. Maybe I should sign up for Esperanza as a Stressed User? — Yorker04:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
(Edit conflict X2) I've made a short comment on the talk page of this article, and replaced the {{npov}} tag. I'll also be watching this article a bit more closely, but probably not for at least another five days! Something much more important, though: your talk page is now a screen and a half wide? I'm using IE 6.0 (under duress!) with my screen at 1024X768. - brenneman(t)(c)01:01, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Could use your help; seems Image:Lock-icon.jpg (originally uploaded by Cantus (talk·contribs)) is a copyvio now (he originally licensed it as GFDL but recently had a change of heart it seems). Ergo my derived image, Image:Lock-icon.png is also a copyvio. This is used on a number of templates (mostly protection-related) as well as some MediaWiki messages. Another user has found a free/GFDL SVG image that looks pretty nice and should work fine, that image is Image:Padlock.svg. As an admin is necessary to make some of these changes, I was hoping you could do it (even if we ultimately use a different image; moving to something not a copyvio would be helpful). See User talk:Guanaco for some discussion of the image history and the situation re: Cantus. —Locke Cole • t • c06:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
*gulp*
I'm a little nervous, but if you think I'm ready then I guess I'll try it..... But I can think of plenty of ways to screw the whole thing up or reasons for people to oppose me. :p --AySz88^-^07:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Heh... ^^'' Oh well, I'll start going to AfD and RfA more I guess, though I'm not sure I would be able to do much at RfA since I don't really know many people there.... --AySz88^-^05:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
AN/I
is it against policy to semi-protect AN/I? the sock puppets are getting annoying and wasting people's time.--Alhutch08:13, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Died out... for now. Not meaning to accuse anyone, but there's definitely a name that springs to mind, someone who's been very anti-CVU on the mailing list recently, who could be behind this. NSLE(T+C)08:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Copy violation
Sorry, I am French and it is very difficult for me to explain myself in English. I remarked a copyright violation in the article Atacames. It is a translation (by automatic translator) of this page. Could you do anything ? Thank you. Gustave G..
Send me a PM about why you are doing what you are doing !!!
Dunlap02
Thanks for the info.
I guess I am trying to find out how you can determine whom may have the "correct" content for a particular article?
Dunlap02
Thanks for the IRC help
Thanks for helping me get everything worked out on the IRC - as I'm sure you could tell, I'm not too familiar with it, so I appreciate it. The Counter Vandalism Unit IRC is impressive! I'm very interested with how it works, the reporting seems pretty ingeneous. The vandalism certainly does get reverted quickly! But once you get into the swing of things, it works well. I look forward to helping out with that as best I can. -- Natalya01:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Transition Gallery
Hi, am I right in guessing that you thought my edit of Transition Gallery was vandalism? I read it again, and I must say some of it does seem like that, but it's all true! (At least as far as my research and press articles etc tell it). Keep up the good work anyhow.
Tyrenius03:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
As someone who has been working really hard on this page, I want to thank you for the warning you issued to the anonymous user!--Beth Wellington04:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response. By the way, since you're working on edit counters, you probably know about this one, but if not, you might want to collaborate. http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?
Thanks! I changed the counter. When the new one's ready, let me know and I'll update again. (Is it time to archive user talk, again? You sure get more mail than I do! --Beth Wellington03:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to thank you for voting on my RFA, which went through with a count of (58/0/1), far better than I'd expected. I intend to take things slowly and start using the extra abilities gradually, but if there's anything I can do just leave a message. Cheers, CTOAGN (talk) 13:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Adminship Vote
I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk04:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Volume
Ohh man... a quick glance looks like the content is all correct, but makes me itch to create some tables. If you keep putting interesting articles on my watchlist, how will I have time left for Wikipolitics? - brenneman(t)(c)05:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
My RfA
Thank you for your support on my request for adminship. It ultimately succeeded with votes of 52/1/2, so I am now an administrator (and am in possession of both mop AND flamethrower) . Should you have any questions, comments, complaints, or requests at any point in the future, please do not hesitate to let me know on my talk page or via e-mail.
I notice you moved a lot of closed deltions off mfd. My understanding is those deletion debates which are closed early are to remain on the page until the 8 days is up, per deletion policy: the debate should be closed, but remain transcluded on the appropiate deletion page. Appreciate your thoughts. Steve blocktalk22:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
If that's what you want to do, that's your call. I'm not going to undo it, I've just spent an hour closing stuff there and archiving it myself. I tend to archive when I close if older than 8 days, otherwise I leave it in the closed section until the 8 days are up because that's the way I've read deletion policy. Steve blocktalk22:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising
The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine8000:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Proxies
Hi Titoxd,
Should we block indefinitely every IP used by that all-caps vandal on his recent binges? Are they all proxies? (I'm still not quite sure how to tell if an IP is an open proxy or not, other than by googling the IP and seeing if it shows up listed as one--do you know a way?) Cheers, Antandrus (talk)01:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
