This is an archive of past discussions with User:Titoxd. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
My RfA
Thank you for your support during my RfA! It has decided to postpone making me an administrator based upon recent consensus (or lack thereof). Thanks for the kind remarks and I hope to continue to see you arount the project. Cheers, ZsinjTalk08:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking 68.57.158.115 from vandalizing the Shacknews article repeatedly. He has been doing so for months now, much to chargin of many contributors to that article. Thank you :) sikander03:25, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I saw that you put the alternate "undeletion" template here as opposed to {{tempundelete}}. I see the advantages of not making them look at the history, but the one you used says "You are welcome to edit this article..." Which in fact I almost did to correct the broken ref tag before I noticed it was actually protected. Do you think that the underlying template should get edited to reflect the "we protect these while on DRV" thing? I've also proposed the page protection policy be explicitly extneded to cover this, since we do it all the time and it's been pointed out it is contra-policy. - brenneman{T}{L}12:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
anon vandal
IP 212.138.47.18 should probably be banned. (talk) See [1], [2], [3], and [4] (changing the link to bad link). He does have some useful edits, but some of his vandalism is of the sneaky kind. You warned him about his behavior on Feb 12, but he's continuing. Thanks. --Fang Aili18:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
WP 1.0
Hi Titoxd,
Thanks a lot for signing up for WP1.0, and for getting involved already. I've already appreciated the pioneering activities of the tropical cyclones folks in organisation & assessment, so I'm really pleased to see you getting involved. I wanted to ask a couple of questions -
What area are you most interested in? Since I got to "know" you through the WikiProjects section, and since I coordinate that, I'd naturally encourage you to consider helping us there - but involvement in any part of the project would be great.
Where do you see the WP1.0 project going? That may seem a strange question to ask a newcomer, but I would like to reorganise the main project page in the next week or two, to reflect the fact that we are moving beyond the "Let's start this project" stage into a new phase. I put my thoughts here on the talk page, but I haven't had much feedback. One frustration on this project is that many of the participants are crazy overloaded Wikipedians who never get time to work on the project much! As an organic chemist I'm also someone who likes to lay all the issues on the table together, but I suspect many others prefer to discuss things one issue at a time! Having talked with the more active people like Gflores and Maurreen, I think we're moving towards a mini-consensus of focussing on the major topics first, and probably doing a trial version (WP:0.5?) later this year of perhaps 1000 articles that we have checked are decent. We would presumably expand the number before a full release were made, allowing us to bring in lists from the WikiProjects and FAs/GAs. Do you think this approach would work well, or do you think differently?
By the way, do you take your user name for Titanium dioxide? I uploaded the pic for that page!
Thanks for your reply and your postings. You have a lot of good ideas, I really appreciate the input. Walkerma04:32, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Admin Coaching
Hey Tito! How have you been? I don't want you to answer or do anything about admin coaching until you answer that! Now down to business, Bugs pulled out, see my talk page, and Ian13 has been made an admin, so if you could address that for me I will be much obliged. Also can coaches request trainee's? Ones that we know, and are on friendly terms with. It might more efficient with regards to giving advice and helpful pointers. Either way cheers, and I hope to hear from you soon! KnowledgeOfSelf00:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, I doubt Ben's ever coming back, and Redvers is currently being assessed for a nom (see his talk page), so if we could request trainees, that'd be good. NSLE(T+C) at 00:36 UTC (2006-03-11)
Indeed, thanks for getting back to me so quickly :P Originally Terence asked me to coach him, but since he's doing quite well at RFA I don't really mind being assigned one now. NSLE(T+C) at 01:24 UTC (2006-03-16)
Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.
I relisted this page for deletion. It might have been too soon, but a vote to delete would be appreciated. Thanks. --Mmeinhart13:56, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Ban me
Since you are an administrator, I'd like to request that you please ban this account (User:Michelle T) because I changed my username and I don't want anyone taking this one and impersonating me. Also, please protect my user and user talk pages so the redirects to my new name don't get changed by someone. Let me know on my proper talk page, which this page redirects to (that's my new name). Thank you. Michelle T19:40, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, the above is true. I did change my name. I am posting this message to confirm that no one is impersonating me. Remember, Ban the Michelle T account, not this one. BTW, your talk page has a pretty colour scheme. Thanks again. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline19:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
My RfA
I'm extremely honoured. I just wanted to note that I have two Featured Lists and one Featured Article (instead of 3 FAs) and that I'm not so much of a regular in AfD anymore. You may also mention that I help maintain Portal:Mexico with User:Fito:-D
I also have a "no objection arguing" policy in RfAs (and have even opposed nominations on that basis) so if it comes to that I kindly ask you to deal with that. I would help you with that, of course, but that would be via normal talk page discussion. Needless to say, I would reply to questions asked to me directly. Please let me know if this is alright with you. -- RuneWelsh | ταλκ13:05, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I know that you have been trying to get Encephalon to run for administrator probably almost as long as I have. I got lucky and caught him at a good time, but I don't wish to hog all the fun. If you wish to co-nominate, you may do so at User:Knowledge Seeker/Encephalon nomination. I have been drafting my nomination statement and it is nearly finished. I think we're planning to go live this weekend. — Knowledge Seekerদ07:17, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your support and kind words on my recent RfA, which I am pleased to say passed with a final tally of 80/1/1. If you ever need any help, or if I mess something up as an admin, please let me know.
I think you missed the point. Such a high score is a sign you need help. A lower score is what should be desired. You should not be proud of a 602. You need to check yourself in to a mental hospital somewhere. Really. I don't want to have to read here, someday, that you've gone and killed yourself. That's where you're headed, man, if you don't quit.
Admin Coaching
Hi Titoxd, since my RFA is not doing that well, I would like to be assigned to be an admin coach even if I succeed this RFA. Could I still have my original request? --Terence Ong14:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hola Titoxd, quisiera que dieras una alerta contra User:Seanver, ya que está haciendo de las suyas vandalizando varias páginas de usuario de usuarios de la Wikipedia en Español, con el asunto de McFinnigan; yo estaba al margen de ese asunto pero este susodicho está involucrando a todo mundo. Espero que veas sus contribuciones, parece que está determinado a molestar.--Taichi14:33, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Te tengo un segundo favor, observa Culturoso, ocurre que en la versión española pesa una votación de borrado por una mezcla de autopromoción y reinvención de términos; como mexicano quizás sepas más de esta palabra, que dudo que esté demasiado inflado en el artículo, te recomiendo el artículo en español, que por haber descubierto la verdad casi me dan una paliza unos anónimos que vandalizaron seriamente por un día toda la wikipedia en español. --Taichi10:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if I met most of the objections (or holds), since it is pretty much agreed that the copyright situation is a myth. While I felt the need for that to be there, we should use the article to help "myth-bust." User:Zscout370(Return Fire)00:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Tito, are you online? Do you think you could delete this page, so that Seeker's subpage can be moved properly to it? I've already moved the old page here. I'll go edit Seeker's subpage now, while trying not to die of embarrassment. ;-) Thanks —Encephalon06:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Wow. That was nightmarish. My wireless got disconnected four times, and I was sitting there twiddling thumbs, knowing the time/date line hadn't been adjusted per the history. Thanks for correcting it, Tito—one of the few times I've been relieved to be edit conflicted, because I knew you must have seen it. Ok, I've got a bunch of messages to reply to, and with this connection I'll be lucky to be done this decade. —Encephalon07:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
blocking
Fair enough, I didn't check the contributions, and I seem to be getting increasingly, and perhaps excessively, intolerant. thanks jimfbleak07:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
pacific best-track
The pacific best-track can be downloaded from the NHC in the obnoxious "hurdat" format [5]. THe Atlantic best-track is available at [6] in many different useful forms, and I suspect the Pacific data has a similar "homepage" somewhere else with the easy-to-read and tab-separated forms. However I don't know where. — jdorje (talk) 08:25, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Tawkerbot2
I've talked to Tim Starling and he made a change to the IRC feed which I think will stop the false blamings, I've asked Shanel to unblock whilst its in non commit (eg non editing / non warning / debug) mode. Just so you know, you can use "ctawkbot norevert" on the irc channels and it will stop the bot from editing only pages. I'll be on IRC tonight if you have any questions :) -- Tawker01:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for volunteering! You are now a mentor. You should probably introduce yourself to T-man, and acquaint yourself with the current situation. Thanks. Dmcdevit·t07:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
User:A Citizen
I'd just thought I'd bring this to your attention. A user named A Citizen is posting links to the Wikipedia Revolution and TJWhite. Something should be done about him. Hurricanehink22:42, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Please do not remove this notice. TJWhite and the Wikipedia Revolution hereby request a qualified Wikipedia negotiator to discuss the reinstatement of our members and their reconciliation into the Wikipedia community. If we have not met with anyone within 24 hours of the posting of our first message, we will be forced to take action by adding our content to a variety of articles. We can be contacted via tedjwhite@gmail.com. Please do not remove this notice Thank You!
Vive La Revolution!
A reply - Cyclone Larry
Hi Titoxd. Thanks for your message. I entirely agree that TydeNet's comments were inappropriate, that they were in breach of WP:NPA, and that personal attacks shouldn’t go unchecked. I don't think that anybody disagrees on this point. TydeNet has himself apologised (see the bottom of this page). I’ve gone back and read the archive and realised that you weren’t as involved in the discussion as I had assumed so I apologise for making that assumption and for reading your comments as a threat. .
I felt that your warning could have been worded a little more directly to make it clear that it was a warning. I acknowledge that you intended your comment to be a warning, but it could have been read as a contribution to the debate (and from TydeNet's subsequent comments, it is clear that he did read it that way). I think it would have been better to clearly state that "your comments above constitute personal attacks. This is a warning that if you continue personal attacks you will be blocked". A similar warning should also have been placed on TydeNet's talk page. Mentioning the need to cite sources seems to have been read by TydeNet as a further contribution to the debate. I realise that it is a fine line, but to avoid confusion I think its just best to keep things clear.
Whether or not your warning constituted a proper warning or was read as such, NSLE still shouldn't have been the admin to place the block and 31 hours was (in my view) excessive. He should have asked somebody else to look at it, and that was essentially my issue which I raised with him on his talk page. He chose to reply by focusing on the issue of your warning and ignoring the other issues I had raised.
I think people are generally a bit tired of this debate and I think we’re probably at the point where we can move on. When NSLE returns from Wikibreak I’ll try to resolve my differences with him without causing him any more wikistress. I hope that everyone can take some lessons from the whole thing and move on. -- Adz|talk03:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Deletion?
20:41, March 24, 2006 Titoxd deleted "Image:McCoy-Martinez.jpg" (OTRS request), the contextual image of officers McCoy and Martinez in the article Charles Whitman. I did a quick check of OTRS and have no idea what you mean, or why you deleted the image, had I tagged it incorrectly, or what was the reasoning? Sherurcij(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)04:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
:-D
Well, I saw that we had no goal - that couldn't stand, could it? And, well, we are. —Cuiviénen, Sunday, 26 March2006 @ 00:14 (UTC)
Me gustaria te mostraras mas tolerante que la wikipedia en español y retiraras la propuesta de
borrado de culturoso. La palabra no hace daño a nadie y nadie habia presentado quejas de la
palabra hasta que se translado la vendetta de alla para aca.
Por favor mantengamos wikipedia en Ingles mas tolerante y diversa que su triste contraparte en
español, gracias.
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Note from the editor
Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!
I would like to invite you to check out the userboxes that I have created in Wikipedia! If your Collge/University is not there feel free to make create one or let me known and I'll make it (User: Lufthmark)
I guess you finally did. ;-) I'm still getting used to the extra buttons; they look dangerously close to one another. I suppose that's the idea ;-). Thank you for all the kind things you've said and done, and all you've taught me. I don't say much, I guess, but it's something I should say more to you. Thanks Tito. —Encephalon07:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind lending your opinion to a content dispute that I am currently involved in on University of South Carolina. USC has a strong athletic rivalry with Clemson University. I feel that the athletics section of the article should discuss this rivalry, and I feel that this discussion should include a reference to the overall record between the two schools in various major sports. Other editors have disagreed, and feel that the record should not be mentioned. As it happens, Clemson leads in two of the discussed sports and USC leads in the third. I would appreciate it if you would consider lending your opinion on this issue on Talk:University of South Carolina. Thanks! ËvilphoenixBurn!00:47, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Re: Sources
Nah, I don't have a subscription to the Atlantic City press, and I'm not sure what we should do about it (I forgot you can't cite blogs). Hurricanehink02:03, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I think the source adds a lot. It gives information on the shelters and demonstrating the vulnerability of Cape May County. Of course, this is extremely biased on my part, seeing as I live there, but yea, bring it up on the talk page. I'm sure someone will have a solution. Hurricanehink02:10, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but I do have a question on Wikipedia 1.0. Is there any specific requirements to join the project or no? —Mirlen22:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
"TitoXD is a WzOMGWTFBBQ!!111!1 currently attending his freshman year of college." You got my userboxes but you missed that ;)--Shanel05:23, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Admin Coaching
The Esperanza Admin Coaching seems to have no progress except more people signing up in the past few weeks. I wonder what's going on? --Deryck C.06:11, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I certainly agree that the coaches shouldn't be overloaded, but I think maybe a few of the people at the top of the list might be finished with their coaching. I'll try to do some leg-work and fill in for you a bit in that department. Enjoy your Wikibreak! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!)03:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Absolutely I'll contact the coaches before making any actions whatsoever; communication is the crucial thing. (BTW, when you get back you'll have 13 new admin coachees. ;o) ) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!)04:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
My (HereToHelp’s) RfA
Thank you for supporting my RfA. I’m proud to inform you that it passed with 75 support to 1 oppose to 2 neutral. I promise to make some great edits in the future (with edit summaries!) and use these powers to do all that I can to help. After all, that’s what I’m here for! (You didn’t think I could send a thank you note without a bad joke, could I?) --HereToHelp13:20, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you
Hello Titoxd, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. I am very humbled by your comments and your vote of support. Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor18:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
