User talk:Zocky/2007

Picture Popups

Zakaj mi tvoj programček ne deluje pravilno na sl:? So kakšne tehnične omejitve? Aha pa še to. Tvoj iskalnim je super za prenašanje predlog en: → sl: in slovljenje. Imam pa vprašanje kako bi tu uporabil regularen izraz * - za spremenljivke (primer: [[{{{1}}} *|→ [[* {{{1}}}|) Sem poskusil pa ne deluje. Očitno je malce bolj kompliciran od Search and replace v OpenOffice-u. lp, --Mihael Simonic 18:44, 2 January 2007 (UTC) (sl:Miha)[reply]

:-)

¿ Why 1 9 9 1 ^ESP. | Sign Here has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Happy editing!!!--¿ Why 1 9 9 1 ^ESP. | Sign Here 02:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Alan Ford (comics) - T-shirt.jpeg

Thanks for uploading Image:Alan Ford (comics) - T-shirt.jpeg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on [this link]. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU≈talk 01:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

National Letters

Also, it doesn't support national letters. --Ysangkok 20:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes

I admire your work.

Do you know if there is a way to add a table in a wiki page, such that the data can be sorted, rather then having multiple copies of the same data in different orders? As in List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry MartinGugino 10:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My my my. There is a whole set of lists: WP:FL that need new technology

• MartinGugino 19:18, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Hi. I just wanted to notice you that you commited VANDALISM on the page Slavic peoples by puting ethnic Czechs with ethnic Lechs. Czech are not Lechs and I should know that the best because I am a Lech myself. Pan Piotr Glownia 23:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Piotr, this is a content dispute, which is a different kettle of fish from vandalism. Crying out "vandalism" is no the way to solve this, it's better that you add your arguments to the talk page and try to reach an agreement.

But in this case, it seems you are not right: the Czechs are commonly considered West Slavs and have more to do (linguistically and culturally) with the Poles than with Bulgarians and the rest of the south Slavs. :-) Ayatollah's hashish 23:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity does not equal language!

I did lead your advice and I did add my objections on the talk pages of Slavic peoples, West Slavs, South Slavs and Czechs. Futhermore I am certain that ethnicity is not equal to language, which I bet is used in your sources for that partition of Slavic peoples of yours. Czechs were never "Ethnic Western Slavic peoples" (called historically and traditionally "Lechs") and they never were considered as such at least by Slavic peoples in Europe last 1000 years of written history. Can you prove me wrong? I have here sources already from XIII century to this day considering Czechs as Ethnic South Slavic peoples. This is historical as well as traditional ethnic partition amongst Slavic peoples.

Ethnic West Slavic peoples are not equal with West Slavs as it seems and Ethnic Southern Slavic peoples are not equal with South Slavs. Slavic languages 1000 years ago were still quite similiar to eachother and not like it is today. However even from earlier times Slavic peoples had these ethnic partitions amongst Slavic peoples. "Lechs" stand for Ethnic Western Slavic peoples, "Czechs" stand for Ethnic Southern Slavic peoples and "Rusins" stand for Ethnic Eastern Slavic peoples. This is major partition amongst Slavic peoples and it is not based on language, but on ethnicity. Even if Czechs were direct speakers of modern Polish language, then they still would be belonging to the Ethnic Southern Slavic peoples by their ethnicity. Czechs during entire written history never were ethnic Lechs like Poles. Every historical source is certain on this issue. It is possible that this ethnic partition is even older then any possible differentiation of Proto-Slavic language. I direct you to "Lech, Czech and Rus", which is part of Slavic spoken history as well as historical and traditional ethnic partition on Lechs, Czechs and Rusins used amongst Slavic people by the Slavic peoples. Every dictionary and lecture commenting this ethnic partition will ensure that Czechs were always adressed as "Czechs" and not like Poles "Lechs". Czechs and Poles do belong to different ethnic groups otherwise one had to put Czechs and Poles together with Belarusians and Ukrainians into the same Western Slavic ethnicity, as the Lechs, the Czechs and the Rusins originate from the same ethnic origin, which probably used the same proto-Slavic language. All historical sources begining from XIII century ("Chronicle of Greater Poland" written in year 1295) prove it to be the general ethnic partition used by Slavic peoples in Europe.

Sorry, but ethnicity does not equal language. Never did. Never will. You must also make people to be of the same ethnicity and that means the same tradition and you will always fail to do so with Poles and Czechs! Poles and Czechs are well known Western-Southern divide in ethnicity amongst Slavic peoples. Making Czechs as Ethnic Western Slavic poeples makes them "Lechs", which is contradictory with Czechs and Poles historical partitions on Lechs and Czechs documented in written sources already from XIII century.

Pan Piotr Glownia 15:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, this is at most a local tradition amongs western Slavs, and not a realistic division of ethnicities in any measurable or provable way. Ethnicity is a result of common identity, not genetics or lingustics. Neither Czechs nor Southern Slavs think Czechs are Southern Slavs, therefore they aren't. Zocky | picture popups 16:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture popups

Pretty nifty hack. I do find the overlapping licensing information (especially the logos) rather annoying -- would it be possible to move that outside the image area, e.g. into a button in the window frame? --Eloquence * 20:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible now with some ugly css hacking. In fact, that was the original idea, but the logos were too small. It's a good idea for an optional feature, and I'll try to add it when I rewrite the thing to work with ajax (yet again). You see, the tool is currently in a weird place, development-wise. This version works very nicely, but it's quite a dirty hack. There's a sort-of working cleaner version using ajax at User:Zocky/PicturePopupsDev.js, but it needs to be rewritten again to get rid of the Prototype library, which seems to have weird disagreements with our setup. New features should probably go to that branch.

Give it some time, and if logos still annoy you, we'll at least make the css user configurable. In the meantime, check out the extended version at User:Zocky/PictureMapPopups.js (click on almost any coordinate link in a geographic article to see what it does), and the much undderrated User:Zocky/Link Complete. Zocky | picture popups 02:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Brandt

I don't know if it's going to work. I don't know if, even in not working, it will break the logjam. I don't even know if I agree with your proposal as given (I have many hardcore inclusionist tendencies). But it is a valiant, noble, well thought out try, that can only make things better, (since at worst it will just be reverted, as you encourage). In short, I am proud to have you on this project. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 16:15, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support. I guess my primary hope is that we start talking about what to do with that article without !voting. Zocky | picture popups 16:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Search box

Hello. I'm really sorry if this is a frequently asked question but I've tried installing your search box tool and can't seem to get it working. I've added the script to my monobook, flushed the cache (CTRL+F5) gone to an article, hit edit and then. 1. tried clicking on "Find on this page....." 2.CTRL+F 3.ALT then E then F. None of which seems to bring up your application. I'm running IE7 on windows XP professional - am I being a dunce? --Mcginnly | Natter 16:57, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recall

I did not want to go this route, as I hoped you would reverse your own mistakes. Unfortunately, someone else did so, even after you were given ample opportunity to do so yourself, including requests from many uninvolved and unrelated editors. As it stands, your actions at Daniel Brandt:

• Did not meet our protection policy, as there was no edit war, no vandalism, and no BLP issues at the time of your protection.
• Your protection was used to gain positioning in an article you were editing. You made a massive, bold edit, and then protected the page, thus keeping anyone who did not share the same powers you've been trusted with to fix the problem.
• I believe your bold edit, on its own, to be okay, but reckless. In particular, "An incautious edit to such an article can be likened to stirring up a hornet's nest, and other users who are involved in the page may react angrily." This certainly occurred, and your page protection exacerbated that situation.

Especially given the problems we've recently had with Brian Peppers, and the ArbCom case going on regarding IAR-style situations surrounding the Brandt article, this was a very, very poor decision. I'm not sure if invoking your Administrators Open to Recall category is the right move, but I feel it's proper of me to inform you that I am considering it based on your abusive use of the tools. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reiterating measured support for Zocky's intentions, as I wrote a couple of sections above. True, protection was even more ... bold ... than standard, but note that he specifically welcomes another admin reverting it, which is what eventually happened. On a normal article with marginal admin interest, that would be abusive, but this one had and has plenty of admin interest, on all sides of the question. If he had just stubbed and protected in an effort to stir up the hornet's nest, I'd be just one of a long line of admins reverting ASAP. Instead he made a well-thought out explanation on the talk page, that, on the whole, got more measured support than opposition. Note how strongly I was against Yanksox's actions on that DRV, I must have a dozen comments on that page. Unlike Yanksox, I believe Zocky's attempt was in the best traditions of WP:BOLD and WP:BRD. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 18:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To me, that shows a massive fault with the administrators who chose to do nothing. But we'll see what happens. --badlydrawnjeff talk 18:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I'd support Jeff if he does decide to ask for recall, although I do not have strong enough convictions on this topic to actually ask for it myself. --Gwern (contribs) 18:59 2 March 2007 (GMT)

Jeff, I hate to stoop to this level of discussion, but please stop acting like a brat. You today managed to sabotage a possible precedent for an orderly and non-inflamatory application of IAR, just because you couldn't get over yourself wait for a couple of days. In fact, if you checked my logs and contributions, or simply remembered that we were on the same side of the process/result debate in many discussions, you should have seen this yourself. But instead, you engaged in a knee-jerk attack on my actions, my solutions, and my motives, simply because you suddenly decided I was from the other side.

I tried to find a novel way forward without making any attempt to stifle the discussion or force a lasting solution. If that's what you want admins who consistently follow policy to be recalled for, that's your prerogative. Zocky | picture popups 04:57, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. --badlydrawnjeff talk 05:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And the fact that you think patience is at the core of this and instead decide to act this way about it speaks volumes. I actually wasn't planning on taking it further after taking some time today - given your reaction to legitimate criticism, now I'm not so sure. By the way, I didn't sabotage anything - I didn't officially ask for unprotection, I didn't start the AfD. Your "orderly" and "uninflammatory" (which I wholeheartedly disagree with) abandonment was the only issue here. If you need to point fingers at how this ended up, point 'em elsewhere. --badlydrawnjeff talk 05:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is patience and there is procrastination. I thought that it was prudent to act well before the AFD and all the crap that would have followed. IMO, the most likely outcome was a 50/50 AFD, followed by a somewhat early close to delete and no admin daring to overturn it. That would have raised the temperature much more than what I did. Talking about it in a calm environment while the article was in state which satisfied people who want it gone, without removing any information, might have. And come on, you weren't offering criticism. You were spoling for a fight. That's not the same thing. Zocky | picture popups 05:26, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or you can simply assume bad faith about my motives. That works, too. I didn't come back for this bullshit, that's for damn sure. --badlydrawnjeff talk 05:27, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If I misused any of the words, I apologize. I'm not a native speaker. My intention is to describe your words, not your motives. "I agree/disagree with this action/these arguments for this and this encyclopedia-related-reason" is legitimate criticsm. "I think this was a bad decision" is legitimate criticism. You did offer some of that, and I repeatedly invited you to offer more.

But you also provided "You're merely leaning on IAR to get your way", "this situation is due to administrative abuse", and numerous threats to "take it further". That's not legitimate criticism, that's raising the temperature. Zocky | picture popups 05:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A concern

Zocky, I appreciate your efforts in trying to find a solution to the Brandt article situation, but please don't create a separate article about his attack site. He has tried to cause a lot of harm to some Wikipedians by "outing" them. We shouldn't be drawing attention to a website that does that. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 19:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But Wikipedia isn't censored! ^_^ Milto LOL pia 20:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We don't link to self-published websites that contain personal attacks on named living persons, for moral and legal reasons. We don't do it with any website, not just Brandt's. So if we're wary of even linking, it seems absurd actually to create an article on one. Another reason is that we're trying to reduce the amount of Brandt material, not increase it. We've already got his bio, Google Watch, and Public Information Research, which is already too many for a borderline notable figure. I think we should publish all the material, including his bio, in Public Information Research, which is his company name, but it won't fly; people are again voting to keep the bio. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IAR

Zocky, I've just read your comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Brandt (13th nomination)#Can we please stop this madness? ( "... With it we also squandered a chance to establish the precedent for proper application of IAR") and I wanted to say that I expect that your use of IAR in this matter will be looked on fondly in the future. Being only a normal editor I have wondered about the utility of IAR (I often wonder what drugs the admins are on), but when I saw your use of it I was both mortified and full of awe. For my own part, I believe that the article should either be a well rounded bio just like the rest of them, or all BLP should be removed. In short, I didnt like the end product of your IAR. OTOH I strongly believe in Wikipedia being a work in progress: at any instant any article could be complete cod's wallop so a complete overhaul should always be possible if we assume good faith for the part played by the bold (of course, versioning will help this), and nobody will fault you for not being bold enough. Despite my distaste for your solution, it was beautiful to see a well reasoned application and execution of IAR. In the end, the solution you proposed was not accepted by the community because of other factors, but you should be commended for the quality of the attempt, and I hope to see future attempts to IAR have as much thought put into them as you obviously put into this one. John Vandenberg 07:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFC closure

I wasn't calling for a closure to the RFC, but rather saying that there's little benefit in calling for blood (or more blood). After you've heard 3 or 4 people say the same, you stop listening. I hope for the sake of his sanity that Essjay never reads more than a fraction of the comments. Guettarda 16:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

????

On your comment on Essjay's talk page, were you referring to me or to Jayzel when telling us to read before snapping at someone? Sorry if I misinterpreted your comment. --K.Z ^Talk ^• ^Vandal ^• ^Contrib 01:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

bug

User:Zocky/Link Complete It is persistant aout saying that there are no availible pages when ever I type in it. I put wiki in it and it basically said that there were no pages there to link to. Please help -- Darkest Hour 22:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I changed it yesterday so that it always works on tab (ctrl+space should still work on Windows, but apparently it didn't work on mac). Which browser/OS are you using? Zocky | picture popups 07:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um I messed up the lik complete works wonders but the User:Zocky/Auto Complete is whats buggy. Firefox is my browser -- Darkest Hour 16:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Flower

Yesterday was day for women here, was it why you posted a flower ? Very nice :-) thanks Anthere

Hvala za rožico, zelo prijazno od tebe :) --Missmarple 07:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AutoComplete

Hi there, thought I would post this query on your user page and not under the AutoComplete page, but I was wondering if there was a way to write some code to include non-caps sensitive words. Example: If I type for "List of firefox extensions" it comes up with no pages, but if I type "List of Firefox Extensions" it comes up with the page (obviously shorter searches are the same. Was just raising the question if there was a way to add in a non-case sensitive option as this is often the reason some people don't link to the correct article. Thanks for listening! Timclare ^(talk) _{(sign here)} 23:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrestling

Zocky, I have been trying to drum up some dialogue regarding wrestling but there have been no takers. Today, I decided to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I could be way over my head, so any advice would be appreciated. Penciljunk 19:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are probably right, wrestling will need some mention \ section about professional wrestling. You should make a mention of this in the talk page; if you don't I will eventually put it in the talk section if I don't get to it in the regular section.Penciljunk 16:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added professional wrestling to the wrestling page. Penciljunk 17:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Your Free Time

When you have a few minutes, can you please implement User:Demi/SuperTextPopupHistoryAnnotate? Thanks! Demi ^T/_C 21:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PicturePopups Bug with Licence Text

Hey Zocky, I'm using your great PicturePopups script, but there seems to be a bug which I haven't experienced previously. With some pictures (like the first screenshot of Vista on Microsoft Windows), the licence text appears even when the mouse is not over the license icon. I made a screenshot: http://xs514.xs.to/xs514/07145/Unbenannt.PNG . What's the matter? Cheers, Regenspaziergang 17:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, just to let you know I've had the same problem with the image at the top of notepad - oddly enough it is also a vista window. Thought I should point it out, great bit of script though. ...adam... ^(talk • contributions) 01:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Link Complete

Hi, I was fascinated by your "Link Complete" script, and since I am experimenting with a suite of tools to facilitate editing, I decided to refactor the code and integrate it there. I hope you wouldn't mind. This is by no means a fork. --Cameltrader 13:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

template:Location map

I was looking at {{location map}} and noticed how cool it was . Anyways I was wondering if you'd be willing to dual-license all your edits to this template under the CC-BY 2.5 license so I could use it on the english wikinews? Happy editing. Bawolff 00:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sure. I'm hereby dual-licensing my edits on {{location map}} and associated templates and maps. It's possible that there are other people who need to be asked, though. Zocky | picture popups 00:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jaromir Jagr and Marian Gaborik

Hello Zocky, if you want to move these pages back to the 'diacritical' titles, that's up to you (I won't dispute it anymore). As long as diacritics are kept off the 30 NHL team pages, I'm content. GoodDay 18:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, according to WPH and WPP, the Jagr & Gaborik pages should be 'moved' to diacritics (regardless of 2006 'consensus votes'). GoodDay 17:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

your comment

Hi there: I disagree that I do not write on talk pages. I do write a lot. Right now I am persecuted by an internet activist with outrageous POV. My editing cannot go forward when I am reverted instantly. The worst part is that all editors working on those article disagree with the POV of User:Dahn, who nevertheless manages to call enough friends to impose his own version. Right now User:Francis Tyers reverts for him; I strongly suspect that he does not have any clue about those articles, since he did not contribute there in the past. Before it was User:Khoikhoi who played this role. Just a token example: Lenin's name is mentioned in the lead paragraph of his article, right? Well, User:Dahn dislikes very much wrting the true name of certain communists, like Luka Laszlo; he writes "Vasile Luca, born Luka Laszlo" which is a clear abuse. This form is acceptable when you have a name changing through marriage; in fact, it is dishonetly suggested that something of the sort happened, when in fact we have secret agents taking conspirative names. I can give you more details if you want. Icar 13:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not follow you on Adler. Has he changed names? Pope John Paul II is not comparable to Soviet agents changing names, is it? I think you are pushing the comparison too far. Monroe, an actress, did change names legally, this is common and well documented in her article. On the other hand, Stalin is mentioned by his true name in his wp article. So are Lenin and Che Guevarra. I remind you that we are talking here about communist activists, not actors.Icar 14:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am afraid you do not understand WP:COMMONNAMES. It refers to the naming of the article, which I do not contest. What I object is not mentioning the real (legal) name of the person as in MoS:BIO. You did not answer to my question: did you read and understand the lead paragraphs of Lenin and Stalin? The version I support (among other active editors) is similar. Icar 05:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2 days ago you criticised my editing on wrong assumptions. Please acknowledge your misunderstanding and express your view, if any, on MoS:BIO regarding the lead paragraphs of Lenin and Stalin, since I am trying to do just the same in other articles. Icar 12:28, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Popups appears to work with Safari

Hello, Zocky. First: I admire your hard work on the 'pedia; making life easier for the masses is a noble task. Second: on the /Picture Popups page, you claim that Picture Popups works only with Mozilla, FireFox and Opera. I have recently downloaded the new Safari from the Apple website. Popups seems to work perfectly well with this browser (except the Copyright thingie: the image that appears along with the box after mousing over is rather stretched), on Windows XP Pro SP2. Take a look; it may be a happy accident (or the result of much hard work... :)). Thanks for the popups! Goldfritter 19:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Userbox advertisements

Your quick succesive post is highly suggestive of behind-the-scenes collaboration with User:Miranda. After receiving a notice from him/her, I summarily modified those userboxes, and was to engage in conversation about the matter. A link to a Wikipedia article should not be a transgression of advertising. I kindly request your equally quick response to this post. DRosenbach ^(Talk | Contribs) 12:08, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So what about the innumerable userboxes that exist in Wikipedia:userbox that make reference to brand names, such as User:Scepia/Scrabble, User:Scepia/Parcheesi, User:Scepia/Xbox 360, User:Llama man/Userboxes/Wii Best, User:Eacz12/Userboxes/Nintendo DS, User:Nyletak/Userboxes/User Sega, User:Scepia/DC Comics, User:Barfbagger/Userboxes/tabasco, Template:User M & M's, User:UBX/Reeses Pieces, User:J.P.Lon/Userboxes/Ovaltine, User:UBX/A&W, User:Feureau/UserBox/DrinksCocaCola, and many, many, many, many, many more. From the prevelance of these and others, I inferred that it was permitted, as it does not explicitely state this rule either here or here. I contest that it still is permitted, and that you should have recommended I modify the wording to tone down the advertisement rather than delete it off my page. DRosenbach ^(Talk | Contribs) 13:01, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You miss my point. If it's not allowed, then how can these be left alone? What is an ad? Any mention of a product? I like coke? I like pickles from this store? The fact that these are accepted in Wikipedia is indicative not that I should be able to do it to, but that it is not a problem. These are not ads, and if they are, then forget about the IRC if you'd like to help out...I recommend you go delete these and everyother userbox that includes a brand name. Because you don't it seems to me and everyone else that such a userbox is fine, and that you are merely picking on me to exert some power. DRosenbach ^(Talk | Contribs) 13:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so what would you say about "I really like eating at such-and-such restaurant?" DRosenbach ^(Talk | Contribs) 14:43, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:CanadianNigra

It's already listed at Wikipedia:Protected titles/June 2007/List. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:51, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't we have protection log for that? Zocky | picture popups 22:21, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Autocomplete.js work in Opera and IE

Autocomplete.js work in Opera and IE when you replace true to false in this code:

   ac$s.addEventListener('keydown',ac$inputKeyDown,false);
   ac$b.addEventListener('keypress',ac$boxKeyPress,false);
   ac$b.addEventListener('click',ac$boxClick,false);
   document.addEventListener('focus',ac$blur,false);

and add to bottom function ac$boxKeyPress this code:

e.preventDefault();

Information from Forum Opera: http://my.opera.com/polski/forums/topic.dml?id=191705 Adziura 17:13, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Climate table

Hi Zocky, your climate tables are a great improvement in terms of readability. The current version though occupies to much vertical space/ height. Because of climate section length it is not possible to integrate the new table without overlapping. I suggest a massive reduction of empty white space within the table. Between MONTH and TEMPERATURES, as well as TEMPERATURES and PRECIPITATION. all the best Lear 21 10:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment

I call them how I see them. Saying that KrakatoaKatie's comments as patronizing and clichés are close to personal attacks. And calling my comments ridiculous, though not an attack, aren't very nice either. My point was that KK had every right to say what she want, and you didn't have to attack her. In fact, a lot of people agree with her comments. And they were a bit amusing. OrangeMarlin ^Talk• Contributions 02:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Projectboxes

I've nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject Projectboxes, a page you created, for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Projectboxes and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Projectboxes during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. SLSB talk ER 00:30, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't come and comment only if you want to save this project; it would also be helpful to let us know if you are happy to see it deleted. Cheers. --kingboyk 12:02, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka 2

Thank you for taking the time to participate at the discussion in my Request for Adminship. Unfortunately the nomination did not succeed, but please rest assured that I am still in full support of the Wikipedia project. I listened carefully to all concerns, and will do my best to incorporate all of the constructive advice that I received, into my future actions on Wikipedia. If you can think of any other ways that I can further improve, please let me know. Best wishes, Elonka 03:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:ImageNotes.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:ImageNotes.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 22:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Allegations of apartheid

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Allegations of apartheid. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Allegations of apartheid/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Allegations of apartheid/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee,Newyorkbrad 18:09, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SearchBox on Wikisource

Hi Zocky. Often when I'm on the English Wikisource, I hit Ctrl-Alt-F, but of course it does nothing, because my monobook.js is blank there. I just tried installing your SearchBox there, as I have here, but it doesn't work, presumably because of the cross-site call to en.wikipedia.org. It would be very groovy if you felt inspired to get it working there, as search-and-replace functionality is even more important over there where documents can be very big, than it is here. Cheers, Hesperian 06:00, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Random Smiley Award

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Luksuh 04:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• plx whats up with these gay smilies

Your machine

Hello, there is a bug report? perhaps on your machine. Your giving a look to m:Babylon#Bug? will be appreciated. Thanks! --Aphaia 15:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Javascript/Template question

I thought you might have an answer to this. Is there a template that I can use that when placed on a page converts into the articles name? for instance if I put {{Page}}(an example) it would automatically convert into the name of the article which it's placed on? Does such a thing exist? If not, What javascript would be required to make such a script possible to create such a template? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Answered at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Requests#2_requests_for_specific_code --Splarka (rant) 07:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on TIME issues and covers

Hi there. As someone who contributed an external view to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ta bu shi da yu 2, I thought you might be interested in the discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#First copyright renewal of TIME issues are for 1934. I've also invited the other editors who contributed external views to that RfC. Would you be interested in contributing your views at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#Inviting more opinion on this? Thanks. Carcharoth 02:55, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Désirée potato

This was last year bit I've just noticed that you restored the line This was named after Desiree Suo of Staten Island. which had been added by an anon user. Did you mean to do this? I had removed it as it appeared to be vandalism. --JBellis 11:15, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Soviet Involvement in Vietnam

"MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union sent 3,000 troops to Vietnam during the U.S. involvement there, according to the first account in the Soviet press about the secret military action..."

"Yevgeni Antonov, retired Major-General, was one of the Soviet citizens, who was involved in the USSR's assistance to Vietnam during the war. In 1969-1970, Antonov chaired the group of Soviet military specialists in the field of the anti-aircraft defense. According to his words, the USSR was sending whole air defense regiments to Vietnam in the beginning of the conflict..."

"Another witness of those events, Anatoly Khupenen, retired Colonel-General, the former commander of anti-aircraft troops of the USSR, is certain, though, that the scale of the Soviet Union's participation in the Vietnamese war is exaggerated. The number of Soviet military specialists involved in the conflict in Vietnam was not more than 6,000..."

http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=180
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/sovietunion/vietnam_working.htm
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/15388_vietnam.html

While the numbers might be debatable, the fact that the Soviet Union was a combatant is not. -VietGrant 09:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

template:Legend

Almost all of the uses I've done myself (All the Featured Lists that used the template broke) broke. You don't make an edit that you knowingly know might break existing without checking that the change is impossible to do and asking on the talk page.

What you did basically broke all uses that defined more than one characteristic for the border. What makes you think some uses where not legitimately using a width of 2 pixels? Circeus 15:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't apply borders to all uses of the template in a given list "to keep all the boxes the same size". I did it because it looks better when all boxes have borders than when only some do (Duh!). As to the box size problem, this is a "defect" in CSS ("width" does not include the border), and there's nothing to do AFAI remember bar finding a way to change the size of the box (which would be ridiculously complicated). I fail to see a reason why you'd want to have several uses of the template next to each others with only some using borders. Circeus 17:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

picture popups

I made a small attempt to follow the installation instructions, but the feature is not working. I do realize that I have code in both the monobook.js and the standard.js. Would you be so kind as to tell me to read the directions again, or else let me know what I have done wrong. TIA Martin | talk • contribs 02:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC) --- Excuse me. Never mind. (exit wikipedia, and re-enter) Martin | talk • contribs 02:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Block

Since I've been very democratically barred from posting to ANI, I'll speak to you here, if I may. I consider the removal of AfD tags vandalism. I consider revert-warring in favour of WP:MULTI violations vandalism. I consider replacement of a large template on a talkpage where a link will do vandalism. I consider that newbies who have been told clearly that what they are doing is vandalism should stop it. Just so you know... Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 15:26, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I consider being obstinately annoying a grave social offense. More to the point, telling newbies who are trying to write a valid article to stop, and disparaging their efforts on AfD is not useful to the project, so stop doing it. Zocky | picture popups 15:28, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't tell a newbie writing an article to stop, I can assure you of that.--Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 15:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you be a bit more specific here? If there's evidence that suggests to you that Sambure is a Bonaparte sock, perhaps you could start a new AN/I thread or file a Checkuser. I don't know anything about the (details of) the Bonaparte case, so I can't make the call myself. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:29, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

copied from User:Zocky/Picture Popups

You've seen my worst investigation, bar none. I was trying something experimental and out of context it looks ludicrous. Nobody bats .1000. Came off a string of successes, got overconfident, etc. Want a gander at some of my better work? Durova^Charge! 22:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Classification of admins

Hi Zocky. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 23:16, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your ArbCom vote on User:Deskana

This is purely for discussion. Note that I am not a candidate, and have not voted (yet) re. the candidate in question, as I am still to spend time reviewing those candidates I don't immediately know to vote for/against. You voted oppose on Deskana citing "Slightly too new for my taste. Maybe next year.". Deskana is an admin, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight'er. If you consider that as "too new", I'm wondering what criteria you were thinking of. Feel free to ignore my question. Regards. KTC 04:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the term for ArbCom is 3 years, and I like my candidates to have been around for at least as long. Deskana has been around for 2.5 years, that's why I say "slightly too new". I did support two candidates who have been around for less time than 3 years, but I consider that there are exceptional reasons to do so in both cases. Zocky | picture popups 04:36, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I see. Thanks for sharing your thought. KTC 11:23, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Predsedniki SR Slovenije

Na slovenski wikipediji je prišlo do neujemanja podatkov pri mandatih predsednikov SR Slovenije. Nekateri datumi so vzeti iz članka President of Slovenia. Prosil bi te, glede na to, da si se nekaj ukvarjal s to temo, da pogledaš pogovorni stráni člankov Seznam predsednikov Slovenije in Seznam predsednikov Predsedstva Socialistične republike Slovenije in preveriš ustreznost podatkov, v kolikor razpolagaš z njimi. Hvala, --Janezdrilc 13:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"From Her to Eternity"

As you may or may not have seen, user:Hal peridol came up with the answer. I'll give myself credit for narrowing to James Jones, but he has found the song/poem. (The section title is a pun, of course. From Here to Eternity is the source of the song. "From Her to Eternity" is a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and bear no relation to what you were asking.) Geogre 11:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]