User talk:Subwaynz

Wushu

Greetings Subwaynz. I am very happy to see that you registered an account. It's always more difficult referring to you as some random IP address. I see however that you are still making the same edit to the article Wushu that got you blockedfor 24 hours. Please consider gaining concensus on your edit before making it again. This is a Wikipedia guideline, and makes things run much more smoothly.

I believe the current reason your edits are being reverted (by myself and others) revolves around the fact that the forum user you are mentioning is non-notable. The fact that he went by the name 'Wushu' doesn't really promote him to the status of being included int he article. If I was using the pseudonym 'George Washington' in some online forum, I would not be added to the article on George Washington. Please feel free to give your further thoughts on this matter here or on the Wushu talk page. --Llort 03:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

considering that george washington was actually a person, then yes, you wouldnt put it in. wushu was not a person, but remember that a subject does not have to have a definite concrete model of what it is. wushu as shown, can mean a number of different things, however, straying from the conceived and prior model, does not mean that it is less valid. it just illustrates diversity. back to the point, that if i feel it is relevant, and have correctly referenced it, then i see no reason why you should continue to revert it. --Subwaynz 13:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Again, that is why there are policies and guidelines to help editors. You feel that a single user by the pseudonym of Wushu on one forum of many on the internet is relevant. That is fine as I will not try to change your opinion on that. To you, this single user meets your definition of notability as laid out at WP:Notability.

You failed to address a point I raised above concerning consensus. This is a guideline for all editors to follow when making contributions to Wikipedia and can be found at WP:Consensus. While this single user may be notable to you, he would need to be notable to others as well in order for you to gain consensus. In an event where most others have not heard of this person or perhaps feel they are non-notable, perhaps you should ask yourself if this crosses the line into un-encyclopedic content. --Llort 15:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Pakuranga College

Of course it is copyright. And it is not exactly from a neutral point of view. It's just cut'n'paste from the schools own site. If people want to look at the schools own site they can use the link on the page. Cheers, Neil Leslie 07:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

it is a document of the schools history. there is hardly much variance, if you want i will re write it just to suit you? --Subwaynz 11:59, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Why don't you look at some of the other NZ secondary school wikipedia pages like (chosen more-or-less at random) Mount Albert Grammar School Kings College, Auckland Otago Boys' High School or (very much not chosen randomly) Van Asch College Cambridge High School (New Zealand)? The first three are quite dull, and the last two are actually interesting. Try to write something interesting and succinct about Pakuranga. You are missing the point of hypertext if you copy material from the school's website. You don't need to do this. All NZ school wikipedia pages have a template which contains a link to the school's own website. Finally, plagiarism is not a good advert for Pakuranga College. Cheers Neil Leslie 12:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

its hardly plagerism when it is clear that it is the history of pakuranga college, im not trying to pass it off as my own, i just dont have the time to research it for myself. i didnt even add it in the first place, it just looks a hell of a lot better than a giant copyright warning as a main page.--Subwaynz 12:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

also, if the school has a rich history, then why not have it noted under the wiki? is there really anything wrong with that? id prefer to have it loaded with info rather than a small stub --Subwaynz 12:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that you have missed the point. The school is boring. Almost all schools are. The text that is there now is a combination of the unencycolpedic (i.e. its banal) and the self promoting. Further, as I said above, you have missed the point of hypertext by reproducing the contents of another web page on wikipedia. And you have missed the point of Wikipedia by copying large chunks of self promoting material on what is supposed to be a neutral source. If you don't like the copyvio notice try writing something which does not violate copyright and whhich is written from a neutral point of view. Cheers Neil Leslie 20:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

i will change it back, and any such correspondence about this matter please address it in the talk page, not by defacing the main page with copyright crap. as an ex student i feel offended. --Subwaynz 03:16, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

User notice: temporary 3RR block

Regarding reversions[1] made on May 22 2006 (UTC) to Wushu

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future.

The duration of the block is 24 hours. William M. Connolley 08:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Wushu

(copied across from WP:AN): They are absolutely right to be reverting your edit. You're trying to add a section on the Wushu disambiguation page on Wushu : a frequent poster who claimed at times to be in the posession of a Toyota Supra, which was later discredited and unsubstantiated. More recently wushu, under various aliases (such as japanese_girls) has spammed GPforums with copious amounts of softcore japanese pornorgaphy under the pretences that they were somewhat hot, thus he has gained a cult status and is a very famous member of gpforums. The fact that no less than 3 different people have reverted this, and that there IS an explanation for this on Talk:Wushu asking you very politely to stop doing this, should have clued you in to the fact that a troll on a forum (that doesn't warrant its own article) is not encyclopaedic. You are now disrupting Wikipedia. Please do not add the section again, or you will be blocked, for longer than the 3RR 24-hour block you've already recieved. I'm going to copy this to your talk page. Proto||type 12:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

quiet frankly the explanation given is almost no existant. have a read of it, its baseless and unsubstantiated. it centres around the view that 2 people feel it should not be there. yet according to wikipedia guidelines i have reinforced that the policies do NOT rule against the edit in its present state. Id appreciate an explanation as to why they feel it should not be there according to the wikipedia guidelines not opinion which i have requested to no avail. --Subwaynz 12:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

It's certainly disproportionate and very likely unencyclopedic. You are wasting everybody's time, pelase find something productive to do. The Land 13:18, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages are used to wikt:disambiguate between pages. An article on Wushu the forum troll would be speedily deleted, under WP:CSD, as an non-notable biography (hence unencyclopaedic), and if not, would be deleted on WP:AFD for failing WP:BIO (hence unencyclopaedic). As the information itself is therefore unencyclopaedic, it should not be added to a disambiguation article. Also. please see WP:POINT and WP:BP for other applicable policies: you have been asked by numerous people, including administrators, to stop adding this information, and continuing to do so is disrupting Wikipedia to prove a point. The rules serve the encyclopaedia, not the other way around, and casting round for rules which precisely suit your reasoning is not going to assist your argument. Do not add the information again, please. Proto||type 13:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

You've been overruled by consensus; it happens a lot here, and successful Wikipedians get over it. Please note that you now have three admins urging you not to escalate this, in addition to the fourth who's already blocked you for it. Chick Bowen 15:07, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Babyfail.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Babyfail.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images 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. -SCEhardT 15:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

User notice: temporary 3RR block

Regarding reversions[2] made on June 2 2006 (UTC) to Gameplanet

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future.

The duration of the block is 24 hours. William M. Connolley 22:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Trademe Syndrome

Please see Talk:TradeMe#Trademe_Syndrome dramatic 09:22, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Gameplanet

Please do not blind revert a whole long series of badly needed changes just to restore the article to the way you had it previously. Sections of the article that served no encyclopedic purpose whatsoever were removed, the text was copy edited, and so forht and so on. You undid it all and just called me "overzealous" when it might be more to the point that you are way underzealous when it comes to making articles confirm to what is expected of Wikipedia articles.

I undid you revert. If you think certain parts should be changed, please discuss it or go ahead and change the sections you want modified, but do not simply revert anything and everything another editor did for no reason. DreamGuy 23:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)