User talk:Nichalp/Archive15

Congrats[edit]

You're a bureaucrat! In fact, your promotion was my first bureaucratic action. :-) Regards — Dan | Talk 18:20, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You can access Special:Makesysop and Special:Renameuser. — Dan | Talk 18:41, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! congrats. Of course, that goes without saying. You owe me a treat ;), what else but a new featured article, perhaps Tamil cuisine or Constitution of India or some other Indian topic of your choice. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 19:05, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

My congratulations as well. 'twas a pleasure. So what's next? Arbitrator? Steward? GodPrince? :) Well, keep up the good work. Hey, if your taking requests, Indian family name is a topic I looked up and could use some work... (Oh and did I fix my userpage? Thanks for telling me.) Dmcdevit·t 19:08, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

A whole country, that's a worthy goal. Yeah the blue and green boxes are two separate ones. Is in showing up correctly? When I put my computer on 800x600 it does. Dmcdevit·t 19:18, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

I know a transwiki script that always needs more helpers... But that's probably not the bot you're looking for :) Dmcdevit·t 19:22, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Hah, an article generator. You already have one of those, it's right here! Wow, Tibet. Actually: wow, Bombay. I've lived hours from Mexico all my life and never made it across the border. Dmcdevit·t 19:30, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

No worries, mate. Try not to use your powers for evil. :) --Ngb^?!? 19:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well done on your promotion, Nicholas. Look forward to your forthcoming work on (at least one of) the Governors of Bombay in the future. All the best, jguk 19:37, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on the bureacratship. You'll make a great addition to the current crop. Guettarda 19:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The magic words - "Indian" and "bureaucrat" :) - Guettarda 19:54, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats --{{IncMan|talk}} 19:59, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats as well. Be sure not to become a "rogue bureaucrat"! ;-) Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 22:10, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats.—encephalon έγκέφαλος 03:57:12, 2005-09-07 (UTC)

Congraluations! - Mailer Diablo 04:35, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Nicholas. -- Ian ≡ talk 06:21, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The fifth Test

You won't see me on the telly. My tickets for each day are at the top of the pavilion, and they never film the crowd there (apart from a distance when you can't make anyone out). How's the series being covered in India? Reports here suggest all the cricketing world is tuning in, jguk 19:47, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

Congrats on your well-deserved promotion :). I have faith that you will execute your duties with dignity and assiduity.

^{Journalist ^C./ ^{Holla @ me!}}

Yep, I kinda know a thing or two about Jamaican cricketers. What can I do to help?

^{Journalist ^C./ ^{Holla @ me!}}

sorry for the slipup

RE: your post sorry to have misspelled your log in name, Nichalp.

I saw it right in my head, mentally, but when typing mistakes occur. I think I spelled it right most of the times, and I understand the proper respect showed to people by properly addressing them. (I usually use a spell checker, and program it to recognize peoples' log in names, but I must've been in a hurry that time -in fact, I sometimes fix minor spelling errors of others in the talk pages, in the hopes that they won't mind, and always try to fix spelling errors on both article pages and also my own spelling errors -sorry once again, and thank you for catching my slip up.--GordonWattsDotCom 21:43, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ann Arbor, Michigan - FAC

After looking through the article, I placed it on FAC. However, at this point I am hoping that no idiot decides to add something that can detract from the article. Pentawing 23:18, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on your B'cratship. I like the structure of the Ann Arbour and have tried it out on the Canberra article, see User:Petaholmes/Sandbox/Canberra, could you let me know what you think, I'm still undecided on the use of H3's in this kind of article, but the way it has been set out in the Ann Arbor article is very logical, and potenitally improves on the existing structures.--nixie 02:32, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I expanded the utilties section. I also reworded the sister cities (the other cities are still Ann Arbor's sister cities). Pentawing 22:05, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Your B'cratship

Congratulations on your elevation to the position of a bureaucrat, and I am sure that the community of Wikipedia shall benefit from your actions as a bureaucrat. I wish you all the best in your new role and responsibility. As regards, your other query about nominating me for adminship, I shall surely take up the challenge if the community of wikipedians so decides. I thank you for reposing confidence in me, and I feel privileged that you shall be nominating me. Next Saturday (10.09.2005) evening or any day thereafter shall be fine for me. Thanks again. --Bhadani 06:47, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TV-FMDX

Nice comments on the FA candidate page! We need more of this; too many FA candidates with serious shortcomings are being approved, in my view. Tony

PS, Do you have time to look over the iMac article, and commenting at peer review? Tony 08:18, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nicholas, that was more than I expected; I can't believe that you're only 22! If I can repay you by adding my twopence worth of editing somewhere, please don't hesitate. Tony 13:38, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cricket

Hmmm...I don't know if I am the right person to participate... For one, I am not a hardcore fan, more of a casual fan. To make matters worse, I have been in the US for 8 or the last 11 years. But mostly, I am just so pissed off with the WIndies board (incompetence, anti-Trini bias, anti-Indian bias) and unhappy with the last 15 years of WIndies cricket...between the fact that I can't get live coverage (except cricinfo) and that they have been doing so heartbreakingly badly almost since I have been following cricket...I have a hard time caring any more these days. On the other hand, maybe it wouild do me good to focus on some aspect of cricket... Guettarda 12:39, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yaayy!!

Congratulations!!! Well done!!! Where's my treat?!?! Anyways,as a gift to you I am going to make a major edit on this page --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 14:15, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Darth is not just great He is GOD (in my bible - Shreshth 1:1)...

Happy bureaucratship to you from my side. I hope you're awake, cause I hardly am now.

P.S. I couldn't wikify the page. When you're done with Bhutan could you look through it and correct any mistakes.

P.P.S. I will be doing the directive principles next, so <threat> don't even touch them </threat>.

P.P.P.S. I also included this in Writs

Ahh!!! my hand$, th3y"re bOrn|ng--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 16:02, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Belarus

Is it ready for FAC? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 22:12, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Popups tool

Congratulations on being made a bureaucrat! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Wikipedia:Tools#Navigation_popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is paste the following into User:Nichalp/Archive15/monobook.js:

// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] - please include this line 

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

popupAdminLinks=true;

Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! L upin 02:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice tool, but how do I prevent images from loading? =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:47, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Great. Wikipedia will never be the same again. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:03, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you found the answer already, but one of popupImages=false; (disable images) or simplePopups=true; (disable all downloading of data) will probably do what you want. See the Configuration section of Wikipedia:Tools#Navigation_popups for details and more options. L upin 12:14, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Popping up late

Ya, that's not usual for me to edit late into the night., but, occasionally I do. By the way, All the best with Bhutan. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 04:08, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. Will write one by evening. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 04:15, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Congraluations

Congrats on your bureacratship.All the best. Jisha C J 06:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bhutan

I've completed a round of copyediting the article. It seens to be OK now except for one sentence which says "India handles most of Bhutan's foreign affairs." What does this mean? Can't it be reworded? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 06:33, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Nicholas, I'll support the nomination, of course. I just want to finish my run-through before adding the s word. Tony 12:35, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Date / congratulations

First, apologies for the delay in getting back to you: I have amended my banner (real life is intruding, and I am trying not to spend too much time here).

Second, congratulations on your bureaucratship. May all your balls be yorkers. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:01, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen the FA list - for some unaccountable reason, I get credit for nominating a few of Giano et al.'s excellent articles. Is someone keeping score of FLs too? Work-shy as I am, I tend to go for the "quick win" of polishing up someone else's work :) -- ALoan (Talk) 09:33, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah - Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations and Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:38, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ravi Shastri

Brilliant ! Thank you !!! Tintin 13:21, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How do I add it ? I tried the spoken wikipedia tag but it does not allow the entry of text. What are the other options ? tia. Tintin 16:04, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ulayiti's RfA

Hi Nicholas, and thanks for your support of my RfA. I'm an administrator now, and I hope that I'll live up to the community's expectations as one. Your vote of confidence is much appreciated. - ulayiti (talk) 16:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your RfB

Congratulations, and you're very welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) 18:06, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

I, V. Molotov, hereby give you this Deletionist's Barnstar for active participation on VfD.

Take care, Molotov (talk) 21:21, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Belarus Infobox

I Fixed it, though it took me a while. Does it look good now? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 03:01, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

question

Nichalp, I saw your recent edit in re Fac.

Did you use admin powers to remove a renomination; and, if so, would you not consider at least reading my nomination before removing it? I addressed the policy about renominations: "Once the objections have been addressed, you may resubmit the article for featured article status."

If indeed you did remove it from consideration to vote, could you please at least read my nominationm first, and then get back with me? Thx.--GordonWattsDotCom 06:28, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just got your message: I did indeed follow the steps outlined for archival, but it still went to the same archived page.

:-( sorry... I tried.

However, it appears that, right before your edit, Mark did two other edits, moving things around, and after his edit, I indeed saw a regular page, without all the archival stuff. Here, let me check on the link, and see if it's good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Terri_Schiavo ..ah, it works. Thanks, Mark, where ever you are. OK, the page works; I'm putting it back, if you have no objections.--GordonWattsDotCom 06:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mark is Raul654. Gordon: I would advise to wait for two weeks before re-submitting, so you and the others can do final tweeking of the article. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 06:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I knew that was his name, either through his page, or elsewhere, but thanks for the heads up. Also, the article's fine as is, and (gasp!) locked, but that is neither my fault, nor a guarentee that the article is bad somehow. It is merely locked over one small but imprtant issue. It is FA-ready, or else I would not have renominated it, eh?--GordonWattsDotCom 06:40, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

From my page, you wrote: Gordon, I've just removed your nomination of Terri Schiavo from FAC. You'd have to archive the previous nomination first and begin on a clean slate. Details are given on the FAC page on how to archive. =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:27, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Gordon, 1) no, I didn't have to use any admin powers. 2) I can't take away your right to nominate the article. 3) I (or anyone else) can remove it though if it is not correctly formatted and message the original author. Personally, I don't see the hurry in nominating the article so soon. =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:40, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Reply: 1) Thx for the clarification; 2) Thx for the clar. on point 2 too. 3) That is fair: If the formatting is wrong, it's OK to wait to fix it. 4) Well, on waiting vs going ahead: All nomination is conserved: It does not matter whether it is soon or late: The "Transitive Property of Addition" sort of thing: Since I don't want to waste too much personal time of NONPAYING things (like good old wiki), then why not nominate it, if it's ready? Today is barely guarenteed, and tomorrow is not guarenteed; strike while the iron is hot, so it is easily able to be bent. Waiting makes it harden up and harder to bend in place.--GordonWattsDotCom 06:47, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the "Got new Mess'gs" joke -it was funny while it lasted, but it may offend those who are visiting my page, and that is not good when I'm trying to represent the hard work of fellow-editors in re my Fac nomination. Thx for observing this Ok, Y'all can take care of Terri Schiavo and her editors; I'm tired now, and I got her in good shape. Enjoy!--GordonWattsDotCom 07:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Name

It was the 1980's, my mum had a weird fascination with girls names begining with the letter P :) --nixie 12:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nepal article

Sure, Nicholas; I often have paid editing jobs, but there are usually freer windows between them. I've already done a bit of editing on the Nepal article, but yes, it needs lots more. Can you lay your hands on some images? I tried asking a few people on the net who've posted their trekking pics, but they weren't cooperative. Tony 13:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds excellent! Tony 15:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

License Raj VFD help

Hi, congrats on becoming a bureaucrat. I recently noticed License Raj was put up on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/License Raj on August 11. Apparently, the submitter forgot to add the {{vfd}} tag and instead had linked to the vfd page on the article page, resulting in the comments showing up. I corrected this by adding the {{afd}} tag and had pinged the submitter, hoping it would speed up the process. But nothing seems to have happened yet. Can you please suggest or do something? Thanks. pamri 15:56, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks![edit]

Hi there. Thanks for the support on my RfA; I was surprised at how widely supported it was. Please do keep an eye on me and my logs, especially while I learn my way around the new buttons. Thanks again. -Splash 16:34, 9 September 2005 (UTC) (PS; I do plan to complete actioning your PR of PSK...I've just been distracted.)[reply]

It's fairly clearly an irate (and slightly clueless newbie) editor who presumably saw the thing on your userpage and decided to inflict some damage. That being the likely reason, no, I wouldn't think it a useful objection especially to 'cratship which confers no additional editorial powers (unlike adminship). I took a look through the relevant Talk:'s and histories, and it's plainly obvious that you weren't bullying anyone even if parts of your messages could have had smoother edges. If, on the other hand, you had been bullying someone recently and they had come to RfB to point that out then I'd be inclined to give more weight to their objection: but I would also expect at least several supports to be stricken and moved to oppose. That obviously didn't happen, and clearly the community at large wasn't ruffled by the claims that editor made, and it's the community at large that matters. However, unlike FAC, RfA oppositions don't have to be 'actionable' so casting retaliatory votes is far from unheard of (I got one myself). Dealing with them is why we have Bureaucrats! -Splash 17:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I wondered why you had asked. I would only have expected your answer in the RfB to have applied to votes cast/comments made in good-faith. The 'faith' of that vote/comment is clearly questionable at best. I wouldn't be expecting you to count the Booth443 votes, for example. -Splash 18:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]