User talk:Whouk/Archive01

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whitney huston

i have now reverted all the way back to your version :-)

Geoffrey Keen

I see that you have just "corrected" Geoffrey Keen's year of birth to 1918 — the year given, admittedly, in reference books and by the IMDb. However, according to his obituary in today's Times he was born in 1916. I have found that when The Times is at variance with standard sources in a matter such as this, it is usually right.

alderbourne 17:28, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Fair enough - there was already a category of 1918 births on his page, so that needs changing too.

Whouk 08:29, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Cast lists

Well, the thing is, the cast lists for the new series are relatively short compared to those for the classic series, and the idea was just to avoid clutter. I suppose one solution would simply be to select the most major roles. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Greetings

Wondered when I'd bump into you here. Thank you for teh support on my RfA (he says, touchign wood furiously). The Land 11:14, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Christmas Invasion timing

Was that reply meant for me or TheDoctor10? --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 14:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Anthony_moffat

Hey, thanks for the heads up. Just speedy deleted it. Good to see you place a message on the talkpage of that article's creator. Keep up the good work. --Gurubrahma 11:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hard-Fi

Cheers for the correction to the article, much appriciated. Y control 12:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Tim Butler

This was the entire contents:

"Born in England on 7th December 1960 (?). Tim is the bass player and joint founder of The Psychedelic Furs and the youngest of three brothers. Richard, the eldest is the lead singer of the Psychedelic Furs, Simon, the middle brother is a software engineer who lives in California. Son of Joan and Dr. George Butler. Tim currently lives in New Jersey."

Don't see anything that could be used. I'll keep it up for ya though. If you don't think it's keepable, just make it a redir to Psychadelic Furs. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 12:32, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Jake Thackray

Well done, my bad. I bought him beer on one memorable occasion - quite large quantities of beer actually - but of course that probably doesn't help me to remember how to spell his name :-) - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 16:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Bartosz

I was demonstrating Wikipedia to a friend, using the sandbox. The most interesting part is the creation of links, so I created a test link and proceeded with the editing of the new page. Unfortunately, the new page became part of Wikipedia and not just an extension of the sandbox. This is by no means an obvious thing. I was quickly caught red-handed as a vandal. If there is no easy way to track and clean up sandbox links, maybe a warning should be displayed not to create linked pages.

Bartosz 00:22, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Gojistomp

I have requested an administrator's attention on the noticeboard. Leave a comment if you'd like. ~MDD4696 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

duplicate

Sure it is. I intended to place it in Russian section, but by mistake put it in English. And i didn't know how to delete it. Sorry. Alex k 15:02, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

dtfcdev

(Dtfcdev 17:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)) All my information is coming from my website. ie Matt Groves. I own/run where it is all coming from. Thanks Dev

dtfcdev

(Dtfcdev 17:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)) Ok no problem, but no all my information is deleted. Also how can i stop this happening again with my website. Thanks Dev

(Dtfcdev 18:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)) It was RN that deleted them.

Why?

You removed links on Hollyoaks now wene the pages do meet requiremnts someone has to gto back and re add the links, Do YOU volunteer?--MatthewFenton 10:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Do you watch Hollyoaks? Most of those charcters have had major story lines or are involved in one, However they are in otehr charcters as they have no family left in the village.--MatthewFenton 11:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok

If pages for some will be removed i suggest removing them all, Maybe together we can incorperate more data into the Hollyoaks article its self.. Also the user pages will need to be deleted.. Do you know how to?--MatthewFenton 11:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Doctor Who stubs

Hi, Whouk. I've noticed that as you're recategorizing the Doctor Who stories you're also removing the "doctorwhostub" notices from pages that also have the section stub template. Why is that? I would have thought that it would be useful to Doctor Who WikiProject members to have a list of Doctor Who pages that need expanding, and if you remove the "doctorwhostub" template we can't see which pages still need work. (I'm sure you have a good reason for removing the stub notices, I'm just wondering what it is.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 18:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, my bad. I thought I'd seen you remove more of the notices (which, as you say, are more helpful than the unspecific section stubs). Anyway, I suppose I'll see you somewhere in the middle of the alphabet! :) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 18:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

my spelling

ah! that would explain why nothing was linking to it.  ;) Morwen - Talk 12:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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This is a school and a lot of people use wikipedia, please don't block the IP for what other fags do :(

"Edit summeries"

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are asking me to do. Please explain! Thanks. NP Chilla 7th January 2006, 15:46 (GMT)

I think its scandalous that in an article on a British politician that you are insisting on American format dates.

User page

Thanks for reverting my user page. Someone seems to be pretty busy putting sockpuppet tags. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

References

Thanks for changing the reference on the LibDem leadership page - if there's one thing I can't yet learn how to do properly, it's references!

I've noticed you're doing a lot of work on that page - and there's still months to go! Never a quiet moment doktorb | words 18:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

anemone & anenome

Hi Whouk! I agree, in an ideal world the redirect would just go to the correct spelling. In this case, however, I felt a little more comment and clarification was required. It is such a common mistake – misapprehension, even – yet I don't think it warrants mentioning on all of the relevant pages. I note that on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) the final section reads (and I quote):

==Break rules==

For every style suggestion above, there's some page which has a good reason to do something else. These guidelines are intended for consistency, but usefulness to the reader is the principal goal. So ignore these guidelines if you have a good reason.

I felt I had a good reason... SiGarb 16:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your swift reply. I take your point, but still feel my page serves a useful purpose. If it merely redirected to the correct spelling without comment, many people would not even notice that they had been redirected, They probably don't look that carefully at the spelling, and even when they do, they continue to mispronounce the word, because they think that's how it's pronounced. If you feel like doing a disambig for Anemone, fair enough, but I can't: I don't have admin status, and it would involve changing the current Anemone to Anemone (plant) (which would probably get up a few noses!) SiGarb 16:48, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry; yes, I'd forgotten about the "Move" button. But it's still something I wouldn't like to do without wider discussion. It probably doesn't amount to "a drastic and unexpected change for a popular page" (to quote the "Move" page) but it still seems a bit extreme. Would Anemone (disambiguation) mop up all Anemone links, or redirects made to it, or searches on "anemone", or all of the above? SiGarb 17:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Doctor Who images

It's a dodgy area... I would feel very uncomfortable about using it as is with the BBC watermark still clearly on them, unless they were released as part of a press kit. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 16:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Dumfermline and West Fife by-election

I put that in about the placement of the full text as the information hasn't been published yet (but will post it as soon after 0800 GMT tomorrow morning) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Hayfield (talk • contribs)

Eviction tables

There are others that exist as seperate articles also, just thought to let you know Mark272 16:49, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Please accept my embarrassingly belated thank you for supporting my RfA, which much to my surprise passed 102/1/1, earning me minor notoriety. I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have already started doing the things poeple wanted me to be able to do. And hopefully nothing else... Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 12:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. --BadSeed 20:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

yea, i'm sorry about that, when mates are over your house you can't leave them for a second. I for one think wikipedia will one day take over the world, i mean that in the most positive way possible! Wikipedia has the potential to be the ultimate resource that i will willingly contribute to in the expected manner in the future. Once again i apologise and hope there are no hard feelings. I must admit that "whoukipedia" is quite funny in context, but no offence was meant, and i hope none was taken - you probably just ignored it as immature students, which i must admit we were being. but there we go, us men will never grow up :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.229.7 (talk • contribs)

Hollyoaks

Antonias name was changed to Grace wene Tony and mandy comprimised on graces christening. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MatthewFenton (talk • contribs)

I did make an edit yea, But someone else made annother edit :P.. and yea there website seems to be so slow updatng recently.--MatthewFenton 23:01, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Oops

I am generally pretty careful about that. Thanks for cleaning up behind me. Kukini 14:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for looking out for me.

Whouk, today you observed that someone left a message under the name "NP Chilla" in the Doctor Who Wikiproject, without logging in as me. That is because he was not me, and could, for all I know, have written other things in various talk pages under my name. I should investigate this further...

But what I really want to say is -- thank you. Thank you very much for being caring enough to point this out. It is always reassuring to know someone is watching out for me. I am extremely grateful to you for this. NP Chilla 16:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

R. Mussolini article

I liked your way of handling that (putting the dates together and putting the place of birth in the second par.) ...I was struggling for a second.... :-) --Kfranco 14:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

hello

Thank you for your comment regarding the Colin Carmichael VfD. There is a section in that page about Xelha F.C. but no separate page yet. Sorry about that, especially as it seems that the Carmichael page is well on its way to deletion. I think that is a pity, because I believe it gives a quite interesting insight into current expatriate life in Japan (albeit in "the provinces" as one voter has rather snootily observed!). Also people are pretty quick on the draw with ordering up VfDs etc. and it is a wonder that any new material ever makes it into the wikipedia. Regards, --Historian 13:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rowan_Cavanagh —Preceding unsigned comment added by W33nie (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Carmichael

My general rule is that the more transparent the lie, the greater the insult to my intelligence -- and Historian is very transparent indeed in his vanity campaign. Intellectual dishonesty, disingenuousness, arrogance, smarminess, passive-aggressive and outright insults, and obvious dodges to simple queries also make my list of annoying editor traits, and his clumsy veiled threat on the CfD page was simply icing on the cake in inflaming my annoyance. Trying to get him to make the merest nod to reality seems to be pointless -- whatever his motivation, it's meaningless, since Vanity Biography #27,883 is going the way of all of its predecessors (been there, done that, have a CLOSET full of t-shirts).

But your attempt at balance in your message is wrong: it's not bickering, it's a battle of wits with the unarmed, and my use of heavy artillery against the defenseless is unsporting under the circumstances. Enough is enough. --Calton | Talk 11:58, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Whew! I can certainly agree with the very last sentence. Thanks for your effort to mediate, Whouk. (Which Dr Who did you like best by the way?) --Historian 23:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA

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) 13:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It's never done that before

I can safely say that never in my whole history of Wikipedia editing have I attempted to create an article at exactly the same time as somebody else!. Still, good job you got in there first — you seem to know more about it than I (I thought all twelve were missing, for a start). Angmering 20:03, 7 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. 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.

—bbatsell ¿? 04:47, 8 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 - Talk 05:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

lol shhhh —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coopdawggy (talk • contribs)

Eh? TV?

I wouldn't worry about it — I put Sapphire & Steel in the category before I had the sudden realisation "That's not right." I think a lot of people get them mixed up — certainly I suspect that many have The Avengers mentally pegged as a Lew Grade / ATV show. Angmering 20:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD on Philippine Cyberservices Corridor

Hey. I hope you could pls visit here again. I hope I could change your mind. --Noypi380 07:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD on Philippine Cyberservices Corridor

Hey. I hope you could pls visit here again. I hope I could change your mind. --Noypi380 07:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Xelha F.C.

After all that I have found the Xelha F.C. web page, it is not on wikipedia but already existed. I have linked to it from the following wiki-page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jambo_in_Japan.JPG Regards, --Historian 09:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I would have no objection if you deleted item 35 above, since the related article has now been deleted. --Historian 14:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the award

I knew Timelash was above and beyond. Many thanks! User:Litefoot

Thanks

File:Plunger 250x410.jpg

Thanks for taking the time to vote in my RfA, and for welcoming me to the fold of administrators. I'll do my level best to use the mop and bucket — or, as I said in my RfA, plunger — responsibly. Of course, in the best tradition of politicans everywhere, I've already broken a campaign promise and blocked a vandal (after I said "I don't anticipate using the blocking tool very often"). Nevertheless, I'll try not to let the unbridled power corrupt me. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Dates.

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). This is to allow date preferences to work. If you set them you will see 11 September and September 11 ([[11 September]] and [[September 11]]) the same way. Rgds. Rich Farmbrough. 12:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
PS WP:Dates does not exist. RF. PPS Re-reading your note, perhaps it's not clear in the MoS that years alone should rarely be linked, years with a date and month should almst alwats be linked. Key exception, quotes. Rich Farmbrough. 12:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Andreas Katsulas

Please do not remove the memorial video for Andreas again. It is not a "non-notable" fan production. I worked on Babylon 5, creating music videos for Joe Straczynski, and he asked me to put this online. I did the same for Rick Biggs two years ago, and this will be played at Andreas' memorial service. TheRealFennShysa 21:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

As a general rule it's probably not a good idea to add links to your own stuff, though, just as the subjects of articles are advised not to edit articles about themselves - Normally, I wouldn't - I've not written a page *about* me, even though there's a link for me on this page... However, this is something we're trying to share with the fans, getting the word out to as many places as we can, so I figured no one would mind, given the circumstances.... TheRealFennShysa 21:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks!

Thank you! Hello Whouk/Archive01, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

Louis XIV

Hmm. I don't know either. In any case, Pompadour was the mistress of Louis XV, not XIV. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 13:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Torchwood grammar

Not a problem. Hope the cold either becomes less stinky, or stops you up enough that you can't smell it! (Wait... that doesn't quite work, does it?) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)