User:Prodego/archive/5

Holocaust mythology
Hi Prodego, I took a look and definitely thought it was speedy worthy. Thanks for your message and keep up the good work! - BanyanTree 19:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No need for test messages. I've indefinitely blocked the account.  I have zero patience for racists. - BanyanTree 19:29, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

response to message
How does the messaging work? Do I just edit this page?

I thought I had created "tandem skydiving" but it looks like I just left it in the preview mode. Trying to save the page right now.

192.117.123.207

That plus-sign is difficult to spot
...or to guess what it stands for. I guess I could've read the help some more but it's a bit overwhelming; I've never seen a help system as big as the one in here.

192.117.123.207

Talk page warnings
I've noticed you leave a couple of warnings on talk pages in the last 10-15 minutes but all of them have "19:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)" in the sig, this is very confusing, can you fix it? Thanks --pgk( talk ) 15:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Teller-Ulam design
Indeed a very well written and well sourced article - my only concern (and this is nitpicky, but..) is that there are too many images, and in some places (depending on the browser being used) said images may push the text down. BD2412 T 19:20, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No need for the Sakharov pic, I think (even though it adds flavor); only one picture of a nuke blast needed as well... maybe some pics could be resized down a bit. BD2412  T 19:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Better - no pushing now - but I've noticed also that there are parts of the article that are very redundant to History of the Teller-Ulam design - since the article is very long, anything reported elsewhere should be summarized as concisely as possible here. BD2412  T 19:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Well meaning...
That's the well meaning sort of vandal - he wants to make the article more useful, and is unaware that his actions instead make it unencyclopedic. I suggest pointing him to the article's talk page for posting of such comments. BD2412 T 20:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Your update of my RfA
I appreciate the update, but you probably should note the new total separately rather than over-write the number from the original nom. Cheers! BD2412 T 15:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! BD2412  T 15:09, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Nice template, but I'm old fashioned.
I was planning on coming up with an individualized thank-you note for each person. I suppose a part-template might work, though - I'll mull. ;-) BD2412  T 15:35, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA
Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. You, Prodego, have inspired me with your enthusiasm for this project, and I thank you as much for that as for your vote of support - I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 04:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Two barnstars, yep - but they're not so big a deal - kind of a random kindness. BD2412  T 17:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Runescape Gods, Dracatoza
Sorry for the thing above, i'm quite new at this.

The runescape god "Dracatoza" does not exist, that is why I kept deleting the information. I have been playing runescape for 3 years, and have done all the quests, and have never heard that name. I asked veterans on the forums as well, and they have never heard of it, and agreed that it was false.

68.40.159.249 22:53, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Put a 7-day block on the hard case.
Hopefully a week's vacation will temper their vandalistic inclinations. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I can do this once a week forever, if need be. bd2412  T 14:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Awarding you the Oscar
In honor of your good deeds on this project, I am awarding you the duty of keeping Oscar disambiguated. It is completely clean at the moment (except for some user/talk/project page links, and some intentional links. Your job is to check here every few days and fix any new links that are made to this disambiguation page (it usually picks up 2-3 a day, and every once in a while one of those is a nonsense article to be speedied or AfD'd). Cheers! bd2412  T 22:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks Prodego  talk  01:24, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Oops
Hi, Prodego, please excuse me for editing your User:Prodego/Wikistress page. I thought I would be able to steal your cool template and edit it as it appeared on my page by using the inbuilt edit button. Obviously not: it turned out I'd edited your page. In a nutshell, I've no idea what I'm doing. Sorry. Bishonen | talk 00:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

"Oscar" edits
There is some debate within the disambiguation community about how much information a disambig page should present, and the current prevailing view seems to be this minimalist idea that nothing should go into a disambig other than links to the actual disambiguated topics, with nothing else linked and no more information than necessary to send a visitor in the right direction. This view includes disposing of redlinks, which I think is a bad idea because they indicate articles that need to be written. Probably the best way to address the redlinks is to write at least a stub on each of the redlinked topics that deserve articles (not all of them do). Nevertheless, the other edits that have been made, I would not quarrel with here. Moving the page to Oscar (disambiguation) is actually a good thing, as intentional links to the disambig page can point there, making it clearer which links need to be fixed. bd2412 T 21:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:F-15i.jpg
I'm not sure the image qualifies as a press release since the image appears in a gallery. There's no text on the page that would indicate it was released in that manner and the copyright information specifies:


 * According to copyright laws, including the Israeli court as well as international treaties, the copyright of IAF publications, including all information published in this service belong to the Department of Security and Israeli Defense Force. These copyrights also apply to text, images, illustrations, maps, sound samples, video or audio bits, graphics, "Flash" applets and software applications ("The protected material").


 * All rights reserved to the state of Israel. Department of Security, 2003(C).

It would appear that they did not intend the website to be re-used. The page on publicity photos might help clarify. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 18:16, 4 January 2006 (UTC)