User:The ed17/Archives/1

My Warning...
I did not know I was not supposed to remove warnings, so that's why I got this! (for anyone else who decides to look at this page)

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. --maru (talk) contribs 05:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Wykon etc
Hi The ed17! The Wykon article is very interesting. It's probably not altogether a notable subject, but the story is interesting enough for it to survive! I've given it a light polish to conform to the Manual of Style guidelines on article layout. Nothing major.

As for the entries on my talk page - these are fairly typical of what most admins get on their talk pages, especially if they regularly do vandalism or New Pages patrols. People do like to write articles about how wonderful they are and how X person smells bad etc. The moment the article is, unsurprisingly, deleted, they go from "just having a bit of fun" to being foulmouthed and making threats. It doesn't bother me (in fact I find the impotent rage funny) and I don't, generally, remove the stuff from my talk pages. Although it could give an impression of me as an argumentative and nasty person, when I'm actually a pussycat... with a "delete this page" button! :o) ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 19:45, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Your user signiture
Could you add   to the end of your signiture. Without it your signiture makes everyone elses text after yours also small. Jedi6 -(need help?)  21:13, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The George W. Bush box


Just copy and paste that.--KrossTalk 17:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the LTTE article
Hi, good to hear you realized your edits was vandalism. The article about the LTTE is a rather difficult piece to get right, as it involves a current conflict that is about to flare up (several dozens killed over the last week alone). Just to be able to keep it from locking up is a feat. Currently there are two guys with intimate knowledge of the conflict that will try to reach a consensus and for the time being the article is best left to them. Ulflarsen 17:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

The West Wing
Well there is this template, Template:Characters on The West Wing. If you need any help just ask. Jedi6 -(need help?)  21:21, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Vibroweapons
Good edit, as internal links give readers the chance to explore the subject more. Good job! _-M    o     P-_  21:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
I love them. Va girl2468 01:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee
The Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee has survived deletion!!!! The result of the debate was No consensus---Keep!!!

-- George Mon  e  y Talk   Contribs 04:22, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Packer userbox???
Good grief, I am a diehard Packer fan. You're gonna have a hard time getting a good one from me... --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 22:29, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * In regard to your question, the answer is you! Really! Just go to Userboxes. There's a guide on how to create your own userbox. Just be careful to avoid any personal attacks. Let me know if you need help.(I feel like such a traitor to God Brett, but I guess you have to help a neighbor...) --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 22:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Good coloring. Just make the text more Civil like "This user does not support the Green Bay Packers", etc. --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 18:11, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks good. Go ahead and put it on there. You won't be seeing it on my userpage soon, but oh well. People will have a use for them. --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 21:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Reversions
You don't have to be an admin to revert. I'm just a regular user. Just go to the history of an article, click on the date of the good versiob, click edit and then save it. --waffle iron talk 21:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Revert
Someone else has taken care of that. For future reference, if you wish to revert vandalism, simply click on "history", click on the version of the page you wish to go back to, then press "edit this page", type an appropriate edit summary(i.e. Reverted edits by Willy on Wheels to previous version by Jimbo Wales, then press the "Save page" button and voila! It's as if vandalism never happened! :-) --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 21:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Your inquiry on my RfA
I would estimate about 20-30 edits were due to the Q&A. JoshuaZ 18:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Er, I don't see a new comment by you in the history or on the page. JoshuaZ 19:53, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding you new comment in the RfA: Yeah, that's what I thought you meant. JoshuaZ 20:28, 5 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I went through and counted. I count 34 question edits in Wikipedia space prior to the start of my RfA and a small number of related edits in user talk space. I hope that is of assistance. JoshuaZ 22:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Template
Create a template link (i.e. undefined. Then open the link, and cut and paste the HTML inside there. Also, add it to an appopriate space. In this case: right here. --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 22:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting on my RfA
Mahoga ny

Thanks for voting in my RfA!
Thanks for voting in my RfA! The nomination didn't gain consensus, but I'm happy I accepted it. - Amgine 20:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Thanks! Mahoga ny

Eritrea
An honest mistake.... ≈ jossi ≈ t &bull; @ 18:54, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I understand...
It was just a gentle teaching, I was not being harsh and don't worry it won't be reported. (I just wanted him to learn the rules like you said) If you'll need any help with anything Ed just ask! Mahoga ny


 * Don't worry I won't be on a Wikibreak for a little while. But thanks! Mahoga ny


 * As to a clue as what I'm doing on my Wikibreak see my userboxes. Mahoga ny

He He!
Seriously man, let me do my own work. General Aurum

My RFA
Hi ,

Thank you for supporting my RFA! Unfortunately it did not succeed mainly because most opposers wanted me to spend more time on Wikipedia. Thank you for your faith in me & looking forward to your continued support in the future.

Cheers

Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  09:02, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

My PotD
Will you join My Picture of the Day? The reason I have it, is so images that aren't Featured quality can still be featured. Anybody can put a picture there. All you have to do is pick a day for your picture, and create a page in "User:GeorgeMoney/Month DayNumber, Year". Then, use the following format: Put  on the page of the day you are creating (Remember for all of the optional variables that you don't use, totally remove them from the syntax). Then all you have to do is put  on your userpage, and it will automatically make the picture for the day. If you want to have it show your picture forever, put. Replace "May 47, 2009" with the day your picture will be on.

Also, can you add your name to My Spamlist? Don't worry, my spam isn't bad and annoying like the Esperanza and Community Justice spam. My spam is just news and events in plain text formatting like this.

Thanks, -- GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 02:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome and Congratulations on joining the project! I'm sorry this welcome message took so long, but you joined during my Wikibreak, and I assumed that someone else would welcome you in the meantime. Still, that's no excuse, and I am most humbly sorry. Sergeant  Snopake  20:54, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikify
I'll do my best if I get the time, I'm kind of rushing around today Mahoga ny


 * Please see the article in question now and notice the way instead of using 100px for the picture use "thumb". I'm probably confusing you with all this junk so see this quick example,

I'm not trying to be a jerk so don't see it that way please just looking out for my fellow editors Mahoga ny
 * You used, [[Image:Valley RR logo.jpg|100 px|This is the Valley Railroads' logo.]]
 * Proper way, [[Image:Valley RR logo.jpg|thumb|This is the Valley Railroads' logo.]]


 * Also thanks for pointing out that your friend general took off his test message, I've put it back on his page. Mahoga ny</b>

Spam #1
You are receiving this message, because you signed up to my spamlist

I'm sorry if this spam seems a little weird, but it is the first spam.

Dear people:

User:Iamthejabberwock needs a new name! Would you please suggest a username for him. The reason for this is because he doesn't want to get confused with User:Thejabberwock.

please help

Thanks, -- GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 00:39, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Good Luck
Good Luck on your exams and I hope to talk to you some day soon. Mahoga <b style="color:red;">ny</b>

Well.....
As of around 8:00 PM on Monday, May 22, 2006, yes, I am ready for my initial exams, thanks for asking. I can only hope that you are ready as well. Good luck.

General Aurum 02:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

So......
Since Ed is going to be away for some time, I shall take it upon myself to spout random garbage at his inactive userpage, and to vandalize and blank everything I see!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously though, since Ed isn't here, I'll see if I can't forward any messages to him. If there is something you absolutely MUST tell him, drop me a line at my userpage. If it's important enough, I'll give the communique. General Aurum 00:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, do that if you need me. I doubt that anyone will need to talk to me that badly though. :( <b style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#800000">the_ed17</b><b style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000">(talk)</b><b style="font-family:Book Antiqua">(contribs)</b> 13:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Attention All POTD members!
We are running out of images! We only have 2 completed days so far of images! Please contribute to the image pages. Thanks, -- GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 01:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Attention All POTD members!
Random picture of the day (formerly User:GeorgeMoney/potd) has been nominated for deletion by Hetar because he doesn't like a rule that could have just been discussed on the talk page instead of nominating it for deletion. Please vote on the MfD page. Thanks, GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 15:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Vote stacking
Please stop advertising MfD discussions to sway the 'vote' a particular way. It can result in you being blocked to stop it. --Sam Blanning(talk) 14:05, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

If you don't mind, I'd like to keep the discussion here rather than fragmenting it across our separate talk pages.
 * Can I tell people about it without swaying them??  the_ed17 <sup style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000;">(T) <sub style="font-family:Book Antiqua;">(C) <sup style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000;">(P) <sub style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000;">(F) <sup style="font-family:Book Antiqua;">(WW)  14:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I strongly recommend against it, as everyone will think you're contacting people you think will 'vote' the way you want. Interested parties will see the big banner on Random picture of the day anyway - that's what it's there for. --Sam Blanning(talk) 14:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well.... That makes sense. OK then.  the_ed17 <sup style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000;">(T) <sub style="font-family:Book Antiqua;">(C) <sup style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000;">(P) <sub style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#CC0000;">(F) <sup style="font-family:Book Antiqua;">(WW)  14:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for understanding. --Sam Blanning(talk) 14:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Your signature
Could you please fix your signature to conform to the guidelines laid out at WP:SIG. In particular, your sig is incredibly long in Wiki source (several lines in the edit window), which causes it to overwhelm actual comments, making them hard to find and respond to. Also, you have lots of unnecessary links in your signature that should be removed. It should really only contain links to your user page, maybe your user talk page, and possibly your contribs. -- Cyde↔Weys 15:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I have to chime in here and agree with my colleague. This is what we see in the edit box:

WHATEVER YOU WROTE +  the_ed17 (T)(C)(P)(F)(WW)

That's more than half a kilobyte!

Alost invariably the signature completely overwhelms your comment and any other nearby comments. Its purpose seems to be to tell people about the following:
 * 1) Your username and the location of your user page
 * 2) The location of your user talk page
 * 3) Your recent edits
 * 4) A Wipedia project page called "Random picture of the day"
 * 5) A Wikipedia article called "The West Wing (TV series)"

In general, I suggest that if you think that a page on which you make a discussion edit might benefit from a link to the random picture of the day or the West Wing article, you should add it individually to your edit. To put them into every single edit unnecessarily bulks out your signature and adds lots of irrelevant pages to the links list of those pages.

On your contributions, well you should be aware that this information can be obtained from your user page.

The user page and talk page links are very good and I commend you for including both.

Thanks for reading this, and I hope you'll take it in the spirit in which it's intended. --Tony Sidaway 17:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, you shouldn't have an external link in your sig (to the war wiki). That's considered advertising and is strongly discouraged. Also, as Tony says, the link to The West Wing and Random picture of the day are totally unnecessary. Just put those links on your userpage, not on every single talk page you ever edit. -- Cyde↔Weys 17:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making the effort, but I'm sorry that's even worse, even if it's shorter. You've included an external link so that every signed edit by you will be link spam.  Let's take another look at it:


 * WHATEVER YOU WROTE +  the_ed17 (T)(C) (P) (F)(W) 


 * Here you're including the following:


 * Your user page
 * Your talk page
 * A Wikipedia project page called "Random picture of the day"
 * A link to your Wikipedia friends page
 * An external link to the war wiki


 * Of the above, only either the first or second is strictly necessary, and both would be considered polite. The others, when included at the end of a comment in a discussion, are pure clutter, and some cases cause the link lists of Wikipedia pages to be filled with unnecessary noise.


 * If I see your comments I want to be able to click on your signature and get to your user or user talk page. After that I can click on any link you should care to put there (do please include a link to your War Wiki account on that page).  Any more is unnecessary and causes problems. --Tony Sidaway 17:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I strongly agree. Please simplify your signature drastically. Thanks :) -Quiddity 18:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

RE:WarWiki
You can't--Gangsta-Easter-Bunny 15:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC) And please be more active.

Friend
Thanks! That's always nice to know. :) Sergeant   Snopake  16:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * But...what war would I write about? Well, I'm sure I'll think of something - I am a Sergeant after all! Consider me...joined up! *Salutes* Sergeant   Snopake  17:55, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmmm......
Warwiki you say? Sounds interesting. I'm not sure how I could contribute, but we'll see. Again, being a total noob in the ways of Wiki, any help would be appreciated. Specifically, how to join and whatnot. General Aurum 00:13, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Interesting Irony and Exciting Editing
As it so happens, your new page about the attack on Pearl Harbor came up as shortly after I spied the link. Allow me to be the first to offer congratulations and constructive criticism! :)

First, give more detail. I understand that it's a Version 1.0, but if you need me to edit the heck out of any of your work, I'll only be too happy to do so! :)

Second,...............................................................................................................................More detail, I guess.

Third, well, (see above).

Anyway, send a response! I'd like to know how to join Warwiki and maybe spice things up a bit. General Aurum 00:48, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Alright, Alright
Okay, I'll join. But COME ON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you not spell my name right by now?!?!?!?!?! Where's the "H"?!?!?!?!?!

Also, I just contributed to Warwiki with a few additions to the Battle of Hoth article, but since I didn't have an account, I won't get credit for it unless I can get the system to recognize the IP address that did the editing as my own. Anyway, P'Sout! General Aurum 01:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Can you not read?
Come on Ed, it said right there in plain script, "Leave all messages on my Wikipedia userpage." You're lucky I don't bring the wrath of the anti-vandalism authorities down upon your AfroTurf-encrusted head!

Just kidding, man. But seriously, leave all your messages at my talk page so they're in one spot. It'll be all the easier for me that way. General Aurum 02:06, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

By the way...
I've found something that will probably make you reconsider this userbox:

Follow this link, and watch Episode 17- Ninja Omnibus, and while you're at it, check out some of the other videos as well.

P'Sout! General Aurum 02:35, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Spamming
Yes, it is spamming, so please stop. We've been through this before; it's entirely inappropriate to advertise a Wikia project—on whatever topic—in the way you've been doing. Kirill Lokshin 13:15, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * When have we been through this before?  the_ ed1  7  14:48, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * My apologies if I wasn't very clear; I meant the War Wikia, not you specifically. (You can see the previous discussions about how that Wikia was advertising here.) Kirill Lokshin 16:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Ohhhh. OK. I did the same thing before this too, so he's not alone.  the_ ed1  7  16:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I will second this. Continuing on your current spree will earn you a block. NSLE (T+C) at 13:17 UTC (2006-06-09)


 * I would also suggest you remove your spam, or apologise to the people you've spammed. I could simply roll your edits back, but I've been criticised for that before. NSLE (T+C) at 13:19 UTC (2006-06-09)

Blocked
You have been blocked for 1 week for trolling, vandalism, disruption, and spamming. I've looked through your contributions and I haven't actually found any useful contributions. After this block expires, if you want to, please help write the encyclopedia, or otherwise, just leave. Thank you. -- Cyde↔Weys 13:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Reduced to 48 hours, but I agree with the block. NSLE (T+C) at 13:35 UTC (2006-06-09)


 * Yeah, I agree with the block as well somewhat. That was pretty bad spamming. But I did not think that that deserved a whole week. Well, 48 hours it is!  the_ ed1  7  13:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I just looked further through your contributions and apparently you have done some stuff for the encyclopedia, but ... please try to focus on that stuff and not the kind of stuff that gets you blocked, okay? Thanks. -- Cyde↔Weys 13:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I know, I know, It's just that I haven't been on too often so when I am, I go on talk pages because I don't have alot of time. Thank you for understanding.  the_ ed1  7  13:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't agree with the block, Cyde. General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) 00:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Question, now that I looked at the block again, when did I troll, vandalise (or was that for the spamming also?) and disrupt??????  the_ ed1  7  00:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I had you confused with someone else. The other guy was trolling, vandalizing, and disrupting.  You were still massive talk page spamming though, so the block was still warranted (if it wasn't, I would have canceled it as soon as I realized my mistake, which was one hour into the block).  Sorry for the confusion.  -- Cyde↔Weys  00:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Spam #2
You are receiving this message, because you signed up to my spamlist

I'm sure many of you who are using monobook have noticed recently an ugly sitenotice saying something about wikimania and scholarships. Well, to remove that, put the following in your monobook.css:

/* REMOVE THAT UGLY SITENOTICE */

display: none; }
 * 1) siteNotice {

I hope this is of any help to you!

Thanks, -- GeorgeMoney T&middot;C 19:08, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Ace Combat Zero
Yes, indeed, the game is awesome. The production values are so high, especially the music. Besides being a lot of fun, it's a lot more immersive and compelling than most games. Plus, 75% of the cinematics are other aces talking about how awesome you are. The game developers realize that flattery works wonders :-D  Cyde↔Weys  17:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the support!

 * Sorry you missed support #100 though. :D <i style="color:#FF00FF;">~Kylu ( u | t ) </i> 07:13, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Star Trek/Doctor Who userboxes
Hello The ed17. Let me thank you for supporting my case concerning the Star Trek userboxes and a kind offer to save them from a complete deletion). However, after some testing I had to come to the conclusion that the proposed solution would not deprive Wikipedia of having separate categories for each of the Star Trek series. Thus, my comment on the template page was unintentionally misleading for which I truly apologise. I wish you happy editing and a speedy improvement of relations with your mother related to your computer privileges :-). RedZebra 03:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello there...you may not need to save them since there is only one that is used on a major scale, and that is the 9th Doctor one. All of the rest are virtually unused. &#151;Lady Aleena talk / contribs 09:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Monty Python TfD compromise
There is a compromise now posted on the TfD if you are still interested in this debate. One question, even though you are against this TfD, have you even taken the master template out for a test drive? &#151;Lady Aleena talk / contribs 08:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Guess who's back!
Hey Ed. Sorry it's been so long, but I've been up to a lot this summer and Wikipedia and especially Warwiki faded from my mind. But now I'm back so I'll need you to fill me in on anything and everything that needs doing. Give me a message ASAP. I'll see what I can do.

By the way, one of the things I did over the summer was play Ace Combat 5. Very good game. Love the music. Didn't like Ace Combat Zero quite as much, though. General Aurum 03:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)