User talk:とある白い猫/Archive/2007/08

RfC
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Ned_Scott&curid=12495646&diff=148369197&oldid=148339044

Totally didn't see that one coming :P

I find it odd that you are including in your evidence things that I'm openly admitting to on the talk page itself, such as the minor dispute with Freak. Are you that desperate to try to discredit me? Reposting stuff that I just said, trying to spin it around? Sorry, it's not going to work. -- Ned Scott 04:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Civility should be observed at all times especially on an RFC claiming that you are breaching the policy. I do not "discredit" people. I am merely posting a comment you made as additional evidence. Frankly I am confused with your comment. Would you mind elaborating? -- Cat chi? 17:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Turkopedia
Merhaba WhiteCat!

I want to create an encyclopedia on the Wikia website called Turkopedia. It will be in English, and will be all about everything to do with Turkey and Turkish people.

Unfortunately I need at least 20 people (including me, so there's 19 people left) to assist me in this project. Would you like to take part?

Onur 16:52, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

RFC
Would it be okay if I went through the RFC and trimmed out stuff not directly related to your dispute? I think you would stand a better chance of achieving something useful if you did that. --Tony Sidaway 18:20, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I could do that but I have some concerns... If you can address these, I'd be more than happy to do as you ask.
 * I want this to be resolved without the involvement of arbcom but that appears increasingly unlikely as Ned Scott's behaviour hasn't been improving at all and has been getting worse. His attitude is outright hostile now. He is displaying incivility even at the talk page of the RFC. When I point it out, he complained about it again in not a very civil tone.
 * Also, my complaint about Ned Scott isn't just about his behaviour towards me but his general behavior towards others such as yourself. If this does go to arbcom, I want to be able to present a "complete" rfc.
 * How about separating the evidence to two sections/lists? Would that be an acceptable compromise?
 * -- Cat chi? 18:37, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Not at all. You bring up things that are not issues and attack my character for your sig changes, and that's what it comes down to. My behavior on Wikipedia is fine, and finding a handful of examples out of thousands doesn't change reality. I might be harsh with you, but given the total nonsense you tend to put the community through, I'm doing pretty good. There will be no resolution, and no, there will be no arbcom. You've turned an RfC into an attack, plain and simple. You've blown up a minor issue way past what it should have been. I've taken minimal effort to defend myself in the RfC, simply because it's not worth the time. If you think you can throw an arbcom case at me, I'll be glad to prove you wrong on every point of your complaint. -- Ned Scott 02:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I stand corrected. -- Cat chi? 05:41, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Would you please let me trim that complaint? It's distracting many editors from the problem at hand. --Tony Sidaway 12:43, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * You are more than welcome to, you do not need my permission for that. I trust you more than that. :) -- Cat chi? 14:05, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I really think you should get rid of everything not directly related to the current dispute. There is a feeling that you're throwing the kitchen sink at him.  Those matters are not really to be resolved on this RfC. --Tony Sidaway 19:52, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, pretty much. It seems that Cat is using RFC as a step-towards-Arbcom, rather than an attempt to actually resolve anything. Regardless of whether that's his intent, it just looks iffy. I'm not sure how responsive the medcom is these days, perhaps one of them could intervene?  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  12:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Or perhaps you could add a section at the bottom, "statement by Tony", that briefly explains what is actually going on here, without all the superfluosity.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  13:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There is nothing to mediate so long as Ned Scott maintains his current uncivil tone. Mediation can only work in a civil environment. -- Cat chi? 15:02, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

This is my third and final request. The RfC will fail unless you permit me to edit the complaint to make a coherent description of the current dispute. If you do not grant me this request, I will have to remove my certification. --Tony Sidaway 15:16, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * "You are more than welcome to, you do not need my permission for that. I trust you more than that." means you are more than welcome to edit the rfc with or without my permission because I trust you. I do not understand why you put a "I will have to remove my certification" up there? -- Cat chi? 15:22, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * My fault, I didn't see your reply to my second request. I was saying I'd remove certification if the RfC remained in its current (unsatisfactory) form. --Tony Sidaway 16:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. It was partially my fault too since I did not update the thread here and at my talk page. Simple misunderstandings... :) -- Cat chi? 16:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Categories for discussion/Speedy
I see that you have been closing requests in this area and that your bot has been actioning them. You may not be aware that your actions, such as here, are in conflict with the instructions on the page. I have no doubt that you have good intentions, but I'm going to ask that you please stop closing these requests and please stop performing the moves until such time as these requests are closed properly and listed at Categories for discussion/Working. If you would like to discuss this, please respond here (not on my page) as I have added this page to my watchlist. --After Midnight 0001 13:51, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Practically all of the cases were simple capitalization fixes/typos. I did not think further discussion on the specific cases were necesary. In the future I can wait for debates to be moved to that page in question. I just wanted to accelerate things as the backlog was filling up unnecessarily. I can however do as you ask though I really feel cutting back on bureaucracy would be beneficial. -- Cat chi? 16:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The problem is not one of too much bureaucracy. Speedy exists so that something doesn't need to wait the entire 5 days for a decision, but speedies do still need to wait the 48 hours prescribed.  Items are not considered backlogged until after the 48 hours is completed.  Like I said, I know your intentions are good, so I don't want to make a big deal of this, it is just that sometimes even the obvious ones do receive legitimate objections during that 48 hour window. --After Midnight 0001 17:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wikimood meter
No, they should stay as they are. Besides, "depressed" is a less-intense emotion than "frustrated". I labelled these wikimoods so that the emotions are more intense the further they are from the zero point. --  Denelson83  23:59, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Freer Gallery of Art images
Thanks, in light of that I'll move them to Commons soon.--PericlesofAthens 19:14, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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 * Why not. Go right ahead. -- Cat chi? 17:45, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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RFC
Hope you don't mind, but I've removed Ned Scott's RFC from the list of open RfCs, because I think it's resolved and it wouldn't make sense to flaunt that dead dispute. Please do restore it if you disagree. --Tony Sidaway 20:19, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope the "dispute" is over. Time will tell if it has. -- Cat chi? 20:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I just noticed people are still editing that page. I do not know what to make of it. :) -- Cat chi? 20:53, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, User:Melsaran edited it, the first in ten days. That's why I thought it as well to give it some kind of formal closure.  I hope that you and Ned will be able to co-exist from now on.  I know that both of you will inform me if this proves difficult. --Tony Sidaway 21:06, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Nope
Sorry, but I don't know anything about anime, and don't really have any interest in it. There are lots of people who know Japanese and are into anime, though, so keep looking!  Madler  21:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Inquiry/What articles?
Would you be interested in help expanding a series of Anime related articles? I need help from a Japanese speaking person to add material from Japanese sources. -- Cat chi? 17:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It would mostly depend on what articles you're hoping to expand. I'd be happy to help if it's an anime that I know something about, but I, unfortunately, don't have the time right now to read up from scratch about anime I've never heard of.  Feel free to post a list of articles on my talk page and I'll let you know.  Thanks!  -Sarfa 23:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * For now my focus is mostly for the articles on Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Aa! Megami-sama!). More specifically articles on the featured list "List of Oh My Goddess episodes". I want to start with the article You're a Goddess?.
 * A concern was raised that the articles in question did not have adequate out of universe material such as information on the production or information on the cultural references such as the reception it received. Information on ratings, awards a particular episode received would also be a helpful addition.
 * If you could help perfect just one of the articles, I could use it as a metric for future reference. Of course I would more than welcome any additional help as well.
 * -- Cat chi? 10:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I would be honored to, but I need some links where I can find useful information. :D
 * I am going to do a huge amount of editing to Ah! My Goddess: The Movie. Can you give me some suggestions? Thanks.
 * Greg Jones II 16:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thats part of the problem. Information is mostly in Japanese as the show it self is of Japan origin. I bet there are Anime critics out there (there are critics for everything) but I do not know how to acquire that information. Just like their western counterparts, I bet there are sites documenting ratings of spesific shows. But I do not know where these sites are.
 * As for the movie, I am uncertain where to look for them. Have you tried checking out featured movie articles?
 * I really want to work on the episode articles first since movie article is less problematic.
 * -- Cat chi? 17:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Some sites include Rotten Tomatoes or the Internet Movie Database or any TV or movie websites that have reviews, just to clarfy. Greg Jones II 20:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Do those qualify as reliable sources? -- Cat chi? 21:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I think the official Japanese and English Ah My Goddess websites also qualify as reliable sources. Greg Jones II 21:32, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Official sites of course qualify. :) Would Anime News Network site qualify as a reliable source I wonder. -- Cat chi? 22:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The ANN site would qualify, yes. Greg Jones II 22:10, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, DVD commentaries and published episode guides can also be qualified. Greg Jones II 17:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but I have no access to such commentaries. :( -- Cat chi? 15:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking me to help! I will try to add stuff that is Wikipedia-quality, but my translations, as some of my friends say, are not entirely correct or have slight meaning variations. Having someone double-check my edits would help...GreenRunner0 00:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That is ok. I will check after you :) -- Cat chi? 15:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Username change
Hi I was wondering what tool have you used. I want to preform similar edits for my former username. -- Cat chi? 10:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No tool, just faced paced editing and automatic edit summaries remembered by my computer. :) — M o e   ε  10:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I see. Would you consider the use of a tool for the task disruptive? -- Cat chi? 10:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm moving at a fairly face pace and I'm leary of trying not to be disruptive. A bot is considerably faster than me, so it probably shouldn't be used for a task like this. I'm also getting rid of my old name because of real life, not because I don't like prefer the name anymore, so that may or may not be a factor. — M o e   ε  11:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * A bot edit would not register on the watchlist of peoples and would be safely ignored by people aside from those who want to explicitly see it. I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything by the way. Bots would be more efficient in dealing with the task. -- Cat chi? 13:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure a bot would be approved for this work, but you're more than willing to try again (as it's my understanding that you tried once). I know you weren't trying to accuse me of anything :) — M o e   ε  13:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Right now some people has the belief is that signature alterations is something completely controversial. Their belief wont change if enough people say the contrary. Bots can only be used for non-controversial tasks and for me sig corrections are jaw-dropingly non-controversial. I was wondering your personal stance. -- Cat chi? 13:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's mostly non-controversial, the only issue with it is that it wastes time to do so, but it's my time to waste for the sake of privacy. For bots, approval for a single task like yours, is probably unneeded and would probably get shot down for bot status. You probably shouldn't get more trouble if you start it again, but I'm not making guarentees. — M o e   ε  13:47, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Bot people had painted a different picture during my second request for bot approval which was shot down immediately. The discussion didn't even lasted half a day. I want a 3rd request with this "consensus" that sig fixes are nothing controversial. I am pretty much unsure on how to gather this consensus. I do not want to start a poll on this. -- Cat chi? 14:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * If they feel that strongly for bots to not change them, maybe you could just continue manually. I never really got any guff from it, you really shouldn't get any either. If you feel inclined to remove your old sig, there shouldn't be anything to stop you, but getting a bot approval may just be a waste of time and get unwanted results. Just remove some manually every day in non-masses and ease it in so no "disruption" is possible. — M o e   ε  14:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)