User talk:Andonic/Archive 6

Appreciation Week
It had been one of Esperanza's goals to recognize those who had made major contributions, particularly considering that several of the individuals who may have made such contributions might have made them in such a way, perhaps by contributions to a variety of separate things, that they are not recognized. I'm afraid I don't know specifically what you meant by "mass awards", but possibly, I would personally have no real objections to having the individual projects give out awards to whomever they see to have earned them, even if that were to be only a comparatively small award. Exactly what sort of and how many awards might be given out would I think clearly be at the discretion of the individual groups, and really not my place to say. But, I guess, one of my primary reasons for proposing this is that a lot of editors have over the years noticed that the efforts of several valuable contributors have gone unnoticed, and that, in some cases, this might have lead to the reduced activity in wikipedia and possibly in some cases leaving of wikipedia by those parties. Again, I really don't know of any specific details I could offer, because I don't think that it would be my place at this point to make any such detailed proposals. Whether the awards would be given out to major accomplishments, length of service, or at all would be really up to the discretion of the individual groups. Also, one thing that might be true in some cases is that some of these groups might not exactly look to act in this way very often, and maybe receiving a prompt like this would perhaps make several of their members ultimately feel more valuable and appreciated, which wouldn't be a bad thing. I hope that this rather incoherent response satisfies you at least a little. But, again, I'm really at this point only proposing the idea, it wouldn't be my place to say exactly how it should be enacted, if at all. Badbilltucker 17:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Help
Hello my friend. I have seen you made couple of copyediting. Can you please check my recently created articles? I have some problems with grammar etc. They are at: PZKO, Głos Ludu and Kongres Polaków. Thank you! - Darwinek 20:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! It looks much better now. - Darwinek 11:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza
I'm not sure whether or not you are familiar with this but Esperanza is being put up for deletion. What is your view on this sutuation? I find this very ironic seeing Esperanza's definition in Spanish literally is "Hope".-- ¿  Why  1  9  9  1  ESP. | Sign Here 04:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

A new Picture.
Hi AndonicO! I just took a new picture not to long ago. I personally think it is the best I have taken so far due to the clarity, here it is. What do you think, while the bars are unattractive I think the statue looks pretty good :D. Thanks and I saw your recent nomination at the FPC looks pretty good. &mdash; Arjun  15:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Definition
Noob has the word new in it but in a gramatically incorrect way. It means one is ignorant, stupid, or unexperienced in whatever certain field in is being explanied in. Ex. (You're playing Warcraft and you make what would be a dumb comment if it were an experienced player. Someone walks up to you then calls you a noob.) But pretty much most people consider any person that is a newcomer a noob when truly that is to broad to base the term. Well happy editing I've got to get back to those noobs and reply to their comments. -- ¿  Why  1  9  9  1  ESP. | Sign Here 15:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Need a bit of help...
Hey Andonic,

I was wondering if you could help me out with my work on the Space warfare in fiction page, which I spun off from Space warfare a while ago. It has been prodded for deletion (rightly so, in fact) because it is mostly original research (which it is). I need a bit of help in getting it properly sourced and referenced (as well as cutting down the OR), as I don't have much experience in those fields. Any help you could give would be appreciated. Thanks!  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  01:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help man. I had been working on that page (little edits) for so long (at least, over such a long period) that I didn't source it. I guess I hoped that due to the size of Wikipedia, it wouldn't be found until it was in good shape.  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  19:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the irony is crueler than that: I tagged my own work with the original research tag when I first spun it off. In hindsight, that was a stupid idea.  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  19:57, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...
... for your holiday greetings. Have a great new year! --Dschwen 13:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Link
I know how to make a picture into a link for something inside of Wikipedia but would you happen to know how to make an external link to another site by clicking on a picture? Thanks. -- ¿  Why  1  9  9  1  ESP. | Sign Here 22:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

New Year
Hope you don't mind that I kind of custimized your idea for the New Years.

A very Happy New Year, AndronicO. I'm sorry I did not reply to your Christmas greeting, but I have only just returned from a trip to South America. Love, Clio the Muse 23:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

New Year
 Wishing you a Happy New Year from  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  04:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year!!
''' Happy New Year !!!! I wish for you and your family to have a wonderful 2007!!! Have fun partying and may you make many edits!!!  <font style="background:#7FFF00">Reywas92''' <font style="background:#00ff7f">Talk<font style="background:#BFFF00">Sign Here 00:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year!!!
Eugene 2x  <sup style="color:#000099;">Sign here  ☺   01:54, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

My competition
<font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="6">I am pleased to invite you and every person on Wikipedia to participate in my story writing competition. To read more about this click on the question mark in my name. Littleghostboo [ talk  ] 07:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Whoa, Baby!
Hi, my mom is having twins, would you please vote for names and spread the word? Thanks, heres the link User:Shaericell/Name for mom's twins.--SHAERICELL!!!!! (is slightly crazy)  Talker to!

Happy New Year
Have a joyful New Year, AndonicO! I hope you've enjoyed 2006, and that 2007 will be another memorable year. The sad thing is, though, that now we've got to wait a long time for another holiday. --Bowlhover 05:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings
Hi Andonico. Thanks for the lovely Christmas message. Unfortunately I've only just now received it, as my system crashed the week before Christmas and it's taken till today to get it going again. At least I now have broadband rather than dialup - but at the cost of an enforced 12-day Wiki-break. Have a great year and all the best. Jack. JackofOz 09:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you so much for the b'day wishes! . All the best for the new year!--thunderboltz<sup style="color:green;">(Deepu) 13:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Problem solved
omfg you have no IDEA  how hard that was. :O D•a•r•k•n • e • s•s•L•o•r•d • i•a•n ••• CCD ••• 20:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * So, my score was a state of emergecny? interesting. if you would like, i could notify all applicable parties of position changes when I once again take the lead? If this is preferable, please let me know. Thanks! (lol, i thought it was kind of funny actually) -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No need, Kreider. (Wow that sounded punkish compared to what I say alot XD) I've already got a 300 lead on you. Perhaps I could notify you when I WIN! ) Humor warning to the left.


 * But seriously, Andon, I've got a 300 lead on him! It will take a lot for him to catch up. :D...... how do I do it? D•a•r•k•n • e • s•s•L•o•r•d • i•a•n ••• CCD ••• 22:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no idea. I check for added questions, I look in-between the lines, that kind of thing. Eventually, I crawl my way up to a very high score. D•a•r•k•n • e • s•s•L•o•r•d • i•a•n ••• CCD ••• 11:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy Belated New Year's
Likewise. &Oslash;&#345; &ecirc;   &#333;&#351;  23:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Tamil people
Hey there. Thanks for helping me out. Just letting you know that when you see something like murals in the wikicode, it's just a trick to bypass murals. No need to convert the former to the latter. They both show up as murals. :) Gzkn 01:09, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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What is going on with the Main Page?
Why is everybody talking about the Main Page and Teletubbies and the penis article? Did I miss something?-- C  J   King  00:56, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello from a main page regular
Recent vandal attacks on the main page where an 'interesting' picture has been snuck in via unprotected subparts of the main page have been annoying at the least - Yes it's true. It has been one or two lapses of concentration by admins who forgot to protect something that they placed on the front page templates. Admins are human, they do make mistakes. Everyone has been poked and reminded. I'm not saying that it won't happen again, but everything that should be done has.

However.

What should happen when such a vandal attacks? Within minutes someone with admin ability spots it, quietly reverts it and covers the cracks that the vandal oozed in via. The vandal is blocked, defeated and deflated, they move on.

What does happen when such a vandal attacks? Everyone, their dog, cat, hamster and rabbits swamp this talk page with "OMG!11!! I'M OFFENDED!! ARGH! ARGH! MY EYES WTF!" style messages of outrage and indignation. The vandal says "HAR HAR PWND! I EMS TEH 1337", posts several taunting messages about how good they are and revels in the afterglow of their nuclear attack.

Eventually, within minutes someone with admin ability spots it, reverts it and covers the cracks that the vandal oozed in via. The vandal is blocked and moves on with a self-satified smug smile and sticky underpants.

''People. If you get all up in arms about it, you're feeding the vandal's ego. Just let it pass. It will be reverted within minutes.'' --Monotonehell 10:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello from a main page regular
Recent vandal attacks on the main page where an 'interesting' picture has been snuck in via unprotected subparts of the main page have been annoying at the least - Yes it's true. It has been one or two lapses of concentration by admins who forgot to protect something that they placed on the front page templates. Admins are human, they do make mistakes. Everyone has been poked and reminded. I'm not saying that it won't happen again, but everything that should be done has.

However.

What should happen when such a vandal attacks? Within minutes someone with admin ability spots it, quietly reverts it and covers the cracks that the vandal oozed in via. The vandal is blocked, defeated and deflated, they move on.

What does happen when such a vandal attacks? Everyone, their dog, cat, hamster and rabbits swamp this talk page with "OMG!11!! I'M OFFENDED!! ARGH! ARGH! MY EYES WTF!" style messages of outrage and indignation. The vandal says "HAR HAR PWND! I EMS TEH 1337", posts several taunting messages about how good they are and revels in the afterglow of their nuclear attack.

Eventually, within minutes someone with admin ability spots it, reverts it and covers the cracks that the vandal oozed in via. The vandal is blocked and moves on with a self-satified smug smile and sticky underpants.

''People. If you get all up in arms about it, you're feeding the vandal's ego. Just let it pass. It will be reverted within minutes.'' --Monotonehell 10:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Quick note
Somewhere at sometime, it was discussed to not mention WP:AIAV when warning users. This is so that we don't have vandalism to AIAV when vandalizing users click the link and go to the page, and perhaps continue to vandalize. Think WP:BEANS.

Also, I've added a few questions of my own to the test. :) If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 21:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Psychology
Hi AndonicO. Welcome to the Psychology WikiProject! Feel free to introduce yourself on the talk page. /<tt>skagedal</tt>... 22:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The prank
Wow, AndonicO you have really fooled me with your prank. When I clicked on new messages, when I got to your prank page, I thought someone had vandalised my talk page! <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 23:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I wonder what's going to happen when someone goes to your talkk page and the actually do have messages, that user is going to be wondering why it says that he/she has new messages twice! <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 23:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * That happened to me once. There were 2 orange bars stacked on each other. I had already fallen for, so I clicked on the right one, but it was interesting nonetheless.  T ennis  Dy N ami T e  (sign here) 02:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Your prank is a great example of a computer prank. <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 17:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * yeah it pretty funny. lol. --Foundby 08:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thnx
thnx for the welcome template, its good to start a talk page in a positive step. --Foundby 08:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstars!
Hi Andonic! That was really nice of you, and rest assured it means just as much to me as my first one! --Fir0002 11:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes
Hey, AndonicO, check out my userbox page. <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 17:24, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Name
That was so unfair! :) Right now I can't stay on WP for long and may not be on any time soon, but I hae not left it so feel free to leave me a note. I was hoping to send out New Years "cards" but I'll probably just add a note in the Winterval one... Hope you had a happy New YEar, "Andy" :)! &mdash; ¡ Rand fan  !  <sup style="font-family:papyrus; color:darkred;">Sign here?  18:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

your userbox page
lol, yeah, I thought you were someone else. :P -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 23:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, but you were #1 once, if not for a day. -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 01:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

!
Hi AndonicO, do you want to go to my fun house to have some fun?! Ignore any orange bars (unless there is two orange bars of course!). --<em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 02:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually don't ignore the orange bar. I changed things a bit. <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 02:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * There are new games now! <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 16:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * In the trivia, you got 4.5 out of 6. Good work! <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 12:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * To see what you got right or wrong go to the fun house's talk page. By the way, when you sent me a message, I was in the fun house, so I saw double orange bars! <em style="color:orange;font-style:normal">Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 12:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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-- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 20:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Featured Pictures
Congratulations, and thanks for taking it for us. Raven4x4x 07:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * And another nomination was promoted! You get the extra special double-congratulations template! Raven4x4x 07:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Walnut Pictures
Well I wasn't the one taking the pictures. ;-) -- Tewy  19:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I know what you meant, and I was complimenting you! -- Tewy  20:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations on the double FPC promotion! Thanks for the kind words about my user page. Happy editing! SD31415  (SIGN HERE)  23:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I am now 14. It feels great now that I can finally stay out past 8:00. And I can date, though I don't have a desire. Triplets in our newest ultrasound. -- Shaericell  Talker to   Triplets!!!!!!!!!! Most recent Ultrasound shows three heart beats and three heads!  [[Special:Emailuser/Shaericell|| Email Me 02:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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Guess what...
I have a sig again. :) &mdash; Arjun  19:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Review
Hey please Review me if you can, I would really appreciate it. Arjun 01:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

B2 Image
I removed the B2 image from United States not because of its quality, but because it was intruding into the Administrative section, causing nasty looking knock out of the other images. Since the section already had an image, I figured it would not hurt to lose it, for sleekness sake. All and all, good picture, but the article was getting cramped.--Primal Chaos 01:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Dates/Years
Are all the years supposed to be linked? I began doing that, but I'll stop until someone clarifies. | A ndonic O  Talk 00:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Full dates should be linked to allow user preferences to work. Years by themselves should almost never be linked. See Manual of Style (dates and numbers) —MJBurrage • TALK  • 02:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll stay
I'll come out of retirement but there still is a chance I will leave. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 02:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Review?
Thank you for the review! I found it greatly helpful, recently I have been weaning myself of of Vandalism reverting and more time on harder tasks such as Copy editing and clean up. On another note I did greatly help Hinduism to Good article status :). So at least I have that, oh and I answered your question. Cheers! Arjun  15:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Feel free to ask me more questions on my editor review :) Arjun  15:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

"Vandalism"
Hello,

I see that you have called my edit of the image description of the Esperanza logo "vandalism", and have threatened to block me. I would like to object to this. Although I never took the plunge and joined Esperanza, I visited the Esperanza page often, and I distinctly recall that during the process of creating a logo, different people contributed different letters, which were put together to form the Esperanza logo.

Although I agree that it might be wrong that each letter was contributed by a different person, this was an error of wording and not intentional vandalism. I think you acted too hastily by placing a vandalism warning on my talk page -- and even one that's usually reserved for people repeatedly and blatantly vandalising pages and not used as a first warning -- and I therefore request that you remove this warning from my talk page.

As for the wording in the image description, would you think that writing "letters from different contibutors were put together to form the final logo" would be acceptable? This is still correct, even if one person might have made more than one letter.

I appreciate your response in this matter. 193.217.243.135 15:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I agree that my first wording was unclear, but it was not intended as vandalism. I'll try to write more clearly next time. 193.217.243.135 15:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Your userbox
There's no "problem" with the omnipotence paradox or whatever but how do you know the user is a he? 5 days  to go... ! Us e  r:Sp3000  22:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No I didn't...did he/she admit to it? 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  23:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it's a paradox-

5 days  to go... ! Us e  r:Sp3000  23:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If she/he talked about Tooj117, he/she would have been said to know about Tooj117 and be banned as sock puppet anyway
 * If he/she didn't talk about Tooj117...that's what happened anyway
 * Anyway, we must look on the bright side. :) BTW, I love it when I'm reading your talk page when there's TWO "new message" boxes! 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  23:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

5 days  to go... ! Us e  r:Sp3000  23:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Were you upset because another user from Wikipedia is leaving? (20)
 * Did you actually cry and sob just because a Wikipedian is leaving? (50)
 * Did you suffer chronic depression because of the above question? (200 and a psychiatrist appointment)
 * Did you beg them not to leave? (15)
 * More than once? (20)
 * All I get from those five is the first to...I swear I'm half-crying/sobbing! I mean...look at Sd's contributions! 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  23:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You have to feel depressed. This might help. ;-) | A ndonic O  Talk 23:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * YOu just had to do that didn't you...better get 300 edits soon. :) 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  23:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've got it too! 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  23:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It had to be changed, Essjay's is quick but lacks the "splitting up into categories." 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  00:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Did you ever use the "real" kate edit counter? I never did. | A ndonic O  Talk 00:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Neither did I, by the time I started editing it already wasn't available. 5 days   to go... !  Us  e  r:Sp3000  00:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

My page
Actually, I used the portal layout to design my own page. :P -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 23:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep. See Portal/Instructions for more info, except don't forget to ignore all the portal-related rules. -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 00:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Very good. Although at the beginning there's hardly anything on the right. -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 11:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * lol same time as way back, too. It could be Babel. Try moving the babel to the bottom and see what happens. alright g2g 2 school for six hours. bye -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 11:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Your walnut
Don't mention it. Sorry for the late reply, but school has resumed, so don't expect me to be around too often...and I was fooled, yes. -- Alt  iris   Exeunt  08:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Cool
I like your userbox. By the way I spent like 5 minutes reading that omnipotence paradox before I even understood what it was asking. I have thought about stuff like that before, but never new that there was a paradox for it. Plus congrats on getting your picture nominated. Cu l8er (seeing that you struggle with slang such as noob and rofl this means see you later in 1337 [ Just incase you don't know what 1337 means it means leet which is basically computer talk ] ) 12:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

My RFA
Hey, thanks so much for supporting my recent RFA. A number of editors considered that I wasn't ready for the mop yet and unfortunately the RFA did not succeed (69/26/11). There are a number of areas which I will be working on (including changing my username) in the next few months in order to allay the fears of those who opposed my election to administrator.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for your support over the past week. I've been blown away by the level of interest taken in my RFA and appreciate the time and energy dedicated by all the editors who have contributed to it, support, oppose and neutral alike. I hope to bump into you again soon and look forward to serving you and Wikipedia in any way I can. Cheers! The Rambling Man 18:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC) (the non-admin, formerly known as Budgiekiller)


 * You thought I was a sysop already. What more can I say? Thanks a million! The Rambling Man 18:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)