User talk:Astanhope/2006Q1Q2archive

Admin Nomination
I have nominated you for admin here.--Bltpdx 23:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Brandon. After some solid feedback I've decided to withdraw my nomination and continue gaining experience as an editor.  Hopefully someone will nominate me again sometime later this year.  --AStanhope 02:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your RfA Support
The RfA page is a rough room! Your appreciation of my "shill" joke was, in turn, appreciated by me. Thx, Adam - --AStanhope 23:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, tell me about it. My first RFA went down in flames too. But my second one succeeded just recently :) Hang on a couple of more months, rack up 2000 edits or so and then get someone to nominate you again (you can ask me to do it and I will if you contributions look good to me). The best thing to do now is to pull your current nomination - it's a tough crowd to please. - Haukur 23:31, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Al Franken page
The reference was listed. It is from Mohr's autobiography and it helps frame why Franken was never elevated above feature player status, which is relevant to his career.Trilemma 03:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The fact that he spent more seasons than anyone else on the show but was never promoted to full castmember status is an interesting and notable piece of trivia. The fact that Jay Mohr mentions a castmember giving a reason why in his book adds more weight to it. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's not valid. Trilemma 05:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks a lot for the cleanup of Hungary-related articles! Adam78 12:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, Adam,

Thanks for your offering and for the other cleanup works. I've been thinking about which articles I should ask you to look through but I could only have made a link to my user page where my more or less significant contributions are listed – and I'm glad to see the improvement of any of them. My favorite is Hungarian grammar (written in UK spelling, because one of its main contributors was an Englishman) but it may be out of your interest. I'm happy to see whichever article you feel like cleaning up.

I have three questions:
 * Why did you remove two links from Sziget? They seemed to be functioning and quite relevant, although their descriptions were not the best.
 * I think you are talking about Hungarian language and Table football, no? I felt like Hungarian language was self-explanatory there, and I switched table football to foosball to eliminate the American English vs. the rest of the world as to what exactly football means (as opposed to American football or soccer).
 * No; I meant these two links: Another website Detailed introduction. Their description could be improved but I think they could be left in.Adam78 01:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I remember now. I deleted them because I thought that they were redundant.  I will put them back when I fix the page.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention!  --AStanhope 05:47, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * In the City Park article, there is a bit of misunderstanding: the whole park is not part of the World Heritage, only Andrássy Avenue, which leads to it, and Heroes' Square, which is only a little part of the park itself. Would you please correct these in the article?
 * In the City Park article: it was written "easily available from the centre" because the Budapest Metro takes you there quickly. I don't know if "close to the city center" is also true because it's about one mile away (some may find it more than walking distance).


 * I will fix these things and I will be less bold/more careful in the future. Thanks for pointing the problems out to me.  --AStanhope 14:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Adam78 14:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

"Urban and Suburban Transit Association" or "... Transport Association"?
Hi, I'd like to ask for your opinion in an ESL question. There is an organization named Urban and Suburban Transit Association and I wonder if it should be named "Urban and Suburban Transport Association" instead. Do you think the current version is all right in English or not? It seems that the Hungarian representatives use the existing name in English but newspapers like The Budapest Sun and The Budapest Times (which are partly written by native speakers of English) use "transport" in the name (see its talk page, if you're interested in the links). Thanks in advance. Adam78 18:13, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! If both are correct, the ultimate question is which is "the most commonly used English version of the name" but I see that both have very few hits in Google so it can remain as it is for me. Adam78 18:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Hi, thanks for participating in my RfA discussion. Unfortunately, my fellow Wikipedians have decided at this time that I am not suitable to take on this additional responsibility, as the RfA failed with a result of 66/27/5 (71.0% support). If you voted in support of my request, thank you! If you decided to oppose me at this time, then I hope that if I do choose to reapply in the future, the effort I will make in the meantime to improve and expand my contributions to Wikipedia may persuade you to reconsider your position. All the best, Proto t c 15:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Barrington Hall and Le Polidor
The answer is "yes" as to both! :-) I have some contacts with USCA management & alumni association, and hope to get permission to use some old photos.

I saw Le Polidor as a redlink in the VIe_arrondissement, and am working on an article right now. It's a great old place with a number of famous diners, and I ate there about a year ago. Cheers, MCB 19:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I ended up getting busy with some other projects that have to be completed before I leave on a trip tomorrow, so I did not get the Polidor article together. It sounds like you are probably more familiar with the place, so please feel free to start the article. I was going to title it Crémerie-Restaurant Polidor since that is its full formal name, with "Polidor" and "Le Polidor" as redirects for common searches. I think that is what WP:MOS encourages, but I don't have a strong opinion. MCB 19:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Larry the Cable Guy / Andover
I'm wondering about your recent additions...do you have a source? I was unable to find any stuff online, and I'd never heard that in my years at the school, and the list of alumni is pretty regularly vandalized by andover students (as well as other prep school students) to include themselves, chuck norris, or anyone else the feel would be funny. As a result, I quickly reverted the edit. I didn't touch the Larry the Cable Guy article, but I would be interested in seeing a source. --jfg284 you were saying? 11:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source? --jfg284 you were saying? 22:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Dick Cheney Jokes
Steve: Here's that link to the Dick Cheney Jokes I mentioned at dinner. Funny stuff. I wish I was creative enough to contribute.

Nice Move
Removing that democrat reference, I removed it once before, but I didn't want to get nasty about it. Seems I'm not the only one who thought it was kind of weird that it was listed in one of the opening sentences.--M4bwav 22:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Date links
Since you have taken an interest in date links. Please be kind enough to vote for my new bot application. bobblewik 20:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Polidor
Finally got around to writing a short article about the Polidor. Please take a look. I also didn't realize until shortly before creating it that a previous article had been deleted via AfD, so I addressed that on the Talk page. Best regards, MCB 23:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Ring tone
Sorry, I had to remove the following two links from Ring tone: These should not be included in the external links section. Please see WP:NOT. Monkeyman(talk) 20:25, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
 * forty fivemovie.com/mp3/lamisc/ringtones/phone_ring_2x.mp3
 * fortyfivemo vie.com/mp3/lamisc/ringtones/euroring.mp3
 * Moving to Talk:Ring_tone. Let's continue discussion there.  [[Image:Monkeyman.png]]Monkeyman(talk) 20:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

What tнe ♯$*! Do ωΣ (k)πow!?
Hello there. I was the one who originally changed deaf to mute. I read the article right after seeing the film, and the main character is certainly not deaf. I'm not sure she's a mute either, but that's what I read on IMDB, so I guessed her speech disorder was covered by mute. I've changed it just now to read "a photographer with a speech disorder" I've written a little about it on the talk page. Just to let you know, if you eant to say why you think she's deaf.

She is not a mute, I originally wrote mute, since that's what I had read on IMDB. But I since read that a mute is one totally unable to speak. The changes I have now made is that she has a speech disorder. As I recall it, there was no indication that she had any hearing problems at all. But maybe I don't remember the movie that good, if you really feel this is so, please change it back, I won't change it again.

Your'e right, forgot about the sign language, I guess I must have thought it was because that was what she knew. I'll change it back to deaf, and add speech problem.

Hehe, thanks. You too.

Chloe Dao
No prob! Just doing my part. :) ( A rundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 12:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Ted Kennedy
I'll review this again in a few days, in the meantime, if you see lots of anon/newbie vandalism from multiple spots, takl page me and I'll get on it sooner. If it's the same person a block at AIV would be better though. -- xaosflux  Talk  / CVU  03:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

The TH
I live in Bangkok. But my heart is in Isan. Take care. Wisekwai 08:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Bangkok Article links
I'm a DMOZ editor and a moderator on several online forums, and I understand that you have to be vigilant against spam. The site that you deleted provides destination photos organized by area and category with satellite maps. Yes, it contains ads and links to hotel reservations. In case you live in a real world and you've picked up a newspaper lately, you should understand that this is how companies that provide free information of any value can afford to do so. I'd like to ask you to check other links in the same article and count the advertisements. The value of content, which you chose to ignore, not whether the site contains advertisements should be the deciding factor.

Thanks for your suggestion. I started a new section on Bankgkok Talk page. --Cityphoto 13:51, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Adam, I don't see any lively discussion or thumbs pointing either way about this link on the Bangkok Talk page. What did the khon dii collective decide? I understand that you were among the first Westerners to bring the internet to Thailand. I would like to continue this grandiose job. --Cityphoto 14:34, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Yet another date links proposal
Hi, you expressed an interest in link policy in the past. You may wish to see the proposal at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29 and vote whichever way you think is best. Thanks. bobblewik 18:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
You think I'm cool? *blushes and grins* - Thanks! You're cool, too! Fanficgurl - 3:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Redarding WATB
The article has been tagged for Transwiki to Wiktonary, but I'm not sure it belongs there either see. I'm taking it to AfD, hope you'll comment on it there. Tusen takk :). Eivindt@c 15:32, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thai translation
Hi, sorry to boher you, just picked your name at random (ok your name was first :P) from Category:User th. I can not verify the source of this image th:ภาพ:LongBuilding.jpg, but there is some text there that I do not understand. Could you help me translate it and help me figure out if there is any source cited for it. The image has been copied here as Image:LongBuilding.jpg and it simply points to the Thai Wiki... --Sherool (talk) 19:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking the trouble :) --Sherool (talk) 11:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Astanhope. I also basically picked your name out at random from the list of users with near-fluency in Thai. I help with Pages needing translation into English, where an article in Thai has been sitting unattended. Could you please have a look at it? We really just need to know if it's appropriate for Wikipedia or not (notable subject, not a copyright violation, proper style, not spam, etc.). A note on the project page below the article listing would be great; we'll take things from there. Thanks so much! -Fsotrain09 05:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Description of MalkinWatch
Hi. We've both just edited the description of MalkinWatch in the Michelle Malkin article. The last few descriptions we've had were: I contend that description #1 leaves out the important aspect of the blog while giving irrelevant details, #2 (mine) is true but overly terse, and #4 (also mine) is accurate but still a bit too terse.
 * 1) "a blog which comments on Malkin established by 'Auguste' in December 2004"
 * 2) "an anti-Malkin blog"
 * 3) "a blog providing critical analysis of Malkin's work"
 * 4) "a blog devoted to criticising Malkin"

I've looked for some "critical analysis of Malkin's work" at MalkinWatch but all I found were hostile arguments and snark; hence my change to #4. Can you point me to any critical analysis on the blog? Comments welcome (here will do, I've autowatched this page), as are edits. Cheers, CWC (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for writing Chris. I would be happy with your #4 description above - "a blog devoted to criticising Malkin."  "anti-Malkin" really is simply too terse.  The site in question maintains a standard of decency, as far as I can tell, that trancends simply shitting on Malkin or calling her "slant-eyed," or "cunt."  I have seen instances, in fact, where commenters have been warned or banned there for simply making fun of her maiden name.  If you are happy with describing it as #4 then we're all set.  If you poke around that blog long enough, you'll even see occasional praise for or at a minimum, concurrence with Malkin.  --AStanhope 19:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, they handled the address-details spamming very well (as did most "left" websites). So #2 is not true, is it? Hmm. "a blog mostly devoted to criticising Malkin". I think I'll go with that. Cheers, CWC (talk) 08:11, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think you're maintaining your NPOV. An Aussie with an American political agenda. Yay!  --AStanhope 20:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh.
 * Actually, I've spent quite a bit of time over the last decade or so trying to understand American politics — not just in obvious things like foreign policy, but also in areas like intellectual property laws, corporate law reform, farm policy, etc. Short summary of my results so far: American politics works poorly, parliamentary democracy is far better. Is that POV enough? ;-)
 * More seriously, the U.S. system is a form of attention economy: legislative issues that don't attract public attention are often overly influenced by lobbyists. Bloggers such as Malkin, Kos, etc frequently attempt to increase public awareness of specific issues in order to overcome lobbyist pressure. (You could even argue that Kos is a kind of lobbyist himself.) My favourite examples: Porkbusters (a conscious effort to change the way politics is practiced), and the bipartisan blogosphere action which prevented blogs counting as campaign contributions.
 * So I think (hope?) blogs are important. They could/should be the solution to a significant problem of non-transparency in U.S. political practice.
 * Cheers, CWC (talk) 12:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Narragansett Beer Company
Hi Adam. I don't know if I'll "take it on", that sounds like a little bit too much ownership/responsibility for me :) j/k but I'll be happy to add it to my watchlist and edit/add as I can, no rush is there? I started to add to the history. I am a newbie so I don't want to plagerize/copyright infringe TOO much :). Do you know how that works and how footnotes/referrences should be used. I slashed/tweaked the article from http://www.breweriana.com/history/historygansett.html which was also on this Web site http://www.narragansettbeer.net/ Anyways lets just plug away at it and see what happens. Cheers!Tom 17:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

sProtect Ted Kennedy
Well, you seem to have me confused with someone else. I am no admin yet, although maybe at some point :). I will however bring it up with some that I know. :). Happy Editing. Crazynas 02:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, I am flattered that you thought so tho, even if it was because of formatting :). Anyhow, I'm not sure what the resolution is, have you brought sProtecting up on the talk page? Crazynas 02:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

3RR
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you.
 * PS: Even when you're right you still shouldn't revert more than 3 times in a day. Please discuss this on the article talk page. -Will Beback 23:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Cool - thanks for reminding me! --AStanhope 23:18, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Allah is in the House
I am puzzled as to why you renominated Allah Is in the House for deletion at this point. The article has hardly been touched since the result of the first debate was keep, and Allahpundit (the author) has only risen in notability since the debate as the main blogger at Michelle Malkin's Hot Air. As stated in Deletion_policy:
 * If and when you do renominate, be careful to say why you think the reasons proffered for keeping the article are poor, and why you think the article must be deleted.

So far, this has not been done. Calbaer 21:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * My bad - a mistake on my part. I *did* nominate it - and then I saw that it had just finished a cycle with a KEEP result.  I intended to go back and remove the nomination tag and forgot to do so. You are absolutely correct - there is no reason to renominate once it passed muster through that process.  Sloppiness on my part for not cleaning up after myself.  I'll fix it now if nobody has already fixed it.  Thanks for pointing it out to me!  --AStanhope 21:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Reducing unnecessary links
Just to let you know, I created a tool to reduce unnecessary date links. You are welcome to use it. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Astanhope/monobook.js. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. This will give you a 'Dates' tab to press in edit mode. Regards. bobblewik 16:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:RFA
You want the short 'I'll have a quick look, which is likely to miss things' version which I can probably do within a day or two, or the full RFA review version, which has a waiting list? Petros471 19:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, well the main thing that hits me looking through your contributions is not the relatively low number of edits (I have far lower standards on that count than AA below), but rather the lack of edits in the 'admin things'. Before submitting an WP:RFA you need to show that you have more experience in the sort of areas admins work in. That includes links like articles for deletion, recent changes patrol, and lots of other maintenance type things. These are generally pages that start with Wikipedia: (the Wikipedia namespace). People also look for talk (both article and user) page interaction, knowledge of policy as well as many other things. You can take a look at my personal RfA criteria for a guide, as well as other people's at Requests for adminship/Standards (please note that a lot of people seem to type lower edit counts on that page then they actually keep to, i.e generally 2000+ is more realistic than some the lower numbers on that page). Personally I dislike high edit count requirements, especially as people in work tend to have less free time for things like Wikipedia. However, you still need to show a wide experience of different areas of the site and admin type things. Hope that helps, feel free to ask me any other questions. Petros471 21:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Restoring links on Kennedy page
I acknowledged your apology on my page, then went back and looked - it wasn't even you who took them out. It was an administrator whose only contribution to the article was to remove the links. Weird. So ....You're still great!Juneappal 20:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

RFA Criteria
4500 is the total edit minimum. While 350 is the minimum for edits to pages in the Wikipedia Namespace. I'm sorry for the confusion I caused. Take care. Anonymous_ _Anonymous  08:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)