User talk:BarkingFish/Archives/Archive 14

Archive 14, Opened May 24th 2010

Damn, dude!
I stopped by to say Thanks for taking care of Caillou for me--after reading THAT, though, I just want to say "Damn, go lay down or something!!" Seriously, that's just scary...I hope you're getting well and that you have a good holiday (although from what I understand from my friends/family who have quit smoking, having a good ANYTHING is highly unlikely when you're having a nic-fit. And good luck with that, as well!) Take care...GJC 16:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thor, I wish you a safe and happy 2009. Sounds like you went through some hell. Best wishes,Kingturtle (talk) 12:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

piss
thanks. I can always need more info. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  20:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: CSD
Yeah, Huggle screwed up on me, possible bug. I fixed it a second or two afterwards if I'm not mistaken however. Inferno,  Lord of   Penguins  22:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Arabic page which I can't type here cause I don't know how to - Take 2
Actually my knowledge of Arabic is far from useful; however, I was able to decipher the meaning using Google. Thanks for the good words and a healthily prosperous 2009 to you and your family. ttonyb1(talk) 05:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Ratel
Thanks. I was more saddened by what I imagine his life to be rather than his comment. I hope it was only a bad day that I inadvertently contributed to rather than a life issue. Again my best to you and your partner. ttonyb1 (talk) 05:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * ...and to your son. 8-)  ttonyb1 (talk) 05:20, 1 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I do not appreciate this comment, which I find personally disparaging. What you "imagine my life to be" is irrelevant and that you are "saddened" by your irrelevant musing is insulting. I admit that I did react with irritation to your actions on the Cord lock page. In future, Ttonyb1, take note of whether the page is under current edit, as it was when you tagged it for a quick delete. The criteria for speedy deletion (WP:SPEEDY) explicitly states that Contributors sometimes create articles over several edits, so try to avoid deleting a page too soon after its creation if it appears incomplete. Also, follow the rules and guidelines, as perWP:DELPRO, which include inserting a "good comment in the reason for deletion field". Your comment ("Marked for Speedy Deletion"), does not meet this guideline in any way at all. Since you seem to spend a lot of time tagging articles for deletion, it may be a good idea to actually read the policies in relation to deletion tagging. ► RATEL ◄ 09:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Points taken and my apologies for any distress I may have caused anyone. In addition, I have lined out the offending comment.  ttonyb1 (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Translations
Thor, I'm an ex-Magdalene man myself! Thanks for the tip; it will be especially useful on longer articles that need several goes. I also copy text into Word, which means I can use e.g. find/replace to save a lot of time where words are repeatedly used.Bermicourt (talk) 11:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Trout
Thanks for the whack with a fish - I sort-of deserve it. Given that we're dealing with a single disruptive editor who's ignoring what looks to be a consensus it is fairly normal practice for editors representing the consensus view to spread the reverts to demonstrate that its not a one-on-one dispute though. Nick-D (talk) 05:50, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: FlaggedRevs trial
Hi Thor,

Ah no, I wasn't on freenode when that was discussed, just saw it implemented from a distance. It's only logical that AR's get full rights, we've always been relaxed about granting rights at en.wikinews, imho. I originally came from here and spent quite some time on wikinews but now have shifted my attention once again.

cheers, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:39, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Template you might be interested in
I just created this template, thought you might be interested in it:

Alternate account creation
Hello, I noticed that you have recently created an alternate account, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's alternate account policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your reasons for creating an additional account.

The template link is: User:Terrillja/multiple-accounts, I have been subst:-ing it, just playing around with it for now, if people like it, I may move it to wikipedia space rather than my user space and try to get it added to twinkle. -- Terrillja talk  07:37, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revs
Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind addingUser:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) -Thanks to Neurolysis for the template  « l | Ψrometheăn ™ | l »   (talk) 07:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem at all. :)
I've had previous experience with this user. All of his sockpuppets have a variation on Teletubbies or a Disney movie in the title and his target articles are generally the same, e.g., Teletubbies and Disney movies. I left the talk page open in case of an error on my part, in which case I can immediately unblock the account. He sometimes won't answer once he's caught and as of now, he still hasn't. You might want to check withUser:Collectonian as well. She does a lot of editing on animation and has even more experience than I do with Bambifan. Hope this helps and if you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. I only just got my own admin rights restored after giving them back a couple of years ago under non-controversial circomstances. Good luck with the mentorship! --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:01, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

LOL! Always up for a good trout slap! My son gave me a freshwater rod and reel for Christmas and I can't wait to try it out. Trout shall slap merrily! --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

How to Submit stuff that won't get deleted....
Hey, Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia, I have a few questions. I read the "starter" for Wikipedia and even after i submit new documents, they get deleted. So any info that would help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, UnyeildingAvatar (talk) 15:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Agent Bauer

vandalism and flagged revs
Hi Iceflow, I just read your statements at Jimbo's talk page. Here's one thing I can assure you from my experience at DE-WP: Flagged revs have no influence on vandalism at all, vandalism hasn't declined. Also, it still needs to be reverted asap. Some people seem to think that would not be necessary anymore but it is. Regards,--X-Weinzar (talk) 12:06, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

CSD automatic welcome messages
Hi Thor I've replied at User talk:AzaToth, not sure if you're watching it. I hope you're feeling better, and Cheers, Amalthea  14:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for doing that for me, Amalthea. I appreciate your work, and apologise completely for my impatience in this matter. :) Thor Malmjursson (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial
Hi Iceflow, i'm sure its well ment, but people who have that page on the watchlist for comments can't follow it anymore as the 5 subpages are not on the watchlist. Cheers Mion (talk) 08:13, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hoi Thor, maybe, a bigger screen or a faster connection for the PDA, sort of netbook ? Mion (talk) 16:27, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Just kidding, there is a separate "stylesheet" href="/skins-1.5/chick/main.css?195xx" type="text/css" media="handheld" />, the problem is, not all pda's are similar. Mion (talk) 16:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revisions
You should know the following:


 * Flagged Revisions = software extension that allows pages to be flagged. That was subject of the poll recently conducted.
 * Flagged Protection = policy proposal that requires Flagged Revisions to be turned on.

I am confused as to how you can oppose the thing that is required to make the thing you welcome....work? Fritzpoll (talk) 23:59, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Mass article creation
I'm afraid you are mistaken. I create several articles at the same time in multiple tabs, and save page when I have finished doing so. The articles were created over a three hour span - while half-asleep, watching the basketball - just saved at the same time after I have finished writing them all. Bobo. 04:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries. I leave accessible at least five articles at any one time if I have several articles on my to-do list- which currently consists of over 1000 articles. Not that I keep count, of course! Bobo. 04:33, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Pope John Paul II
Hi Thor, I'm not sure if it's even your area, but I have recently been working on the Pope John Paul IIarticle in order to improve it and try to raise it to ‘Good Article’ and eventually ‘Featured Article’status. The article is currently at Peer Review, so I though I would invite you to take a look. Any help would be much appreciated.

Kind Regards     05:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Tckma (talk) 14:28, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Szervusz
Hey Thor. You said I can contact you. Combined IP adress :70.121.204.57 and red link User:Meoconne repeatedly revert edits at Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show‎ and Komondor dog breed. I think this all together qualifies asEdit war, disruptive editing,, copright violation, , bias, non-NPOV edits Neutral point of view and sockpuppetry by same editor, new red link user all editing the same articles, Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show‎ Komondor andAlpha Omega Epsilon. Why would anyone remove this edit from the Komondor article:

No upper heigt limit is given.ref Kutyarár Hungarian newspaper.</ref? And other relevant and sourced edits such as average height. This is insane.

Would you take a look?

Warrington (talk) 22:20, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

No flagged revisions category up for deletion
The category associated with the no flagged revisions userbox you have placed on your user page is up for deletion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009 April 23and you are invited to share your opinions on the issue. Alansohn (talk) 05:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Gert van der Vijver
Hello, I want to fulfil your request from the reward board about the creation of aGert van der Vijver article. I have managed to find some reliable sources, however I need to establish notability. You have said that he is a television personality, however I cannot find the name of the television shows that he had roles in. Could you please inform me of the names of these shows? Thanks! Alex Douglas (talk) 09:02, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll give it a go. It'll be hard but I really want those GA reviews. :) Thanks! Alex Douglas (talk) 10:17, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Doppelgänger accounts
Hi, I just saw your message. The relevent policy is here: Sock puppetry. Basically, they are not intended for use. It's allowed to create accounts with names very similar to your own for the sole purpose of preventing others from using them in a confusing way, but they are not to be used for editing. Likewise, if someone else registers an account confusingly similar to your own, you can ask for it to be blocked. Regarding the broader question of when it's acceptable to use undisclosed alternate accounts, that is subject to change. At the moment such accounts are permitted so long as they are not abused.  Will Beback   talk    22:31, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

note
thank you for caring re: my loss. Also, I undid your conversion of your talk page into a redirect specifically so i could leave you this message. Feel free to turn it back into a redirect if you want.DS (talk) 12:52, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for your comments
Hello! You commented on the last discussion about whether to include aCategory:Fictional LGBT characters on the Stewie Griffin article. We have anew discussion going for an updated consensus. Your comments here would be appreciated. Thank you,  C T J F 8 3 Talk 03:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Ava, Riko e Teo
Hello,

Well, I read the article and it really had mistakes concerning wrong information and gramatical mistakes (t'was made and edited by IP adresses). I correct and expand it a little bit. In the internet I did not found information enough. If you have more informations about the article and if you detect another mistakes or want to suggest something, please tell us.

Grateful,

Luiz Miller.Luizmlopes (talk) 00:49, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: Eh, by the way, where are you from?


 * It's been a lot of time that i don't access Wikipedia... I'm not familiar with cartoons, but I'll try to find something else. I was looking for an article about this cartoon in the English Wikipedia and there was nothing about. Strange, in the English Wikipedia we have so many articles and so many people working on it. Icelandic is very complicated hehe, sjáumst, Luizmlopes (talk) 18:41, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Reply
I never said I disliked Wikipedia itself. In fact, I love reading pages and articles here (history, current events, sports, TV, etc). Wikipedia can really be a good resource. What I strongly dislike is the amount of flagrant bias that I can see so clearly on the wiki. I definitely do not think it's right to have a biased wiki that receives millions of views by millions of people. It's wrong to present falsified and biased information. I'm definitely not claiming that all of Wikipedia and its articles are biased, but many political/religious articles have bias written all over them. All I can try to do is raise awareness and try to amend the bias, hopefully leading to a more neutral Wikipedia. :) --  CTS  Talk  Contribs  22:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem at all. :) I agree that my userpage might come off as a bit narrow-minded (and that is something I will modify), but I'm just trying to make a point is all. The majority of Wikipedia isn't biased, but sometimes when it comes down to the controversial topics (evolution, religion, politics, etc.) viewpoints are slanted heavily towards one side. --  CTS  Talk   Contribs  23:12, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

GoogleTrans gadget
Hi there,

Thanks very much for importing my GoogleTrans gadget over to the nlwiki. I hope you find it useful. I myself do use it to pick up that word or two in a sentence I don't know in French (and more in Spanish). There is an analogue web page that does the same thing for any webpage you surf to from that page:

http://www.securecottage.com/cgi-bin/reference.cgi

This above URL will achieve the same effect on most Dutch websites you want that little bit of help translating.

Are y0u going to make the code a gadget on nlwiki. I don't know Dutch but I couldn't see it being in the Dutch Gadget list. Anyway thanks for the interest, and positive feedback. I do appreciate it.

Endo999 (talk) 20:11, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Well Thank You Thor,

It was very nice of you to put up GoogleTrans as a gadget on the nlwiki. You were so quick at doing it too. It took around 10 months for me to get the GoogleTrans onto the enwiki. Thanks once again. As I believe you are Scandinavian, Google also does all the Scandinavian languages, if you are active on those wikis too.

The URL I gave you above will do the same thing to just about any website. The URL gets a website for you and changes all links in that website to point to itself. It injects the javascript into the website, so the effect is to have GoogleTrans on any website, if you link to the website from the Reference Portal.

Endo999 (talk) 03:23, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

That's great work Thor,

I hope it is useful to you and others. I will definitely keep you informed on any updates and changes. I have some code that will do the effect on input fields and textareas, but it doesn't work on Firefox 3.5 (although it does work on Firefox 3.0). So this upgrade is on hold until I FireFox 3.5 recognises the mousemove event inside an input field.

Endo999 (talk) 06:13, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:IceFlow WPLogo.jpg
Deleted warning, Notified myself that a picture I'd made was being deleted at my request. I mean, seriously...wtf?

Thor Malmjursson (talk) 01:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Admin Coaching
Hi, I was doing a bit of tidying up at Admin coaching/Requests for Coaching, and I saw that your status was "Master of Puppets".

Was coaching ever sorted out? If so, could you please ask MoP to add you to the list at Admin coaching/Status and remove your entry at the Requests page?

If it fell through, and you are still interested in being coached, could you remove the "Master of Puppets" from the entry?

If, on the other hand, you are no longer interested in being coached, perhaps you would consider removing your request from the list?

Regards, -- Phantom Steve /talk &#124;contribs \ 01:13, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy Holidays


MisterWiki  talk   contribs  is wishing you Happy Holidays! MisterWiki  talk  contribs  wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with all of your family, spread love during this times!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages. -- MisterWiki  talk   contribs  02:32, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Scnsht tailspin 158 01.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Scnsht tailspin 158 01.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk ) 06:37, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Kit Cloudkicker merge
Hi there. I received a message from User:Peter Symonds regarding your intention to merge the Kit Cloudkicker article into the list. As I commented on the talk page, we can merge all information from the article into the list since it is really short. I can change the format of the list in order to give individual sections to each character, and merge the contents of the Kit Cloudkicker article into a particular section. Thoughts? -- Lo/d  Þpµth  19:48, 16 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Lord Opeth. That sounds fine, frankly.  I'm happy with the way the list is laid out actually, and It'd be good to get the work done.  I apologise for reverting, i actually saved the original article from an afd, and i was a bit cross that it was turned into a redirect!  But after seeing what you're doing, i figured i was being an asshole :)


 * The only thing i'd be grateful if you could do, is keep the image i Ul'd, since i think it'd be nice on the list to just have some visual reference to the individual characters, even if it's only a thumbnail. I have shedloads of images of talespin episodes here, so if you want some uploading, i can do that for you.  Thanks again, best wishes. Barking Fish  Talk to me |My contributions 00:54, 17 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I performed the merge. I saved all contents from the article and also placed the image into the list.-- LoЯd  ۞pεth  22:40, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

huhu
Just saying hi, so you see I am actually there. :o Kind Regards, --Stanzilla (talk) 02:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I received the message, thanks for the link, I'll try to convince them, that French people need education. ;)-Stanzilla (talk) 11:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Re. missing page
Hi there.

Sorry I missed the end result of asking Hersfold about your page.

Afterwards, I wondered...if perhaps it hadn't been deleted. There is a page in your userspaceUser:BarkingFish/wikiprojectproposal:veterinarybiology - was that it?

Just a thought.

You can see all your own subs with Special:Prefixindex, in case you don't know.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  17:02, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Nm, the above was in-between your leaving IRC for a bit, and us finding the page. Glad it got sorted.  Chzz  ►  17:12, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter message
You have a on here, hence wouldn't get this message - but I thought you might want to know. TheWP:PW is having a clear-out of their spamlist, of people in Category:WikiProject Professional wrestling participants. Anyone who does not list their name at WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Active before May 16 will be automatically listed at WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Nospam, and will no longer receive the newsletter or any notification of it. If you are added to WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Nospam, please feel free to remove your name if you desire.

Note, due to the 'nobots', you shouldn't get the newsletter anyway - just thought you'd want to know about this.

If you have any queries about it, contact. Cheers!  Chzz  ► 04:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Name
Love your username, wish I'd thought of it! How'd you think of it?  —Rlevse • Talk  • 01:37, 14 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Came to me in a fit of IRC madness, Rlevse. We had a guy in #wikipedia-en called MooingLemur, and we all started coming up with weird animal names to take the mick... I just happened to pick BarkingFish and it sorta stuck. Now when people tell me fish don't bark, I just say "have you never heard of a Dogfish?" :)  That's really all there is to it. Thanks for the comment anyhow, glad you like it! Barking Fish Talk to me | My contributions 02:02, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * MooingLemur, that's cool too. I should've been more creative when I chose a name!  — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk • 02:07, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You still can be. We have the change of Username page so you can get your thinking cap on, pick a new creative name and ask for it :)  <font color="red" face="arial;Times New Roman">Barking <font color="blue" face="arial;Times New Roman">Fish  Talk to me |My contributions 02:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I know, I'm a crat and I do renames ;-) But I have so many edits it'd probably crash during the rename.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk • 02:22, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * And what would happen if it did? Is there anyone you can take advice from? Maybe the Wikitechs on IRC? #wikimedia-tech - surely someone must know if you can do it. Seems improbable that you'd kill the wiki, probably create one hell of a job queue, but I'd say that'd be about it... <font color="red" face="arial;Times New Roman">Barking <font color="blue" face="arial;Times New Roman">Fish Talk to me | My contributions 02:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Sometimes renames on users with over 5000 edits never finish all the edit renames. It won't kill the wiki but some edits will never pick up the new name. Sometimes such renames work and sometimes they don't. <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk • 09:48, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Dominion of man over the beasts
Could it instead be improved upon and made into a featured, stellar example of Wikipedia's capacity for scholarship and collaborative development? The topic is notable, although I admit it might properly redirect to an already existing article not known to me. -Stevertigo (w |t | e) 03:06, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I doubt it very much, not without considerable research, and we have very few theology experts as it is. If you think you can do it, be my guest :) <font color="red" face="arial;Times New Roman">Barking <font color="blue" face="arial;Times New Roman">Fish  Talk to me |My contributions 03:21, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Foreign language articles
Should not be simply tagged as test pages for deletion. It occasionally does happen that such articles are on a suitable topic and just are not in English. In the case of the article whose tag who changed it was an article in Serbian that turned out to be an attack page accusing someone of being a drunk, so it was actually deleted for that. Some helpful tools when dealing with foreign language articles are this language identifier and Google's translation service |en| which can usually help you understand the basic idea of an foreign language article even if the actual translation is not so great. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Tag
No problem at all, it was my mistake. Thanks for taking the time to let me know, very decent of you. &mdash;e. ripley\talk 22:47, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Damien Walters declined
Hello, BarkingFish. I have declined your nomination of Damien Walters for speedy deletion because I have found that the subject of the article indeed meets the "significance or importance" requirement to be ineligible forA7 deletion. In fact, from sources I found, it seems this person meets WP:ATHLETE fairly well. I understand your tagging of the article, as it stood with only the line "coolest person in the world", and I might have done the same, but the interlanguage links gave me pause. From the French article, I was able to decipher that the subject was notable. Just a friendly reminder interlanguage links in new articles should always be checked out, and Google searching never hurts. Cheers, <font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Intelligent  sium  00:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)