User talk:Dendodge/Archives/2009/January

RfA criteria
Hello. Just ran across your admin criteria page today. Seeing consistent, rational RfA criteria is pretty awesome, and about 1000% better than the reasons behind most !votes (which essentially end up being either WP:ILIKEIT or WP:IDONTLIKEIT). However I will note that your threshold for support is rather ... exacting and high. As an example, while my own 2007 RfA is one of the tiny fraction of RfAs to have passed on the first try and without even a single neutral or oppose, I would have only scored a 62 on a strict interpretation of your criteria (and presumably I have been a "good" admin over the past 14 months, as I have performed over 1800 admin actions and received zero rebukes). Please note that I am neither criticizing nor suggesting that you modify your criteria; I am merely offering up some food for thought. Thanks, Kralizec! (talk) 19:56, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Reward board post outdated
You offered barnstars as a reward for improving "Stephano(Shakespeare) and Gonzalo (Shakespeare)", however, both those pages have been merged into The Tempest. Interestingly enough on the talk page Stephano is still listed as being Start class. Take care.--Kiyarr lls- talk 23:46, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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 * Signing for archiving Den dodge  Talk Contribs 19:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

say ummmm
three things: one, I am having a hard time with wiki, it is not using HTML for the display so I have no pics, second I dont know any of the languages for the bot, and finally
 * Signing for archiving Den dodge  Talk Contribs 19:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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 * Signing for archiving Den <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:red">dodge  Talk Contribs 19:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Image problem
Hi, Dendodge! Can you help me with an image problem? List of Presidents of India is currently an FLC, and there are some problems with the fair use images. I'm not very familiar with the fair use policy, and most of these images had been included before I started working on it. I have never worked much with images, so coupled with this, I'm a bit confused. Could you tell me what needs to be done here? Also, is there any way to find free images if they are available in external sites (some search etc.)? Thanks in advance.  C h a m a l  talk 08:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I'll provide some more info in the rationales then.  C h a m a l  talk 01:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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Image Renaming
I was sent here from this and would like an image on Wikipedia to be renamed. I reuploaded the same image to Commons and completed the information a bit more thoroughly and would request that the image on Commons be available over the image on Wikipedia. I'm unsure how to delete image files from either site or I would delete it from Wikipedia (in effect, a deletion would be preferable over a rename, but I'll take whichever can come quicker). As you can see, they are the same image (Commons one is cropped) and the will replace the current Wikipedia image in the article it's currently used in. Thanks! ~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 16:26, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks! ~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 16:33, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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I have responded to your comment at the WP:FPOC discussion. Cirt (talk) 03:45, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

My (failed) RfA
I noticed that you used a bot to send your thanks round and was cheekily wondering how you did it and if I could pinch your idea. If I knew that sort of thing, maybe I would have succeeded in getting adminship. Then again, you do know, and you unfortunately didn't get through RfA (this time) either. Best. Itsmejudith (talk) 22:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow! It would be AMAZING if you could produce a banner like that for me. I don't want to send out a Christmas song but I do want shamelessly to promote participation in WP:WWF the Wikification WikiProject. Everyone must do an article or two to help clear the backlog. Its fun! You can help too, Dendoge. Itsmejudith (talk) 22:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I changed it a bit and it can go out. How will your bot know who to send it to? Can it send it to all the users who contributed to the page? Itsmejudith (talk)


 * I suppose it's a little late, but I would probably advise against using a bot to send out thankspam... It's impersonal... Might cause people to reconsider their support on the next run. It's also a bit of a leap from using a bot to send out newsletters to sending thankspam. Just a thought. – xeno  ( talk ) 23:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah - I guess you're right. I'll do it by hand next time (but maybe on my bot account to avoid filling my contribs with pointless edits). <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:blue">Den <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:red">dodge  Talk Contribs 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * cheers =) –  xeno  ( talk ) 23:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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Comments in Local Time
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Re: Beatles-related articles
I notice you have been going through Beatles-related articles recently, and I find I agree with your choices so far concerning them. Several of these are articles I began, or contributed to, but I have not been active on them recently... the main reasons being 1)my personal time is more occupied lately than it has been in the past, and 2)I get tired of dealing with "Beatles fans", and those whose perspective of the Beatles within popular music, pop culture, etc., is lacking in perspective. (Unfortunately, one or two such people are now admins at Wikipedia, and it seems every other time I work on an article, one or both of them choose to go on the attack.) Most of what I wrote was done at a time when cited, in-line references were not in such demand; I own most of the books in question, and usually listed the relevant books at the end of the articles. Most of these have sat in storage for years, and I don't have them handy, otherwise I'd be happy to add said references. This appears to be a "problem" with certain people, who seem prone to "find a weakness and exploit it"; i.e. if I don't have it with me, I must have never had it at all, and I'm making things up.

I would also like to see the people who are so quick to go "this article needs references", actually take time and look some up, instead of tagging, finger-pointing and griping. The books listed at the ends of articles are a good start. If they have time to sit in front of a computer terminal all day (I don't; evidently some people do), don't they have time to visit a local library, or see if someone they know has the books in question? (One would think that if they're such fans, they'd have at least a few of them, and could take the same time they spend on tagging - and writing nastiness - to crack open a book or two.) Then of course, there's the guys who go too far, e.g., "Lennon scratched his nose, then lit a cigarette{1}, while Starr straightened his pant leg{2}, farted{3}, and chuckled to himself{4}. It was a momentous occasion in world history{5}, never duplicated since{6}, though the practice was soon imitated by bands everywhere." (Then on the talk page... "SEE how much I've improved this article! I'll bet you'll NEVER take it as far as I have! That's why people who agree with me give me BARNSTARS! They don't give YOU any! Nyeah-nyeah-nyeah!" or something to that effect.)

I was invited early on to join the Beatles Wiki-project. I don't think I ever formally turned this down, but I have written to Kingboyk, explaining my reason(s) for not joining... primarily, I get sick of having to deal with fans, who are largely not musicians, have never been inside a recording studio (much less worked in one; I have... of course, this has gotten me accused of OR more than once), and let their enthusiasm for the Beatles blind them to other things, like facts, perspective, etc. This has been QEDed time and again, like with the long-running "T vs. t" debate; if I had joined the project, that issue alone would have been reasonable grounds for quitting, IMO. (And how LessHeardVanU got to be an admin, with the poor attitude he showed through that whole debacle, remains beyond me. Had I known he made an RfA, I'd have been there with quotes from things he left on my talk page, and others, and his candidacy may have gone rather differently. But... I have a life.) The articles may have gotten upgraded as far (and as quickly) as they did, by such people working in tandem. "I made a couple changes to --." "Ooh, time for an upgrade, then!"

Anyway... if I don't agree with an action you've taken, I will speak. But until then... bravo. Someone's gotta add a voice of reason around here. Zephyrad (talk) 18:15, 31 January 2009 (UTC)