User talk:Derild4921/Archive 2

Catching Fire
Sure, I'd love to work on it...I've been wikibonked lately, too...busy summer!! --Glimmer721 (talk) 00:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I started the charcter section of the article, but I'm hiding it until it is finished. I'll continue to work on it --Glimmer721 (talk) 19:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 02:07, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Adoption
Are you willing to adopt me?,Gobbleswoggler (talk) 17:58, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Fire and Ice (Warriors)
Hi Derild4921! I had a look at Fire and Ice (Warriors). You're doing a great job putting together articles and following the guidelines and policy, but the prose still needs a bit of work. I copy-edited a little, but not much. Once you have another run through, I'm happy to finish the copy-editing and reassess. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 23:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Adoption
After your recent conversation on my user talk page,I think I will go with you as my adopter as I think it would be unfair to say yes and then no.All the best mate,Gobbleswoggler (talk) 16:22, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

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Curious question
Out of curiosity, are you below 18 as well?  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 05:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep Derild  49  21  ☼  11:50, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * BTW, in the past I used to nominate lots of Chinese quotes that I translate myself, and usually Sonia helps me tweak the translations. But she's a simple admin now and might not be as active on en as she was, so if I nominate more Chinese ones in the future, you could help me translate them?  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 13:41, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, though the chinese characters on Wikipedia are hard for me to read. Derild  49  21  ☼  13:45, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit vandalism?
Would you say that the most recent edit on the page Kala Gujran vandalism?,Gobbles (talk) 14:18, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think so, but I would undo it, as unsourced controversial info, and warn the user with uw-unsourced1.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 14:21, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Wait, are we looking at the same edit? This: "ZIA UL ISLAM BUTT" does not need a source as it is clearly vandalism. Derild  49  21  ☼  14:25, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I am, but you know, I'm always a bit more cautious with rollbacking.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 14:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh well it just seems that by telling people to add a source to "ZIA UL ISLAM BUTT" is like feeding the trolls. Derild  49  21  ☼  14:29, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion
I don't think you should let Gobbles us Stiki. It's maintained by an indeffed user, which means it may come out-of-date quite soon. Also, as you said, he should be careful with it. I think you could encourage him to use AVT's filter recent changes, as the edits he come across are often very blatantly vandalism.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 14:40, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm thanks for the heads up. I don't use many automated tools so I don't really know about this stuff. Derild  49  21  ☼  14:42, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * See User talk:West.andrew.g That doesn't look like he's been kicked out, just temporarily blocked for a technical reason with a request to contact ArbCom. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:19, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Reply
Regarding your recent message,i don't understand what you mean by the last sentence.Gobbles (talk) 14:46, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by start class? And can you get this anti-vandalism tool onto my account?,Gobbles (talk) 14:54, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * When i click on my vector page it won't let me type the code in.Gobbles (talk) 15:09, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Still doesn't work.Gobbles (talk) 15:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I have looked at the page Bypass your cache.I am on google chrome and i did the bit where it says reloading the page.Gobbles (talk) 15:35, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed it.Gobbles (talk) 15:41, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Adminship
Regarding my adminship requests,I have been reading them to improve.When I made the title for those pages,I think I made a mistake.I gave two that have gobbleswoggler 2.How can i correct it so it says 2 and 3 instead of 2 and 2?,Gobbles (talk) 16:19, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Requests for adminship/Gobbleswoggler,Requests for adminship/gobbleswoggler 2,Requests for adminship/Gobbleswoggler 2 and Requests for adminship/gobbleswoggler 4.Being as there are two pages that end in 2,you may have to put in the search space and press advanced when the results come up.Gobbles (talk) 16:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion
It has been suggested before, but perhaps you could prod Gobbles into keeping conversations in one place instead of back-and-forth. I don't know that it's a requirement, but I also don't know of any particularly productive editors who always go back-and-forth on individual talk pages instead of keep conversations together. It might help to suggest use of the talkback template, although that could be overused pretty quickly too. Just a suggestion. Frank |  talk  16:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Firestar's Quest
"貓戰士外傳目前僅美國和俄羅斯有出版，台灣晨星出版社已在2010年7月1日出版藍星的預言〈共兩集〉 四集外傳中已於2007年在美國出版第一本外傳. 外傳的時間背景在《黑暗時刻》（The Darkest Hour）及《午夜追蹤》（Midnight）間，內容包括有長尾的失明、柳皮的死亡、火星的兩個孩子的誕生、藍星給的預言，天族也在這集出現. 外傳共四集"

My Chinese reading skills are pretty bad, and your's seem to be ok. (I hope). Google Translate just gives a whole mess of random words, but I think the paragraph says that only Bluestar's Prophecy has been published in Chinese.  Bramble  claw  x   21:19, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


 * On another point, I've been charting edit counts on some articles, and you've made quite a spike in the chart for Into the Wild (Warriors).  Bramble  claw  x   21:38, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Ilaijia Varani
I had to turn down this speedy request, as it includes a claim to notability. You could try AfD, or see if you can improve it? --Dweller (talk) 15:58, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

RE:3D Express Coach
Unfortunately I can't find any photos of this coach released into the public domain or CC-BY. Thanks for your nomination anyway. --Winstonlighter (talk) 20:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

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Re: The Hunger Games
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I agree that the Themes section needs a lot of expansion, if we can find more sources on the topic. Even what is in there right now seems pretty thin to me. I'm also not sure if a list of the main characters even belongs in the article. I think Katniss and Peeta are the only characters important enough to be included, if any, making the section very brief anyways. Any important enough info about them can be (and probably already is) covered in the plot summary. Right now those paragraphs just seem bloated with non-notable tidbits from the book that have no third-party sources. What do you think? Andrea ( talk ) 03:39, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll reply here from now on unless you prefer it on your talk page? I'll search up and see if I can find any themes though I don't think there will be much. As for the characters, I cut down the characters a lot though looking a it now I agree it should probably be taken out unless some information can be found that's not already included in the article. Derild  49  21  ☼  16:54, 11 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Replying here from now on is fine. I'll see what I can find on the themes, too. Andrea  ( talk ) 18:43, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * After a looking around, I couldn't find any review specfically for The Hunger Games and then I found this and this which I also used for the Catching Fire page. After reading through I realized the reviews says that some of the themes also apply to The Hunger Games as well. Want to add them?  Derild  49  21  ☼  14:44, 13 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if that would qualify as a reliable source. Looks like a site where almost anyone can write an article. Andrea  ( talk ) 14:50, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Really, I thought it looked like some kind of teacher website where teacher's post lesson plans or something. Dang, I couldn't really find anything else. You? Derild  49  21  ☼  15:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I haven't had any luck either, no. Though I thought we might be able to use this somewhere, just not for the themes. Andrea  ( talk ) 02:12, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, looking at that, the part about effects of war and violence on children might be able to be slipped in. Also, do you think the Cover section is really necessary? People will probably think of it as WP:Fancruft. Derild  49  21  ☼  17:04, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And looking at it further the question on "What do you hope young readers take away from your books" answer can also be used. Thoughts? Derild  49  21  ☼  17:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I thought the series of questions about violence and children could be useful in the Origins section. There is even a bit more about Theseus in there. Maybe the last two questions could fit in with the themes, actually. I haven't had a chance to really dig through the interview and pick out what would be best to use. About the Cover section, I guess it's a bit crufty right now. Might be good if we could find a ref of Collins explaining its significance. I'll keep an eye out for that. Andrea ( talk ) 03:24, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I found this for the cover and maybe a few questions from the interview might be able to be used for the cover as well. Derild  49  21  ☼  12:48, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Your articles
First of all congrats on getting a GA! You've deserved it. I've rated the two most recent entries a C class, although you've copyedited one since I rated it. I'm really truly taking a wikibreak - will actually be off-line - but when I get back next week please ping me, and remind me that I've promised to copyedit both those pages for you, so you know exactly what MoS fixes you need, and prose clean-up and stuff like that. Then I'll re-assess them for you. Take care. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yay :D. Good job. Airplaneman   ✈  23:09, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Derild - belated response to your message. Thanks for the reminder. I'm in and out for the next week. I don't remember which two articles I wanted to run through - can you link them here? My talkpage is a bit crazy at the moment, and I'm afraid I'll overlook them there. I'll get to them, hopefully, in the next few days. Have another copyedit for someone else to finish first. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 20:50, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Fire and Ice (Warriors) and Forest of Secrets. Sounds busy, don't overdo yourself and thanks! Derild  49  21  ☼  20:53, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yes, I am busy. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 21:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The barnstar was a really welcome surprise. I looked at the assessment and saw that it's a C. Here Be Dragons is a short article I've written also assessed at C - I can't find any more sources and can't really add more. I think it's about the same as yours, so I've left it at C, but if you can expand more, let me know. One thing I noticed is that your writing is weaker in the plot sections than in the other sections. Personally I hate writing plot summaries, so what I do is write the rest of the article first and then come back and fill in the summary, with the thought that maybe I'll do a better job. Don't know whether it works, but you might give that a try. Your formatting is fantastic - so you've got that down. Don't hesitate to ask for copyediting help whenever you need it, (knowing that you might have to wait!). Take care. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:18, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE, reviewing committee
Thanks for signing up! Will you be free during September? Ocean  Shores  (Formerly TEK)   01:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm...I have school but it just began so I will have time to just check the articles but not as much time to actually copyedit them. Derild  49  21  ☼  02:02, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Updating your edit count
I believe that it is unnecessary to update your edit count every 100 edits. While I understand that you're really excited about doing a lot of contributions, some may think that you are only trying to show off. This will also add to your total percentage of userspace edits which will make some people less likely to support you in an RfA. Regards  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 13:22, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Good point I'll try every 1,000 instead. Derild  49  21  ☼  13:24, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

pure blood theory
hi thanks! I'm still gathering the sources and information on this issue. hope that i can finish it within a couple of days. --Winstonlighter (talk) 18:45, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your advice. I'm counting the number of reverts cautiously (=P) to avoid breaking the rules and i also open the discussion on the talk page. The article in question has numerous references to the topic and Kuebier (Akkies) seems to be busy at giving more details. If he refuses to discuss, we'll be going nowhere.

--Winstonlighter (talk) 20:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Tunnels (novel)
I reassessed this article as a B class, but I think, with a little more polish and elbow grease and an expansion of the themes section, that it could make a pretty good Good Article. I would suggest nominating it at WP:GA nominees, Sadads (talk)18:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Derild4921 - I disagree with the above! Thank-you for re-rating the Tunnels page, as I requested. However, this article may well now sit well with the Wikipedia style guide, but it now contains numerous inaccuracies about the book, authors, publication history and more. Have you really read this book? This new article is badly written, repetitive and lacking in the all important detail of the original article. It seems to me that you value GA rating above a suitably accurate and complete reference for this book. I spent several weeks working on the original article and can confirm the integrity of all the information on the Tunnels page. I would like the original format to be re-instated. By all means tweak that and advise me of best practise (which I would welcome!) - as you originally offered, before you stormed ahead with this new version (Lifesawhirl (talk) 23:32, 16 August 2010 (UTC)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lifesawhirl (talk • contribs)


 * I support your position, please refrain from any kind of language that might incite a decidedly negative response, as a non-main editor for the article I can help Mediate. Sadads (talk) 14:47, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. Derild  49  21  ☼  14:48, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400/GA2
Good job on the review :). However… you forgot to list it here under this section (find the subsection with the rest of the NASCAR race articles (it's entitled "Motorsport"), and make sure it's in alphabetical order and that you update the article count for the section) . Keep it up! Airplaneman   ✈  17:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh..oops, thanks for telling me! Derild  49  21  ☼  17:28, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I went ahead and did it :). And thank you for supporting me at RFA !  Airplaneman   ✈  23:49, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe I should switch to neutral now... ;) Derild  49  21  ☼  12:28, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Airplaneman  ✈  05:44, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Congrats on the Warriors GA! Airplaneman   ✈  01:07, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually it's in review now :p Derild  49  21  ☼  01:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, whoops, saw this and somehow misread it... Airplaneman   ✈  01:32, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Lol, good luck in adminship! Don't block me either! Derild  49  21  ☼  01:49, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

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Warriors themes?
You added some theme from the fifth chat, but I'm not sure what you are trying to get at when you mention Seekers. What does the mystical stuff have to do with spirituality? (oh, and by the way, I'm reading SkyClans Destiny now)  Bramble  claw  x   21:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried paraphrasing it from the fifth chat part (control+f and theme) since I really don't get it either. Reading a few times again, I think it actually means that Holmes tried to make the Seekers similar to how Warriors is structured, with a theme of faith and spirituality so Holmes added the shapeshifting bear after finding reading some Native American stuff. The Seekers part is probably unneeded though.(Great! Hopefully some reviews can come out, the book can probably reach GA with some good reviews!) Derild  49  21  ☼  21:50, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for 3D Express Coach
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blp
BLPPROD is only for living people. Gerard Landry is dead. So is Ferenc Füzi. And so is Saint Molaisse Mac Lugair, in his case for 1500 years now.  DGG ( talk ) 02:14, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yikes, I'm sorry about that. Derild  49  21  ☼  11:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Peter too! The-Pope (talk) 16:25, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion request declined
Hi, your request for the speedy deletion Praying with Lior was declined. Even though the article had no prose, the basic subject (a film) could be guessed from the prose, and a Google search filled in the details. As the declining editor pointed out, it's usually a good idea to wait before tagging new articles as A1s or A3s. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:45, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand, thanks. Derild  49  21  ☼  00:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Pure blood theory in Korea
I'm heading off to bed now, it's almost 1AM here. Would you be so kind as to make sure nothing silly happens here? Please feel free to revert anything silly that might happen here. Regards, --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 14:46, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. Hopefully nothing silly happens here. Derild  49  21  ☼  14:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * - he's gaming the system, what should we do? --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 14:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, we can't go to WP:30 so maybe Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents? Derild  49  21  ☼  15:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * We'll let it wait for a bit, until we can nail him down after he makes a really huge mistake (worthy of a long-term block). Right now, he isn't stirring the hornet's nest enough to receive any serious punishment. Watch Special:Contributions/KoreanSentry to see if he does anything that is prohibited by policy. WP:CANVASSING is also a really big issue, and it is prohibited to garner friends off-wiki to take part in POV-warring; I'll try to do a Google sweep every now and then for certain keywords in English and Korean, so if there's friend shopping going on off-wiki in internet forums and they come back to him, then I guess he's in serious trouble. Also, according to his userpage, he claims to "Currently own and operating Korean history forum" - I suspect that these may be possible hotspots for canvassing. I assume the relevant forum is http://forum.koreansentry.com/index.php (or http://koreansentry.19.forumer.com/ this one), given the user's account name.

From what I can tell through a Google sweep, he is anti-Japanese, interested in Korean history, and seems to be a pro-Korean web activist (reminds you of VANK, doesn't it?), anti-Chinese, culturally sensitive (as with, ). All queries obtained from http://www.google.com.au/#q="koreansentry". --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 08:43, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * http://forum.koreansentry.com/viewtopic.php?t=457 An example of Wikipedia canvassing
 * http://forum.koreansentry.com/viewtopic.php?p=743&sid=87c543cd85398003264fe827f7abd702 another example
 * (Also, don't sound the alarm now, I don't want to spook him before we get a good opportunity. Give it some time beforehand, and we'll cash in when we are holding all the cards.) --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 09:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Pure blood theory in Korea
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Warriors (novel series)
Congratulations on the completion of the GA review for Warriors (novel series, you have put a great effort into creating this article and were very responsive to my comments in the review. I do GA reviews a little more precisely then other reviewers, so I hope you don't mind the nitpickiness and I hope you feel the article has significantly improved. If you wouldn't mind, could you give me a little bit of feedback on my talk page on how I did in the review. I like to hear what reviewies liked and didn't like about the process so I can do them better in the future, Sadads (talk) 18:26, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Warriors Star

 * Thanks Bcx! I didn't even know this barnstar existed! :P. Derild  49  21  ☼  22:39, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I designed it a couple months ago.   Bramble  claw  x   22:40, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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Wikify Drive
Since you signed up for the September 2010 GOCE event, I wanted to invite you to participate in a similar event: the September 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. In case you didn't know, "Wikification" is the process of formatting articles using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and adding internal links to material. Barnstars will be awarded to participating editors. Thanks!

Question
I would like to write an article about places in The Hunger Games, like the districts and the Capitol, but I also want to explain rules of the Games and explain the mockingjays, so readers aren't confused because the articles mention them a lot. So, what would I call the article? --Glimmer721 (talk) 23:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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 * Hmmm... tough one. I think something like The Hunger Games universe might work, similar to Harry Potter universe. Be careful of original research though. This is series is popular so some sources describing the world shouldn't be as hard as some other series I've worked on. Derild  49  21  ☼  00:15, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good. I'm calling it "Places, Terms, and Events" for right now, but I'll change it when I'm ready to publish it. Found here: User:Glimmer721/Places, Terms, Events. I've got some references down. --Glimmer721 (talk) 22:27, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

The cats
I don't know whether you ever saw this comment which has now been archived. Anyway, sorry it took such a long time! I always make little mistakes when I edit like that, so check my work and fix anything that's wrong. Ping me when you need and keep up the nice work. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:39, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for everything; I saw that comment earlier, I just didn't reply :P. Anyways school is starting so my editing level will begin to drop. Good luck! Derild  49  21  ☼  00:44, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure whether you saw - I think it came in with a bunch all at once. You've done a great job this summer. Study hard, read a lot; and now you have an incentive to learn grammar! Bring what you learn this year back here, and you'll be a star! Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the encouragement, I will! Derild  49  21  ☼  01:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2010 August newsletter
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