User talk:Firefly/Archive 3

Excuse ME!!
You know what, shut up. ITs important to me and U didnt have anything about orbit gum on there or whatever thing I got in trouble for.

so yeah w/e ur gay. dahh.

and NATE IS A (uN+!

dumbhead, if u block me, Im just makin more and more accounts. so duh shut up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sam13024 (talk • contribs) 16:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Lyneham High School, ACT
Anonymous edits have made a mess of the article. I'll try not to avoid stepping on your toes as I fix vandalism as well. --CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 13:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

lil' help?
I happened to notice your talktop in the MfD and I quite liked it so I decided to repatriate it for myself (hope that's ok). However I would just prefer it to be a header rather than entire theme for my talk page...Not sure how I can accomplish this. Could you either let me know how or feel free to make the changes directly (User:Xenocidic/Talkheader) - Thanks! xenocidic (talk) 13:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hrm looks like we were able to figure it out - thanks for the cool header =). xenocidic (talk) 20:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again =) xenocidic (talk) 21:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

ELLIE IS SXC
y deny the truth. u r a sad person if u dont appreciate ellies sxciness Ellie Sxc Gal (talk) 19:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Luz A Salento Foundation
Hello, Could you e-mail me the last version of this article. I am not sure why you deleted. I was working on it. I save the version and then went to erased the Spanish parts. When I went to sleep the article was totally in English and looking good. This morning the article was gone. Could you help? I am the autor of the original article in Spanish too. If you need to reserch that info, please look for "Fundación Luz A Salento" in the Spanish Wikipedia - autor Clemen Wilcox. Thanks! TGIF

Clemen Wilcox —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clemen Wilcox (talk • contribs) 13:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Speedies
I saw Articles for deletion/NuneGa. This may not fit exactly into an existing speedy deletion criteria, but don't be afraid to just use something like in cases like this. There's no real need to use AFD for obvious cases like this one. Friday (talk) 19:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Your immortal soul
My sympathies - I heard that your immortal soul will be interned after death. xenocidic (talk) 20:53, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Drinking templates
If the chemical formula on the page User:Richard0612/Userbox Archive/User Philosophies is meant to refer to Ethanol it should be C2H5OH not C2H6OH. Apologies if I'm mistaken or if this has already been brought to your attention. Guest9999 (talk) 04:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Richard0612. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. βcommand 04:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

RfD ANDI
Thankyou for letting me know. Thanks for the RfD. It is not needed any more.sarindam7 (talk) 17:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Caucasus
Need a valid CSD to delete: what's wrong with it? - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 18:07, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Request
Hey, I was just wondering if, when you nominate a redirect for deletion, you could put the rfd template on a separate line to the redirect itself, i.e., like this. I know, it seems incredibly trivial, but Schutz's list of short pages lists RFD candidates if they're not formatted in a particular way for some reason. I should probably get him to fix that. Anyway, thanks if you can. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, you've done it a few times recently, which is why I made the comment, but it's no big deal, it's just a convenience thing. Thanks :) --Closedmouth (talk) 15:52, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

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Image CSD
You might want to speak to User:MER-C - they've done a lot of work listing PDFs for deletion. Hut 8.5 17:49, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Pcf plot9.xls
well, I never understand such deletions. my images to me are always relevent, this one appears in comment on the Talk page of the Prime Counting Function article. I think it is very useful to anyone with interest in the subject/function but I typically don't battle other users ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Billymac00 (talk • contribs) 17:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

badpdf
I have done some changes to the BadPDF template you should note. It has been changed to badformat, which is used to tag images in non-image formats that could be better expressed as plain text. BadPDF still redirects to the new one for backwards compatibility. ViperSnake151 00:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Your sig
Just wanted to let you know that your signature comes off as very hard to read. I just noticed it over on RfA talk. It is so small that it kind of hurts my eyes to read the time stamp. You might want to enlarge it just a tad to make it consistent with other sig font sizes. Gwynand | Talk•Contribs 17:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Either of the new sigs you have will work. It was just a size thing... my eyes were straining to read it. Now it looks good. Thanks. Gwynand | Talk•Contribs 01:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Halichos Sadeh.pdf

 * Image:Halichos Sadeh.pdf ([ delete] | talk | [ history] | [ logs]) - uploaded by Shoteh ( [ notify] | contribs).


 * Orphaned pdf file. Seems to be an article written in Hebrew. No foreseeable encyclopedic use.   RichardΩ612   Ɣ |ɸ 18:13, May 6, 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a link to it at Moroccan citron, it is essencial for that article. Since it is a pdf, which cannot be viewed only linked, this is the only way how to link to it. If you find another way to link to it you may correct, but not delete, please.

Shoteh (talk) 16:34, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * This article is by a high esteemed professor and horticulturist, which is written in Hebrew because the most interested in citron studies are the Hebrew speaking Jews. But when one wants to know anything about the citron which was the ancestor of all the cultivated types he would have no access to it. The English Wikipedia is the first to provide such infomation of which part of it is gathered from Hebrew sources, and was later cited by many other authors and websites. By deleting such a pdf, which is a very important and interesting article, you are decreasing the usefullness of the English Wikipedia, and banging the door for the citrus industry in Wikipedia. Dont do such an evil.

Shoteh (talk) 17:50, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

"On drama" quote
I'm flattered - thanks for letting me know. I do take some issue with your "grammatical correction", though. I believe that the word "which" is generally used to refer back to something within the same sentence. If you want to hive it off with a colon, I think "the foremost of these", rather than "the foremost of which" would be the correct wording. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 19:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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please don't bite the newbies
Hi, you templated a user because they'd created an article about a non-notable band. Please could you add a welcome template as well if you do this in future? The user's first response on their talk page was a big template telling them that their content was about to be deleted, that's a bit unwelcoming, no? Dan Beale-Cocks  16:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to throw a second opinion in here. I don't consider this bitey, particularly. Welcome templates may usually be a good idea also, but I wouldn't call it wrong to not leave one. Really, depending on the kind of inappropriate content they posted, sometimes we may not want to welcome them. Egregiously bad content is not welcome here at all, and we shouldn't give people the false impression that it is. Friday (talk) 16:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Username Change
Thanks for cleaning that up. That's why my current username appeared in red, because of that deal that said CURRENT next to it. I'll make sure for future references, that I take that off, if I use that, once I put the name in. --Joey Kaminski (talk) 19:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

My name was stolen!
Richard0612, in regard to my username change request (to Himatsu Bushi) that I entered this morning, you noted that the name already exists. I can assure you I carefully checked the user list beforehand, and it did not exist at the time! The only thing I can think is that some mischievous person looking at the change request list picked someone at random and registered their desired username just so they wouldn't get it. I see that person has already gone ahead and made an edit. If you check the records, I'm sure you'll find that the name was registered after my change request was entered (probably soon thereafter). Does this not give me the right to usurp the name back from the person who stole it? If not, it really should be so. It's not right to let people steal other people's names just for cheap thrills. Thanks for your help in resolving this. Djiann (talk) 00:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll keep my eye on the CHU page. Djiann (talk) 17:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice about your RfD
Unlike the geometric-shapes nominations, I think this might actually be useful. IIRC I originally created the page because I wanted to know what the symbols were and had to go hunting a bit to find them :) —porges(talk) 23:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Please stop
Please stop your disruptive editing. If your vandalism continues, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — [ Unsigned .]
 * Perfectly legit in my mind...  weburiedoursecrets inthegarden  21:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It is disruptive because those wikipedia redirects are plausible and there is nowhere else they could plausibly go. Like WIKIpedia, it doesn't take too much imagination to guess what someone might mean if they wrote that. It is disruptive because these redirects were fine how they were and other people have to take time out of their schedule to protect them. User JoshuaZ agreed that these nominations were bordering on disruptive and I further agreed that they absolutely were disruptive. And Redirects may be cheap, but they help Google and other search engines come up with Wikipedia results first for misspelled and alternate spelling terms, which actually makes them sort of valuable. JayKeaton (talk) 00:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * And, you're dropping a rather serious warning, with a threat of block, over a couple nominations this user made to RFD that you do not agree with, if I'm to understand this correctly? This user was being bold, and, nominated those redirects for deletion in good faith. I don't agree with the noms myself, but that is neither here nor there. It is most likely not appropriate to jump straight to a templated warning, and threat of block over good-faith edits (on a side note, accusing good users of vandalism is also very inappropriate when that is not what is occurring.). A polite note, (or, better yet politely objecting at the RfD's!) here would have sufficed instead. SQL Query me!  17:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It is just a warning. Richard has nothing to worry about as long as he isn't a serial offender JayKeaton (talk) 00:54, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Let's see. You accused him of vandalism, and threatened to have him blocked, for something that is not vandalism, and in this case I view as not a blockable offense, and yet you are still here, making vague threats (e.g. "...nothing to worry about so long as..."). I would strongly suggest you modify the way you interact with your fellow wikipedians in the future. SQL Query me!  02:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Like I said, he has nothing to worry about as long as he doesn't keep doing it after he has been warned to not do it. Why are you so defensive? Do you plan on being disruptive in the future? A warning isn't the end of the world, unless of course (as I have said) you plan on defying the first, second, third and final warnings. In any case if you wish to discuss this further I strongly advise that you take this to either your own or my talk page instead of filling up someone elses. JayKeaton (talk) 02:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, I'm concerned with it, because we don't need to drive more contributors off, over nothing? Like I said, you need to revisit the way you interact with other wikipedians on this site, if you still think this sort of behavior is acceptable. And, Richard, sorry, for cluttering up your talkpage. SQL Query me!  08:06, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, it'll be archived soon anyway!  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 08:09, May 24, 2008 (UTC)

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Sig
Thanks for the catch, I've fixed it. ~ Bella   Swan ? 19:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. ~ Bella   Swan ? 19:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

2 or more questions on the RD
Hi. I noticed your message on one of the Avril troll's sock's talk page. So are we now removing the third question that any OP starts? What if it's not a recently created account? Zain Ebrahim (talk) 12:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The note I left was created by Barneca as a template-warning to give to any suspect new account asking inane or Avril-related questions. The relevant ANI thread is here. The idea is to give them a fair warning, and if they carry on trolling [which this one did here] then they are quite probably a duck and can be blocked. It is intended to sort genuine questions from asinine trolling, although that one was rather blatant.  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 12:26, May 17, 2008 (UTC)
 * Hope you don't mind I moved your response here.
 * I understand - I was just a bit concerned with putting up messages on people's talk pages for simply asking 3 questions. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 12:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Name change
Actually you don't need to rename this account, you can just register a new one and start from there. Having a bunch of AWB edits on this account isnt a problem and no one would mistake it as a bot.  MBisanz  talk 20:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Username change Smiley ← AceLink
Hi im trying to change my user name to Smiley and since it had been in use before you reccomended i did a usurpation Well on that page for the usurpations you left them notes and one saying a admin hadnt checked im not an expert on all this so could you please inform me of what is happening so far and what i have to do now thank you smiley_:) (talk) 22:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks vmuch for your help m8. much apreciated! smiley_:) (talk) 23:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

New new redirect template proposal
Well, I've gone ahead and done all that categorizing I was talking about, thanks to your egging me on. Now my sights are set specifically on the notion of a meta-template, and I've made a proposal about it here. When you get the chance, let me know what you think! $$\sim$$ Lenoxus " * " 19:50, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Lisa Milroy
Just a friendly reminder to check the history of articles before nominating them for deletion. Lisa Milroy was in a vandalized state when you requested speedy deletion and warned the creator. Gnome de plume (talk) 18:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB Module
I was wondering if you would share the module for AWB that lets you bring upp class rating based off of other templates. (I believe this is what you were doing with the Chicago stuff when adding templates.) If you don't want to post it online you could email me. I also realize many people like to keep their work to themselves. Feel free to just ignore me. :) Thanks for your time.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  23:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You're awesome! Thanks!  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  19:45, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

About account deletion
regarding this: ok, if you insist. just a couple of questions, tho:
 * is it not possible to simply merge the accounts (and, thereby, the user pages), like any other article?
 * if someone does want to usurp the account, can they do it thru en.wiki, considering that that particular language's wikipedia doesn't have that option (yet)?

The Gwryla's simply asking from a technical pov, and not just cause he want to keep insisting - the G.'s new to the whole technical aspect on wikipedia (i've added quite a lot of stuff to wiki, just never actually registered before, cause i've never needed to create an article).

But The G. means to be an active and positive participant on the project, hence why he want to get the whole technical malaki sorted in his head (smaller brain, you see). Which leads him to the last question: how can the Gwryla advance thru wikipedia - does he have to prove himself and get nominated for stuff completely passively, just by other editors'/contributors' opinions?

Thanx, the G. is waiting for your reply. [:-) Gwryla (talk) 08:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB Module
Hey, Couple of improvements from the one you posted on Stepsheps page - Its better to have reusable code. If you are going to have a variable such as the template, and use it multiple times, put it into a string variable so if you want to change it, it can be done so easily by changing it in just one place!

ie

Also, you can replace

With an overload of the match that is case insensitive - ie it ignores case

So the code then becomes

Also means you dont have to worry about catering for every single casing in the code! Hope this helps/is of some use to you. —  Ree dy  10:35, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Tweaked the above as you didnt have a "class=start" —  Ree dy  20:52, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Couple of other problems too. There was no literal | in the template matching, so i've added that. Also a wildcard group so that the class doesnt have to be first. And your matching dealing with the old template wont work... —  Ree dy  20:58, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The SingleLine regex option means hte "." in the wildcard matches a newline. —  Ree dy  21:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Another observation is the way that the if is done.. If multiple matches are found, the tag will be replaced... —  Ree dy  21:04, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems to work if the target template isnt there (now the start is added)... Its just the class replacement that needs fixing. —  Ree dy  21:06, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes now below

—  Ree dy  21:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Think im done now

That seems to work fine now. And the codes a little bit better organised =). Not perfect, the class system needs sorting.. Maybe set it so its stub, start, GA, FA, FL... Hmm (so it'll take the highest rank). Just a thought.. Is supposed to do start? (i suppose start counts where its > a stub). What about A and B —  Ree dy  21:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You will probably also want to look at merging in some of my changes (as it improves code reusability)... Also, goto's arent really the best practise. Just have a return ArticleText; where you've got the first goto. —  Ree dy  21:23, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought it was inbetween... No problem on the help front though! —  Ree dy  21:35, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Create an account!
Hi there. When you are making an account on the WP:ACC tool server thing please if the account that you are trying to create comes up as already taken please check to see if someone else on ACC has just made it seconds before you as then you should not click taken but done. (check the creation link). You just marked an account I made as taken even though I had just madeit. This person has now received an e-mail saying his account hasn't been created even though it has. I dont mean to attack you but please try to take more care in the future.  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 16:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks ^^. I never like moaning at people just incase they suddenly hate me or something ^^.  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 16:39, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT
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