User talk:Firsfron/Archive 4

Apostrophe Abuse
lol, Firsfron... This seems too trivial to edit war about, and I seem to be a minority on this one. Maybe someone can set me straight. There's a sentence in the article that reads Any system which is open with its environment can freely produce more energy than the operator has to input. I interpret this as: the environment belongs to the system, so it is posessive. It is my understanding that when speaking in the posessive context there should be an apostrophe. Example: "David's shoelace is untied" instead of "Davids shoelace is untied." The shoelace belongs to David. But this is speaking about a person's belonging. What of a belonging of an object? "My car's tire is flat" or "My cars tire is flat?" What about "I wrecked my car. Its tire is flat" or "I wrecked my car.  It's tire is flat?" Which of these is correct? Please see The Matrix Series talk page to discuss. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Graveenib (talk • contribs).

Grocer
Re: your comment on my page, Gah! My eyes! Ze goggles do nothing! Anyway, sorry if I butted in, but I was bored, noticed the question on your talk page (I had it watchlisted as I had just said howdy), and thought I'd chime in. I'll go back to my punctuation cell now... Z iggurat 02:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Looking good
Can't help watching progress - looking good so far! - Ballista 05:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Lightning
Yeah, thanks for asking - we're all good - feel rather honoured, really, as we were 'chosen'. The conductors did the job but electricity was down for quite a while (the only one in the street!). The strike was extremely noisy and palpable, with the worst clap of thunder that I've ever heard, exactly synchronous (what must it have been like for Mary Anning? - Ballista 07:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for your encouraging words after my failed RFA. I needed them :-) JPotter 21:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

RE:Fang Aili
I've known her for a while; helped redecorate her user page, among other things. So that'll make this go easier :P. Thanks for the heads up and cheers, Master of Puppets Giant Enemy Crab!  01:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!
If you have questions, feel free to leave a talk page message for me or any other admin. Again, congratulations! Essjay ( Talk )  20:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * congrats man! You better change that "NOT ADMIN" userbox. α Chimp   laudare  20:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, you were an excellent neighbor. =) Congrats! Yank  sox  20:53, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Woooo!!! Congratulations! I knew it'd go well. Don't let the power go to your head! ;) Feel free to chat me up whenever! --Fang Aili talk 20:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Firs, thank you for your kind words. I am very touched! You're a joy to work with and you'll be a great admin. --Fang Aili talk 21:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. (^_^) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjo e  21:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats from here too! Z iggurat 21:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Well done on achieving the role of Admin! Please ask if you have any questions about your new duties! Congratulations!  (aeropagitica)   (talk)   23:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Congratulations on your promotion, and you're very welcome! --Merovingian - Talk 01:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)


 * May I belatedly add my congratulations! - It was, of course, a foregone conclusion with such a positive response to the nomination. Well-deserved and all the best with it. - Ballista 15:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations and good-luck
Congratulations & good luck. 23:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Kileey Hudgens
Could you delete it? Congratulations on being an admin! -TrackerTV 00:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits recognition
Hi Not pointless at all - more like keeping your flock motivated! Thanks for noticing. I was about to send you a message saying thanks for spotting my two misprints of Theropod - well spotted (just testing! :-)) - I hope that's the last gremlin of my editing of dinos sorted. - Ballista 12:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, all fixed thanx. At this moment, I'm busy, re-organising my image sub-pages, also correcting residual Velo-/Bambi- captions, image names etc. Coelophysis error has been uploaded to Commons - someone was a bit keen - obviously before I corrected the error - oh well - have to fix that, now! - Ballista 12:28, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No probs - now sorted (However, wrong image pages still persist, of course). If I were to make a list of ones I'd like deleted, is that something you can now do, with your new tools? Imagination's a wonderful thing. Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Ballista 12:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, great, thanks. I'll prepare a list at some point (not yet) - as for Commons - hang it - we'll just leave them up there as 'alternate spellings' etc.! - Ballista 14:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Therapods lurk in the most surprising places! I've found about a dozen more, in our project pages (of all places) and in Theropoda(!) and in various other dino articles. - Ballista 20:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

User: 81.79.40.148
You removed this user with reason that they have been blocked, but they have not. Could you explain, please? Thank you. Bignole 17:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * According to this, the vandal has been blocked. Is s/he still active?-- Firsfron of Ronchester 17:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there not usually a "block" template attached to either the User page or User talk page. That user has neither place with such a template. But, I always thought that when you were blocked you were notified of it. That is why I am assuming that they were not blocked. Bignole 17:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, Thanks. It wasn't there, so I assume that in some confusion that it wasn't done. Hopefully this user will learn and stop vandalizing user pages. Thanks for the help. Bignole 18:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Vandal
Hi, thanks for that. I'm keeping an eye on this one too, but they have a roaming IP so I doubt it's going to stop until they get bored. I'm really not concerned, they're just trolling for attention, and have been for quite a while now. Just some bored kid, I 'spect. All the best, Z iggurat 23:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

revert
Thanks for the quick revert! --Fang Aili talk 17:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * This vandal is blocked. --Fang Aili talk 17:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Behold the power of F5. =) --Fang Aili talk 17:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

RE: Your note

 * Hey EvocativeIntrigue!


 * Thanks for your friendly note on my page. I'm really happy to have become an admin, and my RfA was full of nice comments. I'd love to share some cake with you... unfortunately, I'm a terrible cook. Would a cookie suffice? --Firsfron of Ronchester 17:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem, always nice to see editors getting recognised. The cookie was great, just need to brush the crumbs from my clothes now!

Regards,

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 18:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My RfA and your vote
Thanks Thanks for your welcoming message. A fellow dinosaurphile! Maybe we can collaborate on something (though I don't want to steal your thunder!) Cheers, mate!--Gazzster 07:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

U.S. presidential election, 1800
Hi there:

Could you please not “fix” the apostrophe abuse in this article? All of the changes you are making are to a block quote from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. Since this is a quotation, it should be exactly as Jefferson wrote it. (We could add “[sic]” after errors in Jefferson's original but, given Jefferson's propensity for mispunctuating “its”, we'd have to add it every three words.) I've already reverted your change once, with a note to this effect in the edit summary, and you've gone back and made the change again without any acknowledgement of my stated concern.

Thanks,

— DLJessup (talk) 13:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I saw your patch to the United States presidential election, 1800 article to prevent AWB fixes. Thank you very much.


 * — DLJessup (talk) 18:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Fan Films Quarterly comment
You changed a direct quote for gramatical errors. However, since the sentence is a quote, you should not change it. PLS accept and revert to the original version. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nobleverse (talk • contribs)

welcome to wikipedia, Firsfron!
I have no idea why you added that cute little welcome template/note to my talk page just now, but thanks for the thought, I suppose. :) Straker 02:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

RYULONG ADMIN NOMINATION
Hi, My name is 'YourCousin'. I have been blocked by RYULONG and his admin buddies. I was VOTE 16 on the OPPOSE list and his #3 supporter(Mr Lefty) deleted my vote after 90seconds (look for yourself)... This guy is totally crooked and a real wiki-bully! I have been censored (LOOK AT THE NOMINATION HISTORY)and would appeal to you to PLEASE read my entry which they deleted... this was vote 15:

Strong oppose I am repasting this as it was just CROSSED OUT by RYULONG SUPPORTER #3, MrLefty. THIS IS A VALID VOTE AND ENTRY, PLEASE READ IT AND DON't JUST TRY TO SILENCE IT! This user(RYULONG) and I had a dispute about a controversial Jeremy Clarkson quote that involved INCEST. I deleted the passage noting that it was too controversial to remain with NO SOURCE. Ryulong insisted that it stayed claiming that 'HE PROBABLY SAID IT' and 'IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING' he would say. After a short editing war, I decided to start a TOPIC on the discussion page so that we could sort it out. RYULONG repeatedly deleted my topic more than 6 times until finally, he had an admin friend block my username for a week. I returned with a sockpuppet and attempted to open the discussion again only to have it constantly and repeatedly deleted.

Please look at RYULONG's discussion page history as well as the discussion page history at Jeremy Clarkson and I am confident that you will see that not only did he attempt to thwart my fair introduction of a topic onto the discussion page, but also tried to insist on keeping a Jeremy Clarkson quote on the page that tunred out to be TOTALLY INNACCURATE. He was stating that when you introduce a quote to an article, it is not the contributor's responsibility to CITE the SOURCE of the quote, but rather it is up to the editors to prove that the subject DID NOT SAY the quote.

I may have lost it and personally attacked this person even telling him to F.O., I may have used sockpuppets to have the page corrected (as it has been and is now)... But this is a bona fide crooked bully. Do not make this bully Admin please. Just look at the pages and you will see that everything I have said is true and the truth has NO holes. he is not concerned about the factuality of an article, he is more concerned about getting his way and having his input in it! He was very, very determined to have the INCEST remarks left INACCURATE and INTACT. The ACTUAL quote is now on the page and has a SOURCE. This is factual. --YourOtherCousin 17:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reading,

(YourCousin)--86.29.116.209 19:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Kids' WB and FoxBox/4Kids TV
I understand now :)  User:Raccoon Fox • Talk 21:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You've got a Thank you card!
  Open your card! Dear Firsfron, thank you so much for your beautiful words, your kidness and your trust in me! My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best. Despite I've never had the pleasure of talking to you until now, dear Firsfron, I really think the best gift that my RfA has given me is to meet people like you, as I see that you're a great editor and an awesome person. Your kind words to our friend Spawn Man when he needed the most support from us are just an example of this. From this day on, I also consider you my friend, and I'd be happy and honored if you accept me as your own. With a big hug, your friend,   P h a e d r i e l  ♥  tell me  

Ever the watchful
Hi Thanks for the 5k note Yes, and for the timely reminder to archive my talk page - I suppose it should be called the gabble page! I am on a sort of 'housekeeping morning, here, so will do asap. - Ballista 06:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

10K
Hi Somehow, in the maelstrom of my existence, I missed your awesome 10,000th - what an achievement, close on the heels of Adminship. Take this!


 * You're very welcome and wot's with this guilt thing? I'm not sure why others haven't been throwing the things at you but there we are..... - Ballista 08:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Sure thing I will - Ballista 08:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage, its much appreciated. --Draicone (talk) 21:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the flowers
They're very pretty. :) User:Zoe|(talk) 22:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Thanks for your support, even if I fail this time it does mean a lot! EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME 13:33, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Dinosaur articles
Hi - now that you're an admin, I can bother you with this legitimately. How do we work out if there are any other dinos who do not have the word 'dinosaur' on their page? (just today found that Tuojiangosaurus was without). Finding those that do is easy enough, on AWB but finding those without ....? I suppose we could ask AWB for a list of dinos and compare that with the project's list? Bit laborious, though. - Ballista 17:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good - thanks as ever - I may not be able to get to it for a couple of days but now I am 'equipped', it'll happen one day. - Ballista 17:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

"New User"
Hey Mets,

I've blocked "new user" for now, as the original account was supposed to be temporarily blocked; block evasion is itself a blockable. I saw your note on the user's talk page; please remember to keep a level head, and don't respond in kind to his taunts. Clearly, he's trying to goad you. Don't let him.

Happy editing and good luck with the RfA! :) -- Firsfron of Ronchester 21:13, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the blocking of the "good luck". That was about as far as I was would go with the "sarcasm", I would never let it escalate, you have nothing to worry about :-) — Mets 501  (talk) 21:16, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

RfA
Oh, thanks. I went off the idea of adminship for a bit, but with the stuff I'm doing at the moment, the powers would be useful so I thought I'd apply. Thanks for your support :) Soo 00:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

11K - wicked!



 * Glad to hear it's touched the spot - ref. your fridge, do you mean the brown thing that's liquefied & is now seeping out the bottom left corner of the door? - Ballista 06:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Just couldn't resist it, while your back was turned! - Ballista 07:52, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Goldenwiki - Thanks - words inadequate
Hi & thanks - now it's my turn to be embarrassed. I've proudly displayed it on the mantelpiece, as suggested. - Ballista 06:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Once again...
...thanks for helping out! I'm really not popular with the trolls recently, huh? I posted a notice at WP:AIV, but I think you got to it before someone would have there (or you may have spotted it there first - I dunno :). In any case, cheers. Z iggurat 22:38, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it was Fart (one of the frequently-vandalised pages on my watchlist) this time, although recently I've copped some flak for removing the Colbert-related vandalism at Bear too. Z iggurat 22:47, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well thank you very much! That's just made my day. Did you hear about the Colbert hullabaloo? It's in the Signpost this week, and while Elephant copped most of the damage there was a lot at Bear too. It's back on semi-protection for the time being, thank goodness. Z iggurat 22:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

GHe's RfA


Keeping track?
I don't know if you want to keep track of removed comments, so I'll just note that I removed some vandalism from a banned user from this page. Regards, Z iggurat 22:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

How does an undelete request work ??
There was a recent delete of an article Jayram Menon by an administrator User:Mailer diablo - the delete was abrupt in the midst of a discussion. The general consensus was non-verifiability. The original AfD was initiated by an administrator User:Btball - that was on an erroneous premise on the number of hits that was got through a Google search, which the admin User:Btball acknowleges in his discussion. User:0SIRIS however raised some valid observations on how the google search parameters. The dispute still remained on the verifiability. I have managed to get a scan image of a press/news item that was featured in a leading newspaper in India - Hindustan Times This does acknowledge the notability and verifiability of the person. The news was featured in the 2nd Aug 2005 and the news paper can be contacted for its verifiability. There are many more such news items which may be on print but may not be retrivable on google search. . How does one get the admins to review the deletion and be fair till a consensus is reached ? AshleyMiller 08:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Cyamodus
If you get a chance to, there was no Cyamodus page, so I created one. If I messed up anywhere, please let me know. Bernieross3 09:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Decline of the Roman Empire
Thanks for catching all the "it's" (which should have been "its" in the article) - I felt chagrined, but glad you caught them. Thanks! old windy bear 00:04, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thank you for the award! i simply try to provide and share what information i have, and i'm eager to let it be edited and updated, if it's either out-of-date, incorrect, or missing parts. :)  User:Raccoon Fox • Talk • Stalk 18:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

BenH sock alert
You remember Ben, right? Get a load of this:.

Stubs everything, makes up stuff. I am 99% sure this is Benny. --CFIF (talk to me) 18:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Requests for checkuser/Case/BenH I decided to be proactive on this. I am nearly 100% sure this is him, no one else blanket-stubs and changes dates like Ben. --CFIF (talk to me) 18:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Need some help
 continues to make personal attacks, I need some help, I'm not sure what to do. --CFIF (talk to me) 15:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

More personal attacks. Please stop him, this is bordering on stalking and harassment. --CFIF (talk to me) 15:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks Firsfron. [[Image:Smiley.svg|20px]] CFIF (talk to me) 21:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello!
I was just wondering how you were doing. How do you like the tools? Are you having fun? :) --Fang Aili talk 20:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

User:CFIF
With regard to User:CFIF, I will accept his insincere apology. I do hope that you, among others, will monitor his behaviour in future. I know I shall be watching him/her to see if he/she engages in such behaviour towards others. I would say that it is likely, given his track record of screaming "J'accuse" at the drop of a hat, as per his dealings with User:JianLi among others. However, I will stop engaging this troll as it my experience of dealing with such people is not to egg them on.23:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks like you can't stop harrassing me apparently. --CFIF (talk to me) 00:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Alfredosolis
This User continues to violate Wikipedia policy, over and over again. Now he is uploading copy-righted images. What is the issue with allowing him back on the site to edit? It creates more work for editors. --DavidShankBone 04:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Flowers
Thanks for the first edit day flowers! (Yes, I do like purple.) =) --Fang Aili talk 13:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

User:CFIF is at it again
User:CFIF is at it again with his unfounded accusations. Apparently, he seems to not directly contact users, but complains to administrators. I am amazed he has not done what seems to be his favoured tactic and has braned me a sockpuppet of a user who hasn't been active in a year. And now he wants to be an adminstrator? Surely his behaviour really needs to be looked into with a fine toothed comb, as he seems to be a problem user. Displaced Brit 03:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Admin editcountitis
Well, the thing is, that list cannot be updated the way it used to be done, as the Toolserver stopped replicating the English Wikipedia's data sometime in June (and that's the reason Kate's Tool and Interiot's Tool3 don't work very well and give outdated data). Also, the best way to do it would be directly on the toolserver, instead of making repeated queries to the CGI interface of the toolserver tools, so perhaps asking Interiot about it would be best. However, you could try using Essjay's counter, but that relies on HTML scraping, which done on that scale could probably get that tool firewalled. Tito xd (?!?) 07:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, no problem. The toolserver's copy of the database was replayed from a database dump on June, then replication started again. However, it was soon found that having enwiki replicate to the toolserver caused the rest of the databases to start lagging, so it was halted until faster disks were installed on the server. I have no clue what has happened after that, but the one who may know is Interiot, so feel free to ask him what's going on in the toolserver. Tito xd (?!?) 08:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Question...
...was there a reason for this revert? The articel (then) used "You" at least once out of quotation and the other changes were to change the flow of the prose. 68.39.174.238 11:57, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It's fine, I didn't suspect there was a real problem with it, and I attempted to fix the issue mentioned in the template in a later edit. 68.39.174.238 22:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)