User talk:Heimstern/archive 2

Dominic Brigstoke
I know that there is a lot of mess to clean up after Noikerz went on his spam spree, but I do not understand the redirect on this article. The redirect goes nowhere, it just loops back on itself. Why not simply revert his edits, or delete it altogether? I am confused. ---Charles 05:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Sir, let me assure you that my intention was not to lay blame. I do not attempt redirects (yet) precisely because I am concerned about making these sorts of errors. I commend you on your work. Cheers! ---Charles 06:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Joseph Stalin
Thanks. The Soviet propaganda in the article is laughable. User:Zoe|(talk) 07:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your support with my RfA. My nomination succeeded and I have been issued a shiny new mop. I appreciate your support. Thanks again! =) -- Gogo Dodo 05:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

User page
Thanks for the vandalism revert on my user page. I suppose it's what we get for RC Patrol. It's good to see someone else on RC Patrol. Thanks again, James086Talk 07:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Apology
I would like to sincerely apologize for my vandalism of the Joseph Stalin page and regret any inconvenience that this may have caused. I will work to improve wikipedia and create pages of use to people, rather than defacing others work. My sincere apologies. Thanks Again CarlOsborn6927 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CarlOsborn6927 (talk • contribs) 22:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

Stalin protection
Hey Heimstern. I had just protected Joseph Stalin before you withdrew your request. Since it's done now, maybe it could stay protected for 24 hours to make sure editors will effectively calm down. Regards.-- Hús  ö  nd  23:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Admin Coaching
Hey there Heimstern, I am admin Nishkid64 and I will take you under my wing as part of Esperanza's Admin Coaching Program. I would like to start as soon as possible, and I have taken the liberty to create a subpage User:Heimstern/Admin coaching, in which I can help you with Wikipedia-related matters and hopefully improve your editing on Wikipedia. I think we should start with a bit of a personal introduction, so just reply to your user sub-page, and we'll start from there. =)  Nish kid 64  18:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Wanna Buy A *POOF*
hey, this is art begotti. on december 9th, you left a message on my talk page regarding the article "wanna buy a duck" being up for speedy deletion. of course, my luck being that it is, it is now the morning of the 11th, and i'm just now finding out about this. the article is already gone.

i have two questions for you, if you don't mind me asking:

1. where does one go to find the list of recently deleted articles? i would like to see the basis for deletion, and if possible, make an appeal. or...

2. was it you who put the article up for deletion? (i'm making this assumption because you were the one who notified me of it.) if it was, we can discuss this here, and maybe you can sway me out of an appeal.

thank you for your time, and i look forward to hearing back from you! Art Begotti 07:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

if you don't mind, i'm just going to copy/paste the response you gave on my talk page: well, given what you've presented to me, i guess i have no choice but to let the deletion stand. the one thing that still irritates me though is that despite the claims that the topic was "made up one day in school" and "probably some drinking game", it really wasn't either... in fact, i've seen it played multiple places outside of a scholastic setting, and i'm underaged anyway! :D i thought that the fact that i have seen it played in multiple, unrelated places made it a little bit more substantial than a bored schoolkid's game, but if the article has been deleted before, i guess i really can't make a rebuttal against that. thanks for your time and your help! Art Begotti 22:09, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Art Begotti (P.S.: cool username!): Well, first off, here is where the discussion originally took place to delete the orginal article. You can see the reasoning of various users, myself included, who supported deleting the article, as well as that of those who supported keeping it. Later on, while I was browsing through active deletion discussions (you can find information about that here, also a good place to learn about our deletion process), I saw the discussion for the article you made and remembered that basically the same article had already been deleted, so I tagged it for speedy deletion and left the above notice on your page. There's what happened. There is a deletion review process, but I think it's meant primarily for cases where an admin made an error either in determining consensus or in applying the speedy criteria. I don't know if you think this falls under either of those. Anyway, I hope this is helpful; ask me more questions if any more come to mind. See you around! Heimstern Läufer 07:52, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching, etc.
Are you ready to get started?

The waiting time over at Admin coaching is long (some people have been waiting in line since July). I'm an admin coach with the project, and for my students I set up a group discussion page so that we could all learn from each other. The scope of this concept has expanded into the Virtual classroom, which is an open forum for the teaching and learning of advanced Wikipedia skills.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate, as a student, as a coach, or both. Every week or two a new major topic of discussion or classroom assignment is introduced, usually with a guest writer who presents his or her expertise on the current subject and who remains on hand to answer questions. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussions, such as sharing your expertise, asking and answering questions, etc.

The current topic of discussion is vandalism, and our guest writer is Budgiekiller.

All discussions are open-ended, so all previous discussion topics and classroom assignments are still there for viewing and further participation. There are also sections for posting miscellaneous topics and questions, requesting coaching assistance, etc.

In addition to inviting those who would like to learn, I routinely invite experts from all over Wikipedia to come and contribute for the benefit of all. The VC is rapidly turning into a clearing house of the best resources, methods, and techniques known for working on Wikipedia.

You are cordially invited to participate.

Here's an announcement box which you can place on your userpage or at the top of your talk page for keeping up to date with classroom assignments.

I hope to see you there. Sincerely,   Th e Tr ans hu man ist    06:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

user was back at it
When reverted User:63.3.15.129's vandalism at User:Shadowbot, you probably should have added a warning. Less than a minute after your revert, he or she was back playing around on that page. I reverted it again, but you might want to check it. I doubt that I will for some time as I just logged in. Will (Talk - contribs) 21:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Zarbon
Good job on recognizing the edit war and submitting the RFPP reqeust, Heimstern! I fully protected the page, and now hopefully both parties will resolve their disputes. Happy Holidays, btw. =)  Nish kid 64  20:54, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment from 217.132.119.27
hello sorry didnt know —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.132.119.27 (talk • contribs)

No problem, lots of people make test edits like that and don't know what exactly they're doing. Heimstern Läufer 04:11, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for removing the vandalism from my page. Keep up the good work. --Nehrams2020 04:17, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Happy Meal
I agree, I just was not bold enough to remove it. Good job. Navou  talk  07:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Your vote in my RFA is appreciated. Unfortunately, the RfA failed to achieve consensus. If you have any advice for me on how to do better next time around, it would be greatly appreciated! Seraphimblade 14:09, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

OR in music articles
Thanks for mentioning that there was a discussion there! I can't believe the page wasn't on my watchlist (too much going on around here all the time to keep track of everything ...) Cheers, Antandrus  (talk) 19:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Hoboken Numbers
Yes, for the symphonies the Hoboken numbers are simply I/x where x=the No. of the symphony. I/105 is the Sinfonia Concertante and I/107 and I/108 are the symphonies "A" and "B". I believe I/106 is a "lost" work (don't know from what era). I suppose its a bit redundant when the Hoboken number matches the symphony number, but I was just following the template set by someone else (Eusebius?). The symphonies are indeed not numbered in chronological order and it looks like we can thank Hoboken for that. Hoboken numbers are more important in many of the other categories (piano trio, solo piano, etc) where there is no accepted numbering system or the numbers don't line up with the chronological numbers. Since in many of those cases, Hokoken numbers will be essential, then I suppose it can't hurt to always include the Hoboken number in any Haydn work. DavidRF 03:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
For reverting the vandal. Who says Wikihate can't create Wikilove?! &mdash; Sebastian 23:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Your note
I responded on my talk page, but in short, thanks for the note, and don't worry about it. I've been there myself and I understand the frustration. | Mr. Darcy talk 00:58, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Muchas gracias
Just wanted to thank you for removing the (multiple instances of) vandalism on my userpage =)   - Minkus 10:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Addition to Checkuser request
Beat me to it. I'll be very surprised if any of them come up negative, to say the least. Thanks for helping out. Cheers, Moreschi Deletion! 22:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and the Mozart article could do with a load more inline citations. See WP:CITE. Nice to see another editor interested in opera. Cheers, Moreschi Deletion! 22:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

alteration to your statement on Shirahadasha's RfA
I reinserted what I think was an unintentionally elided word from your statements, here. Revert if my action was incorrect. Cheers, Tom e rtalk 04:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry for taking so long. I've been kind of busy lately, but I'll get back with you shortly. In the meanwhile, I suggest you do some AfD practices and CSD tagging. =)  Nish kid 64  22:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Check out your Admin coaching page. Sorry, I haven't done much lately, but hopefully we can pick up the pace again. =)  Nish kid 64  19:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your consideration
Thank you for the consideration you gave to my RfA. To be chosen as an administrator requires a high level of confidence by a broad section of the community. Although I received a great deal of support, at this time I do not hold the level of confidence required, and the RfA did not pass. Yours was one of the neutral votes, and raised concerns. I am more than willing to discuss those concerns with you if you are interested. Please let me know. Sincerely, --BostonMA talk 13:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Suspected sock puppets/ran
You may be interested that this was closed. AnonEMouse (squeak) 20:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Haha, about the sockpuppet thing
Uhoh, this is getting awkward, well I posted this message on the other guy's page, and it should go to you too.
 * Message (there are actually 2)
 * Sadly, in order to avoid an accusation of sockpuppeting, I (my name is actually Daniel Folsom) and a friend (who didn't want to be identified) work under one account. The latter is currently taking a vacation with his family, but the will be back in 3 weeks, when upon I will show him his error, I'm sorry that accusation was made,--Danielfolsom 23:43, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Correction:I have sent him a email (through his blackberry) and he has given me a page of his reasons, I'll post it once I check it out.--Danielfolsom 23:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

A very Californian RfA thanks from Luna Santin

 * Thanks for your kind words -- even as late as I am, this is the least I can do to repay your trust, and to show my gratitude. Thank you. Luna Santin 12:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Okay, I replied to all your practice responses and I have done a new editcount check.  Nish kid 64  14:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Classical Music
Thanks for replies, Heimstern. I'll wait to see if more come in, then try to implement consensus. Opus33 22:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Re. AfD stupid coincidences
So indeed. :-) Too bad a lot of these are kept, even though they have nothing but worthless content. Regards,-- Hús  ö  nd  22:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

HEY
These  are parentheses, not prepositions. Asmeurer 00:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * True dat. I've been sick today; maybe that's why I forgot what I was saying. Heimstern Läufer 00:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

HOW
How do you propose you do that as you aren't an admin. Wouldn't it be proper to say, stop or I will suggest taht you be banned from editing? -76.2.113.245
 * Well, this would seem to suggest that my statement was correct in the essentials. Heimstern Läufer 06:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Redirect
I apologize, I was seeing how redirects worked and decided to created that one. I never erased my test. It won't happen again. I promise. Again, very sorry about that. Fortyniners9999 23:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Serenade No. 10 for winds
Although I'm unfamiliar with the subject, I have to say that it looks like a great DYK candidate. I'm sure it will be up on the Main Page soon. Thanks for your contributions, Heimstern. =)  Nish kid 64  20:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

User warnings have been updated
Heya, take a quick look at WP:UTM. Looks like we have a new set of warning messages. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK!
--Savidan 18:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I was very pleased to see this on Main Page DYK. Keep up the great work, Heimstern. =)  Nish kid 64  22:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Huzzah! Let's all get out the sparkling cider (since I don't drink) and celebrate with a toast! Heimstern Läufer 04:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

International High IQ Society
You don't think it matters what the person's claim is? Any claim and the afd is valid? Like "I see aliens in this article when I read it? I addressed his claims, he's misinformed. There can be no further discussion. Did you read any of the discussion? Did you look at the person's contribs?Tstrobaugh 01:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks.Tstrobaugh 01:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Contacts
To make future contacting easier, I was wondering if you could divulge your AIM or MSN screennames (if you have them). Thanks,  Nish kid 64  02:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

At AfD

 * shrug* My comment was still kind of weak, though, since I had to include the smiley face. I didn't want to seem like a jerk. AGF and all. Or seem like I was serious about using criteria. :-) -Freekee 05:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Be careful what you ask for :)
Re : You have every reason to be concerned about the state of RfA and that it can be a real gauntlet at times. That said, it's far from impossible. I've done a cursory review of you, and so far it looks good. You don't trip up on typical things some people vote oppose for; you've never been blocked, your Wikipedia space contributions are significant, you appear to have need of the tools with all your vandal fighting, your edit summary usage is 100%, and no RfCs brought against you.

Would you be interested in having me review you with an eye towards nomination? Have a look through this: User:Durin/My guidelines for admin nomination. My reviews take some hours to complete, so I don't begin them until I've done a cursory review and the person accepts being reviewed towards a nomination for adminship. I'm very careful in my reviews, and try hard to find anything that might cause problems in the RfA. I don't like seeing an otherwise good candidate get caught on a "gotcha". Even if there is a gotcha, a nomination is not out of the question since the question about the nature of it can be reviewed and answered beforehand. It's just better to find it beforehand than after the nomination goes live.

If you're interested, let me know. --Durin 20:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)