User talk:Instinct/Archive 20

NBA WikiProject May Newsletter
00:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

J. R. Richard
I don't think you addressed any of my recent concerns. 00:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong suggestion
Hi,

If you are going to run a script as a bot, I would like suggest that you create your own page i.e. User:Milk's Favorite Cookie/javascript conversion and then you can just the pieces of code that you understand to be robust. Lightmouse (talk) 13:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Great. Now can I just comment out or delete a few lines that I know will cause you problems? Lightmouse (talk) 13:16, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

OK. I have done some amendments now. I now strongly suggest that you do lots of pages as practice. Known issues include edits to quotes and edits to URL's. You will have to learn how to edit the script for yourself so that you can modify it. Lightmouse (talk) 13:43, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Have you considered a much less ambitious bot? You could pick one tiny thing to fix that is extremely unlikely to have false positives. Do a test run with 50 articles and review them carefully. Then apply for a bot licence. Once you are experienced you can expand your ambitions. Do the easy bits first. If you want, I can cut your code right down to some fixes where the false positive rate is much lower. Lightmouse (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Lou Gehrig
I'll do a complete review as requested. I'm on the fence for a few things in the article. I'll put the article on hold. I asked for a second opinion as well.User:calbear22 (talk) 16:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC)User:calbear22 (talk) 17:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Commented on article, see article talk page. Thanks.User:calbear22 (talk) 21:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Head Coach list promoted to feartured status
List of East Carolina Pirates head football coaches is rather enlightening. We should probably model the Pats one after this, and that could probably include removing the overbloated "history" section, most of which is redundant with information in the History of the New England Patriots article. --Jayron32. talk . contribs 18:16, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

reply
Oh, OK. I'll strike my cmt out and reword.  RC-0722 247.5/ 1  20:02, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Demetrio Vallejo
Milks, you appear to have nominated this article for DYK after it had already been DYKed, as a result of which I accidentally promoted it to the front page a second time. Could you please be more careful next time, by checking the discussion page of an article you want to nominate to ensure it doesn't already have a DYK? Thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 03:02, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:LOTM
Congratulations on your recent WP:FL. In case you do not know, we are running an experiment to choose the List of the Month and Lists of the Day for June. Feel free to nominate your list at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/Nominees/200807 for consideration next month to be the July LOTM or a LOTD. If you would like to support this experiment the most important thing you can do is come by and vote at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/voting/200806. My talk page is always open.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:11, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Falcons FLC
Hi MFC, just a quick note to say that the FLC process is undergoing change and as such I've been elected one of two Featured List Directors. That means that I'll probably end up being responsible for making the ultimate decision on whether a list be promoted. I'll check your list again and my director colleague, User:Scorpion0422 will end up deciding on its promotion. I'll get back to you. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

My second new article
I've written another new article from scratch (Polish minority in Ireland) and also submitted it to DYK. Could you have a quick peek? I'm happy enough with it, but I'd like you to have a wee look. :-) Fribbler (talk) 23:36, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:DYK nom
I can't seem to find another hook with an inline citation. Any suggestions? -- RyRy5  ( talk  ♠  Review ) 01:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the article suggestion. I nominated it. Also, can you find an image on Climate of North America that I am planning to self nom? There's a lot actually.

AFD Barnstar
If you are giving out the AfD Barnstar, I believe I qualify. I've been involved in both the discussions and in nominating articles for AfD consideration. Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 02:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * What happened, the barnstar offer was withdrawn? Ecoleetage (talk) 02:04, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, 10 days passed between the initial inquiry and my cueing you. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

PR edit conflict
No problem about the edit conflict and thank you very much for all of your help with peer reviews. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 01:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree it is not FA and probably not a GA - I will weigh in with a few more suggestions. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi MFC,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:HerdenkingVuurgrensRotterdam1940 2007 edit1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 14, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-05-14.  howcheng  {chat} 04:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Smile!
 Hello Instinct, ShakespearesZombie has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Wiki Project: Arkansas
Hi, I lived in arkansas for a number of years and am thinking about joining ^^^ project. Can you tell me like what y'all do or what I could do, or if your are looking for new members, 'cause I'm interested in joining! Let me know thanks.  #1  Metallica  Fan   Your Hancock 19:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

WBOSITG's RfA
 Hello Milk&#39;s Favorite Cookie, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation in my RfA which was passed with a final tally of 114/10/4. I'm both shocked and honoured to gain so much support from users whom I admire and trust, and I hope I can avoid breaking that backing by being the best administrator I possibly can. I will take on board the opposition's comments and I hope to improve over the coming months and years. Once again, thank you!  weburiedoursecrets inthegarden  20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Whoops!
Hey there,

Sorry about that revert. I'm currently using Huggle, and I had pressed the revert button before I had seen J.Delanoy's revision.

Cheers, Perfect Proposal  Speak Out!  01:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Btw, Nickleback is the best band on earth. Perfect Proposal  Speak Out!  01:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Name logo
Hi there, RyRy5 just did a fantastic job of my user page. I would have liked a name logo at the top like you guys have. Could you help me out, she/he pointed me in your direction, im a huge fan of your work. Realist 2 ( 'Come Speak To Me' ) 03:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

If your too busy, i understand, if you feel you have the time sometime id be more than happy to hear from you. Cheers. Realist 2 ( 'Come Speak To Me' ) 20:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:List of Pittsburgh Steelers head coaches
There was unstruck opposition, and nobody has left any comments in over a week. -- Scorpion0422 00:17, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

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Script
As predicted, this script, with no signature, is beginning to appear all over FAC and FLC, with no signature attached from the capper, meaning I have to delete them. Please remove the script. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 22:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU
Hello again. The Highly Active Users project has gone through a complete revamping per popular demand. We believe this new format will make it easier for new editors to find assistance. However, with the new format, I must again ask you to verify your information on this page. I attempted to translate the data from the old version to the new, but with the extensive changes, I may have made some errors. Thanks again. Useight (talk) 04:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Graphic design request
I'm looking for someone to create one of the 3 awards for a major competition I am preparing to run in 2 months at the AWC. (It'll be the largest collaboration I've ever attempted to coordinate on Wikipedia - larger than the TOTD, bigger than the Help system redesign, and even more involved than the Main Page redesign.)

I'd like you to take a crack at the top award. A trophy.

The trophy will be a MAJOR award, to be held by the current Wikipedia World Champion, until someone surpasses the record, at which time the trophy passes to him, and so on throughout the competition. When the competition is over, the reigning champion will get to keep it forever. I need the image of the trophy only - I'll write up and design the rest of the award. The trophy's background should be transparent.

The trophy needs to look IMPRESSIVE. Impressive enough for users to want to take from someone else, and impressive enough to want to defend it against all comers. One of a kind.

On the top of the trophy should be a globe, with the wikipedia globe superimposed upon it (so you can see both the continents and the puzzle pieces. If the globe is held up with 2 hands, or on the back of Atlas, that would be COOL.

The theme is World Development - the contestants will be building a 200+ page navigation aid to the subject of geography on Wikipedia. It will cover all the countries of the world. So the body and base of the trophy should be built around the theme of geography if at all possible.

What do you say?

Will you give it a shot?

If you can come up with a better (even more impressive) design than that described above, I'm totally open to it.

I need the trophy soon so I can begin generating interest in the contest.

I hope you take on this challenge.

I look forward to your reply.

The Transhumanist 06:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I would suggest you take it to Red Thunder, who's good an expert on Photoshop. I probably can make the trophy, but not a transparent background. «  Milk's Favorite Cøøkie  (  talk  /  contribs ) 21:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The GIMP can do transparent backgrounds. Though you would probably be able to understand the program a hell of a lot faster than me.  By the way it's free, and from what I've been told, extremely powerful.  You'll probably find it useful for a great many things.  The Transhumanist  22:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks
Thanks for your support at my recent Request for adminship; it certainly gave me a smile to see a support vote there before I’d even had a chance to go back and make sure I’d transcluded it right! I hope you find I live up to your expectations. Best, Risker (talk) 13:33, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI
I (Stormtracker) have gone through a username change and am now "Red Thunder." Red Thunder  19:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Pau Gasol Page
I've added some of the things you've requested, I still have to do some work with the citing. If you could take a look again and see what else I should do, if there isn't anything else, should I renominate it for GA? Gamloverks (talk) 19:11, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Re-nomination of FLC
A few weeks ago you supported my nomination of the List of Pittsburgh Steelers head coaches for Featured List status. I think we both agree that it was removed from the FLC list too quickly. I have re-nominated the list, I would appreciate it if you could support it again. Thank you.  Black  ngold29   21:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam
 , just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks heaps Milks, much appreciated. Oh and thankyou for your own contributions to DYK, I've noticed your noms have improved out of sight in recent weeks and it's helping create better updates. Keep up the good work! Gatoclass (talk) 07:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Another award...
For another of the 3 awards under development, I used the Gimp to erase the globe and barnstar from this image, but I can't figure out how to turn the background transparent. I know there's a way, but I couldn't understand the Gimp's instructions on how to do it.

Maybe it will make more sense to you.

Once transparent, a new globe could be inserted in the stand. :)

The Transhumanist 09:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

It was easier than I thought. Using the GIMP, all you need to do is create an alpha layer, then select the areas of the original background you want to be transparent and simply delete them. The the transparency from the alpha layer will be all that's left as background. Like this...



Next, I found Image:Worldwind.png, extracted the Blue Marble, created a new layer in the globe stand image, and plopped the marble in...



I don't know how it compares to Photoshop, but the GIMP is one powerful program.

Then, starting with this...



... I modified it a lot and then super-imposed the puzzle over the Blue Marble, using another layer, and adjusting the layer's opacity down, to get this:



Now all it needs is a passport.

I created this passport front cover, from scratch using the GIMP and Image:Wikipedia logo gold.png.



Since we want to turn it, we need to give it pages, that is, depth, because passports have a thickness to them.

So, one thing we could do is replace the cover of an existing pic of a passport laying down with our new cover. This entails adding to the selected pic an alpha layer, clearing the white background (by selecting and clearing it - in the edit menu), and adding an additional layer for our cover. Then the size, perspective, and rotation of the new cover will need to be changed to fit over the old cover.



Is this something you can do?

The Transhumanist 22:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2008-03-09 List of countries by GDP per capita
What about your resolution? On 14 March you undertook a task to become a mediator for the case, but since then, i.e more than two months later, nothing happened (probably because the other party hasn't responded), while the status of case is still "open" just as you put it at the very beginning. On 14 May, i.e. exactly two months later, User:EconomistBR asked me on my talk page to speed things up. He thought that my position is more correct than the other party's, so he started a talk section on the article talk page, but thus far he has not received any responses. I recommended that he referred to you, but he told me that he preferred to wait 4 days so that if nobody responded on the article talk page then he would add back all the changes I requested. I again recommended that he referred to you, but - as you can infer from his response on my talk page - he wouldn't like to do that. So I decided to refer to you and ask for your advice: What do you recommend that we do in our case? How should we procede from here? Eliko (talk) 15:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikicup IRC channel
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Thanks you. Sunderland06 (talk) 20:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Red Sox seasons FLC
Great job on improving the article from where I had it before (it was a mess), hope it succeeds. Red Thunder  15:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

While you're at it, have some pie. 

Red Thunder  has given you a fresh pie! Pies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a piping hot pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

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Red Thunder  15:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: FLC
Hey, thanks for the barnstar. :) Let me know if you have any more FLCs that need reviewing (I think I got them all right now, but not sure). Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  16:42, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Whoa, you have a ton of FLCs! I only have one. :/ I left some suggestions on the Eagles list, and I'll take a look at the others when I get the chance. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  17:03, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That's fine. I'm sure it doesn't matter, but I just like sources for most if not all of the information in an article. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  18:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Dang, you're fast! Everything looks good now. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  18:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates&diff=213989849&oldid=213987391 congrats! :)] Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  17:48, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Image won't upload!
Hi. HAU, please see helpdesk for details, my image won't upload. Thanks. ~ A H  1 (TCU) 20:34, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Resolved. ~ A H  1 (TCU) 20:43, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Homeschooling May 2008 Newsletter
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Huggle
Hey, I somehow managed to not get on Gurch's mailing list, and I was wondering, can you send me the latest version of Huggle? Thanks. J.d ela noy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds 23:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Progressed!
 weburiedoursecrets inthegarden  17:28, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikicup IRC channel
Hi, this is a message to inform you about the creation of an IRC channel for the Wiki World Cup. In this channel, such things disscussed will be; future developments in the cup, disscussion about points awarded, and other general WikiCup related things. You can access this channel via IRC and joining #Wikicup. A more derict link is irc://irc.freenode.net/wikicup.

Thanks you. Sunderland06 (talk) 19:50, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Wiki World Cup
What is this wiki world cup that I see mentioned? Cheers! Fribbler (talk) 22:50, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I see what it is now! Hopefully someday I can be in it. :-) Fribbler (talk) 01:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

List of Pittsburgh Penguins head coaches
Hey, I saw that you did some work on this list. If you want to, I would be glad to help you with it, just let me know when. Thanks!  Black  ngold29   03:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I wrote the intro, which I heavily based on the List of New Jersey Devils head coaches which is a FL. It could still probably be expanded a little more though. Is there anything else big that the article needs? The New Jersey one lists all assistant coaches, but they aren't sourced, so I don't know where they would've gotten all that info. If there is anything, just let me know. Thanks!  Black  ngold29   01:10, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Wikibrak
Yup, and feel free :)   jj137   (talk)  01:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ding.   jj137   ( talk )  01:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm watching the game (and I'm about to reply).   jj137   ( talk )  01:29, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Kijafa
I have nominated Kijafa, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Kijafa. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Merzbow (talk) 07:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

No Cookies, but Brownies!
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Lester no no
Did you see that last night? HP Jo ker  Leave me a message 21:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That was seriously amazing. Red  Thunder  01:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


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