User talk:Instinct/Archive 9

Adoption
You left a message asking me if I would like to be adopted; I think I would, thanks! --Mistsrider (talk) 04:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have a section on my page for things I'd like help on. Additionally, I'd like to know how to do page redirects (like, "rowlings redirects to this page j. k. rowlings"), and also some advice about how to find writing guidelines in Wikipedia? I'd like to edit some articles with foreign language components, and I remember there was this guideline I read about what format the foreign language phrases and notes (like pronunciation) should be written in. --Mistsrider (talk) 05:13, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi! thanks for your interest yeah i've been having some problems with like everything especially uploading images i would really appreciate your help, i did this little article but i think they wanna delete it :-( till now i'been checking other pages to see how people made articles, but is better if i get help, again thank you --Ohverde (talk) 06:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Editor Review
Done! Pedro : Chat  08:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

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Re:Templates
Not sure if that's a good idea. They're a little redundant, aren't they?  jj137  (talk)  23:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You really should just stick with the regular WikiProject Boston Red Sox template.   jj137   (talk)  23:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It works perfectly, but I am about 99% sure someone will come along and they will all be speedy deleted or taken to TFD, and all of your work now will be pointless. (That's our deletion system for ya.)   jj137   (talk)  00:08, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Because they're basically redundant; they're just WikiProject Boston Red Sox in several different forms.   jj137   (talk)  00:28, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * OK then. Still, probably not a good idea to use them.   jj137   (talk)  00:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Redsox assessment templates
Hi MFC - hope you don't mind, but I've just moved your new templates to more standard names:
 * Stub-Class Redsoxassessment
 * Stub-Class Redsoxassessment-nested
 * Start-Class Redsoxassessment
 * Start-Class Redsoxassessment-nested

The reason is that the first two templates could easily be confused for stub templates, which they're not - they're Stub-Class assessment templates (only stub templates end with -stub, or have -stub as part of their names). The other two I've moved for uniformity - this is how they're usually named. Hope this doesn't cause you any concerns. Grutness...wha?  00:44, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Fantasy Baseball 3?
JJ and I have agreed that we'll also have a private ESPN league that I will create. Just the four of us. Two leagues ain't hard to handle. I've done ESPN before. I can do it. HP Jo  ker  Leave me a message 02:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks Milk. Hey Milk, you doing anything tonight? HP  Jo  ker  Leave me a message 03:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Wondering if you'd like to do a mockdraft tonight on CBS. HP  Jo  ker  Leave me a message 03:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Of course it's possible. I'm doing one right now. We can just join one and others will come naturally. We ain't the only people on SportsLine. I'd be delighted to quit the one i'm in soon and do one with you at 8:30. Whats your username on there? Are we going to do one at 8:30?r HP  Jo  ker  Leave me a message 03:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Crap. Can't do one at 8:30. Have to wait until my old mock draft is done. I'll tell you when it is. Madden and [www.923krst.com KRST] TIME! HP  Jo  ker  Leave me a message 03:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)re

Soul and salsa
Hi, I noticed that you had two AfDs going on simultaneously for Soul and salsa. I closed out the second one and merged it into the first one. Hope that works for you. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Draft Today!
The draft is today! Everyone going to be there? HP Jo  ker  Leave me a message 16:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * DRAFT BEGINS IN 3 MINUTES! HP  Jo  ker  Leave me a message 17:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Milk&#39;s Favorite Cookie! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. βcommand 17:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Fantasy baseball
You missed the draft today!  jj137  (talk)  01:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about it, it automatically picked for you. Know what's crazy? I had 6th pick and I still got Santana.   jj137   (talk)  01:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's not that bad (I have about 6000 articles that need copyediting). At least it will give you something to do. Oh yeah, you're mentioned in the newsletter coming out tomorrow.   jj137   (talk)  01:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * You deserved it. If I were you, I wouldn't be surprised if I got another barnstar by the time all of the assessments are done ;)
 * Thanks for the barnstars. I finally got a script physical object to use when dealing with vandals. :)   jj137   (talk)  02:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, I doubt whoever wrote the policies would have thought of that. :)   jj137   (talk)  02:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Boston Red Sox newsletter - February 10, 2008.
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Re:Copyedit
I think for that one, I just saw a link on your userpage. :)   jj137   (talk)  04:01, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Glad to see someone actually looks at it :)   jj137   (talk)  04:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I would say it was. I don't know if anyone else even reads the newsletter.
 * What's the way to make AWB work faster? I mean, what do you do?   jj137   (talk)  04:11, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm... never tried it. Is it a lot faster?   jj137   (talk)  04:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll make sure to try it next time I use AWB. (I just finished copyediting about 300 articles, now just trying to get some "real editing" done.)   jj137   (talk)  04:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The chart? No, it is updated by a bot once every few days.   jj137   (talk)  04:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's funny. There's another way to "trick" it: if it says "no changes made, click ignore" or something like that, if you hit save, the number of edits you made will be +1 even though you didn't actually make an edit. BTW, have you considered archiving your talk page?   jj137   (talk)  04:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, you archived a lot, and there's still a lot of comments there! :) I set up automatic archiving on my talk page.   jj137   (talk)  04:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Are you going to?   jj137   (talk)  04:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Where were you?
During the draft. We missed you. HP Jo  ker  Leave me a message 05:29, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks
 .: RFA thanks :.

Re:Copyediting
✅   jj137   (talk)  17:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, why?   jj137   (talk)  17:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow. There was a three second difference.   jj137   (talk)  17:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right. (I wouldn't be surprised if you got in an edit conflict with MoP on my talk page in a few minutes.)   jj137   (talk)  17:32, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It could be a while though, he's got about 80 more people before he gets to me.   jj137   (talk)  17:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Either he was pulled over and got a ticket (and probably his license taken away...) or he had a wreck and his car blew up.   jj137   (talk)  17:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * AWB, I know. I personally think it shows they're not lazy to go without it, though. (Just my opinion, but I hardly ever see anyone give RfA thanks using AWB.)   jj137   (talk)  17:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I imagine it would be funny to see that happen due to the guy's stupidity (although pretty painful to him).   jj137   (talk)  17:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

So, you have 2 GAs, 7 nominated DYKs, 3 FPs, and 1 FA?  jj137  (talk)  17:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Nothing obvious I can think of, but I can help expand the references section.   jj137   (talk)  17:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I just meant using cite web and the like more (see today's Main Page FA).   jj137   (talk)  18:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure. :)   jj137   (talk)  18:05, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * (By the way, thanks for the barnstar you gave me.)   jj137   (talk)  18:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, it is today's Main Page FA, and we never semi-protect that unless extreme vandalism.   jj137   (talk)  18:51, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * ...Which reminds me I should get to copyediting. :)   jj137   (talk)  18:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reminding me of that too. :)   jj137   (talk)  18:57, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Assessments
I think most people who played for the Red Sox are probably Mid-Importance, not Low.  jj137  (talk)  19:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's not a big deal.   jj137   (talk)  19:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Barnstar
Wow, thanks. I really don't know what to say. :)   jj137   (talk)  19:32, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wait, what do you mean it keeps restarting?   jj137   (talk)  19:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm... that's never happened to me. I'm not sure what to do.   jj137   (talk)  19:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's good. :)   jj137   (talk)  19:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like it might have just been an accident.   jj137   (talk)  20:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * By abuse of holy trust, I think he meant himself. Well, I got a PS2 several years back.   jj137   (talk)  20:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I thought it was probably a "block testing" account someone created due to the name and the block reason, but apparently not.   jj137   (talk)  20:21, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah
Thank you, but on which page did I do that? Basketball 110  the pages I've messed up completely  20:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay. Thank you. Didn't realize I'd tagged that. Basketball 110  the pages I've messed up completely  20:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Henley Business School
I fixed it and left the user a note about not doing copy and paste moves.  jj137  (talk)  00:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Pro Bowl
No, you're not dreaming it.

No, unfortunately I don't think you broke the record. I saw someone with 1000 userboxes once.  jj137  (talk)  00:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know... I think I'm still kind of confused too.   jj137   (talk)  01:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess, but not as bad.   jj137   (talk)  01:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's any way that can happen.... I also thought that about the Pats and the Super Bowl...   jj137   (talk)  01:04, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, yeah.   jj137   (talk)  01:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * OK... trying...   jj137   (talk)  01:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Just wondering - have you thought at all anymore about the Boston Celtics newsletter?   jj137   (talk)  01:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, yeah....   jj137   (talk)  01:15, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, four.   jj137   (talk)  01:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Pookeo9.   jj137   (talk)  01:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * See WikiProject Boston Celtics/Members.   jj137   (talk)  01:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I really have no idea.   jj137   (talk)  01:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

(unindent) That's cool. I adopted someone a few months ago but it didn't really get anywhere.  jj137  (talk)  01:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Really? What on?   jj137   (talk)  01:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Sockpuppetry
Hard to tell. Do you know who the guy is? I just moved the page for capitalization when I saw it in New Pages.  jj137  (talk)  01:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I was looking at the page history. That's really obvious sockpuppetry.   jj137   (talk)  01:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Aah, yeah, just simple stuff like that. I think it's strange how some users will come here and know nothing (I didn't) while some will come and immediately know more about some things (like wikimarkup) then I do.   jj137   (talk)  01:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I usually only see "do not delete" when it's the author of the page. No one else will do that.   jj137   (talk)  01:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know... you can if you want. I imagine the closing admin will completely disregard it (that's one of the most obvious cases of meatpuppetry I've seen).   jj137   (talk)  01:49, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I didn't notice that.   jj137   (talk)  01:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

He left that on several user's talk pages.  jj137  (talk)  01:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Reply to note
Hello Steve, thanks for the welcome. I'm currently following the "lurk before you leap" policy, so I'd like to remain "anon" for now, and ask for indulgence in that regard. Not sure yet whether I'll be in or out. Great project to be a part of. Am aware of benefits and such, but want to read a bit more (style, article development, etc). Have some concerns regarding contentiousness, wars, vitriol, experienced users with an agenda, and "cabals" where experienced users effectively circumvent Wikipedia policies. I'll decide in the fullness of time. On a positive note, (1) even though I'm anon, you can use my first name, "24"; and (2) the U. of Illinois BBall team hands out a "Kenny Battle" award to the player who shows the greatest heart, in remembrance of Battle's days there - don't know much else, but hope that helps! 24.178.228.14 (talk) 03:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:IP
Yeah, I have WP:AIV and a bunch of other important admin pages watchlisted, so I usually will see action immediately.  jj137  (talk)  03:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, usually action will be taken much faster than if you just leave me a message on my talk page (due to there being 1500 other admins...). :)   jj137   (talk)  03:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Internet Meme Revert
I'm pretty sure that the line is supposed to not be in all-caps. I'm not a huge DBZ fan, so correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks 99.167.231.124 (talk) 22:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Just trying to follow what I learned in grade school. 99.167.231.124 (talk) 22:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Emperor Charles fifth.png)
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Re:Earl Johnson (baseball)
I expanded the article some. Also, I see you got your ref from the BR Bullpen. :) Yeah, I'm a pretty active contributor there...   jj137   (talk)  02:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yep. :)   jj137   (talk)  02:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, I think it looks under control. If it keeps up I'll semi-protect it.   jj137   (talk)  02:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, where's my sandbox? i wanna try writting there but i can't find it, and my article is ok and i don't wanna delete it (i spend long time doing it) but it had a message that said it was "considered for deletion" now i checked and is gonne :) ... thankx --Ohverde (talk) 03:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Boston Celtics
Thanks for the invite. I accepted and added my name to the project's list. Currently, I am updating all the current pages associated with the Celtics, such as the 2007-08 NBA Atlantic standings, 2007-08 Boston Celtics season, Boston Celtics seasons, 2007-08 Boston Celtics season game log, 2007-08 Boston Celtics depth chart, etc. I am also watching all the articles of all the current Celtics players players. I hope I can help even more and will try to contribute to this project. ●  8 - Hype  (talk 12:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Cricetulodon
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OfficialLark edits
You submitted to WP:AIV as a vandal. It looks to me like a new user struggling to edit. Am I missing something? —EncMstr 02:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Image
I deleted it.  jj137  (talk)  02:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I compiled WP:BOSOX/A from Boston Red Sox all-time roster, and lots of them have been removed on the list (because they're supposed to eventually be removed when they're tagged). It's not a priority, though.   jj137   (talk)  02:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

German colonial empire
How's about contributing to the discussion I started on the talk page instead of piling in and reverting? The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 02:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * ps and I think it's a bit rich to claim "100% edit summary usage"  The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 02:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the card!

I semiprotected Stingray for three days. That should be enough to get it to settle down.  jj137  (talk)  20:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought it probably was. I didn't want to stop you from using AWB because I had never used it for assessment and didn't know how fast it was compared to "standard". I guess different things work for different people.   jj137   (talk)  21:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * For a second I did. :)   jj137   (talk)  21:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point of it either. I nominated it for deletion.   jj137   (talk)  21:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

✅   jj137   (talk)  21:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Problems
This was indeed a waste of time. I was just going to reply to that and I got an edit conflict. Thanks for removing it. - Milk's  Favorite  Cookie  21:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * A lot of my WP edits these days are related to images and copyright law (reducing sizes for Fair Use images, adding tags for missing license info, adding rationales), and so when I saw that nom (especially after having been around for the first failed one), I was a bit wary.
 * Thanks for keeping an eye on it — it's good to know someone would have caught it if I hadn't. tiZom<sub style="color:black;">(2¢)  22:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)