User talk:J-stan/Archives/2007/August

User talk:Minestrone Soup/Knightly order
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 * I have no idea what this is about. I asked a question on that talk page, and he speedy tagged it as vandalism. Not sure what that means. I do not believe my edits were non-constructive.  J- stan  Talk Contribs 22:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:AFD
Your comments on AFD are so ruthless they're hilarious. Well done!  Onnaghar (T/C) 14:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Non-admin closure
You asked how did I do a non-admin closure at WP:RFD. I'm not sure what you intended, so I will answer both possible questions:
 * How, technically, do you close a deletion debate?
 * You place archive templates at the top and bottom of the discussion. For WP:AFD, you put  at the top, and  at the bottom.  For RFD, you put  after the section heading, and  at the bottom.  Each XFD has its own archival template.  After the top archival template, you state the result, and you may add a reason for the result.
 * 1) When is it appropriate for a non-admin to close an XFD?
 * Speedy keep and Deletion policy provide guidelines for when a non-admin may close an XFD or when it is appropriate to close an XFD before the 5 or 7 day period has lapsed. I sometimes violate these guidelines by invoking Ignore all rules or Snowball clause.  The guiding principle is that deletion debates must be closed according to (1) policy and (2) consensus.  If I feel that policy and consensus clearly agree to a certain result, I might close it in order to save time for other people.  Having been advised by three users on separate occasions not to close too many XFDs early, I try to limit my actions to the most obvious cases. Shalom Hello 18:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

More CV advice
Here's another one for you Stan: Armin van Buuren, 2 IP vandals (maybe working in cahoots) managed to fool me by both vandalising at the same time, which means an article was left vandalised for 3 days! Suffice to say it's all fixed now, but I'll be keeping a sharp eye. What course of action do u recommend from here, I've already given em both a level 3 warning?


 * Ok, I'll do that, cheers.
 * P.S also recruited another guy to the fight: FamicomJL, persuaded him to use Twinkle and AVT after I help block an IP vandal who had been targeting his articles. Ryan4314 16:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yea it is good, I've seen this community for so long from the outside, seen how ppl get along, it's to start becoming part of it.


 * Yea I keep forgetting to do that, bcoz I'm not used to this much posting. Is there any auto-signature thing or something? Ryan4314 17:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Emo (slang) Suggested Move
Hi.

There is currently a discussion at Talk:Emo (slang) reagarding a suggested move to Emo subculture. In an effort to generate a greater consensus, I am attempting to contact any user involved in similar discussions previously on the article's talk page.

The great whale commands it... --ZayZayEM 06:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Elonka 2
Thank you for your support in my Request for Adminship. Unfortunately the nomination did not succeed, but please rest assured that I am still in full support of the Wikipedia project, and I'll try again in a few months! If you ever have any questions or suggestions for me, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, --Elonka 02:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the support on my RFA, I'm looking forward to it! --AW 15:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome Back
hey m8, how was ur holz? Ryan4314 23:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

My successful RPP
Hey boss, per our new Adopter - Adoptee relationship, I thought I would show you my first successful request for a semi page protection. You can find the details at this link then under the September 21 heading. Also I should point out I had to manually enter the request as Twinkle appeared to crash!!! Ryan4314 02:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Sweet, didn't know that, I gave him an only warning. I'll let it slide as he hasn't vandalised again, but next time he vandalises, I'll pull him Ryan4314 15:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Trusilver
Just a note here - AGK = Anthony :) my account is AGK, but my name is Anthony. So it's three noms :D regards, Anthøny  19:11, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikilawyering
You've accused me of wikilawyering, and while I thought it was perhaps in passing, or a general complaint about my strong adherence to policy, you have expressed a concern that I do not follow the spirit of the rules. I am placing this matter on your talk page because it is tangential to the discussion in which you made this accusation. I would like you to please explain where I have violated the spirit of policy, because I consider your use of a pejorative term (wikilawyer) to accuse me of violating policy to require some substantiation. I have done nothing, as far as I know, but actively work to make the article conform better to policy, not just in word, but in spirit (for example, by citing things like WP:WIARM, instead of allowing users to simply site WP:IGNORE without regard for WP:CONS and WP:RS). I am not challenging you, I am not assuming good faith, but when you publicly and explicitly accuse me of violating policy (in spirit or otherwise), I expect an explanation. --Cheeser1 20:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Please consider retracting your misinformed comment on my RfC
You will note that the incident took place nearly two years ago. Heaven forbid someone might change his mind in the interim. Kurt Weber ( Go Colts! ) 15:58, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Current Revision
Oh, sorry; I thought I was logged in last night when I saved that (m'bad). In answer to your question, I do have a registered account here: 75.31.184.4 must be the isp number my laptop signed me in with last night. TomStar81 (Talk) 19:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Pleasure
Just wanted to say that it has been a pleasure working with you. -- Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor  ( tαlk ) 19:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
J-stan, I just wanted to say thank you for my successful RfA, which passed 89/2/5. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of support that I received and I am more than a little bit humbled at the kind words yourself and many others had to say about me. I wanted to personally say how much it is appreciated. It's been a pleasure working with you at RC patrolling in the past and I'm looking forward to a lot more of it in the future. Trusilver 02:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Take a deep breath...
LOL yea I realised after a point where it was going, I did start ignoring him once he started messaging on my talk page (p.s I'm not allowed to remove that am I?). I'm also familiar with "Don't feed the trolls" tho, lol infact I sent some1 else that article last week.

I thought I could get away with giving him a piece of my mind (you'll notice my first comment was kinda informative) coz he was registered, and it seemed he was about 2 get blocked anyway. Didn't know I broke "CIVIL" tho, I'm guessing it was the "idiot" and "dummy dumb dums" remarks, would I have got away with it if I hadn't of said that?

Anywho I don't wanna finish my message on a bad note, so how r u? (we haven't spoken in a while) Also do u know if there is a way to "watch" a user's contributions page? In regards to keeping an eye on persistant vandals when their blocks run out etc. As it's one of the few pages u can't watch I presume there is a reason for this, do you know y? Ryan4314 18:17, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

reminder to mentor
Hola Mentors!

Im sending you this reminder because you volunteered to mentor my students in English Advanced B as they become contributing members of the Wikipedia community. We start working with Wikipedia in earnest next week. I ask you to take a look at your entry in the Mentor Table at School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors

Please update the information, esp. with what your technical and informational expertise is or, if you have decided that you no longer want to participate, please remove your information from the table. Please watch the pages associated with the project. Students will contact you via your user page and as soon as my students have user pages, I will put them on the navigation bar associated with the project.

I don’t need to remind you that your job is NOT to write their assignments for them, of course. I certainly will tell my students that… and the fact that you are volunteers that don’t have to help them… so they need to be nice. If any students misbehave (tho I don’t expect it) don’t hesistate to contact me and I will take care of it. The goal of this project is to integrate successfully into the Wikipedia community. Anyway… what I really need your help with is helping students get oriented to Wikipedia, make appropriate changes and write about appropriate topics (see School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Syllabus for assignments). I also need your technical expertise… I am only an English teacher after all! I appreciate what technology does for us but I am no technical expert!

Again, thank you for volunteering and you will hear from us again soon! Thelmadatter 19:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

AD's RfA
Matthew's comments aside, you do know he can oppose for whatever reason he likes? It states to "Voice your opinion" - so he does, just more bluntly (and sometimes rudely) than others. Telling him his opposition is disruptive is disruptive in itself (and incorrect), and so to avoid future problems like this is to let him oppose as he wishes to. I happen to agree with Matthew that AD is a bit blunt on RfAs sometimes, and AD has told me too that he knows he is sometimes, and will try to rectify it. Regards,  Majorly  (talk) 01:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Editor review
Hiya, yea sounds like a good idea, I'll leave it a little while tho, after the thing with Stepscurve and I've also managed to rub an admin up the wrong way, thought it might be best to fall off the radar for a while, ya know just update my articles, little bit of vandal hunting etc. P.S Is there a tool that allows you to see how edits someone has made to an article? Or do u manually have to look through all the contributions list. Ryan4314 07:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)