User talk:Jack/Archive 2010

Horizon High School
uh have you even seen what you reverted to (a bad person) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.149.59.50 (talk) 17:15, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Adding to Guestbook List
Hello there. Since you designed the guestbook list template, you could help me with something. It says to "add your guestbook to the appropriate column". How do I choose which column?  2D Backfire Master  talk, guestbook 12:06, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Adoption
Hi Jack,

I've started to clean up the Adopters' list. You appear to appear to have been editing only sporadically in the last months. I wonder if you're still interested in adopting new users. If you're not interested any more, would you mind removing yourself? Thank you and happy editing,  Snowolf How can I help? 11:49, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

You've Got Mail
... In the pages about your willingness to adopt new editors, you wrote, "I have the greatest experience writing and expanding articles. If you have a topic you would like to research, I can assist you with the process of making it excellent. If you love it and you're willing to work at it, just let me know." Thank you. All of us need to know how to learn, and we mostly need to know to make our own work effective and worthwhile, without relying on others to do our work for us. Helping us learn how to take our own work from good to better, then from better to great, and finally from great to excellent is the essence of being an effective teacher. It's wonderful to know that there are teachers out there, like you, who are willing to spend their time helping the rest of us get up to speed. Kudos!
 * Thank you. I overwrite the previous message because I don't want to display my ignorance quite as blatantly to the world. Which is why I prefer the private forum of email for less public introductions. I do know to sign but often forget. I've suggested an enhancement to Sinebot. Svanslyck (talk) 22:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Per your request you are now a Reviewer
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

For the guideline on reviewing, see Reviewing. Being granted reviewer rights doesn't change how you can edit articles even with pending changes. The general help page on pending changes can be found here, and the general policy for the trial can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. 7 00:01, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

www.speechisfire.com
Hi Jack, I have no idea whether this message will reach you or not, as I have not used this feature before, but I hope it does. If you follow the link I added to the entry on poetry, you will see that it is to a non-profit, scholarly project with zero cost to users. I added the link to it because I believe it to be of genuine cultural and intellectual interest to readers of the entry on poetry. If you have removed it, I would be grateful if you would change it back. I do not see how you could possibly object to it.

All best wishes,

Martin

Mjw65 (talk) 23:07, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Lorenzo Amoruso
Please stop reverting my edits to the above, they are both contructive and sourced. Thanks 194.80.49.252 (talk) 17:16, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

www.speechisfire.com again
Hi Jack, many thanks for your useful message. I looked through the materials you sent me, and added a new section "external links" to the poetry entry. (I know that Wikipedia does not normally want to function as a repository of external links but in the case of something like poetry links to recordings seem essential to me: people who read the entry will want to know how the poems discussed in it actually sound. I hope that people will add links from many more cultural traditions).

Martin

Mjw65 (talk) 21:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Offensive edit
Would you like the offensive edit removed from your talk page history? --B (talk) 23:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I actually just did it now before I saw this message, since it was the same as the edits B removed from his own page. If you'd like me (or anyone) to restore it just so you have something to point to if you're keeping track of vandalism, it can be restored.   —  Soap  —  23:47, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Editing
I do not appreciate your comments and threats that you have left on my edits. When Paulo Patton appears on Law&Order Special Victims Unit this fall, we'll see who's right. And quite frankly, I don't care if you suspend me. You can suspend me for a year if you want. Goodbye and good reddens. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.75.153 (talk) 20:08, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, and I'm sorry if you felt threatened by my warnings. However, your edit must be verified. Your edit very well may be true, but it must be proven. I quickly searched 'Paulo Patton Law and Order' and all I could find was rumour news articles, else I would have added a source for you. Regards, -- Jack ?! 01:39, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

out of curiosity...
Well, firstly, welcome back. You may find it a rather different place to when you left, however. But can I know how you came across my userpage in the first place? Regards, so nia ♫♪ 01:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Guestbook List
Hi! I'm Belugaboy, and I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm a new inductee to your list. I was wondering if I could help you sweep out the "dead" guestbooks. Either reply on my talk page or leave a talkback there. Thanks so much!
 * Beluga boy 13:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Sheffield
Hi - thanks for your message, and welcome back. There's no rule as to when "many" can be used in an article and, as you indicate, it can often be superfluous. But, in other uses, it can be important to the meaning of a sentence - for example, "Even by 1981, social polarisation (as defined by the Census and Registrar-General) in Sheffield was far lower than in many other cities...", while not the clearest of sentences, implies something rather different to "Even by 1981, social polarisation (as defined by the Census and Registrar-General) in Sheffield was far lower than in other cities..." - without the "many", to me, it implies "...far lower than in [all] other cities..." Warofdreams talk 09:24, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: User talk:Alexius08
It is part of a massive drive of tagging user pages for speedy deletion that I did a year ago. Alexius08 (talk) 11:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Great picture
Your (do you have a bot to change it?) is very nice. Thanks for sharing. Gut Monk (talk) 00:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I love your picture ;) Especially considering it's of something from Tassie :) Good luck with the FAC, too.  Aaroncrick  TALK 05:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Sheffield
I reverted it by mistake, clicking on the wrong link in a list. Sorry about that. Si Trew (talk) 10:34, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Sheffield FAC
Hi Jack, thanks for your work on the Sheffield article. I was involved in the first FAC, and also in trying to avoid being delisted last year, so I know how much work it is. I'll try to help fix to any problems that are highlighted in the FAC. I'll also have a pre-emptive attempt at fixing the climate section, which is basically a cut/paste job from its source. —Jeremy (talk) 16:24, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * One think that needs work in the Sheffield article is alternative text for images. You can check the state of this here: . I think that maybe as many as half the images could do with better alt text. I find it really tough to write these, but I'll try for some of them. —Jeremy (talk) 20:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Request for Adminship
 Hello , thank you for participating in my recent RFA. I have taken all your comments into consideration and will make sure that I do it right if I plan on doing another RFA. Also, please do have a look at the comments made by other editors and myself, regarding this RFA. Thank you again, and have a nice day! Rehman(+) 03:01, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Montenegrin Orthodox Church
Hi, sorry for waiting, I forgot to check my messages. Anyways, here's the translation of thatimage: Constitution Of Saint Synod in Principality of Montenegro

CETINJE, DRŽAVNA MONARHIJA, 1904. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Autocephal Orthodox Mitropholy in Principality of Montenegro, as a member of the only holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, of which the shepherd and the head is Lord and our God Jesus Christ, guards and keeps unity in dogmas and canonical bodies with all the other Orthodox autochephal churches, and this unity shall be kept until the end of time.

The translation is not perfect,as I couldn't find the adequate English counterparts for some terms, so I've aimed more for preserving the meaning than style. Hope it'll be useful to you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vitkogames (talk • contribs) 14:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Userpage
Sure, I can delete things from your userpage. Do you want to have "true" deletion or just "grayed out" RevDeletion (which is much more common nowadays)? Or does it not matter. Note: Im going to bed now and will be up in about 8 hours.  — Soap  —  01:23, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've done it. To be honest, I didn't realize you were looking to have that many diffs deleted, and I thought that using RevDelete for that would draw attention to the deletion, whereas the old-style deletion won't since it's invisible.  If you'd like the diffs to be restored and then re-deleted using RevDelete, you can do that, but as above I wouldn't recommend it because people will be always wondering what was there, and would still be able to see the usernames and possibly summaries (depending on what you'd want).   —  Soap  —  22:38, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

'home wiki'
It really doesn't matter, but it appears your home wiki didn't gravitate to en.wiki as I thought it might. To rectify this (if you care), you can have a steward delete your global SUL and create it again from en.wiki. – xeno talk 16:35, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Screenshot
Thanks. Marcus Qwertyus   20:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

VPC closures
Hi Bydand and thanks for helping out with closing VPCs. Please make sure you go through each step of the closing procedure. Also note that generally is preferrable for candidates to be closed by editors who were not involved in the voting process of the subject image, otherwise the closure can be contested and challenged. Your closure of Wolf Point, Chicago was really on the edge, given that you provided the fourth vote necessary for promotion and closed immediately afterwards, and were not following the usual bottom up order. If it was my delay between the stages of the closure of the other 5 images I did in parallel which confused you, I appologize. Any further help with VPC closures will be much welcome. --Elekhh (talk) 01:08, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Responding to your questions: I actually did step 5 for you as I was there anyway, but steps 2, 3 and 6 haven't been done yet. The "bottom up" message is here easy to overlook I know. The other rule is an unwritten one, but has been often discussed in both FP (where is applied very strictly) and VP (where due to lack of closers concessions have been made). --Elekhh (talk) 01:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll leave it to you, no rush. Btw you might be also interested in this discussion about the future of the project. --Elekhh (talk) 01:32, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Billy Sunday, 1921
cropped.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Guestbooks list
Hi. I have a suggestion: replacing the template with a category page, with the category added to each guestbook. How does that sound?  Ocean Shores   Formerly TEK (talk • e-mail) 03:26, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I think there used to be a category similar to what you're suggesting but it was deleted. Some people aren't too fond of guestbooks and lists of guestbooks you see! -- bydand • talk  06:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I made the list automatically divide into 6 equal columns. I hope you don't mind. But why shouldn't we make it alphabetized?  Ocean Shores   Formerly TEK (talk • e-mail) 14:50, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you might have to undo that, because the columns aren't equal now and there's no obvious way to equalise them. And we shouldn't alphabetise it because of reasons on the talk page. -- bydand • talk  15:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks. --Extra 999 (Contact me +  contribs) 03:46, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Guess Who's Right?
You just had to tell me that I was dead wrong when Paula Patton was joining Law and Order SVU, Well guess what? SHE IS! I was right all along and you threatened to suspend me for posting the truth! YOU SHOULD BE SUSPENDED —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.75.153 (talk) 22:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't ever say she wasn't joining, I said you must verify your claims. I have no interest whatsoever in law and order, if you take a second out of your busy schedule of watching law and order, you'll see that. -- bydand • talk  11:30, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Meg & Dia
Should be delisted, as it relies on quite a few unreliable (MySpace, etc.) sources, etc. Any chance you want to work on this? I'm not much of a delisting guy myself, but you should be able to push it up to the current GA standards.  — fetch ·  comms   23:40, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Given your participation at Featured picture candidates/Jesse Jackson, Jr., I thought you might consider taking the time to comment at Valued picture candidates/Jesse Jackson, Jr..--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:54, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Marquette Building
Given your involvement in Featured picture candidates/Marquette Building, I thought you might want to comment at Valued picture candidates/Marquette Building.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:58, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Adopt-a-user reminder
Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:


 * If you are no longer interested in being an adopter, please remove yourself from the list.
 * If you are still interested, please check the list to see if any information needs to be updated or added - especially your availability. Thank you.


 * You are receiving this message because you are listed as an adopter here.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 03:39, 23 September 2010 (UTC).

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An update from adopt a user
Hi there ! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.

On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.

Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.

Once again, thank you for participating in the adopt-a-user program! If you wish to respond to this post, please message me on my talk page.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 05:17, 11 October 2010 (UTC).

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Hey
Just letting you know :) Regards. Reh  man  06:22, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice, I replied :) -- bydand • talk  15:57, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem :) Reh  man  09:40, 18 December 2010 (UTC)