User talk:Jesse Viviano/Archive 2

Sockpuppet Beaumontproject
I notice you banned a sockpuppet {Bangomcgurk} of Beaumontproject. It would appear that this is also a sockpuppet of Vintagekits. Evidence: History page of Joseph MacManus @ 11:22, 17 November 2006. Note that Beaumontproject replies stating they were happy with my edits but I'd been negotiating with user Vintagekits. Also, banjomcgurk puts in an appearance above. This is more serious now as the two usernames are backing each other (at least one concurrent post) here: wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles) Weggie 22:27, 4 December 2006 (UTC) Can you advise please?
 * I did not ban the sock. William M. Connolley did that. I found out that Mr. Connolley forgot to mark the userpage of the sockpuppet, and I did that for him. If you want to see the block log of a user, navigate to the user's user page, type  into the search box and click "Go", and then type "User:USERNAME" in the Title field. The User field should be left blank unless you wish to view the blocks by a particular administrator, in which case you must omit the   prefix. Some users, like me, like to pick up after administrative goofs like failing to leave a sockpuppet tag on the sockpuppet's user page. Jesse Viviano 22:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Joke Edits
Hey thanks for the accusation, but actually "my" pun on the Trojan Horse page got inadvertently thrown in as a result of my removal of the phrase "suck my ball motherfucker" or something to that effect. I reverted the page but didn't notice the joke was in the previous edit. Eh, no hard feelings. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.113.88.220 (talk) 02:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

Primetime on the march (Likely into a trashcan this time)!
I've notified Commons about their subtle invasion by Primetime here. I invite you to comment or do whatever to ensure that if this is Primetime (I'm nearly certain of it), his latest run of plagairism will end soon there too. 68.39.174.238 04:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Change in article "Syntactic Sugar"
You changed the array access example in the article "Syntactic Sugar" to include "sizeof(POINTER)". Also "sizeof(OBJECT_IN_ARRAY)" is incorrect. These changes are plain wrong, please restore the previous state. Adding on pointers operates on the size of the referenced objects, NOT on bytes.

Thanks for restoring the correct version.

Reciprocating saw
Could you indicate which part/parts of the article you feel require citations? I'm at a bit of a loss as to what type of reference we could include. SilentC 03:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Two rules on Wikipedia, No original research and Verifiability, state that material must be backed up by something. That something would preferably be an online source, like a reputable online magazine like Tom's Hardware Guide at http://www.tomshardware.com/ is for computer parts; but printed books with ISBNs are fine if reputable online sources are not available. I don't know of any reputable online magazines for woodworking or construction, so I cannot fix this problem. I looked at the article to see what one is and what I should look for in purchasing one for a gift, and saw that there were no references, so I marked it as unreferenced.
 * There must be thousands of articles that fall into this category, so I was just wondering why you singled this one out. I could put numerous links to hardware store shopping pages but then we would be giving them free advertising. It seems a bit silly to me but I see someone has also categorised Hammer as having un-sourced statements, which just boggles the mind. I can understand this policy for articles that discuss academic or controversial subjects, but a reciprocating saw is what it is. In fact references will probably just confuse the issue because they are called different things by different people and different manufacturers in different countries, which you will know if you checked the talk page. Anyway, I guess I'll see if I can find something non-commercial that confirms it if that's what people want. Hate for anyone to lose sleep over it ;) SilentC 03:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I did not intend to single this article out. It was just dumb luck that I needed help in shopping for one, and saw that this article needed references. I am pretty sure that your local high school would have a shop class whose textbooks will cover this. I saw textbooks on small engine repair and maintenance once in high school when I had to take a makeup test, and the shop classroom was the classroom designated for makeup tests. Therefore, I think that a technical college or a high school will have a textbook that could reference this article. Jesse Viviano 04:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

AfD Closing
This may seem a silly question from a long serving admin, but how do I close the AfC?  Jimfbleak . talk .16:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC))
 * See Deletion process. Jesse Viviano 16:06, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

HBC AIV helperbot
Regarding this, comments are handled by the bot rather well. So don't worry about it. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 17:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding no follow tags
Regarding -did the policy just change again? JoshuaZ 18:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-22/Nofollow. Jesse Viviano 18:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops! I misread the article. I reverted my edits. Jesse Viviano 19:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Peconic-flag.jpg
You sent me a note on plans to delete Image:Peconic-flag.jpg because there was no source. The flag was used on bumper stickers, pins, letterhead, etc. in the unsuccessful effort in the 1990s to create Peconic County, New York. I have put source information. I hope that meets the criteria. Americasroof 02:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Since that is not a flag of a government, nation, or a military, and is not a royal, regal, nor historical flag, it is considered under copyright by the organization. Please upload a PNG version of that flag, orphan the JPEG version of this, and then mark the JPEG image with . JPEG compression is inappropriate for this kind of image. If you use Windows, download the GIF version, open it up in Microsoft Paint, and then save it as a PNG. The GIF file format is disallowed on Wikipedia unless you are uploading an animated GIF, because of some old patent issues that have expired, and because PNG compression usually takes up less space on disk than GIF does. Then upload the PNG version to Wikipedia, mark it as a fair use logo, and include a fair use rationale explaining why this image, which would be disallowed in most other circumstances because it is a copyrighted image, must be used in that article. Jesse Viviano 04:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Sockpuppet of Rickyrab
There are times when violations of Wikipedia's username policies shouldn't be blocked: for example, when the imitation of the user is actually a sockpuppet of the same user and says so. This is one of those instances. &mdash; Rickyrab | Talk 06:36, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Please check the block log. I did not block the sock. I just marked the existing userpage as a sock. Jesse Viviano 15:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Ban of User:Cindery
I was wondering a little bit about your tagging Cindery's userpage with a ban tag, so I read up a little at WP:BAN. It seems pretty unclear what exactly constitutes a "community ban", but I suppose that being indef-blocked with no real objections, even from people who were with her on the Sir Nick RfC, counts.

One thing which WP:BAN says is that banned users are supposed to be listed. Could you please complete the process and add Cindery to the appropriate list? Argyriou (talk) 18:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Northland
Based on the company profile here and this FCC documentation, I'd say the legal name is "Northland Communications Corporation" and Northland Cable Television should probably redirect to that. Does that sound okay to you? --Bill Clark 22:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, looking at the FCC document more closely, it seems as if maybe "Northland Communications, Incorporated" is the legal name. I'm not sure which to use.. any suggestions?  --Bill Clark 22:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

John Petroski
Au contraire, my friend. Just because someone is an outrageous asshole does not mean he is sufficiently notable for Wikipedia. Googling "John Petroski" nets you about 600 hits, most related to his single article. This is not, in my estimation, sufficient to grant him notability. Allow him to fester anonymously in his own slime. Denni talk 00:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

AIV reporting on usernames
I've removed users who you have posted on AIV for there userames, as one hasn't eve edited yet, and the other not for 3 years. The general cosensus is to not report to AIV unless they are editing, you really don't need to go through listuser and dig out every name Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 19:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Why do you state that these usernames should be taken to Requests for comment/User names? It states that "Grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate usernames should be reported at WP:AIV ..." Jesse Viviano 19:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Right, I'll take one of them to WP:RFCN now as a test case and we'll see what everyone says, I'd expect a very quick response. They just don't need reporting if there not editing Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 19:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done, you can comment on them at WP:RFCN, regards Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 19:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Image:MDMAanimate.gif
Thanks, I've put the proper copyright status on the animated .gif for MDMA article.

Microswitch 07:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Drug redirect templates
Thanks for you help trying to fix these. I managed to totally screw up what I was trying to do. I think it is working now. If you modified any more that I don't know about, please change them back to from. Thanks. --Selket Talk 02:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Adminship
I've been looking over your contributions for a while and think you seem to have a likely need for the admin tools. Have you thought about running at WP:RFA? You'd be a strong candidate but it's not guaranteed. I can answer any questions you have about adminship or RFA. --W.marsh 03:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I do not know if someone with Asperger syndrome like me will make a good administrator. I also never considered self-nomination because I felt that self-nomination is a conflict of interest, and that it is better to be nominated by someone else, who could be a more impartial judge on whether or not an editor is fit for adminship. However, I think that I will like to try this. Thank you very much. Jesse Viviano 03:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I looked through your interactions a bit and saw nothing but good things. And you've been here for almost a year so that's plenty of track record. At any rate, RfA will be a more thorough examination. My nutshell RfA advice is to answer all questions honestly and remember that adminship isn't an award to be won. If anyone opposes, try not to take offense at them, and don't challenge their comments. If they make incorrect claims, correct those, but just arguing with people almost certainly will do nothing but harm your chances. At any rate, I will try to write up a nomination tonight if you think you'll be up for another hour or so. Otherwise I'll do it tomorrow. --W.marsh 04:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Anyway, here's the nomination: Requests for adminship/Jesse Viviano. You can answer the questions when you're ready, then transclude it to WP:RFA and the RFA will start. --W.marsh 04:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:
I have no idea about this, if you may you can fix it. Artaxiad 04:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well it has been moved to the new location so its not needed, and thats my old account. Artaxiad 04:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

There are problems with putting your e-mail address into a Word document

 * 1) Some spammer spiders might be able to go into Word docs. The format is too common.
 * 2) Many users don't trust Word files. Too many viruses have gotten around that way.

Originally, I was afraid to post my e-mail address publicly. I assumed that the "Enable e-mail from other users" would simply make my e-mail address a link. So I displayed them as text in a pre box. It read something like "wlp _ my _ address at globespeed dot net". Notice how I handled the underscores, at sign, and dots. Spammers might be able to parse it, but I felt it was unlikely.

Then a vandal that I had been working on getting blocked found it. He manually copied my e-mail address into his e-mail client (with my address for the from part) and sent me spam. So I looked into "Enable e-mail from other users". My tests showed that your e-mail is not public. Rather, the server sends the sender a special page into which they enter the e-mail. The server originates the e-mail.

If you want to test it, click on Special:Emailuser/Will Pittenger. You will then see the special page. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

This Is It?
Hi, your removal of a red link (strangely, only one of two) from the This Is It disambiguation page is surely based on some official Wikipedia policy (WP:RRLFDP) I'm not aware of, but I'd be interested to learn why we should want to withhold information from potential users seeking knowledge even if there is no article on the novel yet.

By comparison, looking at the List of programs broadcast by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation I was tempted to AfD the whole page which practically consists of red links only but abstained from doing so because I supposed (and still do) that those who had put them there knew what they were doing.

So again: Why, and, in particular, why the one and not the other? And what would you do if I put it back again? Or would you prefer to see a one-line stub on the novel so that there is no red link any more?

Best wishes, &lt;KF&gt; 13:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


 * A disambiguation page's sole purpose is to allow users to select an existing article from a list of choices that exist on Wikipedia when the search term entered in the search box could refer to two or more different choices. See WEP. While one would normally be looking for Wired Equivalent Privacy, the wireless security standard that would be moved to BJAODN if it was not a real security standard because it is so easily broken, one could be looking for War emergency power. As for the other red link, I missed it. I have just removed it. An article that is intended to be a list is a different matter. Lists should not have their members hyperlinked unless those members have articles. Jesse Viviano 16:38, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Then I may refer you to Manual_of_Style_%28disambiguation_pages%29. And yes, I am confident that an article on the novel will be written. Who says that "a disambiguation page's sole (!) purpose is to allow users to select an existing article from a list of choices that exist on Wikipedia when the search term entered in the search box could refer to two or more different choices"? Honestly, I'm rather fed up whenever I encounter people who are actively trying to prevent others from learning something. You haven't answered any of my questions. Once again, I'd be interested to learn why we should want to withhold information from potential users seeking knowledge. And what would you do if I put back the links?


 * I do not fail to understand that copyvios need harsh judgement and immediate removal from Wikipedia, whether this concerns text or images. But disambiguation pages? Are you going to remove all the red links from pages like Miller (disambiguation) or Miller (surname) (thousands of others available)?


 * I'm going to copy this discussion onto Talk:This Is It so that others can join in if they want. All the best, &lt;KF&gt; 17:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I seem to have made a mistake. I did not know that red links in disambiguation pages were allowed if and only if someone is confident that an article will be written in a short amount of time about that item. Jesse Viviano 17:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Renfield syndrome
Article restored as contested prod. Please do improve on the article. :) - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 13:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Robin Ramsay
Whoa cowboy ... a little bit slower on that trigger of yours. I have just put the page up and am working on it! Quickerection 16:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A good way to create an article is to create the page in your user space at a page with a title like User:Quickerection/Robin Ramsay. When your article able to stand on its own in the main namespace, move it to the correct title by using the move button on the top of the page. As is, I almost marked it as a candidate for speedy deletion as having no notability assertion. Articles in the main namespace must be able to stand as articles as soon as they get there, or else someone might mark it for speedy deletion. When a page is in your own userspace, the requirements for a page in your userspace are much looser, except that fair use images are totally disallowed. Jesse Viviano 16:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA
I am pleased to let you know that, consensus reached, you are now an Administrator. You should find the following forums useful:
 * Administrators' reading list
 * Administrators' how-to guide
 * Administrators' Noticeboard
 * Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents
 * Administrators' Noticeboard for Three-revert rule violations

Congratulations on your promotion and the best of luck with your new charge! Redux 07:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

GumpDawg69
Well he created an article which i tageed as speedy delete and the article was deleted and then he created the same article which was deleted so I thought it was fair to report him then to wait for him to create the same article and warning him would do no good but he would just go ahead and vandalise my page and anyways I do think his name is in clear violation of the username policy..-- Cometstyles 15:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Please send the username to WP:RFCN. I do not see anything blatantly wrong with it, though I could be mistaken because I do not try to learn what is profane. Anyways, we are only supposed to block after a final warning or a blatantly obvious name like ShitDog69 or Willy on Wheels. Jesse Viviano 15:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for fixing all of those messed-up templates I added. futurebird 05:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Just remember to subst . Jesse Viviano 05:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Colbert comment
The comment isn't original to me, I don't remember who I got it from. I'll try to find out when I have time. JoshuaZ 19:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for cleaning up the vandalism to my user page (and taking care of the vandal). --Beezhive 01:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)