User talk:J~enwiki/Archives/2007/April

Removal of valid Sprint Nextel links
I noticed you removed valid links for Sprint Nextel. Every single one of them is valid and they do not violate any of the rules. They have been here for 2 years. It is not right to delete links they are helpful to others. Seeing as this is a place for useful into on Sprint Nextel, then links are helpful to both new and current customers. If you delete them again, I will report you. Feel free to come discuss this on the profile. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.241.162.122 (talk • contribs).

I restored Sprint Nextel links yet again. Read the rules before you delete valid content! Those links have been there for years now! So stop deleting them!! 74.241.162.122 07:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I believe that you also left the following as a comment on my personal blog. Adding here so that there is a complete record of your efforts to preserve those nineteen links.  Justen 07:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * You are like 5 years old! Stop deleting the links on the Sprint Nextel Wiki profile! You have had 1 wireless phone with a bunch of different carriers. I have had 50+ phones, for more then ten years. I know more about the subject, so stop deleting the links! You are just a child, so read the rules, then came play like an adult! If you think the links are too much, then you are only 1 person who does. Evey other mod has left the links their for years.  Go get a girlfriend and leave that profile alone!  Posted to my blog by adsl-156-1-228.bna.bellsouth.net (70.156.1.228)


 * This edit summary you left when readding the links to the Spring Nextel article is also worth retaining here: 17:33, 18 April 2007 70.156.1.228 (Talk) (Yes this place is! Wiki is info! Why does every newbie want to delete content that has been here for years?) (Emphasis mine.)  Justen 08:07, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

If you want to add to the Sprint NExtel profile, then feel free to. But coming here and deleting the hard work of users is not the way to go about it. If you have a bias for another carrier, then that is your problem. But I have been updating this profile for going on 3 years now. You have not done anything but deleting content that is help, and that has been here for years. I am sick of newbies coming in after years of hard work, and causing problems, when NO ONE else has complained about the links.

LEt's figure this out, but you can not delete everyone of those links. That is the work of many people over years.

70.156.1.228 01:23, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:NOT. If you have invested a lot of work in compiling a list of nineteen external links, I apologize, but that work is not in line with what Wikipedia is intended to be.  Wikipedia is not intended to be a directory of links.  The article is not a "profile."  There are websites that exist solely to collect links about a company or category.  DMOZ is one such site.  In instances where there is a need or desire for a large amount of external links, Wikipedia can and does link to the appropriate DMOZ category.  I'd suggest you look into pursuing including the nineteen links in an appropriate DMOZ category.


 * But, please understand, WP:AGF and WP:CIV are fairly clear that calling your fellow editors newbies is quite inappropriate (and distracting from any other legitimate argument you might make). Additionally, my personal choice of mobile phone service has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that including nineteen external links on the Sprint Nextel article is a violation of WP:NOT.  You will note, for example, that the Cingular and Verizon Wireless articles each have three or fewer external links.  Justen 01:33, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I believe you just left this comment on my blog. I understand that people like yourself, basically geeks, find a source of power hiding behind your computer. But by deleting links that others have worked so hard to add, is disrespectful. I have worked on the Sprint Nextel profile for going on 3 years. Most of the new content has been added by me. When I first came across the profile, it had 2 articles and 1 link. It has grown to include all kinds of info. If you want to add to the profile, then that is great. We need all the help we can get. But deleting imporant info, just because you have a bias for another carrier, is wrong. And after seeing your profile, and the fact that you have been with differnt carriers, for a number of years, but only a few phones here and there. You understanding is limited.  If you want to work with me on finding what links should stay and go, then let's do it. We can talk about it on the discussion page.  If not, I will figure it by myself and keep changing it for years to come.  But being an *** hole and disrespecting people from the safety of your computer, is petty.q   Left by adsl-156-1-228.bna.bellsouth.net (70.156.1.228).


 * Please see WP:STALK. Justen 02:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Yahoo Logo
I'll fix the purple tomorrow, I had assumed you used the purple from outside the white logo on the back of the AR. --Keeleysam 03:33, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I opened it in Illustrator, used Live Paint to change the color, then opened and resaved in Inkscape to make it a standard SVG. I did not (knowingly) alter the color. --Keeleysam 13:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I might have found the fix... I opened up mine, used an RGB to Hex convertor, and replaced all instances of the color. Image:Yahoo Logo.svg



See? It's still not coming out right. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the way the Wiki software interprets the SVG and makes a smaller image out of it on demand? Justen 20:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

4-H Statistics
Justen, could you add a source for the new statistics you put on the 4-H page? Thanks. JavaPenguin 20:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)