User talk:Knowledge Seeker/Archive4

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Green river
I nominated this image of yours a few weeks ago. • Thorpe • 11:44, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reply about Lucky
Sorry about that VfD nomination! But that nomination is partially inspired by looking through the Category:Pages on votes for deletion, and I found some listing happened to be users.

Anyway, I will now leave Lucky's user page alone. It's just that at one time, I was put onto RfC which was intimidating for me. --SuperDude 06:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

note to Lucky
I just left a note. Also, I remember a time when somebody said that Wikipedians will start throwning muck, and that was a euphanism for anger over problematic edits that I thought were legitimate contributions.

In the past, my original intent of making Superdude was to have a fresh re-start on my habit of contributing to Wikipedia since SamuraiClinton was put up for RFC, but now I realize that sockpuppets will be detected! --SuperDude 06:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Polydnavirus
I guess it's not really your field but I wondered if you could take a look at the polydnavirus article with a view to expansion. It's not my field either and I have done all I can with it for now. More eyes/grey cells would be very helpful. []

fvw
true, but a couple months before that he banned tons of people. Also, of you go to the special pages nad go to banned people, fvw banned a shit load []

if you are blocked from wikipedia, is your ip adress blocked for ever. And also, are you also blocked from wikidictiionary too? []

Thank you
Hi Knowledge. This is a bit late, but I want to thank you for your support vote on my RFA. Thanks to everyone who supported me, I have been given admin status and I have been using my new powers to further Wikipedia as a whole. Thank you! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:12, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

No problem on the vandalism reverts.
Actually, watching Recent Changes and catching vandalism gets interesting after a while. (I'm addicted, aren't I?) Ral  315  05:03, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I said that wrong. That's what I'm using.  By the way, 152.163.100.* appear to be back after their original 30 min ban to vandalize.   Ral  315  05:26, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Moving
Howdy! I just noticed on your user page that you're moving to the great state of Minnesota. If you've already moved here, welcome! If not, have a safe and easy move. If you don't mind me asking, which city are you moving to? Cheers, A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  20:02, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Sure :-) I'd be honoured if you nominated me! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Go for it, KN. I'll look out for it and be the second to vote. SlimVirgin (talk) 08:15, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

WP:AN
Oops, thanks - I didn't realise I'd posted that to the talk page. Whose idea was it to have a talk page for a talk page, anyway.... :) sjorford &rarr;&bull;&larr; 09:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Nice to be back! I didn't expect any messages so soon...but I'm glad to get them. I about laughed up a lung when I found out SuperDude115 motioned to have my user page deleted. Thanks for setting him straight. Anyway, please do stay in touch and don't hesitate to ask if I can possibly return the favor. - Lucky 6.9 17:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

More and more thanks yet again. It's nice to feel wanted around here. :) - Lucky 6.9 15:39, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mike H
Yep, we conversed by email. Thanks mate. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:55, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WP:VfA
Excellent nomination and delighted to vote for this promotion (again), Doctor KS. hydnjo talk 23:15, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder. I knew I couldn't put it off (learning to archive) forever. hydnjo talk 23:12, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Done, archiving, (sort of). ;-) hydnjo talk 23:12, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Still a bit long but much better than before your kicked us into gear. Thanks ;-) hydnjo talk 23:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, No nasty reminder now when we edit User talk:Hydnjo. Jeez - didn't know that we had so many Kbs hanging in there. ;-) hydnjo talk 23:40, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Problems
You asked once User_talk:Boothy443/Archive_3 i was willing to discuss some issues that i had, well if you are willing to be senceable and have an open mind i am willing to talk. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 08:46, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You know what screw it, i quit, when you ppl want to get your act together, let me know, i am taking my work to another project. --195.39.170.102 09:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) same as above since an abusive admin did me in

Hi Again and other subjects
Hi how are you doing? Aren't you an admin now? Thats cool. Anyway I have this question about templates that I thought you might know the answer to. I've made this warning box on my user page and I want to condense the box on the editing page so that it only needs to have a template tag. Do you know how to make something into a template? If you don't, it's not that important, but if you do I think it would be a lot easier. Rentastrawberry 21:47, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Block and blocklog tabs
Hi KS, Fuzheado, now an admin, doesn't seem to have the block and block log tabs visible to him on user and user talk pages. He asked me how to set it up, but as you did it for me, I have no idea; and I remember you explained it to me, but I still had no idea. ;-) Would you mind telling him how to do it? He's been experiencing a few block conflicts because it's awkward for him to check the log. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:46, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually, I just found the note you left for me about it back in April, so I've copied that to Fuzheado's page, and that may be enough for him. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:59, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks folks, I've created the .js file, and think it's a great feature. Any other cool tab hacks out there? Fuzheado | Talk 17:57, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How to archive a talk page
Yeah, I kind of went slow/short with the archiving because I was concerned about screwing it up and loosing stuff. Anyway, your archive and talk page lengths seem to make sense and I'll try to keep more control in the future. Thanks for getting me off the dime on this, I 'preciate (to quote George W.) your suggestion. ;-) hydnjo talk 17:47, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Spanish translation
 You showed support for Spanish Translation of the Week. This week Geology of Mercury was chosen to be translated from es:Geología de Mercurio. Hope you can help. Cast your VOTE to select next week's translation! Nominate a good Spanish article

Featured article candidates/Starfleet ranks and insignia
The article has been improved drasticaly, I think this is a good enough reason to reopen the FA status of this article. To be fair I am notifying all parties involved with the article on old candidacy. If I forgot one of you, its not intentional. Thats all for now --Cool Cat My Talk 1 July 2005 00:15 (UTC)

Thanks!
Suprised me too... :-) Ta bu shi da yu 1 July 2005 05:08 (UTC)

So long, and thanks for all the photos
I must say, your Chicago pics kick ass. I hope you won't miss the big city too much.

Good luck in your new home,

Beland 6 July 2005 03:04 (UTC)

WP:FPC
Hi Knowledge Seeker,

I was interested in your comment on Talk:Main_Page about the demotiviting effects of WP:FPC. I'm sure you are not alone in this; I know of at least two other editors who have been put off by the FPC process, and I've had some of my own photos savaged, so I know what it is like. I've often tried to think of ways to improve the guidelines to reduce the negative impact of criticism whilst still maintaining a quality bar. If you have any suggestions for improvements I would be interested. -- Solipsist 7 July 2005 09:45 (UTC)

Welcome to Rochester
It will be good to have another editor from Rochester, Minnesota. I hope you enjoy living here. Jonathunder 2005 July 8 01:33 (UTC)

Comedy Gold
It is with a smile on my face that I place you into the elite bunch of Wikipedians that have received the Comedy Gold! award after seeing this bit of hilarity. violet/riga (t) 10:43, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Spanish translation
 You showed support for Spanish Translation of the Week. This week Geology of Venus was chosen to be translated from es:Geología de Venus. Hope you can help. Cast your VOTE to select next week's translation! Nominate a good Spanish article

[Chicago Wikiproject]
Hi. As you seem to be interested in Chicago, I just wanted to let you know about WikiProject Chicago. Our goal is to improve the quality of the Chicago and Chicago related articles. In doing so, we hope Chicago will become a featured article. To read more or join us in our efforts, please see the WikiProject Chicago page. Thanks!

SPUI's user page
I edited SPUI's user page because it contained offensive content. SPUI sometimes also places offensive and vulgar words in the sandbox. The words "ANAL" and "GAY SEX" on his page is not really suitable. If you think I have done anything wrong, I do apologize. I just thought that bad content should be immediately removed. Should we discuss this matter with other Wikipedians to be sure that SPUI's user page is really OK to stay here? &mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 00:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Knowledge Seeker, since you don't think the material is really appropiate either, I just thought I'd stop by and say that I have requested that it be taken down myself, feel free to second my request. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 19:42, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Away note
Hello Knowledge Seeker,

So you are moving up North! Hmmm, progress on Bengali grammar articles has considerably been slowed down due to your absence. Hope to see you back soon. We need to get that transliteration table up somewhere. Any ideas where might be a good place? Cheers and good luck moving.

-- Urnonav 03:47, 13 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey congratulations on your real world achievement. Good to know that I can now also seek professional advice from you on non-Wikipedia stuff. OK, now coming back to our little knowledge world, I put up a table of transliteration and pronunciation guideline (that got registered as anon due to my stupidity and self-inflicted sleep deprivation) on the Bengali script page. If you get time, could you check the IPA symbols? Thanks. -- Urnonav 06:46, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Informing DYK authors
Hi, MacGyverMagic, thanks for all the work you do on WP:DYK. I love seeing the new articles Wikipedia is producing. I was wondering though why you removed the "Older articles" section whose authors hadn't been informed. From your edit summary it appears to be intentional. Did you feel that too much time had passed and that it wasn't worth informing people any more, or perhaps that if no one was going to inform them, that you might as well remove the entries? &mdash; Knowledge Seeker &#2470; 23:30, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was pretty much it. The size of the page was becoming unwieldy and I wanted to keep the archive, hoping AllyUnion's bot would come back to do an automatic update on it soon. So removing something from the inform these authors section was my best option. If you think it's important to still contact them, feel free to do so, so the section could be cut down without any such problems. Cheers! - Mgm|(talk) 04:59, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Merging articles
I was wanting to merge two articles, Champsosaurus with Choristodera that I just created. Please help. Paleok

Award
In acknowledgement of your tireless work of going through the list and inform all those backlogged users of their DYK promotions, I hereby award you with the Working Man's Barnstar for your efforts. - Mgm|(talk) 09:06, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Champsosaur.jpg
Please don't suggest images without source and copyright information for use in DYK. Or do you have an idea where it came from? -- Mgm|(talk) 11:24, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Bangla article
Hello

I was just editing the Bangla article when I noticed my changes were removed and the article reverted to an older revision.

I hate to sound rude, but may I ask why? I realize some of my italicized Bangla translations may have been superfluous, but as a researcher of Bangla linguistics (particularly phonetics and phonology), I feel that those sections need editing. Not only are their grammatical mistakes in the English, but the information is misleading and/or inaccurate.

Please let me know why my revisions are not being considered.

Thanks, Sameer ud Dowla Khan UCLA Department of Linguistics []


 * I came with the same question actually. I just saw the rv. I know at least two of the edits involved a crucial error. There are 11 vowels and there can't be 52 consonants, since there are 52 letters, maximum, which I think got reduced by one after "lee" was removed. Could you explain why the rv was needed?


 * -- Urnonav 15:50, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Adding to "Bangla article" post
Hey, sorry, I forgot to add my contact info.

sameer at humnet dot ucla dot edu (I know, I'm a little paranoid about spam) []

Hi
Hi, I just saw you in the Spanish Wikipedia, and saw your interests. What about an article about eclampsy (English)/eclampsia (Spanish) and related? --Wastingmytime 20:05, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

PS: forgive my nasty usage of English....... :(

thanks !
Thanks for the support! Paleok 22:07, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Forestfire
Hi, VfU is the next likely propagation spot for the forestfire I've been fighting all night. Please keep it out. Thanks!

see for now. I REALLY need some sleep!

Kim Bruning 04:46, 20 July 2005 (UTC)


 * See: ForestFire for information, see the TBSDYs talk for a timeline as to how it played out. We have had 3 troll infested flamewars on vfd on this topic. Starting a VfU is instant flamewar #4. Bad move. Kim Bruning 04:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Forestfires are too fast for that! I grabbed a workable procedure off of meatball and applied it. That's all I can do for now as far as emergency response goes. :-/ pick a page and limit the discussion to there, coordinate with kelly and snowspinner maybe. I'm worn out. Sorry about that. Kim Bruning 05:12, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Appalled
I'm appalled that we managed to get a 3RR violating edit war among administrators on VfU. So I'm pretty much appalled at everyone, and that more as a collective. So no, I'm not appalled at you. I'm appalled at the community. :) Snowspinner 15:08, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

DYK
I'm sorry. I wanted to click on the soleus muscle link in the edit summary of the diff, when I accidentally clicked on the rollback button. I apologise. I've reverted back to your version. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 07:18, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I really liked the article. It was very informative. :-) -- Sundar \talk \contribs 07:25, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Sheep Vote
In response to your comment about the Sheep Votes article and my response to it in the author's talk page: I'm not sure if you referring to the current version or the version before I removed the attack. I'm going to save myself a post and assume you meant the latter (although I do not believe this is the case).

In it, it singled out a specific user and their voting policies in an article in the Wikipedia namespace. While this may not be the more extreme form of attack (using profanity and the like) I'd say it comes close to being just as bad. Specifically condeming the actions of a user (consistently voting in a certain way without justification), and then associating such actions with Grumpiness and eccentricity is an attack. There are recourses for disagreements with a user, but this was not such an effort. It was an attempt to make a point.

"In the past, many contributors have found their Wikistress levels rising, particularly when an issue important to them has been handled in a way they consider unfair. The contributor may point out inconsistencies, perhaps citing other cases that have been handled differently. And the contributor may postulate: "What if everyone did that?" - a common rhetorical technique. These devices may not persuade for the reasons cited above.

In this situation, it may be tempting to illustrate the point using either parody or some form of breaching experiment. For example, the contributor may apply the decision to other issues in a way that mirrors the policy the contributor objects to. These activities are generally disruptive: i.e., they require the vast majority of nonpartisan editors to clean up after the "proof". Many consider such "point-proving" acts to be vandalism."

This isn't the same exact situation as cited, but it is still an obvious disruption. The article has to be removed and debated... etc.

Sorry, if my tone comes off as hostile, as I am not upset. =) -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 05:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm just curious, which revision were you referring to? Thanks. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 06:10, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to let you know that there is an RfC for Boothy443. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 23:39, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again.
Always a pleasure to hear from you. I tell you, there's nothing quite like a user I've never heard of coming from seemingly nowhere to ream me out for trying to help. Sigh...

Anyway, I thought you deserved an answer. Feel free to drop me an e-mail. All the best, Lucky 6.9 16:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

started
hi, I've just finished the initial WikiProject Preclinical Medicine page. Please take a look. I also added some cross references between our pages. All in all, I think it's going well. PhatRita 00:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for Support Saving User Photo
Thank you for the vote to keep my user page. I was banned here a year ago because a tiny minority of admins decided I wasn't suitable, well now I'm back, and I don't plan on getting banned again. It only took this guy Raul654 a few hours of me being reinstated before he started attacking me with his pals. I'm a lot more defensive now than when I started more than a year ago, that's for sure. Once again, thanks for helping me keep my user photo! Plautus satire 15:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Newset Articles
I have seen that the Picture of the day section has been put on the front page in place of the Newest Articles section. Three things: First, have the newest articles section been moved? Second, is there still a link somewhere that tells us what the newest articles are, and third, if we keep the picture of the day section on the main page then why do we have it also on the community portal? If that newest articles section is in fact gone, maybe instead it can take the place of the old picture of the day section. If you can, talk to the other admins about this. I would appreciate it because I always thought looking at the newest articles were interesting. Rentastrawberry 05:05, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi Knowledge Seeker. Thanks for the very nice note on my talk page, and sorry for the delay in answering. I am also currently rather busy with other work, and cannot visit Wikipedia as often as I wanted to. Congratulations on becoming a doctor by the way. About your Adminship: You're a good admin, and I am very glad that I nominated you. Somehow, when I first had a contact with you, I really liked your calm style, trying to bring common sense and neutrality into a heated discussion. Unfortunately, back then you had only about 600 edits, so I decided to wait till you got 1000 edits. And luckily, your nomination went through with no problems at all. You are only the second admin I nominated (the other one is user:Lupo, also a very good pick). Keep up the good work, and don't get stressed out too much about it. (I recently had a tough phase while trying to defuse a POV dispute, taking a lot of stress and doing a lot of reverts. That wasn't too pretty.) Anyway, best wishes and happy editing -- Chris 73 Talk 10:10, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Follow the instructions, don't remove copyright violation tags
User:SPUI

1. Please do not edit this page for the moment. []


 * This is an inappropriate use of the copyright violation tag; further explanation is on your talk page. &mdash; Knowledge Seeker &#2470; 01:19, August 6, 2005 (UTC)