User talk:Lightsup55/Archive 001

Quick not re: talk pages
I know you meant well in deleting the comments regarding the merging of the song lists to a single article for the various Guitar Hero games, however, relevant talk page comments should never be deleted even if the topic is no longer valid - it's better to just add a comment that the discussion is completed. --MASEM 19:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

At least ask me before deleting!
Look, Im not mad at you. I know its not your fault. Its probably the suits at Wiki that make you follow these stupid rules. At least warn me however, if your gonna delete somethin.--I AM JOHN SMITH (talk) 22:33, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Monsters (Matchbook Romance song)
Another editor has added the "prod" template to the article Monsters (Matchbook Romance song), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also What Wikipedia is not and Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the prod template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 07:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Franz Ferdinand
I noticed you've put in a lot of good work maintaining the state of the Franz Ferdinand (band) page. You may be interested in a dispute about the Franz Ferdinand page. It used to point to the disambiguation page - as, despite there being more searches for the band than the archduke, users will be interested in both topics. Unfortunately, it has recently been changing to point directly to the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria page. Could you read the discussion on the Talk:Franz Ferdinand page? I think your input would be of value. Thanks, Wardroad (talk) 15:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Strategy video game
Thanks for your help there. I make little slips sometimes. Ludologist12 (talk) 03:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

level of warning
Hi, I gave Elephant Talk an unsourced-3 warning a few weeks ago. I noticed you gave him an unsourced-1 warning. Would you mind changing it to an unsourced-4 warning, or can I do it for you? John Hayestalk 08:34, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Done Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 18:12, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks John Hayestalk 21:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: not using "subst"
My apologies. I was not aware of that fact. Thanks for letting me know. Regards. Thingg &#8853; &#8855; 04:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Xbox Live
Hey, thanks for helping me out with the Xbox Live  article, hope to see you help me more there. ' Ni M i Ti Ze Msg 22:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

vg-stub
You're move of video-game stub created many double redirect. the template vg-stub now doesn't work. See this article, for example Carnival Games (near the bottom). Please fix the double redirects since you're the user who moved the template. Thanks. 71.164.134.119 (talk) 05:05, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:74.173.91.114
While a final warning may not have been the best idea, I don't think this user deserved a pathetic "Welcome to Wikipedia, thanks for the edit, but this is actually vandalism, just so you know". Grsz11 (talk) 02:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It isn't the standard welcome message like the others. Besides, anon IPs are (in most cases) used by many users. For example, an internet café or hotel that provides internet access where many users get on. The welcome template provides the anon user with helpful information and links to create an account and such. Just because the first two edits by that IP address were blatant vandalism. What I'd hate to see is say a user who has dial-up internet access (which will always get a new IP address) get turned away from making useful edits to articles. Look at it this way, you get on Wikipedia for the first time without and see the "You have new messages" box. You read the messages and you get turned away because you think you did something wrong (even though the messages weren't directed towards you). Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 02:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but it is clear it's the same user, looking at the two edits. Thanks for the help. Grsz11 (talk) 02:27, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Where to report a user for...?
Where do I report a user who repeatedly adds the same unsourced content to an article and has had sufficient warnings on his talk page for doing so? Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 02:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well if you beleive that user is vandalizing report them to WP:AIV. I hope this helps, if you have anymore questions feel free to ask me on my talkpage.--Sunny910910 (talk 03:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Late
A little to late for this but

Vagiant
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Re: Videogame-gameplay-stub
Hi Lightsup55 - may I suggest that next time you decide to move a stub template, you do some of the following things first? If you'd done those things, you might have known that the use of "videogame" is standard template naming, since video-game-X-stub automatically assumes that it is a subtype of game-X-stub, a type which doesn't exist for most video games. You'd also have known that the stub type had been made originally at video-game-gameplay-stub, but had recently been the subject of a renaming to the standard name, and the old name had been orphaned and deleted. Grutness...wha?  09:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Check the history of the stub template, to see whether the template's name has recently been the subject of a specific renaming through WP:SFD
 * 2) Check the naming guidelines for stub templatees at WP:WSS/NG
 * 3) Propose any such change via WP:SFD or with WikiProject Stub sorting at WP:WSS/P

Star Power
Since you've now undone my edits twice now, perhaps you could please explain why you want to redirect Star Power to Guitar Hero (series)? Consider that Guitar Hero shows up in none of the top 20 (didn't bother to check more) Google results for "star power", and that there are clearly far more usages of star power that would NOT refer to Guitar Hero. The fact that there are actually no internal links to "Star Power" (except the one you created from star power) confirms this. Thus you are relying on someone actually typing in the capitalized "Star Power" in Wikipedia search to get here, even though it's not uncommon for people to capitalize phrases even when they don't need to be (e.g. searching for "Video Game"). I await your response. - Bssc81 (talk) 23:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Why not take the discussion about what to do with Star Power over at Talk:Guitar Hero (series) where the community can discuss about it? If we can't come to a consensus, then it could be listed at Redirects for discussion. Sound like a plan? Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 04:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I did this, with no response (including you). Bssc81 (talk) 19:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Monsters (song) Redirect?
Can you explain this? It only creates a circular loop. The re-direct to the album made far more sense as the song is not notable in the slightest. Thanks! TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 23:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It is now loacated at Monsters (Funeral for a Friend song)‎, which is a redirect to the album page. I'll correct the Wiki links on the disambig page when I'm done. Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 23:22, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Gotcha! I was totally confused by the re-direct of a re-direct, but I see now how it was done. Thanks for the explanation. TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 23:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * And not a second after you post that comment on my talk page, I'm done. Anyway, there are two songs titled "Monsters". The one song is by Funeral for a Friend and the other by Matchbook Romance. Both now are now linked on the disambig page. The articles Monsters (Funeral for a Friend song) and Monsters (Matchbook Romance song) redirect to the article about the album on which the song appears on. <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T | C ) 00:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Council/Proposals
I have created a taskforce, and I hope you express interest on it (: Fireblaster lyz (talk) 04:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Disambig
Please read MOS:DAB and WP:DAB. Disambiguation pages are for helping people find the specific page they were looking for, out of similar possibilities. I did not remove the link on the grounds that the article doesn't have a similar name ("guitar hero something-something"). I removed it because the article it links to doesn't even use the phrase "Guitar Hero". If a user were looking for a song by that name by this admittedly non-notable band, the disamiguation page would not help them find information, because it doesn't point them to a page where information can be found. It is not appropriate to use the disambiguation page to introduce this song to people who haven't heard of it - these pages are strictly for people already looking for it.

However, if the band is non-notable then that is a second reason not to include it at all, in the spirit of the rule on red links: "There is no need to brainstorm all occurrences of the page title and create red links to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics". If the band is not even notable enough to have a mention in a larger article then that is all the more reason not to include it. Regardless, the first reason is reason enough; there is already nothing at all to navigate to &mdash; TheBilly(Talk) 23:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Characters in Guitar Hero
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Fuel efficiency in transportation
We are discussing the future of the Fuel efficiency in transportation on the talk page talk:Fuel efficiency in transportation please add suggestions there BEFORE making edits. Thanks Ephdot (talk) 21:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The only major edit I did was the revert because of the recent edit war. I'm sorry if I had added back sections that were discussed and should have been removed. Besides that, all of my other edits were minor (minor fixes to references, etc.) <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T | C ) 21:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol. Sorry, I've been dealing with some very aggressive editors all day and I thought you were one of them...  Ephdot (talk) 21:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. I guessed you saw the (5? not sure how many) edits I made which really minor uncontroversial changes like fixing references and stuff (even though I did provide a self explanatory edit summary) and that is what lead you to add this message. Anyway... don't worry about it. <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T | C ) 21:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you notice the 4 or so edits by Robthoburn after my last revert? This is so silly, I've wasted a whole day on this!  Ephdot (talk) 21:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that was 3 edits after you reverted. Ephdot (talk) 22:02, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Xbox 360
Do you have Xbox Live? Because I looked at your Myspace, and it seems you have GH3. Wanna play?  R k  O  r  T  o  N  16:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do. My gamertag is lightsup55. <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T | C ) 03:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll add you tonight, and maybe we can play some GH3 later, Through the Fire and Flames!! on Expert. Cheers,  R k  O  r  T  o  N  01:47, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

editing my user page without asking
Don't do it. <span style="font-family:lucida sans, console;">user:Everyme 13:01, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks but!
re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Category_redirects That's way out of date... and no longer true, which was/is my point! // Fra nkB 16:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * And you think that's any more up to date WHY? Among other things, I was one of the people posting Bugzilla on these features two years back and again two Februaries ago. Why does a single page concern you so much?


 * We should have been using hard cat redirects for at least eighteen months now. If RobertG hadn't had to leave for a while, or if Dave Kernow or I'd have had the time to commit and so taken him up on taking over RobotG when he took off, we would have all that time.


 * Are you welded to "rules" instead of "results"... remember the first law of wikipedia: WP:IAR and get the job done. Cheers! //Fra nkB 16:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Signing Posts
I know to sign my posts, you can easily leave a "preceeding unsigned comment..." tag, but thanks for the reminder. I simply forgot that time. Wikiwikikid (talk) 23:50, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
I've reverted both your redirect at Meta and your changing the above mainspace page from a redirect to an article, for the following reasons:


 * Meta is a resource for editors; there are a couple of hundred links to it. Much information that is useful to editors (such as when it is appropriate to post to Meta, versus the English Wikipedia) isn't appropriate for an article, so the redirect means that such information can't be posted anywhere.
 * There was consensus at Talk:Wikimedia Meta-Wiki that the subject lacked notability, and that a redirect to Wikimedia Foundation was appropriate. I saw no discussion to the contrary, by you or anyone else.
 * As an article (in the version that you created), the page Wikimedia Meta-Wiki lacked sources or any indication of notability, which was precisely what caused it to become a redirect in the first place. If you can find sources that discuss Meta (as the primary subject of an article, as opposed to including it within a discussion of the larger topic of either Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation), such that WP:WEB criteria are met, then please go ahead and re-create the article, with such sources.  Otherwise, I think things are better the way they were, and the way that I've changed pages back.

Finally, please note that (as discussed at How to fix cut-and-paste moves), you shouldn't have moved the content of Meta to the page Wikimedia Meta-Wiki in the way you did, which separated the content from the history of edits showing how it was created. In the future, if you do need feel that a page should be moved and are unable to do so because there is content at the target page, please use Requested moves to get an admin to assist by making the move; admins are able to merge page histories. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:11, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: MP3 file in Evanescence
Yeah, I figured it was something like that. I will be performing a hard archive of all links with webcitation.org, so hopefully we won't experience any permanently lost links in the future. I hadn't used Checklinks in quite some time, and I don't remember it having its current level of functionality...definitely useful. Cheers! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 01:03, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

editing my user page
While I appreciate your 3rd change to my page, please dont do this - the templates are shorter to copy. Take care.--Kozuch (talk) 12:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Find a more effective tool to deal with vandals such as myeslf
I know it's old, but users like this should be reported to WP:UAA, not welcomed :) Stifle (talk) 14:20, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Move of ' to Apostrophe
Can you comment over at Template talk:Apostrophe? I'm just not seeing the benefit of the move. Granted, the spelled out version is more clickable ... but why not make that one the redirect? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:42, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have replied at the template's talk page linked above. --<b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T | C ) 22:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: composite number talk
That's OK, it's quite easy to miss things like that. Graham 87 06:28, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Steve Samuelian
joshcc is trying to turn the page into a promo piece for California ConsultingFlackthehack2008 (talk) 02:29, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Yes that is the source I got from bobrivers.com with the Paul O'Neill interview. I'm going to try and read up so I can do this right. I appreciate your help. If you are a TSO fan, you can keep writing me if you'd like more info. Take care! Those Kids (talk) 11:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC) (Jeff)

I haven't signed on in a while, I wanted to RE-thank you for helping me source the article for TSO, hopefully I will understand all this reading and be able to do it myself! Thanks again! Those Kids (talk) 09:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC) (Jeff)

Categories for guitar hero soundtracks.
Currently, Category:Guitar Hero soundtracks is a subcategory of Category:Music video game soundtracks. Therefore, I've removed the music video game soundtrack category you added to some pages. See also Categorization and subcategories. It might be worth discussing deleting and upmerging the GH soundtrack category, but that's another conversation. Just wanted to explain the reversions. Cheers, Oren0 (talk) 08:09, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Signing
Please don't do this again. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 18:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Signing your posts on talk pages and other Wikipedia discourse is good etiquette and facilitates discussion by helping other users to identify the author of a particular comment. Including your user name and wiki link to your talk page helps the responder to navigate to your talk page and address their comments to the specific relevant user(s) (in this case, you). I have did what I did to help the user easily get to the user page and/or talk page of the user who placed that warning. Anyway, the preferred option for signing your posts in discussions is to type four tildes ( ~ ), not five. Again, this is to help the other user. I don't want to ramble on, but look at this way; what if you you were the other user? Say this user is an anonymous user using a shared IP address (i.e. a computer with access to the internet at their local public library for example) and sees that they have a new message. They don't understand why they got a warning for doing something they did not do, but they can't figure out who to talk to because they don't know who placed the warning on their talk page. I'd highly recommend that you take a look at Signatures (especially the How to sign your posts section and the Customizing your signature) for more information. Thanks. --<b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T | C ) 19:07, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I repeat: please do not do that - to my user-warnings - again. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:07, 3 December 2008 (UTC)