User talk:Master Thief Garrett/Archive04

James Chico Hernandez
Hi, any possibility that you can rethink your deletion of this? He seems to be at least marginally notable, based on the article. It did read like a copyvio, but I couldn't find it online anywhere, and it needs rewriting, but the person himself seems notable. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If you have no objections, I'm going to list it at WP:DRV. User:Zoe|(talk) 18:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * (answered at talk page)
 * Thanks, I agree with you that it needs a lot of work. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:11, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Citations in castleroid article
Why have you removed the "(Qualls)" parenthetical citation in the Castleroid article? If you'd read the references subcat it's clear that a review is being cited. No one is trying to brand the article with their username. Guermantes 23:00, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Red to grey
Yeah, perhaps the red on the Shaw template was a bit much, but I swear it was all for the common good! I suppose grey matches Beckett's black...oh well. I was just so tired of that light blue. :) Cheers! -- Yossarian   10:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure that is the source of Image:Ps3-controller.jpg?
You said the image is licensed as GFDL and was taking from a Nintendo DS fan website. I saw the exact same image but higher resolution from Engadget/Joystiq and they claim they're taking photos and are attending the presentation. I go with them as the source consider they're owned by a major corporation (TimeWarner) and have the money and credentials to attend the presentation. Thier stuff is copyrighted, too. --Who What Where Nguyen Why 03:16, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh. Wrong file. Feeling stupid now. Removed. Deleted. :) GarrettTalk 03:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding swearing
Garrett, while it may not be wise to cuss, it's best not to remove cuss words from talk pages. Wikipedia is not bowdlerized for childrens' protection. WhisperToMe 07:06, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I have... no idea what you're referring to. How long ago was this? Well, while I can't recall the case I was likely enacting WP:RPA or somesuch. GarrettTalk 07:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

LinkandMidna
Someone has uploaded a new version of LinkandMidna.jpg, which is actually just a cropped version of Twilight9sj.png. Please re-upload the old version if you still have it, thanks. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 20:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:SEWAGE
Hi. We don't usually allow redirects from WP: to user space. Might I suggest you simply move your essay to WP:SEWAGE? --kingboyk 09:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well it's your call mate but I rather liked WP:SEWAGE :) --kingboyk 11:04, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Voting with images
Thanks Garrett. My opinion is that we should sort out issues according to the guidelines. But there seems to be an obsession with putting everything to the vote. We have guidelines that cover everything, so I don't know why people are calling for a vote so often. --WikiCats 07:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Criteria for speedy deletion
Hi Garrett. I noticed you recently closed a few AfDs early citing speedy deletion. While the articles themselves are certainly awful, I just wanted to remind you that hoaxes, WP:NOT, and previous non-AfD deletions do not fall under the speedy deletion criteria. Those things are deletion worthy, just not technically CSD. --Alan Au 18:00, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:IAR ON WHEELS. Culling hoaxes improves Wikipedia, so, thusly, IAR applies. GarrettTalk 23:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The reason that putative hoaxes are not speedy deletion material is that there are more things in heaven and earth, Garrett, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. It is does almost no harm to let hoaxes go the full distance on XfD, and culling something odd and fringe but true damages Wikipedia.  Save the rouge card for when you really need to use it. 152.91.9.144 23:38, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Bandai Satellaview base unit.jpg
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I deprodded List of cancelled video games, but...
...I encourage you to take it to WP:AfD to see how the community feels. Personally, I'd go weak keep, but I can also see the case for deletion, too.  young  american (ahoy hoy) 13:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi nominated for deletion
An article that you have been involved in editing, Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, has been listed at Articles for deletion/Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi (second nomination). Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Slowking Man 11:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Classes in World of Warcraft

 * Your comment: Afd is first and foremost critiquing articles' current status, not their potential.

I'd ask that you think a more deeply about this. Look at the first "article" speedy deletion criterion for some fodder: The reason that it emphasises cont ext is because the cont ent can come later. Deletion of material as unverifiable is another example: We give editors the chance to supply sources before removing information. Deletion is in fact all about potential, not current status. 152.91.9.144 23:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was poorly worded. What I weas meaning to convey is that it's a combination of the two (poor articles valid good subjects get deleted regularly despite their potential). GarrettTalk 03:22, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey there
Hey MTG:

Just stopped by to say that I was looking in on old friends and saw that you're still around and kicking; I've been revisiting some of the "good old days" and you popped up in my thoughts. Drop by my talk page some time and fill me in on how you're doing. Yours, Essjay   ( Talk )  08:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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WikiReview (a bit off topic)
hello, Garrett. I posted a message on your Reviews Wiki member page, but I assume you don't check it too often, so I'll post it here too, sorry for the off-topic-ness :) And also, sorry if I didn't use the right code or if I didn't insert the section correctly. I'm a bit lost in all this code :). hi, Garrett. I am quite new to the wiki world, and I would like to see just how feasible a Romanian version of WikiReview (yes, I am from Romania) would be. What would I need to do to create the Romanian version? I don't mean the translation, but a new version, with new content. I would like to raise interest for people in my town (Cluj-Napoca) to review restaurants and clubs since I have been numerous times in the situation of not finding any good ones, and also not having any personal reviews to look into. So that's about it I guess. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Guanomike (talk • contribs) 16:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

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List of experiments from Lilo & Stitch PROD
I removed the proposed deletion you added for the reasons listed here. I know that certain parts of the article are a disaster. Disney didn't help matters with the last movie as it just screams filling in OR. Lots of what I believe are kids are "helping" the article, too. I've been trying to keep some semblance of a proper article there, but it's been a long battle and to be honest, I'm getting rather tired of fighting the battle. If you think the article is unsalvageable, you're welcome to try another AfD. -- Gogo Dodo 05:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Sonic games inclusion criteria has been drafted
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Page vandalism
This guy A Link to the Past keeps removing references to Zelda from the Action role-playing game article. I'm not very good at forming a clear argument. Maybe you can get him to stop. SharkD 02:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! However, he seems to have moved the discussion to my talk page. SharkD 20:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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Request
List of Virtual Console games (Australia), List of Virtual Console games (Europe) and List of Virtual Console games (Japan) should probably be formatted better (or exactly like the North America list). If you have time, could you format them? I don't have much free time today. RobJ1981 15:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

New to Wikipedia, could use some help...
Hi, you flagged the halo25 productions article of mine for deletion, and it may need to be deleted, but could you help me improve it? I don't really want to see it get deleted, but I'm not the best of writers and was wondering what you would like me to fix up on the article. I have removed the prod, I will put it back though if you feel that the article will still need deletion after I edit it more. Thanks.Reclaimer1217 12:18, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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What_Wikipedia_is_not: #4 is about prices. This was added a few days ago, and I was told about it on my talk page earlier. So frankly: as no one has objected to this addition, points don't need to be listed on the VC list at all. The compromise doesn't need to happen, as it violates #4 clearly. RobJ1981 15:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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Prod Blackbox?
Hi, you recently tagged Blackbox with a 'companies' prod. Blackbox isn't a company, so i'm not sure if that bit's relevant. Blackbox is notable, but should probably be merged into a list of the gajillion Windows Managers for X windows. Dan Beale 20:19, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

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Concerns over emulation articles - use of WP:PROD
I just noticed that you used WP:PROD templates as justification to have the PC Atari Emulator and Stella (emulator) articles be reviewed as being "uncontroversial" material thus leaving them open to deletion. Please do not used PROD without even leaving any messages on the said articles' talk pages; this makes it seem as though you're just trying to get around the normal WP:AFD process by avoiding discussion about the matter. It doesn't seem reasonable to me to put these articles up for PROD when they are the preeminent emulator programs of the Atari 2600 videogame console. Also, these articles were referenced, and I can add further references if needed; articles that may simply be lacking references is not proper rationale (by itself) to opening them up to non-reviewed deletion. I would have contested the PROD usage had I seen the templates a bit sooner (I do not keep a constant eye on all the articles I have ever edited). Bumm13 22:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, two other concerns. You did not leave a fooarticle template on my talk page regarding PC Atari Emulator (I did not start the Stella (emulator) article). Also, your justification for using WP:PROD was under Wikipedia's Companies notability guideline. I'm curious as to how widely-known hobbyist emulator projects relate to corporate notability. If you are trying to squeeze such topics in under the guise of "non-notable project spam", then that would really be taking liberty with the concept of spam. Bumm13 22:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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MESS page move revert
Hi Master Thief Garrett,

I wanted to discuss the disambiguation needs (or possible lack thereof) of the MESS article (regarding the compiler -- it was recently reverted.) As you may have noticed I mistakenly moved the page thinking there was a bug with the mediawiki software. However, I decided to keep the disambiguation link on the merits that a Mess article (regarding the dining halls), even though it differs in case, already exists. As I mentioned in the talk page and after reviewing the policy, I came to the conclusion that even though they have differing case, they use the same name, thus avoiding any potential confusion. What do you think about this? --Stux 17:28, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Grue_%28monster%29
Back in June you put the tag "This article does not cite any references or sources" on Grue.

The article talks extensively about the Infocom Zork games and _Dying Earth_ by Jack Vance. I hardly know how you could have more cites. Am I missing something? Keith Henson (talk) 13:27, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Appreciate the note about this you put on my talk page.

"Surprisingly, inferring that most or all information in an article came from the work(s) it encompasses fails to satisfy the guidelines laid down at Wikipedia:Citing sources. Wikipedia:Verifiability states that, ideally, "Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". In the cases where such sources do not exist, references to the material itself are somewhat permissible as long as they are explicitly referenced. Take a look at Final Fantasy VII#References for an example of how facts about a work can be referenced from within the work itself. In addition to providing acceptable referencing this method clearly separates facts actually contained in the work from original research done by the editors. Anyway, I hope that clarifies this for you. :)

That's a strange policy for Wikipedia. My wife is an archivist and research librarian and she tells me that citing primary sources--if you can--is always considered superior to citing secondary or third party sources. Wikipedia has this backwards on subjects like Jack Vance and computer games (Infocom) where you are not likely to find "reliable" 3rd party sources writing about imaginary predators. And while you can cite a page number where the origin of grues are discussed for Vance (page 248 in _The Complete Dying Earth_, hard cover, 1998, SFBC Fantasy, "Grue: man, ocular bat, unusual hoon") how do you cite a game where the damned things pop up and eat you when your light goes out?

Final Fantasy VII#References has 122 footnotes/cites. Is this really useful? Or is it the result of some kind of wikipedia rule gaming?

I happen to know a great deal about both Jack Vance (being a big fan) and Zork, having played it way back in the early 80s. The article on grues is good and as far as I can see accurate. I guess it will just have to live with the cites problem or be deleted.

Thanks for the education in the weirdness of Wikipedia. Keith Henson (talk) 02:50, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

San Andreas Multiplayer
Just letting you know I removed the prod on this one, it's already been to AFD twice according to the talk page. The latest was quite a while ago and a "no consensus", so I'd go that route. --UsaSatsui (talk) 08:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

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Hey, why'd ya remove the gameinfo links? ^^; All you had to do was adjust Template:Gameinfo, which I've done now (and moved to Template:Egamia). Perhaps you should restore the links? - furrykef (Talk at me) 05:45, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

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Admin Coaching
I have heard that you are a good admin and coach so i was wondering if you would admin coach me i am currently up on the requests page, i'll match our pairing if you accept or you can do it, i was chatting on wikia irc and Skizzerz recommended that i ask you because he said you are a friendly helpful guy, anyway hope you accept, thanks.  Sunder  land  06   00:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Thats fine, i'm currently adopted by User:F9T, at the moment. Thanks.  Sunder  land  06   15:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

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IEC prefixes: kibibytes v.s. kilobytes
From reviewing a Talk:MOSNUM archive, I see that you were one of the earliest editors to weigh in on the issue of whether or not the IEC prefixes like “kibibit,” “kibibyte,” “mebibyte” (Kib, KiB, MiB) should be adopted. I wanted to let you know that a new proposal is being considered on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Voting on it is ongoing here, and discussion is ongoing at various places throughout the page. I ask only that you very carefully read the proposed new policy guideline before posting a vote. If you have suggested revisions for the policy before even registering a vote, please feel free to do so in the provided “Comments” section immediately below the voting section. Greg L (my talk) 16:50, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Master Thief Garrett, given your statement here on archive 22 of Talk:MOSNUM, would you be willing to add your vote here? Every vote helps. Greg L (my talk) 06:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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Just please don't do it before checkin the guy's edit Sir Lothar (talk) 00:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

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Core War
You tagged Core War as requiring references. Please can you review the changes made and remove the tags if appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.171.129.69 (talk) 13:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Al-Qadim at Forgotten Realms Wiki
Hello there! On the Al-Qadim page you removed the link to Forgotten Realms Wiki. You are of course right that the Al-Qadim article there has no additional information compared to the one here. However Forgotten Realms Wiki wants to cover Al-Qadim related subjects that are not deemed noteworthy at Wikipedia, too. There may not yet be to many such articles, but in my opinion too much to be dismissed. I can think of articles on e.g. all Zakharan deities and all Al-Qadim sourcebooks. Do you think that is enough to keep the link (and perhaps get interested editors to get involved there, too)? Daranios (talk) 16:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I have restored the link. Daranios (talk) 13:21, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Monster Rancher monsters
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Features removed in Windows 7: Context menus in Start menu
Regarding this entry you removed: All context menu items are not available when right clicking search results in the Start menu.. If you are running Windows 7 RTM, try right clicking a Start menu entry by going specifically from Start -> All Programs -> then right clicking on it. Now use Start search box to bring up the same item and try right clicking on it. "Run as admin" chiefly and some other context menu items are missing when right clicking on a search result. - xpclient  Talk 21:18, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've continued the discussion on my talk page. - xpclient  Talk 18:30, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

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Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles
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I intend to revise those articles following the WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.

Thank you.

Vyeh (talk) 16:40, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Sea of Japan East Sea naming convention
I am reviving a discussion on the naming usage of Sea of Japan and East Sea. See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Korean)/Disputed names. (Chunbum Park (talk) 06:22, 27 March 2011 (UTC))

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MSU Interview
Dear Master Thief Garrett,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 04:06, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Article split to Novell DOS (from DR-DOS)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Novell DOS. -- Trevj (talk) 07:03, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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