User talk:Mindspillage/2005archive5

This is an archive of my talk page from June 2005. Please add new messages to my current page.

Ed, Edd, n Eddy
Hi, thanks for the note. No problem, it wasn't necessarily that difficult, took a bit of time, but thats fine. Although I know nothing of the show, just looked like something that had to be condensed/merged. Anyhoo, thanks for closing the Vfd, I'm sure you had plenty others to do that day.
 * <>Who 00:25, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank You
What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. I want to give you a special thanks for your kind comments during my nomination. You are blessed with wisdom and I'm proud to have gotten to know you through Wikipedia Tony the Marine

IFD
Thanks for the update. With the recent decision by Jimbo, I agree that all unverified pics have to be deleted. Thanks for the good work. -- Chris 73 Talk 11:21, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey Kat, thanks for your kind words, and vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August &#9742; 13:17, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Re:FlaBot
User:FlaBot is not permitted to run as a bot until the person in charge resolves any problems with the bot. The bot should not be removing Interwiki links. This is user F l a b o t, not the impersonator. The bot was blocked due to the unresolved issues. I will cite my examples:, , , , , , , ... the list can go on. I don't know how many of these are valid or invalid. I do know for certain that the edit made at Doraemon was incorrect and made by User:FlaBot not by User:FIaBot. See for proof. I know enough Chinese to know that interwiki link to the Chinese version of Doraemon was correct. I don't you have carefully looked over the edits and why my block was active. Furthermore, a bot owner must make all edits under a separate account different from the bot account, which is bot policy. If Flacus / FlaBot wishes to post on the English Wikipedia, he should sign up for an account for himself as Flacus and post all replies under user Flacus or otherwise stay anonymous. I am blocking the account again per bot policy until all resolved issues are resolved. This block was not due to impersonation... unless the Wiki code borked and confused between two users which I don't think it did. It was blocked because the bot was removing interwiki links, not because an impersonator was doing that. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:38, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, I find it highly suspicious that the contributions of the said impersonator F I a B o t (with the letter I, as in I for Impersonator) occurred 18 hours after I blocked FlaBot (with the letter L, as in L for Liar). -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:57, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's okay. Everyone makes mistakes... Administrators are not infallible people either. I'm just extremely careful when I use my administrative powers and check all my facts before taking any action. -- AllyUnion (talk) 20:43, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

CWRU music
Hi, thanks for keeping me informed about the status of the CWRU music scene article; I've brought this up in discussion at Talk:Case_Western_Reserve_University; is it the conclusion of the VfD on the music scene article that the list has no business in any part of wikipedia, or could it be somehow condensed and listed at the main CWRU article in the music section? If there's no way it can appear on wikipedia, then I suppose I can try to put it on wikicities somewhere, though I doubt there's anywhere it would really fit. I'm not interested (anymore) in having a writeup for each band, but a comprehensive list of musical performance groups that have ongoing recruitment efforts (read: not just garage bands that come and go, but consistently recruiting groups that have existed for at least 3-5 years) would be nice, in my opinion. Let me know what you think. - Mark McCartney (talk) 16:05, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

Last Tango in the Sistine Chapel
Greetings! Yes indeed I will listen... (are you all four? I presume)  Ironically, at work I have this glorious T1 line all to myself, but alas no sound card! I'll check it out when I get home tonight. Btw I'll be at the Ojai festival for four days later this week ... don't worry, I haven't left Wikipedia ... :-) Antandrus  (talk)  20:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA: Thanks
Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Wikipedia. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:53, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Looking for a second opinion
When you get a moment, could you check out Language of dna? Beware: paragraph breaks don't exist there! It really looks like original research/opinion to me, especially when you look at the webpage I noted on the talk page. However, I thought I'd get another opinion before I toss it at VfD. Joyous 05:25, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the opinion. It has now been tossed at VfD.  Joyous 05:54, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

VfD
Well, that's what you get for asking people to help out. --Michael Snow 05:35, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Lucky Octavian
Can you reconsider reopening this debate or changing the result on it? It has been speedily undeleted since it was deleted by mistake. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:57, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Josquin
Very fine indeed! I appreciate your ability to play in tune. (Nice high D, by the way.) I never, ever thought of it before, but an ensemble of bassoons works very well for performance of Renaissance polyphony. Good job! Antandrus (talk)  02:23, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Same from me, thanks for sharing. --Michael Snow 05:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some pie! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 08:02, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Maxwell's nonlinear equations
Um...you seem to have closed this vfd as delete, but it's still there... ;) sjorford &rarr;&bull;&larr; 08:23, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Popcorn Consensus
I don't want to make a big thing out of this, but I notice that you deleted "Popcorn trick" based on a 18-4 vote. That works out to 78% in favor of deletion. I've seen other admins insist that there has to be at least 85% in favor for there to be a consensus. Even though I voted "Keep" myself, I'm not particularly bothered by the loss of this article -- it's not as if the Trick cries out for documentation! But I am bothered by the subjective and inconsistent application of the consensus rule. Isaac R 17:53, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, I guess I agree with your overall philosophy. But I have to say I find the whole "consensus" process deeply unsatisfying. Only a few people bother to participate at all, and half of those don't seem to understand that they're not participating in a head-count. So basically, all "consensus" means is any decision that stimulates vocal opposition is blocked. Isaac R 22:47, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Images for Deletion

 * copied from User talk:Lommer

Greetings! I listed an image on IFD a while back that were unverified and obsoleted by better-quality GFDL pics on commons. Your edit summary removing it from the page states "rm deleted images", but Image:Fagot.jpg wasn't deleted. Was this an oversight, or was there reason to keep? (The reason I'm concerned is that I suspect it's a copyvio, but cannot prove it: I'd rather it not hang around when there are better copylefted shots on Commons to replace it.) Thanks, and nice work clearing out the backlog; I know it's generally a thankless task. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 20:35, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi, sorry about that - thanks for keeping such a close eye on it. Yes it was an oversight, that was right around the time of the server move and it was pretty difficult getting the system to delete images when it was so overloaded. I've deleted it now &mdash; I'll have to check and make sure no others fell through the cracks. -Lommer | talk 01:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

An old VfD vote
The vote that you closed - Votes for deletion/Dieter Goels seems to be not only for Dieter Goels, but for New Situationist Movement and Otto Jungt as well. These two articles are still marked with {vfd} tag and probably should be deleted.  Grue  15:00, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Hey Mind!

This is really way overdue, but I want to thank you for all of the help and support you provided on my RFA (including the support vote). I just graduated from high school, so I'm going around and thanking everyone that needs to be thanked. Frankly, you're high up on that list. Thanks for everything, and I hope that we keep in contact!! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:07, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Many thanks for supporting my administrative nomination- I sincerely will try to live up to the good words though!... (edit: as an editor and if the vote is successful then as an admin, that is.) Schissel : bowl listen 00:41, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

assistance with VFD errata
I've found a couple of problems with incorrect/incomplete VFD nominations I hope you can help me with.

Andres Gimeno and Howard Kinsey are redirects but they have VFD tags; except that the VFD never had step 3 done so they'll never get finished. On the other hand since they are redirects they don't go to VFD. Can you just declare the VFD invalid and remove the VFD tag? (These are some created by User:Maymashu, I think you did this for some of the other redirects this user nominated.)

Vinnie Richards does have an article. Step 3 of the nomination process wasn't done but there are three votes on the VFD subpage anyways. (Looks like a keep.) The current article was written after the nomination to replace a redirect. I can complete the nomination process if you think this is the best way to clean this one up. But soemthing needs to be done so eventually tyhe VFD tag gets removed.

Thank you, RJFJR 02:32, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

more
I've got another one: Arto Tuncboyaciyan was tagged on June 12 by User:TheParanoidOne but neither step 2 nor 3 were performed. I was going to complete the nomination but I don't know what criteria was being proposed and it looks like a valid article with notability (9070 googles). Since step 2 was never performed can it be cancelled and the VFD tag removed? RJFJR 02:57, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC) Correction, it was a move so the template doesn't point to the correct sub page. I'll fix it. RJFJR 03:04, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. I've finished the nomination for Vinnie Richards with no vote implied. RJFJR 03:23, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA
Thank you for your delightful praise and for supporting my nomination. No wonder I always admired your insight.&mdash;Theo (Talk) 10:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA: Thanks
Hi Mindspillage! Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination! We'll see if I can start closing some of the deletes as well soon. Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:14, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc  17:44, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Double thanks!
Hi! Nice to be back after a month and a half. Tried to go two months only because Raul654 talked me into it...nope. Trolls and vandals should still beware but I'll be trying to lavish some wiki-attention on either expanding my existing articles, adding new ones and fixing up some incoming nanostubs. I always enjoy hearing from you. Don't be a stranger! Best, Lucky 6.9 17:56, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

86 (MBTA bus)
I'm letting you know that I've "restored" but completely changed and expanded this article, as I somehow missed the VFD despite being a regular reader of VFD. I believe the new article addresses the concerns brought up in the VFD, and can be expanded even more in the future (for instance the history of streetcars along that route, which I haven't been able to find information about, except that they existed). I have explained my actions on Talk:86 (MBTA bus). --SPUI (talk) 23:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much for the nomination and kind words on my RfA. I appreciate it greatly. Regards, Bratsche talk  5 pillars 14:37, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Magnus es tu, Domine
You're a bit off tempo 8" and 56" into the song, you go into the break a bit too hastly, you're falling off rather quickly. you should keep the note more by an 1/8th or so. This is supposed to be played along with someone singing it, right? so, keep a tab on your breathing. otherwise, beautifuly done. The clicking noise in the background. is that your chronograph? Project2501a 08:20, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * You're probably hearing a little keyclacking, she played against a clicktrack (a must while multitracking) but it's inaudible. I loaded the original wav against the tempo, and the return at 8" is accurate to the beat within about 36 samples in the 96k version judging from where the signal leaves the noise floor. It's harder to tell later since it's after the meter change, I'd have to program the meter change and remember the new tempo I set. I imagine you were expecting a little more rubato. But keep in mind this music was ment to be sung in a cathedral with a necessarily long RT60... I wish ambisonic surround systems were popular in homes so I could really let you expirence what the room should sound like... the sound of a beautiful room decaying around you after a sudden pause in the music really makes you appreciate why it would have been composed with one.. it's a breathtaking experience... at least if you bother to listen. Gmaxwell 01:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Much belated thanks.
Thank you for supporting my RFA! Since then, family issues have unfortunately taken a lot of the energy that I would rather spend on Wikipedia. It's getting to a point where I can get back into my "normal" (ha!) routine, so I plan to wield the ol' mop more actively. Thanks again! FreplySpang (talk) 22:53, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Must have been late
LOL! Thanks for completing the reference ... ::hic:: Antandrus  (talk)  22:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * That's funny... I just got an edit conflict on the category talk page, I was writing almost exactly the same thing as you... LOL again. Best laugh I've had in a long time.  Have a good day! Antandrus  (talk)  14:49, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, plus usual shameless composer self-promotion
Hello, Kat, glad to meet you, and thanks for the tips. I have a piece for solo bassoon with flute, violin, and piano accompaniment, called New World Coming - written just before 9/11, strangely enough. You can download a PDF at http://www.kylegann.com/Gannscores.html if you're curious. I've been friends with several bassoonists. Cheers, Kylegann 28 June 2005 11:48 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the warm welcome - glad to know I'm in good double-reeded company! I'm afraid I've actually not heard any Jurriaan Andriessen, though from your description it looks like I should check it out. Louis is definitely worth getting to know - very distinctive. In particular I think 'De Staat', 'De Stijl' and 'Hadewijch' (the last two 2 parts of his big set 'De Materie') are really worth listening to. Thanks again for the warm welcome! Hutchies 28 June 2005 16:23 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Thanks for your support for my adminship. I'm looking forward to never writing "rv vandalsim" again - especially since I always mistype "vandalism" in edit summaries. Cheers, -Willmcw June 28, 2005 18:30 (UTC)

Thank you
Mindspillage, I just wanted to thank you for the kind words on my talk page. I'm planning to concentrate on finding some of those nicer places among the "dusty corners and hidden alcoves of Wikipedia". Thanks. :)

P.S. There is just no real point in trying to stay away from this place, is there? There really is such a thing as wikipediholism. func (talk) 29 June 2005 23:50 (UTC)