User talk:NoSeptember/archives/late 2006

Glad to be back.
Thanks for the warm welcome. :) Figured it was better to edit in the open than via my work and home IPs, especially in light of the fact I'm editing on other Wikia projects.  Might as well come back to the big kahuna of the bunch.  Funny you should send me those links.  I just heard from Jimbo who ran my request to be reinstated as an admin by the ArbCom.  I'm pleased to make you the first to know that my request has been approved and I shall be donning mop and bucket once again.  I just need a bureaucrat to throw the switch.  Shot an e-mail to Jimbo less than an hour ago, in fact. - Lucky 6.9 23:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ain't it the truth? I was amazed as to how quickly Jimbo got back to me.  Nice to feel wanted, I can tell you.  Looks like I'm still waiting for the push of the magic button; no matter.  There's a lot that can keep me busy around here until then.  Vandals, beware!  The guy in the big bad blue Benz (or a Hyundai Accent most of the time) is back! - Lucky 6.9 01:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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Barnstar

 * You're welcome. Michael 00:57, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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Freestylefrappe, Ya ya Ya etc
As you unblocked Ya ya ya ya ya is this now the primary account of this user? Is the arbitration ruling restricting him to one account still in place? Also I don't understand the current user page contents [] which don't seem to relate to fsp or ya ya. In any case it is very different to []82.41.98.219 12:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ya ya ya ya ya ya is the account he selected per Dmcdevit's talk page. As long as he doesn't violate any policies he can set up his pages as he likes, redirecting the alternate accounts to the Ya ya account. Sockpuppet tags are not needed, all accounts other than Ya ya are indef blocked. NoSeptember  15:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Admin graphs
If it's not too much trouble, can you do an admin graph of admin growth over featured article percentage? Featured article statistics can be found here. You have the admin statistics, of course. Thanks in advance. -- Миборов ский 03:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I see. Thanks anyway. I'll let you know if I do make a graph. -- Миборов ский 06:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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School block
Thankyou NoSeptember. I will get the IP Address for you by Friday. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Auroranorth (talk • contribs) Nonsense Sorry if it's nonsense about Willy on Wheels... I just thought it should be a warning... OK. Sorry! Auroranorth 08:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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Unblock
Thx. Ya, I keep meaning to contact somebody or some page to find out the status of the proxy. But then I'm unblocked and have better things to do. Marskell 10:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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For you help
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Re : WikiBreak
Oh well, I guess I can't get the addiction off me just yet, I hope I actually am able to later on...! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 20:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wiki at a crawl past few hours
Hey there NoSept. That was a good one on Thatcher's rfa. Common' now - NH politics are very important... LOL. Very good, I needed that. I was going to submit an article, but Wiki has been at a crawl last two hours? I think I'll submit Tomorrow. Later - Again, good one! JungleCat   talk / contrib  21:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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User:NoSeptember/Desysop edit
Re:. Whoops! Sorry about that! --Durin 21:22, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for doing the updating :). NoSeptember  21:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Excuse Me
I'm curious about what you were talking about in RFA about me. Do you live in New Hampshire as well? I'm from Manchester here. People Powered 00:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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Protecting children's privacy
Hi. You contributed to the discussion at Protecting children's privacy. If you have the time and interest, I'm asking contributors to past a brief summary of their position on the proposal here, thanks. Herostratus 20:14, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Categories for judges
Thanks for your message on my talk page. I do intend to create the subcategory that you suggest, although I don't know much about the technical details of creating categories and templates, so it will have to wait a few days until I can find the appropriate help page and read up on such things. Having also had some of my basic judge biography articles rightly tagged with the "unsourced" template, I also anticipate creating a template indicating that some information has been derived from the Federal Judicial Center's biographical database. (This would be similar to the "bioguide" template used in article about current and former members of Congress, which yields "") I hope to have these things done within the next couple of weeks, along with getting a few more articles written, and appreciate your noticing and having categorized some of my work. Regards, Newyorkbrad 20:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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RE: Unblocking
Indeed, but NetSnipe is the one bothered about it :) &mdash;Xyrael / 21:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * What, people even remember that stuff? Old news, three weeks ago is an eternity ;). NoSeptember  21:21, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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The Halo's RfA


Werdnabot
Good idea - I'll try and remember that in future. The reason for not using a manual revert was the sheer volume of necessary reverts - in the time it would have taken, it's possible the users would have made other changes, and the whole thing would have been even more tangled. Hope that makes sense, and thanks for the advice. &mdash;Xyrael / 09:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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RfA chart
Thanks for your comments about my chart. I don't think that I skipped many RfAs in May/June/July so it is probably fairly complete in terms of the RfAs in that time period. The chart is hard to maintain and it is also pretty hard to be bothered to update it. I haven't been participating in RfAs much after July 2006, mainly due to being in my last year of high school and having to constantly study for tests and exams. I occasionally have participated and I haven't updated the chart for these few RfAs after July 2006. DarthVad e r 06:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Response to your question
Thanks for your inquiry. I was editing normally yesterday, not off-line, but at a relative's house on a different machine from the ones I normally use, and there may have been some issue with the settings. Thanks for noting the problem; I will see if it affected any other articles, and I don't anticipate doing any more editing from that computer. I wonder if a technophile might be able to guess what the problem with that particular machine was, but hopefully it's a moot issue. Regards, Newyorkbrad 14:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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The Eloquence as Steward controversy

 * 00:13, 26 September 2006 Tim Starling makes Eloquence a Steward.
 * 15:18, 26 September 2006 NoSeptember adds Eloquence to Active Stewards list.
 * Oscar starts a thread on Foundation-I about Eloquence's Steward status.
 * 09:47, 27 September 2006 Eloquence removes his Steward status.
 * 10:08, 27 September 2006 Oscar reverts NoSeptember.
 * Oscar initiates another round of discussion.
 * For the record, Eloquence and Oscar were 1st and 3rd respectively in the recent Foundation Board election.

Huh?
Does this mean you are leaving or something? GeorgeMoney (talk) 19:25, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I have it on good authority that this user is not leaving. If he was, he would say so explicitly. See his Leaving essay. He may be a bit busy though. A Guy Who Knows (talk) 21:34, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I see. Thank you mr. know-it-all :) GeorgeMoney (talk) 23:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you note
Hi there, NoSeptember. Thank you for your message re:CheckUser rights. Yes, it's been 2,5 months since my original request, but there it is, all done. :) I shall do my best to live up to the trust bestowed upon me. Cheers,  Redux 00:58, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

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Admin Request Peer review/Hungarian Revolution of 1956/archive1
Don't ask me how it happened, but Wikipedia:Peer review/Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (should ot exist) needs to be merged with Wikipedia:Peer Review/Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (correct name). Thanks! (And, is there a general page for making Admin requests?)--Paul 15:00, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Template for Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
As you may remember, I'm in the process of drafting stubs or short articles on federal judges (Samuel Mandelbaum, which I think is pretty decent actually, is the most recent). I try to include a couple of references, but sometimes I am just creating the basic stub-type article in the hope that someone will write more about the judge later. On a couple of the recent stubs I drafted, an RC patroller appended an "unsourced" template. The basic information for these articles comes from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges maintained by the Federal Judicial Center, but I hadn't been mentioning that in every article/stub I drafted.

In doing some work on Congressional articles, I noticed that they have a template reflecting when material for the articles has been derived from the Congressional Biographical Directory. Please see WikiProject_U.S._Congress/Bioguide if you're not familiar with it. With that in mind, I just drafted the article Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. If you have a second, would you let me know if you think creating a similar kind of a template for this site as for the congressional one makes any sense? And if so, if you could point me to the tutorial page for how to create a template, as I've never made one before, that would also be outstanding. Thanks and regards, Newyorkbrad 23:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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WP:LA
Hey NoSeptember, long time, no see. :) I was wondering how you liked the new changes I made to WP:LA (i.e) the TOC and updating. Regards — Moe  01:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The TOC is the biggest improvement to the page, I thought it looked neat :) Well, I try to follow the same guidelines as Steve Block's script, but at times it was tough to consider what was active or semi-active. It was also sad seeing all the admins that I had to place under Inactive because how long they have been out :( Sorry for making have to update your List of admins page so frequently, I just couldn't help myself :) — Moe  19:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

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Your Admin List.
Hi NoSeptember, I'm just wondering about your chart that shows Wikipedia administrators in Your Wikipedia Administrator Chart. Is it special for creating this: User:NoSeptember/List of Administrators? I'm just curious about your own administrator chart. So, Are there any section that is Administrator Who is non-active or semi-active? Or Can I help you to organize your admin section? If one Wikipedian becomes administrator then I can put his/her ID on your chart. I have one thing to ask you about something. Does Color represent the Date that he/she became administrator? Please respond in my talk-page. Cheers. Daniel5127 (Talk) 06:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

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Invitation


I invite you to join the Pornography in the United States GA for some copyedit (particularly for punctuation and the usage of prepositions), but feel free to edit it anyway. Cheers, --Brand спойт 10:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

re:WP:LA
I was just thinking about asking Rick Block about combining the active and semi-actives. I was just thinking the same thing (theres no real distinction between the two). As long as we can tell inactive from active, I think thats all thats really needed. Thanks for letting me know, BTW. :) — Moe  13:39, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * What? I'm not obsessed with keeping it perfect.... I don't have a problem.. :) Well, I asked Rick about it and we'll see what he says about this suggestion.. but I'm not obsessing over it :) — Moe  14:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

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Federal Judge articles
Following up on something we discussed awhile back, please see here and let me know what you think. Thanks, Newyorkbrad 21:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. I'm glad to see you've finally jumped in with the creating of templates :). NoSeptember  16:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, although a couple of people at the Project Law page have indicated the name I gave it isn't exactly memorable, so I'm giving them a couple of days to decide on a new one. :) Regards, Newyorkbrad 01:31, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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from Dennis
My name is Dennis. I am new to editing.


 * Thanks. I'll keep working on it.


 * Dennis, 12 November 2006

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Potential Errors
I think I found some errors that I don't know how to correct. They are on the electoral college maps located on each election year's map of the United States.

I believe the electoral votes for the 1904 election should have Minnesota at 11 and Missouri at 18.

Also I believe the 1932 map should have Pennsylvania at 36

Dennis, 12 November 2006
 * I replied here. Your IP address changes, if you create an account it will help you receive messages intended for you. NoSeptember  01:30, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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Much-sooner-than-three-months-thanks
I wasn't going to send thank-you cards, but the emotional impact of hitting WP:100 (and doing so unanimously!) changed my mind. So I appreciate your confidence in me at RFA (and in the review leading up to RFA, back in the day), and hope you'll let me know if I can do anything for you in the future. Cheers! -- nae'blis 00:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

WP:LA
I'm getting some kind of strange occurance on the Admin's list there. Under the inactive section instead of the admins name there, it just shows an link to the word admin with a date next to it like this:


 * 1) admin - 16 June 2006
 * 2) admin - 17 June 2006
 * 3) admin - 19 June 2006
 * 4) admin - 21 June 2006
 * 5) admin - 3 July 2006
 * 6) admin - 14 July 2006
 * 7) admin - 15 July 2006
 * 8) admin - 23 July 2006
 * 9) admin - 23 July 2006
 * 10) admin - 27 July 2006
 * 11) admin - 27 July 2006
 * 12) admin - 1 August 2006
 * 13) admin - 1 August 2006
 * 14) admin - 4 August 2006
 * 15) admin - 6 August 2006
 * 16) admin - 10 August 2006
 * 17) admin - 10 August 2006
 * 18) admin - 18 August 2006
 * 19) admin - 19 August 2006
 * 20) admin - 19 August 2006
 * 21) admin - 21 August 2006
 * 22) admin - 23 August 2006
 * 23) admin - 26 August 2006
 * 24) admin - 30 August 2006
 * 25) admin - 1 October 2006

It's really wierd because to me it only does that threw the admins 63-88 in the inactive and nowhere else. Do you see that? semper fi — Moe  21:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Now whats really strange is that when previewed the page, it looks normal, but after I saved, the article looked strange again. :\ semper fi — Moe  21:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * That makes perfect sense, I'm not sure why it would do that, but it does make sense. Do you want to create the alternate template? semper fi — Moe  22:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * lol, now they are a bunch of links to admina! Maybe that wasn't the problem :\ semper fi — Moe  22:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, I made a request there. semper fi — Moe  22:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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Village Pump reply
See Village_pump_%28technical%29. It appears we will have to file a bugzilla report about it to get something expanded. Do you want to take a stab at reporting it to Bugzilla? semper fi — Moe  07:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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Re: vote pages
There are now two sets of vote pages (including all the subpages for each candidate). Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/vote vs. Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Vote (note capitalization). I'll let you and Geni work it out :). NoSeptember  08:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've rediredted the small v page and removed the duplicates. should be clear now. would suggest unprotecting the voteing pages sometime before voteing starts to be on the safe side.Geni 09:59, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmm, must have missed those other pages, I didn't think of checking at the lowercase title. Noone else noticed that you'd started some either. Anyway, looks like it's all sorted out now. 00:00 UTC is 11:00 where I am, so I'll certainly be online to unprotect all the pages for the start of the election, and probably to protect them all at the end. --bainer (talk) 12:39, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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Re:Encyclopedist=NOVO-REI
I added this to Scobell302's page and received no response, would you please respond to this?

Hi there, I saw on another user's talk page that you stated that I could be some incarnation or at least friend of Encyclopedist. I really see an err in that judgment, I actually opposed one of his admin requests, and I actually thought he should have received some type of punishment or sanction that wouldn't be (in my view) so lenient.

Yes, I admit that we do seem to have a lot in common, I noticed he was a historian or history buff - so I asked if he'd help me on my (long abandoned) Brazilian military project. If it is a coincedence that we speak the same languages, I fail to see it - Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world, and Portuguese is also. Also, considering we both enjoy Latin American history (I assume he does after viewing the Military history of Mexico article he worked on), I see us speaking the languages of the region to be a very strong advantage.

Lastly, I based my user page style on User:Durin's, I just changed the color a bit. I tried to edit constructively and utilize all criticisms to my advantage - I thought I was doing well, given I have tried to be the most civil in my conduct, and try to follow all guidelines to a "T," including edit summaries. I don't know what I may have done to connect myself to Encyclopedist, who was routinely vandalizing other people's user pages because he was angry with them.

I am sorry if I resemble him too much. Note that universities in Florida literally are the largest in the country, so us both attending Florida schools doesn't seem so rare. I am actually 30ish, and a commuter student who is returning to school after years of absence.

I have been away from the Wiki, but hope to return really soon - I hope you still don't think I am Encyclopedist.

See you around, NOVO-REI 20:22, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Addendum: He uses archaic spelling, like "reënter," etc. I don't NOVO-REI 20:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that there is no strong connection there, just a commonality of interest. I wouldn't worry about it, I doubt many would think you are the same person. More interesting to me is that you post so occasionally, yet you focus on controversial Wiki-politics issues. In your last 30 edits (which goes back 3 months) you posted on ED and Encyclopedist. When you get active again, please do a lot of article edits so we don't think you are only interested in Wiki-personalities :). Cheers, NoSeptember  00:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

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Another admin graph idea
NoSeptember, this graph may already exist, but if it doesn't you'd be the one to ask about creating it. There are some interesting stats about the number of Wikipedians at, including the total and those that made >5 and >100 edits in that month. I thought it might be interesting to graph that against the number of admins in the respective month. Just comparing the percentage increases with those of percentage increase in admins by month is telling, but graphing them would represent the info better. The English stats for the list of users ends in June for some reason, so that might be a strike against expending the effort necessary.--Kchase T 07:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks!
Thank you for correcting the vandalism on my user page! Best, Hagerman (talk ) 02:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * ...and for blocking the user! :-) Hagerman (talk ) 02:36, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's what we're paid for :) NoSeptember  02:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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