User talk:OhanaUnited/Archive 13

Bande Dessinée portal
Hello, I saw that you are a portal peer review volunteer. I have worked much for the improvement of my portal, but some concerns may remain:
 * Is the image at the top of the page useful and aesthetic, or should I remove or replace it ?
 * Problem with the selected biography: I contented myself with writing a short sentence as an introduction for each personality. Then I wrote the beginning of the biography, then put a link "more..." to the complete article. Is it approriate ?
 * Selected images are not of the same size. Is it really a problem ? It should be noted that free images for comics are very rare.
 * Is the presentation of the news correct ? I did not specified the exact date of each event, only the month, because I do not know it.
 * If you have any other recommendations about other aspects of the portal, do not hesitate ! It MUST become a featured portal ! Thanks.--Pah777 (talk) 22:01, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Five Featured Sounds
Featured sound candidates/How can they tell that I'm Irish?

Featured sound candidates/Two Spanish Civil War songs

Featured sound candidates/Three gospel songs from 1943

Tell me if I'm gettign too lazy about formatting these =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Featured sound candidates/September 2008
You realise that things only move to the archive after they're closed, right? If you mean things are missing... well, bugger. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 00:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:FPOC
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Featured_portal_candidates. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 01:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply
In response to your comment, I had a quick reply, so I really didn't create a detailed report. What I meant was he was helping the backlog, just a mistake on my part saying he created it. I also forgot to mention Badminton was nominated when it was already a GA. None of these articles meet criteria for a GA. (I honesty didn't know you could just nominate, I'll have to give you that) Should I quickfail these articles then?-- LAA Fan sign review 13:55, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-22/Features and admins
No mention of portals? Cirt (talk) 22:38, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. Even if no portals are promoted during that time period, doesn't The Signpost usually still make mention of something like "No portals were promoted." or something like that? Cirt (talk) 12:20, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah okay thanks. Cirt (talk) 12:28, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

6 featured sounds
Might I suggest that a format along these lines be used in the signpost, per the Featured pictures precedent? Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 02:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

With regards to sets, it should be possible. We could do something like (I'll just use the files above)

'''Multi-part work

Or, if you rather, I could make something compact, such as (done quickly, we can probably tweak this.)

Or

Or rather a number of variations on that theme. I'll ave to figure out how to add the dot before it, but that should be trivial. =)Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 15:20, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, good. That also saves me having to code anything. =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 15:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

A set of 11 featured sounds
Jean-Baptiste Lully and Molière - Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Looks like we get to try this out in practice =) There's a lot this week, so you may want to use some basic table coding to put sounds into two columns. Poke me if you need help with formatting. =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 19:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Two featured sounds
You may want to trim that second title, but it is a really famous recording. =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 04:11, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

One Featured sound
You could cut the "Gekko gecko" if you like. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 07:07, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Feminism portal
Thanks for the updates necessary. I don't know what's happened to me this week, I've been all over the place. Caulde 17:49, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Quite. Do you know why, though? Caulde  17:53, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Really? It wasn't that often was it? Caulde  18:00, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware of those conditions at that time (I wouldn't have if I did, obviously). I'm sorry it came to that - perhaps if he's reading this, he'll re-instate it. Caulde  18:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Soldier Front.gif)
Thanks for uploading Image:Soldier Front.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:14, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Two featured sounds
Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 19:28, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Two more
Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 17:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

1 Featured sound
Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 07:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Are you stalking me?
Why do you keep delting everything I do??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurasko (talk • contribs) 02:42, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Mail
Check mail. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 00:09, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

2 featured sounds
Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 02:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Procedure
Hi, That imposter user was blocked as a long term vandal anyway, once again. But I guess I do not know what the proper procedure is. I should learn it because that fellow has been back a few times with a few new IDs and some of his IDs are not even well known. I think he is probably also EurovisionMan, who was also blocked, but it will take more work to prove it. One thing seems certain: he will be back and I should learn how to report it. Cheers History2007 (talk) 05:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

2 featured sounds
Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 01:07, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Re: Are you stalking me?
Could you have given any thought to warning me about it? I would have fixed it. Please consider warning me in the future. Nurasko (talk) 21:49, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Schools
I really wanted to wait for the approval of User:RichardF at Featured portal candidates, but it's been a month since I completed the anniversary and biography sections at Portal:Schools and about three weeks since he responded at User_talk:RichardF. Is there any chance you could take a look at the portal and add comments, pass, or fail it accordingly? Hopefully, when RichardF does come back I can get additional approval or further comments on improvement. Many thanks, --Jh12 (talk) 13:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, the trouble has been quality. Every biography and school rated GA or higher has been added to the portal. Under limited circumstances, I consider adding a biography if the educator is of high importance or with sourced, close ties to a particular primary/secondary school, but I am unwilling to add other educators unless they fit those criteria. --Jh12 (talk) 14:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Can Portal:Schools be closed? It received the support of RichardF back on December 7. It only has 16 biographies, but again the problem is quality. 16 biographies matches or is greater than Portal:Theatre, Portal:Russia, Portal:Japan, Portal:World War II, and many other featured portals. I have done my best to put the best content available on Wikipedia and represent it on the portal. I have asked other portal directors to make a decision on the portal: User:Caulde said a decision would be made and then resigned his position, User:Giggy said he didn't have time and left Wikipedia, my message at Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates received no response and was archived. A similar response was given by some of the last remaining active users under Template:PortalReviewVolunteers/List. It has been over 18 weeks since the portal was first nominated for featured status. If it's not good enough, I have no problem with a FPOC fail. Please consider at least making some kind of decision at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Schools. Best wishes and happy holidays, --Jh12 (talk) 06:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Main Page redesign
Hi OhanaUnited, thanks for your comment on my proposal. If you've got a moment it would be great to know what improvements you'd like to see to the sister projects footer. I've been reluctant to change it because it's a fairly standard feature used across wikis. Thanks again, P retzels Talk! 19:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, that's fair enough. I did make the text bigger and added a double border to make it more prominent but I understand your concern. I'm sorry that's enough to make you want to oppose. Best wishes, P retzels Talk! 20:14, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Translation help, perchance?
I left this message over at Editor Assistance Requests, but someone made the very good point that I'd be better off looking for someone who already does translations. Thus:

Traditional Chinese medicine. I have commented out an entire section in the middle of the article because--well, here's an example. The entire section is full of stuff like this:


 * Luo Shibiao: In the early 1960s, Lysenkoism the function of Qi (1962).

o Huang Kunyi et al: the human body that the Qi field hypothesis. o Lee Xiao et al: that the Qi's entropy flow assumption. o Wu Banghui: Qi, Lysenkoism the order parameter.
 * Qin Bomo: In the late 50s was 'the material of Qi Lysenkoism'. in 1959?.
 * The Qi was unifies the field Lysenkoism

To the average English-speaking reader, that makes ZERO sense. What this article, and particularly this section, needs is someone who is fluent in English and in Chinese, who also has knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The whole article needs a proper going-over; as it stands, it's practically a candidate for speedy deletion for being incomprehensible, contextless nonsense. (No, I wouldn't actually try to have the article deleted--but in its current condition, it's useless.) Someone also mentioned the possibility that it's output from a translatorbot--now THAT I'd believe. Anyhow, I saw your name on the translator cat page, and since I recognize your name and not in a bad way, I thought I'd ask you first. Thanks! Gladys J Cortez 08:58, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Reporting possible sockpuppets
I'm trying to use the Suspected sock puppets page to report a case of possible sockpuppetry, but not having any success doing so (using the "Query" form"). Is the "Query" form not working? (ex. I type in the suspected puppetmaster's ID -- 87.16.224.101 -- and am greeted with a confusing message of "Go back!/whatever/whatever") J.R. Hercules (talk) 19:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Trouble on the Sustainability page
Hi, could you take the time to check my post at the end of the Sustainability discussion page - I am hoping that you can be part of the process of finding a way forward on this important but still B-class article.--Travelplanner (talk) 00:45, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Is this article worth being created?
user:nurasko/myminicity * Ok, you can delete the pics, Im getting bored of trying to keep myminicity on wiki.
 * Does this pass the guidelines? If so, could you protect it when I create it?(when I add it, it is usually speedy deleted, also it has been completely protected). If not, what could I do to make it better?

List of MTR stations
Since I have pretty much complete the list, the next step is to add references and begin writing the lead. It would be good if you could help on that. Thanks — Chris!  c t 06:25, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

GA sweeps update
Sorry, I've got a lot going on these days. I'm trying to take a bit of a step away from Wikipedia, so I can't really commit to helping with the update right now. GaryColemanFan (talk) 00:11, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Pulldates
My mistake — I did read the instructions but interpreted the notice to mean "don't leave the pulldate empty when adding a notice". Thanks for your message, P retzels Talk! 21:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for your input at my successful Rfa. I'm already thinking about working on my content creation. Hopefully in a few months, I'll have passed the point where you would've !voted Support. If you have any more equally well-thought-out suggestions on how I can improve myself as an editor, I'd be happy to hear them. Happy editing!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 21:07, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Uninvolved user
Yeah, I noticed that as well. On the plus side, it alerted me to a possible impersonator account as well as notifying me of an account I needed to tag as a doppleganger for myself. No doubt, the anon will deny making the account as well, pointing out the stilted English. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  14:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

GA reform redux
I've recently had a chat with a couple of the contributors, and we think it may be worth revisiting the GA reform proposal put together by the working party during the Summer. Since you contributed to the proposal's development, I was wondering if you'd care to comment? I've left a brief recap at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles/Reform; your input would be much appreciated. Thank you, EyeSerene talk 13:24, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

User talk:JBsupreme
Please see the above. Cheers, Tiptoety  talk 05:47, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Please see my reply on my talk page. Thanks, Tiptoety  talk 06:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to let you know the user has been unblocked. Cheers, Tiptoety  talk 19:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Weasel Words on the Maplestory page
Ive noticed a lot of weasel words on the newly edited maplestory page, as well as a re-implementation of the content list from a year back. Please deal with this issue accordingly, as I myself do not know how to tag pages.

76.27.97.223 (talk) 05:56, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Image comments
You are wholly mistaken. If the image template does not include documentation or commentary to the effect that that template is restricted in use to only one particular noticeboard or page, then it is available to all. Barring that, I'm free to use it whenever and wherever. seicer |  talk  |  contribs  14:04, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Could you delete ? I suppose it's not necessary anymore. Thanks,  Enigma  message 06:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I didn't add the nowiki tags.  Enigma  message 06:35, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the kind words. I failed an RfA in May 2008. It was quite the fiasco. I will try RfA again eventually, I think. Another month or two.  Enigma  message 06:40, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello
I posted the Sockpuppet suspicion on User:Phonelabel in re: Klaksonn. His behaviour is so predictable... I'm not sure if a checkuser might help? I'm not so good at the procedures stage, I'm mostly a vandalism reverter and an occasional author. I know he often uses proxies. The user has a long history with User:Enzuru and myself; he refers to us as "The ismaili vandal" and "the ismaili vandal's girlfriend" (needless to say, I don't even know Enzuru...) and he obsesses on Islam topics.  the Ogress  smash!  17:43, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Requests for checkuser/Case/Carlsher
The AfD closed as delete. Tim Vickers (talk) 02:09, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Pickett's Charge
Why did you delete the map?


 * (Deletion log); 14:25 . . OhanaUnited (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:Pickett's-Charge.png" (I8: Image is a duplicate of an image on Commons)

I do not see any version of the map on Commons. I will restore it. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. A search for it on commons came up empty. Why did an image-removal bot go through and delete links to it from all the articles that referred to it? Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Azerbaijan People's Government Flag.svg
Hello Andrew. You've deleted the above image without replacing the references to it, leaving red links. What is the duplicate name of the image on Commons, so we could link to it instead? Thanks. --Kimse (talk) 01:39, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello again. Well, actually the names are different. Compare the above to Image:Azerbaijan people's government flag.svg - the letters are not capitalized. Similar case is with Image:Pickett's-Charge.png on Wikipedia and Image:Picketts-Charge.png on Commons (no apostrophe). Just delete the duplicate and direct all the links to the one on Commons. Hope that helps. --Kimse (talk) 05:49, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk  • 00:07, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Try this:

 — Rlevse • Talk  • 03:46, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

MF
I have for a month avoided discussing or referring to this editor after he posted insulting comments to my talk page. Recently, he 1) disrupted a GA nomination of mine, 2) posted to my talk page with a "warning" after being told clearly he was not welcome on my talk page, and 3) acted in an authority capacity in the GA project, again in regard to the article in 1). At that time I questioned his competence to function without COI in the GA project. He has since edit warred to repeatedly add a personal attack on me under the guise of a "question". This editor is continuing to poison the atmosphere of Wikipedia and the GA process in particular. If this editor had actually left me alone and not disrupted articles I'm associated with, nor badmouthed me around Wikipedia, I would have had no reason to bother with him. But it's obvious this editor will not stop on his own. Please get this editor to stop, if necessary by blocking the editor for repeated personal attacks and edit warring. Gimmetrow 02:50, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Theatre
Hey, this portal has been sitting at WP:FPORTC for two months now, could it be closed? Thank you for your time, Cirt (talk) 21:25, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 04:08, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

GA section
I've created two mock pages to see what it would look like. In the first I've created a separate section for a selected GA. In the second, which I prefer, I've simply included the GA in the DYKs.

The paradox here is that including the GA in the DYKs is actually less intrusive for the DYK project. In the first case I had to cut one of the DYK hooks to fit it within a reasonable height, since the extra GA header takes so much space. In the second case I didn't have to cut anything (there was a little extra space to go on in this particular update, though this may not always be the case).

I just wish it would be possible to have a reasonable discussion about this without everybody jumping in the trenches. In the long run I think DYK would actually benefit from this modest reform. Lampman (talk) 01:21, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know about "brave", there can't be any harm in trying to see what it would look like. It feels a bit futile though, unless the discussion can get more community-wide feedback, rather than being held hostage by special interest. Lampman (talk) 01:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas


David WS (contribs)  is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy holidays! David WS (contribs)  19:44, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

RFCI:CC
Hi.

You moved Requests for checkuser/Case/Cumulus Clouds to completed, but no blocks were applied (which is why I was leaving it up). Can you please take care of them? Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 20:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No prob. -- Avi (talk) 20:28, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Open reviews update
I've now posted the working group proposal to WT:GAN - your eyes (and input) on its progress would be most welcome. Best regards, EyeSerene talk 13:08, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Review request
Hi there, I've noticed WP:PPREV is really stale at the moment, and seeing as though you're one of the FPo coordinators I was wondering if you could review Portal:Brazil if you had time. It would also be handy if you could remove some old requests, as the last one is from January of this year. Cheers. Sunderland06 (talk) 21:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, guess you can't help that. Sunderland06  (talk) 11:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Tajik
You'd be interested in RFCU on Tajik results, see section's 14 and 15. <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 19:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Winter
Hi OhanaUnited. I just finished working on Portal:Winter, and I was wondering if you could give me some suggestions and advice for a potential FPOC. Thanks in advance, –Juliancolton Happy Holidays 02:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the helpful tips. Just so I know, how many selected articles/pictures would you suggest? –Juliancolton Happy Holidays 03:35, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Have a great break et al ;-) Scarian  Call me Pat!  16:39, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Sustainability article concerns
Hi OhanaUnited, best of the season to you. There has been some recent discussion of editing problems related to the Sustainability article here. Your comments on Jehochman's proposed findings would be most welcome. Sunray (talk) 21:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)