User talk:Ponce de Leon

Hi guys, I couldn't find my old password - and since I do not have an e-mail yet I was pretty much downhill, so I registered a new account here.

SORRY TO ALL WIKIPEDIANS AFFECTED BY THE ERRORS I MAKE, I AM NEW TO THE PLACE!

Welcome!
Welcome, OMEN! EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 12:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, for your welcomes. It is my deepest hope to be a sincerely dedicated and worthy member of this project. I am actually a little worried about the things I have posted so far :-). I am also hoping for some meesages, in which someone could tell exactly how I am doing so far.  Also, my current "to do" things are: finish the Military history of Brazil article, and also to create an article on the Pernambucan Revolution of 1817. I also plan to try to translate articles from the Portuguese Wikipedia concerning Brazilian history.

Thanks again, I hope I am doing well. OMEN 03:01, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, I also want to inform you all that I eventually plan to set up a user page - at first I did not, but I think I may be a more permanent user.OMEN 03:02, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Great, have fun editing! :-) -- Andeh 03:04, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I also want to participate in the article deletion debates and RfAs, but I am afraid I haven't editted enough to start giving any two cents :-). I think I'll set up a user page only UNTIL I get c. 1000 edits. Thanks again. OMEN 03:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Listing of AfD nominations in the daily log page
When you want to list a new AfD page using afd3 (during step 3 of the AfD process), please add it to the daily log for the current day in Wikipedia time. The foolproof way to ensure that it ends up correct is to go to Articles for deletion after you do step 2, and then click the "Add a new entry" link under "Current discussions" heading.

I noticed this because you added 2 AfDs meant for today's log into yesterday's log. I will not relist them on today's log since it is only a one day difference (and there's no need for you to correct it either, since it's a very small mistake), but please add new AfDs to the correct day in step 3 for future discussions. Thanks! Kimchi.sg 07:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I will be more careful in the future. But I still don't quite understand what you are talking about. ;-) OMEN 17:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for awarding me the barnstar. I really appreciate it! Thanks very much. Best Regards,  Signature brendel  19:33, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem, I also added a tag to the article, until the dispute is resolved. OMEN 19:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

DYK nomination
You didn't nominate Confederation of the Equator correctly, so I fixed it for you. You can find it at the bottom of the June 28 section, here. Oz Lawyer  20:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help. OMEN 21:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Encyclopedist
He had a request for adminship start to turn against him, then he withdrew the request and vanished for a few weeks.

Then one of the people who opposed his adminship started getting a series of fairly vile vandalism of his user and talk pages from one-use sock puppets many, many times a day. After several days of this a Check-User was performed on the sock puppet parade and identified Encyclopedist as the vandal. The underlying IP was blocked to stop it.

A few days later Encyclopedist returned and wrote a fairly vitriolic diatribe against the user he had been vandalizing, and the project in general. He also admitted that he had been one of the "named" vandals at one point, using his university computers. I forget which vandal at this point. He also said we might as well block him. So I did. He then insisted on having his User and Talk pages deleted.

A few weeks after that he returned once more and, using IP accounts and socks let it be known that he was moving to a place where he would have access to a huge number of IPs, making it very difficult to stop him if/when he decided to vandalize once more. He also warned that he had a big, sample attack on the project planned for the next day. The next day came, and instead of an attack he copied a "final" farewell letter onto the talk pages of pretty much everyone who had been connected to him in the past month or two of adventures.

And he's been silent since. At this pointif he returned, truely contrite for his actions, I might be willing to block him. OTOH, he made the point several times that he could easily just register a new account and start over. And that's true. I'm in no hurry to hunt him down if he does that, and resumes good contributing. I mostly have a problem when he goes into vandal mode.

So that's the breif version of what went down, at least from the side of things I saw, and where things currently stand. - TexasAndroid 01:01, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * This is very unfortunate. Perhaps if I could contact him, I could get him to apologize.  I wish I had some help - it's sad that this happened, considering that he was, I assume. a good contributor? OMEN 03:03, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Patient safety article
Thank you for the barnstar and comments regarding patient safety. --Ryanjo 03:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem. OMEN 03:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Personal "to do" list
Create article on *Pernambucan Revolt of 1817, finish Military history of Brazil. OMEN 03:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Military history of Brazil
It's quite nice (although I usually prefer to write—or rewrite—the lead section after the bulk of the article is complete). The only real issue I can see is the mention of tribal warfare; there doesn't seem to be a skeleton section for that. Are you planning to add any material discussing this topic? (If not, it's rather confusing to mention it in the introduction and never return to it.) Kirill Lokshin 04:03, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Most certainly, however, I haven't added a section due to a general lack of reliable information - if I cannot, I may delete the mention of it. Currently, I am writing an article on the 1817 Pernambucan Revolt, I do appreciate your comments. OMEN 04:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, ok. Keep up the good work; this is definitely an area of Wikipedia that needs all the attention it can get. Kirill Lokshin 04:09, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * [[Image:WikiThanks.png]] Thank you very much for the barnstar! Kirill Lokshin 06:08, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks good. Is there any information available on the actual military actions involved?  Or were there no major battles in the revolt? Kirill Lokshin 06:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Military history WikiProject!
The obligatory boilerplate message that all new members get... ;-)

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

A few features that you might find helpful:


 * Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
 * The announcement and open task box is updated quite regularly. You can watch it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including WPMILHIST Announcements there.
 * The project has a monthly newsletter; it will normally be delivered as a link, but several other formats are available.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:


 * Starting some new articles? Our article structure guidelines outline some things to include.
 * Interested in working on a more complete article? The military history peer review and collaboration departments would welcome your help!
 * Interested in a particular area of military history? We have a number of task forces that focus on specific topics, nations, or periods.
 * Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every military history article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Kirill Lokshin 06:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Pernambucan Revolt

 * Looks good. Is there any information available on the actual military actions involved?  Or were there no major battles in the revolt? Kirill Lokshin 06:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Information on the military activity in the revolt is, unfortunately, scarce. The only real major battle, to my knowledge, was the final siege that caused the revolt and the proclaimed republic to collapse. Information on the battles, casualties, and such is extremely difficult to find, and, perhaps, impossible.  Thank you, for guiding a new Wikipedian through this! I did source all of the work from the article, and hopefully another author will come and take over.  On a related not I added myself to the members list of Wikipedia's military history project.  I hope to be a constructive editor - and again I thank you for you time that you have taken with me.  [[Image:WikiThanks.png]] OMEN 06:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You're quite welcome. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Kirill Lokshin 06:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not really sure what the current WP:GA criteria are, actually (they tend to change rapidly and with little warning). I would just go to that page and nominate the article; if there are any points that need to be fixed, the regulars there will probably be in a better position to point them out. Kirill Lokshin 06:52, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Your article, Confederation of the Equator, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  + +Lar: t/c 15:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats, OMEN, and thank you so much for the Barnstar. It's my first! Oz Lawyer  15:36, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Dear Omen, &#151; Thanks for the barnstar &#151; also my first! Unfortunately, while Portuguese is my "national language" ("state language" is more correct) I do not know it, and have not had the time or resources to learn it &#151; yet.  I guess from the little I do know that "Obrigado por ajudar-me!" means "Thanks for helping me".  Thank you! WikiSceptic 04:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Está bem. I am just glad I that you helps. OMEN 04:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Dear Omen / Novo-Rei &#151; You deserve a Barnstar for Random Acts of Kindness!

Substituting templates
When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use &#123;&#123;subst:test&#125;&#125; instead of &#123;{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. —Whomp  [ T ] [ C ] 23:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ooops, my mistake. OMEN 23:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Screenshots on WP
Hello. I take screenshots using a Linux program called ksnapshot. If you are in windows, you can press the print screen button on your keyboard, and paste the screenshot into an image editor (like MS paint). -- Where 23:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Or you can press alt+print screen and it will copy it onto your clipboard. --69.145.123.171 01:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tips. OMEN 03:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks! - CrazyRussian talk/email 05:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I have added it to my userpage. Check it out. - CrazyRussian talk/email 05:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Daft Punk article
The reason why a lot of the trivia on the Daft Punk article was removed because the article doesn't need trivia of when every instance of a Daft Punk song being used. It seems excessive. Hope you can understand. Keep on Wikipeding! Douglasr007 05:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's no problem at all! Everyone makes mistakes.  Thanks for the barnstar!

Tire iron article
Hello. Why did you add a "wikify" tag to the tire iron aricle? What layout changes do you think need to be made to the page? I'm new here, but it looks okay to me. Thanks.Doctormatt 06:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I am still a new user :-) Perhaps I added the tag to the wrong article.  Have you seen the Recent changes list?  It seems that Wikipedia receives dozens of edits a second, and for that reason, I have to get used to editting the right article.  But thats my fault.  Sorry. NOVO-REI 06:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK
--Congratulations on getting your DYK to the main page! -- thunderboltza.k.a.D e epu Joseph05:04, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks
Many thanks for the barnstar my friend, I'm glad the advice was helpful. A further comment regarding the same article, the references you give are much, much, much better than no references at all, but if possible, english language references would be most helpful to anyone who wishes to find out additional information (especially for things like school projects) that only understands english .... like me :). Cheers, --darkliight [&pi;alk] 01:47, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva
Your Portuguese is better that my English (:S). I will read your translation now. -- Fernando S. Aldado 15:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Encyclopedist
Encyclopedist vandalised User:John Reid using sockpuppet accounts. Prodego talk  19:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi
I was a vandal attacking User:John Reid (he stored them very well ) I was also the User:CIyde vandal. I apologize for these actions. I will consider what you have told me on my talk page about fighting vandalism. Also, thanks for the sig compliment, you can steal it ;-) ε  γκυκλοπ  αίδεια  *  19:15, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

User:NOVO-REI/Status2
I have made this for you, because you did it wrong. Ask me for help if you need any. Happy editing! FellowWikip e dian 02:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks! But I might change it back because it has a big green button. NOVO-REI 02:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Alot of users have that big green button. That's why I changed it. FellowWikip e dian 02:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. You have to set whether your online, busy, or offline manually by clicking the buttons that should now appear below the toolbox on your left sidebar. Online and offline are fairly obvious but you should set busy when you are online but too busy to really communicate with people. FellowWikip e dian 02:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the Barnstar! FellowWikip e dian 13:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)