User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2005 June

How do get rights to delete and undelete pages and stuff?
Is there a class you must take, or no? Antares33712 22:26, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

Richard Vanderpool
Rich, please delete the article. It's a proven hoax (on the VfD talk page, you see all the information necessary to prove it was a hoax. I was in the speedy list, and seen it, and pulled it, thinking it was a valid article about an unfamous minor league baseball player.  So I figured keep, even if for historical posterity.  But seeing as it was a hoax, I feel VERY bad about pulling from the speedy.  IF I adn't have done that, we would be wasting time on it.

Antares33712 22:38, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

Balky deletes
Like 2 out of 3 times (or more) clicking 'confirm' gives "Error. Sorry- we have a problem... The wikimedia web server didn't return any response to your request."? Oh, yeah. Rather tiresome. I haven't been deleting much recently so I don't have a good feel for if it only started after the outage earlier today, or not. Niteowlneils 22:41, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

Re: What to List on speedy deletion
Ok, fine, I'll cede. But my article on Nichole Arsenault was speedy-ed away from me, with no chance of a repost, yet this hoax is dragging on.

Antares33712 22:53, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

By that I mean, if that could be speedy-ed away, and the second editor nominated it for a speedy, and everything afterwards was vandalism, or adding more to the hoax, it should just be speedy-ed :-) Antares33712 22:55, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

True, it was on VfU
But the VfU got due process. I may not agree, but it got due process. I feel the speedy was out of process, because a) I didn't repost the content, b) I agrued its merits when it had the explain-significance flag, and promsed to research and add and c) I wasn't a part of the original VfD vote (if I would have been there, I would have voted keep. I read on a wikipedia page were that can be useful in establishing due process. So for that reason, I feel the delete without due-process. But on that, I'm starting to get tired of sounding like a sour grape. :-) Antares33712 23:20, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

True, I probably did put it first. I forgot
I forgot. Can you add those edits under my name to my count. But on the due process you see my point. If I get the information and try to repost (under Wikipedia guidelines since the article was a stub), I don't want to be labeled a vandal. Antares33712 23:31, 7 June 2005 (UTC)

PS: Can you email me the page. I was proud of the IPA pronounciation thing I did (lord, now I'm so vane :-) ) Antares33712 23:31, 7 June 2005 (UTC)


 * Wow, thanks! I wasn't excepting that.  I can work on making the article more notable.  Antares33712 13:28, 8 June 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah, ok....thanks! Antares33712 15:46, 8 June 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation scripts
I'm not sure what perl does with pipe characters (|), but I've made a little change to one of your scripts. Oh, and to fulfil one of my many pet peeves: When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:


 * [[Image:Edit_Summary-2.png|Edit summary text box]]

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 11:04, 11 June 2005 (UTC)

Histogenesis
Hi, I have no idea why histogenesis was deleted. Danny 03:35, 15 June 2005 (UTC)

Hi, it was probably like you said. If it was blank, I would have deleted it during an effort to get rid of speedy deletes. Sorry for any confusion. Danny 17:47, 15 June 2005 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Pakistan
Would you like to join the animated discussion on the Pakistan's talk page? The current issue is whether "Pakistan is famous for its support of Taliban and 9/11 terrorist" is a suitable sentence to start the article's first paragraph. Your contribution would be much appreciated, as the current discussion seems to be more of a dialog between Ragib and SamTr014 Talk:Pakistan. Thanks !--PrinceA 06:39, 18 June 2005 (UTC)

Benazir Bhutto
R you interested in to join the discussion of cleaning up the article of Benazir Bhutto? Talk:Benazir Bhutto--Raju1 03:16, 22 June 2005 (UTC)

Fathers' rights
Hi Rich, I noticed your changes to the dates on the Fathers' rights page. Perhaps you could explain how formatted dates improve the page? They add links to particular dates, eg. today is 24 June 2005 but are these links relevant or useful if no entry appears on the date pages to the 'event' from which they were linked? It seems like you are keen on date cleanup, I am just curious as to the purpose and rationale for this project. Any details cheerfully received. -Akiva Quinn 00:03, 24 June 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SARS_coronavirus&diff=prev&oldid=11803311

User:Rich Farmbrough 12:25, 9 June 2005 (UTC)

Bot? - No bot
Are you running a bot to do disambiguation? You're missing an awful lot of edit summaries. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 10:45, 24 June 2005 (UTC)