User talk:SFGiants/Archive 2

Happy First Edit Day!

 * [[Image:Wikiballoon1.jpg|100px|thumb|left|Happy first edit day, SFGiants! All the best wishes for you! -- [[User:Imoeng|Imo]] eng  03:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)]]

Enjoy your Wiki-Birthday! Thisthema n  04:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Birthday Committee!
Thanks for joining! We're happy to have you aboard! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Thisthema n  20:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Islamic Barnstar Award
Please offer your opinion, vote, or whatever about your choice for the image to be used with the Islamic Barnstar Award at the Barnstar proposals page. Although there is consensus for the concept of an Islamic Barnstar Award, some editors would like to change the image for the award. I was just thinking you should be aware of this discussion because you have contributed to Islamic-related articles, received the Islamic Barnstar Award, or have contributed to the Islam-related Wikiprojects, etc.--JuanMuslim 1m 16:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:WHMT
Hello. You may or may not remember this, but some time ago you signed up for a Hangman Tournament hosted here on Wikipedia. The next tournament is about to start, and I was just wondering if you were still interested in participating. If you are, please go to the page (linked above) and bold your name in the sign-up list. This will confirm your registration. If you are not interested any more, please feel free to remove your name from the list. If you haven't responded within 7 days, I will assume you are not interested, and remove you from the list.

If you think anyone else may be interested in this tournament, please drop them a note and ask them to sign up. Good luck, and I hope to see you at the tournament! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 13:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:RA-FitS.jpg
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Done. ςפקι Д Иτς ☺ ☻ 03:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:WHMT
Hello,. You may or may not remember signing up for the Wikipedia Hangman Tournament, but the time has finally arrived for you to start your game! You have until, July 2024 (UTC) to begin your game by typing  on the corresponding round page. You should also visit your match page, as you will be able to see various aspects of your match.

I would also suggest:


 * Familiarizing yourself with the rules of the tournament. The rules include how to win, how to play, and how to navigate amongst the various pages of the tournament.
 * Visiting the Tournament 2 page, which has the rules and pairing for the tournament. Use the tournament tree to see tournament updates, as well as
 * Placing WikiHangman Tournament/Tournament 2/Match 5/Round 1/A, WikiHangman Tournament/Tournament 2/Match 5/Round 1/B, and WikiHangman Tournament/Tournament 2/Match 5 on your Special:Watchlist, as each of these will be updated with or without notice. As the match progresses, add subsequent pages to your watchlist.

If you have any questions at all regarding the procedures and rules of this tournament, please feel free to contact me at my talk page. Thanks again, and good luck!

In case you are wondering why it took so long to begin this tournament, my computer was not operating correctly, and my Internet usage was limited to public computers. My opportunities to use public computers were limited, so needless to say, I didn't have a lot of time to commit to Wikipedia. So, sorry if this has caused you any inconvience. Good luck! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 02:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Problems with monobook.js
Probably best to try the people at:

WikiProject User scripts

Geni 19:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Middle-earth WikiProject!
— Mir l  e  n  21:14, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!
On behalf of everyone at Esperanza, I hope you have a great day and I hope you continue to contribute to Wikipedia for many years to come. Once again, have a great day! Jam 01 09:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday, SFGiants. It seems like I've been seeing you a lot lately... I won't worry about it. Happy Birthday!! Steveo2 12:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts
I've fixed all your scripts except the welcome script (which I couldn't get to work) for you; as I can't edit other user's monobooks, the fixed version is at User talk:SFGiants/monobook.js; copying it over should work. Let me know if it works for you! --ais523 15:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Nikhil Parekh
I have just placed this notice on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikhil Parekh page, and am bringing every voter's attention to it as promised.

Comment. Sigh. Despite the inevitable tirade that this will unleash, I am sorry to have to bring new information to the table. I have this morning received an email from Vijaya Ghose, editor of the Limca Book of Records. "Dear Mr, We have enlisted a couple of claims of Nikhil Parekh. Longest Poem is not one of them. He has formidable competition in John Milton's Paradise Lost and our own Mahabharata. However, he has written to many heads of state and has received replies but not from the head of state but the secretary or executive assistant. He is is the first from India to feature on Eppie. We checked with them. Regards Vijaya Ghose. So Parekh, though probably not notable as a poet, is indeed an Indian world record holder.  I suspect that this changes the balance on his notability, though the article would still require a great deal of clear-up.  I will notify everyone who took part in this vote and ask admins to extend debate a little.  Sorry.

I don't know whether this changes your vote, but thought you should know. Vizjim 06:05, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

wikEd


Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

wikEd has all the functionality of the old editor plus:• syntax highlighting • nifty image buttons • morefixing buttons • paste formatted text from Word or web pages• convert the formatted text into wikicode • adjustthe font size • and much, much more.

Switching to wikEd is easy, check the detailed installation description on its project homepage. Usually it is as simple as changing every occurrence of editor.js into wikEd.js on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page.

Cacycle 21:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, SFGiants! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 06:11, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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U.S. Roads Newsletter Issue #1

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Your RfA
Hi, I have added an optional question on your RfA.--U.S.A. cubed 00:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Good answer and attitude aswell. I wish you good luck on your RfA.--U.S.A. cubed 03:04, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA closed
Hi. I closed and delisted your RfA. Better luck next time. Regards, El_C 17:48, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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RfA
I want you to know that I appreciate your attitude. I truly believe that you will do well in the future and I commend your courage for tossing your hat in the ring. It's not an easy process. Keep up the good work, especially the Giants project. It's rewarding and very helpful to us here. I am always at your service for anything I can do. Jody B  talk 22:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Your signature
Hi SFGiants, just wanted to let you know that I noticed that your signature, on the second smiley face, links to Special:Contributions:SFGiants - I think you intended to link to Special:Contributions/SFGiants. Thanks! Tim.bounceback(talk 23:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Portalimage.gif
Hello SFGiants, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Portalimage.gif) was found at the following location: User:SFGiants/The boring part. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg, so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not readd the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 05:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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Poll on Bratislava
Thank you for your participation in the discussion regarding the use of the names "Bratislava" and "Pressburg" on Talk:Bratislava. I would like also to invite you to a poll that will show us the real support for the two alternatives. I hope the poll will help us reach consensus and close this case so we can move on to other improvements of that (hopefully) future featured article. You can access the poll at Talk:Bratislava. I look forward to your opinion. Tankred 05:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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Adoption
Thank you for offering adoption,I accept your offer. Again,thank you and have a nice day.Mooncrest 18:52, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the adoption tag on my page. I was just wondering how did you find me? Well I have another question. Can you put interviews on an author in a book or would that be considered as plagerism? Thank you and have a nice day.Mooncrest 15:48, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It is fine if I got the interview from a book or a website?Mooncrest 18:28, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It's Natsuki Takaya,the manga ka of Fruits Basket. By the way is it ok to tell what book you got it from?

Ok, thanks. I read it already. Sorry to bother you. By the way I just wanted to know how to write a new article.Mooncrest 18:38, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I already saw what you said to see.Thank you! :DMooncrest 19:59, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I think you deserve this for adopting me.:D Mooncrest 19:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC) 

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How do you find new users?Mooncrest 23:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Revert
Why did you revert my page to show all this when I said I didn't want to see it?

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, we remind you not to attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. VanTucky 04:17, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. VanTucky 04:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. VanTucky 05:13, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

VanTucky, you're taking a typically legalistic approach to defending your uncouth and uncivil comments on the "Toupee" discussion page. I have no interest in engaging in discussion with you, and consider you an annoyance. If you attempt to have me banned, be aware that anyone handling your request will see your actions for what they are. In my personal opinion, and I trust I'm allowed to have one on my own User Talk page, you're a self-righteous annoyance.24.15.208.65 06:12, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Further, I've been contributing to Wikipedia longer than you have. I, unlike you, don't feel the need to throw up flags at every instance or criticize the contributions of others by saying they are "pointless and trivial". Say what you wish - that IS arrogant language, with apparently arrogant intent, by an apparently arrogant person. 24.15.208.65 02:18, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Baseball Portal
I think it's a good idea to get as much out of that page as possible. I will be glad to help although I'm working on enough issues right now that I'm probably not going to be one to help take the "reigns". //Tecmobowl 12:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Cookies
Hello! I just wanted to give you a plate of cookies for being a Wikipedian. I hope your Wikistress gets better! Peace, Neranei 19:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:COokies
You're welcome. I'm trying to spread WikiHappiness and WikiLove so that all of the stressed people become happy. Hope it helped! Peace and WikiLove, Neranei 23:39, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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REgarding this:

As stated in the section above, your user talk page is not yours. It belongs to the entire community, which means you cannot do whatever you want to it. I found some of your other comments amusing as well. You say that you have been editing on Wikipedia longer than I have. A quick check of your editcount and my editcount reveals this to be the case by 8 days, but I have been editing on an IP since January 2005. I would also like to point out that I have almost 25 times as many edits as you. I do not find VanTucky's language arrogant; to the contrary, it is standard language and I woulduse the same. Regards, ¿SFGiДnts! ¿Complain!

I amused you? How charming. You're not the only one that logs in from different IP addresses and maintains a login ID. My time on the IP address shown starts from around the time we moved to our present home, and I rarely use it compared to logging in at work during lunch or using my login id. Count up all edits from all locations and IDs, and then compare. I don't make Wikipedia my life either.

Regardless of who has more experience on Wikipedia - I'll grant you that - my comments about Vantucky are with regard to his comments on the "toupee" page, which is an odd topic to get hot and bothered about. If this is standard language -- "Sorry to burst your bubble but Wikipedia isn't a Party" -- then I'm Howard Cosell. In his further replies the snideness fairly dripped from the screen. It doesn't take much typing to be civil, and before HE started polluting the 24.15 talk page, I had never corresponded with another editor except on an Article talk page. After the past several days, I don't plan on talking much ever again. Too many legalists. 24.15.208.65 12:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

About what you wrote
Well about what you wrote in the Manga talk thing.This is what you wrote: I've never heard it pronounced any other way. well, some people want to call it manga but it's the wrong.

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Mamilla GA Fail
Out of curiosity, did you actually fail Mamilla for one unreferenced statement? Your GA fail assess for that article was all good except for "references" and your narrative at the bottom discussed one statement. Don't you think an "on hold" would have been more appropriate, rather than an outright fail?

I have no connection to the article, but I am watching the page because I have a GA nominee of my own on the page. Horologium t-c 01:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I left a response on Talk:Mamilla.  Tewfik Talk 06:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you saw this or not, but I would appreciate if you could take another look.  Tewfik Talk 18:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi again, just dropping by to make sure my message wasn't lost between others.  Tewfik Talk 01:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

35 (and counting) GAs - the secrets
Hey, thanks for your note. The secret is.. there is no secret! It's really down to dedicating a large portion of my life to getting six featured articles which means that I can spot most flaws in articles at ten paces. Things like WP:MOS failures I find particularly irksome because in most cases they're very straightforward to fix, so much so that rather than fail or hold a GA because of it, I'll fix the issues myself and carry on.

Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to help with, re:GA or anything else. All the best. The Rambling Man 12:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[[Image:Original Barnstar.png]]
"Fake deleted page" is the most hilarious thing ever. I suspect if it wasn't for that nice background a few people would thing it was real! 68.39.174.238 14:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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Banglapedia GA
I have removed the part that was "neither referenced nor NPOV". There seems to be no other problem with the article. Can I renominate now? Aditya (talk • contribs) 04:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Not just a fellow Bengali, but also, apparently, a fellow admirer of science fiction giants - Wales, Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Silverberg, Lem, Strugatsky brothers - oh, the list continues. Well, about Banglapedia - how far is this OR thing is applicable you think, since the subject itself is one of the most authentic sources of information in Bangladesh? Much of the details on the content comes from the book itself, and it has long been established on the WP as a verifiable and authentic source. There's a dilemma involved here, I guess. There's a possible compromise - may be you can provide the second opinion about which parts need citation (just slap on a fact tag), and I'll try to address the problem. BTW, which part of Bengal are you from? Cheers. Aditya (talk • contribs) 04:42, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Update I have completed the reference job. Let me know if something is missing. Aditya (talk • contribs) 19:18, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have added some more references, as well as very relevant extlinks, now. Will it pass this time? Aditya (talk • contribs) 20:37, 22 July 2007 (UTC)