User talk:SpLoT/Archive01

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Alathur srinivasa Iyer
Hi, you put an Articles for Deletion tag on this page, which was understandable given the state it was in, but you didn't create an AfD subpage. Meanwhile I've cleaned it up a bit. Do you mind if I remove the tag, without going through the deletion vote? Cheers, David Sneek 16:08, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Vanity pages
Regarding that page you just tagged for deletion; wouldn't that be eligible for Speedy_deletions as "db-bio"? Jasmol 02:00, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

THIEF
Where is the acronym THIEF used? What does it mean? The page you created needs to give some background. Why would anyone ever want to say "THief Isn't Even Fine", or need an acronym for it? It seems like a complete non-sequitur, and I was frankly tempted to put it up for speedy deletion as patent. I imagine someone will before too long, if you don't add something to it to clarify. --DavidConrad 05:50, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

I was ready to slap a on this myself, but a bit of Googling reveals that THIEF was supposedly a version of Emacs for the TOPS-10 operating system. Its name refers to FINE, another Emacs clone which in turn stood for for "FINE is not Emacs". Notably, although many sites expand the THIEF acronym, only a couple actually say what it represents. Did SpLoT know what it THIEF actually was when he/she added this? Fourohfour 13:56, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Yeah... sorry 'bout the confusion. I was adding some encyclopedia articles (Requested) and THIEF was one of them. I was not aware of the actual meaning but a website gave me these to possibilities. If you guys don't think it's notable enough, then you can give it a. - splot 01:24, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit Notes
Hi,

When you edit, please include an edit summary. On BB, I figured out that you had added Boys' Brigade, realised it was already there, and removed your duplicate. However, an edit summary would have made this apparent more quickly.

Not a major issue, but it helps.

Fourohfour 13:38, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, got it, thanks. Anyways, I thought I removed it first? - splot 01:26, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation; please reply
Hi again,

I've had a look at some of your other disambiguation pages.

Unfortunately, many don't meet the guidelines (please read Disambiguation). A disambiguation page helps someone choose between different meanings of a word (or acronym) if there is the risk of confusion.

They are not simply expansions of acronyms; it should also explain what the acronym refers to. Please see the changes I made to THIEF for an example.

The entry for ZMRI (for example) is not helpful, because
 * It doesn't explain what the "Zinc Metals Research Institute" is
 * The words are linked separately. You have 'Zinc Metals Research Institute'. It should be Zinc Metals Research Institute (all one link).

Please reply on this page, thanks.

Fourohfour 20:59, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your inputs. Some of these abbreviations/acronyms are listed in List of encyclopedia topics. If you think that my pages are not worthy enough, then please tag them for deletion/edit as you wish. - splot 01:33, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem; it wasn't all of them I disagreed with, just some of them.

Sorry if my message came across as patronising or anything :)

Fourohfour 13:57, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Nah, it's perfectly ok. ;) -- splot 14:00, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

historical biography stubs
General practice when sorting stubs of historical persons is to use {*-bio-stub} and not (*-hist-stub}. The only exception would be if you were stubbing an article about a historian who was notable in only one particular field of history and wanted to indicate that field of history, but that would not be something I would recommend as a general practice. Caerwine 00:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

ok. got it. - splot 01:07, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Cleanups
I noticed you've been marking for cleanup some pages that... well, that are really beyond any hope; pages like Jintaio, which began with math jargon, but quckly degenerated into total nonsense. You might want to try marking them for speedy deletion instead. Thanks for helping out just the same, though. DS 15:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, noted. I just want to extract useful information from these so-called no hope articles ;) - splot 10:10, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Singapore in wWsconsin
hey, sorry if this goes here, you helpoed me out the other day but yeah. isnt Singapore in wisconsin, because thats what i heard. sorry if im wrong, correct me if i am. (Posted by Metalbladex4 on your user page.
 * Knowledge Of Self |  talk . 07:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Dude... all wrong man. Check out Singapore. Why wouldn't I know where I live? It's in Southeast Asia. - splot 02:28, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Byland
Hey, I changed your db-copyvio to a copyvio since the site doesn't appear to be commercial. Please read on WP:CSD the exact wording about copyright violation CSDs, it says the site must be commercial and I don't think a religious group like the Cistersians fits. You can put it up for AfD if you want. gren グレン 09:11, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

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Hey SpLoT
You fucking suck. How dare you try to delete my article. You asswipe. GO fuck yourself jew. Go get a real job. Unsigned by User:Piepiepiepie

It is important to keep a cool head, especially when responding to comments against you or your edits. Personal attacks and disruptive comments only escalate a situation; please keep calm and remember that action can be taken against other parties if necessary. Attacking another user back can only satisfy trolls or anger contributors and leads to general bad feeling. Please try to remain civil with your comments. Thanks! --&#91;eddie] - pure ginger 16:07, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I don't know what to reply to this. Please ignore all strong-worded sentences below, since it can't compare to the vulgarity above. Maybe the following: 1. I didn't delete your article. I tagged it for deletion. If you thought your article was worthy, you could have tagged, instead of just deleting the message and further vandalizing the article. 2. That you created a non-notable article, I don't blame you. Many new users create articles like this. It's the fact that you are incorrigible, and persist at not listening to our advice that disgusts me. 3. Look at your user talk page, please. I'm not the only one who's criticizing you. 4. Your blatant use of foul and vulgar language simply goes to show your level of maturity. What more can I say. 5. I'm not a Jew, but I strongly suggest you retract your racist comments. It's pitiful you know, your unbelievable ignorance at the modern world. 6. I find it annoying that you ask me what my real job is. Look, I'm probably half your age, and I don't go around vandalizing pages. I wonder what your mental age is. My real job, if you were wandering, is not an admin in Wikipedia. I'm a student. And I don't think you learnt much then. 7. Besides, I do know who you are. Even if you didn't put your name there. Here's another bit of advice: put the four slides ( ~ ) at the end of all comments on user talk pages to save the time and date of your comment. Like so:

splot 08:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Ripogonum
Thank you. (I am absent minded early in the morning) Brya 09:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem man - splot 05:47, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Yo
I invented the Patrick Martinez site... which is also my name SWEET! thanks for doing the whole link thing... I wanna put one of his artwork but wikipedia made this whole upload file, rights thingy complicated no offense wikipedia...

Big testes satchel
Curious to know why this article that you nominated for deletion never did get deleted or reverted after you changed it? I renominated it. Flibbert 21:14, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Translation?
How are you, SpLoT,

Wondering if you might assist with an English to Chinese article translation ?

(Love your userpage, by the way...)

Best regards, Res q68 02:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Portuguese to English Translation
Hey SpLoT! Sure, I'll translate those articles as soon as I have some extra time :) --Brazucs ( TALK | CONTRIBS ) 05:33, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Moving St Fagans
I noticed that you moved St Fagans to St. Fagans. I have been trying to find the discussion that agreed this move - perhaps you can point me to it ? In the meantime the move has left a number of pages pointing to a re-direct rather than to the article itself. any chance you can fix up these links so that they point at the right place again. Thanks. Velela 09:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Ryan Avery
Hello! Because of your interest in similar musicians, I wanted to direct you to the Ryan Avery article and the corresponding [|AfD]. Thanks! PT ( s-s-s-s ) 20:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Hurricane Ioke
Glad to have another Singaporean (seemingly!) interested in tropical cyclones. Just as a heads up, please update both the "current storm info" paragraph as well as the template at the top of the article when updating. Cheers! – Chacor 04:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Haha, yeah. I've already updated it. - SpLoT 04:33, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * You might want to have a look at the tropical cyclone WikiProject. Feel free to join if you haven't already. – Chacor 04:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Whoops, made some mistakes there. Sorry, first-timer. - SpLoT 04:37, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem. Welcome! – Chacor 04:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

And since you've now joined us...

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Long Path
Thanks for the compliment; I created that article and did (and do) most of the work on it.

I would love to one day make it an FA; however for the time being it needs not only to have refs put in the right places but (I think) some more images (that logo one, which I snarfed from the NYNJTC web page, has got to go in favor of a good one). It also has waaaay too many redlinks for an FA ... articles are slowly being created.

Thanks for the work on the Blackhead dab page. However, remember that nothing save the term to be disambiguated is to be linked from a disambiugation page (to reduce server load). Daniel Case 14:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology
Since you are interested in flags and emblems I would like to inform you that the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology has just been created. Why not take a look? I hope you can join. Inge 20:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

PTS timeline
Good catch. Have made the changes. Was running low on sleep (when I added it I had just watched my team play out a boring 0-0 draw with PSV Eindhoven). Thanks for the heads-up. – Chacor 12:03, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Hey SpLoT, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 21:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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nonsense
Hey! I'm doing New Page Patrol with you this morning and I noticed you tagged an article as "nonsense". Unfortunately, the article in question does not fall under the speedy deletion criterion of patent nonsense, as it was not "unsalvageably incoherent". Yeah, the article is, well, crap, and should be deleted, but it's not G1 material. I tagged it as db-nocontext, which might work. Anyway, it's nothing too big to worry about, just thought I'd let you know. Keep up the good work! -- Merope Talk 15:58, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Meetup
Hello, I'm organising a meetup in late November this year. If you're interested, you may leave your name here. --Ter e nce Ong (T 09:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You use GTalk? --Ter e nce Ong (T 08:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I may have found your page based on your contributions or your link repair user box on your user page. If you are not a member, please consider including your name on the project page. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 23:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

WOCE
Hi there SpLoT. Thanks for doing that. It's much clearer than what I did. Cheers, --Plumbago 09:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

new here...
hi SpLot; i'm new to contributing here, and was wondering why my article was moved, then deleted. any advice? thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edzthnet (talk • contribs)

I used Lupin's tool to monitor vandalism and the vandalism levels appears to have changed. --Ineffable3000 20:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out mistake
As you might have noticed, I'm a relatively new Wikipedian learning to contribute more although i have absolutely no idea about tech stuff like CSS programming, HTML or things like doing a catchy website. As such, i want to let u know that i appreciate the help you have given me. Thanks a lot for pointing out the need for the refs to follow the source. -- Anguirel 14:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC) P.S: Sorry about the double edit...its the first time i signed

Re: User:24.199.235.66's edits
Just to keep you posted, this IP has vandalized twice more since you block, on Fidel Castro and Economic history of France. - SpLoT 13:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know. Please report vandals to WP:AIV rather than to an individual admins' Talk page, in case they are away from their computer for a time. (aeropagitica) 14:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Cachoeira_(Bahia) Portuguese Wikipedia]
Portuguese Wikipedia

Why did you remove this link? - it has much more info than en.Wikipedia Johnbibby 17:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I apologise - I thought I had written it originally! (I still think the Portuguese link adds something .....) Johnbibby 17:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Inquiry
Could I check as to why the article on "Goh Zensen" has been removed from Wikipedia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Acosean (talk • contribs) 18:38, 22 October 2006.


 * Replied on your talkpage. -  SpLoT  / (talk) 10:53, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I beg to differ
Hi SpLot,

So you are one of the Wikipedia administrators? If you are, I rest my case as I am only a guest and I should abide by the rules and regulations spelt out by its host.

I don't quite agree to you that a particular Vice-Principal's entry should not be appearing in an encyclopedia. I have the following reasons to justify:

1. Wikipedia, unlike many other conventional encyclopedias, is extremely dynamic, ever-expanding and changing. Thus it can have FAR MORE genres and articles than you can expect to see in a typical encyclopedia. And this is exactly what distinguishes it from the mainstream encyclopedias. I can easily cite many examples of entries which are found on Wikipedia but not on other encyclopedias. With this tenet, we thus can't continue to go with the traditional mindset of drawing the following analogy, "You would not expect traditional encyclopedias to include articles of specific vice-principals, would you?"

2. Life is always a continuum. Who decides where the cut-off point is? If by objectives standards, VPs are not noteworthy, how about principals? (For example, Principal of Raffles Institution) If that is also not noteworthy enough, how about the cluster superintendent? Depupty Director of Schools? Director of Schools? Director-General of Education? Permanent Secretary (Education)? Minister for Education? Where do we draw the line? See my point?

3. While I can agree with you that indeed there are quite a handful of "mediore" vice-principals out there, Mr Goh Zensen is certainly not. Being his biographer, I am studying and documenting his unconventional life, starting only with his career history. Before I have the time to slowly add on new sections (e.g. how he founded his original Music Theory at the age of 17 in 1988 and the impact it had created on society, how he had been one of the pioneers of the local music movements, and how his novel inventions had attracted international attentions), you have duly deleted it. Mr Goh is well-known not only in the education sector, but also in the music industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acosean (talk • contribs) 04:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Cryoseism
Move complete. The article could use cite web formatting (which Chacor mentioned), but all in all, it's a good start. See if you can add some references to other cryoseismic events and the impacts they may have caused. --Core des at 16:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Defunkitated
I did not add anything to Defukitated, and it was not vandalism. I am the one that created the word (Though word would be best defined as something that could be found in the dictionary), and I am the one that started the page  If you believe that my page is nonsense, then please explain what it is that I should change... I will gladly fix the errors of my ways. Thanks.

P.S. I do not intend to change anything on Wikipedia that I am not certain should be changed in order to preserve Fact and or History. Thanks for your time

(Suthernreb 07:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC))

Suthernreb

Yes, I tagged one of your articles. It was not malice, just was looking through what you had acomplished and didn't think that that particular article had any Historical basis from my point of view. But I could have been wrong. If I was I apologize. As for the article Defunkitation, I do believe that I gave some very real and true arguments that I got right off of this website. The fact that Admins do not read my replies to your labeling defunkitation for deletion is rather upsetting. Besides, this website is for all to edit, it is on the tutorial, along with many other things, but I guess you all can change that too. This site seems more like a bad communist goverment that has taken control of it's people than anything. No proper explinations for me after deletion from the admin, and no proper explanation from the person whom marked for deletion. "Well, it just ain't Encyclopedia material" does not explain a lot. How about helping me by telling me what to do to the article in order to make it "Encyclopedia Material" because y'all really seem to have that cornered. Thanks (SlimJimmy 10:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC))

RE: WikiStressed?
Hey SpLoT, thanks for your concern on my high WikiStress. I'm feeling much much better now and I like the nice plate of cookies. :P For now, I will be doing editing at my own pace, no intentions to go back to normal routine yet. Cheers --Ter e nce Ong (T 15:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Larry Volk
Rawr! --Mentaka 14:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Your Ecuador province maps
Hello! Thank's a lot for creating those maps, I've been waiting for Ecuador province locators a long time. Would you mind uploading them to commons also, because I'd like to use them for "my" articles in German wikipedia. (already did so with the Guayas-Map) Thank you! Chigliak 12:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Chigliak)

please link images
Hello!

Thank you for providing images to the wikimedia commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to the commons should be useful to all users of wikimedia projects. This is possible only if the images can be found by other people.

To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should put the images into appropriate category and optionally place the images on topic pages (galleries), or do both (see Categories). To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help.

You can find a convenient overview of your uploaded files in this gallery.

The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There are a large number of completely unsorted images on the commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!

Thank you. -- 84.245.180.54 16:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

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actually...
Merci for the "good job". Weird as it may seem, the French name for the island from the NB gov't is *Île Lamèque* without the "de" and the English name can be the same (*Île Lamèque*) .DDD DDD 09:22, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Blind Eagles
Oh, no. I was about to ask you the same favor. Unfortunately I have to go offline now, myself. If they are still here when I get back tonight I'll list them for Afd. That will give them plenty of time to meet WP:V if there is any chance of doing so. If you return before I do, please feel free to take care of it. Thank you for your help. SWAdair 11:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

did you know
I have never done the did you know thing? what do I need to do to do that? I am trying to expand my wikipedia horizons. Thanks! Chris Kreider 17:34, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reccommendation. I will work on that.  Chris Kreider 17:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you again for all of your kind help in fixing my references and working with DYK. I spend most of my time fighting vandalism so it is nice to see the nicer side of wikipedia. Thanks! Chris Kreider 18:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. - Check out your barnstar section! Chris Kreider 18:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)