User talk:Staxringold/Archive3

My RfA
Thanks for supporting my RFA. I really appreciated the show of support and all the kind words from so many great Wikipedians. I hope I live up to them! -- Vary | Talk 17:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Geo Storm Article
Thanks for your feedback on my geo storm article. Here is a Top Gear clip that could have been used to reference the fact that having wheels at the corners of the car improves handling. That's not too important anymore, though, since I have removed the dimensions section as per your comments. (I agree, it was rather sparce, and the comparison to the MINI cooper isn't really necessary. (I'll move the stuff to my website.)

A few days ago I uploaded more pictures comparing the the 1990 GSi, 1992 Base and 1990 GSi. I had been planning to find and photograph a wagonback storm and a 1990 base, but then I read your comment about saving space (Which I interpreted as having too many pictures.) What would you recommend doing WRT pictures of different storm varients? Should I get rid of them? Should I put them into one giant photo file?

Thank you again for your help with this article. Even if it cannot become a featured article, I would like to have it be the same level of quality as one that is an article. I'd appreciate any advice or comments you have on it. Evenprime 17:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

PS - If worst comes to worst, I can just remove all the version pictures from the article and put them on my website.

Fair use
Careful about displaying fair use images in your gallery, Stax...I'd just link to them through a line of text. :) &mdash; Rebelguys2 talk 20:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for barnstar...
Hi Staxringold, Sorry for taking so long to respond, but I only just noticed the barnstar you awarded me!! Thank you very much and I hope to substantiate your compliment with many more photos! --Fir0002 style="color:#C6CACC; background:#F8FCFF">www 00:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for your recent vote on my RFA. While the nomination failed, I was rather expecting it due to the big lapse between registration and recent edits. I appreciate the comments you left when you voted, and I will definitely keep them in mind. If you have any other suggestions as to how I could improve as a Wikipedian, so as to hopefully succeed next time, please let me know! Thanks! &mdash;akghetto talk 07:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

US Bill of Rights
WP:FAC. You voted on the last one, come see the improvements. Kaisershatner 17:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for supporting my RFA. I appreciated the show of support and all the kind words. If there's ever anything I can do to help with my new administrator status, please don't hesitate to contact me. --Myles Long 14:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Bruce Johnnson
You expressed concern over the photos on Bruce Johnson in your remarks at Featured_article_candidates/Bruce_Johnson. As I have removed the offending images, would you now support the article's candidacy? PedanticallySpeaking 16:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

TV Guide images
Many thanks for your feedback re. the TV Guide covers. To answer your question, some I found online and others are scanned from my personal collection. Glad you like them. Ben King 20:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)Ben King.

Hopkins
The article somehow manages to get better and better, and I was wondering about your thoughts on when to head to FAC again. I'd advise waiting to see if Stuyvesant gets over the line, as it is currently a messy debate and taht sometimes affects related FACs. But if it becomes an FA, I'd look to nominating the article again. Have you got Bishonen to have a look at the article? He was a great help on the Caulfield entry. Anyway, keep me informed! Harr o 5 22:35, 16 March 2006 (UTC) (P.S. How's the college admissions process going? I remember a while ago you were applying to Vasser.)

I'm an admin now!!
Thanks for voting on my RFA and helping me become an admin. The final tally was 108-0-1 (putting me on the WP:100 list). I hope to do my best in upholding the integrity of Wikipedia. Thanks again, Gator (talk) 13:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Problems with your additions to Template:MedalGold and its siblings
What in the world were you ever thinking—no, make that did you think at all?—when you added Categories to these templates?

It is a mess. Please respond at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports Olympics. Gene Nygaard 12:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Hopkins School
Hi, Staxringold, here are some things that struck me about Hopkins School (well-written article!), in no particular order:

The online references and the external links are formatted well enough, AFAIC, and consistently, and if no pedant has complained yet, I wouldn't bother to change them. But in case someone has: you're supposed to have the article, the smaller unit, a link, not the site it's from, compare WP:CITE. Also, you're supposed to give the access date. See the S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 References section (not so much the Notes section) that I'm working on right now for examples, for instance the Martinsson or the Personne entry.

The Lead reads very nicely, except the oddly disconnected and non-communicative last sentence. "Main rival" is completely unclear. "Main" in what population? Is Hopkins the best, and Hamden Hall the second best, school for sports in Connecticut? In the U.S.? In the galaxy? Or does it simply mean, as I suspect, that HH is the school Hopkins mostly interacts with in sports? That's not what "rival" actually means. Also, either the info is too unimportant to be in the Lead, or it's important enough to link and integrate nicely.

Plus, is this a pattern? It's the same thing with the last sentence in the second paragraph of The Fallow Years: it's utterly tacked-on, and the transition reads very weirdly. That just ruins an otherwise nice, flowing paragraph.:-( Altogether, although there's good material in The Fallow Years, I'm not sure it's best organized by chronological paragraphs, because too many disparate things happen at the same time. This gets almost comical in the last paragraph: "The school moved yet again, schoolmasters Olmstead and Whiton further reformed the school, and athletics were introduced". Perhaps there ought rather to be a paragraph for the "schoolmasters" over the entire period, and then the rest of it chronological? I can see that parts, large parts, of this section are very well written with good flow, but it reads just like somebody has added information at rather random points since then.

The relation between the school and the community is extremely interesting, and things like the "malicious" boys, and in the 20th century, the merger with the girls' schools; but the buildings, not so much. A focus on buildings is really the curse of school articles, I suppose because these articles use material from school brochures and homepages, which in turn focus on "facilites", to impress parents. But for the general reader, building info, especially about modern buildings, is totally trivial. I'd recommend you to keep it to a minimum, and instead expand things like the brief references to various people "reforming" the school, if you have the material for it. 'How did they reform the school? Now that's of cultural interest! You should make as much as possible of things like that, and not only when it's old and quaint, but just as much when it's modern. The sections from "Academics" to "Extracurricular activities" are neither highly interesting nor offensively boring, I suppose. They're not rivetting—the subjects preclude that—but OTOH they're very clearly written, and with just enough consideration of the non-American reader, so that eveybody can understand, which is great. (And unusual in school articles.)

Structure: you have a firm grip on this up to "The Hilltoppers", then it falls apart. "The Hilltoppers" don't really belong in the History section, IMO, even if there's a mention of Hopkins' seal in it. Move 'em out of there, then the History section will end in a much more natural way.

Smartboards?A six-lane pool? Eww. I have to say I dislike the whole "Facilities" section intensely. Please could it be a lot shorter, and maybe merged with something else? It's of interest to students and parents and prospective students and parents, absolutely not to anyone else.

"Academics": too much brochurespeak! But that's fixable, I've already removed plenty of it. That's the part of this job I like: breaking out the secateurs at the smell of promotional material. ;-). Bishonen | ノート 23:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC).

My RFA
 Thanks  Thanks for your recent support on my RfA which passed 91/0/0. If you ever need anything, feel free to leave me a message! Gflores Talk 05:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Good Afternoon
Hello how are you doing I was woundering how much are you selling that lawn mower can you be so hyonest and tell me how much...

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your Snakes on a Plane poster
can i please use your faux Snakes on a Plane poster that you made? do you have it high res, 300 dpi? please email me asap at sarah@blackbookmag.com. speak to you soon, hopefully.

TV Land Awards
I made a small change to your edits of the TV Land Awards section of TV Land. I used template main to link to the TV Land Awards and restored the introductory sentence of the previous section. In cases like this, you usually keep a small blurb about the child topic along with the link to the child article. Otherwise, good job! --rogerd 02:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Your welcome! --rogerd 02:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Vote for Bee Season
Bee Season has been chosen as the Cinema Collaboration of the Week

Thefourdotelipsis 07:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!
Hi James! Thank you for supporting my RfA and the kind words. The RfA passed at 105/1/0, putting me in WP:100 - I'm delighted and surprised! I'm always happy to help out, so if you need anything, please drop me a line. Cheers! ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 20:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Not a big deal, but...
Not trying to be anal, but instead of reverting you over a non-issue on DYK (does 2 hours make a difference?), I'll just point out that you created TV Land Awards at 1:48 on March 22, according to the history. I wasn't trying to push your article further back in the queue or anything. —Spangineer[es] (háblame)  21:44, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Interesting... I didn't know it did that. Yeah, mine's on UTC just so I can keep track of when people post comments and such (I have a UTC clock built into my monobook.js in the top right so I always know what the "real" time is).  It'd be really awesome if there were a way to have the timestamp in people's signatures automatically change based on reader time zone user preferences, although then no one except the Brits would know exactly what time was what =). —Spangineer[es]  (háblame)  04:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:PSHS
I just worked on the fair use rationale for Image:PSHS wins 2006 5A state basketball championship.jpg. If you could take a look and see if you think it applies, let me know what you think. I'm going to ask to take a look also. Thanks! &mdash; Scm83x hook 'em 22:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Hopkins
Hi, I went to Hopkins for highschool, if you want I can email them and see if they will release all rights to the photos. What exactly would you need? (i.e. phrasing, etc.) JoshuaZ 21:42, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I do know who you are (I think), I didn't look at your user page. JoshuaZ 21:51, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Now that the unpublished material has been removed, I changed my vote to support. I would encourage someone to get the unpublished research published somewhere (like on the school's official website) so that it can be used in the future. Kaldari 22:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey James, the FAc is going well, and good job on addressing everyone's objections adequately. But I'd advise getting rid of the Hopkins StuCo President pic and then messaging Carnildo for his support, as people have been known to see a Carnildo objection (his copyright scrutiny is famous on FAC) and going "Object per Carnildo", and enough of these could kill the vote. Sometimes you have to serve the minority to protect the majority (complete opposite of the principles of democracy, but it works in this case). Harr o 5 05:25, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I
delivered by Loopy e 05:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Finally, Plano SHS at WP:PR
I have finally put Plano Senior High School up for peer review here. I hope that you will be willing to help put this article on the right path for featured article status. &mdash; Scm83x hook 'em 21:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Wanted_for_treason.jpg== ==

The template does not say "This means that it was first published in the United States prior to January 1, 1923." It says "In most cases, this means that it was first published in the United States prior to January 1, 1923."--Prosfilaes 07:32, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

re:Archival material
I've given myself most of a day to think this over before replying. My comments were not about anyone in particular, and I was not really paying attention to who was posting in the discussion, but just to what was being said. However, I apologize for any implication I made that you were not acting in good faith. I was also unnecessarily sharp in my reply in the discussion. --  Donald Albury ( Talk )  21:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
I want to be the first to wish you congratulations. Hopkins School has become a featured article. Great job on creating the second ever high school featured article. Now help me make a featured article about a public school :-). Congratulations!!! &mdash; Scm83x hook 'em 05:57, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Holy crap! Brilliant news! I looked back through the article's edit history, and saw I first got involved with the Hopkins article on September 3 last year. I could almost recite the info on the school for an hour. This is fantastic; I welcome Hopkins to Wikipedia's most exclusive club - featured high school articles. Now, let's help Plano SHS and Scm83x to join us! Harr o 5 08:25, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Indeed
I would just like to echo Scm83x thoughts and congratulate you on your work with Hopkins. It is about time we start getting schools featured. We always here people say it that but no one ever does the work. You did and it is comendable. At any rate your work has also inspired me to try and clean-up my school's page. If you have some time to help with the copyeditting or peer review I have asked for it can be found at The Preuss School UCSD.

In a totally unrelated note the Project Maythem collaspe is unfornuate. Sorry to see it. Anyways, congrats once more. SorryGuy 06:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

RFC
I left some comments at the RFC. As for how to enact policy change, has this been raised on Wikipedia talk:No original research and/or Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources? Also, how about Village pump? --Aude ( talk | contribs ) 00:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Fleche
I think you have the wrong idea of what a fleche is —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.137.165 (talk • contribs)

Thank You
Thank you for calling my attention to the archive policy straw poll. I would have missed it without your notice. ProfMoriarty 22:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

RE: Marshall, Texas
If you will look at the Marshall, Texas article you will see that most of your conditions have been met. Please get back to me with feedback soon. Thanks. -JCarriker 13:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

The West Wing list's
hello, check it please and read answer: Talk:List of The West Wing episodes. Thanks. Nyikita 19:42, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Response to your comments on Stargate (device)
Hi, I responded to your comments on the stargate. I don't want the thread to be in 2 places so it's best to keep it there. By the way, I got the stargate barnstar too. Tobyk777 23:55, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II
The April 2006 issue of the project newsletter is now out. You may read this issue or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following the link. Thanks. Kirill Lok s h in 18:59, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Tagging on Image:LFChaseP1975.jpg
<< While I thank you for the image, are you sure Mr. Fendrick released the image into the Creative Commons license?

Yes I am sure, and why did you remove the information about the original event? brooklynl 17:37, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I did not. You deleted a large section of well-sourced text and replaced it with a single, completely unsourced sentence. Staxringold 20:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I just took a look at the history for that page and can not find anything that I have removed from that article? I added 2 images, (which you removed one of them, then replaced it) and added information about the original location. brooklynl 20:42, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Dog Day Afternoon
No connection to the movie other than that I am also a fan. Thanks for the nice comments. Moncrief 16:58, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Cheers
I really haven't spent much time editing articles relating to television or film, so not entirely sure of the protocol for using Spoiler. I suggest bringing up discussion at Template talk:Spoiler and/or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television. --Aude ( talk | contribs ) 13:46, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Spoiler Warnings
I'm with you about the part about preserving the best encyclopedia Wikipedia has to offer. Of course we can disagree, that is what this encyclopedia is all about :). Don't worry, you didn't sounds condescending, and I respect the inclusion of a 3rd party (btw: do you mind if I ask who it is?). Anyway, I believe it very superfulous to have a heading labeled plot + a spoiler tag. It seems very redundant, as most people who read that it's the plot, will take it to mean that it contains the whole plot, details, endings and all. As for Joe Schmoe talking in the coffe shop with x and y in town z being what the show is about, that information belongs in a plot introduction, which generally comes before the plot, without any heading. Thank you for the good communication, even though we do disagree. Chu ck(척뉴넘) 14:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've also put the spoilers back in so that it wouldn't be halted at my version on a technicality after you put so much work into it. Regards, Chu ck(척뉴넘) 14:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello again, and sorry to keep barraging your talk page. I was thinking (after reading your message at Template talk:Spoiler) that it doesn't seem many people edit that page or Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning or Spoiler warning. I propose that we propose new and clear guidelines on the template's use at Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning, as I have been wondering this and want it to be decided so that I can go on and take a bunch of spoilers down, and I imagine you want it decided so that some of them can stay where you think they are needed.  I'm gonna hold off on my major spoiler take down (as was on my to do lost for this month) until this is figured out. But I gather that not much resistance would be met to new guidlines to the Spoiler Warning idea. I say if you are up to it, we can create a proposal that would answer questions such as 1)which section headers, if any, require a spoiler warning? 2)should charcters from stories or movies have a spoiler warning? 3)should things that have nothing to do with a story or movie contain a spoiler if it contains facts from that story or movie? 4) when should the end spoiler template be used? 5)can a whole article be considered a spoiler? 6)should there be a spoiler before any headings (in the intro)? 7) should there be more than one spoiler warning? (there might already be a guidline on that one) 8)should spoilers be used in the story or plot section of videogames? (this one's probably different than regular narratives).  That's all I can think of for now. Of course, if you don't want to do this that's fine, but this is probably a good way to get one's feet in the water at Wikipedia, and it shows initiative (I hope). Regards, Chu ck(척뉴넘) 15:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright here it is:
 * I think that if the spoiler is to be added to every plot twist, despite the heading, the template needs to be changed to specify more specific info after it says Spoiler Warning:... (from the way I currently read it, I understand that this is a Spoiler Warning because plot endings or details follow...which is also what I would understand from the plot header (I'm trying not to run around in circles here and remember everything that was already said). If the template doesn't change, IMO the spoiler shouldn't be used in headers labeled 'Plot', 'Plot Summary', 'Synopsis', 'Story', 'Overview', etc...
 * IMO (this whole thing is in my opinion of course, so I'll stop writing that) if someone is at a character page, they are there to read up on a character. I would say yes, barely, to have a tag for the characters. Only of something really drastic is mentioned, like so-and-so dies. And even then not always, as in Anikan Skywalker, I don't think him dying is a plot twist.
 * I think things such as Cannibalism, don't need a tag (I removed one from the trivia sectioning when I was going through articles. I think if the item has nothing to do with the 'spoiled' material, a tag shouldn't be placed, otherwise we would have spoilers in almost every article I think (most articles reference some kind of fiction).
 * I think if there is a spoiler tag, there should definately be an endspoiler tag. Oftentimes (most times), spoilers do not finish through the whole article.
 * I agree, if there's a well-written article, it won't contain spoilers. Some that aren't good status yet though will have only spoiler material. Maybe for cases like these, and for ones that start in the middle and go to the end. The spoiler should say that the spoiling material continues to the end of the page.
 * agree, no spoiling material in the intro (or spoiler tags).
 * hmmm...I don't think there should be more than one spoiler, as that starts making the page more ugly. However, if end spoilers are to be used at the end of a spoiler section, it would be hard to not have more than one, unless all spoiled material was placed in one section...not sure about that though.
 * I don't think that they should be used in the 'story' section of videogames, but should be used in sections that give out secrets, or any other section not labeled 'story' that gives away the ending.
 * New Questions: (I'll answer after I ask them so you can have all my opinions, then we can go from there)
 * Should there be a tag in documentaries? (I don't think that documentaries should have tags, as they 'document' historical events, that should be no secret to any of us.)
 * Should there be an age limit from which stuff can have a tag on it (e.g. if a movie is so old...)? (Older movies are well known, and start to become part of history, thus I don't think they should contain tags.)
 * Should plays/musicals have spoiler tags (I don't think plays, such as shakespear, etc.. should have tags, but musicals should follow the same rules as any other movie or book.)
 * Let me know what you think, and then we can start to compromise and make a proposal (I'm thinking this should work, two people working from opposite sides of the argument reaching a compromise should be applicable to everyone...I hope) Chu ck(척뉴넘) 17:02, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Spoilers in edit summaries
You have just spoiled two West Wing stories for me due to your Matt Santos edit summary - it appeared in my watchlist. Please be more considerate of others. --Mark83 11:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the apology. Regarding how far behind I am – I live in Northern Ireland and the latest episode to be shown was only episode 10 (Running Mates). Luckily for me I am able to watch Irish TV on Sky satellite TV which is quite a bit ahead. However even then the latest episode was Ep. 17 (Election Night II). So I was looking forward to hearing who the new VP was! Won't make you apologise again though! --Mark83 12:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:27267cq.gif)
Thanks for uploading Image:27267cq.gif. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use 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 any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. cholmes75 20:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Hopkins on main page
Hey, great news! This is another big step forward for high schools on Wikipedia - are we pioneers in this area or what? Hopefully Raul will reverse his decision (twice-made mind you) to put Caulfield Grammar on the main page at a later date, as this sets a good precedent. I'll circle in May 30, and wait for any fireworks on Talk:Main Page! Again, brilliant work. Harr o 5 06:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Michael Woodruff
The article Michael Woodruff has just become a featured article. So, I'd just like to thank you for the help you gave it in getting there, especially the picture. Thanks. Cool3 20:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing Howie Day!
Hiya, just wanted to drop by and thank you for having taken the time to review Howie Day. Glad you found it up to requirement :) Idp 21:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

FDR
I've tried to address your concerns on the FDR featured article candidate discussion; I'd appreciate it if you would revisit. Sam 22:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

We got on WP:STUPID!
Check it out, Hopkins School is now a link off of Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create!

What an accomplishment, eh? Suntiger 12:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

A favour
Hey there, Staxringold. Could you do do me a favour? I notice that you have been doing some good work on FAC, and I was wondering if you would take a quick look at "We Belong Together". It has failed a couple of FACs, and I think that it may be ready soon. However, I want to make sure that it will succeed this time, and currently, Peer Review isn't that much help. It would be appreciated. Thanx. Oran  e  (t)  (c)  (e)  03:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Mauthausen-Gusen
Thanks for your kind words at my talk page and, above all, for your hard work on the article itself. I really appreciate it.

As to the topic of the article - when I think of it now, I feel that writing it was some kind of a therapy after reading all the related books, none of which I'd recommend for people with weak stomachs... It was also some kind of a test for me as I wanted to test my own ability to write NPOV articles on topics I'm kind of personally related to. The picture of a camp file in the article is actually a scan of my grandpa's camp file. My great-grandpa did also spend the entire war there - and both of them survived it, though afterwards they lived their life as emotional cripples... Anyway, I hope I passed this test. // Halibutt 20:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA
I notcied that you participated in the Michael Woodruff featured article discussion, so I thought you mihgt want to vote in the Rfa for Cool3, the creator at WP:RFA. ShortJason 15:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

rapping featured article nomination
please see my comment, thanks, --Urthogie 18:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC)