User talk:Steven Crossin/Archive 45

Chuckle
Couldn't help but laugh at this discussion section heading. For a moment, I thought to myself -Now what?. GoodDay (talk) 19:54, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I thought exactly the same thing :-) Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 19:56, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Question on Teahouse you might want to take a gander at
Oh king of DR :) Teahouse/Questions, fellow host Nolelover requested some extra eyes! Thought you might be a good person to take a look, if interested! SarahStierch (talk) 02:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh, I'll take a look :-) Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 02:10, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Oops
I accidently edited Henry VIII of England & Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, today. But, then I reverted my corrections, due to the broadly construed part of the topic ban. GoodDay (talk) 09:35, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Alright. Take more care in future, but you self reverted so no damage is done. Don't make a habit of it though. How's editing elsewhere going? Done any article work yet (I'm taking a semi-wikibreak at present, just keeping an eye on discussions and participating in email/OTRS work but not much else). Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 09:45, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm still changing hyphens to longer & shorter lengths, where required. GoodDay (talk) 09:53, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You should probably try combine that with other edits, such as formatting references, fixing wikilinks or copyediting. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 10:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not very good at the heavy stuff. GoodDay (talk) 10:40, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Give it a go, you learn with practice. You don't think I became a veteran at dispute resolution in a day, do you? I'm more than happy to help you learn, that's what I'm here for. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 10:57, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll do a few more hyphens & then will consider it. GoodDay (talk) 19:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Talkback

 * Hi, can you do this before it expires please? The discussion is not on any list and 1-2 neutral editors have commented. -- lTopGunl (talk) 09:47, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep. Will do in the morning. Regards, Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 10:07, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- lTopGunl (talk) 18:23, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

24 page/template
Hey Steven, I just wanted to speak with you for a minute about the episode pages. If you could, you might want to go by the WikiProject Television talk page and look over the initiatives over there to create pages for critically acclaimed episodes of historic television over the past twenty or so years. I only created the 24 episode page after one of the editors there suggested/recommended it. I hope you choose to at least relink it in the Season 5 page as to not would be poor etiquette to 24 and Emmy fans looking for information. As for the template, I don't really care much about it, but I still think it's a bit silly to include characters like "Jim Prescott" or "Hal Gardner" or "Arlo Glass" who weren't very notable characters when there is already a link to their specific minor character page. If you look further up the talk page, I believe there was some complaint about the clutter. Anyway, I hope you're having a nice evening and thanks for the discussion. Penny Lane&#39;s America (talk) 07:42, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi there. I had a look at the WP24 talk page, I could see that there were TV seasons that didn't have an article, but it didn't seem to mention TV episodes. I'm fully behind improving the 24 season articles (though am overloaded with other stuff at present) but don't think smaller episode articles will work in the long run. We'd need one for all, otherwise there'd be big gaps. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 08:52, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue One - Recent news from the Teahouse
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Adoption
Hi Steven Zhang, I was wondering if you would be willing to Adopt me. Worm That Turned recommended me to you. I have been on Wikipedia for almost a year now but still have a long way to go, so I could really benefit from some lessons. Please let me know if you are able to take on another adoptee, or if there is anyone else I should go to for Adoption. Thank you! Alexroller (talk) 03:06, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, I can. I like to start off with an introduction. Your preferred name, your interests, what you hope to achieve on Wikipedia and what you hope to learn. I'm Steve, I mainly focus on fictional articles and dispute resolution, and I hope to improve these dispute resolution processes by the end of the year. Tell me about yourself? Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 08:24, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm Alex, I like to focus on articles about big cities, universities, and political institutions. I hope to make Wikipedia a more widely resepected site, starting with cleaning up style and grammar in articles and improving article content. Beyond this, my goals on Wikipedia are not very clear, but I know that I want to be much more involved than I am now. Alexroller (talk) 21:27, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds really good. The policies lesson is normally a good starting point. Read it over, and sum up what you learned here, in your own words. It's that easy. Sorry about the delay. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 09:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Policies summary: Basically, be respectful to other editors and be visible and communicative about edits you make. Providing edit summaries helps other editors see what you have done, and prevents recent page patrollers from automatically reverting your edits. Always sign posts on Talk pages, but not on article edits. Do not keep reverting another editor's edits without having a discussion on the article's Talk page. Make sure you do not promote yourself on Wikipedia, but instead promote things that are notable (that have been mentioned in reliable secondary sources). P.S. Should I keep posting assignment summaries on the thread in this section or should I create a new section for every new assignment? Alexroller (talk) 19:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks good. For the policies assignment (which you've done) it goes here, but for stuff like the permissions and vandalism 1.1 lesson, it will go on your subpage that's located at User:Steven Zhang/Adoption/Alexroller. Many start out with either Permissions or with Vandalism 1.1. Let me know if you have any questions. Sorry, been busy (still busy) organising a lot of stuff :-) Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 14:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Mail
The subject is "Wikipedia: Guidance".  Whenaxis  talk &middot; &#32;contribs &#124; DR goes to Wikimania!  12:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

OTRS
Hey, I jumped the gun and called that guy. Sorry to cut ahead, but I'm a big martial arts fan and I had the time. It was just a common notability situation, and I think they understand what they have to do.

Also, "join the DR army" might not be the best metaphor for a group that seeks to avoid a battleground mentality. But it's cute anyway.

Cheers, Ocaasit 20:48, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * No problems. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 09:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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Comediating?
You want to comediate this: Mediation Cabal/Cases/16 March 2012/Occupy Wall Street? Alredy added your name.  Whenaxis  talk &middot; &#32;contribs &#124; DR goes to Wikimania!  01:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, love to. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 09:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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WP:RFC/AAT after the evidence phase
Steven,

I think there is a need to clarify what happens next at WP:RFC/AAT. Is there going to be a discussion and then a vote, or an RfC-style !vote? This came up because we were discussing the nature of any voting that should take place. Please provide clarity at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Abortion article titles.

Yaris678 (talk) 11:41, 21 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm going to poke ArbCom on this one. Personally, something like instant run-off may come into play, but if it were to turn into a true vote, well, I'm not so sure how good that would be, but it's not my call after all. I'll let y'all know when I find out. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 19:39, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * AGK's popped a note on the talk page (had a chat to him). I think instant run-off voting may be the way to go. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 09:44, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I think a 'Help-me'...
on this user's talk page is meant for you or The Interior and is in reference to Kmpriddy's sandbox which appears to be an assignment for United States Education Program/Courses/Introduction to Digital Literacies (Webster Newbold). In my opinion the draft is very good and almost (but not quite) ready for Main. The following sections need additional sourcing: History, Educational Uses and FCC Rules and Regulations. Also, the FCC Section seems to be an extensive quote of a document, a Wikiquote could possibly work better there. (In case this group is in The Interior's section, I am placing a duplicate post on his talkpage.) --Shearonink (talk) 03:31, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Might leave it to The Interior. Bit overloaded at the moment. But thanks for letting me know. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 07:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Bot is sick
Hi. This was a rubbish edit, which I've reverted immediately. Your bot needs fixing, fast. --  Jack of Oz   [your turn]  02:52, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Shit...must be some error in the code. {{Done)), all edits reverted. There was a line of code that was commenting out the number 7, now corrected. Steven   Zhang  {{sup| DR goes to Wikimania! }} 03:09, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * No, not all reverted. See e.g. this. --GenericBob (talk) 03:42, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. It looks like the rollback all script didn't catch all of the edits (or my computer died trying to revert 300 edits at once) but all are now corrected. Feel free to trout me, that was a rather stupid mistake. Steven   Zhang  {{sup| DR goes to Wikimania! }} 04:01, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but I've still got a few bugs in my own code that need fixing :-) --GenericBob (talk) 04:06, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

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RfA nomination
Hi Steven. Back in February, we discussed you co-nominating me for adminship with Pedro on his talk page. Just to let you know, we're now thinking of running the nomination soon - the discussion is here - would you still consider co-nominating me? ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 21:14, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, of course. Steven   Zhang  DR goes to Wikimania! 21:17, 28 March 2012 (UTC)