User talk:Thehelpfulone/Archive/May 2011

Confirmation
I am User:Thehelpfulone on the ]http://prototype.wikimedia.org/flaggedrevs/ Pending Changes Prototype Wiki]. The Helpful  One  11:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Canadian federal election, 2011
As you protected the article, I am asking if you would reconsider the semi-protection at this point. I've looked over several edits by anons, and mostly I think they are good faith attempts to improve the article. Certainly there is disagreement over the inclusion/exclusion of various statements, but that battle is extending far beyond just unregistered editors. I think they are trying to improve the article, and as such I feel that silencing their efforts to do so is not beneficial. That being said, I would say the article is actually bordering on the need for full protection if the overall edit warring does not stop. Cheers, Resolute 01:47, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I also came to comment on the protection, but to comment on the time of it. 00:43, 3 May 2011 (UTC) is a bad time, it is about the time the results will start coming in. When the page does get protected (and I believe it will have to be at some time), it should be to 11:00, 3 May 2011 (UTC). 117Avenue (talk) 05:52, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks
Thanks for the extra lengths you went to on my RfA... I really wasn't expecting to do that well but I guess I must be doing something right. Cheers... (and now, rest) Catfish Jim   &#38; the soapdish  09:25, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome message and the cookies :-)

I have a question on movie spoilers...

Wikipedia articles about movies usually contain the entire plot, including spoilers. This leads some people to remove parts of the article to maintain a suspense. These are not exactly vandalism, but I am not happy with them either. I feel that Wikipedia is a knowledge portal and not a movie review site, and hence can contain spoilers.

Is there anything on Wikipedia about this? If not, (and if it is indeed a policy to include spoilers in the article) then can a page be created about this, to inform newcomers?

Thanks! rt (talk) 14:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

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MAy 2011
Please stop changing/censoring me. I will report you to the administrators. I like my version better, and will change it as such... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitehallsolicitor (talk • contribs) 00:13, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

File redirects
Hi, I just saw that you were deleting "generic filename" redirects like the one from File:Pic001.jpg to the placeholder/warning. Not that I'd care overly much, but I thought that type of protected redirect was a standard way of preventing unwanted uploads under these kinds of overly generic filenames. Do you know if there's a better/preferred way now? Cheers, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:30, 7 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the quick reply. I don't know if there were any others among that list, and I'm not sure there'd be an easy way to recover which of them had been pointing to that placeholder, short of reviewing the deleted edits individually. It's probably not of paramount importance either. Last time I looked, that placeholder image seemed to have a couple dozen redirects pointing to it. I'm really not too sure whether that was really the best way to do it, technically. I think I'm off to go and ask at VP now. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:49, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * To prevent re-uploads, upload protection should be used. ΔT The only constant 18:00, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Reviwer
Could you look at my request to become a reviwer. Wilbysuffolk  talk  09:27, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Please explain your rv
Please explain your rv on Average frustrated chump. Have you even took second to consider the edit? The modified redirect makes much more sense. The term "AFC" was not coined by Neill Strauss, was not introduced by that book and is not even explained in that article. But the term "AFC" is one of the fundamental acronyms in the Seduction community and was coined by one of their members. The changed redirect makes sense. Please rv yourself. -- 92.224.230.62 (talk) 17:37, 8 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, this is settled then. Thanks for retracting the warning. -- 92.224.230.62 (talk) 17:50, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Improving bot's performance
See this diff, which only reverted part of the vandalism of the preceding editor. It's possible your partial intervention discouraged more thorough involvement from other bots.—Biosketch (talk) 06:59, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Undeleting "KIND Movement" page
Hello, a couple of weeks ago, you had deleted "KIND Movement" page. I am kindly requesting the un-deletion of the page since the deletion had taken place during heavy edits; the content on the page that time was not final. I promise to review the content immediately. Please have a look at the current home for the KIND Movement for your reference: http://www.kindsnacks.com/world

thank you!

Khaled —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khaled.abohalima (talk • contribs) 15:37, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

YGM
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Talkback

 * 2 — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 23:32, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 23:41, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

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Please read the deletion log before deleting pages
Such as File:A Xenomorph.jpg which you deleted as an unused redirect even though the deletion log specifically addressed this issue. Pardon my tone, I'm just frustrated. &#91;&#91;User:JesseW/sig&#124;JesseW, the juggling janitor&#93;&#93; (talk) 19:25, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

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User:Hasteur vandalisim
Thank you for reverting the IP addresses Vandalizing of my userpage. They're upset because I've AfDed a article that they prod-declined. Hasteur (talk) 19:56, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

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