User talk:Theodolite/Archive 1

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Hello Bongo or Ringo? Maoririder 19:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have rewritten the article about the leader of a coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 09:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing the article and making it worth keeping, I changed my vote. Snurks T C 09:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Um? Is this a question?  If you're referring to my cat she's named after the Life in Hell character.  Snurks  T  C 19:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

why yes
Well, to start off with, we've got the cats on the user page thing in common :-). I have seen you around quite a bit lately, and I think you're doing very good work. Someone like you would make a good admin in the future, and if you stick around long enough, I would be happy to nominate you for admin when the time comes. Just keep a level head if disputes arise, make sure to use edits summaries (which I can see you're already doing), and keep participating, and you'll go far! Thanks for the nice comments, and see you around the wiki. :-) Alhutch 08:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. If you ever need to have someone righteously blocked or some other admin help, don't hesitate to contact me!
 * My best answer to your question would be to try everything. Hmm, I guess that's not very good advice. Try stub-sorting or responding to Requests for comment on articles to start with. Another thing I like to do is start new articles on topics requested on this page: WP:AR1. It's really not that hard, you just pick a topic that sounds interesting, do some quick google research, and write it up, citing your sources. that would get you familiar with categorizing articles and finding stub categories to put new articles into, and if you think about it, its sort of the opposite of being a deletionist :-). That's my suggestion for now, but if I think of something else, I'll tell you.--Alhutch 09:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

SA Goons Wikipedia Category
Your comment gave me an idea. I've created a category, (Category:Something Awful Wikipedians) so we can identify ourselves.--Liface 23:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I've made a new SA Goons userbox, which you can add to your userpage with the template -- keep sleep ing    sleeper  cell  20:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Listing vandals at WP:AIAV
Hey no problem, but I do want to let you know that before listing vandals at AIAV please make sure they have been warned up to a. The vandal continued to make vandalising edits, so I was able to warn him up to the test4 and then block when he still continued. Thanks and happy editing. Knowledge Of Self | talk 07:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No need to say sorry :-D, I know sometimes vandals make edits so quick it's tough to choose between warning them and requesting them to be blocked.Knowledge Of Self | talk 07:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Klosterdev
Hi Snurks:

I ran across your post to Klosterdev's talk page, and it occurred to me that s/he is probably a fairly new user (the account was created in July, but the number of contributions is fairly low) and might need some help along the way. You both seem to be interested inYTMND, so I was wondering if maybe you'd take him under your wing and help him along. If there is anything I can do for either of you, let me know!-- Essjay ·   Talk 08:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure, why not?
I spend a good amount of time reading Wikipedia for entertainment, and occasionally I come accross minor things I should add or remove. I never really did anything beyond that because I don't know how to do anything beyond basic edits. Even so, if you need someone to help fight vanels, I'd be interested. So I just download the .jar file?

Barnstar


I hereby award you this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar for being so quick to offer your help to User:Klosterdev. Wear it with pride, and keep up the good work! -- Essjay ·   Talk 10:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I've downloaded it.
Couple things. Is there an FAQ that explains how to use it?

Also, how do I roll back a page? Klosterdev 23:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Now that I'm thinking about it, how do I delete a page that was vandalized? (an article for something non-existant or somesuch)Klosterdev 23:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you've pretty much covered it.
One last question for now. What is that +/- collumn with the numbers stand for?

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Couple more questions
First of all, how do you create a table of contents? I came across a page that needs to be Wikified, but I am uncertain on how to create a table of contents so I can organize it.

Also, releating to the subject, how do I nominate a page to be Wikified?

Thanks for the help. Klosterdev 09:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin Coaching!
Hi Snurks! I'm Celestianpower and he's Drini and we're your new Admin Coaches! You'd better get ready to stick your nose to the grindstone and work until your fingers bleed. Well, not quite that hard (and you'll get used to my sense of humour) but seriously, I hope you have fun and we'll contact you about an IRC meeting soon! --Cel e stianpower háblame 23:04, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you 8 hours in front or behind. On Saturdayts, I'm there from 11am until 6pm usually, UTC. Any good? Sundays: 1pm - 10pm.--Cel e stianpower háblame17:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello there!
Good day, I'm Drini, one of the coaches that were assigned to you by the admin coach Esperanza program. I hope we'll stay in touch, if you need any assistance feel free to drop me a note or to Celestianpower (your other coach). -- (drini's page ☎  ) 23:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General andFireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be foundhere. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: &#123;{EA-welcome}} (courtesy ofBratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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Re: Sam's script, modified
I no longer use it as I am an administrator, but I have recently tested it on a spare account to make sure it hasn't been broken by any software updates or whatnot. You can copy it from User:Freaksock/monobook.js. The first section contains several 'abbrev' entries, which are shorthand for descriptions of various kinds of bad edits. When you hit [rollback], it will pop up an input box, where you enter, for example, "bl" for "blanking". Of course there are others, and you can change them to suit your needs. If you make an invalid entry, it defaults to "edits", rather accepting a typo or slowing you down in correcting it. Peruvianllama added his own feature to it, which allows you to enter "c [other]" for an on-the-fly customization. Have fun. &mdash; F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( [ TALK ] )  16:55, Feb. 8, 2006

Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 andWP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see thesummary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place inthe Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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re: coaching
I saw that page, however I don't believe much in quizzes (maybe since I'm a teacher). From what I see you have common sense on your answers (and being admin is after all, just knowing policy and using common sense) so I don't worry much about the general common scenarios (as the ones on the page) since you're likely to handle them well. If I however come up with an interesting situation, I'll ask you to know what you think.

I'm more a believer on you getting your own questions or you questioning what other admins do (and not just about vandalism cleaning up) so you can come up with the reasons, and when you get confused or don't undertand why admins do what they do, you can ask me about it. Good luck on your quizzes.-- ( drini's page ☎  ) 19:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Categories
Hi, Snurks. If you put a colon in the category link like this: Category:Articles that need to be wikified, it will prevent the page, like this one, from being added to that category. Thanks, Kjkolb 17:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

re: godmode lite and monobook.js
Hey Snurks. I came across your post on User:Klosterdev's User_talk:Klosterdev talk page, and I would like the rollback function as well, but I am unsure as to how to go about doing it. I am interested in fighting vandalism and have started checking the RC page to help Wikipedia in any way I can; I believe that the godmode lite script for rollback would help me go about doing this easier. Could you please assist me in setting this up / set it up for me. I made an attempt to do so, but perhaps I don't quite understand how it works. Thanks in advance. Skomae 18:34, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I fixed it myself. - S. Komae (talk) 19:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks.--Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!
Thistheman 04:40, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy birth day and all the best! yesterday I missed the party as I missed the bus. --Bhadani 14:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Question?
I saw the Username

User:Crazy mofo. Doesn't "mofo" have a reference to Mother Fucker?

I wish to use against him. With your go-ahead I will do so. Please reply swiftly,

Cheers, Jean-Paul 14:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Talk to the Emperor

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Editing problem
I was linking to a couple articles in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#See_also but I couldn't get it to link to "Carbon Filtering" correctly. I tried Carbon Filter, Carbon Filtering, and | Carbon Filtering, but none of em' make it look right. What am I doing wrong?

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Reporting a vandel
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=69.241.159.21

Check this guys edits, he's clearly vandalizing. Who should I report this to in the future?


 * Thanks. Also, how do I nominate a page for speedy deletion?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_kutter  Klosterdev 22:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * One last thing: How do you include the info (talk • contribs • WHOIS • block user • block log) when reporting a vandal? Does it have to be done manually, or is there an easy way to do it?

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Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_famous_bearded_people
I modified the lead paragraph for the article particularly to meet your statement I would possibly support a "List of famous beards. The lead section to the article now reads Membership entry on this list further requires that the entry be famous because the entry is associated with a notable beard by a reliable published source as defined byList_guideline.  I expressly incorporated into the language of WP:NOT item 1.1.7.1: Of course, there is nothing wrong with having lists if their entries are famous because they are associated with or significantly contributed to the list topic and added reliable published source to meet other concerns.  I spent a lot of time on this article and it is important to me.  I believe that this article can be used as a Wikipedia precedent by which all other lists of a similar vain may be judge. This should keep out many non-Wikipedia policy/guidline complying articles. I would appreciate your changing your vote and base your change on the fact that the text conforms to all Wikipedia Article standards, including What Wikipedia is not. If you still believe the article does not meet Wikipedia policy and guidlines, please post on my talk page and I will revise the article accordingly.--Jreferee 20:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Mass-deletion
Is there a way to nominate a group of pictures for deletion? This guy has a bunch of copyrighted stuff in his userpage. User:America_America

Deletion review of BattleMaster
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Happy Birthday!
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