User talk:Thryduulf/archive6

Cities
What exactly are "plug-in" templates? (and how do i create a category\template?) Simply south 22:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Think of Me deletion
When listing the articles included for deletion on the discussion page, I apparently forgot to include this article (Notes.../Prima Donna) as one of the articles up for deletion. I'm not sure what I should do at this point: if it can be deleted without debate, if I should nom for speedy deletion, or if I should go through the regular AfD process. -- MusicMaker5376 19:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/37signals
I just wanted to say that I think your statement in closing this AfD was very sensible and correct. Tip o' the hat to you! Johntex\talk 23:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Night elves
Thank you very much for the advice. --TheKoG (talk|contribs) 12:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

If you are a train
Haha, sorry for my mistake there! Must be thinking as if I'm on DDs forum again ;). Tubechallenger 00:09, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Edgware Rd Station picture
You removed the question on the picture of a statue in front of Edgware Road Station. But it would be nice for someone to say what that statue is! For someone who lives in London it might be easy. David Olivier 16:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message on my talk page. Perhaps the picture of the statue would belong best on another page, about the statue itself, than on the Edgware Road tube station page. David Olivier 11:24, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

complete rewrite of sentence about disability discrimination
The HMRI, as well as the DDA actually does mandate level boarding.Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)(talk)

Advice needed
I want to ask for your advice on a new article i've created called the Great Northern Route. I decided to create this as it basically follows the suburban and outlying lines from Finsbury Park in London to stevenage via Welwyn Garden City (the main route) and a seperate route called the Hertford Loop which goes via Hertford to Stevenage. There is one branch which diverges onto the cambridge line and i have included letchworth as that is where many of the slow lines terminate. Anyway i have also included the line up to peterborough.

Anyway the whole route from Moorgate and Kings Cross to Stevenage via Welwyn GC and Hertford North and also to Cambridge and seperately to Peterborough - this is generally referred to as Great Northern for the whole route.

I was just wondering if i could have your opinion on this article and if you could also ask other people.

I chose route in the title as it incorporates a few lines.

Sorry to bother you. Simply south 22:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW it is just a list of stations right now and would need a lot of improvement.

Sandra Racco Redirect

 * Your attempted change to the Sandra Yeung Racco redirect didn't work. It just made the page show up. - pm_shef 02:25, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism of my user page. --TheKoG (talk|contribs) 12:53, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

nice and polite,thank you. 42 is the answer!

That long overdue barnstar...


Hi Thryduulf - here is a barnstar for you in recognition of your long term contributions to Wikipedia, and your role as an administrator. You have no idea how often I run into things that you have done already, and I think this speaks volumes to how dedicated you are to this project. Thank you for those little things that make all the difference - those which taken together keep Wikipedia running nicely and smoothly. Keep the star nice and bright, and may it bring you all the best there is on the Wiki! --HappyCamper 20:02, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info
Its Merlin, Thanks for the info you gave me after speaking to Happy Camper. It explains a lot about how the deletion process works. I moved the link you gave me to my user page where I can access it anytime and wont lose it.
 * I saw your user page: "Old England" has a Taunton too... Did they name it after the Taunton in Massachusetts near where I live... you guys could think of more original names:@)--merlinus 09:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

copyvio by Unisouth
Hi Thryduulf, I think I've noticed a possible copyvio by User:Unisouth at his image pages of the liveried but diagrammatic tube stock such as, it seems to be from a document issued by LUL at ... wasn't sure where to put it so thought I'd bring it up with you. Tubechallenger 21:46, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

sco:Tramcar
How do I find the Scots leid equivilent of requested articles? I can't find it without known where to look.Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)

Sock userboxes
Hi. Please read the comments about the Sock userboxes above yours at Deletion review/Userbox debates and please understand the situation before voting. The templates in question used to be part of the WP:SOCK policy for marking what are now called "alternate accounts", but were forgotten when the policy and definitions were changed. Thank you. --AySz88 ^ -  ^  16:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Alizee
Hi, I replied to your concerns. Please check it out. -- so U  m  y  a  S  ch  17:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

beach buggy
I am looking for any information regarding the beach buggy in a picture that you uploaded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Beach_buggy_1.jpg Who manufactures it, model, capabilities and where can it be bought. Jernejl 17:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Pakistan Tourism Categories
Hi Thryduulf,

I have understood what Ive done and have reverted them all and placed them where they originally where. Sorry for the inconvienence.

Many Thanks Fast track 20:38 06 May 2006 (UTC)

The post you are reading now
Thank you for taking the time to message me. Your words of encouragement have been taken on board and will further improve the quality of JayKeaton’s posts in the future. Further to that JayKeaton wishes to thank you for (delete non applicable) a) doing his work for him b) informing him that work has been done so he doesn’t try to do it twice or c) congratulating him on a job well done. Thank you for commenting on his page, the time taken to write (insert automatic integer X = 64) words is much appreciated. JayKeaton is sure that no matter what brought you to his userpage, whether it be positive or negative, that you a feel a sort of self satisfaction for doing it. Thank you for improving this self satisfaction by informing JayKeaton of your activities. Thank you again and remember; if it isn’t JayKeaton, it isn’t worth eatin’ JayKeaton 11:08, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

The 2011 thing was a joke...
Curse you, you've found me out! Pacific Coast Highway blah • how to beat gas prices 00:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Semi Protection of my User Page

 * I may be a little optimistic atm, but hopefully the worst of the VaughanWatch attacks are done with now that we've caught 53 of his socks. I think you can unprotect my user page now. Thanks again for the help! - pm_shef 01:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Are we Agreed?
Was there an agreement reached on the British TOCs template that I never heard about? It seemed to me that, given the discussion had gone quiet, everybody seemed ok with the idea of leaving NIR and Enterprise there, but with the Irish train operators left on those pages. If it's the case that this was agreed unacceptable then fair enough. However, if this isn't the case, then it seems that someone has reached an agreement on their own and proceeded to alter the British template YET AGAIN without consulting anyone. Hammersfan 08/05/06, 17.30 BST
 * Count on my support for any action that either you or anyone else feels it appropriate to take on this Hammersfan 08/05/06, 20.10 BST

British TOCs
I realise you're probably getting bored silly with the whole template issue, but I've rejigged it (now that it's been unprotected) and included a note to say the Irish operators operate on the Irish network. Undoubtedly it will get changed even before I've finished writing this message, but I'd like to know what you think. Hammersfan 10/05/06, 18.35 BST
 * Vandal rollback eh? Maybe that makes me a rebel ;-); this situation just won't go away will it? We can try every single compromise that you, I and no doubt everyone else could put our collective brain power behind, and it still won't be good enough will it? There'll never be any compromise no matter how hard we try and how convincing the argument. Hammersfan 10/05/06, 22.40 BST
 * I've read what you said on "his" page. I'm grateful for your support. I notice that an outsider has now come in to ask everyone to "cool off". Do you think "everyone" will take notice? Hammersfan 11/05/06, 14.55 BST P.S. - apparently I'm the one doing the vandalism now.

Mulling Things Over
I've spent the last two days or so mulling over what you said. I even took my mulling to the FA Cup Final with me, and I did consider taking your advice. That was until I came on here today to look over some articles totally unrelated to trains. Can I advise you to check out the edit histories of the following:
 * British Army Infantry
 * East of England Regiment
 * Royal Irish Rangers
 * Royal Irish Regiment
 * The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
 * Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Tell me if you think that smacks of something personal. Hammersfan 14/05/06, 18.05 BST

London Buses route 122
Is there any chance you could tell me how to do the columns you did? --sonicKAI 13:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Word association
Hi thanks for that. I wasn't quite sure of how it went as I thought I had seen others add multiple words but I must have mistaken it for words to different games. Soph i  a  Gilraen   of Dorthonion  12:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

New WikiProject idea
Would you be interested in doing a WikiProject on place-names of the United Kingdom with me?? Thurloxton etc. --Sunfazer | Talk 13:15, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Thryduulf. You create the page - and let me know on my talk page! I'm a toponymy expert. --Sunfazer | Talk 14:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2 impostor
Thanks for catching it, I deleted the fake pages and put up the usual impostor notices, thanks for noticing it! -- Tawker 00:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: CmdrObot suggestion
Hi Chris,

Your request is an interesting one. Unfortunately I initally misread it as "search-and-destroy links from article X to article X", and went and did a little research based on that.

Curiously enough, I found about 25,000 articles with one or more self-links, and a total of over 29,000 self-links. Articles such as Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, 1951 in comics, and Silverstone Circuit go completely overboard in this regard.

While using my bot before, I've noticed that quite a few articles seem to use self-links in the intro text to bold the article title (eg Alan Turing was a British mathematican... rather than Alan Turing was a British mathematican... Do you know if this is regarded as poor/deprecated usage?

As to your actual request (check for X links to Y when Y redirects to X), I'll have a look at it this evening. I'm not sure how easy it'll be to do. Do you think it's something that occurs often?

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 14:57, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi again Chris, apologies for the long radio silence. It's doable alright. I've opted to analyse an offline dump of enwiki rather than using the 'what links here' as it fits better with the other work I've done. For now, I've generated a list of articles and the indirect self-links they contain. I've put some of them up at User:Cmdrjameson/X-to-Y-to-X if you'd like to take a look.

A few interesting factoids for you: enwiki-20060503 has just under 1.1M redirect articles. Of the 1.6M articles with anything other than a redirect in them, about 8200 have one or more links such that X-links-to-Y-redirects-to-X. All in all, there are about 13000 of these links.

A couple of these illustrate the kinds of problems that might pop up. The article 'Viewpoints Research Institute' redirects (incorrectly?) to 'Alan Kay', and 'Alan Kay' links back to VRI and mentions that he's the president of this company. Now arguably VRI should be a two line stub saying what VRI is and who runs it. However, the link in 'Alan Kay' should be neither bolded nor removed.

Another example is 'ISU notables', which redirects to 'Buildings of Iowa State University'. The latter article has many links of the form 'ISU notables#Hamilton_Hall'. Obviously this should be turned into the self-link '#Hamilton_Hall' rather than removing or bolding.

I'll look at this a little further over the weekend. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 23:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

London Buses AfD
Do you conclude bus articles (AfD)? There has been one going on about whether to delete articles on London Buses. See: Articles for deletion/London Buses route 1. Am i allowed to request for you to conclude this, especially as the original person who nominated them (this AfD covers about 20 or more articles on London Buses) has actually withdrawn their nomination...? Simply south 10:39, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Should i bother you again? This is under the hammer again and has been holding steady for a week. See: Articles for deletion/List of bus routes in London. Sorry to bother you. Simply south 21:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

user:Saladin1970
I reblocked him -- I was pulled away from the computer briefly just after I had unblocked to reblock. Thanks for the reminder. I'll be posting on AN/I as time permits. There is also a thread on the mailing list about this currently. --Ryan Delaney talk 20:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Song titles
If this is the convention, that's fine. But I would like to know why is it the convention? It's not correct style-wise. Rt66lt 00:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:Anti-war topics up for deletion
Template:Anti-war topics is up for deletion. Please weigh in on the discussion. Thanks! SchuminWeb (Talk) 09:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Numatic International Limited
OOps, thanks for catching that. In fact I wanted to keep the "Somerset part, but not as a separate link. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 16:58, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Gary Howell
Why would I do an article in my space? The Gary Howell article was started a long time ago by someone else. Nobody checked the facts of the article before deletion. The facts are now clear this is a well known person. --71Demon 17:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * What Quick deletion? The links were at the bottom of the article.  That article had been up over a year, and multiple people were editing it.  SOmebody put up an incorrect Copyright Violation, it was explained, then somebody stuck up an AFD when that didn't work. The AFD didn't even take the full 10 days before it disappeared.  It was gone before anybody could offer facts to check. --71Demon 17:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:Corp was met. The person was selected by the US Small Business Administration has Exporter of the year, and that was only one thing. WP:Bio was met: Notability can be determined by

* Multiple features in popular culture publications such as Vogue, GQ, Elle, FHM or national newspapers (Met_   * A large fan base, fan listing or "cult" following    * An independent biography    * Name recognition (met)    * Commercial endorsements (met) Criteria was met easily. --71Demon 17:31, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The evidence was there, It was deleted from the article. It was an AFD not a quick deletion, I don't understand why you refer to it as a quick deletion. --71Demon 21:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * DIdn't know that anybody had recreated it. --71Demon 13:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD
Hey I'm trying to put the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD logo thingie on my user page but I can't seem to get it to align without my userboxes overlaping it. Got any ideas? Whispering 22:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Intel processor confusion
Awhile ago, you closed the AfD for Intel processor confusion, the result given being "merge then delete". Before the close of the AfD, the article was changed significantly (basically, all of the old material was deleted and replaced with new material that satisfied most of the complaints in the AfD). Shortly after the AfD it was also renamed. Anyways, it hasn't been deleted, and I don't think it should be, but as the closing administrator, I thought you should know. (According to Guy Harris, "Of course, once the page is renamed, one could argue that the old "Intel processor confusion" page has, in effect, been deleted (its content was moved elsewhere, and no page has that name any more), and a new page, giving a summary of the family "brand names" Intel's using for various x86 processor lines, was created ab initio." See AfD discussion.) Armedblowfish (talk|contribs) 00:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Archiving Word Association games
Hey, I just did my first archive/new start of a word association game, the Radial Ultra 'World Sevens Series'. It looks okay to me but I just wanted to make sure I did everything I need to do. As you're one of the main dudes for archiving and starting the new games I just thought I'd ask you to make sure I did it okay. I've been feeling guilty in the past about my laziness when it comes to archiving and stuff. Thanks! Phileas 01:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Wiki project: UK railways
Hi Thryduulf: I see that, like me, you are one of the select group on this project. Some weeks ago (and subsequently) I have added a long list of categories to the project notes. I did think that there might be some feedback on that, but nothing came of it. I have also written twice to Achmelvic asking for an update, but had no reply on either occasion.

Do you know what the state of play is? Peter Shearan 17:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Ryde Pier
Hi - I've responded to your copyvio listing of Ryde Pier. Could you take a look at the talk and consider a response? Ta. Naturenet | Talk 20:49, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Smallbrook Junction
Please see Talk:Smallbrook Junction railway station

This is rather puzzling. Or can you say how the figure was obtained? Simply south 16:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

re: Deletion Review of Sick Nick Mondo
Good evening. I think there was some confusion on the timing of the deletion discussion and article creation(s) in this case. Could I ask you to return to the discussion, review the new evidence and see if this changes your conclusion? Thanks. Rossami (talk) 05:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA


Hello Thryduulf, and thanks for voting in my recent RfA, which passed with a tally of (68/19/3). I appreciated your comments, which I hope to take on board in order to gain your respect in my work as an administrator. Best of luck in your continued editing of the encyclopedia! Sam Vimes 19:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

My First Category
Should i just move it to the plural or does it have to go through the voting process? Simply south 12:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Well its been 48 hours and a few minutes....................................

Essex
I am assuming you are admin. For some reason, i have been blocked or many of the pages have been blocked in the Essex area, including the county article itself. Why is this?

It appears to have been done from IP:86.136.206.197.

If not, then its someone

WHAT IS GOING ON?

Simply south 16:03, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Its strange. It happened when i was accessing the pages from a different computer. The notice tthat came up was due to a Netscape (or something similar) firewall. Simply south 19:10, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Teutonic thrash on deletion review
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Teutonic thrash. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review.

Noncommercial-only image: Image:Class 171-cab.jpg
This image that you have uploaded is currently under a noncommercial-only licence. Such licences have been banned by Jimbo. Hence either you should relicence it under any of the free licences listed in WP:ICT or the image will have to be deleted. -- Paddu 19:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * While it has been uploaded before the cut-off, you still should change the license to something that is free, such as CC-BY-AB. Thank you. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 21:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * What happened is that long after Jimbo decided about the non-commercial images, there was a note placed on the upload page that if you or I upload a photo and we own the copyright, we have to use a free license or put in the public domain. I have no idea when this change was done, and I personally think what happened is that others were clearing those images out and happen to come onto yours, and since your still here on Wikipedia, we should try to and talk to you to see if you can change the license. What SPUI is trying to say is that what you used, while seems free, has a condition that for profit groups must ask permission for it to be used. That, in his view, is preventing some of our commercial mirrors, such as Answers.com, from using the image. This change to the license was done in Sept. of 2005 with the edit at . So, while the placement at WP:PUI should have waitied by SPUI, I think that because of this condition, from you, that restricts commercial use of the image, the image license should be changed or it needs to be deleted from Wikipedia. I believe SPUI wants to give you the chance to change the license, and I feel that way too, but I want to hear from you of what you think. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Palmersville Redirect Page
I have re-established the Palmersville redirect page you created back in November, 2005 as a disambiguous page, and added a link to the Palmersville, Tennessee article I created. --TommyBoy 00:00, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!
Many happy returns of the day! Thisthema n  04:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Hope you have a great day! --Draicone (talk) 08:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: birthday greeting
No problem. If you'd like to join us and help make someone's day, head to WP:BDC! We would really love new members, even people who can help find people who'd like to be wished on their birthday. --Draicone (talk) 09:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:CompactTOC7
Template:CompactTOC7 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. I thought I'd let you know becuase you are the creator of CompactTOC7. In addition to the form text from tfdnotice, I'd also like to mention the same fate has been proposed for Template:CompactTOC7a, a derivative of 7.  Big Nate 37 (T) 21:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you
How many reverts am i allowed to do until the WP:3rr is in place and i cannot anymore? An editor called User:SkylarRaven keeps posting spam links on the Rapid transit article. I've reverted them twice but afraid (sort of) to do it for no 3. Simply south 20:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for restoring Web 3.0 content
Thanks for restoring the Web 3.0 article content, I will add some of this to the Semantic web article --Peter Campbell Talk! 21:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

re Protecting children's privacy
Woah. You can't change an article to match your point of view and then protect it. There was no edit war over this page until you started it. Look, there are basically three editors who loathe this article versus more than a score who favor it. You did not and have not rebutted my arguments, so don't try to get your way be edit warring, OK? If you want to go to mediation on this I'm good with that. Would you like to that rather than editor warring? Herostratus 21:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. I have not done mediation before. In order of formality there is (1) Third-Party Opinion, (2) Mediation Cabal, and (3) formal Mediation. I guess I'll contact the Mediation Cabal if that's OK. I don't know how fast they work, though. In the meantime I would suggest that "Proposed" is the most benign tag to leave up until a decision is made. If they Rejected tag is up that scares off any further editors and if left long enough becomes a de faco self-fulfulling tag, whereas it does no real harm to leave a Proposed tag up for a while longer. Herostratus 21:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. I opened a case at the Cabal, it is at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-09-19 Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy, status. I think the next thing is to wait for them contact us. Herostratus 21:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Privacy page
The discussion page has now been changed from a threaded discussion to two alphabetical lists of people where everyone is allowed one comment. I think this is massively unhelpful and obfuscatory, and it basically means the proposal is voted upon, rather than any issues addressed and responded to. It may be useful to archive the entire talk page and start with a blank one; what do you think?  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  23:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Spinach guy
Thanks for adding some comments on the deletion review. Although we don't seem to agree on this, you have greatly helped by getting a bit more into the details of why they could meet the speedy criteria, which allows me to understand and respond better. I have added some more comments, and would be keen to hear your thoughts, if you get the chance. I'd like to understand this better, so that I am not creating articles that are just going to get deleted and so that I can understand how and when deletion discussions should take place (compared to outright deletions). Trevor Saline 10:01, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

BabyFit
Thanks for your notification about the BabyFit entry. I have posted a reply to you in the discussion. Jknepfle 16:40, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Your opinion, please
Hi! We welcome your opinion, or participation on WikiProject Sexology and sexuality/WIP-image-guidelines where we are attempting to develop useful guidelines to help solve a variety of problems. Atom 15:05, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Edgware Road sta split
I've gone ahead after roughly a week and obviously split the article. I have left the original article as is. I hope nothing much needs changing. Could you close the split and also clean up anything on the Edgware Road pages? (And what do taxes have in common with rice pudding?). Thanks Simply south 16:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Talk:List of RSPB reserves
Hi - could I point you towards this page as you have contributed to this list (& still are active). I think it could be improved but would rather have a wider range of views. If you are not interested sorry to bother you. Regards -- Herby talk to me 10:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

AJJ photos
Thank you for fixing that! PT ( s-s-s-s ) 00:38, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

BPW
Ok