User talk:TonyTheTiger/Archive 27

Cloud Gate again
This sentence keeps coming up in review: "The plates were covered with protective white film and polished 98% before being sent to Chicago via trucks." No one is quite sure what it means. Is this a typo from Gilfoyle's book? Do you know what he was trying to say? --TorsodogTalk 14:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

GA/Recent
Nobody actually puts delisted pages there. Check the history, there are about 150 new listings for every one time somebody bothers adding a delisted article. Additionally, the point of the recent list is to show off the latest promotions to the community at large. For recent delistings, it makes sense to notify related WikiProjects and the page's main editors, yes, but not everyone.

Essentially, putting delisted pages on /recent is saying "hey everybody, come read this article we decided wasn't well-written enough to deserve community recognition!" The contradiction there should be pretty obvious. --erachima talk 17:03, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Important to the subject editors, yes, but not to everyone else. None of the other content recognition processes list recently demoted content. --erachima talk 19:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Chicago in fiction
Hi TonyTheTiger,

Please populate the Category:Chicago in fiction, it should be OK since there is a Category:San Francisco in fiction. Speciate (talk) 21:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Tyrone Wheatley
I just noticed that your Ty Wheatley article is today's featured article. I know how hard you worked on the article, and then on getting it through the featured article process. Congratulations! Cbl62 (talk) 01:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

1995 Pacific Grand Prix TFA nomination
Hi. I responded to your comment here. Thanks, D.M.N. (talk) 07:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

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RE: Delistings
Thanks for the link, I have all these pages on my watchlist now. So if something goes down, I will be right on top of it. -Marcusmax (talk) 22:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Bot work
Sorry, it's been a week and I have 68 articles to tag. I can't get my program to work for some reason; but I wanted to let you know I was on it. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  20:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Scratch that. I did it manually.  Got one new GA for the project as well.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  20:48, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * As from below. Seems some users are a bit touchy with something as simple as a tag.  The GA I got was Talk:Homerpalooza.
 * Seems it got tagged 3 times by the bot. Too bad they didn't look at its page on how to make the bot ignore it. I blocked it from the page so you shoudln't have any more complaints.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  03:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Homerpalooza
The Simpsons episode Homerpalooza has absolutely nothing to do with Chicago, in fact, the word Chicago isn't even mentioned in it. So, why should it be part of the Chicago wikiproject solely because it's in the Smashing Pumpkins category? -- Scorpion0422 21:12, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Userspace header
Just to let you know, your userpage and talk page header is messed up, as in all the icons for GAs cover the lower text instead of going right across. You might want to fix. Best wishes, -- how do you turn this on  01:19, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Australian Olympians
Ah, I hadn't noticed, another editor reverted my addition of the second Amber Halliday pic. The swimming was very impressive although I was hoping Australia would win 9-10 golds. Nevertheless, I was hoping that you would vote of course! You don't need to be a photo expert... YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 03:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Gilbert Perreault under GA review
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Statewide officials templates
Hi Tony, thanks for the encouraging message. I think include the judiciaries, but with the "(elected)" or "(appointed)" qualifiers that I've now added to the other templates' groupnames. I guess individual persons' names that would probably stay redlinked could simply be left unlinked..? (I think people would prefer see a list of names and at least one link, to the article on the state's supreme court, on all templates rather than some.) If you think this would be okay, I'll dig out and reinstate the CA and FL judiciary lists you created then removed, otherwise disable whatever you think should be disabled. Sardanaphalus (talk) 03:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've reinserted "elected" in the templates' titles -- I'd accidentally removed it -- and have disabled the non-elected judicial groups, at least for the time being. I'm not sure where a good place to canvass opinions might be -- WikiProject Politics? Sardanaphalus (talk) 13:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the prompt to check whether the templates are still on appointed justices' pages. They're now gone -- except for NY, due to this; I've pointed SMP0328 toward the WikiProject threads you've started (thanks also for those). Sardanaphalus (talk) 05:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I've replaced your post on the WikiProject Law talkpage with a link to the same at WikiProject Politics, as that's where the discussion seems to be happening. Hope that's okay. Sardanaphalus (talk) 01:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

TOO complicated
Everytime I try to add a tiger it dissapears. I can't see it in the box. What happened to it?

♥ ♥ Blacky98 (talk) 15:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Merle Reskin Theatre
DevorahLeah (talk) 04:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC) Tony, I am sorry to be slow with adding to the current article-- just finished the manuscript for my 4th book, and now that I can actually take a few minutes to do other things, I wanted to get moving on this. First, a query about something entirely outside of your page-- but since you know a lot about Wikipedia and I don't, can you tell me why the essay I wrote about Herb Jepko was classified a stub? I wrote to whoever I thought one is supposed to write to, but nobody ever responded, making me sad indeed, given all the work I put into it...

Now for the Merle Reskin Theatre -- unless I am reading it wrong, it seems like it already has a lot of information, although of course, I have quite a bit I will be adding to the early years, when it was the Blackstone. You mean it still isn't a GA? I love making articles GAs!!! What is it missing?

DevorahLeah (talk) 08:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)Thanks Tony-- you are the best of all possible editors. About Jepko, thanks for the explanation, but I thought it did meet wiki standards-- I mean, I see that it DOES have an info box, for example. I'll try to work on it some more.

As for the Merle Reskin, I'm gonna work on that in the next day or two, but as always, I am still uncertain how to do the citations correctly, so you'll have to bear with me and clean them up when I add them in.

DevorahLeah (talk) 09:03, 19 October 2008 (UTC) Okay, as promised, I did some re-writing, and added all sorts of stuff from the 1910s through 1930; as time permits, I will try to find more. Again my apologies for not knowing how to do the footnotes, and I hope what I added helps it to get closer to GA.

GA nominations
Hello, I noticed that you have a few articles nominated at WP:GAN. If you could review one or more good article nominations to help reduce the backlog and waiting time, it would be greatly appreciated. Help and advice on how to do so is available at Reviewing good articles, and you can ask for the help of a GAN mentor, if you wish. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 20:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Template documentation
Hey, I saw at least one template you made with cats that are relevant to the template, not the article in the template's noinclude section. See Wikipedia:Template documentation; they need to be on the doc subpage. Ling.Nut (talk&mdash;WP:3IAR) 07:27, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I edited Template:Current New York statewide political officials/doc in what I believe is the correct manner. You can copy that... Ling.Nut (talk&mdash;WP:3IAR) 07:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

RE: U of M B-ball Scandal
Hi Tony! I'm not actually the one that reviewed/promoted this article. I just noticed that someone else had promoted it but not removed it from the GAN page, and so I went ahead and removed it. Thanks for the reminder though. Dana boomer (talk) 17:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Richard Cordray
I added ussc citations to this article. The best search engine for case law is actually google. You just to type Wilson v. Layne and it will give you all necessary refs. Or you also can browse oyez.

I am really flattered that you are of such a high opinion about my knowledge of American law. I am just theoretical physisist from Russia. :-) Ruslik (talk) 07:35, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

GAs and FAs
Dear TTT, you've 100+ GAs and some FAs. I've none. I've 13 DYKs. How can I develop articles into GAs and FAs? Have a nice day! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 08:22, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You said, "If you like my work, feel free to drop a Tiger on my user page." Like you work? I'm a fan of your work! I noticed you about a month ago. And thanks for your kind advice. Have a nice day! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added a tiger on your user page. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:19, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll change the tiger! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've changed it! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:32, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Jennifer Brunner

 * Unfortunately, the use of templates is not possible now. The cases related to elections in Ohio are too new, and they have not been officially published in Federal Reporter (sixth circuit) or in United States Reports (Supreme Court). Templates actually need volume and page numbers in those publications. The decisions will appear in a month or two. I have not searched Ohio Supreme Court, but think that the situation is the same. Ruslik (talk) 19:27, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Leo Strauss photo
Hi Tony, I ran into you at the Talk:Ernest Hemingway/GA1 discussion a month or so ago and would like to send a request your way. Can you take a look at this and let me know if either you or someone else at the WikiProject Chicago would be interesting in lending a helping hand? It relates to obtaining a photo of Strauss and in addition perhaps other notable 20th-century faculty & alumni from the University of Chicago. Thanks. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 20:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Jon Burge
I left a note at Talk:Jon Burge but thought I'd alert you. Burge was arrested today. I linked the Sun Times article at the talk page. --IvoShandor (talk) 23:49, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Omega and Michelle Obama
Looking for a way to properly include this. The fact that she was an advisor to the rechartering chapter at University of Chicago was first brought to my attention with the following post on greekchat. http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showpost.php?p=1655320&postcount=142 I contacted the Alpha Phi Omega national office and spoke to the Director of Chapter Services (second in command at the national office) who did confirm that. I have also accessed the Fraternity's databases to verify the fact that she is a member, however access to that database is not public. While I might feel comfortable using the Greekchat posting on some other pages, on a high profile page like this, not so much. Looking forward to your advice. Naraht (talk) 20:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Looking forward to when the Fraternity publishes the information on on more public level about her membership. At that point, I feel it will go ahead and add it.Naraht (talk) 15:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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GA nominations
Hello, I noticed that you have a few articles nominated at Good article nominations. If you could review one or more good article nominations to help reduce the backlog and waiting time, it would be greatly appreciated. Help and advice on how to do so is available at Reviewing good articles, and you can ask for the help of a GAN mentor, if you wish. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 15:52, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tony
Hi Tony! I know we have clashed, but your contributions are invaluable to the human pursuit of knowledge. Can we let bygones be bygones? I know you act chill in all you do around here, but you're human, you must hold opinions off wiki that you don't express on wiki. So I am offering to let everything go, do you accept? --IvoShandor (talk) 15:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: GAList
Great idea. I've thought about GA medals before. But yes, I would like to set a system up. Any reason why you chose me? Mitch 32(UP) 15:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I've retired the bot maintaining idea - because its too impossible according to Rick Block, the one who runs them. We'd have to have someone dedicate their time to updating it. Also, the rate of GAs goes so quick, there would be dozens of edits a day. If we keep a list like DYK's, that would be best. (You and I combined have 210 Good Articles). But thanks saying that I do care. :) - Mitch 32(UP) 15:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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