User talk:Trevor MacInnis/Archive 01

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Award Time


For your efforts in reverting vandalism, and general coolness,

--Kerowyn 00:50, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Kosovo War Edit
Insurgent is POV just as much as Terrorist is. Many people see insurgency as have connotations of a justified campaign against an aggressor, which the Albanians are not noted for given their preponderance to attack civillian Serb targets even before the crackdown. The KLA was even placed on the Us Department of Defence List of Terrorist Organisations. Are you fammiliar with the Kosovo war at allandif so what do you suggest? If you are not then please edit things elsewhere. 82.35.34.24 21:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoa, I guess I'm in over my head. ;} Moving on. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 17:18, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Thanks for the edit
Thanks for fixing my BIRN redirect. Sometimes we get a little blasé about standard WP constructs and get it completely wrong. Repeat after me: "Always use Show preview... "Always use Show preview..." &mdash; Dizzley (Peter H) 06:32, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

User:Humanbot update 08 June 2005
Version two-two released today includes in that green box a nice count of how many articles are left. This more or less co-incides with the event of hitting only 1000 articles remaining. Also, I have re-arranged the User:Humanbot page to make it easier to get to the right stuff. Progress charts, wikicookies, wikilove and a more thorough spelling check is promised when this is completed. (and also when the exam pressure eases off a little on me) r3m0t talk 17:40, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC) Note: If you think this message was too trivial for a mailing, tell me and I'll stick to more important announcements on the list.

User:Humanbot update 13 June 2005
The spelling2 project (to work on secondary namespaces) was opened and finished. Progress charts will be available soon.

Version six-three tracks who made the edits, and rankings are available. Much of the work was done while I was asleep, explaining my low place ;).

The next project, which may even be released today, will probably fix incorrectly capitalised headings, particularly "See Also" and "External Links".

The mailing list has grown to 24 people and while that is very nice for my ego, it is rather difficult to send out updates. This is why I did not send out a notice that the spelling2 project had opened. From now on, then, you must watch User:Humanbot/announce for updates. r3m0t talk 12:03, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Coloration/colouration
Hi, just noticed the bot edit in the Green Pug article changing "colouration" to "coloration". I'm fairly sure there is a policy in Wikipedia of not changing "British English" to "American English" (and vice versa of course) and "colouration" is accepted usage on this side of the pond and seems reasonable in an article on a species not found in America.

I have no hang-ups about "American English" and I shall not be reverting the article (I don't have the time or energy for a revert war). However I will never use the spelling "coloration" (which looks really weird to me!) in any further articles. Hope I'm not appearing really petty, not my intention. Peace! Richard Barlow 09:27, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Culture, Society, Technology, Science portals
Trevor, thank you in advance for what you are planning to do to these portals. Please feel free to make changes. One of the problems is that the Society portal is really Human societies, just like the Life portal is really Personal Life. But there is a Society article page, which complicates things.

I notice that someone else is working on the Geography portal.

Once these portals are complete, we have a case for using the portal links as our entry to Wikipedia (after suitable consensus, of course). That was my motivation for working on the portals. But I had to start somewhere, and the expertise you can bring to bear will be much appreciated. I will be gone over the weekend, but then I will be able to contribute, in the lines that you have in mind. Regards, Ancheta Wis 11:14, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Archaeology portal
Sorry if I seemed a little curt - feel free to have another go at re-organisation as you know far more about wikicode than I do. adamsan 8 July 2005 06:53 (UTC)

box portal skeleton
I asked a question for you at WP:TFD. Dragons flight 05:05, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Aircraft specifications survey
Hi Trevor! You haven't listed yourself as a participant of WikiProject Aircraft, but since I've noticed you doing quite a lot of aircraft- and aviation-related work around here, you may be interested in a survey currently underway to help develop a revised version of the WikiProject's standard specifications section. --Rlandmann 01:35, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much
I've just noticed you going through and cleaning up Air Traffic Control. I've been meaning to do this myself for some time now, but have never really got up the heart to start that monumental task. Just wanted to drop a line and let you know that it is ENORMOUSLY appreciated. -Lommer | talk 01:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No prob dude. There's still lots out there.Trevor macinnis 02:01, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Aircraft Questions
I was just creating an article for the Partenavia P.68 using the framework from other aircraft when I ran into a couple of terms I wasn't sure of. First the loaded weight. I've not seen that before and wondered if you knew what it referred to? Second the ferry range. Is that the range at maximum crusing speed or the range at economical crusing speed? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather 12:46, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Loaded weight means exactly what it sounds like: the weight of the plane when loaded (with fuel, payload etc.). This is not a very useful number because the plane could be fully loaded, partially loaded or purposely empty and all these could be the "loaded weight". The correct thing to use would be Maximum gross take-off weight, which is set by the manufacturer.


 * Range is very subjective. Different stats are published depending on what they want to showcase. For example. The de Havilland Caribou's range is given as "with maximum payload and reserves", showing how far it can carry cargo, while the Bellanca Airbus's range is given with "maximum fuel" and no payload. I prefer the one with the fuel for ferry range, as "flight for range" is defined (for pilots) as an aircraft being flown for maximum range, with the objective being to fly the greatest distance possible per unit of fuel consumed.Trevor macinnis 15:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks. What I did was to define the range (Bell 212) so that it's a little more obvious what is being stated. It's still not totally clear as the aircraft could be loaded or empty. CambridgeBayWeather 22:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Year proposal
Hello there, thanks for the ping. I'd recommend a three-line taxobox, not a 7-line one; use lightly-colored background color in table rows, rather than whitespace and headers. But kudos on wanting to update all the year articles; they need a consistent look and feel. +sj +  21:40, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I tried my hand at it. See what you think...
 * Good thing your survey, thanks for alerting me. I have had a look and vote. In general I think the year pages need a serious clear out with lots of stuff moved to some subpages: they are unwieldy, repetitious and hard to read. --BozMo|talk 14:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

What the heck are you doing?
What the heck are you doing to April 2005 Trevor? Month pages always have links to stop people adding in phoney unsourced stories. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:31, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * You certainly shouldn't start doing something like that without putting something up on the talk page first to see if anyone has any objections. Average Earthman 12:11, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Whoa, ok, I guess I touched a nerve here. I thought I was doing right by paring down an oversized, bloated page. I suppose sources are good for verifying facts on a page but this is certainly not the standard. If you look to previous months, the further back you go the less individual items are sourced. Does that mean that everything on April 2003 should be removed as unproven hearsay? I don't think so. Does that mean that we need to go back and find external web pages that show that everything on April, 2005, 2000s, and 21st century is proven fact. No. The way wikipedia works is: people post whatever they want and the edits either stays or is changed/removed if someone finds a problem. I think the reason these month pages look the way they do is because they were original the Current events page, and people treat that page as a "Breaking news" repository. Thats what Wikinews is for!

Take these sourced events for example:

April 29
 * The death toll in the Amagasaki rail crash in Japan totals 106. Rescue efforts are over and police begin the crash investigation. (Japan Today)

April 28
 * The death toll in the Amagasaki rail crash in Japan rises to 104. Rescuers find the body of the train's driver. (Japan Today), (Reuters AlertNet)

April 27
 * The death toll in the Amagasaki rail crash in Japan exceeds 91, and may increase to over 100. (Japan Today) (Asahi Shimbun) (Reuters) (Bloomberg) (Reuters)

April 26
 * The death toll in the Amagasaki rail crash reaches 73. Police searches the offices of West Japan Railway Co looking for clues for the cause of the crash. (Japan Today) (Reuters) (Bloomberg) (Reuters AlertNet)

April 25
 * Amagasaki rail crash: In Japan, a Fukuchiyama Line train derails and crashes into an apartment building in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka. At least 55 people are dead and around 400 are injured as a result of the accident, Japan's worst rail crash since 1963.  (Japan Today) (Reuters) (BBC)

Five sourced items for the same event! And if you look at the souce it's 26 lines long (on my screen). I can barely read it if I want to edit it. I didn't even look into May 2005 but I bet there are more there.

Or how about this:

April 28
 * Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez visits Cuba to foster cooperation between the countries. (BBC) (Periodico26) (Reuters)

A lot of leader visit a lot of countries, why is this noteworthy?. Does the source say?

Or:

April 26
 * British Labour Party member Brian Sedgemore moves to the Liberal Democrats. (Independent) (Times) (BBC)

Is this the first time this has happened? The last? Did the outside world even notice?

April 22
 * Rumors abound that a nuclear test by North Korea may be imminent, and that the United States is urging the People's Republic of China to pressure North Korea not to do so. (Reuters) (The Hindu) (Washington Post) (Drudge Report)

Rumors abound? This is a fact is it. Well, rumors abound that this page is way too big and it needs a reduction.

My proposal:

1. Remove sources from the page (after it is no longer the current events page, I'll leave you news junkies that much).

2. Remove multiple enteries from the page. The event is notable. The slow increase in casualty counts is not. Put the final count at the originating entry when its final, or update it accordingly.

Start with this and the page may get down to a reasonable size (135 KBs! Come on!).

Ok now. Thats why I did it and I'll post all of this to the appropriate talk pages.

Trevor macinnis 13:57, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

hey man
Hey Trevor. This has nothing to do with the wikipedia. I just wanted to drop you a line and this was the only place i could find ya. you can email me @ darkzedd@hotmail.com if ya want to.

andrew H from chdhs and smu

Year survey
I saw it on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years. Gdr 00:27:21, 2005-08-03 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce reminder
Greetings. You are receiving this boilerplate notice because you have a task on your Cleanup Taskforce desk that has not been updated for over 30 days. If you do not wish to complete this task please assign it to another Cleanup Taskforce member who has space on their desk. If you do not wish to receive cleanup requests on your desk any more, you may remove yourself from the membership list. If you or someone else has completed the task, you can close it by adding to the article's talk page and removing it from Cleanup Taskforce. If you have a status update (e.g. you intend to work on it in the future) or need help, you can update the collaboration page (which is linked from your desk). Also feel free to reply to the person who left you this message. -- Beland 03:57, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Comment/vote?
In your CCOTW "vote"  you signed under "Comments", but left no comments. I take it you accidentally put your vote in the comments section? Please clarify. :) …Markaci 2005-08-7 T 20:12:23 Z
 * Fixed when first told. Just now relpying. Why the delay? Good question. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 13:43, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Grouping boxes
The only way to get boxes to group properly is to code all the boxes you want to group as cells, and put the table tags either side of them (or use  templates). To prevent the boxes from stacking sideways you can use, or even better,  , which has this property set. For some examples of infoboxes that multiple templates see the LUL boxes at the bottom of Baker Street tube station or the Mountain infobox on Matterhorn. ed g2s &bull;  talk  23:29, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Template:Centurybox
I'm just wondering how Template:Centurybox has its width determined. Eg: at the template page, it takes up the full page width, and on century pages, eg: Twentieth century the template is only about 60% page width. --Commander Keane 14:48, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * The template size is determined by how much text is in the box. On the template page all that variable stuff { 00s 10s etc } takes up more room than 1900s 1910s, etc does on the 20th century page, so the box expands to fit it all. - Trevor macinnis 16:09, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Airline Infobox
Trevor macinnis, can you hide empty lines for the frequent flyer program, parent company, focus cities, and alliance. If you could that would be GREAT! TorontoStorm 16:27, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Piping in disambiguation pages
Trevor,

I can see the value of not piping in disambiguation pages. For titles of artistic works, however, I feel that it is necessary, especially since they will be italicized. For example, the album America isn't titled "America (album)". Since piping is available to us, I think we should use it in those cases. I've made comments on this issue on talk page of the dab style manuel. -Acjelen 19:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

PortalPage Template
Yes this would be possible. I used templates, because the template requires them to be in Template namespace and beacuse the mathematics pages, for which I desinged the portalpage, were already in template space. So in priciple they could all be moved and another tempate needs to be made. I'm going back to university in a few days so if you want to see this changed, I'd prefer it if you could make the changes. Cheers, --R.Koot 19:39, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

FYI
A task has been added to your Cleanup Taskforce desk. -- Beland 04:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Featured Article Drive: Meeting (3rd September 2005)
This is a reminder that there will be a meeting of the Featured Article Drive team this evening at 20:00 GMT in our IRC channel on Freenode.


 * To check what time 20:00 GMT is in your time zone, please see http://tinyurl.com/dclhr
 * If you are unable to make the meeting, please let me know, and I will ensure that a link to the log is sent to you afterwards

With thanks, Rob Church Talk 15:07, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Oops
Sorry, I was just one click behind you on Kanye West. Psy guy (talk) 17:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you very kindly for your support for my nomination. I promise your trust will not be misplaced; I may occasionally be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 22:21, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the note on my talk page. I really dont know why the user chose the same name as mine, but Ive left them a note. Thanks again.  Journalist  C./ Holla @ me!

Thanks for welcoming message
Hi Trevor,

thanks for your impressive and nice looking welcome-to-wikipedia message! I am still quite new to this place, and I am certainly going to check out all the information.

greetings,

Sjsv 09:48, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

You're a sysop!
I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  05:52, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, congratulations! Of course, it's really just a mop... but enjoy! -- BD2412 talk 05:03, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Request
I am asking past editors of the Karl Rove page to weigh in on a survey. If you can spare a couple of minutes, please visit this page: Talk:Karl Rove/September Survey, read the introduction, and answer the three questions that have been posed. Thank you. paul klenk 09:09, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Popups tool
Congratulations on being made an admin, and thanks for trying out my popups script! I thought you might like to know that if you can get links to many admin features in the appearing in the popups. Just add a new line to User:/monobook.js, so the the popups part ends up looks something like this:

// User:Lupin/popups.js - please include this line document.write(' ');

popupAdminLinks=true;

Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin|talk|popups 17:11, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

The charter is here. (Relating to Esperanza)
Hello Trevor macinnis, the Charter for Esperanza is up. Take a looksie :) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Thanks for participating and supporting me in my RfA, I hope I will not let you down. Molotov (talk)  18:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza made less bureaucratic
Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I hate you!
I can't belive you. You are SO WRONG about the Ages in Myst III: Exile. Such total scum.

Everyting about you is stupid. You (stupidly) think there are such Myst III Ages as "Amateria" or "Edanna" or "Narayan" but know "Teorlemin", "Tonditios", or "HAST THRI IXIL. And that you never explore Releeshahn?

J'nanin is not the hub age!

There are too many things wrong about this asshole to name. He is low-class scum. I am way richer then this asshole welfare bum. I am way more educated then you are too. Pathetic. Play some Myst III and see that you are ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!!!

by Regara.


 * Wow! It's almost like I've won an award. The joy I get from this type of reaction by a Vandal. It make it all worthwhile. I'll redouble my efforts now. Thanks again Reggie. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 19:45, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for my barnstar
I can't say much else, but thanks. Glad my efforts are appreciated :) Kel-nage 20:11, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Esquire
I had already checked our article about the mag, so I was aware of what it's all about (altho' I did think it was harder porn, not just another Vogue or GC, but maybe I'm confusing it with some other magazine). So, with the "legal profession" reference I was trying to play the innocent and maybe raise a giggle. Seems I failed miserably, huh? Sorry. (Your other comments on that talk page are, imho, spot on. I hope everyone reads them.) –Hajor 20:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff
Hello Trevor macinnis. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:54, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Thanks for your vote of support in my RfA. I look forward to using admin powers to improve the project. -R. fiend 18:30, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Human rights in Belarus
I'd just like to thank you for reverting the page back to what it was before that idiot spammed it. I appriciate it :)

Rach 86.130.242.242 16:19, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

WikiThanks!
Thanks for your changes made regarding Template talk:Categorybrowsebar. Why didn't I think of being bold there? After all, I've got those nifty admin buttons too :-) Anyway, congrats on your recent adminship; I'll see you around the Wiki! --HappyCamper 23:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Joe
I don't know about you, but the peurile inserts of rubbish get to me after a while. Do you think warnings and etc work?vcxlor 01:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sometimes no, but often yes. Hopefully we stay ahead of them long enough for other to join our side and reduce our workload a bit. Keep it up, every little bit gets us that much closer to Nirvana! - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs)

Petty little comment!
Hi, I saw your signature Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs), and I think it would be nicer as Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) , with a space between your name and "Talk". By the way, I'd ask you how you managed to make the "Leave a new message" box without having that annoying arrow at the end of the word "message", but I probably wouldn't be able to understand the answer, so I won't ask! However you managed it, I'm impressed. I stole my own "leave a message" box from the source of Mel Etitis's page, and edited it so that it would link to my talk page and not his, but anything beyond that would have been too much for me. Regards. Ann Heneghan (talk) 17:54, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. I was being stalked a few days ago, with threats about finding out my home address and sending letter bombs, ricin, etc., so I requested a page protection, which I'd rather leave in place for the moment, as I'm not entirely sure that the attacks have ceased. However, since you're an admin, you can probably edit locked pages, so I would be grateful if you could get rid of the arrow for me. Thanks. Ann Heneghan (talk) 18:16, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. It looks much nicer now. Ann Heneghan (talk) 18:39, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

About 209.66.200.61
You left this message on this users's page: 209.66.200.61 "This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. - Trevor MacInnis(Talk | Contribs) 21:58, 20 September 2005 (UTC)" And... he did it again, and again. --Vizcarra 18:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you very much for your vote on my RFA, it is now the 8th most supported RFA ever, and it couldnt have happened without your vote. I look forward to serving wikipedia. Again, thanks. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  23:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello Spamlist!
Ah, my first ever spam mass produced and mailed to the spamlist. Well first of all let me re-state that we have an irc channel, #wp-esperanza, and its been rather empty, so I'd appreciate it if you come, even if you just idle about. Now, the evil polls have closed, and I left a justification note for running the evil polls. Nothing has really changed, but at least I have somewhat of a consensus. I hope to figure out a way to overturn my power to JCarriker somehow, I'll figure out a way :-) Meanwhile, I've been busy reforming the mediation system where I am the chairman now, er, acting chairman. Enjoy your spam, with extra vikings. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Resignation
Hello spam list, look at this. Essjay is the new leader of Esperanza, and I'm interested in seeing how he runs it. I'm busy doing other work... Please comment at that talk page there. I will still probably run the spamlist though. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 23:00, 2 October 2005 (UTC)