User talk:Walton One/Archive 6

:D!
Wow! Congratulations! Goodness...I missed so much...Exams. Bleah. Happy administrator-ship. I'm sure you'll be great...as long as you keep up the good work. ;-) to ma to 22:34, 28 April 2007 (UTC) 

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
 * I like it! A bit too dark for my enjoyment...ha ha, but, still, nice work! to ma to

warnings
I see a lot of people all give the same warnings on talk pages when people vandalise, how do they know what to type so it's the same each time? Shadow master66 11:33, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

peter beter
thank you for your contribution to this article. i just wanted to ask you however, is it allowed for us to cite and/or extract info and claims from dr beter's audio letters/recordings on wikipedia??please let me know.thanks againGrandia01 20:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Very impressive
Nice work! Made me chuckle :) That's going onto the page. I still need a few which tell me how much I suck, though... I wish userpage vandals were more creative :) How are you settling into adminship? – Riana ऋ 12:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the backlogs can get pretty atrocious at times, which is why we definitely need people to stop opposing candidates for political userboxes and spelling errors and the like. *sigh* By the way, all the poetry seems to be about how much I block people! I'm pretty sure my deletion log is 5 times bigger than my block log, but nobody notices those that much :) – Riana ऋ 12:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Not yet *evil grin, goes off to take care of Leet* – Riana ऋ 12:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

RE:Editor review
Thanks, I'll look at them momentarily. ~ Magnus animum  ∵ ∫ φ γ 15:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

SMIIILEEEE
......... ohhhh i forgot how to send smiles... =[[[[



good enough?

hereee we go!: 

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Adoption
could you please remove the adoption tag in your archives 5 page ? if you wish to be adopted please put the tag on your user page and feel free to contact me, else please remove it. if you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. thank you for your time. Matthew Yeager 03:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Notice
I'm withdrawing from Admin Coaching. As much as I really, really want to do it, I'm taking a Wikibreak for a while, and feel you should direct your attention towards somebody else to help them out. Thanks, and happy editing... -- Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť Talk to me or learn something new! 03:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Bill gates
I have absolultly no idea what you are on about, It sounds like something that was done absolutly ages ago and has been blown out of all proportions.--Lucy-marie 09:19, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Martinultima
Hey, thanks for the RfA encouragement - I'm probably not going to run again for a while, after all the mess the last one caused, but I appreciate your willingness to help anyway... :-) Martin Ultima (talk•contribs) 11:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for adding semi-protection to Texas. I get tired of the vandal shit so fast. Ashura96 20:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Coldspot & sock-puppetry
In the light of proven sock-puppetry, you might like to reconsider the Coldspot deletion debate which you closed. Andy Mabbett 04:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Coldspot (Wi-Fi). Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review.. Thank you. Andy Mabbett 18:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Politics 2.0
This made me chuckle - its generally customary to delete the article at the end of an AfD, not the AfD page :-) ... WjBscribe 19:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my mistake...yesterday was a long day. Thanks for reversing it. Wal  ton  Need some help?  12:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Interestingly, I wasn't the only one who made that mistake lately... Wal  ton  Need some help?  13:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Editor Review
Thanks for commenting on my editor review! Also, I have removed the false messages box as you suggested. Thanks again, ♠  Tom  @  s  Bat   00:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Petition on Spawny's page
I've put up a petition on Spawny's Talk Page to cheer him up/make him come back. cheers, Cas Liber | talk  |  contribs 09:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Pipe organ review - thanks.
Hi,

Thanks for your peer review of pipe organ. I've addressed your thoughts, and am just sorting out a few things for my mind before nominating it for FA.

–MDCollins (talk) 20:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA application
Cheers for the support, pal. Shame it's not gonna come to much now, but I'll be sure to apply again in a couple of months when I've gotten a bit more experience with stuff other than editing. Thanks again. PeeJay 22:12, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:ADOPT input
Hello, Walton monarchist89. The Adopt-a-User program is looking for new ideas and input on the program. If you are still interested please stop by the talk page and read some of the ideas being floated and give a comment. If you want to update or change your information on the adopter's list page, now would be a great time! Thanks!  V 6 0  干什么？ · VDemolitions 03:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

^_^
Thank you so much for the smile! It's always nice to feel loved. *hugs* Have a wonderful day! Saber girl08 16:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Admin coaching
I'm quite glad you passed the RfA. If my computer had not been broken, I would have supported your RfA. Anyway, about the admin coaching, if you want to do it, that's fine with me. If you see anything that I am doing wrong, then please let me know. ;-) <font face="Times New Roman">A•N•N•A   <font color="color:chartreuse">hi!  00:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: RfA

 * Copied from User talk:Nihiltres:

Hi, I noticed you're interested in becoming an admin. After a brief review of your editcount (4041 at time of writing) and contributions, I would like to nominate you for RfA, as I think you're ready to receive the admin tools. Wal ton  <sup style="color:purple;">Need some help?  18:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)


 * That would be fine, although I must admit some nervousness as regards RfA. Thank you. Nihiltres(t.c.s) 19:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not surprised - my own RfA nearly gave me a nervous breakdown. Let me know when you're ready for me to write up a nomination - I'll do a more detailed review of your contributions in the meantime. Wal  ton  <sup style="color:purple;">Need some help?  16:58, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Whenever you like is fine, just let me know - Although it's scary, it's the only way. :) Nihiltres(t.c.s) 18:06, 12 May 2007 (UTC) (Copied content ends here.)
 * Yes, yes it did :)  Teke  20:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I accept your nomination, and I've filled in Requests for adminship/Nihiltres appropriately. As you're the nominator, I'll let you post the nomination on the main RfA page. Thanks, Nihiltres(t.c.s) 20:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

from Cecropia
Hi Walton, I didn't mean to ignore you. My response to you is on my talk page. Cheers, Cecropia 17:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA
Thanks for the offer but I'm not interested just now. A number of people have offered to nominate me so I'll probably yield to peer pressure eventually but when I do I'll self-nominate just to be fair to everyone! :-) Pascal.Tesson 18:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Your RFA
I opposed your rfa, and I just wanted to register here that I was wrong to do so and that I am glad you made adminship in spite of my opposition. Steve block Talk 12:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Walton, thank you for your kind support of my RfA, which successfully closed yesterday. Please feel free to drop me a line any time if I can help you in any way. Pastordavid 15:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note
Thanks for the note on my Talk, Walton. I appreciate your open-mindedness and glad that you now feel you can support my RfB. -- Cecropia 17:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for participating in my RFA, which passed with 53-1-0. I will put myself into the various tasks of a administrator immediately, and if I make any mistakes, feel free to shout at me or smack me in my head. Aquarius &#149; talk 17:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Hi Walton, thanks for your support in my RfA, which passed unopposed. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. --Seattle Skier <font size="-2">(talk) 19:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Many Thanks:
Thanks for signing the petition for me to return from my Wikibreak/Retirement. It was unexpected & I appreciate your kind words. I'm planning to stay away from conflict for a bit, so don't expect to see me around any talk pages etc. Anyway, thanks again for being there. :) Spawn Man 23:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Tenebrae's RfA
Hello Walton. About your support in Requests for adminship/Tenebrae2: although I disagree with you, I understand that some might feel that the canvassing thing is no big deal. But there are pretty strong concerns about this user (civility, newbie biting, misunderstanding of the role of admins) that have nothing to do with the canvassing incident. Of course, you do have generous standards on RfA, but in this case, I feel like you're putting a protest vote more than an honest evaluation of the candidate's fitness to be an admin. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 23:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

As a general note about canvassing: Nobody's inclined to find the people who don't like them and say "hey I know we've had a lot of contentious disputes, so I just thought you'd like to know I'm on RFA". So, referring to the table on Canvassing, the audience would almost inevitably be partisan. The resultant vote-stacking would be likely to override otherwise disinterested community consensus. It's like jury tampering. It may best for RFA to be evaluated by those people who can just check out a user's contributions and make a decision from that, without bias. If people who are already inclined to support or oppose happen across the RFA, that's just a social effect of the wiki. But to deliberately canvass, which would slant it one way or the other, is a bad idea. If you're thinking, "but maybe it could be done fairly", it probably can't be, because our ape brains are heavily and subconsciously disposed to selection bias; people will just tend to avoid those who might not support, even if the decision to do so is made subconsciously. ··coe l acan 23:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You're certainly entitled to that opinion. =) But if there's any knee-jerk opposes that I'm perfectly comfortable with, it would be those for vote-stacking. If we don't have some way of guarding against artificial inflation of consensus, then we might as well just do away with RFA, and, say, enable the admin flag on all three-month-old accounts. ··coe l acan 10:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Taylor Garron
I noticed that you just closed this AfD as no consensus. I just wanted to point out that one of the two editors who wanted to keep the article was a clear single-purpose account (see contribs), and the other one provided no rationale for his stance. I hope that you will reconsider your decision. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 21:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, I will do so. Thanks. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 19:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * On second thought, do you think that I should really take it to DRV, or just renominate the article at a later time? You are correct that with so few people voicing in on the discussion, it was hard to really establish consensus, so I do not know that a deletion review would really yield any results. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 19:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, I've nominated it for DRV now; see entry. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 17:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Farewell
I'm leaving Wikipedia, for reasons I listed on my userpage. You are one of the nice admins I've seen here, so just come to tell you that. Regards. WooyiTalk to me? 04:05, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Carioca RFA
Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (31/4/1), so I am now an administrator. If you have any comments or concerns on my actions as an administrator, please let me know. Thank you! --Carioca 20:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Reconsideration
As I edited my user page, I reconsidered my decision to leave due to all the kind words and my love of this database of knowledge, and will make decision whether to leave or stay pending some ArbCom decisions, they will determine whether I still have faith to the fairness of Wikipedia. Again, thank you for your encouragement and kindness! WooyiTalk to me? 23:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Que hermoso!
Gracias, es muy bonita! -- Endo (Exo)  00:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Sig.
I actually don't mind personalised sigs., it's just I find yours a bit hard to read (specifically the grey bit). Matthew 17:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks much better for me! Cheers. Matthew 18:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Question
Your comment (or vote, I guess) on Christopher Parham's request for adminship smacks of an assumption of bad faith, Walton, and is terribly unconstructive. Do you have any evidence that Wikipedians who think voting is evil and that determining consensus based on arguments make bad admins? I'd care to see it. Picaroon (Talk) 19:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for clarifying. It is much clearer what you are opposing about now. Happy editing, Picaroon (Talk) 19:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Last I checked you're a perfectly reasonable admin, but I'm no great judge of civility concerns; I say something I regret maybe once or twice a week, and more if I've been doing a lot of monotonous deletions, or if I'm in a debate. As long as you are capable of owning up to your mistakes and doing your best to rectify them, as I try to do, you're fine in my eyes. Picaroon (Talk) 19:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC)