User talk:Whiteandnerdy111/Archive Adoption

Archive for adoptee questions and comments between adoptee Whiteandnerdy111 and adopter Ronja
Adoption proposal: 10 November 2007, graduation date: 7 December 2007, status: adoptee graduated, whole discussion archived

November - December 2007
Whiteandnerdy111, I have offered to adopt you. If you accept, please write any messages to me here, so I will see them first when I check the page. Friendly regards --Ronja 08:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Whiteandnerdy111 accepts your offer to adopt him. -- Whiteandnerdy111 22:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! I have confirmed the adoption. It will be interesting to see how the time difference works out - I have a couple of colleagues in Australia and one in Hawaii, and it is always interesting and a bit challenging to get a hold of them, if we need to be on-line simultaneously. But most things with Wikipedia should work out just fine asynchronously, I think. --Ronja 06:11, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm currently online. If you want to get me to do anything, just ask! -- Whiteandnerdy111 06:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

READ I plan to archive our discussions on a subpage whenever this part of my user page starts to bloat too much. Read Help:Archiving a talk page, Help:Link and Subpages if you are interested in how archiving works. For an example of a user talk page archive, feel free to check out User talk:Ronja Addams-Moring/Archive newsletters. --Ronja 06:11, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

READ The link from your user page to a talk page goes to another user's talk page right now. Is this intentional? --Ronja 06:18, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Above messages read, appropriate action taken. New message for Ronja Addams-Moring I have read both the above, I think a subpage of a userspace maybe better. -- Whiteandnerdy111 19:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Whiteandnerdy111, please continue to write any messages to me here, so I will see them first when I check the page. The archive for our old messages is here. Oh, BTW, I think "Weird Al" Yankovic rocks. --Ronja 20:14, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Ditto.(looking for userbox to add to the 37 I already have!). What is the procedure for uploading T.V screenshots? -- Whiteandnerdy111 20:15, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * You will want to read this: Non-free content (it is in a dialect of Legalese, I am afraid) and this is the big entry page for everything related to uploading stuff: Help:Contents/Images and media. I have only uploaded a few of my own photos into Wikimedia Commons, so I am no expert on fair use, though I do know quite a bit about copyright and copyleft, especially in connection to scientific-scholarly publishing. Hope this helps, ask again if it doesn't. --Ronja 20:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Done. -- Whiteandnerdy111 20:33, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Can you please explain WP:ADMIN to me? -- Whiteandnerdy111 20:48, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * You phrase the question a bit vaguely: is there something specific that you do not understand? Anyway, admins are the "demigods" or "high preasts" of all wikipedias. Most admins are admins on only one wikipedia, some few are able to admin in several languages. They are specially authorized to do things that we mere mortals can not (we do not even see their tools in our user interface to wikipedia). Examples include: lock a page so that it can no more be edited e.g. by vandals, and block users from editing (usually vandals, based either on their username or on the IP-number from which they connect). Admins are selected throughout the year through a discussion process, in which every registered user may participate. You can not run for admin before you have made a high enough number of edits (and of course you have to behave - a highly "productive" vandal can not be nominated). Admins often do other things than just the technical stuff that they only have authority to do, such as mediating disputes, investigating sock puppet charges (very serious, don't go near a sock puppet situation if you can avoid it), and lots of ordinary, everyday wikignome and wikifairy stuff, too, of course. --Ronja 21:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * To add to your confusion, admins are sometimes called sysops, too. Then there are bureaucrats, who - as far as I understand - are a bit above admins. And then we have stewards, who are above everyone else (but under Jimbo Wales :-) They oversee projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, usually multilingually. --Ronja 00:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * User:Jmlk17 has a very nice and concise paragraph on his user page about what it means to be an admin. --Ronja 09:28, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Just created my 1st new entry, 1st Choice Liquor Superstore. Is this OK? -- Whiteandnerdy111 20:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * A solid little stub, seems OK. Now you need to mark it as a stub and, to avoid speedy deletion, do take the trouble to copy the template from the Dan Murphy's article, and fill it in conscientiously. Do you know how you can edit two pages at the same time (so you can copy wikicode from one to the other)? --Ronja 20:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Also, I would start the talk page with the Wikiproject templates (which you can copy from the beginning of Talk:Dan Murphy's), so other editors can see that you are serious about this stub.


 * I am off to sleep now - have a nice day & good luck with editing. --Ronja 21:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * O.K Now? I did it a few days ago. If you could reply ASAP, as I need to start installing Office on here. Just so you know, I will be off-wiki from Xmas Day until at least 5/1/08, as I am on Holidays interstate. I will also be inactive after 21/1/08, as I have a family thing, then I start Secondary School the next week. -- Whiteandnerdy111 (talk) 20:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Definitely OK. Have a nice Wikipedia-break, happy solstice & new year. You may wish to use a userbox to show that you are on a Wikipedia-break. CU in 2008! --Ronja (talk) 14:09, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I said I were leaving on 25 December, 2007 and returning on or after 5 January, 2008. -- Whiteandnerdy111 (talk) 20:01, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, sloppy reading, somehow managed to understand that you would be gone both a long time before Xmas and a few weeks after. I guess the installation went OK, then, seeing as you are back. --Ronja (talk) 20:43, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Now schools given me a task in the end of year concert (solo in What Time Is It, so im on semi-w/break. I will still edit however. -- Whiteandnerdy111 (talk) 05:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

READ Ronja, I have done A LOT of reading, and i have created Wikiproject High School Musical. Is that OK? -- Whiteandnerdy111 (talk) 19:38, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I'we read that, will go and check the project page as soon as I can (we have all had a stomach flu back-and-forth for over two weeks now, so I'm kind of behind with everything... --Ronja 17:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

'''I, effective immediattly, 4-40PM GMT+11, terminate this adpotion as I now believe I am prepared to work on my own on this wiki. Thank you for your help.''' -- Whiteandnerdy111 (talk) 05:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * You are welcome. Happy editing! And sorry for my slow response since mid-November: we have all four been ill with at least three different viruses, also over the midwinter holidays, so being a parent/nurse and completing a big translation project in time have totally taken what energy I had. Thankfully, we are all OK now, and with snow finally on the ground we are hoping that all those nasty bugs are now frozen to death. --Ronja (talk) 08:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)