User talk:WikidSmaht

This is my Talk page. Um, yay. If I posted on your talk page, please use the same section title so I know what you’re talking about. Thanks. -- WikidSmaht/2Wikid

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OoS/A connections.
[referring to discussion on the Link (Legend of Zelda) talk page ] I was pointing out evidence that there was no time for Link to go on a trip and then go to Termina in Majora's Mask. And Princess Zelda of the Oracles could be a new Princess as well. - A Link to the Past (talk) 20:27, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh. what's with the three months thing, though? Is there a statement somewhere that Link left Hyrule 3 months after defeating Ganon and timewarping back? But yes, I think it's safe to say that Oracle Zelda must be a new character, since she introduces herself and says "you must be Link" upon encountering him. -- WikidSmaht 03:49, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Majora's Mask's manual says it takes place three months after OoT.
 * And no, who's to say it's not a new Zelda? - A Link to the Past (talk) 04:31, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * ??? I'm not saying it's not a new Princess. I'm saying it definitely is. This is silly, arguing the same side of a point. I'll have to re-read the MM manual when I get back to my apartment, though I have no reason to disbelieve you. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 05:26, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * I misread. But it's most likely the case. Link's Awakening is clearly connected to ALttP, and it has connections to OoS/A. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:47, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * I dunno if the ALttP connection is that clear. There's nothing canon that confirms it. While it's probably what the creators intended, it's not really fixed that way in the storyline. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 04:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Legend of Hyrule
Hi there! I think it is best to send it to AfD rather than a speedy. The points that you mentioned on the talk page of Legend of Hyrule are themselves worthy of explanation and probably good to merge with another article, so for these reasons I've removed the speedy tag. If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know. Thanks! --HappyCamper 20:50, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean about my points being good to merge? The articles it could be merged into already contain the relevant information from the article in question, in that sense, I don't think there's anything to merge. Nonetheless, I plan on doing a sweep of merging and AfDing bad, unimprovable articles I've noticed. Should be sometime soon, and I'll include that one.
 * Other things:
 * I'm sure it's meant in good humor, but saying you're "just another Wikipedian" on your user page is a bit confusing. Congrats on the adminship, btw.
 * Raccoons can be dangerous. You should really call Animal Control or the local equivalent if they won't leave. -- WikidSmaht 03:49, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Hi there! I assume you saw my post on the reference desk about the happy campers (aka "racoons") hanging outside my house? Well, I did some thorough garbage cleanup, and it seems to have solved the problem. I'll take your advice if they decide to come back - they are such a hassle to deal with!

Well, to be honest, I'm not so familiar with the topic you are currently editing, but from your comments, it seemed as if it might have been worthwhile to mention them in the article itself. Specifically, the reasoning you provided - it was very well thought out, and thorough. I'd still suggest an AfD for the cleanup though, just as you are now suggesting. Glad someone is trying to make those articles better! Although I trusted your judgement about the speedy, I think the community in general is reluctant to delete pages which might appear to carry any useful content.

If you are interested, I recently happened to have deleted a page sort of like that (you are welcome to read my comments on my talk page), and another administrator found it very disapproving that I did so. I'm sure this particular user was well meaning, but sometimes Wikipedians might overreact a bit and feel attacked or bitten. I guess nobody is completely immune to this (including myself) but you can see from my talk page that the ramifications might be, well, not quite so fun.

I'm really happy you wrote me something on my talk page, as I was curious whether that page would have been neglected or not after I removed the speedy tag. Honestly, I didn't expect a response from you since it seemed like you were a relatively new contributor to Wikipedia according to your edit history. So, getting a message from you was sort of a pleasant surprise. :-)

A nice tip for you in return: If you plan to be a long term contributor, learn how to deal with criticism gracefully. Do this well so you can brace yourself against any "WikiStress". Try not to take things too personally, and make it a habit to assume good faith! This will help you tremendously along your career as a Wikipedian.

Ah yes, the phrase Just a Wikipedian - look in my "Archive 1" to find out where that came from! Sort of an in-joke I guess. :-) I prefer using that at the moment, but I might change it later as you suggested - stay tuned! There is also the interesting "mysterious Wikipedian" you might want to check out too on my talk page. Honestly, I think my account somehow attracts a very interesting set of threads!

Well, anyway, if you ever need something from me, let me know, and I'll try my best to help out. I'll be reducing my time on Wikipedia, but if you leave a message on my talk page, I'll try to get back to you in a reasonable amount of time. Have a great day, and I'll see you around the Wiki! --HappyCamper 15:22, 8 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm a very quick study, and I like to know the rules of the game before I play. I'm also pretty good at learning new software interfaces. I had probably around 80 edits before creating an account, dating back to May 9th, starting in earnest on May 20th, and I still don't always log in when making minor edits while browsing( login expiration is frustratingly fast at times), so add another 40-60 to the count.
 * As you can see on my user page, improvement of Zelda articles is my current pet project. Owning all the games, and a fair amount of paraphernalia, I've pulled together most of my resources( some things were so fragile that I left them in the relative calm of my parents' basement) and am currently working through these to fully refresh my memory, while making improvements to the relevant articles. The thing I'm proudest of so far is a major overhaul of Link (Legend of Zelda) a while back.
 * You shouldn't doubt yourself so much as a sysop, very few seem to do so, and though I've only skimmed the relevant material it appears to be holding you back severely in the eyes of most editors.
 * On that note, there is something you can help with: a wikivandal. I had originally left some questions and a note for Lucky 6.9, since he'd dealt with the user previously, but Lucky appears to have stopped responding to his talk page. :-( The vandal in question is User:DiddyKong1234 who also edits while not logged in, from IP 24.21.191.65. You can see the history of the problems( mixed in with good edits and apparently misguided ones) by looking at his talk and contribution pages, especially User_talk:24.21.191.65, and at my comments on Lucky's talk page. If you look at the rest of his talk page, you'll notice Lucky's a fairly new admin who gets rather a lot of complaints and keeps on plugging. Actually, didn't you ask him for help somewhere on that page? -- WikidSmaht (talk) 09:47, September 9, 2005 (UTC)


 * Quite the reasoned message you left there on the talk page! I think I'll leave it at that. If the edit quality of that user degenerates any further, I'll block him for a bit. See you around! --HappyCamper 18:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, his vandalism seemed particularly odd and random, and it finally hit me what the most obvious culprit would be. He created another overly specific page which I promptly merged and marked for speedy. Just as I was finishing that, he left a message on my talk page thanking me for the advice and saying he would use it. Let's hope, because even if it didn't turn out to be intentional vandalism, it was all quite disruptive to the functioning of those articles. If there are any further developments suggesting he has still not got a grasp on the point, I'll let you know. You cna say something as an admin, and then block him for a while if necessary. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 03:58, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Blocking question
You said on his talk page that you blocked IP 24.21.191.65, but it's fairly obvious that this editor is also the registered user DiddyKong1234. They both seem to be making edits again, I was just curious as to whether you unblocked him and why? Particularly since there's no further comment on that page.

Also, I was wondering about the purpose and nature of IP blocks? Does it only apply to anonymous edits, i.e., can a user still log in from a blocked IP to contribute? Is a block limited to specific namespaces? I seem to see comments here and there on blocked users' talk pages from the users themselves. Perhaps there's a policy page that would help me understand better, could someone link me? -- WikidSmaht on Lucky 6.9's talk page 21:13, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * * polite little cough* The user, as User:DiddyKong1234, is making bad edits and vandalizing pages again. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora%27s_Mask_characters&diff=prev&oldid=22818213 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Link_%28Legend_of_Zelda%29&diff=prev&oldid=22804786 I though I would bring this to your attention since you're the one who's been dealing with him. WikidSmaht (talk) on Lucky 6.9's talk page 04:37, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Username change
Your username change request has been completed; please see my reply to your comments at Changing username. Regards &mdash; Dan | Talk 00:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No, your userpages are not moved automatically, but I took care of it as part of the process. &mdash; Dan | Talk 03:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * That's what I thought. I don't think you're required to(, at any rate, the instructions on that page direct the User to do so following the change), which is why I made a point of thanking you. -- WikidSmaht 03:48, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Content blocker
Something just occured to me. Do you make some of your edits from a school or library computer with a content filter? Maybe censorware like NetNanny? Because you need to stop using that computer. At least use the "Show changes" button to check what you're doing before you submit( also, it wouldn't kill you to preview your work). Because when you make edits to certain pages, that filter is removing words and phrases like "bomb" or "adult link" from the article too. Assuming( and this is admittedly a significant, though reasonable, assumption) that the vandalism which is angering other wikipedians is not intentional on your part, this should help stop that.

Still, as mentioned above, your tendency to create and link to unencyclopedic articles about every tiny detail of a game is frowned on by the Wikipedia community. This behavior is not appreciated, and it's clear from comments and reverts that a growing number of other editors regard you as a nuisance.

The best article you've created is probably Woodstock, Portland, Oregon. I can't speak for other wikipedians, but it seems to me that the best thing would be for you to stop creating pages for a while, and focus on improvement of existing articles. If you feel a component of a large article might deserve to be spun-off, make a note suggesting it on that article's talk page. Eventually, you'll get a feel for the sort of things which most people will agree deserve their own articles.

Perhaps I'm overstepping my bounds by somewhat contradicting Wikipedia's policy of encouraging editors to be bold. But the fact of the matter is, you've been blocked before, and taking a conservative approach for a while is probably in your best interest. I would much rather see your eagerness put to good use improving existing articles, than see you blocked or banned for irritating and unproductive behavior. But at the same time, your current pattern simply can not continue. In addition, you might benefit from checking out the links Poli left in the first comment on this page. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on DiddyKong1234's talk page 10:37, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Advice
Thank you for the advice. I will definently use it. And by the way, you were right, i do have a blockage thing. Sorry. [unsigned comment by DiddyKong1234 02:54, September 10, 2005 (UTC)]
 * You're quite welcome. :-) If you have are unsure of whether a contribution is suitable, you will find many editors, including myself and the admins, willing to help, so don't hesitate to ask questions. I also recommend you use the article talk pages, particularly if you are restoring an edit which someone else had reverted. Don't forget to type four tildes( ~ ) when you leave a comment, this will automatically sign your username or IP, and the time and date. That way we don't have to check the history to figure out who left a comment. In case you didn't know, the key with the tilde( ~) is to the left of the number 1 on most keyboards in the US, and you'll press shift to use it. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 03:58, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * DiddyKong, just recently you created a page called Song of Storms. I think that is a good example of a page that needn't really be on Wikipedia. It it is a mere 3, short paragraphs, which is in this case a clear indication about the importance of the subject, and by extension an indication on how useful a page could be. It's also only relevant to a couple of games (one could argue only 1), so it doesn't warrant an entire article. An article on Link makes more sense, since he features in numerous games, has a story about him (multiple ones even), and it's more general. All the different Zelda song pages are closer to walkthroughs. I'm obviously not an authority on Wikipedia, and this is just my opinion, but I think the majority of Wikipedians would agree. Retodon8 on DiddyKong1234's talk page 01:57, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I second that. Really, these articles are not the sort of thing to make you popular or respected, which is what will be necessary to accomplish your stated goal of becoming an admin. Please consider whether something is really significant and encyclopedic before creating an article. The information, however, is usually( not always) accurate and valid, so you should consider learning to write for Wikibooks, as I and others suggested on the AfD for one of your strategy-intensive articles. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 04:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

You did it again, your content blocker removed stuff from the Link (Legend of Zelda), article and probably others. Preview. Your. Edits. BEFORE. Saving. Use the "Show changes" button, too, so you can catch alterations you might have missed. Also, it's really not a good idea to overload an article with images. I'm not saying you should remove it, but makes sure each image you use really warrants inclusion in an article. Consider shrinking your images to be more in line with other screen shots on the page. And remember: all images are supposed to have an image copyright tag. You need to add those to all the images you've uploaded. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 18:12, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

DiddyKong1234
Hi Joyous. I saw your comment on DiddyKong1234's talk page. I believe you'd also dealt with him back before he registered. This one user is driving up my wikistress level more than anything I've encountered since I started editing here.( This may be attributable to his tendency to contribute to articles about The Legend of Zelda series, which is my pet project, too. This is also the reason I can't just walk away.) I don't want to resort to newbie-biting, but Diddy( a.k.a. 24.21.191.65) is really starting to bother me, and though I can't speak for others, I know a few things have gotten to them too, and I think bad feelings toward him would run high among Zelda editors if a few of us didn't end up reverting, correcting, or rewriting much of what he contributes. I keep a folder in my favorites of pages which need to be merged or AfD'd, and pretty much every article he creates winds up there. His articles are often short, unencyclopedic pieces on non-notable parts of video games, usually consisting of what should be contributions to the game articles themselves. The spelling and grammar can only be described as regrettable, and the information isn't even always accurate. When it is accurate, much of it is similar in form to a strategy guide, and therefore appropriate for Wikibooks, but not the Wikipedia. On the AfD pages of one or more articles, it's been mentioned how video game articles have been very successfully tied to guides in Wikibooks in the past. He created several articles on individual songs( or groups of songs with made-up categories as titles) from the Zelda series, and in an attempt to curb this I created the Legend of Zelda series songs article, and redirected the other articles there.( My original intent was to improve and then link or merge his articles, but I realized that "improving" his articles essentially consisted of rewriting them due to the major style problems.) His response was to restore several of these unfortunate pages and link them from the new page. He contributes tons of great images, but never clarifies the copyright status. At some point, I'm feeling like I'll have to go through his Contribution history and tag them all as unknown copyright status. All this, and he wants to be an admin!!! I'm just thankful he hasn't figured out how to use RfA yet. You probably can't block him just for being a nuisance, but I was hoping you'd have some advice as to how I should proceed. He has repeatedly ignored comments from me( very civil and even kind, I think you will see) and other users on his talk page, or responded but then failed to follow through with action. This includes a failure to preview his edits, meaning that some sort of NetNanny-esque program on one of the computers he uses tends to remove words from certain articles when he edits them. His eagerness is nice, but his actions are shortsighted and stubborn. If he'd just take a little more time to think over his contributions, I'm sure he could be a decent editor, but it seems from his attitude like he might be too young. I don't want to lose my cool and say/do something I'd regret, but I don't want to clean up after him all the time or abandon the Zelda articles either. Should I start a Wikiquette alert or an RfC, perhaps?? Thanks in advance for your help. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Joyous's talk page 14:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay in response; my internet connection has been sporadic lately.   I have been in some contact with our friend, partially via his talk page, and partly in email.  I agree that he's probably quite young, and he does seem quite...reluctant to follow the advice left by other editors here.  At one point, I thought he really did appear sincere in his efforts to improve his editing, but he likes to toss in a little vandalism now and then.  I don't really have a lot of advice, because I'm not convinced that he really wants to improve.  It's possible that an RfC might wake him up a bit.  Joyous  (talk) 03:14, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * He doesn't seem to be that active at the moment, perhaps he got discouraged, or perhaps school's just catching up with him. If he becomes a nuisance again, I'll just go ahead and start an RfC. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Joyous's talk page 16:27, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

RfD
I'm curious, why did you leave Passing Songs (Legend of Zelda) when removing two other redirects I nominated under the same criteria? -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Noel's talk page 19:25, 29 September 2005 (UTC)


 * This is partially from memory, so I may make an error, but... For one (Sage Songs), it was a generic title redir'ed to a specific target, and for the other one (Species Songs (Zelda)), I seem to recall the name wasn't close enough to anything at the potential target. So those both went. The third one seemed reasonably accurate, and also seemed harmless, so I woted "keep", and with one delete, and one keep, 50/50 goes to keep. Noel (talk) 02:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I see... thanks for clearing that up. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Noel's talk page 02:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Sure, no problem. I hope you're OK with that outcome? BTW, the two new ones you added, on a quick glance both of those will go too; Blue Fire is certainly (as you point out) unsuitable for a redir to a specific target. If I get energetic I may turn it into a dab page! (Hope that would be OK with you.) Noel (talk) 15:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, to be honest I'm not particularly comfortable with it; while a casual gamer might misremember "the Song of Passing" as "the Passing song", the author was using "Passing Songs" to refer to all songs in the series which cause time to jump forward, and that usage constitutes a neologism( even more so than Warp Songs, which was redirected after an inconclusive AfD). As for Blue Fire, sounds good, though I don't know what else it's featured in. If you disambiguate it, though, don't forget to move it to Blue fire. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Noel's talk page 19:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

One piece of how this works
You don't get to change your mind on that. The horse is out of the barn. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:16, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh... I thought I read otherwise somewhere. I must have misremembered; sorry. Not a big deal to me, though, in general my contributions were intended for the whole world to see and learn from if possible. :-) -- 06:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Eternal Darkness stuff
Hey, just wanted to let you know that a whole lot of the stuff in the article (I've been contributing to it too) has been deemed more to be 'strategy guide' material rather than useful encylcopedia material, so it's been decided by the Video Game project that all the 'strategy guide' and list like stuff will be moved into a WikiBook. I have plans on being primary author/editor, but I would love the assistance if you want to contribute heavily. ParallaxTZ 07:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmm...
I just wanted to say, I think it's great that you're into a major philosophical work like Calvin & Hobbes even though you didn't exist while it was first in print. Also, this makes me feel quite old. I am also encouraged by the fact that you appear more literate than some Wikipedians twice your age. WikidSmaht (talk) on Megawatterson's talk page 18:03, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Calvin and Hobbes
You said at Talk:Calvin and Hobbes that you had a GIF of the original May 23, 1987 strip. Is it the one where Calvin tries to make iced tea? And if that's the original, what is your version?

Thanks, --zenohockey 17:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Princess Zelda
[referring to this edit summary: 09:28, 30 November 2005 (UTC) WikidSmaht (rv - a bit surprised to see this from an admin, isn't editing/deleting others' comments from talk pages frowned upon? Instead of removing his statement, comment on why it doesn't fit in the article...)] You're right about removing comments; it was late and I was stupid. :) tregoweth 19:23, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Edits
[referring to this edit summary: 03:20, December 12, 2005 (UTC) WikidSmaht (Cooper, I appreciate the corrections, but it's not really appropriate to edit another user's post.)] Ok, sorry I didn't know, I'm new. Cooper 20:23, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

The Legend of Zelda series title
[referring to discussion on the "The Legend of Zelda series" article's talk page ] This article had your suggested title in the past. This has been a subject of considerable debate. See Talk:The_Legend_of_Zelda_series. Deco 18:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

"User freespeech" template
Helloo.. Saw your free speech thing and thought you might be interested in this template (which is also linked from the WikiProject talk page:

A link so you can preview it: User:Feureau/UserBox/freespeech

Hope you like, it's pretty much the same but will also automatically add you to the ''Wikipedians against censorship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 17:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Link (Legend of Zelda)
Hi WikidSmaht, I don't quite understand why you reverted "... innocents" to "an innocent person/people/land". Using slashes in a free-flowing text is bad form, especially when you are mixing singular and plural forms (an innocent person/people). Also, I don't think a "land" can be innocent; it's a concept that doesn't make sense. Finally, I think you should use edit summaries to justify changes you make to articles, especially when you are reverting other users' edits. Cheers. Phil s 10:26, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Zelda II
Stop editing the various Legend of Zelda pages to say that the Zelda Link saves in Zelda II had a red rose in her hand. You are attempting to draw a parallel with Briar Rose which DOES NOT EXIST. There is NO canon source with images or text supporting the red rose( or the "100 years", for that matter). If I'm wrong then CITE your source in your edit summaries or on talk pages. Your repeated inclusion of this irrelevant and unsupported information is vandalism. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on SNIyer12's talk page 05:53, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Since you persist in putting this bullshit in the articles with no supporting reference, I am going to take this to RfC or directly to an admin, after I examin current policy and determine the appropriate course of action. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on SNIyer12's talk page 04:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Your comments on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for deletion...
 The nominated redirect was kept. Redirecting the article to Spell (paranormal) would be suboptimal, since that article does not discuss sleeping curses at all. Likewise with redirecting to curse. People who look up "Sleeping curse" are likely looking for the same effect as that used in Sleeping Beauty, and in the absence of a more informative article, Sleeping Beauty is probably the best target. If there are more instances of a sleeping curse being used in fiction, and if those instances have articles here on Wikipedia, then Sleeping curse should be turned into a disambiguation page. I leave this task to those who seem more well-versed in the occurrences of sleeping curses in fiction than I am. Ξxtreme Unction |yakkity yak 12:15, 19 January 2006 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'  The nominated redirect was kept. Redirecting the article to Spell (paranormal) would be suboptimal, since that article does not discuss sleeping curses at all. Likewise with redirecting to curse. People who look up "Sleeping curse" are likely looking for the same effect as that used in Sleeping Beauty, and in the absence of a more informative article, Sleeping Beauty is probably the best target. If there are more instances of a sleeping curse being used in fiction, and if those instances have articles here on Wikipedia, then Sleeping curse should be turned into a disambiguation page. I leave this task to those who seem more well-versed in the occurrences of sleeping curses in fiction than I am. Ξxtreme Unction |yakkity yak 12:16, 19 January 2006 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Sleeping curse &rarr; Sleeping Beauty -- Sleeping curses are a part of fantasy in general, not just of one fairy tale, and anyone looking for information on Sleeping Beauty specifically is likely type it in directly. WikidSmaht (talk) 07:28, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Deborah-jl Talk 15:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Spell (paranormal)--Birgitte§β ʈ  Talk  18:06, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I still say Delete, but if it ends up redirected, curse would be a more appropriate target. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 05:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sleeping spell &rarr; Sleeping Beauty -- Sleeping spells are a part of fantasy in general, not just of one fairy tale, and anyone looking for information on Sleeping Beauty specifically is likely type it in directly. See my nomination of Sleeping curse on Jan. 12, created by same user. WikidSmaht (talk) 05:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Spell (paranormal)--Birgitte§β ʈ  Talk  16:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Birgitte. -- nae'blis (talk) 21:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect. --Optichan 16:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Is it really acceptable for the admin to make a unilateral decision that goes against all the votes? I personally don't think so, but I want to know what others think.
 * Neither recieved a single keep vote.
 * The first recieved 2 delete votes,( including my nomination).
 * The second was closed prematurely after only a few days.
 * Postscript: I know Wikipedia is not a democracy, but it seems to me that there is nothing remotely like concensus in such a decision. Ξxtreme Unction should have made his/her comments in a keep vote or a comment for others to consider. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for deletion 00:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * These discussions are not votes. They are discussions.  The closing admin has broad leeway to weigh the comments provided by participants in the discussion, in conjunction with his/her knowledge of Wikipedia policy, and make the judgement he/she feels is the right one, all factors taken into consideration.  The two relevant policies here are "Plausible redirects should not be deleted" and "Redirects should not engender confusion."


 * Sleeping curse &rarr; Sleeping Beauty and Sleeping spell &rarr; Sleeping Beauty are, in the absence of suitable alternatives, plausible redirects, and therefore should not be deleted.


 * Redirects are governed by the Principle of Least Astonishment. If someone types in a redirect in the search box, and find themselves at the target page going "Huh?  Why am I here?", it's a confusing redirect.  Retargeting these two redirects at Spell (paranormal) or Curse would, in my opinion, engender such confusion.


 * However, it is important to understand that RFD decisions are not binding. The fact that these redirects have been kept is not an indication that they must now and forevermore remain redirects pointing at Sleeping Beauty.  I can think of at least two alternative methods of dealing with them.


 * Disambiguating one and retargeting the other to the resulting disambiguation page.
 * Expanding one into a full article about sleeping spells in fiction, and then retargeting the other to the expanded article.


 * Either of these alternatives would, in my opinion, be superior to the current circumstance. And neither action requires any sort of admin action from RFD.  If you have the knowledge to expand Sleeping curse into an article (even a stub article), and then edit Sleeping spell to redirect to Sleeping curse (or vice versa, if that's your bag), that's exactly the sort of thing we encourage.


 * All the best.
 * Ξxtreme Unction |<font face="arial, helvetica" size="0">yakkity yak on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for deletion 13:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

-->...have been answered in a hopefully persuasive fashion. I felt you'd wish to know.

All the best. <b style="font-family:arial, helvetica; color:#ff0000;">Ξxtreme</b> <span style="color:#006688; font-family:arial, helvetica;">Unction |<span style="font-family:arial, helvetica; font-size:x-small;">yakkity yak 13:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

AWB trouble
Hey, be careful with the AutoWikiBrowser. Your December 27 edit of List of fictional cats totally messed up a bunch of foreign words (including the link to the Japanese article), probably because AWB doesn't handle Unicode well. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Celestianpower]'s talk page 07:53, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

AWB edits
Hi! Yeah, sorry about that. I, however, can no longer use AWB so that won't happen again. Thanks anyway. --Cel e stianpower háblame 18:04, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

SNIyer12
I want to start an RfC regarding SNIyer12 constantly adding nonsense about a red rose in Zelda II to several Legend of Zelda-related articles.( This is a apparently a misguided attempt to draw a nonexistant parallel between Zelda and Briar Rose, seemingly a pet interest of his/hers.) Before we can go to RfC, at least 2 people need to attempt to contact the user on his/her talk page, which I have( and been ignored), but as the conflict isn't just between SNIyer12 and myself, I don't want to ask for a third opinion. Since you were the last registered user, other than myself, to revert one of these edits( see:), I thought I would ask you to contact him/her. If he/she stops, great, if not, there will be grounds for a User-conduct RfC( since I can cite at least a dozen instances) and I will start one. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Setokaiba's talk page 22:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S.: I realize there's a risk of this being labelled trivial, but I'm willing to take that risk... Since SNIyer12 has been asked to stop or cite sources, I hope others will appreciate that it's an actual problem. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Setokaiba's talk page 22:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree; I'll deal with it tomorrow. This user is certainly stubborn. Setokaiba✌≝ on his talk page 23:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

User:SNIyer12
I reverted his edits again, and left a reasonable note on his talk page. The ball's in his court now... Setokaiba✌≝ 21:28, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I saw already. ;-) Btw, I think it's obstreperous, with two es rather than three os. And though I share the inclination that it's a stubborn male, probably young, too, I have seen no evidence to verify SNIyer12's sex or gender.-- WikidSmaht (talk) on Setokaiba's talk page 21:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It spellchecked OK on Word, and refering to people on the Internet as "he" is a habit of mine. Setokaiba✌≝ on his talk page 21:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I checked a bunch of online dictionaries, they all say it's obstreperous. Then again, I doubt most people will notice. Heck, I wouldn't have, if It hadn't come up in my life recently. Anyway, thanks for the assist. :-) We'll see what happens. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Setokaiba's talk page 22:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess rating predictions
[referring to this edit summary: 21:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC) WikidSmaht m (Articles about future products always contain speculation, and this particular prediction has basis in precedent and available footage.)] Based on your comment in the game's revision history: I can't really say I understand how this game can be "predicted" to have an E10+/T ESRB rating based on "precedent" when there has never been a Zelda game given an E10+ or T rating. There's also the question of where exactly these "predictions" are coming from. Based on what I can see regarding what Wikipedia is not, this looks like crystal-balling. - DoubleCross 13:21, 2 February 2006 (UTC) [responded with this edit: 12:42, February 2, 2006 (UTC) WikidSmaht m (very well, that's reasonable... I'll leave it off until I can cite a prediction by a media source.)]

Apology
I'm on Wikivacation, so go here if you want to talk to me, but before leaving, I want to apologize for getting so mad at you on Talk:Prince Albert piercing. I was angry and did not act in a civil manner. Wikipedia is just making me too angry and stressed, so I'm taking an extended Wikivacation; it's not your fault, it's my fault. Again, I apologize for increasing your Wikistress. Samboy 22:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * (I'm putting this here because I don't consider it urgent, so you can just see it whenever you come back: )Er, thanks for the apology, but I came into that whole situation rather late, and the only thing you actually said to me on that talk page was overly emotional but not really offensive, given the phrasing. I don't think you offended anyone, more a matter of you frustrating Qvdm and some others.
 * Other than that, I'll make a few random comments: I definitely disagree with your crusade per User:Samboy/Offensive, particularly with your loose and inaccurate definition of "pornography". I agree with you about unreadable math articles. You are becoming just as irritating as Gene Poole or moreso regarding your inability to leave each other alone. It's a shame you didn't create pissing contest before leaving. Have a nice wikivacation, Mr. Trenholme, and good luck in your other endeavors. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Samboy's talk page 03:47, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship Vote
I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my successful adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk 07:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Bulbasaur
Hi! Thanks so much for the excellent rewrite - too bad you didn't vcome along a couple of weeks ago during the FAC... --Cel es tianpower háblame 13:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Pokémon signature attacks
Signature attacks apply to the Pokémon's primary attack in the video games, not in the anime. With some exceptions, the signature attack is usually a naturally learned attack. These attacks are usually quite common on movesets. For example, Seismic Toss is rarely seen on a Charizard moveset. Andros 1337 18:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Typographic quotes
May I ask why you're taking the trouble of converting certain Zelda articles written with typewriter quotes to typographic quotes?  Pagra shtak  06:22, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Not just Zelda articles, all the articles on my watchlist. There is no concensus on the matter and either is deemed acceptable. I think it looks much better, and more professional, to use curved quotes, especially since some of the articles are FAs or close to FA level, and therefore stand a good chance of being printed in 1.0. I know we can’t expect every contributor to use them, but since they’re articles that I pass through once a week or more myself, it’s a small matter to convert new submissions to the prettier format. Note that I very carefully edited all links so that the quote style wouldn’t interfere. I also left measurements, like feet/inches, with the straight marks, as they should be. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 14:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You're correct that there is no concensus, which is exactly why you shouldn't mass change them, just like British/American spellings and reference formats. I happen to prefer typewriter quotes, mostly for consistency.  Pagra shtak  22:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It’s a completely different issue. English variants are a matter of regional differences. Quotes are a matter of ease and convenience vs. aesthetics. Also, there are accepted( and sensible) guidelines on how to use English variants, there are no particular preferences or guidelines given for quotation mark appearance. As for “consistency”, the articles were consistent, because I took the time to change them in their entirety. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 23:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not. Articles about subjects that do not have a specific American or British relation should reflect the spellings used by the major contributor. Changing color to colour just because you prefer the second would not be tolerated in those articles. Similarly, converting ref/note to is not done without the consent of the major contributor. The same should hold for typewriter quotes. As for consistency, what I meant was: Further additions to the article as far more likely to be made with typewriter quotes. Leaving the articles with typewriter quotes will eliminate the issue of converting new additions. The article will also be consistent with the vast majority of Wikipedia articles. Finally, there are is no need for a silly piped link like The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask .  Pagra shtak  23:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It is. English variants are based on both convention and the approval of major, respected institutions. Quote style differences are based on the limitations of standard keyboard layouts, and the unwillingness of most computer users to make the extra effort. English spelling within the Wikipedia has established guidelines( those you cited), quote style does not. I don’t really know much about &lt;ref>, but if it’s and aesthetic/content thing, I think it, like quotes( given the lack of guidelines), has more to do with being bold and improving articles. If we were trying to make each article consistent with the “vast majority” of others, we would change all English to American English, but we certainly don’t do that. Also, the “vast majority” of professional-quality publications use proper quotes, and isn't that what Wikipedia strives to be? The same institutions in all English-speaking countries which set the standard spellings for the region will almost all agree that differentiated quotes are more proper and professional, and even word processing programs have features like “smart quotes” to convert them as you type.
 * As for maintenance, I volunteered to do that, to keep the articles internally consistent without trying to force anything on contributors. And users who actually care about the appearance of the article and are familiar with the Wikipedia can easily insert real quotes from the table below the edit box. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 00:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You prefer typographic, I prefer typewriter. There's no concensus on which to use. Please explain how changing an existing article written with typewriter quotes to use only typographic is justified.
 * Regarding English/British, try moving Color to Colour, and changing all instances of color to colour in the article and see how well that goes over. The guidelines for quotes or the spelling are the same for that article: either is fine, but stick with the established version.  Pagra shtak  01:38, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There’s no concensus for quote style, but unlike British/American English, there’s also no guideline that says they should be based on the first major contributor. It’s a completely different issue. While there’s certainly no reason the contributors to an article can’t change them back or reach a consensus to decide, saying they shouldn’t be changed in the first place contravenes WP:BOLD.
 * As for British English, I wasn’t proposing that we should change it to American English, I was commenting on your statement that “the vast majority” of Wikipedia articles have typewriter quotes. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 20:35, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Series and iterations
Forgetting the dispute over the actual meaning of the word iterations, it shouldn't be in the article for the simple reason that it's uncommon to the point of being jarring. The article should be accessable to most readers. This isn't a commonly used word -- at least in my area of the world.

As for the use of series', my bad! I was looking at the sentence and reading it as "first in the series" as opposed to it actually refering to first of videos. Ciao! --Jayzel 19:24, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... I often see the word in journalistic and literary sources, in use beyond its precise meaning. However, I will accept for now that it is not accurate enough. Don’t fret over series, we're both just trying to make the prose more easily understood. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Censorship
A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you knidly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 10:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

SNIyer12
What do we have to do about this? I've been on holiday and forgotten about it (sorry...), so please remind me. This is certainly getting irritating, and vandalism seems to recently be on the increase, from newer, registered users as well as the normal anonymous idiots. Setokaiba✌≝ 22:06, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Twilight Princess and Landofthelegend.net
What your problem is I don't know, but I'd like to ask you to stop changing links to inferior links. IGN does not mention the example given by Miyamoto and thus, linking to that site while it does not contain all related information is useless. Find another website that does contain that information if you don't like lotl, but don't hold back information. An encyclopedia is more then anything else about details.

What was your point in changing the Zelda series page btw? Miyamoto DID confirm the functionality and Zelda Revo was first confirmed at E3 2005. Hyrule 00:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Pokémon
I deleted the Zbzz... whatever thing as I gave a reason in the WP:PCP. See there for a reason.--XenoN e on (converse) 15:15, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: FireRed and LeafGreen
I'm not sure how or where I'd get them from. Sounds great though. Got anywhere (not ebay) that I could get knock-down second hand ones? --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:15, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstars
Hey, I've been meaning to give you a Pokébarnstar for a long time but I had trouble finding it for a while (I woonder why <tt>:</tt>P.) Congrats and keep up the great editting. Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 15:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

About links
If a link is directly copy/pasted that has a hard space in it, in Internet explorer (and possibly in other browsers), the space will be replaced in the address bar with % and any one of several letters or numbers. If someone directly copies it from the address bar, it may contain such a symbol. Just thought you might want to know. Daniel Davis 01:41, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Orange Islands
I think you put an IPA clean up on this page, but though I may be blind I cannot see what needs IPAing. Can you clarify please? --Slp1 13:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Samus Aran
I hadn't meant to revert it; I must have hit rollback by mistake and not noticed. Sorry about that... Smurrayinchester 19:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Uh... Whoops?

 * First of all, calm down. Second, you keep removing important/relevant info and examples. Third, only the new Pokémon have appeared in other media, not any of the other features, so the sections about references in other games and the anime belong under the New Pokémon heading, and the films are part of the anime, and belong under it. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 00:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry... I misunderstood. The whole "In... [blank]" is ABOUT the Pokémon so it SHOULD go under New Pokémon. My mistake. Anyways, I was perfectly calm, and I could ask the same thing of you. YOU keep on removing important changes I have made.Coltonblue 01:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)Coltonblue

Proper name?
I just noticed that you moved Reggie Fils-Aime to Reginald Fils-Aime. However, I've never heard this guy be called by anything else but "Reggie" - the so-dubbed "Reggie-lution," his fanbase, is "Reggie" and not "Reginald". Is this a case of Bill Clinton where the most common name is used, or is it a "it's a nickname we don't use nicknames" case? Hbdragon88 20:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't leave me in the cold... Hbdragon88 00:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You may be right but my instinct is that it should be under Reginald( which didn’t even have a redirect before), however I haven’t had a chance to review the issue in-depth. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 08:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: LinkandMidna
Someone has uploaded a new version of LinkandMidna.jpg, which is actually just a cropped version of Twilight9sj.png. Please re-upload the old version if you still have it, thanks. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 20:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Done... that's what the (rev) link is there for. :) GarrettTalk 03:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Link cameos
Sorry, I did misunderstand your intention. Although I have screenshot evidence for one of the titles, I lack a source for the others. I'm sure a sufficiently motivated person could find ROMs and play through the game to the relevant point and grab screenshots. I am not that person. :-) Deco 22:18, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Hey.. you, I was going through the admin archives and I checked your name and noticed you'd never been nominated at all for adminship. Rather than going out of my way and writing a nom, then you declining it, I thought I'd ask instead if you were interested. (I'm a good RfA streak recently, I nominated Natalya.. and got attacked for nominating such a great user.) I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I respect your decisions and I think you could do good with the admin. My only concern is that some people may find you slightly... aggressive? If you'd like to try anyway, drop me a bell. Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 22:23, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Psst. Down here. ; ) H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 22:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw it the first time. Well, I am interested, but indeed, I think I am likely too brusque for a most users, and I am still composing my answers to the nominee questions. A few weeks ago, I might have told you to proceed anyway, however, I am currently embroiled in a nasty edit war with User:Hyrule on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, as he insists we treat his fan site as a major media outlet and accept it as a source. I believe this would reflect badly on me were my conduct to be scrutinized at the moment. Perhaps in a month or so, when this has died down. You needn’t ask again. Regards, -- WikidSmaht (talk) 22:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S.: I read a bit of Natalya’s RfA. You are too sensitive about Torchic.


 * You have about as much chance as passing it as I do. H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 22:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Pardon me, but that’s hardly encouraging. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 08:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I meant Torchic on FAC, not RfA. H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 22:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Game articles
I responded to your comment about game articles at my talk page. Thanks. TheProject 16:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Pikmin articles
I noticed that you de-capitalized the word "Bulborb" in some Pikmin-related articles. I had always assumed that the word was capitalized, but if you have a good reason, I'll chalk it up to spending too much time translating German. (Where every noun is capitalized) RyanG e rbil10 16:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Only in Captain Olimar, and it was an accident. I have no idea whether it should be capitalized, probbaly. Check the Nintendo Power Player’s Guide, maybe?. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 21:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. I'll change it back. I just didn't want to get into an edit war, not that I think you're the type of user to do so, but better safe than sorry, right? Thanks, RyanG e rbil10 21:39, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: SNIyer12 RfC
I’m just curious, how did you come across the SNIyer12 RfC?

I believe the chain of events went something like this: I was looking at the introduction of the Aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks article in the course of usual editing. I found the introduction unusually POV and without sourcing. I went to the article's talk page and found that the introduction had been the source of much discussion, and a 'slow edit war' - also, that consensus had determined that the material did not belong there.

When I found this was an edit by SNIyer12, I then went to their user talk page to review comments put there. I found discussion similar to what I believe I've been seeing, about Zelda articles. Inside the Zelda article was an edit summary:

SNIyer12, please STOP adding this rose nonsense, as per the many requests and warnings, and the user-conduct RfC about you.

...I went to take a look at it there. So, I really had no idea this was going on, which is why I put what I've seen in the 'outside view' section; I'll let what I've written there speak for itself.

Regards, Skybunny 23:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Virtual Boy Wario Land
While you may have always referred to the game as just "Wario Land", the actual title is "Virtual Boy Wario Land". box The art says this, the cartridge says this, and the title screen says this. The article should reflect its offical title, especially considering it's just a rearrangement of the words. I have relocated it again, please contact me first if you still disagree.--SeizureDog 00:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I know memory is a very tricky thing, so I generally don’t edit based solely on it. When I originally moved the page back in January, as best as I can recall I had just directly examined the box and the cart. In case I’m wrong, before moving it again, I will double-check when I’m at my parents’ house next, but I have no doubt that what I see will bear me out: in the U.S., at least, it was just called Wario Land. Did you take those pics yourself? If you did, I don’t know how to explain the discrepancy, if you didn’t, then I would tend to think they’ve been edited, though to what end, I don’t know. - - WikidSmaht (talk) 00:50, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's ok, it's an easy mistake to make. In all likeliness when you looked at the box your eyes just glanced right over the "Virtual Boy" part of the title. You might have assumed that it was merely saying it was for the Virtual Boy system and not an actual part of the title. It's a lot like Yoshi's Island. Everyone always drops the "Super Mario World 2:" at the begining. And those images are from Planet Virtual Boy, the largest site on the subject of Virtual Boy and I highly doubt they have been altered in any way. --SeizureDog 00:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Question
What does it mean to endorse something, if it does Thank You I Love Minun  (talk) 15:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It means to support, agree with, or verify. When someone endorses a summary on an RfC, that person is agreeing with the things that have been said. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 22:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Nihongo Template
Stop removing the nihongo template from articles. It maintains the style of Japanese names as given in Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). If you have a issue with it, take it up with them. Perhaps you'll change their mind. Until then, the template stays. ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 13:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Pokémon Adventures
Hey Smaht, since you have indepth knowledge in Pokémon Adventures, could you perhaps write a small section on Golduck about Blue's? I am having trouble pinning down information about it. The article is quite good, but lacks a manga section whatever. Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 17:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. I’ll add anything pertinent from the G/S/C saga when I finish reading it. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that's amazing, I was just reading it. (And thanks for leaving the chapter numbers!) H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 20:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Ugh, the pokemon attack list wants to be deleted!
My god, after all of that reworking and fixing that you went through in the attack list, they're trying to get rid of it.. Ugh! You need to say something in the AfD page, just to bring up a point. I know I'm not the only one who's freaking out about this... Really, what's different with that list from any other list of say, Mario characters, or other lists of things from other games? It's so frustrating... Seriously though, if they remove that I'm probably going to die a little inside.. There's a place for everything on wikipedia, even if it's like wikibooks or something. You should really say something over there at the AfD page, I know you worked a nice part in this. And ugh, the sight of a group of stuck-up people twiddling their thumbs, going all snort, snort, snort, cruft, cruft, cruft, cruft makes me want to pound someone in. Seriously, isn't there a place for this kind of stuff? Maybe they oughta ban lists about video games as well if they're at it... What's up with this? We need some help here. Toastypk 03:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Manga knowledge
Hey Wikid, after your great work on Golduck, I've been trying to get clued up on Pokémon Adventures. I was wondering if you would help me complete the list of released chapters in English at User:HighwayCello/PA, which will either being intergrated into the Pokémon Adventures article, or at least be a good resource for people that aren't particularly clued up. I have the 4th and 5th volume names and page numbers, but I can't find the chapter numbers for the first and last volumes. Any help would be great, H ig hway Batman! 12:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

User:SNIyer12 again
They're at it again: see here, and here. I have cited the minuscule amount of Google results, the top two of which are the Princess Zelda and Adventure of Link articles. Now what? Setokaiba✌≝ 10:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

reference to PCP's style guide
I'm unsure what you mean by that unconstructive *cough*. I'm trying to think of a good-faith reason, but am having a hard time. If you felt i was acting irregardless of it, you might want to notice that the templates follow WP:PCP/S (except User:Zappernapper/sandbox/attributes b/c of it's controversy) and i have in fact contributed to the style guide in the past. Like i said b4, this is to solve the problem that too many people act without reading it, and the problem that a consensus may change what is on there - rendering 400+ articles not up to project guidlines. If you feel this is a waste of time and uneeded i would appreciate any comments or feedback on the talk page. -Zappernapper 20:20, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm back
I'm back, so I expect a grand welcoming party from you, complete with girls as undressed as the ones in those pictures I once complained about! Samboy 23:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Don't swear at people
Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. I missed the word "spring". That's not grounds for swearing at me. -Amarkov blahedits 15:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Pokemon move
You didn't complete the move request since you forgot to set up the discussion at Chatot. I've done it for you. TJ Spyke 04:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn’t forget at all. I had placed the move request under Uncontroversial proposals. Requests in that section are explicitly exempt from the need to place the template on the talk page. --WikidSmaht (talk) 05:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Paragraph in Diamond and Pearl article
I noticed you readded a deleted paragraph. It was rather redundant to do so - I merged only the necessary stuff in the Gameplay paragraph where the rest were repeated. May I ask that you rectify this? - T e tsuya-san (talk : contribs) 11:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm just collecting your consensus here. One of the paragraphs you "restored" also seemingly contained some OR. - T e tsuya-san (talk : contribs) 11:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well that’s just it. One of your reasons for deleting it was OR, but I didn’t see any OR, just something unreferenced, so I restored it and added the reference with the relevant info( which was already used elsewhere, so I just linked it to the existing ref tag). --WikidSmaht (talk) 06:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The other reason is that it was in two different paragraphs, and it was repeated. Not only that, but as per my edit summary, some of the information in the paragraph did not meet what was said in the sources. Sounds a bit like OR to me. - T e tsuya-san (talk : contribs) 10:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Precisely which information are you referring to? I don’t mean to be difficult, but you need to be more specific. --WikidSmaht (talk) 10:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Another reason was how the paragraph was repeated. Move it, consolidate it, whatever. The edit I made consolidated the paragraphs and removed this line: "There are several centers in each city that serve different purposes. One center allows the player to enter battles against other players, and join the Pokémon Union, a chat room of sorts where players may chat with people on their friends list." as the references fail to mention this. It's not good looking to have a paragraph repeated again now, is it? Upon consolidation, only that information was removed. It'd be best if you improved that paragraph rather than place both under different headings. - T e tsuya-san (talk : contribs) 10:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Are you pissed?
Hello, I was reading your edit summary of Pokémon Adventures on 6 January 2006 at 21:18 SGT: "Ugh... rv/cleanup/wikify. IN THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA WE USE THE FUCKING ENGLISH NAMES."...and I was just wondering why you used this word. Is it because of Citizendium, perhaps? -- <font color="DarkGreen" face="palatino linotype">Alt <font color="Green" face="antiqua">iris <font color="DarkRed" face="book antiqua">Exeunt  01:54, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

User:WikidSmaht/Pokerefs on MfD
Yeah. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:WikidSmaht/Pokerefs. -Amarkov blahedits 00:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

FireRed and LeafGreen
So are you going to prune it like you mentioned, or will I have to revert back to my simplified version? You haven't replied on the talk page. ReyBrujo brought up an interesting point that an excessively long summary might be a copyright violation. I mean, I'll leave it alone if you signal that you're going to work on it. Hbdragon88 00:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The copyvio issue is definitely a potential concern, but given that it was a response to my own still-valid point about the abundance of far more detailed synopses, I’d like to see examples of where this has been a problem for Wikipedia, and how they relate to this particular instance, before we act based on that bit of discussion. I really don’t see how these attacks on game synopses are justified when no one ever presents the same objections to film or TV synopses. --WikidSmaht (talk) 02:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Just to clarify.
Clarifying on what I said since I usually don't make full messages in an edit summary, bots and people using AWB to make edits usually separate the sections out. - T e tsuya-san (talk : contribs) 04:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don’t see why I would care what bots and the AWB do? Not being a smart ass, I really don’t get it. Neither speaks for Wikipedia in any official capacity. Plus, that statement seems inaccurate, I’ve seen plenty of bot and AWB edits which do no such thing. Btw, I hate the AWB. It doesn’t work for me, last I tried, and I’ve seen it “correct” too many things which were fine the way they were. Actually, those spaces most often come from section edits, because the blank line that always occurs at the end of an edit box gets interpretted that way when submitted.
 * But anyway, that’s a minor side issue, my reversion was mainly made for the edit summary, with which I intended to draw your attention to Talk:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, where I clarified my edit summary comment that “Romanization ‘source’ link doesn’t work.”. Obviously this was fruitless, as you haven’t replied there. Please do. --WikidSmaht (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Pokemon game mechanics
I've removed the inuse and underconstruction tags because they were up for over a week. I do like the reorganization you've done and am looking forward to your improvements on the article. Feel free to msg me or start a discussion on the talk page if you'd like any help in developing your ideas! -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 22:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That’s fine, as I said in my last edit summary, other users should feel free to edit. Just be aware that I am still working on it on my computer every day, though, and hope to unveil some major rewrites and additions within a week.( Though Saturday obviously is Egg-retrieving day.) --WikidSmaht (talk) 23:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

RFI
Yes, I'll work on RFI sometime today. It's one of those pages I keep meaning to look at but I always get involved in something else. Thanks. Academic Challenger 22:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

X-Files page moves
Hello... I saw the page move request, and by extension all of the moves you've been doing. Nothing wrong with most of them, of course, but I couldn't find anywhere set aside to discuss one of your proposed moves. I don't think "Soft Light" should be moved to Soft Light - article titles can easily be confused when the only difference is a capital letter vs. a lower-case letter. Thanks. --Ckatz <sup style="color:green;">chat <sub style="color:red;">spy  06:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Pokémon lists
Oh, I get it; I thought the evolution column was empty, because I couldn't see the hidden variables. Sorry about the errors in my message, and thanks for putting the list into the article space; I'd completely forgotten about it! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smurrayinchester (talk • contribs) 20:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

Thanks
I apologize for forcing you to invoke Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies. -Jeske (v^_^v) 22:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Naming conventions of Pokemon types
actually, if you carefully read the "exceptions" at the WP:Name you will see that Pokémon types is actually the correct format to follow as this article is discussing all of the types, not just the concept of type. This is also applies to Pokémon game mechanics, List of Pokémon items, and Pokémon moves. Generally, you use the pluralization depending on how the subject of the article would be most commonly referred to. So if it was feasible to have an article on the Grass-type, it would be called Grass-type (Pokémon), but because the article is on Pokémon types, that is what the article should be called. I'll be rv any inaccurate moves you've made regarding this naming convention, if you feel i am incorrect in my asesment, pls bring it up on that page's discussion page or at WT:PCP for Pokémon related articles. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 18:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk:List of Pokémon

 * Wikipedia_talk:Protecting_children%27s_privacy

Please cease moving my comments around. When I made my first post, I was not replying to anyone. As you can see on the above link, such sections are not as ridiclous as you think. -- Cat out 14:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Buizel move
OK, two problems here, first of all, this move was NOT uncontroversial. Apostrophe had previously listed it at WP:RM under uncontroversial proposals, and I removed it due to controversy. The user’s request here on your talk page was a blatant abuse of your admin goodwill in an attempt to circumvent policy and process. Second, and more urgently, you seem to have accidentally lost the entire talk page somewhere in the move process. Talk:Buizel still redirects to Talk:Buoysel, which is empty, having been deleted by you. --WikidSmaht (talk) on Gnangarra’s talk page 02:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * OK I've restored the talk page. With the article page it came up under a speedy deletion request to remove the redirect and enable the page move. I'm happy to revert the move while this issue is resolved if thats what you would like. Gnangarra 04:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yeah, the speedy deletion request by Apostrophe was bad faith, the move request having been removed from WP:RM previously. Moving it back might be good, though I don’t imagine that will last long. But, yeah, do, saves me from accusations of move warring. Thanks. --WikidSmaht (talk) 20:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * All done, just ask if it comes to pass that the moves needs to occur Gnangarra 23:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

TSA
Hi WikidSmaht,

I would like to invite you to join the discussion about reliable sources, in this specific case about lotl and the hylia. If you have more -unbiased- knowledge about both websites, I look forward to your input.

There you will also see how TSA comes up with me supposedly being a crew member of lotl. It's nothing more then shouting something stupid to try and discredit who he's in an argument with. Anyway, you'll be able to see for yourself.

I hope you can help with this project, and I look forward to your input.

Cheers and happy editing

JackSparrow Ninja 09:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Those of _____’s
About this edit... note where you say “Its legs are like those of Roselia's as well”. NO. To make the Roselia possessive, say “like those of [a] Roselia”, or, preferably just “like Roselia’s”. Saying “like that/those of _______’s” is redundant. In other words: WRONGVERYBADDON’TDOIT. EVER. This particular grammatical atrocity pervades the Pokémon articles. I am NOT blaming you for its prevalence, but in the article in question it was easy to find the perpetrator. I beseech you, strike this hideous anomaly from your composition. If you see it anywhere, wrought by yourself or another, eliminate it. And if it springs from another’s hand, please pass along this lecture, that we may eradicate this horror for all time. --WikidSmaht (talk) on Floramage’s talk page 07:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, hello. Regarding your add to my talk page, I would gladly have changed that grammatical error much earlier had someone mentioned it. I thank you for that, yet I am shocked by your sharp-tongued and slighlty - scratch that - downright rude method of expressing your reason. Perpetrator? You make it sound as though an accidental error in my grammar were a horrendous crime! Surely, you are not perfect; of course, neither am I. If it bothered you so to this degree, then say something, but say it kindly. Still, I will do my best as a Wikipedian to do all I can to make the Pokémon articles the best they can be. Good day. --Floramage! 16:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hm-hm! Seems I missed the mark on that one, eh? I apologize for my attitude; not very Kind Campaign of me, was it? Well, anyways, thank you for correcting me, and good day. --Floramage! 19:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I am sorry that I offended you with what I said. The overdramatic approach was meant to convey some humor, but obviously it failed, perhaps having been influenced by my negative reactions to one of my newest and most severe English-language pet peeves. --WikidSmaht (talk) 04:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Um, what the fuck are you talking about in this edit? It is NOT fine, “that/those of (a) ______’s” is redundant. Saying “those of ______” already makes the noun( which I have left blank in this case) possessive. Adding the apostrophe and letter s, then, is unnecessary, and, more to the point, completely wrong. To be explicit: Please do not encourage bad grammar. --WikidSmaht (talk) on Urutapu’s talk page 02:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC) And you just have to..make good edits to get stars, I guess. I got my Pokémon one for what I can only assume is fixing all the grammar, spelling and terminology corrections no one really cares to do.—ウルタプ on Floramage’s talk page 03:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * “like those of a Roselia’s” WRONG
 * “like those of Roselia’s” WRONG
 * “like those of Roselia” OK, but awkward
 * “like those of a Roselia” acceptable, but not what I would use in that case
 * “like a Roselia’s” RIGHT, though perhaps not fitting in that context
 * “like Roselia’s” RIGHT
 * Any need to be such an asshole about it?—ウルタプ 02:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, I really don’t see what was uncivil, and I am sorry you took umbrage at what I said. I attempted to be clear and concise. I was not rude, insulting, or condescending. Perhaps it is a difference in perception... Note that I did not, and would not swear at you or call you names... I do not consider swearing just for emphasis to be uncivil, and therefore make no effort to censor myself. No offense was intended by my use of the word “fuck”. --WikidSmaht (talk) 04:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey, Urutapu, is this guy for real? I truly believe that the edit in question is perfectly fine! Do you agree with me? I'm all for correct usage of grammar, but I am very sure that this is correct! Also, do you know how someone can earn a "barnstar"? Floramage! on Urutapu’s talk page 03:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's kind of ridiculous just how he had to fly off the handle over two characters.
 * It really is ridiculous. I don't remember how, but now I'm caught in an edit war with him. I'm sure he won't give up, either. His persistance is admirable. Hm-hm! Floramage! on Urutapu’s talk page 03:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

ARRRRGH You guys are really trying my patience on this issue. OK, let me attempt another way of explaining it. Please do not mistake this as condescending, I am merely trying to teach, and in this case attempting to be as clear as possible since I utterly failed to convey the lesson in my previous comments.

Let us examine the sentence “Its legs are like those of Roselia’s.”. This sentence contains several ambiguities - all of which are perfectly acceptable in English, but for clarity in this lesson, it is best to eliminate them. We will begin by replacing pronouns with the nouns they represent, specifically: the posessive pronoun “Its” is standing in for “Roserade’s”, and the pronoun “those” is standing in for “the legs”.

So, making those changes, the sentence becomes “Roserade’s legs are like the legs of Roselia’s.”. Roselia’s what? Because it is implied, it is not necessary to spell it out when writing, but, again, for the purpose of this lesson, it is better to be explicit. So, “Roselia’s” becomes “Roselia’s legs.”

And there we have it. When you fully spell out all the abbreviated and omitted elements, “Its legs are like those of Roselia’s.” actually means “Roserade’s legs are like the legs of Roselia’s legs.”. As you can see, this is incorrect, because you are trying to make a comparison to the legs of a Roselia, not to its legs’ legs, and, in fact, the legs of a Roselia do not have legs of their own.

Applying the same rules to the correct versions, we can say “Its legs are like those of Roselia.”, which would mean “Roserade’s legs are like the legs of Roselia.”, or we can say “Its legs are like Roselia’s.” which would mean “Roserade’s legs are like Roselia’s legs.”. But we can NOT combine the two, as that results in redundancy, and a fallacy as well.

I hope that this time I have finally been successful in helping you to understand. --WikidSmaht (talk) 04:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S.: I know my punctuation is non-standard, that is conscious and intentional. Note that I only use my personal punctuation rules on talk pages, in articles I use standard punctuation. If I do use non-standard punctuation in an article, it is usually a typo, so you should feel free to correct it. --WikidSmaht (talk)

"help wanted" (pokemon site)
hi remember me i posed a "help wanted". well it sax (about the "not 4 wikipedia" thin) ow'l Ill find another place 4 it dont worry. about your request for a prove that we truly are "the next thin" i wont consider joining some 1 who didnt ask me for such prove (considering the crapy pokemon sites in existence today). the site is currently not in english and we’re still translating it to english when we finish doing so a link will be added to the "help wanted" thin.

i can upload to "megaupload.com" an avi file that might give u a grasp of our info & tec level although as i said b4 not in english (hebrew). we u wish me to do so please send me an e-mail to joinourpokemonquest@yahoo.com so i may e-mail u back the link. as for my personal spelling & grammar it is evry likely they need some polishing considering im not from an english speaking country and have learned it mostly throw the tv, i would appreciate any comment on my spelling & grammar (including mistakes in the "help wanted" thin). (i know the leanguage used in this comment is very tacky) hope to read from u soon (by email! i doubt ill find this "talk page" again)

Team_Rocket
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2Wikid
I'm a bit confused here: why do you have two accounts? I actually thought that 2Wikid was a new user until I checked the diff and realized it was you. Hbdragon88 03:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I’m honestly not sure why you thought that, especially at this point. The names are very similar, I have been using both for a long time, and anything more than a cursory glance easily shows that both have the same WikidSmaht signature, and the User/Talk pages for 2Wikid redirect to the WikidSmaht ones. Sorry if I confused you, I guess looking at only histories would give an impression like that.
 * I also don’t understand why you care, but: I created 2Wikid so I could add all pages I am interested in( 500+ Pokémon articles, anyone?) to one Watchlist, while keeping the other for only the pages that are most important to me. Eventually I started using it for certain minor edits, especially mass page moves, most notably my campaigns to move TV series episode articles from titles like Title (Series episode) to Title (Series) per the TV naming conventions. Now I use it for some other edits too. There is no hard-and-fast rule, but often I make the first one or two major edits from my main account, and follow-up edits from 2Wikid. --WikidSmaht (talk) 09:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: Matthew [personal information censored]
Hi! Just wanted to warn you that any feuds with Matthew [personal information censored] may result in your being blocked, especially if you're in the right. I suggest you check the history of Sixty Six, whose pages have been censored and purged by both Matthew and his admin buddy, Will "Scepter" [personal information censored]. These two kids aren't above getting anyone who refuses to let them win any edit wars they choose to start blocked permanently. You might want to check Sceptre's ED page for more details! Good luck! 24.173.10.197 02:13, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

3RR on Eureka (TV series)
I could give you the standard template, but I won't, you know the deal. You have been blocked for 3RR on Eureka (TV series). In the future, don't sweat the small stuff, it's not worth the edit warring and blocks and bad feelings and such. I don't want us to lose another WP:PCP member. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 10:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * * snrk* Figures it would be you to block me. I was actually planning to ask you to watch my back after I received this warning( which was then mysteriously deleted by a very suspicious IP who also reverted the page in the edit war - though at least s/he left my content edits intact). I will try not to take it too personally, I think you have been blocked several times for the same thing, so you probably know where I’m coming from. --WikidSmaht (talk) 21:29, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh, you didn't need an unblock request to get my attention; I watchlist user talk pages when I post on them. I removed the unblock request since you stated you weren't asking for a block review; I hope you don't mind. Feel free to replace it with a specific request if you are.


 * I don't think the IP stuff has anything to do with you. It's weird and complicated and I'm not 100% sure what going on.


 * As for the edit war, I always feel so hypocritical blocking anyone for the 3RR. It's not like I disagree with it in philosophy, I just suck at keeping cool when things get hot. I justify 3RR blocks to myself that they might teach other people I lesson I'm just not very good at learning. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I dunno. I still don’t trust either IP, or the users the first one mentioned. --WikidSmaht (talk) 05:13, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that you blocked him, too. Is it bad if I find that delightful? --WikidSmaht (talk) 21:38, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[There was briefly an unblock request here, reading: I hope this doesn’t get me in more trouble, but, I am not really appealing the block, I just want to get AMIB’s attention for my comment[s] above since I can’t post[ my reply] on his user talk while blocked, so if you could let him know... Um... also I guess since the edit war ended 10 hours before the block, I wouldn’t mind having the unblock time pushed up a bit. But I am not really gonna press for it.]

Homecoming Upset
The history of this page has been restored by the way (for GFDL purposes) -- do note that this was originally deleted for lack of context by a different administrator. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


 * 2:30AM? Get some sleep.  ;-)  Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:40, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Name
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AfD nomination of Songs from The Legend of Zelda series
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List of films based on video games
A belated welcome to Wikipedia! Click “show” on the template Chubbennaitor left you above for helpful tips and links. Several things: 1) Do not undo good edits without explaining yourself in the edit summary. 2) Please use edit summaries in general to make your intentions and reasons clear to other editors. Invisible comments are useful for important permanent notes, but easy to miss when part of a larger or seperate edit. Also make use of talk pages. 3) You do not own articles and should refrain from telling others not to edit them “until further notice”.( If you need to prevent edits to a page for a short while because you are doing a major rewrite, try inuse.) Indeed, you should refrain entirely from telling others not to edit articles in specific ways unless a consensus to that effect has been reached on the article’s talk page. 4) With regards to the specific issue we seem to be having trouble with: Dōbutsu no Mori was not direct-to-video at all. Acccording to the intro to that film’s article, “It opened in theaters in Japan on December 16, 2006.”. It was released on DVD in Japan seven months later, and has not bee in released in other countries at all. As for the latter Pokémon films, it is true that they went direct-to-video in several countries including the U.S. and U.K., but this is not the American Wikipedia or British Wikipedia, it is an international Wikipedia written in the English language; and just like Dōbutsu no Mori those films were all released theatrically in Japan( their country of origin), and in certain cases other countries, long before they were released on DVD anywhere. In fact, they continue to be theatrically released there at a rate of one per year in July, and the 11th installment is due to hit Japanese theaters in just a couple weeks. -- WikidSmaht (talk) on Darkness2005’s talk page 23:47, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

you have no life —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.192.48.250 (talk) 15:37, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

SmackBot
In July you added a bots deny tag to Marriage. I would expect you to inform me about this. Not sure what it is about that you didn't like. Rich Farmbrough, 15:51 7 September 2008 (GMT).

Moves
The naming convention for any article is to use the more common name. Thus, I'm going to revert your moves (as the more common name lacks the "version" appellation) unless you can show me where a consensus is for these moves. -<font color="32CD32">Jéské <font color="4682B4">(v^_^v Kacheek!) 21:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Stop moving these articles back immediately. A page move war is extremely disruptive and people have been blocked for doing this just twice. If you have a problem with current consensus, talk with me or Jéské first. Artichoker [ talk ]  21:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The mope common name is the name the press and the layman uses, not the subject's "official" name (compare Theodor Seuss Geisel). Stop moving or I will be forced to seek your block. -<font color="32CD32">Jéské <font color="4682B4">(v^_^v Kacheek!) 21:56, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

IPA on "Data"
Hello! I noticed you placed the IPA for nonstandard pronunciation tag atop the article data. I'm not sure what you would like to see transcribed in IPA. Could you explain? And I'd be happy to add the IPA.--el Aprel (facta-facienda) 23:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Right at the end of the Etymology section, where it says “Pronounced dey-tuh, dat-uh, or dah-tuh.”. --WikidSmaht (talk) 07:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Marriage maps
There has been a request for maps detailing the status of same-sex marriage in North and South America, similar to File:Same_sex_marriage_map_Europe_detailed.svg. I second this request. Since you( as Outsider80) worked on both that map and File:World homosexuality laws.svg, I was hoping that the project might interest you. I would ask the creator of the two maps, Silje, but from what I can glean from his(?) userpage on the Norwegian Wikipedia, I think Silje is on wikipause. Thanks!

...Before hitting post, I decided to investigate the prior comment on this talk page. In response to your response to that: there are a few important flaws in the world laws map - first off, in areas where homosexuality is not criminal but marriages are not performed, it doesn’t distinguish places where same-sex marriage and civil unions are simply not recognized through a lack of legislation from places where they are specifically banned by constitution or legislation, a useful distinction which the Europe map does make. Also, the full-size map is rather small, which is what necessitates the creation of continent-specific maps.

I do agree that being a subject of debate is something hard to define and prone to change. Still, it is worthwhile information to have, and there do seem to be people willing to update it. As in the Europe map, though, consideration of marriage should probably not take precedence over the existence of unions/partnerships( unless you want to create two further categories for “Civil Unions, Marriage Banned” and “Civil Unions, Marriage Debated”). Also, if you do take on the project, note that the United States is, as far as I know, I unique case: federally, marriage is restricted to opposite-sex couples by the DOMA, but states are currently free to grant or ban marriage as they like( of course, the DOMA may be on the verge of repeal). Maybe give the whole country a dark border on the North America map with an explanatory note? --WikidSmaht (talk) on Wikignome0529’s talk page 22:26, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi wikidsmaht......the Americas maps are up (on Status of same-sex marriage), the world map is a more complicated issue though. It is doable, but will people maintain it is the question. i've played around some w/ the world homosexuality laws map (started on making a unions version, using the colors from the Europe/Americas maps), but my ancient computer is freezing alot on it. there needs to be more coordination on the LGBT maps updating in general (instead of messages being left in a 1000 different places), which i'll be looking into.. if any of the Americas maps need yellows in them, let me know -- they do use the europe color scheme, but i didn't include any yellows back when i made them. thx, Wikignome0529 (talk) on his talk page 01:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Pokémon edits
I noticed your edits on the Pokémon pages and thought I should point you in the direction of WP:PCP. We don't have all that many active members, so we'd love to have you! MelicansMatkin (talk) 03:29, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I used to be a major player in the early days of the old Pokémon Collaborative Project, and frankly I am a little peeved that I don’t even appear on WikiProject Pokémon’s “Inactive Participants” roster. Guess we old-timers got dropped somewhere along the way.
 * Among other things, the current List of Pokémon is based on my work following the Project’s decision to (re-)merge the lists by name and different numbering systems at the advent of sortable tables, and( with inspiration and input from other collaborators, of course) I created the system for sorting by evolution chains. I made the blanket reference template we used on species articles pre-merge, and settled the debate on Blue’s name( at least until the English release of HG/SS, which I expect will either cement or change it permanently). If you go through the oldest archives of WT:PCP, you will see plenty of input from me.
 * I am not a very active Wikipedian anymore, too many fights drained me, and life offline became more demanding. As for the PCP, I was very much disillusioned by the massive information loss during the species article megamerge. --WikidSmaht/2Wikid (talk) 02:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:ANI
Hi. There is a user on Administrators' noticeboard who signs with your name, but is actually user User:2Wikid, who also redirects his or her userpage to yours. I notice that you list one alternative (older) account of yours, but not this one. Could you please confirm or deny that 2Wikid is also an account of yours? It's rather confusing at the moment, and if it someone impersonating you, we'll see that it no longer happens. Fram (talk) 09:07, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That is me. I created it for reasons having to do with organizing my contributions and watchlist(s). Scroll up a bit for more detail. Thanks for your concern though! --WikidSmaht (talk) 02:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I didn't notice the earlier discussion. Would you consider (if you haven't done so yet) adding some indication on either page that these are the same user? Fram (talk) 14:24, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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List of Pokémon
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Proposed deletion of Kevin McCrea


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 * Failed candidate, ppor sources, only a few sentences, and fnally, the article is outdated by TWO years.

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OK, I'm not sure if you actually created ths article or not, but you had the first edit for this article, so I'm putting this message here if you don't mind. I apologize for any inconvenience you might have. SOXROX (talk) 04:01, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

List of Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS (North America)
Thank you for your contributions to this article. However, while I appreciate your bold edit, unfortunately it runs against the consensus for the design of the article. Consensus is formed by either discussion or by edits; in this case, it's been formed by the latter. As you wish to fundamentally change the design of the article, and as another editor has raised a concern, the onus is now on you to explain your position on the talk page as to why you believe your intended revision is better. This follows the well-held procedure of Bold-Revert-Discuss. Your Bold edit has been Reverted, and now it's time to Discuss why you believe your edit is better. I look forward to the discussion on the talk page. -- McDoob AU93  16:07, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd like to second this. Much discussion and work was put into the original layout, so it's not out of line to ask for new consensus for your changes. Per WP:BURDEN, this is your responsibility, and per WP:BRD and WP:CONSENSUS, its kept at its original state until a new consensus has formed. Thanks. Sergecross73   msg me   16:13, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of List of English words invented by Shakespeare


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