User talk:WikipedianMarlith/Archive Twelve

RE:RE:FACE
Hello Marlith. I see you have been bold and removed all the empty spaces. Actually I wanted to wait for the reactions of others first. Oh well, doesn't really matter. Thanks for the help. Also thanks for your archive offer, but I prefer to do that myself. I'll create one if I have 50 topics. Cheers, Face 16:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I need your feedback...
Which of the following medals looks better. This one:



Or this one:



Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:38, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the second one, because it's more bright and golden. Looks a bit like a sheriff's medal. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 16:39, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

I like the first one best because the latitude and longitude lines because it gives ot a defined and sophisticated look.--JDog 02:41, 6 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JDog Powers (talk • contribs)

July 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, you may not know that Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia makes it harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. the tracklisting appears on the album with the ***'s - - [ The Spooky One ] | [ t c r ] 03:51, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

What is Around the World?
It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

If everything goes according to plan, it will begin on July 15th.

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working on is currently located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:


 * List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics •  List of basic Germany topics •  List of basic Iceland topics •  List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics •  List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics •  List of basic United Kingdom topics •  List of basic United States topics

There are only about 200 more pages to go!

During the collaboration, co-coordinators will be standing by, to lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators will also be using advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 08:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Reverted edits of P. J. Stock
I do believe my revert to P. J. Stock was justified. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P._J._Stock&diff=223223121&oldid=223223116

I don't recall there being a position in hockey called "Ass kicker".

--jnivekk (talk) 03:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC) No problem, Huggle tends to get a bit hectic. --jnivekk (talk) 03:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

About an article about an nonexistant subject.
Well, I'd like to get some advice in this subject: There is an article created July 3rd, 2008, who deals with a reality that does not exist. I wanted to help that out and remove it, but I did it the wrong way, and, as I deleted the content of a whole article, it got deleted. The article in question is this: Zoo Tycoon 3

May I ask you to help me on that subject, or, at least, solve the problem yourself?

Thanks anyway. Eriorguez (talk) 03:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

uhh
that was not vandism, i was talking to you on a talk page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.229.182 (talk) 21:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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The WPVG Newsletter (August 2008)

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Wikipedia:Song
Hallo, I am from the german Wikipedia from the sociologic section, and I found out that you wrote a song text on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Song. We want to know the reason(s) why you wrote this song. It would be kind of you to leave an english (or german) comment on http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedistik/Soziologie/Musik&action=edit&redlink=1. Thank you --84.166.123.219 (talk) 07:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Haven't seen you in a while. How's it going?  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:42, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Funny, I've been to there stuff before. Last one I went to was something they had on nanotechnology.  bibliomaniac 1  5  23:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area roll call
Hello from WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area!

As part of a recent update to our project main page we are conducting a roll call to check which members are still active and interested in working on bay area related content. If you are still interested in participating, simply move your username from the inactive section of the participant list to the active section. I hope you will find the redesigned project pages helpful, and I wanted to welcome you back to the project. If you want you can take a look at the newly redesigned:


 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app Community Help.png|25px|]]Main Page
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app Login Manager.png|25px|]]Talk page
 * [[Image:Broom icon.svg|25px|]]Cleanup listing
 * [[Image:Template icon.svg|25px|]]Template list

As well as the existing pages:
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app clean.png|25px|]]Assessment
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app kedit.png|25px|]]Article Worklist
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear app kdict.png|25px|]]Watchlist
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear action editdelete.png|25px|]] Deletion sorting (California)

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, and add it to your watchlist, if it isn't already.

Again, hi! -Optigan13 (talk) 08:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Redirect
Hi if you study the history you'll see I didn't create the article only redirected it as it is not notable to have a biograpy article on him. I;ve redirected as I had before until somebody attempted to add a lousy stub on him. Regards The Bald One      White cat 16:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes if you look at the history in Jan 2008 an ip stupidly removed the redirect rather than seeing that the page had been moved. Initially the film article had been at just Seven Years in Tibet. Hopwver, sometime on 2007 that page was moved to (1997 film) and the article on the novel out in its place. When the ip typed in the name it obviously redirected to the book rather than the film. Best The Bald One      White cat 16:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of C-Note (rapper)
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The WPVG Newsletter for August 2008

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United House of Prayer for All People
Hey I see that you reverted my edits to this article. I would appreciate it if you would respond to my post on the articles discussion page so that we can work together to overcome the differences we have. It would be ashame for the article to suffer if we both keep making edits and then reverting them.Ltwin (talk) 03:57, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. I just wish other editors working on this article would see the same thing. Thanks.Ltwin (talk) 01:11, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Whoa. Cool, thanks man,
Hey like thanks for the barn star man. Appreciate it. --Vandalism destroyer (talk) 03:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for signing my guestbook
--LAA Fan sign review 14:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

People ganging up to disrupt an article
Hi,

I found you at Editor assistance. If you can spare a few minutes of your time helping out at Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil, I would be thankful.

I am developing an article on words borrowed by  Tamil from Indo-Aryan languages. I am citing a standard authoritative lexicon from which I find the words that are borrowed before including them at Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil. There are a few people who seem to be intent in damaging the article by adding "cite" tags, "disputed" and "dubious" tags for the article and threatening to delete it within 24 hours.

Could you please help?

Thanks. ­ Kris (talk) 19:13, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (September 2008)

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Your signature
Hi Marlith! I don't know if anyone has told you this or not, but your signature (darkish green on a black background) is nearly unreadable in Internet Explorer. I wouldn't have noticed except that I have to use IE7 at work because our mapping system won't function on Firefox (arrrggggggghhhhhhhhhh!). At home on Firefox your sig looks better, but still could be clearer! Just a heads up in case you're interested in altering it, :-) Cheers,  Maedin \talk 18:45, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:ITunes AP.JPG)
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HELP!
Hello! Remember me? :D Littleghostboo...?

Well, now I've got a serious problem. My Userpage is no longer nice since the HTML doesn't show! I'm terrible with HTML, so could you please check my HTML to see why the content I put in it isn't showing on my userpage? Or perhaps it's just my computer?

Please...I need a favour. I really want my original userpage back...:(

Thank you so much.Littleghostboo [ talk ] 11:36, 6 October 2008 (UTC) =)

'''My browser is Internet Explorer 7. Perhaps I missed out a detail in the HTML, because now the contents start with Hobbies, but it was supposed to start with stuff like Motto of the Day, my Poem of the Month, etc. for me anyway...aargh.Littleghostboo [ talk ] 03:57, 8 October 2008 (UTC)'''

Thank you for you help, anyway! :) Littleghostboo [ talk ] 07:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

'''Oh, wait! I got it! No wonder I couldn't find it! I put at the start and end of the wiki formatting! =P LOL. I took so long to find it; I went through the formatting thousands of times. Anyways, thank you! :)Littleghostboo [ talk ] 08:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)'''

Status report on the Country outlines (Around the World) project
Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines - one for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:
 * 1) Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set.
 * 2) Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.).  The main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing.  The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
 * 3) Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

The Transhumanist 23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Strange links to book ads...
Can you explain the rationale for these? --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 18:48, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I mean the book might be relevant on Carbon Cycle, but referencing it in the lead, and without any indications as to where in the book (or what) it references. The second one (in fossil fuel) i find very strange, since the book (from title) could hardly be considered authoritative on that particular subject (pricing of oil). So i'm a bit baffled. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 18:55, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

STOP NOW
Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to The Audacity of Hope. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing.  <font color="Orange">Marlith <font color="Orange"> (Talk)  01:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * PRECISELY!!! :-D  <font color="Orange">Marlith <font color="Orange"> (Talk)  01:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Marlith, I hope you realize that someone faked your signature. -- IRP ☎ 01:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know that. But its pretty obvious the vandal copy/pasted the code that I placed on his talkpage. Really, I don't mind whether or not people annoy me on my talk page. Thanks anyway!  <font color="Orange">Marlith <font color="Orange"> (Talk)  01:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The vandal who cut-and-pasted the warning has now been blocked. - Wikidemon (talk) 01:50, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikidemon, thanks for letting us know. -- IRP ☎ 01:53, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Just trying to help, but just to let you know, things like that on my talk page get speedily removed. -- IRP ☎ 01:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thank you very much.  <font color="Orange">Marlith <font color="Orange"> (Talk)  01:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (October 2008)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  16:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

The Beatles
Thanks for your contribution to The Beatles. If you can find a source for your edit, that would be adviseable. The article is watched by many editors. Without a source, your edit problably won't be in the article very long. Thanks. Ward3001 (talk) 03:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Reversion of an Edit
Don't you dare edit someone else's talk page to remove a comment I post, homo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.165.10.94 (talk) 03:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Guestbook
Why do you spend all of your time editing/ fighting vandalism? How do you do it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.160.202.85 (talk) 01:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

How much time do you spend per day doing this on average? Sorry for my questions, i just never knew they had all this stuff on Wikipedia. . . I just wanted to see if you edited something, if it really showed up.

How did you know i edited it so quickly? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.160.202.85 (talk) 01:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks
<font face="Trebuchet MS">design by neurolysis | to add this barnstar to your awards page, simply copy and paste and remove this bottom text | if you don't like thankspam, please accept my sincere apologies

The WPVG Newsletter (November 2008)

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Thanks for the kitten!
That was unexpected, I had a new message, and when I went to see what it was, it was a kitten! (Or wiki-kitten? anyhow....) Thanks for this unexpected twist to my day! Inferno,  Lord of   Penguins  21:19, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

X'mas
<div style="padding: 5px; background: #faf6ed; border-style: solid; border-width: 10px; border-color: goldenrod; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; "> <div style="margin-top: 3px; padding-top: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 9px; width: 250px; float: center;"> Click there to open your card! → → → Dearest Marlith, Rogerchocodiles wishes you a Merry X'mas! Send this card to the other jolly users, even if it's a little early/late/your choice. Have a delightful Christmas and cheers!

El Gatito
Gracias for the kitten! It made me smile, continue spreading the wikilove! Anyway, why was I chosen to receive such an amazing kitten, I feel honored, but how did you find me? Scapler (talk) 23:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, well thank you. (And I have put you on the list to receive my Christmas box when I finish it!) Scapler (talk) 00:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the kitten
...and enjoy the holiday season. Oh yeah, and don't drink & drive. --Eastlaw (talk) 01:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And also thanks for your support on my RfA. :)  --Eastlaw (talk) 01:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks as well. Israeli holidays of the new year actually merge at around September due to the Hebrew calander beying slightly "off" in comparison with the Roman calander. Anyways... happy holidays to you as well!  Jaakobou <sup style="color:#1F860E;">Chalk Talk  12:33, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Arbcom Question
Hey there.

Just a quick note to tell you I've answered your question to me on my Q&A page. &mdash; Coren (talk) 03:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the smile!
Man Marlith, it sure has been a while... I'm not active in the school year, jsyk :-p Hope you're doing well :-)  Merry Christmas from an IRC/UNIX nerd XD --<font color="Green">Yamakiri  TC   <font color="#000000"> [ §]  12-7-2008 • 02:06:19

Smile
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

Magog the Ogre (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing!=) Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Proposed deletion
Hello, I have proposed that the article you created, Beatles Harmonix Project be deleted. The reason for this is that another editor created an identical article and has now merged the contents of your article into the one he created. Since the new article contains more information I have proposed deletion of this one. If you have any concerns (for instance about merging histories and merging talk pages ala WP:Merge and delete) please let us know at the appropriate article talk pages. Thank you. -Thibbs (talk) 01:20, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I see that you have made this article into a redirect. That sounds like a good idea to me, but what about the article and talk histories? Perhaps this is trivial, but I thought there was some way to merge the histories such that your and User:Mm03gt's contributions would be credited. Anyway I'll leave it in your hands. If this is the standard procedure or if you prefer it this way and Mm03gt doesn't object then it's no big deal. Cheers. -Thibbs (talk) 18:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Deleted page
Sorry about that, your talk page has been restored. You, along with several other editors, were the victim of a Hagger attack. The problem is, although I cleared the way for a page move, I moved your talk page to User talk:Marlinth instead of User talk:Marlith (I should have been more careful really because as I was making the move the first time I was thinking it would be easy to misspell). I hope you weren't too inconvenienced, and sorry again. Nev1 (talk) 06:44, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:Nocu logo.gif)
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The WPVG Newsletter (December 2008)

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Personal Development
Hello Marlith

thanks very much for your offer of help. I have been editing this entry for the last few days and am ready to submit it. You help is very welcome. I understand that I need to sign all my entries --Bobauthor (talk) 15:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (January 2009)

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Language skill
I have been told by other metapedians (for example)that I undersold my language abilities, for what it is worth. -- Avi (talk) 12:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello. May I take it from your silence that you have thought about the issue and still believe I would be better served by more cross-wiki experience, or do you feel that what I have demonstrates sufficient capability to "learn on the job" whatever I am lacking and you just have not returned to the page? My apologies for asking, but the deadline is fast approaching. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 05:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)