User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive5

Wow :)
Why thank you for my barnstar :) I am feeling particularly chuffed - this is my first :D  My I put it on my user page?  (Lol all I was doing before was on a clunky dial-up connection, I got broadband today and now am invincible :P).  Nice to see my work is appreciated, and I will certainly remember to call on you should the deletionists start an attack! PageantUpdater 02:56, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * And can I just say I loved your response to the Candace Michelle Brown deletion discussion! Clever - would never have thought of that :) PageantUpdater 04:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Comments On George Giffen Article
As you can see I am relitivly new so if I am posting this in the wrong spot let me know. I have edited a bit that may be considerd that was not written to a NPOV but still if it comes across that way can you let me know what it is, most of the stuff in the Giffen article was just an attempt to clean it up to make it look better and not my work, I can see how it apperas to be written by a descendant, I will give it another go, please feel free to offer your thoughts Christopherandrewstevens 04:32, 3 May 2006 (UTC).

DYK medal
Thankyou very much. Out of interest, how did you know though? Did you find my subpage, or is there a log file I'm unaware of? -- I@n &equiv; talk 05:26, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Your DYK entry for April 28
Which is the new article? I left a note to that effect next to the entry. :-) Kimchi.sg 11:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Oule, Ave, and Hello. I am here only to thank you for voting to keep the Aleksandra Wasowicz article. I appreciate what you have done. Again, thank you. Over and out. - Deucalionite May 3, 2006 12:03 P.M.

May the Force be with you.
Dear ,
 * Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your faith in me, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to my RFA; for it shows that at least I'm doing something right. :) I've started working to improve myself already, and I hope that next time, things run better, and maybe, just maybe, one day we can bask on the shores of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M   o   P-_  21:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the quick revert on my userpage... It looks like the User:Captain_Kevles is one of many socks: based on edits. So even after blocking, he may come back... It looks like a gruge against User:Mikhajist, who is on the same IP (?). --TeaDrinker 03:31, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Commodore Kevles (talk &bull; contribs &bull; [ page moves] &bull; block user &bull; [ block log])
 * Admiral Kevles (talk &bull; contribs &bull; [ page moves] &bull; block user &bull; [ block log])
 * Warlord Kevles (talk &bull; contribs &bull; [ page moves] &bull; block user &bull; [ block log])
 * T3h p3n0r (talk &bull; contribs &bull; [ page moves] &bull; block user &bull; [ block log])

Thanks
Thank you for clearing up my question about NN Companies/Advertisement. I'm doing my damndest to become a solid and positive contributor to Wikipedia, but navigating the rules and regulations for the first time is a bit daunting. Consequentially 04:37, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

what nonesens were you referring to, friend?

Ajith
Hi, I don't know much about the guy, but I do know enough to tell what is valid info & what is POV crap. Have added the article to my watchlist & will keep an eye on it. I'll try & copyedit whatever POV stuff is in there soon.

Thanks

Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  09:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Re : George Bush impeachment
Thanks for the heads up. There's two ways to go from here - a checkuser, or/and a RFC (if RCU turns out negative). The IP seems to be used by a number of formerly/currently banned users, which means it is possible that we are re-opening a can of worms. Let me know of your opinon on the options. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 09:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I've run the IP through checkuser, hopefully it'll be able to produce some results on the case and stop this whole madness. - Mailer Diablo 10:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Harbar
No, it's O.K. Always feel free to ask me, mate. Yeah, usually, but as it's my first admin action I felt lax. I went through it on IRC with Essjay and figured that he might reform after a 24h block, and that I'd keep an eye on him and indef block him if he didn't. Anyway, it doesn't matter since another admin decided to indef block him anyways. Snoutwood (talk) 04:56, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Swimming Clubs in Kent
You are probably right. I have left a message with the user concerned and on the Swimming Clubs in Kent page. I have suggested a redirect to the Swimming Clubs in Kent article as a possible alternative. Nevertheless, we shall leave the Black Lion SC prod in place for now and see what happens. Given your knowledge, I place great credence in your views on this matter. Capitalistroadster 06:26, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Australian culture
If you really cared, you'd be trying to give soccer a better rap then what it's getting on that page, like what I'm doing with football. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sliat 1981 (talk • contribs)
 * My sporting preference is not the relevant issue; the issue is the content you inserted into the Australia article. WP is an encyclopedia, it is not for me, you or anybody else to glorify their preferences for whatever they may be. Especially as Australia is an FA, we cannot just accept any old edit.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 06:59, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Can you speak english? I have no idea what you're talking about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sliat 1981 (talk • contribs)
 * Personal attack noted with amusement. You cannot make more than three reversions to the same article in 24 hours, otherwise a 24 block will result. You have done so. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 07:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Ajith
I have reverted sections of the article to the Zora version. I will keep a watch on what is added. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 23:09, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Portal:South Australia
At this stage, I'm personally not enthusiastic about such a portal - but not necessarily opposed. There are number of portals for subnational entities (aside cities), of which Portal:Kerala is probably the best maintained. I do think there is a fair amount of quality South Australian content, but not enough of it to avoid repeats. My biggest concern would be maintenance; if Portal:Australia essentially has only me to maintain it (aside P:AU/N, which has gained patronage since I transcluded it WP:AWNB), how will portals for the states and territories manage? And although you only propose Portal:South Australia (which would have at least you and myself), it would be precedent to the others. I think if such portals were created the best option would be to make them navigation-oriented, like Portal:Europe. --cj | talk 05:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, now that you've made me think about it, I'm warming to the idea.--cj | talk 05:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'm officially warmed. I've been testing around to see what it might look like, and I like it. I'll make the suggestion at WP:P/P to make sure its not just parochialism ;-)--cj | talk 06:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I've started a draft at User:Cyberjunkie/Lab to just test some things to see if its viable. Please feel free to contribute to it, or to create your own. I'm using the same CSS as I did on Portal:Australia for consistency.--cj | talk 07:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Camberwell High Liberal Club
Sorry about reverting your AfD, you must have added it seconds before i reverted the previous editors tag deletion. Apologies again! Rockpocket (talk) 06:26, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries, it's all fine.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 06:29, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

New Template:Austsuburb
Thought it may be worthwhile creating a new template which allows you to detail some general information about a suburb. Its only a start, could probably do with adding categories at the bottom. Have a look at Northgate, South Australia and tell me what you think. Enigmatical 04:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thans for the barnstar
Please forgive my rudeness in being so slow to reply and thank you for giving me my first-ever barnstar! It's great to know that my work is appreciated.

I have now nominated myself for adminship, and if you would like to cast a vote you can do so at Requests for adminship/BrownHairedGirl. I'd welcome your vote, whether it's to support or to oppose.

Thanks! --BrownHairedGirl 11:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh dear, it was rude of me again not to notice that you had already voted &mdash; but thanks, belatedly, for your support. --BrownHairedGirl 01:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Bernard Tomic
I can't believe they are all voting to keep this article. I'm with you here buddy. OSU80 22:44, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Comments about page length on TT:DYK
Please don't make comments on the length of the pages in Template talk:Did you know. It is subject to font size and monitor resolution. The only firm rules are that the page be more than 1000 chars in size (Lupin's popups will display this statistic) and not a stub. If you wish to propose page size as another criteria for DYK entries, by all means do so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know, but the Template talk page wouldn't be a good place to introduce a new (unwritten) rule. Thanks! Kimchi.sg 02:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

3RR
Thanks for the notice. But this is ridiculous! Anyhow, I guess I have nothing to worry about. All I did was remove the commercial links. Thanks again! -- thunderboltza.k.a.D e epu _ Joseph 05:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting in my RfA!
Thanks for the vote in my RfA! Appreciate the comment. The RfA did not gain consensus, but I'm glad I accepted the nom! - Amgine 17:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Lansing Cricket- A confused pedant writes..
I guess you meant to say that most cricket pitches in the US are concrete, not that cricket pitches generally are made of concrete? Badgerpatrol 00:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, OK. I'm beginning to have an inkling why Australia are prone to handing out cricketing whuppin's- I don't think I've never seen a concrete cricket pitch in the UK in my life, although I must admit it's not something I ever really look out for...The only pitches I've ever seen are grass (max. 1 oe 2 public or club strips per town) or pseudo-astroturf plastic (1 or 2, in secondary (state) schools). Thanks for the response, Badgerpatrol 00:53, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I messed up
I was trying to delete the personal life section, which consisted of a bunch of sleazy rumors (with no references) and then a denial. But I messed up bigtime, I guess. I grovel in repentance. Zora 07:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

ADMIN HELP - I have been autoblocked
I have been taken out by collateral damage from User:Naconkantari.


 * You were blocked by Naconkantari for the following reason (see our blocking policy):

"Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Test123456789". The reason given for Test123456789's block is: "please contact an administrator for verification, as described on this page"."

Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 04:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 04:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. Snottygobble 04:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thankyou very much Snottygobble.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 04:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Snottygobble 04:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism Question
I see that right now you are stopping someone from switching the incorrect pictures on a page and he continues to do it. How do you block him from continuing to do it? Is this an administrator's power or can anyone block a vandal? Just wanted to know, since I have experienced this before. --Nehrams2020 06:44, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up for me, I guess the policy makes sense. I will stop by and review you later when I take a look at your contributions. --Nehrams2020 06:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Anwar saadat
On the WP:AN/I, you meant that Prin had the socks, not Anwar right?ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 07:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll clarify that. --Rory096 07:11, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK
And another one!

Way to go! Please keep it up, you rock!  + + Lar: t/c 00:45, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Hi ,

Thank you for strongly supporting my RFA! Even though it did not succeed I want to heartily thank you for your faith in me & my abilities. If it weren't for you guys I probably would have never been confident enough to consider myself for the position. I will look to keep your confidence in me intact for a long time to come.

Cheers

Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  00:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Clarification
From User talk:Srikeit: as Nichalp did when he tried to gatecrash the Aucaman arbitration and decided to try and get Zora banned -- err... from this statement it appears that I was trying to get Zora banned, which I was not. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I didn't word it very well. I meant "he" in the sense of Anwar, and was referring to you rebutting Anwar's claims against Zora. Sorry.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 00:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Request for Editor / User Page Review
Hey Blnguyen – You opposed my last RfA in March on rationale I believe may have been related to my user page. In the time since then, I have changed my page to be more universalist (which still conforms with my personal beliefs) and removed the majority of information regarding my conversion to Islam in favor of a section on my philosophy (as well as yours if you desire). Now, I'm looking for your feedback on what you think of the redesign of the page and whether it is sufficient in quelling the March controversy over the page as well as solving the issue about possible inability to maintain a neutral point of view, especially in religion-related articles. For what it's worth, the reason I kept a condensed version of the timeline was because there were, and still are, many people who find it interesting instead of a form of proselytization. Many people have also given me positive feedback on my talk page regarding the look of the page. I personally believe that it is okay to insert individuality onto user pages, especially if it still promotes a sense of community. That is what I was going for with this current version of my user page.

Please make comments regarding the user page on my editor review page. Thanks in advance. joturn e r 15:06, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Gmail
I see you are online right now. Why don't you log in gmail & we can chat with google chat? Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  00:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I just sent you a mail. Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  08:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Just to point out
I noted that you've said Nichalp didn't get the DYK medal. Actually I wanted to point out that he has already been awarded that if you can see in his userpage, not that i'm against you awarding it again. Just wanted to let you know though cuz I tried to award him a new barnstar and found he has really almost all barnstars in his barn so the best for him was the barnstar of barnstars. Thanx. --Idleguy 05:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Sathyan Bhrama
Hey okay...Blnguyen. A doubt ok, how do I earn a barnstar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sathyan Bhrama (talk • contribs)


 * Well, see Barnstars for a comprehensive guide on the official barnstars. Generally, there is no strict criteria, people give it to fellow wikipedians if they feel that the recipient deserves recognition for their contributions. Although some people have self-awarded barnstars. Out of the Indian contributors, User:Nichalp and User:Bhadani are probably the heaviest contributors, and have the most barnstars, displayed on their userpage. Regards,ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 06:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

John Davies (swimmer) and John Davies (judge)
Hey there Thebainer. I created the article about the swimmer and noticed that you had put a redlink at John Davies to an Australian judge. Could you be referring to the same person? ... ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 06:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No, it's a different person, I added that link when creating List of Judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and disambiguating the names in that. This Davies was a Federal Court judge from 1978 to 1998. Interesting article on the swimmer though! --bainer (talk) 09:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Deprod
I have removed the prod tag from Killing the Buddha, which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that the deletion of this article may be controversial. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the prod template back to the article, as Proposed deletion is only for non-controversial deletions. Instead, feel free to list it at Articles for deletion. Thanks! Mango juice talk 21:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Rani's page
Please stay out of Rani Mukerji's page. I am already having issues and problems. Don't create new ones. Thanks! You can work on something else. We have plumcouch, zora and pa7 on the page to name a few. shez 21:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA timing
Most new questions added on to RfAs happen within the first three days, and any commentary that needs to be responded to will most likely happen in that window as well. It'd be best if you could be around for the duration of the RfA, but if you must miss some days it's better to have those towards the end of the seven days rather than the beginning. So, I'd recommend in your case that you begin the RfA on a Monday or Tuesday, and at the latest a Wednesday. Hope that helps, --Durin 12:31, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It would probably be advisable to add a note to this affect too. No reasonable person would expect you to be tied to your computer all week (although some of us almost literally are!) and as long as people know in advance that there are certain periods when you can't get online it shouldn't be a problem at all. --kingboyk 10:13, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!!!
I have no idea what this article was trying to tell me but I picked it anyway.. hehe.  + + Lar: t/c 13:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!!
Hi Blnguyen! Thanks for the DYK medal. :) Until you mentioned it, I did not know that I had produced so many DYK! I also believe that there could be one more regarding the Pushkar fair being the largest cattle fair in the world. It would probably be in the long archives. A technical prob is preventing me from adding the barnstar to the list, I'll try again later. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:22, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Dear B
Dear B, I completely respect your decision to postpone a little your nomination to RfA, and I believe you're acting correctly. Your patience should be praised, and I fully understand that other people have already expressed interest to nominate you. So please, do proceed as you have planned; I'm sure it'll be for the better. Rest assured that, when the time comes, you'll see my strong support sitting in your list! Should you ever need my help, please, don't hesitate to ask. Kisses,  P h a e d r i e l ♥  tell me   - 21:48, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * you'll get my support too, to be sure!  + + Lar: t/c 22:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK redux!!
Thanks for your MANY contributions!  + + Lar: t/c 22:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Help in Mosman
Could I get your advice on the Mosman, NSW article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosman%2C_New_South_Wales). There is a chunk of text continually being added from the local council website, and a user from purportedly from the Mosman Library stating that they are happy to have it added with appropriate attribution. I still think it's against policy, though, and the text is not exactly encyclopaedic? Steve 01:23, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I am not an expert in these things, but a cut and paste from an external website can only be done when that party explicitly "gives permission" to do so. In this case, I have seen administrators (I am not an admin, not yet anyway) tell the person who is claiming to be the presumed copyright holder to use the "email this user" option in the toolbox to send mail to an administrator from an email address that is associated with the organization which owns copyright to confirm that they really are the owners of the copyright. So I think they should get an account, set the email to their Mosman council email, and then email and administrator to verify that you are the copyright owner and are happy for it to be put on the wikipedia. Regards, ßlηguγΣη  | Have your say!!! - review me 02:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Ein bißchen Frieden
Hi Blnguyen, I was already thinking about whether I like the page title (the article is nice, thanks for DYK-nomming it!). The correct German title has an ß (which you should not confuse with a β) and "bißchen" is lowercase. As it is "bisschen" now in reformed German orthography and the ß is not very popular on enwiki anyway (there is often debate on whether to use it), the ss is probably fine, just the capitalization is wrong: Ein bisschen Frieden would be better, I think. Unless you impose English capitalization rules for titles. So anyway, these are my thoughts on this issue. I don't know yet if I'll be here to check the DYK update (and don't edit much in that area), but I'll try to keep an eye on it if possible. Thank you, and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 02:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I have moved to Ein bisschen Frieden. You could have moved it yourself - if the target is a redirect to the source without other page history, then any editor can move the page. It is not out-of-process at all (and deletions of move targets with trivial history for uncontroversial moves are specifically allowed by WP:CSD). Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 16:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Editor review
Yeah, you're right, argument is probably too strong or inappropriate a word to describe it. Don't take it out of context ;) Cheers,  R o  gerthat  Talk  06:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

from sathyan Bhrama
Hey how do i change my signature to something more colour full? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sathyan Bhrama (talk • contribs)


 * Replied on user page.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 08:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Current events
I have no time to scour the archives at the moment but I recollect that more than once nominations were ignored by the updating admins, because they covered ongoing events. I'm not sure whether we have any guideline on this, however. -- Ghirla -трёп-  08:28, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks
, thank you you so much for validating my RfA! I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have taken both the positive and constructive on board. If I can ever make any improvements or help out in any way, please let me know, ditto if you see me stumble! Thanks again for your much appreciated support.

Dei zio  talk 18:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Template recommendation
Thank you for guiding me with the template for swimming. -- Ryanjo 02:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Signature
Thanks for the tip ..now how is my sign better? --<span style="border: 2px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:green; background-color:white">Sathy 05:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good.<span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 05:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Email
I have sent you a mail on Gmail. Please check it out.

Thanks

Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  07:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Eurovision
Hi Blnguyen. I made some changes to Portal:Eurovision that I hope you find are improvements. I'm going to put the portal up at Portal:Browse for the weekend, even though it isn't a featured portal. --cj | talk 08:54, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey thanks cj.<span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 05:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

James W. Patterson
Wow, that's all pretty awesome...it's great to see that my contributions are noticed, and that people like you do cool stuff with them. Paul 14:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Wiki
You are hands down the most active contributor I've ever paid attention to. It is absolutely mind-boggling looking over at what you get up to! Anywho, keep it up! michael talk 05:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the birthday wishes. The BBC is giving me an episode of Doctor Who and Eurovision for my birthday :-) &mdash;Wh o uk (talk) 06:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks :) - O bli (Talk) ? 10:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the birthday wishes, too! That was greatly appreciated. (Ironically, last year was down the drain, lol). - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 17:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

And the hits just keep coming!
Thanks for your contributions, as always! Keep 'em coming!  + + Lar: t/c 13:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

My Birthday
Thank you for the congratulations. They were not expected. I didn't even know that Mailer Diablo added me to the Esperanza calendar :) - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 18:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)