This archive contains topics 76-100 made on my talk page. Its history on the main talk page ends at this edit.

"This is apparantly a huge boring task no-one wants to do, so why not make it semi-automated?"

Hi. I'll be brief: It's not that huge a task, and I'm willing to do it. I just never knew about it.

brenneman ^{L} 23:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I see the talk page didn't come along (seems like a bug with the move-delete combo); I've fixed it now. The reason for this move is that the Office and OTRS get a lot of complaints about the term "vanity", since the subjects of articles find it derogatory. Hence, the intent is to deprecate the term. >Radiant< 20:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

On this edit of yours: I don't understand why you reformatted my comments. I think that the significance of "¶" is clear; if I'd wanted line-broken pragraphs I'd have made them. -- Hoary 06:06, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm used to working with lots of IP's who don't get the formatting, and I thought I'd just encountered the latest in a long list of strange formatting mistakes.

I guess it works either way, though I would state that using breaks rather than paragraph markers saves the reader some trouble, especially since the pilcrow is not a commonly encountered character in written communications. It's rather esoteric as a piece of punctuation nowadays, aside from editorial proof-reading. Well, I'll avoid messing with your punctuation in the future. --tjstrf 06:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, fine, no harm done. And thanks for the note. -- Hoary 06:23, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

He has made numerous pejorative/racist statements against Hindus that I feel need to be addressed.He refuses to negotiate with me and continues being disruptive.Could you please talk to him and ask him to cooperate at least?Hkelkar 08:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Has the editor Hkelkar committed 3 RR on this Page.If so, please do what is needed TerryJ-Ho 11:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Please note that this editor has a habit of carrying historical baggage and using these to target the person of the editor,Please keep your views in respect of this article itself.TerryJ-Ho 12:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

To help with understanding the problem here note that he is trying to present one Barrani as a Mufti capable of issuing Fatwa when he was a historian whose accounts include India's society in 14 century.Barrani's two books are still read for Indian Medieval history in universities:

Barani, Ziauddin Tarikh-I-Firuzshahi, Barani, Ziauddin Fatawa-I-Jahandari, The problem could be that this editor has no background in Persian and Arabic literature and his inability to understand that fatwa can have many meaningsTerryJ-Ho 12:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

No I have not.I am very careful not to violate 3RR EVER!I rarely even violate 1RR unless it's overt vandalism.

None of the diffs beyond my first revert for the day were reverts. See for yourself:

Not a revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_caste_system&diff=81970320&oldid=81968853

Not a revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_caste_system&diff=81972522&oldid=81970739

Terry's reverts lie between these diffs.

In fact, it was User:TerryJ-Ho who started the reverting of my extremely well-sourced edits with a summary that shows clear WP:NOR violation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_caste_system&diff=81969852&oldid=81968853

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_caste_system&diff=81971875&oldid=81970739

Both of his (not mine) edits are bad faith reverts of my sourced edits with his dubious assertions and attributions to sources that don;t contain the things he says they do.

Plus, he is trying to whitewash the Muslim Caste system and paint all the ills of the world on Hindus (kind of like the anti-Hindu version of Der Sturmer actually), which gels rather well with this bad faith AfD nom of his Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-Hindu that was so unanimously voted against him that it is virtually unprecedented on wikipedia.

I have offerred to discuss with him but he keeps edit-warring nonetheless.

Instead of warring I urge him to DISCUSS first.Hkelkar 11:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, that's why it's a reversible proposed deletion. The article did not set out any notability info whatsoever, and had been tagged for importance for some time, as you probably know. Thanks for looking into it. - CrazyRussian talk/email 10:47, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Stupid Manga... these mountains of inconsequential fictional crufty-cruft make me ill... - CrazyRussian talk/email 15:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making the Redwall userbox less ugly! I thought it was kinda ugly myself, but I'm not great with code and that was the best I could do. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 20:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, what I said on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russa Nodrey was that I thought we could merge all (or most) of the individual character articles into a master List of Redwall characters organized by the book in which they first appeared. I thought that we could put the books in the order of their printing, not chronological order. For characters appearing in multiple books we'd put a line in the section for the later book saying to see the entry above. I suppose the easiest thing would be to list the characters alphabetically in the book. Make sense? ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 20:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking Martin, and maybe one or two others (Maybe Matthias, Mattimeo, and Cluny as the main characters and main villian in the early books and movie/tv adaptions) could keep their own articles but still get mentions in the main list. We'll have to be really careful about what we do and don't merge though. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 20:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Let's move this discussion here. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 20:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Announcement: It's an administrator!

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Tjstrf, thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was a robust 62/1/1, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any questions about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks again, Chris Griswold

Hi. I would be grateful if you could mediate the issues in the Indian caste system.The debate is getting rather rabid.Hkelkar 12:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, his block was only for 24 hours so it just wore off. Shiroi Hane 21:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

And why was this only issued to me. You can tell by his comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Phantom (character) and revert warring on my talk page he was conducting in the same manner. — Moe 01:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeh, thats a reason to deliver a warning to one party and not to the other.. — Moe 01:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello. You recently participated in a discussion on the possible deletion or merger of some Danny Phantom characters. While all the articles were kept, I noted that many of those commenting on the debate suggested merging some characters into a main list. Seeing this, I've compiled a list of some of the minor characters who may not need their own article, and would like the opinions of those who weighed in originally. You can participate in the discussion here. Ral315 (talk) 18:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I just want you to know, I only notify in cases where I feel more input is neccessary. There are non-music fans who start and vote on AfDs, and I think it's important that editors with the knowledge and ability to cite sources pertaining to the article's notability have a say. PT ^(s-s-s-s) 18:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your message at my talk page. I withdrew my RfA and I look forward to using all the good suggestions to make me a better Wikipedian. There are no hard feelings as I view this as an opportunity to grow. Thanks again and have a great day. --Kf4bdy ^{talk contribs} 06:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know they were joke votes. I guess I was being a little too hard on everyone. I'll go strike that part out. --Coredesat 06:48, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for sending Jossi to look at WP:BK. I have followed the development of this proposal quite closely and one of the problems with it has been lack of exposure, or at least lack of feedback from experienced editors. If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate if you could give your opinion on the talk page so that we have a better idea on how it is perceived and how it could be improved. Thanks. Pascal.Tesson 00:12, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I replied on the talk page of the proposal but as a side note: thanks for taking the time to give your input. Pascal.Tesson 04:12, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

You reverted my deletion of the mention of Hitsugaya in Jump Super Stars. My original rationale on September 28 was that "ichigo, renji, rukia, and orihime are in that game too so why no mention of their appearances, either mention them all or don't mention it at all." I think all should be mentioned for consistency on their respective articles or not be mentioned at all. Gdo01 18:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks for your interest in this article. In the literature and especially on Wikipedia, the convention is all first letter caps for higher mammals. See for example other bovids, all Wildebeests, all Lemurs, all Marmorsets. It would thus be very odd and out of step to change the title. regards. Covalent 21:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know, I was a bit terser with Perfect T than I would have been with a more usual 'new' editor. This was partly because his/her/its eighth edit was to propose the repeal of WP:NLT. There was some other assorted nonsense in the first dozen or so edits that also pointed to a returning troll instead of a confused newbie.

I firmly believe that in most cases there's nothing wrong with a banned editor returning to Wikipedia under a new name—as long as that editor doesn't continue the behaviour that got them banned in the first place. With Perfect T, I was prepared to play the if-you-want-to-pretend-to-be-a-new-editor-I'll-pretend-you're-not-suspiciously-familiar-with-Wikipedia game, where it seemed possible that T was going to shape up and do something useful. On the other hand, I wasn't going to be an idiot about it and let slide behaviour that a returning editor (or even fundamentally reasonable person) ought to know was wrong.

My terse comments were meant to convey the message that 'Yes, I know what's going on here; you need to keep your nose clean or you're going to end up in trouble under this name, too.' When Perfect T opted to respond to that by making a spurious WP:AN report, I would have asked for a CheckUser or just a flat ban if Raul hadn't beaten me to it. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 02:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

There was nothing wrong with speedy closing that discussion. See Wikipedia:Speedy keep. Yes, the Procedure section there recommends that only admins do speedy keeps, this isn't a requirement. And frankly, the closing admins for AFDs are so far behind that they will never complain. I've never seen anyone else complain at Deletion Review either. If somebody else wants the article deleted, they can open a new nomination. Just don't speedy keep any discussions where there is an unwithdrawn delete opinion from someone else. GRBerry 17:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I am proposing an RfC against A Man In Black. Do you have any comments to make on the RfC, and are you willing to comment on the AC character list page on the RfC? - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I have no problems whatsoever with his RfC, and it was not my intention to stop it from going forward. However, his behavior is unacceptable, and cannot be ignored. --InShaneee 06:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Behavior? Oh, right, I forgot - trolling, right? I must be trolling, despite you being completely unable to prove such a thing. Play your hand or fold, InShaneee. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't taunting, Tjstrf. I've grown tired of being accused of trolling, and each time I ever ask, he can never show that I am trolling or, Hell, doing any harm whatsoever to Wikipedia. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed the statement on your userpage that you are trying to increase your edit summary usage. I just wanted to mention, in case you weren't aware, that you can go to the Preferences page and select a setting that will auitomatically remind you to enter the summary if you forget and are about to post without one. Hope that helps. Regards, Newyorkbrad 06:18, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that AIV thing. I just installed ARV in my monobook.js and it's good doing it semi-automated. Apologies. --SunStar Net 23:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I wasn't being twitchy, just trying to do my duty. but thanks for your advice! --SunStar Net 23:18, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday !!!!! --NRS | ^T/_M\^B 09:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

That was frighteningly fast. (Help, I'm being stalked!!!) --tjstrf Now on editor review! 09:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)