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jann haworth

Continues this conversation

Hi there. Your last comment on this was "You've written a masterful article and all entirely neutral point of view so there don't appear to be any COI concerns at all" so I am puzzled as to why you have tagged the article 'possible conflict of interest' The article includes quotes from the 2 leading historians of Pop Art in the UK, Marco Livingstone and Chris Finch, both confirming Jann Haworth's status as described. Please advise how to remove this tag. Severy (talk) 15:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Removing the tag is as simple as deleting {{coi|date=November 2007}} from the top of the article source code, but I wouldn't advise it. Removing a "problem" template like that could get you marked as a potential problem user. I placed it after a side discussion with nancy. As the article is edited by more users, it should get removed in the natural course of things. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations ...

		The Special Barnstar
		I award you the Special Barnstar for your citation on the number of Gmail users; you took a brave step in editing the article and went through the extra effort to find the source, cite it, and wikify it perfectly. I could not find a barnstar for you, so I decided to use this one. Congratulations! Kushalt 03:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Kushal one! I should have known my first article-related barnstar would be for something related to the Gmail article... Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 04:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Please help me with userboxes

ok, I have all the stuff in my page now. I think it should work now. That's all I wanted to say, I think.

Robotic Sam (talk) 02:15, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

These conversations lose so much when they're taken out of context... Anyway, I'll fix up your page and try to organize the boxes into groups (which is what I think you want, given our IM conversation). Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 02:19, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Another brilliant idea!

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For suggesting that Friendly allow users to choose from all of the variants of the {{future}} template, I award you this Barnstar for another brilliant idea. Keep 'em coming and I'll keep implementing 'em! Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again! Now I'm being forced to decide whether or not I want a TOC on my awards page. I have enough for one to pop up now. :D I'll do my best to keep the ideas coming. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 01:58, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Accept adoption

Yeah, thanks for adopting me. Hopefully I won't be as stupid as I can seem. ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robotic Sam (talk • contribs) 03:05, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem. If you have problems, questions, or need anything, just ask here. You also know where to find me on IM and email. The "E-mail this user" link is useful for the latter, too. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 03:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. I'm sure I'll talk to you soon, whether for Wikipedia help, or just saying hi. (I don't know yet) ;) Robotic Sam (talk) 03:20, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Azhagiya Tamil Magan links

That's a little cheeky from you voyagerfan. Why should there not be more variety of reviews discussing different sides of the film? Why impose one review? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Indiatoday (talk • contribs) 06:18, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I am not "imposing" a review at all. I was trying to reduce the volume of similar links attached to the article. Having half a dozen reviews seems like overkill. Nevertheless, I have simply condensed all the reviews into one line, removing all the "Review from" parts and listing them by website name/domain. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 07:33, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

RE:Master of Vandals

Original post, titled Userpage vandalism reversion, from User talk:Master of Puppets

Master of Puppets, indeed. Master of vandals, too, I see. Thanks for your reversion; now I can use that "This userpage has been vandalized n times" userbox! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Voyagerfan5761 (talk • contribs) 9 December 2007

Response, indented for archival

No problem, happy to help! Cheers, Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 04:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes, I forgot the subst. Thanks! Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 05:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Your NPWatcher application

Dear Voyagerfan5761,

Thank you for applying for NPWatcher! You've been approved to use it. Before you run the program, please check the changelog on the application page to see if there is a newer release (or just add the main page (here) to your watchlist). Report any bugs or feature suggestion here. If you need help, feel free to contact me or join NPWatcher.

Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher warnings

Please remember to warn the users whose page you submit for deletion. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 05:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Eh? Sorry, I was under the impression that NPWatcher was warning automatically, as Twinkle does. What's the best way to go about placing the warnings? I don't think it's particularly efficient to manually edit every user's talk page... Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Check the "Leave notability warning" checkbox ;-) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 05:56, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. If I want to leave a warning other than that, I have to remember it, huh? Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:58, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Side note: The program seems to use plus symbols instead of spaces when adding warnings. Hrm... Is that a known issue? Or is it something to do with my computer? Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 06:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

The buttons which have a (and warn) already automatically warn the users. As for the + issue, report it and I'll hope one of the devs will look into it. Happy editing, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 06:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks like time to beef up my knowledge of deletion warning tags. :D As for the link bug, it looks like someone beat me to it back in October. I commented on it. :) Thanks for your advice, and for pointing out my omissions in the first place! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 07:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

DizzyFIX

Please review comments on the DizzyFIX discussion page regarding you marking of the article.Mmargerisson (talk) 05:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Responded. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for removing that comment on my talk page! And I usually don't remove comments, but only if I have replied to them; if they are pure vandalism and have no merit I delete them. Thanks again and cheers, Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 01:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem! I've been getting my share of userspace vandalism today, too. I'm off to thank User:Deli nk right now, actually. I must be doing something right... :D Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 01:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Signature question

All my comments in this section have been duplicated from the original page for archiving context

Hi, East718! I've been admiring your signature for the past few months, and have been wondering how I can pull off something similar. What I want is exactly as my signature appears now, except with the timestamp inside the span. I can get a template to subst in my preferences field, but I can't figure out how to suppress MediaWiki's automatic timestamp as you seem to do.

What I have now is: <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[[User:Voyagerfan5761|Tuvok]][<sup>[[User talk:Voyagerfan5761|T]][[Special:Emailuser/Voyagerfan5761|@]][[User talk:Voyagerfan5761|lk]]</sup>/<sub>[[Wikipedia:Editor review/Voyagerfan5761|Improve me]]</sub>]</span>. Do you have any tips for getting the timestamp in before that closing </span>? Thanks! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 10:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey there! My sig is created by substituting a template ({{user:east718/s}}). This is what you need is your preferences: ({{subst:User:Voyagerfan5761/s}}). I've already created the page for you with the default timestamp, all you have to do just juggle around the list at WP:VAR#Time. You also have to add {{NoAutosign}} on your page and sign with three tildes instead of four. If you have any questions or want to know how to do the color changing, just get back at me. Cheers, east.718 at 15:38, December 14, 2007

So I didn't miss a way of getting four tildes to work, eh? Rats. You might have noticed my self-reversion on WP:RPP last night. I used Twinkle to request it, and TW and Friendly autosign with four tildes. I take it you don't use many automated tools with your account.

Somehow, I thought the solution would be to use three tildes. Having my timestamp non-breaking isn't worth the extra trouble it would cause with tools like TW, Friendly, VP, and NPW, though. But thanks for sharing your advice, just the same. :) Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 16:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I do use automated tools, I just maintain forks of them in my userspace. This is also helpful because I can customize the applications to my heart's desire. east.718 at 16:03, December 14, 2007

That actually hadn't occurred to me. I guess with Friendly getting updates about every week, I don't want to keep updating my own code. I don't even know how I'd tweak apps like VP or NPWatcher. Whatever; is it really worth all that just so my signature doesn't break across lines? Personally, I think not. But you have good ideas; perhaps you could get a bug passed to make timestamps a user preference in MediaWiki? Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 16:12, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!

You get a userbox for finding my secret page! Well done for finding the super secret page too!

This user has discovered .:Alex:.'s secret hidden page!

.:Alex:. 21:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Like I said, Special:Prefixindex is handy. You might want to declare it as cheating, though. Most of the other "secret page" hunts I've seen have. Of course, how else would I find a page with no links to it...? Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 22:23, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Your userpage

Original comment left under title "Your revert on my user page" on User talk:Gilesbennett

I thank you for this reversion. I've been gathering attention lately from vandals. Must mean I'm doing something right. :) Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 22:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

No worries. As they say in The West Wing - "If they're shooting at you, it means you must be doing something right". ;-) Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 22:14, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Probable mistake

Your recent edit to Talk:Intel Corporation appears to have inadvertently nuked the IP address of a comment (turning it into "an unspecified IP address"). Glancing through a few of your recent edits, I would guess this is a problem with the way your AWB settings handle the unsigned2 template. — Aluvus t/c 06:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah, indeed it did. Thanks for pointing that out; I've fixed that AWB code 14. It seems that one slipped by under the radar before I noticed the regex authoring error that caused it. I'll be checking my edits doubly-carefully for a little while. Again, thanks! I'm pretty sure I've nuked my own bug, but you never know; regexes are pesky things. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 06:54, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Glad to help. Regexs (regexi?) can certainly be squirmy things. — Aluvus t/c 07:45, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how well-versed you are in such matters, but I posted a question at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Date_formatting_with_regex about converting numbers to other strings using only regex. If you think you might be able to help, I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look at it. Thanks! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 07:49, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I'll meditate on it a bit, but I can't promise I'll be of any help. I don't use AWB, so that may limit how much I can help. — Aluvus t/c 00:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

The Degrassi articles

Hi, I see you pop onto the Degrassi articles from time to time - are you patrolling for people making idiotic changes, and unverifiable spoilers, or is it a subject you like? I hope it's the latter, cos I was wondering if you have any info regarding audience figures for Canada and US, or how the hell I can find it out. Let me know, cos even if you don't have that info, but you do watch the show, I have a couple other Qs to ask. -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 10:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, Dude, I forgot - Don't reply on my talk page 'cause I'm editing with a PDA these days since my laptop got jacked from my car, and my stupid browser won't let me see any of my userpages because they've got too much stuff going on! I'll just be watching you for a reply. •<||:{> -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 10:35, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Worry not about response location; I prefer to reply here anyway. ;)

Anyway, Degrassi is indeed a subject I like. I discovered the show this fall. I do have the episode list on my watchlist, and from time to time, when I watch an episode (there seem to be very few on the Web these days) I'll often look it up and fix its entry, and sometimes surrounding ones.

I'm afraid I don't have audience number sources off the top of my head. I just spend about ten minutes combing Google with a few different keywords and didn't get much. Perhaps I wasn't using the right search terms, or I was on the wrong search engine...

Right now, I'm working on just finding episodes to watch from time to time. The TV schedule for the show where I live is atrocious (the timeslot where I discovered it has since been reassigned), so I'm watching it on the internet whenever I can find an episode available. I can never seem to find them in order, either. But go ahead and ask your questions; I might know the answer. :) Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 17:25, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

If you didn't already, try either the fan site or search the torrent sites and use one of these, though I don't know what the availability is like cos I use iTunes: $1.99 per episode. I don't think The N are scheduling any episodes right now but come Dec 31st the channel goes 24 hours and I'm guessing they'll do one of their every episode ever marathons again pretty soon after, seeing as they only have like 3 original programmes.

OK, so I'm trying to get all the Degrassi articles up to at least GA standard, and the list of episodes page I even got to FA, but that was only a stop gap because the individual season articles are so bad. I'm working on those right now which is why I wanted viewing figures; something FA Lost (season 1) and its other season pages use as well as cast and crew info, although FA The Simpsons (season 1) and its others don't. BTW, which format out of the two styles do you prefer?

Secondly, I've been fixing up the List of awards won by Degrassi page, and the DTNG article which just failed a FA nomination. They said take it to GA but I wondered if you can look through it - your writing style is better than mine.

Third, and this is a long shot, but a press release in 2002 stated that Degrassi was going to Australia and UK. I know it aired in Aus, but can't find any proof it ever aired in the UK. Before I left and came to America permanently, I never saw it on the schedules, it isn't found today at www.radiotimes.com and my satellite box didn't ever find results for it either. Just wondered if you ever came across any proof anywhere? That's all for now. •<||:{> -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 21:40, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Given the choice between the general layout of Lost versus The Simpsons, I'd go with the Lost page's layout. I can't really explain why I like it better; I just do.

I'll take a look through both of the pages you've linked and see how much I need to rewrite. I've got a show to do tonight, so it won't be for a few hours, but I should be able to start on them around 04:30 UTC. Assuming it doesn't get too late, that is. I'm looking forward to doing some more article editing; I've been writing regexes for AWB the past couple days to get rid of some of the approximately 50,000 un-subst:'ed uses of {{unsigned}}... As an aside, do you think those would be useful if I published my settings on a subpage?

About the UK airings, I'm afraid I have no clue. I live in the good old U.S. of A., and I've never even heard of radiotimes.com. I also have just basic broadcast television at the moment (which isn't helping my search for opportunities to watch, I can tell you that), so no satellite listings to go off of. I'll do a few searches later tonight, after I go through those two articles, and see if I can't dig up something. The press release is from 2002, though, so it might be that the series went to the UK, didn't "sell", and got replaced with something else. You might know more than I do, since you say you used to live there. I'll be leaving in about half an hour, and right now I'll be catching up on other sites (yes, Wikipedia is not the only site on the internet — would that it were :P), but I'll check my watchlist again before I go, so if you respond I'll get it. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 22:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

PS: I've amended your link above to http://www.degrassitngho.com/, which is the site I know and which I would guess is what you meant. They used to have downloads for just about every episode, but they all got deleted from zShare, the site they used. Only a few have now been re-uploaded to MegaVideo. As for using BitTorrent, I've got so many programs on my PC right now... yeah. And I don't particularly want to download them as much as watch them from the comfort of my browser. (Storing gigabytes of video is not how I'd like to spend my HD space.) But thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps I will have to look into it once I run out of episodes on the tube sites.

That is the fansite I meant! Radio Times is a the weekly tv/radio listings magazine in the UK, and published by the BBC. As for your question, I have no idea what "regexes" means, or "AWB", although I have heard of AWB, and so don't know what settings you mean! sorry, please advise further and I'll let you know! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewedwards (talk • contribs) 23:22, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) is a tool for making semi-automated repetitive or tedious edits. The settings file is a way of saving the state of its controls, so one can resume a specified task without reconfiguring again manually after exiting and restarting the program. I think my settings file might be useful to someone, so I'm considering posting it, once I'm sure most of the bugs are gone. Now I'm off to work on those two articles you mentioned earlier... Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 06:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks ok so far. I saw you changed spellings from British English to American English though, only I thought Canadian English uses same spellings as British, but I'm not 100%. I'm not against AmE, but as it's a Canadian subject...

Someone nomed it as a GA today, too. The other issue the FAC mentioned is the one sentence paragraphs. I'm stumped on how to fix them, any ideas? --Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs —Preceding comment was added at 05:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

(reset indent) I worked on a few of the sections tonight. I toyed with the U.S. syndication section and reworked a couple single-sentence paragraphs in the second half. I also columnized the footnotes and combined the single item listed as a reference after the list under a single section. I see you've already seen my edits, and are in the process of building on top of them. That's cool; I guess I don't need to pasted a combined diff link, huh? :D Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 06:28, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I just made one little edit so the paragraph didn't begin with "even". i didn't like it when I was writing it the first time! -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 06:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Palestine

Original subject: hi

thanks for your message regarding my edit to 'palestine'

the problem wasn't actually with that article. Thanks for reverting the changes.

Here's where the problem is though... (and hopefully you can fix this)

If you go to the Hebrew page for ארץ ישראל (eretz yisrael...land of israel) and then click for the English version it takes you to the Palestine page instead of the English "land of Israel page."

can you fix that?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.152.147.26 (talk) 08:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

I can indeed fix it, but it appears that most of the other inter-language links on the Hebrew Wikipedia entry for ארץ ישראל also link to the local title equivalent to Palestine. If you want to change it yourself (I'm guessing you're an editor on he.wp), just open the edit page and go to the bottom, where you'll find a big list of links like en:Palestine and de:Palästina (Region). You can just change the part after the colon to Israel's equivalent in the target wiki's language. Changing them all to be correct would likely be a large undertaking, though.

I'm reluctant to change the link because there's probably some policy on he.wp about linking to other languages, or maybe there's a discussion on the talk page about it. I can't tell, since I can't search in Hebrew (I don't have the keyboard for it) and I haven't learned the language yet (it's on my list, though). Let me know if you'd like me to fix it anyway. I'll be more than happy to. :) Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 08:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Mcrazychick

You should look at this: [1] — Rlevse • Talk • 01:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

So, Jimbo told her (him? "it"?) that Wikipedia wasn't a place to display pictures of oneself and the user immediately left WP? We really didn't need her, I guess; not if she leaves because Jimbo says the picture should be removed. Thanks for letting me know! I wonder what she was really here for... ;) Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:53, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

her choice of images is especially puzzling given that her contribs consisted reverting vandalism.. -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 06:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

No argument there. "Taking away vandalism" seemed to be something she did regularly, for the few days she was a member. I still don't know why she left just because Jimbo vetoed the image.

That reminds me: I put the image she used to have on her page up for deletion. I don't think this is canvassing, but please tell me if it is. I don't think the old version is still on the wiki (that was "My boyfriends progect.jpg.jpg"). Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 09:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

It's not there. The current image was deleted from the Commons, it only exists on en.wiki now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewedwards (talk • contribs) 21:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it's been deleted from here, too. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:46, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Skinner Dairy edits

Thank you for your contibutions. that was my very first wikipedia page and it quite benifitial that you stumbled upon it to correct the formatting etc. How did you correct the capitalization in the title? I tried to do that but could not figure out how. Thanks again.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sickertus (talk • contribs) 17:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

We're all here to fix up the encyclopedia, aren't we? :) Correcting the title is done with the move tab at the top of the page. Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 20:42, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

PS: Looks like you forgot to sign in. I corrected SineBot's autosign for you.

Don't edit other peoples' signatures on my user talk page

I have reverted your edits to other peoples' signatures on my user talk page. I would appreciate it if you would not edit other peoples' signatures on my talk page. There is also, per Wikipedia:Template substitution, currently no consensus that the templates you substituted should be substituted. —Lowellian (reply) 21:51, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Per WP:SUBST, there is no consensus on the {{unsigned}} family, but on the template page itself ([2]), there is a message that says the template must be substituted. I extended the note to all the unsigned templates, including {{unsigned}}, {{unsigned2}}, {{unsignedIP}}, {{unsignedIP2}}, and {{undated}}. As it stands, there is no harm in template substitution; it actually decreases load on the servers should one of the templates change (unlikely but possible).

Now, for my edit. I did not change anyone's signature; I merely substituted the templates. I have done this several hundred times in the past week or two, with no complaints from any of the users on whose archive pages (not just current talk pages) I have subst:'ed; nor any complaints from other users about subst:'ing archived article talk and deletion discussion signature templates. That leaves me uncertain how to take your comment.

I guess I could just ignore you, but then your page would come up in AWB's list again sometime, and I'd probably hit the Save button again because by then I'll likely have forgotten about this conversation. So I ask you what you would like me to do. Was the inconvenience caused by a "New Messages" banner? (AFAIK it shouldn't do that.) Should I add a filter in AWB to ignore your talk page? It shouldn't be too difficult. Let me know how I can resolve the issue with you. Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 22:20, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

PS: It's a matter of opinion, but your practice of keeping archived discussions on your talk page is somewhat cumbersome. I know you have "Please do not suggest archiving" on there, but I thought I'd make my opinion known, as both you and RobHoitt have. :)

Good faith reversion

Hi, you reverted my edit of the Gmail page saying that the source provided does not mention Gmail at all. It actually does if you watch the video included in the article, where the news anchor talks about Gmail giving out the full emails to government. I wasn't sure how to link that video, so I linked the page where the video is included at instead. Please have a watch and restore my edit. Thanks :) 84.43.88.187 (talk) 01:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

While I see now that Google did indeed turn over email conversations as mentioned in the video, any service provider is pretty much obligated to do the same thing, be it your ISP, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, whoever. Gmail is in no way unique in doing so. Telephone companies keep records of what numbers you call, too, and those can be subpoenaed by law enforcement as well. If you can find something unique about this that is specific to Gmail, go ahead and add a subsection about it. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 04:34, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

PS: If you want to link to the video, you should be able to use http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/07/green.card.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo. The fragment ID (the part after #) auto-selects the video tab in capable browsers.

Indeed true, but quite controversial. I figured that there is a section under Yahoo which is specifically about Yahoo! turning over email records to the Chinese government which led to imprisonment of an individual, so since Gmail does the same for the US government, it would be fair to add such a section there too. 84.43.88.187 (talk) 10:47, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'll butt out of this one for the moment to let other editors have at the page. Your argument regarding Yahoo! is a little WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS-ish (yes, I know this isn't a deletion discussion, but it's the same concept), if I do say so myself, but I'm willing to leave it in there for now. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 12:09, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks like JGXenite wants a different source... Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 12:16, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, I guess its just to inform people if nothing else that there is no such thing as safe emails, eh? :). I corrected the link to a text link (found a CNN transcript) instead, thanks for the heads-up! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.88.187 (talk) at 16:40, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

john doyle edits

hey, thanks for the John Doyle edits. How do I remove the quotes from the title? (Eh?.. hehe.. cute) also I will change the word Artist to artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Salajek (talk • contribs) 01:23, December 24, 2007 (UTC)

No worries; I fixed it for you. For future reference, changing the title involves using the Move function, at the top of the page. You wouldn't have access to it yet; you only created your account a few hours ago. Users whose accounts are less than a few days old cannot move pages (it's an anti-vandalism measure). Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 01:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD helper: Code showing up in prompt dialogs

First comment posted at User talk:Jnothman/afd helper under heading "Code showing up in prompt dialogs"

I'm noticing code showing up in the prompt dialogs for both vote and reason (the ones that have shortcuts). The list is followed by JavaScript code from within the tool. Can this be removed? It just showed up between this past June and now (sorry I can't be more specific, I just haven't been using it much lately). Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 00:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the very belated response about your bug report to my script. (a) does it still happen? - not that I've changed anything much; (b) which browser are you using? jnothman ^talk 12:22, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it does still happen. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11. Don't worry about taking so long; I don't use the script all that much. ;) I'm used to code, anyway. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 16:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

War corporations

I changed your speedy on War corporations to a PROD, citing WP:V and WP:SOAP. I agree the article should go, but the speedy criteria (WP:CSD section headed Non-criteria) specifically exclude WP:NOT as a reason for speedy deletion, so I think the speedy would probably have been declined. JohnCD (talk) 19:05, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks! I was unaware that WP:NOT sections were specifically excluded from CSD. Good to know. Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 19:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Degrassi: The Next Generation Season 7

Hi, I noticed that you added a bunch of episode summaries for Season 7. I was just wondering what your source was.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.46.221 (talk) 03:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I personally didn't add the summaries; I just reverted multiple bulk deletions of them. The summaries were added by another anonymous user in this edit. Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 05:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Your banner

Conversation started on User talk:Snowolf under heading "Your banner"

Hi, Snowolf! I just came here a minute ago to move a new comment to the bottom for you, and I had a bit of trouble on account of that huge position:absolute table you have at the top of your page. On edit pages, it covers the top half (about) of the edit box, which makes it really difficult to do anything that's not a section edit. I've added an element hiding rule in ABP, but it would be great if you could make it hideable with the collapse function, so as not to interfere on the edit page. Thanks! Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 15:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Posts below added here under new heading

Yeah, I've had in mind to rewrite the top bar one of these days. I definitively have to ;-) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 16:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd say you've done a very good job with it. :) The new bar looks good, and it doesn't float over the controls. Well done, and thanks for doing that! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 18:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Frozen Plasma deletion

hey why you should delete the Frozen plasma page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asmodeusxxx (talk • contribs) 18:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The deletion tag gives the exact reason. The page does not assert why the band is notable. Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 18:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

if i rewrite the article in a proper way will it get deleted again? Though you can see that there is a frozen plasma article on german wikipedia, so you can check that i'm not writing nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asmodeusxxx (talk • contribs) 18:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I personally never check the German Wikipedia, since I do not speak German. However, now that I check, I see there is an article on de.wp that has been there for over a year. I can't understand any of it, but I can see it's been there.

I've cleaned up some formatting in the article here, and in light of the German article's existence, removed the speedy tag. Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 19:46, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very very much--Asmodeusxxx (talk) 10:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

BASE_Jumping

Hello.

I am going to undo your undo on the BASE_Jumping page. There were no links removed, only the order changed for better grouping. 2 links were added, BLiNC Magazine, which was the first (began in 1994) and and is the longest running BASE Jumping online forum, and the ABP our only advocacy group.

In regards to "possible spamming": The link that I moved down (the fatality list) is currently hosted and maintained by me. If I was spamming I would have moved it to the top.

Thanks, Abbie —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cornishe (talk • contribs) 16:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

MfD Result Notice

Greetings,

I have closed the MfD discussion on your "friends with" userbox as "no consensus." On a personal note, as a longtime admirer of the Vulcan culture, I will observe that the "smiley face" icon is entirely inconsistent with the emotional restraint required by the teachings of Surak. ;) Peace and long life, Xoloz (talk) 15:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Yay, I don't have to check my watchlist for it now! Woo-hoo! Er, I mean, um, that is acceptable. ;-) Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 20:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Trolling User talk:Igorberger

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, we remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on User:Igorberger. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Trolling User talk:Igorberger Thank you, Igor Berger (talk) 08:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Warning struck through as inappropriate in this situation. Please see my talk page here where I was asked to deliberate on this matter.--VS ^talk 10:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

• I assume you have read my response in detail at my talk page and my further message regarding this? My overall suggestion is to ignore Igorberger - and ignore the Andy Beard debate from now on - the fact of the lack of verification on the article will either be fixed or agreed by other editors. Stay calm and keep editing - there's plenty of good things to do on Wiki.--VS ^talk 10:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
  • I was thinking the same, actually. I've made my comment on the AFD anyway. Thanks again for your time! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 11:01, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

On GenXGlow.com in the Glowsticking Article

Hey Voyager. I appreciate your feedback on the Glowsticking article, however I disagree with you on the GenXGlow.com link. I believe the link to be extremely relevant to the article. In fact, I believe the website is a great resource for anyone interested in the glowsticking scene.

Simply look around our website and you find out that Glowsticking is by far the central focus of the website. I would say 85% of our members are involved in the glowsticking scene in some way. Many of our members consider us the premeir glowsticking website, even over more entrenched sites like glowsticking.com.

Here are some links: http://www.genxglow.com/f5/ http://www.genxglow.com/pics/showgallery.php/cat/503

Again, please reconsider. Thanks :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.189.165.5 (talk) 15:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Your members could almost be expected to consider the site one of the premier glowsticking sites. I will freely admit that I have no real knowledge of raves, glowsticking, or any related topics; I just patrol the articles because they've gotten lots of spam in the past. What flags edits to me is edits by unregistered users that add new external links at the top of the list. You are not editing with a username, and you added the link at the top, which is a practice used by many of the spammers we get here to try and increase the perceived importance of their link.

As this is a wiki, it doesn't really matter if I reconsider or not; others who are more involved with the article are always perfectly welcome to revert the reversions of other users for good reason. However, I'll put the link back in and see if someone else takes it out. That's despite my second thoughts relating to your admitted relationship with the site (see WP:COI for what I'm talking about). But we'll see how it goes. Cheers! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 18:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Wild woompacha

Begun on User talk:Master of Puppets:

Thanks for putting the CSD tag on Wild woompacha. I was going to do that, but I didn't feel confident enough in G1 to click the radio in Twinkle. Did you notice that the user has been registered for months but only edited their user page (which says "I am God.") and that one? Or are there deleted contribs I can't see? Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 05:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

The user's editcount seems to imply that they haven't been active at all. Strange. I can't see the deleted contributions either, so who knows. Anyway, thanks! Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 05:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, for some reason I thought you were an admin. Must be the "Call me MoP" that threw me off. :D Happy editing! Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 05:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Whoa, fancy that! I mistake you for an admin, and then The Placebo Effect offers to nominate you for adminship? Weird... Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 05:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Uncanny, eh? And I mainly prefer MoP because it's shorter. Sorry if I mislead you! :( Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 05:44, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Java Scripting

How do you like Java Scripting so far?

MCoOL student —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.71.42.231 (talk) 22:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, this isn't the place for that. You'll have to email me and provide at least an email address and first name. I keep this page for Wikipedia-related discussion. Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 23:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I am going to build big walls

I need to build big walls around my articles so you do not get lost..:)

Just joking! No Problem with Andy Beard, keep doing a good job catching vandals, we are on the same team! Igor Berger (talk) 11:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that little tag. I was cleaning out my watchlist and noticed that the talk page still existed. I went to tag it and didn't notice the redirection. Oops! :) Perhaps I should nominate that redirect for deletion, though; redirecting from talk to user talk is something WP should probably not do... Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 11:33, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Mick's Archaeology

Good point about the 'unqualified page' - I was thinking about 'consistency' - anyway 'fair enough' let the move stand WikiWriter (talk) 12:23, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Okay you guys talking redirects, what to you think about this?
wikimedia report dir slash possible bug Regards, Igor Berger (talk) 12:36, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Forward slashes have always behaved that way; it's not a processor thing. Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 12:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

But as a developer I see it problematic because some blog platform editors will put a backslash in rendering the code to HTML document relsulting in erroneous results. Igor Berger (talk) 12:46, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) That is a valid point. I suggest you point it out at MediaZilla (Bugzilla) as an enhancement request. As I said, it's not really a preprocessor bug; it's a problem with the MediaWiki handles titles. Let me know of the bug number if you file one, would you? Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 12:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay thanks for pointing me to the right place. And will give you the bug number once I regester it. Igor Berger (talk) 12:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem! You'll be seeing more of me on BugZilla if you start getting involved there; I have many bugs on my CC list (and my report list). :D I'll be watching for your bug number. Should be 1270-something, given that I just filed 12702 a few minutes ago. Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 12:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

All set bug 12703 Igor Berger (talk) 13:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks good! I clarified the subject, version, and component (I don't know where that one goes; it's not redirects, but then what is it?), plus added my own lengthy comment explaining my ideas for solving that bug. Interesting that the last one I reported was 12702... Further discussion on the bug's page, I think. Yes? (Now I'll go to your next comment.) Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 14:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Good job, yes the 301 can be done at the head.php or in .htaccess! Igor Berger (talk) 14:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I found an Apache mod rewrite solution now lets see if they will implement it. Igor Berger (talk) 06:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Hebrew user box

Do we have a Hebrew user box? I do not mean Jewish but a Hebrew! We can put Moses and the Ten Commandments on it here some pictures to chose from I like the one on the right as best, but google result may change. Regards, Igor Berger (talk) 13:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

That image is probably under copyright. It's on a blog, and I didn't see a license anywhere.

If you're interested in a Hebrew userbox, you're welcome to make one yourself. Frankly, I'm not too good at making them. I expect I'd be worse if I tried to use right-to-left text in one. :-/ Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 14:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Well the text can be in English and in Hebrew. I will enquere about the image copyrights. For me it is very important to keep the affiliation to the race! And one does not have to be born in Israel to be a Hebrew. Igor Berger (talk) 22:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)