User talk:Ilmari Karonen/archives/1

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Ilmari Karonen/archives/1, welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some tips:

• Take a look at the Simplified Ruleset.
• Read the Tutorial, How to edit a page and the Manual of Style.
• Find out how to revert, move and merge pages.
• Sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~).
• Add yourself to the New user log and a regional notice board
• Ask questions at the Village pump or Help desk.
• Use the Show preview button
• Provide an Edit summary
• Add the correct image copyright tag to any images you upload
• Create a User page
• Be bold
• Ignore all rules

If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.

If, for some reason, you are unable to fix a problem yourself, feel free to ask someone else to do it. Wikipedia has a vibrant community of contributors who have a wide range of skills and specialties, and many of them would be glad to help. As well as the wiki community pages there are IRC Channels, where you are more than welcome to ask for assistance.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax ^τεχ 23:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Game theory wikiproject?

Hi there -

I noticed your recent discussions on Evolutionary stable strategy. I have been surveying people to see if there is any interest in starting a wikiproject on game theory. Do you think you might be a regular contributor, if such a project were to get started? --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 02:12, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Sure, why not? Game theory certainly interests me — in fact, I've been thinking of perhaps doing my graduate thesis in it, which would be a good excuse to delve into the subject more deeply. As for the regularity of my future contributions, it's still a bit early for me to say. I've only just "found" Wikipedia, and it's all new and exciting still. I'll have to wait and see how much time and effort I'll be willing to spend on it in the long run. —Ilmari Karonen 21:06:08, 2005-08-29 (UTC)

Great! I've gone ahead and started the process, feel free to contribute, and don't worry about being new. People will help out along the way. Sign up and make any changes you like at Wikipedia:WikiProject Game theory. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 02:05, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

I don't have the illustrator file for BayerPatternSimpleMosaic. At the moment I'm in a different continent.--Plowboylifestyle 21:51, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

WP:CP

Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied" If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider and there is no assertion of permission, ownership or fair use and none seems likely, and the article is less than 48 hours old, it may be speedily deleted. See CSD A8 for full conditions. After notifying the uploading editor by using wording similar to: {{nothanks-sd|pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~ Blank the page and replace the text with {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}} to the article in question, leaving the content visible. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to speedily delete it or not.

Heippa!

Heippa Ilmari Karonen! Näytät olevan hyvin aktiivinen poistettavien sivujen keskustelussa ja tunnut muutenkin olevan hyvin perillä Wikipediasta. Normaalisti suosittelisin sinua ylläpitäjäksi, mutta olet ollut Wikipediassa liian vähän aikaa. Muistuta minua noin kuukauden kuluttua suositella sinua, jookos? — JIP | Talk 20:02, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Subst:

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. It is important that you use "subst:" when inserting templates which form an AfD nomination to avoid technical problems. Andrew pmk | Talk 00:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Yippee!! :-) :-) :-)

- your image of the mass spring damper system made my day! :-) I thought it would never be created. It looks excellent! I'll take a closer look at the image tomorrow, but I think it will suffice for the article. Thanks again for your efforts! --HappyCamper 02:53, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey there! I was wondering if you would consider uploading that mass-spring-damper diagram to Commons? That way, the picture can be used on all the Wikipedias. What do you think? --HappyCamper 00:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

There you go. I hope I got it right, this being my first time to upload anything to Commons. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 10:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Template:LicenseFreeUse

As per your request, I have protected it. -Greg Asche (talk) 21:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Civilian service

Eikös civilian service ole sama kuin conscientious objection? Vai tarkoitatko jotakin muuta? — JIP | Talk 18:06, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Ei tarkalleen: civilian service = siviilipalvelus, conscientious objection = aseistakieltäytyminen. Liittyvät toki toisiinsa. Tämä siviilipalveluksen puuttuminen Wikipediasta tuli esiin artikkelissa Human rights in Finland, jossa puhutaan siviilipalveluksen kestosta. Tässä yhteydessä siviilipalveluksen samaistaminen aseistakieltäytymiseen olisi vähintäänkin hämäävää. —Ilmari Karonen 18:29, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Siinä tapauksessa kannattaa tutustua artikkelin Conscientious objection throughout the world lukuun "Conscientious objection in Finland", jonka minä kirjoitin. Uskon tietäväni siviilipalveluksesta Suomessa jotain (koska olen itse sivari) mutta en ollut aiemmin tiennyt tästä merkityserosta englanninkielisissä termeissä. Voisiko tuon artikkelin sisältöä jotenkin käyttää hyödyksi artikkelissa civilian service, jos sellainen joskus kirjoitetaan? — JIP | Talk 18:39, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Signature

Thanks for your help (via User:HappyCamper's talk page) pointing out to me the raw signature feature. I'm much happier with my signature now. Jdavidb (talk • contribs) 17:26, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Archimedes Vandalism

oops, I guess I didn't go back far enough. Thanks for covering. By the way, I gave the vandal a test4 warning. 139.78.10.1 20:02, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

godmode-light

Hi, thanks a million for fixing these bugs in godmode-light.js. I merged them with my version. Sam Hocevar 01:54, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Patay Gutom Gang

It is restored, as requested. AfD away. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 14:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

...for fixing my redirect error. I was planning to also create redirects from 'M B Zimunya' and an alternate spelling of this guy's first name. Is this the right thing to do? ( I'm new here...) Cheers JackyR 22:44, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

If you expect people to look for him using the alternate spelling, or if there are articles that link to the alternate spelling, then you probably should create a redirect. But otherwise there's no need to create redirects from every possible (mis)spelling. You may want to try searching (using the search box on the left) for any alternate spelling before creating a redirect from it. If the correct article comes up among the first results, an explicit redirect is probably not needed. For details, see Wikipedia:Redirect. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Stele move

Hi, I've completed your moves as requested on Wikipedia:Requested moves. I've fixed up the pages a little bit, but you might want to double-check to make sure that all incoming links are still pointing to all the right articles. Thanks. —Cleared as filed. 17:55, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Dental Handpiece Picture

I can take a picture of my dental handpiece (officially not called a drill) and some burs (officially not called bits). If I do not upload it by the end of the week, then I forgot and a friendly reminder on my talk page would jog my memory. I just got to figure out which way would be the shot to get of the handpiece... something to make it look non-threatening. :-P - Dozenist talk 03:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, that'd be great. Oh, and you're welcome to correct the terminology and any other errors you find in the article. There's probably a lot of useful information missing, too. (I know practically nothing about the subject beyond what I could find with Google. In fact, it seems "dental drill", "dental handpiece" and even "dental drill handpiece" are all used on the web. I suspect there may be a subtle distinction there, but I can't really tell for sure.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:14, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

The pic is up and you can find it here. Can we do the change to the name of the article, and just redirect the current one? -Dozenist talk 16:39, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Ylläpitäjäksi

Thank you, but I've declined the nomination. I feel it's too early for me yet. Maybe in a few more months... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 00:54, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

So its a squiggly bracket } instead of a regular bracket ) ? That certainly isn't obvious as, at least on my computer, they both look the same. )})}({({ Perhaps this needs to be made explicit on the pages. Zordrac 23:40, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Right. I'd suggest a different font, or you're bound to encounter this problem again sooner or later. As for making it explicit for people who can't easily see the difference, that does sound like a good idea. Feel free to make the changes, I don't think anyone will oppose them. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Fotofab

Hehe, no worries :) At least it got moved, there's still one or two that are waiting to be moved from transwiki to main namespace now. Plus hopefully someone will either improve it or AfD it :) Thanks for the note tho. Cheers. «»Who?¿?^meta 04:28, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

TeachScheme!

You have marked the TeachScheme! page as a copyright violation. There is no violation in the new page because it is written by a member of the PLT team (which is responsible for the TeachScheme! project). Furthermore, the TeachScheme! page is not a commercial page, no profits are made, and the page in question holds a general overview of the project -- "school curriculum" whatsoever, commercial or not. Please restore the previous contents. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.30.27.105 (talk • contribs) 01:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I've relisted the page at WP:CP#Poster claims to be the author or to have permission. However, I'd really like to get confirmation of permission from someone in the PLT team. If you have the authority to license the content of the page under the GFDL, you can use the "E-mail this user" link to let me know. (Alternatively, there's an e-mail link at the top of my home page.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I cannot use the Wikipedia link because I have no account. Your web page has some obfuscation mechanism that probably made my mail trapped as spam, and I don't see any other addresses. So I added a temporary note to the bottom of the page in question. Please mail me.

Thanks, got your address. I'd say the fact that you can edit the page is enough to make me accept your claim. Anyway, I sent you mail requesting a formal confirmation, and will restore the page. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of list of Whites

I missed out on opposing the VfD, but why would you list that for deletion before it even had a chance? Are you White? Not all White people can be indentified directly to a specific European nation such as Finland etc. What about people who might be part 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian, 1/2 Polish, or other White mixes? Is there a category available? Can you kindly tell me why you put that up for deletion? Thanks.Icemountain 01:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Mostly for the reason given in the nomination, i.e. unmaintainability. A list of white people on Wikipedia would include tens of thousands of articles, and would have no hope of staying up to date as new articles get added — not to mention that there's no uncontroversial way to define who would belong on it. The list, as created, also provided no information that a corresponding category couldn't provide, should one feel the need for such a classification. Several other people commenting on the nomination also brought up valid points, which I shan't repeat here. All in all, whatever one might feel about categorizing people based on skin color in general, that particular list was pretty much stillborn. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 00:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Centered squares

The new pictures for centered square number look very nice. Simple and elegant. Thank you very much! PrimeFan 22:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

template qif

I would say the q stands for "quicker" (or "quick") – qif does not call any other template, whereas "if" did. But the original inventor (AzaToth) might know better what it means. Disclaimer: beware of WP:AUM. – Adrian | Talk 15:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

The question was really meant to be rethorical, but thanks anyway. My point was that, now that the old Template:If is deprecated and soon to be gone entirely, there is no longer any need to distinguish the "quick" version by prepending an extra letter to the name. Anyway, I've changed my vote slightly and (hopefully) clarified my reasoning. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:25, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Question about Template:Web-reference

In TfD you wrote that "we can't really verify it isn't being used somewhere". Just out of curiosity, how come? I would've thought any transclusions would show up in "what links here". —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

A recent bug/feature was added that causes pages to skip over the redirect and link internally to the template itself. These pages will show up in Special:Whatlinkshere as being linked/using the template directly, not the redirect. -- Netoholic @ 23:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

link service provided by Adrian Buehlmann 23:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Unwatch script

I think you'll find that your version of the script is suited to non-default preferences. It accords to having set your preferences to use "Enhanced recent changes". On that basis, I will leave both scripts with explanations. jnothman ^talk 02:29, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

monobook.js

I've been watching the User page edits and I notice that you've been having some trouble with the javascript thing. Could I offer the use of my favorite debugging tool? Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 03:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Heh, thanks. Unfortunately I have to keep saving the page to test it, since the script I'm debugging only works on Special:Watchlist, so the preview button is of no use. Is it spamming the log badly? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

No more than any other edit is. I've probably done worse with my user page edits. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 03:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh well, I think I got it working now. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Hooray! I guess you won't be needing the debugging tool after all :) Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 03:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Just so you won't worry, about 5 other users are messing around with monobook.js and monobook.css files too. I'm not even really sure what you guys are doing. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 03:55, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I refactored the code a little... Do you have any idea, though, why it's loading twice for me? And why are you using such a long url when &action=unwatch was sufficient in the original version of the script? I've changed this too, for simplicity's sake. jnothman ^talk 03:56, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Hahahaha neat solution in the end =) I'll still put in the shorter URL. jnothman ^talk 03:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

No, you were right. Long URL it is. jnothman ^talk 04:12, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Any luck so far? Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 21:48, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Working just fine now, thanks. See here for the "released" versions. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

template:ll

Hi, Thanks for your message. After having substed in Ă, here's what I see at Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Ll now:

• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
• User talk:Grstain
• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion
• User talk:Roy da Vinci
• Template talk:Lang-uk
• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Not deleted/July 2005
• Template talk:Language link
• User talk:Adrian Buehlmann
• User:Imz
• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Holding cell
• Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/December 2005
• User:U-571

The Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi is new, though I cannot see that anybody added a template:ll in the mean time. The other entries I think can be ignored. But frankly said, that What Links here function seems to be instable. Why is that Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi not on your list? Could it be that Ă was not on mine? However I deliberately did not subst inside Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi for now that you can look yourself. Adrian Buehlmann 21:34, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

There is definitely something fishy going on. "What links here" is a moving target. To be secure, I moved ll back to orphan in the holding cell and left a note there [1]. Adrian Buehlmann 23:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Possibly due to this. Adrian Buehlmann 23:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Rating stars

I though I'd let you know that I've recently created a new modular set of SVG rating stars and a template for using them, {{starsx}}. It's only used in a couple of articles so far, but it seems to be working fine. Since you're the creator of the currently used set of 5-star rating images, I thought you might be interested. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 00:13, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I've been following the discussions on some of the pages. I'm happy that it's finally SVG. Thanks. -- WB 03:56, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Philosopher template

Much thanks for the solution you provided. Another question - can the same thing be done so that the row "Death" does not appear for living philosopher? See FI, John Searle. I had a quick play with it, but it appeared not to work... Banno 01:05, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure, done. It's all pretty straightforward, really. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 01:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

!! Thanks again. Banno 01:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I went a little further and applied the same trick to the interest and idea boxes, so that the template now complies with WP:AUM. If any problems turn up, please let me know. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 01:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Another request: Would you have a look at the template in John Anderson (philosopher), [[2]. Is it possible to fix the influences/influenced section? Thanks! Banno 02:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Done. The actual fix just involved adding some spaces, but I also added code to hide the headings too if both parameters are empty. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Again, I am in your debt. Thanks. Banno 00:22, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Your personal attacks

Please refrain from personally attacking other users. There is a policy against that Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Please read so you don't slip again. --Fenice 06:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I've offended you. I realize that we disagree on the issue of Babel expansion, but I see no reason why I should have anything against you personally. You seem to be an active editor with many valuable contributions to Wikipedia, and I would not wish to make you feel anything less than welcome here. In any case, I feel this is all a rather insignificant issue to get into a personal argument about — it's just a userbox, after all. I may feel that it's needless bloat, but I'm not going to lose any sleep if the consensus is to keep it. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 06:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I accept your apology.--Fenice 07:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a place for you to live out your freely floating agressions. What on earth drove you to misrepresent the proposal of xx-5 as my scheme? --Fenice 06:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm aware it's not your idea originally, but it does seem to me you've taken it up as a personal cause. Certainly you seem to have taken the proposal and decided to go ahead and implement it. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, mind you, but I feel it's generally appropriate, when doing so, to announce your actions and to accept the fact that someone may revert you if they consider the implementation to be premature. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 06:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Ilmari, I have just discovered the full scope of your crusade here and I am telling you, I am going to remove all future personal attacks against my person and I removed the one on the talk page of Babel. --Fenice 07:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Sigh. You can "discover the full scope of my crusade" at Special:Contributions/Ilmari Karonen — that's how I found your edits to the Babel page. When one makes edits to a project page that substantially alter a guideline or policy, posting a notice about it on the talk page is only polite. I've restored the part about my edits and the AfD nomination, but I left out the bits mentioning you. I hope this is ok? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 07:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

In any case, I feel this is all a rather insignificant issue to get into a personal argument about — it's just a userbox, after all. I may feel that it's needless bloat, but I'm not going to lose any sleep if the consensus is to keep it.
Then you should not have voted. And you know perfectly well it will be deleted, don't be ridiculous. Your drive-by-shooting at Babel was one hundred percent successful. I am just disgusted and shocked on how people here have nothing better to do than disrupting other editors. --Fenice 07:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, at a glance I count 19 keep votes and 33 deletes for en-5. That's close to the accepted borderline for consensus. So no, I wouldn't bet the farm on the outcome yet. If the vote ratio stays as it is now, the final decision may eventually depend on the closing admin's personal discretion. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 07:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Let's be realistic. This case is closed. Let's not discuss this now. The abusive way this policy was 'decided', will be on RfC in case I get around to it. For your nomination of de-5 I will include you. --Fenice 08:05, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, fair enough. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 08:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Metacomet's sandbox

Please refrain from making revisions to the items in my sandbox. I don't think it is proper etiquette to revise another person's user pages without having the courtesy to introduce yourself and perhaps offering your idea as a suggestion on the person's user talk page. Frankly, it borders on outright rudeness. -- Metacomet 20:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• If you felt what I did was rude, I apologize. The nice thing about this being a Wiki is that, if you don't like the edits I made, you can always revert them — your original version is still safely there. Of course, you'll have a redlink in your sandbox then, since the Penzias and Wilson article was speedily deleted per CSD A3, but you can do so if you like. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 06:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

user against scientology has been speedily deleted

I have requested undeletion at WP:DRV#Template:User_against_scientology. Regardless of whether or not this template has any merit it should be undeleted until the tfd has run it's course. Your vote at the tfd counts for nothing if the speedy deletion stands.--God of War 06:12, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, even if I didn't end up voting the way you probably wanted. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 07:15, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Stars/old

Here it is and it's linked from the Template talk:Stars. Hope I didn't mess up page history too much. gren グレン 11:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Diff width fixer

→ Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Fix diff width

Did you write this? If so, you deserve some kind of award. That has bugged me for forever.

I tried to do the same thing with css and had no luck. — Omegatron 00:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I wrote that. I started with CesarB's simpler solution but found that it didn't always work as it should. Then one day I just realized that it ought to be possible to force the column widths to be exactly equal by getting rid of the table altogether. The rest was just a simple matter of programming. :-)

Now all I need to do is figure out why it fails in IE and how to fix it... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 00:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, it works in IE now. The problem turned out to be that IE and Mozilla needed different syntax for setting the float CSS property in JavaScript. Sigh. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, hooray! Cesar's was based on my idea, so I guess you finally wrote what I wanted.  :-) Does he know about it? — Omegatron 22:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for it! At last, one fix which works with the problematic edits which made me stop using my version (documented at User talk:CesarB/monobook.js if you want to see them by yourself). Notice that I deleted the two lines of IE CSS kludge when putting it on my monobook.js; they were only adding noise to the Javascript console. Now, someone just needs to hack the PHP code to output it the way the script does, and it'll work for everybody (and be faster too). --cesarb 01:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

That's funny, I don't see any output in my JS console. Could you paste an example of what you see so I could try to fix it? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

It's two lines, one complaining it cannot parse the value for the declaration of padding-bottom, and the other one complaining it cannot parse the value for the declaration of top. In both cases, it happens because Firefox does not understand expression on CSS. The way to avoid it would be to detect when you are using MSIE, and do not print these two lines in that case (as they are only needed on MSIE). The error messages only appear on Firefox 1.5; older versions do not show anything for CSS parsing errors. --cesarb 15:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

bugzilla:01229

→ bugzilla:01229 – "Balance diff display more evenly"

• Dear Ilmari! Thank you very much for the workaround. Please take a look at wikt:yi:user:Gangleri/monobook.js where I added some lines to make your workaround BiDi compatible, to add some lines to switch to some sister projects, to have "absolute" [[w:en:foo]]-style wiki links.
• Please take a look also at bugzilla:1229#c15. Please feel free to log in at wikt:yi:. I / We would be happy about any help / knowhow. Best regards Gangleri | T 21:21, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

for your help. I will save learning EasyTimeline for a project that actually calls for it... pfctdayelise 02:32, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Pebble Beach

Sorry, I only did that because I saw someone else do it for what seemed like a similar intention on another article that I was working on. Monkey see, monkey do. You can delete it, as I already have a sandbox, and don't need another. Jon Awbrey 22:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Ylläpitäjäksi, taas

Thanks. I've accepted this time. I must say I'm feeling a mild adrenaline rush just now, as if I'd been pushed onto a stage and told to introduce myself to the crowds. We'll see how it goes now... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Mathbot business

Hi. I am sorry you had the misfortune of being spammed by my bot on your own RFA. The bot got rightfully blocked, and now I am looking into that problem. Again, sorry for the trouble. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:51, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

The corrupted JPEG file

Hey, just wondering, which tool did you use to get rid of the first 4096 bytes? My hex editor can't save :( enochlau (talk) 23:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Perl. More specifically perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/^.*?(.{6})(Exif|JFIF)/$1$2/s' Pict0002.jpg. I then found the number of bytes removed by comparing the size of the resulting file to the original. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! enochlau (talk) 06:11, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Francs2000 12:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! You're now a President, I mean an admin! JIP | Talk 13:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

School unblocking

Can I ask why you unblocked these ips? Just about every edit that has been made from those ips has been vandalism and as far as I know there is no policy to except schools from blocking (they can still access Wikipedia but not edit). (Special:Contributions/195.188.217.142, Special:Contributions/195.188.217.145, Special:Contributions/195.188.217.146). Arniep 16:41, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I unblocked them based on what seemed a fairly polite and reasonable request on User talk:195.188.217.145. I guess I should've kept a closer eye on them afterwards, but I guess I naively hoped they'd've taken care of the problem on their end. Beginner's naivete, I guess. I'll reblock them if anything further comes up, though it looks like they may have stopped for today. Actually, I'm just drafting an abuse report to the school — maybe that'll help a bit. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Block?

That was absolutely NOT an act of vandalism. On the contrary it was a legitmate contribution. Adding the next line to a Queen song under the Pop Culture section is NOT vandalism. You are being overbearing and abusing your admin. powers. --70.161.247.202 00:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'm willing to assume that your edit was made in good faith. I have replaced the warning on your talk page with a more appropriate one. Even so, please try not to make such frivolous contributions in the future. Remember that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a comic strip. Using ALL CAPS and multiple exclamation points to create "sound effects" is not appropriate in an encylopedia article. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 01:00, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for replacing the warning and I'll try not to make edits in such a manner from now on. --70.161.247.202 02:51, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my monobook... ManiacK thought I was vandalizing the site, whereas you figured out I was just mistaken in how to work the popups. I appreciate the assistance. Anthony 18:08, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Speedy-D Cleanup

I noticed you removed some resolved discussions from Questioned Speedy deletions. I was just wondering where those discussions are archived in case they ever need to be reviewed. I'm kinda new here, and am still learning my way around.
— Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib)  –  February 8, 2006, 19:59 (UTC)

As far as I know, only in the page history. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser request

Matthew Brown and I have both worked on this, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_CheckUser#Reverend_Abramovich_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29. The large number of created accounts may not be particularly significant as there is no way to block this large provider. Obviously Willy on Wheels makes his home there but so a number of other users. Fred Bauder 03:03, 13 February 2006 (UTC)