Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 23:33, 6 September 2006

NO SPAMMING

Cyde's talk page        Leave a new message

Archives
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O
P Q R S T U V W
X Y Z 10 11 12

John Ling article

Hello Clyde. I am facing a problem. The John Ling appears to have been seriously vandalized with libellous statements, but each time I try to correct them, your bot doesn't allow me to. Any way to fix this?

Your (rather interesting) block

So you think Jimbo sucks? Wow, I can't wait to tell him that. User:High Templar

Apologies

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your message and many apologies. I completely respect Misplaced Pages and the work that you're doing and am sorry for acting so frivolously in regards to it. To be honest (and this is very naive of me) I didn't realize quite what a large and important endeavour it is and am very impressed by the constant research that goes on.

I can assure you that we won't be bothering you again with our little project. Apologies again and good luck,

VG Farmer

Award

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		This award is for your efforts to make Misplaced Pages a better place for all, and for your valued assisstance, patience to me. Martial Law

User:Clevelander

Hello, You have been blocked me for 1 week about the bad babels but Clevelander has too many of them. Why you don't block him???????-- Sorry but I think you are iniquitous -- Zaparojdik 02.09.2006 13:32, (UTC)

"Wikipedian categories for discussion"

I saw your note about not helping with CfD until the Wikipedian categories were broken out onto a separate page. That makes a lot of sense to me (the separate-page part, not the not-helping part). Why should people who are only concerned with encyclopedic content have to deal with userpage content? The only caveat is that we're almost done with the nominations as they stand, so we might as well finish them out where they are, but in principle, I definitely support a "WP:WCfD." That would make both processes much cleaner. Thanks for suggesting it. How do you suppose we get that approved?--Mike Selinker 15:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

It's very simple: just do it. And there's no way in hell we're anywhere close to dealing with all of the user categories. Go make another CFD-type process page and move all of the non-encyclopedic CFDs over there. Put some notices at the top of WP:CFD and move new nonencyclopedic discussions over to the new page. Also give the new process some sort of WP:CFDW analogue. --Cyde Weys 15:29, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to do it without seeing if people support it first. That kind of stuff makes me crazy. But I will post the comment at the top of CFD.--Mike Selinker 15:41, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Throw in your opinion there, please.--Mike Selinker 15:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

People will support it. --Cyde Weys 15:47, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for posting. I think my zealousness to finish a project is mostly to blame for choking CfD, by the way. A less obsessive editor might not have caused such a logjam. :^) --Mike Selinker 15:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

As a side note, if you want something to do that doesn't involve a lot of Wikipedian categories, there's always the backlog at cfr-speedy. Not a lot of Wikipedian content there, but boy, does it pile up.--Mike Selinker 16:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Head's up

Just a head's up that "Dr. Julius Chatterjee orthopedic surgeon" fails a Google test. Suss edit hist? Too wild a leap that he's not what he seems?. I'm probably being clueless, in which case apologies in advance. Cheers Clappingsimon talk 22:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

For the record, I've responded to your inquiries as to my identity (or rather, should I call them "suspicions?") on my talk page. I'd also ask that you please discuss concerns like these with me -- or at least attempt to -- before trying to rat me out to administrators. I find it highly offensive, and can't help but wonder if this is part of some smear campaign on the part of angry or vindictive "CVU" members. Dr Chatterjee 03:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

What in the hell is going on here and what does any of this have to do with me? --Cyde Weys 03:57, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Your guess is as good as mine. User:Clappingsimon is a staunch supporter of the Counter-Vandalism Unit (he recently voted "Speedy Keep" in its MfD) who evidently "has it out" for me, and decided (quite inappropriately) to attempt to smear my reputation by going directly to you, an administrator. Why he chose to do this is beyond me, but I find it a clumsy, rude, and misguided attempt to cast doubt upon my character in an attempt to shore up support for his side of the CVU debate. I would recommend ignoring and/or chastizing him on his talk page. I'm staying out of this from here on out. Dr Chatterjee 04:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Dr_Chatterjee did turn out to be a Bobby Boulders sock WP:RFCU#Dr_Chatterjee. Cheers Clappingsimon talk 00:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:DENY

I tried to rewrite the intro a bit to be less of an essay and also moved it to proposed in case people want a policy out of it or something. Of course, I have a nagging feeling the last part may get reverted anyway so all due apologies if that offended you. RN 03:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

CFD vs. DRV - Centralised discussion?

Hi there. I was following a thread at the administrator's noticeboard, (see here), about CFD vs DRV, where you said: "How about starting a discussion in project-space to go for two weeks and link it from 'cent'". I was wondering if anything came of that idea, as I looked around for anywhere that this discussion continued at, and have found nothing. Maybe there is nothing to find! Hope you can help. Thanks. Carcharoth 09:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Tough call

But good for you for having the guts to block User:John Reid for spamming. I'm impressed. Stay cool! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 00:56, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Meh, don't be impressed. I block everyone who I see spamming. I despise spamming. --Cyde Weys 01:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Figure you'll know

Why is it we don't use 'hard coded' category redirects here. I see some sisterprojects are doing so, so do you know the rationale? Obviously the current system, even with a BOT relocating things takes up manpower hours. The only thing I can figure is someone once figured it loads down the servers. Thanks // FrankB 02:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

We don't use them because they don't work. It's very simple. Try it out yourself with some test categories. It won't work. Create Category:Test1 as a redirect to Category:Test2 and try putting stuff in Test1. It won't redirect to Test2. --Cyde Weys 02:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Steve Irwin - you lifted protection?

Please take a look at the history Cyde, it needs protection allbeit temporarily - these arent legit edits. Please reconsider - Glen 05:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Which edits, the ones about how he's dead? It's now even being reported on CNN. Anyway, full protection isn't merited in this case; semi should be fine. --Cyde Weys 05:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Um. It was sprotected first. Look here. I went to temporary vprotect because sleeper accounts are editing the page. It was only for 5-10 minutes anyway. --Woohookitty 05:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, alright, I didn't see the sleeper accounts. If the full protection is still necessary, go for it. --Cyde Weys 05:14, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Relicensing images

Er, do you routinely license CC-BY images as GFDL? That's not really kosher. Please see my comment at Image talk:Steve Irwin.jpg. pfctdayelise (translate?) 07:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Sure it's kosher. You can do whatever you want with CC-by images as long as you give attribution, including relicensing them. It's CC-sa images that require them to be released under the same license. --Cyde Weys 07:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

No it's not kosher... Directly from the license: section 4, restrictions: The license granted...is expressly made subject to and limited by the following restrictions: 1. You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work only under the terms of this License ... You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License ...You may not sublicense the Work.

ShareAlike is about derivative works. A plain copy is not a derivative work, it's just the work itself! Only the copyright holder (or someone authorised by them) can grant new works.

I hope this is not a widespread practice...! --pfctdayelise (translate?) 07:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you aware of the definition of derivative work? --Cyde Weys 07:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

It is a derived work. Compare it to the original and note the differences. Mine is cropped, for one. --Cyde Weys 07:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't realise it was cropped. My apologies. pfctdayelise (translate?) 08:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Steve Irwin

Why did you rv my edit?I already forgot 08:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, you're right, I don't particularly see that as the name of the documentary anywhere verifiable. --Cyde Weys 08:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Do NOT delete without discussion and consensus. You do NOT own Misplaced Pages. SarahTeach 20:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Someone has to keep the talk page on-topic and conformant with the guidelines outlined at WP:TALK. --Cyde Weys 20:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I think you may have been a little too confronting with the user here. Remember to keep the general dont bite the newbies thing in mind when trying to discern why people do things. Cheers, Ansell 05:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Check out that user's other past contribs. There's a bit of fishy stuff in there as well. And I reject the notion that I was too mean or confrontative. I was simply being blunt. --Cyde Weys 05:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

From their other contributions I would say they possibly have strong points of view but nothing more fishy than that in terms of motives for edits. And about the confronting, I stand corrected, blunt is a better description! Ansell 05:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Year delinking

Although most of your year delinking seem to be good to me, some have been a bit agressive. Generally you should keep ones that are used at the beginning of sections.. places where understanding the historical context is important... Keep a user of whatlinks here on a year article in mind. I see that Rebecca has been using admin rollback on your edits, throwing out the good with the bad. I think that it is inapproiate for her to do so, and I've asked her to lay off. It appears that the date linking is a hot subject for her... but even she admits that you make good edits. Good luck, and be careful with your edits. Misplaced Pages won't be done (or ruined) in one day, which is the same advice I made to her.... --Gmaxwell 08:50, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

LOL

-- I love WP:DENY more and more every day. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 22:19, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll be honest, when I first heard of WP:DENY I was skeptical. Now, it's absolutely proven itself to me. --Cyde Weys 22:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Re your Maru evidence

In two threads on ANI today, it was stated that Maru's bot appeared to be only semi-automated and required human input for each edit, thus didn't require approval under the bot policy. I have no idea whether either of these assertions is correct, but you might want to address these issues in your evidence? I will add that I find it very disconcerting that he hasn't seen fit to offer any statement or evidence to ArbCom, either before or after his case was opened. Newyorkbrad 22:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Some of those edits were still made rapidly enough that they violated the bot policy, whether or not he claims to have been doing them manually. He should know that he's already in hot water over all bot-related stuff and that he really shouldn't be pushing it. --Cyde Weys 22:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV (September 2006)

The September 2006 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 12:37, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The SS.AVB

Have you considered changing up the image every once in a while? How about

Or maybe a pirate theme?--152.163.100.6 14:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Signpost updated for September 5th.

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)