User talk:Qxz - Misplaced Pages

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Stub types and welcomebot research

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Regarding your edit to Parallax:

Your recent edit to Parallax (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 22:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

So the bot fails to spot the vandalism, but reverts me when I try to fix it? That's really not a lot of use, you know – Qxz 22:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

PediaPress

I was looking into your request to have the {{prod}}'ed article undeleted when you pulled the request. If you look at the deletion log, there was a PROD deletion, a WP:CSD#G11 deletion, and a garbage article deletion. Be aware 1) that the PROD'ed article was essentially identical to the CSD#G11 deletion, so the recreated article, if not significantly improved, may well be deleted again as advertising. I recommend either following the guidance at Misplaced Pages:Amnesia test about finding independent sources and seeing if you can create an article therefrom, or just converting the link on Misplaced Pages to a sentence explaining the business. GRBerry 06:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Citation templates

From Misplaced Pages:Template messages/Sources of articles#Citations of generic sources:

"The use of Citation templates is not required by WP:CITE and is neither encouraged nor discouraged by any other Misplaced Pages citation guidelines. They may be used at the discretion of individual editors, subject to agreement with the other editors on the article. Some editors find them helpful, while other editors find them annoying, particularly when used inline in the text. Because they are optional, editors should not change articles from one style to the other without consensus."

Emphasis mine – Qxz 23:09, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Why post this to my user talk page? Is it really necessary to smack me in the face with a WP page that tells me I'm somehow wrong about something? I never said that it's imperative that we do convert all references to that format, I'm saying that I believe we should do it. There's no need to come around just to tell me that I should have no right to say that (I do) when I haven't even made a big deal out of it yet. —msikma (user, talk) 06:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Robotchicken1886

Re your message: Call me an optimist. However, if he comes back, I will gladly extend the block for a longer or indefinite time. -- Gogo Dodo 19:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages in popular culture

Hi, I noticed you just edited this Misplaced Pages in popular culture. For some reason, it's been fully protected, and {{editprotected}} requests are piling up on the talk page. Could you possibly take a couple of minutes to make those edits? They're all very small, they'll only take a few seconds. Thanks – Qxz 11:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem, all minor fixes, all done. Let me know if there's any more. Proto::► 12:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

1993

Thanks, didn't notice that little header. --Averross 18:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism patrol

Hey, thanks for helping out doing RC patrol, it's always needed. I've been noticing notes you've left on a vandal's page and I wanted to make a suggestion. I'd suggest going up in sequence through the test templates, rather than skipping to test 4 (or other "last warning") after a test 1 or 2. While not everyone does this, it is encouraged. It makes it easier to block the vandal, since it's clear that they've received the full set of warnings (Many admins will remove a vandal from AIV if they've not got the whole set of warnings). Also, there's a chance that the vandal will desist after a few warnings. It's also easier for the next person if you go in order (e.g. if someone leaves a t3 for the first message, do I leave a t4 for the second? Go back to t2?). Anyway, you can do with this advice what you want, I just thought I'd let you know my thoughts on it. Hopefully I haven't been too annoying by leaving you bossy messages as my introduction to you! Let me know on my talk page if you have any questions or want to discuss anything. Thanks again for doing RC patrol! Hopefully see you around. Peace, delldot | talk 19:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, sorry to bother you then. Peace, delldot | talk 21:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages

Thank you, but if I've given the impression I have an ounce of sense, I owe you an apology. ;-D SlimVirgin 20:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

See my reply at talk:Misplaced Pages. I know it's frustrating, but don't take it out on the guy who unprotected the article for a legitimate reason. If you had taken a look at my protection summary, you would have seen why I unprotected the page. In the future, you better watch those personal attacks. We don't tolerate this on Misplaced Pages. Nishkid 64 22:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't call me "hopeless optimistic" and don't go on and say "finally, someone with sense" after SlimVirgin re-protected the page. There are many newly registered users and IPs that participate in ACIDs, and with the semi-protection, they will not be able to edit. I unprotected the page (and would only keep it unprotected for 3-4 days) so that these users could freely edit the page. As I said, there are hundreds of people who are watching the page, and dozens of them spend their time looking at their watchlist or RC patrol. These people can surely spend their time reverting vandalism on Misplaced Pages, as it is what they came here to do. As for the article history, that shouldn't matter. People can just go back into the history if they really want to see the constructive improvements to the article. Also, I want to stress that I did not unprotect because I was being optimistic and hoped vandalism would die down. I unprotected only because it was this week's ACID, and I would have unprotected by the end of the week. Nishkid 64 23:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

For you :)

		Glen's Anti-Vandalism Barnstar!
		Glen is thrilled to award Qxz with this small token of appreciation and acknowledgement for exceptional performance in the art of troll extermination, cruft elimination and for ensuring Misplaced Pages is safe for public consumption... You are a legend, please keep up the great work! Glen 23:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Your vandalism accusation

"An example of blanking edits that could be legitimate would be edits that blank all or part of a biography of a living person." --Misplaced Pages vandalism guidelines

Marjorieconnolly 01:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

OSCAR

Thanks for pitching in and making that happen. I had forgotten all about that. :) — MrDolomite | Talk 19:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Tiger

Uhh... how does adding a fact to an article constitute vandalism?

I don't know how that managed to appear on the page, considering I did not write it during my edit. But could you at least revert the legitimate fact I added?

I don't agree with you

You stated on the petition talk page: "There are no plans to discontinue this" How can you prove that? Do you know that people fought and died for the right to vote for elected representation in many countries and have that right entrenched in a constitution? Here it is all at the discretion of the board which is the same thing that goes on in a dictatorship. The board can do whatever it wants. It has complete control; they can decide to give the donations to pay high salaries to big corporate bosses or spend it all paying board members to fly them around the world to go on various "retreats" The servers and bandwidth only cost about $50,000 a month as far as I can tell. The bylaws also said that we should be given notice of all changes to the bylaws and elections (if you read it carefully I think you can figure that out) but no proper notice was given of any of those attempted changes. In fact if you read the Florida statutes it says that we are supposed to have an annual meeting, did the board ever have an annual meeting? NO. It has been operating in secret all these years being totally unaccountable to the (former) membership. If tomorrow the board past a resolution stating that all the members of the Board were to be personal friends of Brad Patrick that would be perfectly legal under the bylaws as they are now written. How is that fair? How is that respecting our rights as volunteer contributors? Many people were thinking they were volunteering because they could participate in an open and transparent organization. The people who "took" control have perverted that into a board that does mostly everything in secret who has employees give "notice" on obscure web pages and expects that all us volunteers have to check every web page on Misplaced Pages and if we don't it is our hard luck. You think because someone says that they will do something that they are obligated to do it? About three weeks ago Jimbo Wales told me he was going to write to me a few days later because he was too busy flying out to California (from Rotterdam) before he went back to Florida (that was around the 20th). Now I just found out he was here in NYC giving a talk at NYU on Wednesday and he didn't even bother to write me and tell me that (I live in NY and was at NYU a few days ago going to a talk by real friend of mine Madison Smartt Bell who just published a new and fascinating book on a real revolutionary, not an internet crackpot). Jimbo is too busy to respond to us "peons" -- we are not important to him, he has much more important things to do and so what if he promises a volunteer something and does not follow through, after all we are all working for nothing here, so our time is worth nothing, unlike him because he *is* the Foundation; that million dollars *he* just raised is for *him* and his *pals* to use to keep us enslaved as the real workers that make his fame and fortune possible. Think about it, the only edits I could find that he has made recently (besides deleting defamatory stuff that people complain about) were to change the history of Misplaced Pages to erase Larry Sanger as co-founder.. I guess when you are an internet millionaire (he runs and *owns* a company that has about 40 employees and his just received *private* financing from Amazon.com) and prophet even though you tell everyone else not to edit their articles you can do so yourself because who is going to tell you to stop doing that? Eh? No man is above the law, but someone is above "Official Policy" at Misplaced Pages. Food for thought. Alex756 15:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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