User talk:Edokter/Archive2
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[edit] AfD nomination of Truth & Consequences
I have nominated Truth & Consequences, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Truth & Consequences. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Jackaranga (talk) 13:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] UKTV - FYI
Is here, but searching their website gives no reference to Torchwood. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 01:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] What??
You posted on my user page, claiming I had made a personal threat. I never did, your link doesn't show that I did. What are you talking about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.124.199 (talk) 02:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- I did not say you made a personal threat; you accused Pgagnon999 of making a personal threat. That borders on a personal attack. However, in case you are someone else, please note that the IP you are posting from may be used by more then one person. — Edokter • Talk • 02:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] His personal threats
He IS engaging in personal threats. He posts that he can uncover who people really are and report them to relevant authorities. I could look up his IP and get his home address in about two minutes. I don't, because I'm not a jackass. Other people apparently don't have those kind of scruples. You say you're an admin. Clearly you should be aware of these issues. Do you support people running around wikipedia making these kinds of threats and accusations??? This idiot started several days ago on this article and has been making threats and accusations from then. When another admin REFUSED to go along with his rants, he's since had to take this route. Again, apparently that's fine with you. Excellenmt job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.124.199 (talk • contribs) 03:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- He did not make a thread of any kind; you are posting from a shared, public IP, whereas he has his IP hidden. He speculated your IP's origins, but there were no "threats". Now please discuss the subject further at the talk page, throwing wild accusations and disrupting Wikipedia by editing arguments directly in the article itself does not help your case. — Edokter • Talk • 03:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
You're completely wrong. He did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.124.203 (talk) 03:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
This is where Pgagnon999 started with a threat to report someone to their system admisinstrator.
With regard to Middletown, Connecticut, your removal of the Neutrality tag constitutes conflict of interest as your IP address is a state website. If you would like to dispute the tag, please open a discussion on the talk page for the article. Otehrwise, you'll end up on the Wiki list of organizations/ agencies that self edit--a pretty embarassing place to be. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 20:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
This is where he was engaged in further activity to intimidate a poster: Also interesting is a history of edits from user at the Connecticut gov. (Middletown gov?) state IP address and a seemingly related Wesleyan Univeristy IP. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 00:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
This vicious and underhanded behavior is threatening and abusive.
He does not engage in civil behavior, he deletes QUOTED material and then posts garbage from lame sites that support his narrow and partisan beliefs. ---That's nasty behavior. And astonishing to me that you support him in it.
He's pushing point of view, he's violated neutrality, he's deleted referenced material, he's certainly does not assume good faith. I mean, he's out there attacking people and all but terrorizing them. And that's the guy you've put your support behind. Great.
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for stepping in RE Middletown, Connecticut. Besides the behavior evidenced in editing the article, the user has also left harassing comments on my user page. . .looks like they were just blocked. Again, thanks.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 03:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Nice try, but people can see what you did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.124.203 (talk) 03:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, the problem user signed on again & deleted via 66.19.34.88. Sorry this has turned into such a nightmare.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 06:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Notice
I have asked for a deletion review of Image:TheEmptyChild.jpg Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Fasach Nua (talk) 22:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Torchwood
Perhaps we'll now get a well-earned rest until the 16th? --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 01:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Partners in crime
Hello Edoktor. I noticed you, quite rightly, made this edit [1]. I don't know if you noticed that the anon IP that made it has done a bunch of editing at this page Partners in crime. The lack of a "C" in the title is only one of the pages problems. I don't know if you will want to move the page or do something else with it (and it may get deleted, also), but, I will leave it up to you whether something should be done. The younger Doctor Who fans do love to enter as many rumors to the articles as they can don't they? Thanks for all your hard work on the various DW pages to try to keep them encyclopedic. MarnetteD | Talk 14:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
- Right, the page should ultimately be move to Partners in Crime (Doctor Who), which already exists as a redirect to List of Doctor Who serials#Series 4 (2008). However, looking at the content, it should probably deleted for now; it is full of speculation and original research. I'll put it up for AfD. — Edokter • Talk • 15:11, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: contentSub
I'm well aware that it's not a hack; it wasn't displaying in the same place as the software-generated text would. I'd be happy to upload a screenshot if you'd like. Also, personally, I like the text below the redirect as it is more noticeable and it makes it clear that the redirect is intentionally un-functioning. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- I know the text was a little too low. However the redirectText class (big font) did work. Do you mind if I put that back? — Edokter • Talk • 00:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Love & Monsters
You as an admin know better than to revert war over content disputes, which is what that looks like to me. I'm no admin, but I'll say this: Since the user keeps going against the current consensus of the article, it could probably be blocked, right? Obviously you are involved so shouldn't block the user yourself, which is probably why you put a note over at WP:AN. So, clearly, you are correct in your reverts, but since it isn't "vandalism", then it probably wasn't a good idea to keep reverting. - Rjd0060 (talk) 16:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- I never called it vandalism, and since I reverted once per 24 hours, 3RR isn't really an issue. I did stop reverting and asked on AN for someone else to have a look. — Edokter • Talk • 19:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I count more than once: Jan 5 (19:56), Jan 6 (07:54), Jan 6 (19:46). That would be 3 reverts within a 24-hour period (with 10 minutes to spare). I'd like to AGF on the IP account, so I am not going to say it could be a sock, however I completely agree that the user hasn't been communicating, and that doesn't help. - Rjd0060 (talk) 19:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Doctor Who The Christmas Invasion.jpg listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Doctor Who The Christmas Invasion.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Fasach Nua (talk) 12:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] RFC
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, the desired outcome is the status quo, but I think you might have missed this one Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2008_January_6#Image:3doctardis.jpg Fasach Nua (talk) 10:16, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rudget!
[edit] If you find a badly phrased sentence, adjust it, don't delete it.
That's in the Wikipedia guidelines anyway. Nuff said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.87.20.98 (talk) 23:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject DoctorWho - Image Deletion
Hello Edokter, I wanted to ask you a question about image deletion policy. I see that you have recently had a dialogue with Fasach Nua about the deletion of some Tom Baker and Doctor Who images in respect to which the former had insisted upon deleting.
Fasach Nua has also just deleted a publicity still of Alexandra Moen (playing Lucy Saxon) from the article of the same name which had originally been uploaded by another user but which I had linked in to that article. I have included a Fair Use Rationale for the article on the image template. Fasach Nua again deleted the image saying that it was not possible to argue fair use in the circumstance of living people as they were deemed to be replaceable. I have checked an essay on the policy here at Living People and there seems to be no consensus view, rather administrators can make a judgment call. What is your view on this? Should the image of Alexandra be re-instated? Kind regards--Calabraxthis 08:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hi. In this case, Fasach has a point (though he should not cite an essay). It is not a publicity still, but a cropped screenshot, and those are generally not acceptable to illustrate (living) actors. had it been an actual promotional photo released by the BBC, it would have been less problematic. But is this case, Fasach is right; the image should go. — Edokter • Talk • 09:36, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Thank you for your advice on this. I understand the point. Can you tell me if you think that this promotional image which was released on a BBC created website to generate publicity for Doctor Who - Tho Sound of Drums would be suitable for inclusion within the article: http://www.haroldsaxon.co.uk/lucysaxon.shtml ? Kind regards--Calabraxthis 11:43, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks once again. I have just done a web-search for BBC press-kits and found this document [2] which is the BBC press release folio for the Winter-Spring 2008 season. You will see at page 35 of the document (page 20 of the pdf file) under the heading for Hotel Babylon, that Alexandra Moen has been added to the cast. There is a picture of her along with the rest of the cast. If I were to extract that image, would that constitute fair use? If not, I have also found this image published on The Sun website which appears as though it has been lifted from BBC promotional materials in relation to Doctor Who [3]. Would this qualify as fair use as presumably the copyright is held by the BBC rather than News Corporation? Kind regards--Calabraxthis 12:19, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Well, the Sun is already published, so that won't work. And the BBC portfolio has her in character, which is also a problem (plus the quality is simply too low). It would be allowed in Hotel Babylon, but not on Alexandra Moen. — Edokter • Talk • 14:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Centralized TV Episode Discussion
Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [4]. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --Maniwar (talk) 23:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "dash dash dash"
I'm the IP. I put there so i could remember where I left off. Will (talk) 13:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- Ah OK :) Tip: use a comment (< ! --) — Edokter • Talk • 14:17, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- I'll keep that in mind - normally I rewrite plots in userspace, and I use the horizontal line in those cases. Will (talk) 15:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Spelling
FYI, for someone so concerned with accuracy: it's spelled UNVERIFIABLE.
[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Dr who christmas 07.jpg
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[edit] Returning
After much thought and deliberation I have decided to return. Many wikians contacted me by various means and I truly appreciate the support from all of them. Man, did I need that wiki break! I have learned from it and will use the experience to improve. — Rlevse • Talk • 19:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
- That is great news! I'm glad you're back; I'd be lost :) And there's absolutely no shame in taking more (and longer) wikibreaks. — Edokter • Talk • 20:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] ifd
I accidently put today'snominations in on the 17th's section, I have moved them to todays section, along with your contribution Fasach Nua (talk) 23:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fine, then...
"It was a word joke; it doesn't insinuate anything. " In that case, I'm going to delete the LINK as well, because if it doesn't insinuate anything, there's no reason for the word 'beard' to be linked, either. Assuming that word should be linked is original research, you fucking prick. 65.87.20.98 (talk) 00:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- You might want to read WP:POINT before doing anything... — Edokter • Talk • 00:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Majorly's deletions
User:Matthew's old uploads. Will (talk) 22:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- Is it customary to delete images of leaving wikipedians? — Edokter • Talk • 22:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Weevils Stories
Template:Weevils Stories has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.
[edit] Voyage
Nice catch ;). I'm going to polish it onwards to FA, so I can get it on the main page on Christmas Day - poetic, no?. I'm also going to get Doomsday on the main page soon (if it passes FA) - hopefully on the show's return date, but November 23 is always a backup date. Will (talk) 23:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- Good luck. Will help where I can. Have there been any DW articles on the main page before? — Edokter • Talk • 01:04, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] peer review
I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Wikipedia and its quality! Wikipedia:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 05:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: LoS
Nah. I was actually going to go around and G7 it anyway. Will (talk) 15:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- About the navboxes - the changes I made were so that anyone updating the templates (for any reason) need not do the same twice (they're transcluded on the portal) Will (talk) 16:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Request for a little help
Hi, sorry to bug on you, but having seen you do edits on Doctor Who, I figured I'd contact you rather than picking some admin completely at random. Anyway, I'm hoping you can help me with a situation with a page move: Basically, there existed a page for Adam Russell, which used to contain information on the bassist for the band Story of the Year. This information at some point in the past was changed to a simple redirect to the band's page. In December of last year, an editor changed the information to that of one Adam W. Russell, a baseball player. So, here's where I need help (if possible) - I moved the information on the baseball player to the latter page (since guidelines/policy state not to do a cut-and-paste move), but my concern is that the page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam_W._Russell&action=history) with all the information on the former page (all the old edits with the information on the band member) went to the new page, and are no longer on Adam Russell. I'm wondering if there's a way to move ALL the edits PRIOR to December 2, 2007 back to the history for Adam Russell, while leaving the edits of December 2, 2007 on in the history for Adam W. Russell. Thanks! --Umrguy42 (talk) 02:09, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hi. What you want here is a history split, which is not possible (as opposed to a history merge when merging two articles). Basically, there is nothing wrong here; as long as the histories are preserved and associated with their respective articles, nothing needs to be changed. — Edokter • Talk • 13:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] TeX and PngFix
Hi again Edokter,
It looks like the current version of TeX supplies the title attribute, making the markup show up in the image tooltips. However, the PngFix script doesn't support the title attribute anymore, so it would be a good idea to add
outerSpan.title = img.title
back into the PngFix script. This will restore the TeX markup to the tooltips for IE6 users, making Wikipedia more consistent across all browsers. —Remember the dot (talk) 21:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- Has this new version been implemented yet? Becasue I still can't see the title attributes in the source. I'll put it in once implemented. — Edokter • Talk • 22:25, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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- No. I'm not an administrator, so I can't implement it. I was hoping you would. —Remember the dot (talk) 23:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Oh. I thought you meant "Has PngFix been updated yet?" This is really odd though...it looks like the title attributes are added via JavaScript, but I can't tell which JavaScript function is responsible... —Remember the dot (talk) 23:31, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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- OK. I feel rather sheepish. I completely forgot that that was there. Thanks for setting me straight! —Remember the dot (talk) 23:41, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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←This is off-topic, but while we're both online, would you be willing to do the {{editprotected}} request at MediaWiki talk:Licenses/en-ownwork? And I promise, this time it's not a wild goose chase ;-) —Remember the dot (talk) 23:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks! —Remember the dot (talk) 23:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Thanks again for your help with the nav box. It is on Joseph Priestley House now - we'll see if it is an acceptable compromise. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Common.css
Hi. Your last edit to common.css has no effect. If you want to increase the box height, you need to increase the textarea's 'rows' property. — Edokter • Talk • 23:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
- It works in Firefox, Opera, and IE7. It must be just IE6 that doesn't understand this bit of CSS. —Remember the dot (talk) 00:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Selfref
Hi, I left a note at User_talk:16@r#Removing_code explaining why changing code is often a bad idea. (I'd meant to revert that one myself). Please correct/clarify if I've gotten anything wrong. Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 03:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Quiddity. He reported the removal himself on MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Template:Selfref. I explained to him there why the removal was not such a good idea. Cheers. — Edokter • Talk • 10:05, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey again :) Re: MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Infobox top margin tweak, yes, he means infobox (thereby solving two infobox problems at once: hatnotes being too close to them, and amboxes abutting them). Do we stack infoboxes somewhere too? Or was your stacking comment in regards to amboxes? Ta :) -- Quiddity (talk) 01:22, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Ah I see. I thought he ment .ambox because of the message he left at Wikipedia talk:Article message boxes#buffer?. That confused me a bit. — Edokter • Talk • 01:29, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Recent past
Please see user page 129.133.124.199 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.124.203 (talk) 03:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] MediaWiki:Longpagewarning
#switch breaks {{reflist}}. You've left me rather confused. Was the message not working? --MZMcBride (talk) 17:10, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- The message was working, but it somehow broke {{reflist}} when used in conjunction with Longpagewarning, according to this post on WP:VPT. I don't know if it is being used correctly in that case, but I think it was safe to revert for the time being. — Edokter • Talk • 18:50, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- I've reverted. I looked at WP:Article size and couldn't see anything amiss. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
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{{int:Longpagewarning}}that resulted in "some problems". I suspect that using{{int:}}with some other complex system messages would yield unexpected results, but that's not the reason to "fix" them by reducing their functionality. —AlexSm 22:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] User:Gonzo_fan2007/Test_Area - AN header
I think it looks great! I was wondering if there was any way to make the headers bigger. I just add <big></big> tags but I wasnt sure if there was a better way to do this so that the headers stick out more. Oh and I hope there are no hard feelings. After reading my posts, I guess they could have been taken badly, but mostly I was annoyed that there seemed to be no effort to try and fix the header, you just reverted it and dint even leave a note on the talk page. You said you follow the WP:BRD, well I try and follow (excluding obvious stuff of course) WP:0RR, instead I try to enhance and let edits evolve, but thats just my belief, and why I felt that it would have been better to try and discuss and fix what was wrong. But like I said, I dont hold grudges on-wiki, so this whole thing is in the past. Back to issue at hand, do you think we should add a comment to others on the header talk page to see if they like the new design, or just add it and see what the response is? « Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 21:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- No hard feelings at all! I can understand becoming a bit upset is someone just reverted their hard work. WP:0RR is a bit harch in my opinion; it leaves little room for collaboration. I put the font size in the style; it scales better then <big>. Let's ask WP:AN first if they like the new design; it already had one 'major' change. Else some who doesn't like could just revert it... :) — Edokter • Talk • 21:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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- It looks beautiful! I also like the change that someone made about "Disclaimer." Thanks for your optimizing work and we'll see if this one sticks this time ;-) « Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 23:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oh waht the hell... let's just put it in... — Edokter • Talk • 22:01, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] re: Template:Afd top
Good evening, Edokter. I symapthize with your frustration over the recent breach of civility. I know you're trying to improve the template and our process. But your recent response did prompt a question. Let me start by admitting that I don't know what those scripts or bots do. When I close debates (admittedly rare these days), I do them manually.
In your comment, you posed the question about what the template is supposed to do. I think that is a fair question to ask. More, I think it's a good question to ask about these new parameters. What advantage are they supposed to bring us? From what I can see, all they do is change my typing from
- {{subst:at}} delete. RATIONALE ~~~~ to {{subst:at|d}} RATIONALE ~~~~
By my count, that's a savings of 5 keystrokes. that benefit is balanced against:
- a lot of your time working on this script (which you seem to enjoy but your time is still worth something)
- some amount of time by others fixing whatever scripts and bots have been built that also use the template
- an unknown amount of effort retraining closers in how to properly use the parameters.
Am I missing something here? What exactly is it that the parameters are supposed to improve? Rossami (talk) 22:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- Well, don't forget the '''bolding'''. When doing a lot of closing, it all amounts up. So any way to save time is good, and if I can contibute to that, it is time well spent. I just don't like being locked out from improving a template, which is something which should be avoided at any cost. So scripts that depend on a template's strictly controlled output are essentially badly designed. And as the paramter will remain optional, there's no need to retrain any admins; I think they will pick up on it themselves and eventually start using it automatically. — Edokter • Talk • 23:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- Personally, I've never considered the bolding helpful. And while you're right that users like me will still have the option to ignore the parameter, most editors will try to use it, get it slightly wrong and spend some amount of time teaching themselves the right way. I'm not saying that you should stop if you're sure that it will be helpful. It wouldn't help (or hurt) me, though. Rossami (talk) 01:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Opinion Needed
I have no clue what to do with this user's user page and talk page. Could you check it out? Rgoodermote 02:42, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Perhaps WP:AN can provide some advice... I'm not quite sure what to do either. — Edokter • Talk • 15:09, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Image source problem with Image:Santa's Little Helper.gif
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[edit] Infobox Paris metro question
Hi Edokter, if you have time could you please look at {{Infobox Paris metro}}, specifically as used in these examples: Opéra (Paris Métro), Bourse (Paris Métro), Châtelet (Paris Métro). The map at the bottom is supposed to center if the box is wider than 280 px, but for some reason it does not (Bourse works as it should, the other two do not - there are others with this problem, this is just a sample). Do you have any idea how to fix this? If you do, User:Lazulilasher would be very pleased (and I would be too). Thanks in advance for any ideas or help on this, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hi. I think i found the problem. The main problem was the div width set to 100%, with the images floating left inside it. So I made that div just as wide as the map, so that the div itself is centered. That should fix the problem. — Edokter • Talk • 22:30, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very, very much - that has fixed the problem on my computer. I appreciate all of your help with this! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 11:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Hi there...I have been a little icognito for the past month or so, thus I didn't notice that you fixed this infobox. Please accept my most sincere thanks! That template was the bane of my existence! Awesome work! Lazulilasher (talk) 18:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Torchwood/From out of the rain
My TV guide capitalises the word "Out". Will (talk) 22:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- TV guides are known to be wrong sometimes. :) "Out of" is a preposition and the MOS says not to capitlise those (unless they are the first word in the title). Though some articles do get it wrong. Some good examples: Bat out of Hell, Can't Get You out of My Head, I Get a Kick out of You. — Edokter • Talk • 00:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
- The BBC capitalises "Out" in this title, therefore that is the official title (whether grammatical or not). Starhunterfan (talk) 00:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Where does the BBC do that? As I said, TV guides are often mistaken. So unless the producers confirm that "out" should be capitalised, it should follow proper styling per WP:CAPS. — Edokter • Talk • 00:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- Source is bbc.co.uk, and is also seen onscreen in the episode in question. This is the confirmed official title. Starhunterfan (talk) 00:54, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- Where does the BBC do that? As I said, TV guides are often mistaken. So unless the producers confirm that "out" should be capitalised, it should follow proper styling per WP:CAPS. — Edokter • Talk • 00:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- That's quite interesting, since the episode hasn't even aired yet. Plus the on screen episode tiltes are usually shown in ALL CAPS. — Edokter • Talk • 01:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- I work on the show. That is the title as written on our scripts and on all the documentation. The BBC is the best source there is for BBC shows. Your title is not sourced at all and is not listed anywhere else. I see no reason to remove an officially-sourced title and replace it with an unsourced one you seem to have made up yourself. Starhunterfan (talk) 01:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- That's quite interesting, since the episode hasn't even aired yet. Plus the on screen episode tiltes are usually shown in ALL CAPS. — Edokter • Talk • 01:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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(deindent) I'm sorry, but I cannot take your word for it, for obvious reasons; too many editors have claimed "to work on/for" one entity or the orther. Again, unless cited to the producers, standard naming convention should be followed. — Edokter • Talk • 01:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- I am not expecting you to take my word for it, and I never made such a claim. Like I said the title is officially sourced on the BBC official website. The title you invented does not exist outside of your edits. Why do you feel a title that comes entirely from your own brain should be given preference over an official BBC source? The "producers" are not responsible for naming episodes. There is no Wiki rule saying "producers" are the only source and the makers of the show are not. Starhunterfan (talk) 01:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- The producers made and named the show. But no matter how sources may choose to publish the title, Wikipedia adheres to it's own convention, and should continue to do so, for the sake on naming consistency. The BBC does the same, and sometimes gets it wrong. That doesn't mean we should be wrong as well. And since the essense of the title is in no way changed, you shouldn't create so much drama over it. — Edokter • Talk • 01:29, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- You have a long history of being warned for abusing the 3 edit rule and for locking pages whenever you are in a dispute. I know you have a big problem with anyone but you and your friends editing Torchwood but you do NOT own Torchwood and you have no right to abuse you power to ban anyone else from editing. The title you have invented is not sourced and does not exist. The official title is well-sourced. The producers do not name episodes. Please show me where Wiki rules state that if a TV show (or anything else) has a title that is not grammatical, Wiki should take it upon themselves to change the title for them. There are numerous examples of deliberately misspelled/grammaticaly incorrect titles (e.g. "Countrycide" not countryside). Starhunterfan (talk) 01:40, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- The producers made and named the show. But no matter how sources may choose to publish the title, Wikipedia adheres to it's own convention, and should continue to do so, for the sake on naming consistency. The BBC does the same, and sometimes gets it wrong. That doesn't mean we should be wrong as well. And since the essense of the title is in no way changed, you shouldn't create so much drama over it. — Edokter • Talk • 01:29, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- If you're going to revert to mud-slinging, I suggest you take it to WP:ANI. Blowing up a few old incidents is not helping your case. — Edokter • Talk • 01:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- I am not mud slinging. You are the one who has been very rude and abused your admin powers. The fact you have been warned for exactly that before it relevant. If you wish to continue to vandalise the Torchwood page and to abuse your powers then obviously we (BBC Wales) cannot make you see sense. Starhunterfan (talk) 01:47, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- If you're going to revert to mud-slinging, I suggest you take it to WP:ANI. Blowing up a few old incidents is not helping your case. — Edokter • Talk • 01:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Diffs
Thanks for checking out my diff issues. I'm trying to figure something out, did I double post somehow? I honestly can't see it in the diffs. Can you give me a head's up on it. I feel like I'm going nuts over here.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 11:26, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's a mess. First, Gettingitdone duplicated the entire AfD here and later Zsero removed all duplicate content here. All your comments are still there. — Edokter • Talk • 11:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, I appreciate that. The only real issue I was having is that I thought there was either some technical error happening or someone was kajiggering an especially long AFD. The thing that prompted me to bring it to the notice board was that the other user kept telling me I did something wrong in the editing but refused to tell me what it was, so I was stuck having to go to outside answers. I appreciate you clearing it up for me, I'm going to jump on Gettignitdone's page and apologize.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 11:59, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BBC3 Ratings Torchwood?
I have noticed that you don't wish for the BBC3 ratings to be included on the torchwood episode pages. The main reason why i think it is important to show this data is because it could have a negative effect on how well Torchwood is doing in viewership. For example series 2 episode 6 (Reset) had 3.22million viewers, this was the first episode from the series to be shown on BBC3. On BBC3 it got a further 0.85million viewers from the first look a week before being on BBC2. This would make viewership total of 4.07million (making it the 2nd most watched episode ever) but currently it appears to be the lowest rated episode of the series at 3.22million. I therefore think it is important to show that torchwood is going from strength to strength since the addition of the BBC3 episodes. (91.109.156.3 (talk) 17:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC))
- Hello, with regards to the Torchwood BBC3 Ratings I think you either need to remove all the ratings or change the dates listed for the episode to BBC2 airings as it is confusing to have the Premier date listed as the BBC3 episode and then the rating for the BBC2 episode. Also if you are only going to include terrestrial data then you also need to edit Series 1, as that also only includes BBC3 ratings info when the BBC2 airings got higher viewing figures. Richardm9 (talk) 21:04, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
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- I agree that certain people like to see ratings information and most TV shows on here have their ratings somewhere on the page. Would a compromise be to have a separate ratings page off the main torchwood page. Then it might be easier to display the information in a more simplified table? ... just an idea?? (Dantheferret (talk) 23:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC))
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[edit] {{User infobox}} revert
Hi,
Sorry that this is so late, but could you describe the bugs that the new version introduced? It's pretty difficult to exhaustively test large syntax changes to templates, though I did test as widely as I could. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:26, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- The biggest problem was that all userboxes within the infobox had all their contents top-aligned, and I cound't find out why. Since there were 85 edits to complete the changes, it was impossible to find out where it went wrong. The best way to do these changes is to copy to your own sandbox, and make another test page using existing infoboxes to use the sandbox version instead of the template itself. — Edokter • Talk • 19:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Have a look here, which is using your code which is placed here. You can see the contents of the userboxes clinging to the top, while they should be vertically centered. Since I couldn't find what made this happen, it is possible that the .infobox calss is responsible for this. [...] OK, I found this code in common.css: .infobox td { vertical-align: top; }. So this should be overridden to, or not use the .infobox class at all. — Edokter • Talk • 19:39, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Okay. I've been messing about in your sandbox (hope you don't mind) and I think I've found a solution. {{userbox}} can override common.css - I've requested this to be added to the template. After that, it's just a case of converting individually hacked-up userboxen to use {{userbox}}. I'm going to add this to my todo list. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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Let me see if I can fix Babel first. — Edokter • Talk • 14:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- I can't seem to fix the babel... The infobox.td class seems to override it all; I would need to change all (100+) uset lang template to override the top alignment. — Edokter • Talk • 15:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Section break
Let's update the most used languages first. That way, no one will try to fix it. — Edokter • Talk • 16:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- Cool. I'll see what I can get done tonight. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] {{User time zone}}
{{subst:Edokter/Archive2}}...The use of the {{userbox}} template within that user template made the text in the left hand box bold. Now, it is already bad enough when it isn't bold, especially for those who would use odd UTC codes, such as UTC+10:30. If that were entered into the left hand box in bold, it would nearly take up half the space of the complete box. If it were not bolded, it would still take up a lot of space, but not as much. For this application, bold does not work in the left hand box. Actually, in a lot of user templates it wouldn't work. It just looks really bad. - LA @ 23:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- Then we could just make it id-s = 12pt (instead of the default 14pt); that would make it even slightly smaller then the current code. — Edokter • Talk • 23:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Award
Congrats! Type 40 (talk) 22:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
| The WikiProject Doctor Who Award | ||
| For your work on Doctor Who articles! Type 40 (talk)21:47, 16 March 2008 (UTC) |
[edit] Astrid AfD
Hi; just to let you know that I asked for more views on AN about your (very) early closure of the Peth deletion "discussion" :-) I'm genuinely not sure of the rules here. —TreasuryTag—t—c 18:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well OK. Let's see what others have to say. My main reason is that in order for there to be a discussion about deletion, there should be at least a reason given to delete. There wasn't and you basically suggested a merge. Plus there was a measure of WP:SNOW, as the article is currently a Good Article nominee. — Edokter • Talk • 18:38, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, I can see your point; as I understood it though, the Good Article system is a measure of article quality in terms of written communication. I could write a very good article on the mug from which I drink my tea, but it wouldn't pass WP:NOTE... Anyway, we'll see! —TreasuryTag—t—c
[edit] Discussion on Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)
Hi, there's a discussion at the village pump mentioning your actions on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vortis (Doctor Who), specifically about using rollback to revert good-faith edits. Darkspots (talk) 17:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Actor First
Sorry, I'll undo my mistakes now, much thanks.--Wiggs (talk) 18:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- I've finished off the New Who ones thanks for doing so many, I've done some on Classic so I'll have to re-do those too.--Wiggs (talk) 19:04, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Validation
"line-height: 1;" not validating is a known bug in the CSS validator and is valid CSS. —Random832 (contribs) 19:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Can you give an example of a navbox or template that it causes alignment problems in? —Random832 (contribs) 19:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- What I notice is that paragraph spacing becomes virtually zero. And in navbox, the v-d-e links in the header cling to the top instead of centering vertically, the contents within the navbox is spaced to tightly together, and table cells shrink drastically in height. This might be intended, but it becomes less easier to read. Maybe the value is just too small. In any case, this should be tested, and then be implemented in monobook/main.css instead, as that is where line-height for these elements are initially declared; one should generally not override these in monobook.css (or common.css). — Edokter • Talk • 19:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Partners in Crime image
That bleddy image has been removed again. What's the plan? Restore, protect or ANI, perhaps? It's going to turn into a massive fiasco unless something drastic is done IMO. —TreasuryTag—t—c 19:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
- I think we're good for now. I've pointed Matthew to WP:FUR if he insists. — Edokter • Talk • 20:09, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
- The article has been protected with the image and the discussion is in Fair use review now, its going to be like last year Edo.--Lerdthenerd (talk) 14:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] {{Torchwood-stub}}
Hi! In responce to your message at my user talk:
I have removed the non-free images from the {{Torchwood-stub}} page, as these are only allowed in article space. Please do not re-add them. — Edokter • Talk • 15:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I think the picture with the television screen with the British Flag:
is not associated with the Torchwood Institude or the Torchwood show. The {{DoctorWho-stub}}'s Picture of the TARDIS:
is related to the show and is a much better choice. Please find a better related free image for this stub. Thanks, Troop350 (talk) 17:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- It's a general stub image. The TARDIS image is not copyrighted, but the Torchwood logo is. That is why it cannot be used. If I knew of a better image, I certainly would have used that. — Edokter • Talk • 18:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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- This image image:Time_mag.JPG shows that
is copyright and belongs to Time corp. Troop350 81.86.68.253 (talk) 10:42, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- This image image:Time_mag.JPG shows that
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[edit] Template:Editabuselinks
Hi. I find bullets in templates became pretty distracting especially when browsing in smaller windows or on smaller screens (laptops), so would there be a problem retaining the bold-middot ones? Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hmm, the middle bullets only produce single-pixel dots which are hardly distinguishable and make it hard to seperate the links. Can we bring this to the template talk page? — Edokter • Talk • 14:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fragments
Hi, I noticed you replaced the image I'd uploaded for "Fragments". It's not the same moment as I'd captured. Just a few frames on and Rhys moves into view behind Jack. The caption currently reflects this. Could you redo the image just a few frames later? It makes for a better image having more characters in shot. Thanks. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 17:29, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- Also, there's a black line along the bottom that needs cropping off the current image. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 17:30, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- OK, this is the best I could do without blurring out the holograms too much. I also fixed the bottom line. — Edokter • Talk • 19:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Abusive protection
This protection [5] of a Dr Who episode article is admin abuse, pure and simple. You are a party to this issue, you are involved, in over your head. I will definitely not tolerate you using your admin powers to protect non-free images on Dr Who episodes. I am now going to remove that image again. It is clearly not used for any reasonable fair-use purpose - the scene it depicts isn't even mentioned in the text, and even if it was, the image contains nothing that could not easily be conveyed in words (if it is at all crucial to the understanding of the epsisode anyway, which I doubt). Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
- The images don't concern me, the edit warring was out of line. I have protected 5 articles, three of which without the image, so DO NOT accuse me of being a party to your dispute. There is always fair-use review is someone disputes your removal. Edit warring is wrong, no matter what. — Edokter • Talk • 13:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Page protection
I think I should draw your attention to this; deal with it as you wish. —TreasuryTag—t—c 15:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

