User talk:GorillaWarfare

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You may talk to me in English or Spanish, but I would prefer if you use English. Please only ask me questions regarding Wikipedia -- I do not like to talk with strangers over the Internet.

Tú puedes hablar con mí en inglés o español, pero prefiero que tú utilizas inglés. Por favor solamente preguntame con respecto a Wikipedia -- No me gusta de hablar con los extranjeros en la red.

[edit] Thank you

For reverting vandalism on my user page - 11 days ago, but I just noticed it now - and didn't want it to pass without a hearty "THANK YOU!". ¡Muchas gracias! Carlossuarez46 04:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: Request for admin coaching

Hi, I'm GorillaWarfare and am hoping to receive some coaching to become an admin. If you'd like to coach me, please leave a message on my talk page. You can see my edit count here but don't be surprised when you see that I have 25 edits. That is because I recently forgot the password to my old account, User:Theunicyclegirl. Here is my edit count from my old account. I almost have 2000 edits. I frequently revert vandalism by watching Lupin's filtered RCs. I also like to expand stubs, particularly those relating to cats or dogs. I am very good with user warning templates and speedy deletion templates. I sometimes respond on AFD. Thanks for considering me! --GorillaWarfare ^talk 16:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd be glad to help you out. Let me know what you need, and I'll do my best to explain it. As for the loss of a password, I can only suggest you add your e-mail as soon as possible to your preferences on your current account. That said, if you would rather have your edits from your previous account attached to your username, I suggest you look at Wikipedia:Changing username, where you can have your old account renamed on top of this one, or to whatever you want. Feel free to reply on my talk page, or e-mail me if you have any further questions. -Mysekurity 17:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the suggestion regarding the account problem. I'll definitely try it. Thanks for deciding to help me. I have two main questions:

Do I look like I could pass RfA right now?
If not or if you're unsure, what can I do to strengthen my request?

--GorillaWarfare ^talk 17:17, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

As is typically the case with these questions, I prefer to talk via e-mail. Please e-mail me at [Mysekurity+wiki] (minus brackets) at gmail.com, and I'll be happy to discuss further. -Mysekurity 17:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Erm, well, I hope this isn't too inconvenient, but I don't have email -- I much prefer this type of communication. --GorillaWarfare ^talk 17:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I have to go offline for a couple of hours. I will resume this conversation when I return. =D --GorillaWarfare ^talk 17:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

You have a Wiki account but no e-mail? For shame! Seriously, in order to be actually helpful, I need to write things I wouldn't in an open space such as this. If you get the chance, please sign up for a free e-mail account (from Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo). It'll only take a few seconds, and you can dispose of it after we finish talking. Thanks and enjoy the fresh air, -Mysekurity 17:44, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to reiterate what Mysekurity said. You'll need an email account to be an admin, and there's lots of free webmail. My email account contains no more information than can be found about me on Wikipedia, and the address doesn't have to appear on Wikipedia for folks to send you mail anyway. -- SCZenz 19:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Hm, I honestly can't see what you would possibly need to tell me that you couldn't on English wiki. If you want you could always post it in a hidden message like  or something so it wouldn't be so visible. But perhaps I'm just being naïve. If it is absolutely positively necessary and completely unavoidable then I'll see what I can do... --GorillaWarfare ^talk 11:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Comment tags don't help anything. They just make it non-visible to anyone who doesn't know how to read wikimarkup (which doesn't help us at all). I really don't see why creating a free webmail account is that difficult. I don't want to get off to a bad start, so please help me out a little here. -Mysekurity 19:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

In the interest of firmly stickly my nose ever-so-juttingly where it doesn't belong, why the focus on secrecy if Gorilla/Unicycle has no interest in it? Who are you protecting? To what end? If she's perfectly OK with you saying, "You're an idiot," on the 'pedia for everyone to see, that's her business, isn't it? Jouster (whisper) 12:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old Account Access

Per Help:Logging_in#What_if_I_forget_the_password.3F, there is not a process whereby you could gain access to your old account, nor (AFAIK) a set of privileges whereby anyone on the 'pedia could reset your password or provide an email address for it even if there were such a process. They could conceivably usurp you to your old account name, but they will not, as that would violate policy. Your only hope, then, is to contact a developer (preferably one with shell access, as I believe only they have access to the SQL backend) and ask him or her to add an email address to your old account, presumably after doing the developer equivalent of a CheckUser. Jouster (whisper) 19:41, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: Admin coaching request

I'm sorry, I'm full up! I have several new admin coachees, and they're keeping me busy. I don't mind answering questions now and then though, so do ask me if you have a question. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 15:50, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scientology

Scientology si not cool, you should have just left it. P.S. Bikes are better with two wheels.

[edit] Quick Question

I was interested in a Christian user adopting me, and I was wondering if you could. Please consider that.--Barkjon 20:35, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Request for adoption

Greetings,

I'm a newbie in search of adoption. Recently, I expanded a stub and provided references. I hope you could give it a peer review. Also, I will need a mentor for an article that I will create from scratch.

Many thanks ahead of time,

Rapunzelina 17:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TIM NOMBER JUAN

Hi, we are looking for a mentor in order to help us with some projects.Please contact us to our group page Tim Number Juan—Preceding unsigned comment added by Christian Panchana (talk • contribs) 17:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just dropping by...

Hey, GorillaWarfare! Wow, that really sucks that you forgot your password... I haven't seen you in ages, so I thought I'd stop by and say, "hi". I hope you can find someone who will coach you, but I'll always remember you as my helpful adopter. :) *Cremepuff 222* 00:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What was my comment to you which not very nice?

Sorry if I offended you, GorillaWarfare, but that probably came at a time when there was a wholesale attack on the Echo Park, Silverlake, Highland Park, Los Feliz, Angelino Heights, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley etc, sections of Wikpedia by XTC'd-out yuppies intent on rewriting our neighborhoods real and ancient history and replacing it with gibberish. You probably got caught in the cross-fire....again, I apologize. garagehero- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garagehero (talk • contribs) 07:44, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin coaching?

Hello. You once contacted me about admin coaching. Looks like you're busy with school, but I wanted to give you first "dibs" since you asked before. Let me know if you're interested. :) Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 18:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

Hey, I haven't talked to you in such a long time! Just thought I'd drop by! *Cremepuff 222* 01:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I've been pretty good, and thanks. :) Have you asked someone about admin coaching yet? *Cremepuff 222* 21:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wow

Hey whatsup? Nice userpage, it’s really stylish (and colorful). Anyway, I got this wiki account for over a year now and created 2 articles, but I’m kind of clueless about how to get started and what I should do to get to certain positions. I noticed on the adoption page that you are adopting users, so I was wondering if I am eligible as a candidate. Feel free to post on my talkpage.--IceFrappe (talk) 10:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Semester, New Appeal

This semester I am teaching academic writing to a group of teachers at my school. This course starts on Monday Jan 28. I would like to know if you are still interesting in "mentoring". You can see the syllabus at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/SyllabusIf so, please leave a message on my talk page and update the mentor's page Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors, if . If not, please remove your name and information from that page. Thanks! Thelmadatter (talk) 21:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] about my "rollback"

I looked at the edit summary, and saw this: "added Vandalism back in." That's all the encouragement I needed. If it was a legal edit, then please forgive my rushedness. M1N (talk) 17:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I looked at the history, and it appears you rolled back to my version, and then warned me. I assume the warning was in error? M1N (talk) 17:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem, it hapens to me too. Thank you! :-) M1N (talk) 21:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Building an encyclopedia

I;m speechless. Did you not see the notice at the top of my talk page?? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 17:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Nor would I normally attack the problem like this either, believe you me. 99% of new articles I would normally create would at least have an infobox and information -surely you would know an editor like myself wouldn't creating some pointlessly (as it seems). As an outside editor if I saw somebody else creating a lot of stubs in this way I;d ask them to try to elaborate a little too. Such is the extent of the task that stubbing in bot mode is the best way to get them onto wikipedia when they have been lagging five years behind other smaller wikipedias. Its gonna take an enromous amount of work but eventually I see know reason why these several thousand articles can't all become fully developed with images eventually and then people will beign to realise that what I am doing is very beneficial in the long term ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 17:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

If you doubt my ability to provide articles that "help people" try reading articles I have authored like Abbas Kiarostami and Deforestation in Brazil and yesterday Cinema of Kenya. Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 18:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

There is a WikiProject French communes which specifically aims to develop these -hopefully they can continue where I left off. All that stands between these new stubs and full flourishing articles is work. Given time I believe it is possible to build a fuller coverage on wikipedia. 9/10 of France is uncovered on wikipedia and many of the places have a fascinating history etc, and a lot that can be written about them. One of my core aims on wikipedia is to open up parts of the world that had never been seen or heard of before (by the vast majority of us) and try to build the best guide to it we possibly can. I mostly work on articles related to south east asia. africa and latin america -the so called "dark zones" which I want to receive equal coverage as anywhere else in the world. I've been creatgin articles like Akwidaa to open this up - and make some flickr agreement to get pictures ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 19:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC).

[edit] Partial list of stubs/short articles created or rewritten by Adv A students

I know there are a lot here but many are very short stubs. If there are a lot of grammar mistakes, just tag it with a clean up tag. I did not require that they wikify the articles due to time. Final versions for grading purposes are due Tue Feb 5 so any help you can give would be appreciated.

Santa Clara del Cobre, San Felipe del Progreso, Villa de allende, Ixtapan del Oro, Zumpahuacán, San Juan del Río, Nautla, Santo_tomas_de_los_platanos, Tejupilco, Saint Vincent (island), Jilotepec, Tlacotepec, Palizada, Santa Gertrudis (This student wrote about the town in Oaxaca State but it redirects to Misión Santa Gertrudis in Baja California. The student´s stub is under the information about the mission), Álvaro Obregón (municipality), Zentla, Bernal, Querétaro, Temoaya, Acambay, Xpu Há, Chapa de Mota, Pasorapa, Huasca_de_Ocampo, Malinalco, Mexico State, Almoloya de Júarez, Polotitlan, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexicaltzingo, Lagunillas, Michoacán, [Ixcateopan]], Benito Júarez, Quintana Roo, Jocotitlan, Ixtlahuaca, Temascaltepec, Teapa, Tabasco, Huandacareo, Zualcapan, México, Capulhuac, Xalatlaco, Boca del Cielo

Thelmadatter (talk) 00:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More stubs!!! (the last major batch, I promise!)

Malinalco, Valle, Tlalpujahua, Xonotla, Otumba, Aculco de Espinoza, Lerma, Tonatico, Luvianos, Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Tambopata - Candamo, Donato Guerra, Angangeo, Huixquilucan, Tlatlaya, Jiquipilco, Juchitepec

Again thanks! The students are taking your tagging their articles to heart. Thelmadatter (talk) 20:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Four more stubs

Otzoloapan, San Jose Villa de Allende, Temascalcingo, El Oro Thelmadatter (talk) 23:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your opinion

Hello there,

After my teacher´s recommendation, I kindly ask you to help me with one topic for this writing course. I have to choose a topic related my major. I do not know whether you can guide me in order to look for something related to economics, international trade or something else related to these topics.

She asked us to look for something which is not in wikipedia yet. I know I have to be more specific, but meanwhile I hope you can give me your first commentaries.

My user name is Citlalli Garnica.

Thanks for your attention and time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.139.140.248 (talk) 23:59, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TOPIC PROPOSAL

$I n s e r t f o r m u l a h e r e$

Hello,

I am part of an Academic Writting class. My teacher suggested you as a good advisor to talk to. So, here I am asking you to help me. I am trying to find a subject to talk about. I came up with different ones and I would like to get your help telling me wether or not these are good topics for wikipedia.

Topic 1. The excersice of citizenship in Mexico Topic 2. What is social reponsibility? Topic 3. Mexican culture through its gastronomy

Thank you very much for your help, I appretiate it very much.

Lita 16 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lita16 (talk • contribs) 19:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)