User talk:Maxim/archives/mar07
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[edit] My WikiBreak
I've been in a few conflicts lately, so before I KILL someone, I'm taking time off. The Evil Clown 21:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Royaltons
Hello. I am wiki user mnetta. I am trying to post an article about a term that is trademarked called Royaltons. It is a term that was trademarked by Andrea Hoffman of New Jersey based Diversity Affluence and is used to describe affluent individuals with income over 100,000 a year who are either hispanic, asian or african americans. The article was written in such a format that the company was only mentioned once to credit the source. The term has been used is publications and we felt that a description of it on a neutral, informative site such as wiki would be viable. Again the article does not possess links to a company site, nor is their a company article on wiki. The articles content is meant for description, not promotion as the tag states. Again, intuitively, one would assume that blatant promotion would include numerous references to a company, in which this article did not include. Is there any way that this article can be allowed now that it has been explained in more detail?
[edit] My RfA success
Thanks for celebrating with me! --Deryck C. 03:24, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your edit to Ice Hockey
You might want to leave a note on the discussion page regarding your last edit. I noticed you removed a large amount of content without giving a reason in the edit summary. Cheers! — Dorvaq (talk) 21:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC) Just noticed you have... my apologies. — Dorvaq (talk) 21:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Your editor review
Heyy mar07! I have reviewed your editorial review request at Wikipedia:Editor review/mar07, comment on it if you want. Cheers! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 06:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] edit conflict
Just a note to let you know that in what was probably an edit conflict, you removed a report from WP:AIAV. Might want to double check next time. Peace, — coelacan — 20:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's okay! I do the same thing sometimes. I just figured you'd want it brought to your attention. Keep up the vandal fighting! =) — coelacan — 20:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure. I think it's produced by one or more of the tools available from the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit. You might want to ask at their talk page, or you could just try out some of the tools until you find one you like. — coelacan — 20:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ahh, what you may have seen me using was the "undo" function. Go look at a diff, for example this one, and on the right side of the revisions there is a link that says "undo"; click on that and if it works (it doesn't always work) it will autogenerate a descriptive edit summary like that. I forgot about that; it's still a relatively new feature. — coelacan — 20:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hm, I have a feeling that Coelacan just answered the question you also asked me on my talk page. :) I'll skip the cut-and-paste response from my talk page, then. -- GJD 22:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Edit war with Andromeda
Andromeda is effectivly blanking a controversial page without running an WP:Merge vote, i have told him 4 times to do this and two users do not want the page merged into the other article. I will be bringing this situation to administrator attention if he does not start paying attention. He has ignored 4 warnings on 3 different talk pages, namely Talk:Peter Grodin, Talk:Tau'ri characters on Stargate Atlantis. I'm not in the wrong here, and i'll get the pages protected by the admins if necessary, if Andromeda does not cease this. - 23:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you, although my comments are not personal attacks. If they wree, they would be abusive, vulgar and making passing referencs to his parental lineage. He's the sole editor behind the page merger, i can't just make the comment randomly or otherwise he could ignore it and claim i wasn't talking to him. The closest i got to a personal attack was telling him to "knock it off" and that's not a personal attack anyway. - Count23 23:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, well that's for the warning anyway. And thanks for stepping in with the merge vote, Andromeda would probably just blank the page anyway if i put one in there. - Count23 23:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] re: Kadok Heimer
That article was more of a db-bio article, since it's like a userpage biography, right? The Evil Clown 19:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- I was unsure whether he wrote it about himself or someone else so i chose the largest safety net- feel free to correct me, i'd rather it was right. Jonomacdrones 19:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- I see where you're coming from, yet i'd be more inclined to believe that when one knows what a user page is, one knows how to edit it. Jonomacdrones 19:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Hello Dear !
thankx for mesg
i will do my best here in wiki and i try to contribut my regional articles here in wiki thanki brother user:Qadeermangrio
[edit] Formula One
Um, in what way is the addition of a 'fact' tag vandalism? Answer here please as I'm on a dynamic IP address. 82.109.66.144 14:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'm sorry I reverted your valuable contribution. I guess I made a mistake. The Evil Clown 14:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for your courteous response. 82.109.66.144 14:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your question
I responded to your question on my talkpage, but wanted to thank you for following up. It's always good to have a reminder of policy and best practice, even when it's not fully applicable as a matter of discretion in a given situation. Regards, Newyorkbrad 14:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] International Professional Hockey League
I would have no idea where to find a logo for the league, if it exists. I'm tempted to think that they might have not used one while around, or something similar to the likes of that. Kaiser matias 20:19, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Please remember to substitute the welcome template
Like this: {{subst:welcome}} (per Wikipedia:Template substitution#Templates that should be substituted. S. Miyano 07:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vandal
Don't worry about it. It just so happened that I was skimming through Recent Changes and saw a major blanking. Thanks for the kind words. I can see your Stress Gauge is a bit...over flowing =D ? Regards, NSR77 (Talk|Contribs) 21:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for introducing yourself to me and reviewing my stuff.
Thanks for introducing yourself to me. I certainly do appreciate any help that anyone wants to give me e.g., Wiki editing protocols, comments, etc.
I'm using my user page to develop a Wikipedia article what I consider to be a very significant and little known social problem, one that affects millions of minimum wage workers daily -- federal and state governments giving employers of tipped employees a significant employee-paid financial benefit by docking their minimum hourly wage entitlement on account of those employees' tips. In writing my article, I feel like I'm a Don Quixote of sorts.
I've had lots of professional experience hand coding HTML and VBScript web pages for corporate internets, and debugging web pages written by other users. In addition to personal websites I've put up, I've also published a browser-based interactive tutorial and workbook on the rather arcane subject of designing instrument panels for Microsoft's Flight Simulator aircraft. That ten-lesson tutorial and the accompanying interactive workbook evidently has had quite a bit of interest -- over 11,000 downloads in the two years since I uploaded it to http://www.simviation.com .
And therein lies my problem.
With all that coding experience (I've also done extensive coding in C/C++ and some Java/JavaScript coding as well) I find I have to tread carefully and lightly with what I've come to call "WikiScript".
Many HTML tags and CSS protocols aren't recognized in Wikimedia, and it seems to me that the Wiki documentation is scattered all over the place, with no central reference or directory.
Incidentally and as an aside, my personal belief is that the only reason Microsoft grew from its meagre beginnings in the '70's to the all-encompassing, octopus-like worldwide corporate behemoth that it is today is only because in those very early days Microsoft's (few) software manuals were exceptionally well written and easy to understand -- and therefore Microsoft's stuff was preferred over other better software whose manuals were written by good engineers but lousy technical writers. May the good gods above smile on Wiki's volunteers like you to help improve the quality of Wiki's documentation, and make the Wiki idea an even greater success and more widely used (and growing!) than it is now.
I'll continue to write/code and format my article on my User page, hopefully learning more Wiki stuff as I go along. Then when I think my article's ready for some peer review I'll flag you and ask for you help. After it's been reviewed and corrections/changes made, I'll post the article.
Thanks again,
K. Kellogg-Smith Abingdon, Maryland
P.S. I made entries for tip wage credit and tip credit in Wiktionary last week, violating several Wiktionary protocols in the process, but was delighted to see that my Wiki errors were commented upon and corrected.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by K. Kellogg-Smith (talk • contribs) 15:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Thanks!
Ha, thanks for the barnstar. I actually kind of look forward to the next act of vandalism against me, it spices up the day :) Happy editing. Leebo T/C 21:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Speed
How do you admin. find bad articles so quickly? Is it your "bots"?
[edit] User:69.132.199.100
A User page can't be speedily deleted because it contains little content — and what, in any case, is the point of deleting an empty User page for an IP address? --Mel Etitis (Talk) 10:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Congrats on your vandalism!
I guess? (I saw your comment on Scientizzle's page.) I wanted to add that you might consider removing the fake "new messages"-like bar you have at the top of your page. In the past, editors have considered it disruptive (or at the very least, irritating), and the "last vandal" part seems to be a failure to assume good faith. Yeah, I know that recent changes patrolling gets frustrating with the number of vandal edits we get, but that's all the more reason to support our new good faith users. (Don't bite!) Anyway, it seems like you're adjusting well. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Merope 01:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's not really policy; it's just something you should be aware of. I personally hate the damn things, but I'm not the supreme lord of Wikipedia. (Yet.) It doesn't violate any rules--it's just something a number of editors have expressed concern about in the past. Changing the color of the bar would probably fix everything nicely, if you wanted to do that. -- Merope 20:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- Uhh... I'm kinda crap with templates, so I can't say why something does something. The attributes are just controlled differently, I guess? Try this: <div class="usermessage" style="background-color: #99cc99; border-color: black">You have [[Special:Newpages|new articles]] ([[Special:Recentchanges|last vandal]]).</div> Or, y'know, whatever color you want. -- Merope 22:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Can external links be used in Wikipedia?
In the article I'm drafting on my user page about the tip wage credit I have a table of external links to applicable sections of every state's minimum wage laws. I believe the state-by-state link table will be exceptionally useful to readers, and most likely will be self-updating. In my section on arguments for/against the tip credit I plan on using external links to various Restaurant Association websites (pro tip credit) and AFL-CIO websites (anti tip credit). My question is: Are external links such as I would like to use allowed in Wikipedia? I know they aren't in Wikitionary, where I've been posting tip wage credit definitions.
Thanks/best regards
K. Kellogg-Smith 02:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RC tag at top of page
what colour do you want the background and what colour do you want the writing? Ryanpostlethwaite{talk)
- How doesthis look? Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 21:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Marco Aurélio de Oliveira
You should check an edit, before simply reverting it. You also should check Project Football as my edit is based on its standards. 201.53.37.26 14:21, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- No problem! :) 201.53.37.26 18:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] RfA thanks
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Thank you for your Support on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 89/1/1. If there's anything I can help with, then you know where to find me. Cheers. - Michael Billington (talk) 10:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Your name
Actually there is no difference between evilclown93 and Evilclown93. Wikipedia automatically converts the first letter to uppercase. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, put up a request on CHU. I'd be interested to know what the rename function is capable of. If that doesn't work you can ask interiot to fix the bug. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] My RfA
Thank you for your support in my recent successful RfA.--Anthony.bradbury 10:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for your support.
Dear Maxim/archives/mar07,
Thank you very much for your kind words and supportive comments on my recent RfA. I've been shot down again, so it won't be happening this time. I hope, though, that I can hear from you again next time around - and there definitely will be a next time.
Best wishes,
-- Earle Martin [t/c] 20:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
