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When I find that the conversations or issues discussed here have either ended or resolved, they will be inserted into my archives at my own discretion.—Ryūlóng

Request for "certify the basis for this dispute"

Hello. Thanks for your help. Would you either "certify the basis for this dispute" and/or "endorse this summary"? in the Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Law_Lord? --Law Lord (talk) 05:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I'll take a look later.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 05:38, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --Law Lord (talk) 05:41, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

And I do not wish to get involved.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 06:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Delphine

I added the {{refimprove}} tag to White Ranger concerning Delphine as Delphine's bullet point on the article is not yet sourced. Information on Misplaced Pages must be verifiable, and verifiability is an important factor on Misplaced Pages articles. In this edit, you said "there's no official website page for Delphine". If there is no official website page for Delphine, then what other reliable sources are there to support the existence of Delphine?. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 01:22, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

It's one single entry on a page otherwise well referenced. The tag is unnecessary.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

You say "It's one single entry on a page otherwise well referenced". "Otherwise well referenced" is not a sufficient reason not to include the tag. The tag says "This article needs additional citations for verification". Until all else is sourced, the tag should stay. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 01:36, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

The information is verifiable without an inline citation.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

How?. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 01:54, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Because it is verifiable in the linked articles. There is nothing major being stated there that would require a citation, and it is verifiable that the subject exists within a fictional world.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Articles do not verify other articles. You said "There is nothing major being stated there that would require a citation". We need to cite information to reassure our readers that the information being presented on this site is verifiable. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 02:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

(dedent) inline citations are helpful, but not required, except to source negative statements in a BLP, and where the information is likely to be contested. The referenced articles and references as given are acceptable to verify the content. The tag is overkill for an article that is well-sourced. Please try an article talk page comment first, instead. Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 02:15, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Am I over doing it?. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 02:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Your intentions were undoubtedly great, and much appreciated. You may want to read User:Shanes/Why tags are evil to see *MY* opinion on why maintenance templates should be reserved for extraordinary circumstances, like articles that are horribly sourced. This article does not need to scream out to the reader: "Beware: most of this could be all lies!" What you really wanted was for an editor to provide a citation, and easy task, perhaps for someone interested in the article. So a talk page comment would probably work well. Try that first, then watch the article and if it does not get any attention, you can let the author(s) know about your concern or just then tag it. JUst my $0.02. Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 02:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Apology accepted. Thanks for fixing the block on my login. I was getting worried I might not be able to edit until after the holidays if you weren't available! Alls well that ends well. Thanks, --JD554 (talk) 09:37, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. But could you please complain to your ISP about the person abusing us here? I don't think this IP should be blocked until next year's holidays just because of one (or two) sour apples :P—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 09:39, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually I think there's a problem there. The IP address you blocked 194.176.105.39 says that it is registered to King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. As I work at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the IP must belong to the National Health Service as a whole. As you can imagine they employ hundreds of thousands of people so tracing any vandals would be nigh on impossible. --JD554 (talk) 09:50, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. A problem indeed.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 10:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Ryulong

I see you’ve blocked IP 194.176.105.39 for another year; good!

Like JD554 said, this IP is for the National Health Service as a whole, which has about 1 million employees. Whatever the percentage of prats there are in the general population, the NHS has its share, and it’s more than “a few sour apples” I’m afraid.

Regarding reporting abuse: I had a similar conversation with CSCWEM a couple of years ago; I never had any luck reporting the vandalism, as there isn’t a central IT dept, and no means of tracing which Trust (there are a few hundred) it came from.

But there’s plenty of us with user accounts, so I think the only remedy is to ban the IP address for long periods, or indefinitely.

Regards, Xyl 54 (talk) 14:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it seems that I've got a fans now.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 05:06, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

		Merry Christmas!
		Template:Sound sample box align right Christmas medley A chiptune medley to annoy Ironholds :D Problems playing this file? See media help. Template:Sample box end Ryulong, here's hoping you're having a wonderful Christmas, and here's also hoping that all your family and friends are well. Lets all hope that the year coming will be a good one! If we've had disputes in the past, I hold no grudges, especially at such a time as this. If you don't know I am, I apologise, feel free to remove this from your page. Come and say hi, I won't bite, I swear! It could even be good for me, you know - I'm feeling a little down at the moment with all of these snowmen giving me the cold shoulder :( — neur ho ho ho 00:10, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism and botched rvv attempt on Rubik's Cube. It is much appreciated.—Tetracube (talk) 16:20, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Headers on episode lists

This is to inform you that I've moved the discussion about episode headers in episode lists from my talk page over to Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Tokusatsu for wider discussion. --Farix (Talk) 22:51, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Block this person please

I can see that the person with the IP of 97.116.19.244 had vandalised the Kamen Rider Kiva episode list with garbage. Actually, he had done it before but under a different IP and I would like him to get blocked. If you can get 97.116.x.x blocked (with the x's representing any number) then that woukd be great. I don't want to see that idiot making these sort of edits again, and that I already told him off a month ago. --Burai (talk) 08:53, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Too many IPs to block.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 09:36, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Aw damn... well what I meant is that the IP can be blocked with those x's as wildcards. For example, that IP address having a .18.218 or 57.142 will all get blocked. If that person doesn't get blocked then he'll still go around vandalising the article with garbage that an 8-year-old would write and it would be a pain for you to keep reverting his lame edits. Besides, I remember I said that anonymous users shouldn't be making edits in Misplaced Pages, the same way not to let guests post at a forum. --Burai (talk) 14:26, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Deleted user page

Ryulong, could you do me a favor and kindly explain to User:Reliableforever, whose user page you recently deleted, why you deleted her user page? I spoke to her about it but I think she would be more convinced if the deleting admin justified it.

Cheers, and Happy New Year, —Mizu onna sango15 20:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC).

I clearly did.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 22:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Apparently it didn't quite sink in. Sorry to waste your time, then. Happy New Year, —Mizu onna sango15 20:15, 31 December 2008 (UTC).

Punctuation "inside or outside" a quotation

Please refer to the Misplaced Pages's Manual of Style, in the quotation marks section. There are many differences to the English language between countries like the US and the UK. So Misplaced Pages likes to choose to follow one specific style for each part of English to use for Misplaced Pages... of course you know since you're one of the administrators of Misplaced Pages. --staka (T) 02:22, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

By the way, putting punctuations outside of quotation marks is part of the British style. --staka (T) 02:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I didn't realize that there was such a style difference. I've only written in the American English.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Few months ago in another article, I thought I found a mistake and fixed it, but it got reverted so I read the manual. Well you're an administrator so you should read manual of style and keep following it. --staka (T) 02:48, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

That is certainly new for me, but this is not a quotation.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 03:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

You mean it's not a quote. We're talking about if the punctuation goes inside these quotation marks "". --staka (T) 15:04, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 15:05, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Subpage

I would delete my guide but I don't know how to delete it...Abomasnow (talk) 11:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I'll take care of it. By the way, you should probably try out Bulbapedia.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 11:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Everyme

I am notifying you of the above as it concerns an editor you had blocked who seems to be yet again evading a block by using at least two IPs. Sincerely, --A Nobody 15:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

		Happy New Year!
		Hey there, Ryulong! Happy new Gregorian year. All the best for the new year, both towards you and your family and friends too. I know that I am the only person lonely enough to be running this thing as the new year is ushered in, but meh, what are you going to do. I like to keep my templated messages in a satisfactorily melancholy tone. ;) Congratulations to Coren, Wizardman, Vassyana, Carcharoth, Jayvdb, Casliber, Risker, Roger Davies, Cool Hand Luke and Rlevse, who were all appointed to the Arbitration Committee after the ArbCom elections. I am sure I am but a voice of many when I say I trust the aforementioned users to improve the committee, each in their own way, as listed within their respective election statements. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to update the 2009 article, heh. Best wishes, neuro 00:58, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Ping

User talk:Jimbo Wales#Obnoxious Page Protection --Closedmouth (talk) 14:57, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Forwarding a message left at Talk:Jimbo Wales for your attention

Following this offer at Jimbo's talkpage, I found the following message;

Hi Ryulong,

Please could you consider unblocking your talk page? You left me a message incorrectly a while back and I was unable to reply; was just checking back now to let you know and found the same problem.

Best, Ben. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.225.71 (talk) 21:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea if this means anything to you, or you know the identity of the correspondent, but I said I would pass it on. LessHeard vanU (talk) 23:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm gonna look into this. I don't know why he'd want to contact me, although I did just block 160 sockpuppets of a user who is known to harass.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 23:21, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Shinkenger

The 1st series promo is out. I just thought to add in the weapons that are tied to feudal japanese weapons like Red's zanba or Green's yari. I'll wait if needed for the weapons, but care to help with the kanji below the series title? Fractyl (talk) 02:25, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

It's "Shinbangumi" which means "NEW SHOW." Frankly, there's nothing in that promo that has any use to us here on Misplaced Pages. And stop adding things to the page that we don't have official names for.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:30, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

List of epiosdesis too long

yeah about that, why is the tokustu episode list so long. Is there any way to deal with this? —Negabandit86 (地獄) 17:23, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Not write long summaries.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

New Robotech images

I'm thinking of uploading a new series of images for Robotech and related articles. I've taken careful note of the comments you made when we last spoke about this. In accordance, any images I upload will be low resolution, will have proper fair-use rationals, and will not be animated. I will also avoid using images immoderately. I wanted to give you a heads-up. (Hyperionsteel (talk) 07:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC))

This is good. Just have maybe two to three images per article tops (particularly if there is a visual difference due to the anime footage usage).—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 07:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Please let me know if any of the images I upload are non-compliant.(Hyperionsteel (talk) 07:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC))

Please restore Tankboy

Can you please restore this, so that I can AfD it and at least take it through some visible process. Your immediate deletion of this seems hasty and I will be taking it to DRV. This article raised serious concerns over its notability, concerns I shared myself as I'd tagged it as such. It had also been put forward for CSD by one editor, who then changed it to a PROD instead. It very clearly passed CSD A7 criteria when I last saw it last night and I can think of no reason why an immediate deletion, not even a CSD, was necessary for it. Might I remind of you WP:AGF, even and especially to new editors. Thankyou. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay then.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 10:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Tankboy

An article that you have been involved in editing, Tankboy, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Tankboy. Thank you. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:25, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

pt.wiki

Hey, sorry for coming to your page here. I sent you a message on pt.wiki which I'd like you to answer if possible. Thanks in advance. Daimore 14:21, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Alright, thanks a lot for the fast response. It was also deleted on pt.wiki now. Daimore 14:39, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

羞恥心

Thanks for cleaning up my citation on Shuchishin. LordAmeth (talk) 01:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

You're invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday January 18th, Columbia University area Last: 11/01/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, look at our approval by the Chapters Committee, develop ideas for chapter projects at museums and libraries throughout our region, and hold salon-style group discussions on Misplaced Pages and the other Wikimedia projects (see the November meeting's minutes and the December mini-meetup's minutes).

We'll make preparations for our exciting museum photography Misplaced Pages Loves Art! February bonanza (on Flickr, on Facebook) with Shelley from the Brooklyn Museum and Alex from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We'll also be collecting folks to join our little Misplaced Pages Takes the Subway adventure which will be held the day after the meeting.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Misplaced Pages:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:Pokemon

Regarding this. As far as I know, every big template is always by default collapsed, making it much more neat. Could you state your opinion here? Thanks, theFace 19:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Rescue Fire

We got info to confirm the sequel to Rescue Force, Tomica Hero Rescue Fire. However, someone decided to nominate it for deletion. Care to give your thoughts and help in building it up? Fractyl (talk) 14:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I'll work on it.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 20:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Just want to say hello! And i noticed you're involved in the Paranormal section... Have you ever seen anything that is unexplained? --Mixwell! 03:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

No. It is just an interest.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 06:23, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Categories and piping

Howdy. With regards to this edit, it appears that piping a Category "link" doesn't actually do anything. At the bottom of the page it still shows up as "Kamen Rider characters". I'm not sure if it is a big deal, but I thought I'd just point that out.--Rockfang (talk) 22:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I know what it does. I was fixing some errors in the category because some pages weren't being listed properly.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 22:42, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Cool. I get the defaultsort removal, but why pipe "Lance"? Does it do something I'm missing? I'm always open to learn. :) Rockfang (talk) 22:49, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

It does the same thing. However, if there were more categories there, we wouldn't want them all to be sorted as "Lance".—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 22:50, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Removing real world info

I am tired of seeing you remove real world content (references concerning casting and production notes) for you to make them into character sections or make them appear only in a fictional context. The next time you do this, you will be blocked.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 21:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't remove the rw content to Kiva, just moved it into another page as part of that profile. Plus, I don't always do it and I'm sorry if it seems I do. Fractyl (talk) 01:05, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Sumimasen.....

Recently, you removed the Neko Magic linkie from the Yes! PreCure 5 article. what's make you think it is spam?

(but first, you have to read what Gurugurutrex is saying in my user talk page.)Sailor Angel セーラーエンジェル 08:42, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

They were all over the place and served no purpose whatsoever. The fact that there were several dozen of those links on the article means it was spam.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 09:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Decade

It seems that Koji Seto will be reprising his role as Wataru Kurenai in the first episode. Since this is the same Wataru who is Kiva(Not a reboot like Kuuga), can we add him to the Decade template? Decade TV Promo 2 Fractyl (talk) 04:31, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

We cannot be sure of anything until Saturday.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 05:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)