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PhpWebGallery deletion on English part

You said in Deletion log that we did not meet the requirements for "significance". Can you expose your arguments and defend them against these pages: - Zenphoto : Notability is almost equal to us and description is minimalist - Gallery_Project (also better known than us, their page was less iformative than the one we provided. If you thought we put too much information, just let us know. - 4images

Please note also we are referred to in Photo_gallery_comparison

Please be kind enough to give feedback -- 82.226.255.74 19:50, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Any suggestions will be really appreciate.

Thxs.

Many thanks for the query. Basically, to have a page here, PhpWebGallery needs to meet WP:WEB which are the guidlines for notability for things concerning the internet. You will need to provide reliable, independant sources that show how they meet those guidlines. Hope that helps, Ryan Postlethwaite 15:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Shall I post references here before creating it again ? Mathiasm94 23:21, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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Hello - My first post here, but I would like to assist the folks at PhpWebGallery as a reference because I have benefited so much from this open source application. I actually learned about PhpWebGallery because it was listed on Misplaced Pages here: I hope that alone should indicate that it is well known and established.

This link does a fairly good job of comparing all of the gallery software out there on the web. I had tried several other open source apps over time including popular apps such as Coppermine and Gallery as well as MG2. Coppermine and Gallery are best known on the web, but the minute I started reading the information at PhpWebGallery I knew it was something special. Not only is it extremely robust in all of its tools and ability, but the wonderful administration interface is what is key to me as a photographer needing to display images on the www.

PhpWebGallery may not be on the front page of CNET, but it should be, and I predict it will be fairly soon once other photographers catch on. For reference I use it at and (click on "portfolio" to see how I use it)

If you do a basic search on PhpWebGallery in Google, you will find 35 pages of links referencing it and countless photog sites using this app. I hope this will help, and please feel free to edit my writing here in the interest of leaving good, useful info at Misplaced Pages. - Steve Cherry at DailyFrame.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevecherry (talk • contribs) 05:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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First, thanks to Steve for his support.

I think there is a confused debate there. PhpWebGallery is distributed as MediaWiki under a General Public Licence. No doubt for anyone that MediaWiki is referenced by Misplaced Pages itself. PhpWebGallery is similar to MediaWiki not for building a Global online Encyclopedia but as a open software solution to build a large picture gallery repository. If Ryan you are convinced that our references are to related to the original web site, we had thousand website address available. Nethertheless, I am trying to have press articles from ziffdavis.com and PC Magazine just for you, even we already have some in French obviously.

Keep in touch...

Thanks, Ryan for your understanding.

Vincent, also known as VDigital, and original proposal writer. 195.183.24.148 13:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

3RR

I left a comment in response to your appraisal at the noticeboard page. Please read what I've said and linked to and consider revising your decision. Thanks for your time, Dsol 16:36, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I left another message at 3RR.

The anon ip was basically reverting

• very well sourced info about one issue (Wines incident)
• questionably sourced and questionably included info about another incident (AK's name), which I already stated I'm not contesting and don't demand its inclusion at present.
• unsourced but noncontentious info about a 3rd source (spy), which was not even noticed because the anon made 0 effort to engage in discussion about it.

The fact that the second 2 might be okay does not excuse the 3RR violation on the first. Sorry to bother you about this further but the anon is not really participating seriously in discussion at WP:BLPN and I don't have another outlet. Dsol 10:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll respond here as there's no point in filling up the 3RR board. If the IP reverts again, let me know, and I'll take another look at it, but as this was an IP removing what he thought was a BLP violation, then that is exempt from the 3RR rule, whether well founded or not. As I say, letme know if there's another revert. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, will do, thanks. But isn't there some limit to how far 3RR exception for BLP extends, especially when the sources are given and described in depth on the article talk page and the BLP noticeboard? While I appreciate your future attention in this particular case, what recourse does one have in general when an editor defies consensus to repeatedly blank material, and falsely claiming support from BLP policy? Dsol 11:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The ip is back to edit warring on the article page, and I think another 3RR violation is imminent. While the arguments s/he is offering on WP:BLPN are paper thin and belligerent, I am trying to respond in a measured way and not to revert while discussion is ongoing. I think it is becoming increasingly clear that the reversions are not enforcement of BLP but merely editorial, and therefore subject to 3RR. I would like your opinion on this, and if you have time and inclination, on the matter in dispute itself. Thanks Dsol 16:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar, baby!

		The IRC Buddy Barnstar
		For (my paraphrase) telling me that my outspoken comments are brilliantly hilarious, I award you this barnstar of honesty :P Use it well! Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 07:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Tell it like it is, eh? *makes comment about your drunken userpage photo* Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 23:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Admin School

Ryan, I like pages. I've used it more as a how-to than a direct practice per se, but still very useful. I think it'd be helpful to have a school block sample there, too. What to unclick, which templates to use and where to put them, etc. -- Flyguy649 _contribs 15:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes, that's a good idea. Can't do it tonight, as I'm about to get hammered, but leave it with me. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:45, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Umm, is that hammered with schoolwork... or yummy, fermented beverages? It IS Friday, after all! -- Flyguy649 _contribs 16:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Just saw your note below. Have fun! -- Flyguy649 _contribs 16:48, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Knowing Ryan, I suspect the latter :) - Alison 16:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I see there's a picture of him in about 6 hours on his user page.-- Flyguy649 _contribs 16:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Small world

Hi there, Ryan. It really is a small world! I'm also from Kendal in the Lakes - did you go to Kirkbie Kendal or Queen Katherine school? I've made contact because I noticed you on the 3RR Administrators' page yesterday. I reported a user almost 24hours ago and there's been no result to my report or any cases reported since. Would I be best off waiting or there something I can do to expedite the process? Thanks in advance, and good luck with the rest of your course; I graduated 2 years ago and work has proved to be quite fun! :-) Docta247 15:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Wow, it is a small world :-) I went to Queen Katherine - only the best for me!! How about you? It's Torchlight Procession night tonight, but just managed to fit in sorting out your 3RR report before I hit Kendal and get hammered! :-) Where are you based now? Ryan Postlethwaite 16:45, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I went to Kirkbie Kendal, but in the spirit of Wikifriends, I hope you forgive me :-). I had some good nights out at the Torchlight; always ended up right in the middle of town at the New Inn. Many thanks for taking a look at the 3RR for me, it's very much appreciated. After finishing uni I've moved to Worcester/Malvern to work on high-tech defence technology research for QinetiQ. All good fun! Docta247 16:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The MfD

For your information Ryan, I have closed the MfD regarding Politics rules' user subpage. I neutrally reviewed the arguments, and closed the MfD as no consensus. It neither an obvious keep nor delete, so no consensus was the logical closure. Acalamari 20:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

It would probably have been better to leave it to someone who could have judged the consensus rather than close it as no consensus. I'll probably take it back to MfD tomorow. Ryan Postlethwaite 01:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems that it's already been archived too; so it's not easy to revert my closure. Acalamari 01:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Dearest Ryan Postlethwaite,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 96 supports, 1 oppose, and 3 neutrals. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm a new admin remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them. I would like to give a special shout out to Hirohisat, Wizardman, and Husond, for there original co-nominations. Thank you once again and good day.

Double redirect

Can you please correct your signature so it isn't a double redirect? Ryan Postlethwaite 10:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

What double redirect? Would you mind providing a diff as an example? -- Cat 05:23, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Your signature links to User:White_Cat/07 which redirects to User:White_Cat. Please change your signature to link to just User:White_Cat. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:12, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Ryan, thats a redirect, not a double redirect. :) —— Eagle101 21:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah yeah :-) What I'm trying to say is, could you consider changing your sig to go staight to your userpage, rather than through a redirect? Ryan Postlethwaite 21:43, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely not, I'd rather be indef blocked... At least tolerate the damn signature. Even my signatures bother you people! -- Cat 14:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Sitdown248

This user is violating WP:UP#NOT - just have a look at their userpage. I tried asking them nicely on their talk page to remove it... that did nothing... so I removed it myself... and they just reverted it. Would you, as An Almighty Admin, be able to do something about his shenanigans? Thanks in advance, Una Laguna 08:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response! Una Laguna 13:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Now they've gone and replaced their talk page with the same content... some people never learn, do they? Una Laguna 16:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

yeah, cheers for that. I've warned the user that if they do it again, I'll block them. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The system works! Una Laguna 21:21, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Dilip rajeev

I notice that you have just blocked him for breach of the 3RR. Thanks for our vigilance. would wholeheartedly agree with a block, but I had not noticed when I posted a warning, so I'll leave it there. Ohconfucius 13:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

WP: TW

I may be new at this but I did clean alot of vandalism. everythin in good faith offcourse Nick10000 16:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

That's fine, but you'll have to do it manually for a bit as some of your revisions were very poor. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok I see. I will do so, but is it any chance for you to get back to me after a while and adress me if I am able to uses twinkle again?. Nick10000 16:30, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah of course, consider it a 2 week twinkle break so you can review all your edits. I'll re-add it for you in a couple of weeks. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Great Thanks! Nick10000 16:37, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

CSD

Ryan, you know everything. Were you aware of a discussion to change the {{speedy}} warning on article pages from pink to white? And if there was no such discussion, do you know how to change it back? --Anthony.bradbury 17:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

This is the diff where the tag changed. Basically, all the speedy templates are formed from {{Db-meta}}, so when this was changed to {{Ambox}} form, which all boxes are changing to on wikipedia, the tag went from white to pink. I'm not sure where the discussion is, but I think it's widely accepted. I'll look into it though. Ryan Postlethwaite 17:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Reason: WP:TS. --Agüeybaná 18:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Smile

Into The Fray /C has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Cheers for the smile, it's brightened up my day. Ryan Postlethwaite 20:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Puppetry

You responded to an incident earlier involving User:Eurominuteman who was then banned. He seems to be back as a sockpuppet with the name of User:itskoolman. For now, he is only editing the talk page but I am reasonably certain it is him by his writing style. Thanks for your help. Man It's So Loud In Here 21:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Cheers for the report, I've blocked itskoolman as a sock. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar for a Brilliant Concept

Though you have received countless thank yous by now, I just wanted to officially recognize you with coming up with a very clever idea :):

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		I, Persian Poet Gal, hereby award Ryan this barnstar for coming up with the brilliant concept of Misplaced Pages:New admin school. This school will be a great place for new administrators to test the waters and learn all they need to know about how to use "the tools." Nice work Ryan! ¤~Persian Poet Gal 00:23, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Though there's really not a mechanism for this, let me "second" this barnstar. It really is a brilliant concept, and one that I wish had been here when I was figuring out the new buttons! - Philippe | Talk 00:33, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello again

hi Ryan btw take look at I think this article needs to be improved and also need a ethnic infobox template. Is it any chance for you to help out? thanks in advance Nick10000 12:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I tried to create an infox box using a template from here - but failed as the infobox's here use a lot of different templates to put them all together and I'm not 100% possitive how they work. Sorry. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Block evasion

84.73.140.109 is using 129.129.128.64 to evade your block, as he said he would. -GnuTurbo 15:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems the IP is constructively trying to work a compromise on the talk page now, so a further block would be punitive now. I will keep an eye on it however. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I probably would not have even noticed, but he threatened it before rather insultingly. -GnuTurbo 16:27, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

As I said, he's entering into discussion now, so I am reluctant to block. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I think I have grown too used to the U.S. way of punitive punishment. I see your point. Thanks. -GnuTurbo 17:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Not that anyone asked my opinion, but GnuTurbo, that is a truly fascinating statement. I've never thought about it that way. I'm gonna have to sit down and grok that, because I'm curious about the implications of that. - Philippe | Talk 19:48, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Would punitive consequences be better? -GnuTurbo 19:56, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I'm not questioning your language, at all. I'm just intrigued by the application of punitive punishment in the States and the implication of that on the mind of your average US Wikipedian. Probably a research project in there somewhere... measuring the effects of the criminal justice mindset in light-justice applications or something. - Philippe | Talk 02:42, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFCN

Would you mind not just removing closed discussions? They are no longer automatically archived when removed, so they have to be done manually. Usually there is not a clog on the page warranting immediate removal, but for some reason it happened while I was away. It's harder to keep the archives accurate if we need to dig though the history to get the links. You don't need to archive, but would you mind not removing them entirely? Thanks. i  00:52, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah of course, I did check the archive, but it didn't seem like it was up to date so I didn't add them to it. I'll make sure I archive them next time. Cheers, Ryan Postlethwaite 05:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Stupid question, but . . .

Okay, so my old friend insomnia and I are sitting here, watching the user creation log for kicks and I note that I see users creating other users. How is that done and why? Figured you'd know, since I saw you on WP:ACC. Into The Fray /C 05:59, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. My oatmeal brain says . . . same email address used to register both accounts...? Into The Fray /C 06:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Not quite, it actually means they created the account while logged-in. Try visiting Special:Userlogin while logged in and click "create". This is standard procedure for WP:ACC as it enables easy identification. GDonato (talk) 13:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Huh. Learn something new every day, I'spose. Thanks GDonato! Into The Fray /C 14:38, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

RfA Spam

Just to let you know I passed my RfA. Thank you very much for the nomination. I'm not going to SPAM everyone, as I have 96-6=90 better things to do with my new (not very shiny after all) buttons. However I am thanking my nominators, because, well you are all fab! Happy Editing! Pedro |  Chat  12:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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OTOH

User talk:Bishonen#Help (2) KillerChihuahua 12:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Joopercoopers

I know nothing about these sorts of things, but when you unblocked him and stuck the "unblocked" template on his page for the autoblock, it displays his IP address. Some people might not want their IP address advertised like that. Then again, maybe he doesn't care about his anonymity since he's going to CZ. Just thought I'd bring it up. --SGT Tex 20:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Pharmacology Update

Here's a brief update in some of the recent developments of WikiProject Pharmacology!

• Aspirin has just completed its two week run as the first Collaboration of the Week! Many thanks to those editors that contributed; the article got a lot of good work accomplished, and in particular, much work was done in fixing up the history section. It's still not quite "done" yet (is a wikipedia article really ever done?), but after two weeks I think it's more important to push onwards with the development of the new collaboration of the week program. I will be fixing up Aspirin in the next few days and possibly nominating it for either GA or FA status.

• Muscle relaxant has been selected as the new Collaboration of the week until October 2, 2007! This article is currently rated as a "stub", so it's got quite a bit of work cut out for collaborators! Admittedly, featured status could be a long way off,... but still attainable! At the least, maybe we could at least get it up to meeting the Good article criteria? Please stop by the article and help improve it.

• Resveratrol, having recently achieved GA status on August 16, 2007, is now making a run for featured status. This is quite a fascinating compound. If you can, please stop by its discussion page and leave comments in support of it.

• Please remember that Misplaced Pages is not a forum for discussing or dispensing medical advice amongst users. Specifically, talk pages of articles should only be used to discuss improving the actual article in question. To help alleviate this situation, the template {{talkheader}} may be added to the top of talk pages, reminding users of the purpose of such pages. Additionally, unsigned comments and comments by anonymous users that are inappropriate may be removed from talk pages without being considered vandalism.

• There was an interesting article on ZDNet last week about Hewlett Packard licensing its patented microneedle technology used in common inkjet printers to be used in transdermal patches to deliver a time-controlled release of drugs to patients. This information could be added to articles such as route of administration or drug delivery.

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Walk t'plank!

		Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
		Ahoy, me hearty! How 'bout a good ol' jug o' grog? RegARRds, Húsönd 15:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppet

Hello. Since you were the blocking admin, I just thought I would let you know that user Tratare has returned as BirthdayBank. Evidence can be found through their contributions (Tratare, BirthdayBank), but what tipped me was this compared to this. Also, Tratare was a sock account of blocked user EverybodyHatesChris. - Deep Shadow 08:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey Ryan, can you also check to see if User:ByeNow and User:Lormos are also sockpuppets of Tratare? They have taken a special interest in reverting my edits on the Judge Judy article. Kat, Queen of Typos 07:25, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

You might also be interested in this, this and this. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:24, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

These edits are pretty unfounded as stated numerous times by a user who just got unfairly blocked for it by some crazy administrators. One of them is administrator above. You administrators better do your jobs more carefully. Just some constructive criticism Solidpilot 09:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)