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RfA Opinion

Dear Wizardman - I note that you've been active in RfA (nomination and evaluation) and would like your opinion. I've been 'gnoming' for quite a while, and my recent activities have been in areas where the "mop" would be quite useful CAT:CSD - CAT:DFUI - Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Old - WP:CP - WP:MFD - Misplaced Pages:Possibly unfree images - Misplaced Pages:Requested moves - WP:PER - WP:RFP - WP:TFD - to name a few (I've added my share of items to those lists ;0) Admittedly I have not done much recently with AfD or vandalism patrol; when I switched computers my VandalProof programme wouldn't run and I never looked into replacing it as I've been focused on creating/running a new bot User:SkiersBot and attempting to deal with the backlog of fair use additions. I've been contemplating self-nominating, but an opinion such as yours would be greatly appreciated.

p.s. Don't try using wannabe_kate count - I crash it! I think I'm probably at about 65,000 or 70,000 edits (will update the count here soon. SkierRMH 03:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

FL Main page proposal

You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Georgia Brown (child prodigy)

Thanks for the heads up--I've done a proper AfD for it now. DanielEng 21:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Badlydrawnjeff

Really? I thought "Are we here to write an encyclopedia, or are we here to fuck around as a charity case while we fawn all over each other?" was pretty strong in leaning towards Daniel Brandt as the reason. hbdragon88 21:55, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

DYK Update needed

If you are online an update is overdue and DYK has a backlog. Could you do the update?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

DYK

This is how I react to constant harrassment and disparaging comments, disguised as sarcastic compliments, from other, experienced editors, please don't post on my talk page telling me to cool off. Thanks. IvoShandor 18:22, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you should just block me for a personal attack, that way we can prove that trolls and spiders get preferential treatment on Misplaced Pages. IvoShandor 18:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I will just remove myself. All admins are free to go back to protecting trolls and pond scum.IvoShandor 18:40, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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I've changed the picture of Meusel back. l picture. The fair-use image of Meusel is far superior to the free picture. You can't see Meusel's face in the free picture. Further, the fair-use picture is from a historical web site encouraging the use of this image.Never been to spain 12:06, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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admin

Hi again! I hope I can still take you up on your offer to nominate me for adminship. I'm still interested; I think that I could give more to the project if I were an admin. —Remember the dot 02:00, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

(replying to message on my talk page) — Thanks! —Remember the dot 02:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Final co-ordination

Hi there. Just wanted to co-ordinate the final stages and make sure I get things right with the technical parts of the RfA nom. I noticed that you signed early in case I put it up while you were at work, but I got delayed again. I am ready now (with answers to paste in). I've also been double checking the various guidelines, and what I'll do is accept, sign, add statement and answers (both optional, but I'm adding them), change the date at the top, and then transclude to the main page. Will people understand why the date of your support is several hours before the start time? If you want to change that, I guess you could. Also, I've been looking over several RfAs and noticed things like mathbot links and edit summaries on talk pages. Is that added by others after the RfA starts? Carcharoth 09:50, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Ready to roll. Give me ten minutes to give things a final look over. Carcharoth 16:38, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. Thanks again for helping me with the technical questions I had. I'm not going to be around now until much later tonight. About 6 hours or so. I'll answer any extra questions then or tomorrow. Carcharoth 17:04, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

No fair!

(Visualise petulant look here) - No fair, no fair, no fair... I wanted to co-nom : (

(That said, great job on being bold, I personally think that it's about time. : ) - jc37 17:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

You can still co-nom if you want, you got a bit of time.

Plus from when I wrote it up and he posted it as a couple days, you had time :P Wizardman 18:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I had thought about it, but I decided that between your text, my text, and his text, we'd swamp the page : )

So I just added a couple things from my nom that you both hadn't covered much as a part of my comments.

And I can't believe that I missed this going on! His talk page is one of the places that I usually keep an eye on. (I guess having over a thousand pages on my watchlist may cause such things to happen - looks like it's time to prune again : )

Anyway, again, great job. Hope you're having a great day : ) - jc37 18:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Toyohara Kunichika

This page has the following label: Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Biography articles. Can you tell me what this means? I've looked all over Wiki and cannot find out. --Clhowson 18:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Medcab case

I think it is, I haven't heard much of anything about it, and editing has virtually stopped on that page.Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 20:19, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Doctor who logo

Please check the editing page of Doctor who it requests that since the page is at 81kb, the article is split into smaller articles, i therefore found it inapropriate to add to this article, and instead created a new one all about the doctor who logo Please consider this evidence and if agreeable, remove the speedy deletion notice Mrmccollough 19:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Eliska Amor image

Hey :) Just wondering as to why you deleted the default image on the Eliska Amor page? I didn't personally upload it, but just curious as to why? Perhaps I could find a new one. --Rosario 14:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Leeds Country Way

Thanks for assessing this for GA. The route section, as it says, is divided into paragraphs which correspond to the sections of the official route description - perhaps that should be shown explicitly. I feel that more detail on the route, ie lengthening each individual short section, would be "going into unnecessary details", to quote from WP:GAC.

But actually I don't see that short paragraphs go against the GA criteria for good style: "(a) the prose is clear and the grammar is correct; and (b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, jargon, words to avoid, fiction, and list incorporation.".

It doesn't seem to meet the "quick fail criteria", so I'd appreciate it if you could give a fuller description of your assessment. Did you find any other problems with the article? I'd appreciate it if you could use the {{GAList}} or similar checklist to give advice for future editing. Thanks. PamD 07:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Please have a look at User:PamD/Sandbox/templcw - headings added to make explicit the reason for short paragraphs - and let me know what you think. Thanks. PamD —Preceding comment was added at 07:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Have now amended and resubmitted to WP:GAC, as you suggested. Thanks. PamD 19:06, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

DYK Oct 21

On 21 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Bagley (basketball), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

I feel weird adding this to my own talk page, but someone forgot somewhere.--Wizardman 15:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Mar Kuriakose Dayara

I have taken a stab at re-writing the article that under AfD now. I have added references & re-written... It does seem to be a notable local church and somewhat of a regional shrine, but I was getting a headache trying to read through the Indian church sources. Please take a gander and if you think it's salvageable, jot a note here. SkierRMH 05:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Jaranda/Harry Agganis

Here's the future FA I'm working on, beat that :p Jbeach 02:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

South Warnborough

I'm just not sure why you removed my pic of the war memorial at South Warnborough, particularly when the other pic 'Lees Hill in Winter' doesn't actually say where Lees Hill is. SuzanneKn 20:17, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Also what about my pic of the war memorial in Odiham. SuzanneKn 20:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

What about Long Sutton? Did I not save them properly or something? SuzanneKn 20:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks for letting me know. I'll put them back with a copyright tag. There was I thinking you didn't like war memorials. SuzanneKn 17:02, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Wanted to thank you again, and personally, Wizardman, for nominating me at RfA, as I might have dithered for ever without your nagging. I won't be using the tools straightaway, and will be taking things slowly even when I do start using them, but I am looking forward to seeing whether I enjoy janatorial work or not! Carcharoth 00:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: admin

I thank you for your offer to nominate me at RfA. I am interested to be an admin for a sustained period of time but I didn't self-nom myself because I want to wait for someone to nominate me, which indicates that my work has been recognized by community members. Unfortunately, I am very busy with university work until next Wednesday (because I leave everything till last minute and I really shouldn't be going on Misplaced Pages now...) I will let you know when I get rid of my workload, ok? OhanaUnited 02:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Difference b/w block and ban

You know, I was confused about the difference this summer. (See User:OhanaUnited/Admin coaching#Policy discussion)

Block basically prevents damage to Misplaced Pages (such as spamming/advertising links, vandalizing) so they are basically minor stuff that does not need community's attention. Ban is an action that prevents someone (IP/registered user) from editing a page or as a whole Misplaced Pages. Btw, is it ok if I become an admin but not focused on combating vandalism? I think WP:FPOC interested me the most. OhanaUnited 16:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Do me a favour

Can you do me/community a favour? We have a POV-pushing sockpuppet running around in the community. See Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Abusive sockpuppets for details. Thank you. OhanaUnited 04:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Terry Pendleton

Heh, I saw this on DYK just now. Nice work, man. :) Nishkid64 (talk) 04:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

On 26 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Terry Pendleton, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Re: adminship

Thanks much for this expression of confidence! I definitely won't follow General Sherman in saying "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve". At the moment, I'm not sure what I want to do; my work has overall been quite specialised in geography articles, especially (1) Ohio townships, and (2) creation and placement of county-based navigational templates. Still, I welcome this — I'm sure that, as an administrator active in RFAs, you know what you're doing :-) — and I'm at the moment tending toward accepting the nomination. I'll get back to you in a few days; I'm a college student with plenty of work to do over the weekend. I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible; if I don't reply by Monday or Tuesday, please let me know :-) Nyttend 14:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I've decided to accept the nomination. Please wait until Monday or Tuesday to nominate me, as I'm going to be really busy over the weekend. Nyttend 15:01, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Ricky Powers GA on hold

I am hosting my mother until Tuesday. Can you please allow the full 7 days for the Ricky Powers GA hold.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 06:44, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I got a chance to give this a once over before heading out for the day. You can assess it now.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)