User talk:Cometstyles/Archive February 07

Mike Tindall

Why did you revert my changes on Mike Tindall? He always played outside Greenwood. Greenwood had a superstition about the 13 shirt, that's why he always wore it - but whenever they lined up for first phase ball Greenwood was at inside centre and Mike Tindall was at outside centre.

Check the tapes.

Hi

Thanks for the welcome, I had just joined the project. Thanks! Rugger81 13:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thanks very much :) Rugger81 13:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Blues logo.gif)

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Western Crusaders

Thanks for explaining that! I understand now. It's okay. David Cannon 00:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Vunivalu of Bau

Hi there Cometstyles, I've noticed your workand have decided to join the fray of articles going around regarding Fiji. While my area of interest is Rotuma in particular, I've recently noticed some gaps that I thought should be filled. If you look at my contributions I've recently spent some time writing articles about the various Vunivalu of Bau, mainly writing from text sources by Sam Berwick. I realise that this is a little one sided so invite your critiques.

I bring the following to you because i realise your knowledge of fijian nobles may be (probably) much greater than my own. I noticed that for the table on the Vunivalu of Bau page, there are no listed Vunivalu between Penaia Kadavulevu and George Cakobau. Would it be so presumptuous that I should not include in the list Ratu Popi Seniloli, g/son of the Tui Viti Cakobau, which in my book is listed as the next Vunivalu after his cousin Penaia and/or list his supposed successor Tevita Naulivou (elder brother of George Cakobau).

I realise the contentiousness of this, considering Popi is seemingly quite low in terms of order of precedence to have inherited the Vunivalu from his cousin, when he was the son of Cakobau's 3rd son Joseva Celua. However, unless Popi inherited the Vunivalu, neither would have George Cakobau, the last Vunivalu listed and Popi's son. Please give me your thoughts on the matter. Vinaka Matt Bray 04:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

... for the two reverts on my userpage yesterday. Much appreciated :) - Alison^✍ 11:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

• It's a block of IP addresses from USF. You're also on my watchlist now, too, so I'll keep a lookout for them. Consider it a badge of honour and maybe add {{User vandalized}} to your userpage. Thanks again! - Alison^✍ 11:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

thanks for the cool userbox, I'm sure it will be tons of fun having a way to show people how much I'm disliked. (I'm surprised you've only been vandalised once with the kind of work you seem to do (good work) well, keep it up.)DxPatxb

Malo a Bula

to your question on my talk page..the answer is YES.. and before you comment I may have been a bit amatuer but I did the best with what I had.

we learn and grow...well at least I hope I have, Have a good day

Maikeli MB 02:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Vinaka

thanks for the words of encouragement Cometstyles Maikeli MB 21:38, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Remember not to feed the troll...

Hello Cometstyles, thank you for watching my talk page! Unfortunately many trolls come and stop by my page but I learn its best to "walk it off" as they say ;). I noticed the comments you left on his talk page...I appreciate your concern however, remember this great little saying: Don't feed the trolls! Many of these vandals are looking for attention or trying to disrupt Wikipedia to make a point. In order to slow down such wrong doing or prevent it, one must not encourage such acts to receive attention. Of course it is important to report abuse but its better done by simply reverting, bringing to administrative attention, and then ignoring it. Keep up the good work and remember, just don't feed a troll ;)...¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 03:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

• Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the articles ready for final proofread section.
• Select a different article to proofread from the articles ready for final proofread section.

Thanks for your help! BuddingJournalist 01:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Wales national rugby union team

I hadn't seen the WikiProject page when I made the edits, however a couple of the edits I made were legitimate, so I've put them back in :) PeeJay 00:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Vinaka

thanks again for the words of encouragement

MB 21:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Fiji rugby work group

Hey, I highly recommend you add the "Fiji-work-group=yes" tag to the {{WikiProject Rugby union}} banner in the Fiji related articles. May attract some more people to join the work group. It's easy to add, for example:

{{WikiProject Rugby union| importance=mid| class=stub |Fiji-work-group=yes}}

If you can get a fifth member I'll join the work group btw (as I promised earlier). - Shudda ^talk 03:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Persian Poet Gal

She's up for administratorship, Go on and support her like I did and like many other users have been doing. → Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Persian Poet Gal. QuasyBoy 12:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Fiji Rugby project

Hi there! Thank you for inviting me to join your Fiji rugby project. I am more than happy to help out as best I can whenever needed. I cannot promise to contribute very much, as my knowledge of rugby is very minimal, but I am delighted to help with the formatting, categorizing, and cross-linking of these articles. This much-needed project will fill a big gap in wikipedia. Again, thank you for inviting me. David Cannon 11:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

User page revert

Hey, thanks for noticing and removing the vandalism to my user page yesterday. Funny how I seem to annoy anon IP's when I revert their vandalism! Cheers! The Rambling Man 14:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes Redirecting

Did you follow the link in the edit summary of the moves? (Wikipedia:Userbox migration)? —METS501 (talk) 14:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Just don't worry. It will change all of the affected userpages in due course. There are over 800 pages to change right now, so we're looking at them being updated within 2.5 hours. —METS501 (talk) 14:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Upside-down filmographies

The section headed "Ordering": "Items should be be listed in chronological order of production, earliest first."

WP:LOW is quite clear. The "Ordering" section refers to all lists of works, including filmographies. Please acquant yourself with all of the WP:MOS before further editing. You should also read Wikipedia:Vandalism to learn what exactly constitutes vandalism.

MOSLOW

You said: "Is it important to use the {{MOSLOW}} tag on filmographies that are not written in chronological order for example a tag that was added on Aishwariya Rai page and by reading the WP:LOW its hard to tell.."

I don't know, I have never used that tag. --Yamla 18:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Opencycle

Opencycle is at [1]. While Opencycle uses MediaWiki and has much of the same ends as Wikipedia (it, too, is a wiki-based open-content encyclopedia), it is by no means a "copy" of Wikipedia--Opencycle is an entirely separate project. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.135.29.11 (talk) 00:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC).

Response To Monobook.

Thanks for the tip with the monobook. Acalamari 20:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• Actually, in response to a message on Persian Poet Gal's talk page, it's not just popups I've managed to get along without, it's also things like Vandal Proof, and the entire monobook altogether. Here's what I do: I use "tabs" in my browser. I keep my watchlist open in one tab, and edit in others. I also refresh my watchlist every five minutes or so to see any updates on pages I watch. I've just refreshed the watchlist now, and I've seen that Persian Poet Gal has responded to a message or her talk page. Lower down the watchlist, I can see that a few hours ago, I copied the message Jimbo Wales sent to me from my talk page to my Barnstar's subpage. That's what I do: I keep a very close watch on the watchlist. I'll go and refresh it again. Acalamari 21:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Rihanna

I wasn't editing out any vandalism, I was just making a few minor tweaks that's all. QuasyBoy 13:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know. I'm afraid if I apply I might be denied and much rather have someone request for me then request my own self. But I really don't know about that at the moment. QuasyBoy 10:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Cheers for reverting the vandalism to my userpage. Much appreciated •CHILLDOUBT• 16:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Malo a Bula

Bula Cometstyles

I have added the wikifiji project and wikifiji rugby project to my user page, as for Rugby I will contribute what I can but my knowledge is limited in the area of rugby. hope alls well in general

Vinaka Maikeli

THANKS. Ajindustries.

Gee, thanks for fixing my template, i didn't know what to do to close it. Thanks again, I was getting complaints. :) Ajindustries 09:30, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

What happened?!

I was reading a verrrry long article (The Holocaust) and when I came back to me watchlist, I saw that you edited it; like three times! Thank you for reporting that vandal to AIV. I'm so grateful to you! — ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 19:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Help

The anon user User:209.244.30.221 is flooding me with personal attacks. Could you block them? Retiono Virginian 20:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh your not an admin. Sorry. Retiono Virginian 20:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Ahhh, they are blocked now :). Retiono Virginian 20:56, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, I ran into that vandal when I was busy on RC patrol. Which I'm very good at, and found him constantly violating Jeovahs witnesses, I warned him, then I started getting abuse off him. Thanks for your help. When you stay a few months and get about 3500 edits go for WP:RFA. Retiono Virginian 20:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• Moved Barnstar to Userpage

Need people with an opinion

Hey there. I noticed that in the past, you have participated in a discussion about Filmographies and lists of works in general here. There is now a RfC discussing this and more aspects here. It would be nice if you took a look and gave your comments on those matters. Thank you.theroachman^TC 02:07, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Jeff Sanford

This page is a valid candidate for speedy deletion. It's been deleted in its present format by a MFD, see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jeff Sanford. Thanks. One Night In Hackney 16:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem, just wanted to explain rather than have you revert me again. Thanks. One Night In Hackney 16:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

• Apologies, I've had to deal with a lot of vandals today, so I didn't even bother to check the history. -- Scorpion 17:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting vandalsum from my page ♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 18:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. SteveO 20:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Spelling

Hey; thanks for fixing spelling on my page. I type very, very fast you see, and I often don't notice when I make mistakes. That's one thing I really need to work on. Retiono Virginian 20:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Ask for a favor: Persian cinema

Since December 2005 I am working on Iranian cinema. You see that the article came a long path. [2]. I was improving it slowly. However the article is not in a good status yet. I want to bring the article to GA status. As you have a good command of English language and you are a member of editor league, you are in principle able to help me improving this article faster. There might be some grammer mistakes that escape me. It would be great if you could contribute to this article and help me in copyeditting. There are many useful articles here as well. Any helps will be very much appreciated. Thanks.Sangak 20:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Filmography discussion

Thank you for your comment at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Filmography. Earlier you have posted your opinion on the matter at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (lists of works)#Upside-down filmographies and I have replied to it. It would be greatly appreciated if you would take a look at my reply and comment there again. I know it's a bit of a bother to discuss this in multiple locations, sorry for that. Thanks! theroachman^TC 02:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Putting {{usernameblock}} on pages

Could you just instead report all inappropriate usernames to WP:AIV so an admin can block them? Thanks for all the help with keeping to policy though! Sasquatch t|c 16:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Just FYI

See this diff. Can certainly understand your concern, but I'm not aware of a strong precedent in the area of whether this sort of thing is acceptable or could be blocked on sight. You're more than welcome to submit to WP:RFC/N to get some community input. :) Cheers. – Luna Santin (talk) 19:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Heh -- we love being ambiguous, I guess. It doesn't hurt to report them to AIV... the explanation that makes sense to me, I guess, is "if anybody can tell this is bad and should be blocked without a second thought, report to AIV," but some usernames are a lot more ambiguous, and for those we have a requests for comment subpage to allow a brief discussion (at most, usually a day or two, frequently quicker) before taking action. Most bad usernames can and should go through AIV -- I see no problem if this is your main reporting ground (just went to block that Ockenbock sock you reported, for example, thanks!) (never mind I got block-conflicted and somebody else actually blocked, just shows how appropriate the report was). – Luna Santin (talk) 19:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:2006-07 Top 14 Table

Template:2006-07 Top 14 Table has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Bob 00:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:2006-07 Magners League Table

Template:2006-07 Magners League Table has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Bob 16:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Persian literature

Dear Cometstyles!

Persian literature was previously a GA. However it was silent about contemporary literature. I added information about "contemporary persian literature". The section needs copyediting and also shortening. In case you are interested in the subject, I would like to ask you to help me in copy editting the article. I also posted a request in the "League of copyeditors page". Thanks alot.Sangak 16:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

My request for adminship has closed successfully (79/0/1), so it appears that I am now an administrator. Thanks very much for your vote of confidence. If there's anything I can ever do to help, please don't hesitate to let me know. IrishGuy ^talk 01:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Fiji Rugby workgroup

Hey, do you think some sort of collaboration for the group should be created. For example, trying to get an article to Good Article standard? Do you think we should all be trying to get a Fiji rugby article up to a high standard? Any suggestions? - Shudda ^talk 04:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I didn't have anything specifically in mind. What we want is a subject that we can easily research and reference, and that can be covered comprehensively. What about the Fiji Sevens team? Or one of Fiji's more famous players (such as Waisale Serevi). Are there any topics you have a lot of information on, or can get information on? Specifically books, or comprehensive news/magazine articles? - Shudda ^talk 21:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I reckon Waisale Serevi. Mainly because he has finished his playing career, and there should be a lot of information out there on him. The article is ok, but it's needs to be expanded a lot, and there are very few references. Do you want to see what information you can find on him? Add it to the external links section on his page, then we can use it to start expanding the article and adding inline citations. - Shudda ^talk 22:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Last warning? Thanks for proving my point. Good for you for supporting the politicaly correct strictures. God forbid you allow another view. —Preceding unsigned comment added by sonofdy (talk • contribs)

Reversions at my User page

Thanks for the reversions at my user page. Please be sure to give warnings, though. User:Billybob3333333 ended up being blocked for repeated vandalism. Regards, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 15:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, he didn't like that I reverted his edits. Thanks for reporting him to AIV. Regards, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 15:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Crusaders image fair use rational

Hey, after the comments left at the FAC comments page, I was told to expand on the fair use rational for Image:Canterbury crusaders.jpg. I've basically done it, but have not included the source. Because you uploaded the image, could you please add that to the description page as soon as possible?! The just let me know. Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 10:26, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Reverting removal of warnings

I noticed that you reverted the removal of warnings by {{user|XX7} from his/her talkpage. We don't require anyone to retain warnings, messages, or any other content in their userspace if they so choose to remove it. A warning that removal of the information is not the best idea is sufficient, but continuing to add back warnings after an editor removed them from their talkpage could be seen as harassment. This seems to be something that is not generally understood, so I thought I'd leave a message here as an FYI. I know it is annoying when editors remove warnings, but adding them back is generally not a good idea. Cheers.--Isotope23 17:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)