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Latest comment: 16 years ago by IronGargoyle in topic Thanks

Thank you! :)

It's so great to see you again, sweetie! :) You truly are a wizard, for every time I see you, you weave magice upon me and make me smile. We have much to catch up, I swear we will! Love, Phaedriel - 04:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Admin

I would be most honoured if you were to nominate me! Not straight away, though. I suspect I would currently be unlikely to succeed at WP:RFA, since I'm currently not particularly involved in activites that admins are commonly associated with - XfD debates & anti-vandal operations being those where a non-admin could be of most use. I shall do some work on these - I may even start tonight (even though it's already the 3rd here in the UK), and will call back in a short while when I believe I have adequatly demonstrated my competentness with such tasks. As per the talk page, yes, I really MUST get it sorted out A.S.A.P.! Thanks for demonstrating your faith in me, it is greatly apreciated, and I hope the rest of the comunity does when the time comes. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 23:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, tommorow's TFA is an article you may recognise, if you've been reading my DYK entries! Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 23:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Item

I am contacting you regarding deletion of a item on Charles Linden at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Charles_Linden. I was wondering, can I create a new version of the item and ask you to take a look? Or perhaps we could put the old version back up and I can edit? Cheers. - Super Saddle 13:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


Cheers for the reply Wizardman. I have posted an updated on my talk page and wondered if you could take a look. Super Saddle 09:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Request for comments/feedback

Hello, Wizardman ... I wonder if you would take a look at my draft deletion protocols and reply on my talk page ... you zapped Matt Hess (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) but not the talk page, where I used one of the templates ... Happy Editing! —72.75.74.236 (talk · contribs) 01:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Leicester_City_F.C.

... does this page still need to be protected? You protected it nearly 2 months ago, after a brief bout of vandalism. Could you unprotect it now, please, as I suspect that whoever it was has long since gone away. Thanks. Guinness 11:34, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Well deserved barnstar

Moved to barnstar page.

Triple Crown

 
I, Durova, recognize Wizardman with the Triple Crown for exceptional content improvements to Wikipedia. Thank you for all you do. DurovaCharge! 21:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Your Majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown in recognition of your contributions to Wikipedia. May you wear them well. DurovaCharge! 21:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Nathan

Another user came in and made a lot of "suggestions" on the talk page - i responded but I have to wait now before applying my reassessment as he/she is editing the article pretty heavily. Some of the stuff were changes i was going to address in the next review. I was just trying to point out a few things at a time. Sorry for the delay - just don't want to get into an edit war or content dispute with another editor and i flat out have no idea what some of the comments mean. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  03:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for the delay in commenting - i took some time to step away from wikipedia. I have informed the other editor who stepped in that i have no interest in continuing to review Joe Nathan. I was a bit confused by some of her comments and the fact that she inserted the list of comments during my review. It will be best to let her handle the rest of it. I apologize as i think the article is really wonderful and awfully close to GA. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  00:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Reply

That would be fine! I'm going to work on my answers now. Cheers! Flyguy649 talk contribs 02:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I was going to let you know that I've transcluded, but you figured that out pretty quickly! Thanks for the co-nom. Cheers! Flyguy649 talk contribs 03:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks, Wizardman, for the co-nomination. I truly appreciate it. Thank you once again - I hope I can use my new buttons well. -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 06:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Email

You have email. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 01:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello Wizardman. You expressed a interest in nomming awhile back. I was nommed yesterday. If you want to co-nom you might want to do it soon. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 13:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey there Wizardman. Thanks for the co-nom. I might want to take a day or two to officially accept and answer the questions, but I will tell you that I do accept. Thanks. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 19:20, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

End of WP:Bio assessment drive

I have reraised the issue (see towards the bottom) as to whether assessors should receive all the awards they qualify for or only the highest one. Your input is appreciated. BrokenSphereMsg me 15:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:Admin

I would like to go through the process and appreciate you nominating me. However, would you be willing to wait maybe two more weeks? I just started school and want to get attuned to everything, and I have several side projects within WP:FILMS I want to divert most of my attention to in the next week. If this is a problem, let me know. Again, sorry about this, I always seem to be at a bad time when you contact me. Thanks for considering me again for nomination. --Nehrams2020 19:57, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I really appreciate it. Good luck with the other RfAs. --Nehrams2020 22:54, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Lionel Barrymore

hello Wizardman, I noticed you deleted the picture of Lionel Barrymore on his entry. Why? was there some copyright problem instead of public domain image. A number of good images of Lionel are at SilentGents.com and can be used for uploading if there's a copyright problem with the previous image. I must admit the previous image did look like it was taken from a film or newsreel. But I'd like to see an image back of Lionel. Silent Gents is a good place to start. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.2.100.201 (talk) 20:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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Question on deletion of "Lawman (TV series)"

Hi Wizardman, I'm rather new to all this and I'm impressed with the qualifications on your page. May I ask why the image I provided courtesy with the permission of www.peterbrown.tv was deleted? 1)They gave permission for use of the image 2)As the show is no longer on and Mr Russell is dead there's no chance of getting a recent photo of the two, nor would it be from the TV show 3)They believe the image is in the public domain. 4)I feel the image is necessary to illustrate the article

Hope to hear from you and learn some things for future use.

Thank you, Foofbun 00:10, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks very much for your excellent co-nomination and support of my now-successful RFA. Cheers! Flyguy649 talk contribs 16:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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  My RFA
¡Hola! thanks for participating in my request for adminship, which ended with 51 supports, no opposes, and one neutral. I hope to accomplish what is expected of me and work to help those that lent me their trust. - Caribbean~H.Q. 00:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Quick question

When I place a request for speedy deletion, and a vandal deletes the request - can you or any other administrator who controls vandalism still see that the article is still in question? It's annoying when I place a request for speedy deletion and then have to keep re-checking the pages to ensure the tag still remains on the page.

And yes, vandalism does make my blood boil. :-)

Thanks

--EndlessDan 12:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Ugh, that stinks. Thanks for answering my question. --EndlessDan 13:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete

Would you mind deleting this redirect and this one. Also would you mind merging the histories of User:The Random Editor and User:The Random Editor/Source/Userpage, and deleting the redirect that will be created at User:The Random Editor/Source/Userpage. --Т.hε R.αnδom E.διτor 22:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting the redirects. Don't worry about doing the other part. However, would you mind deleting User:The Random Editor/Source. --Т.hε R.αnδom E.διτor 02:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

RfA

I would like to accept your nomination for adminship. Would you be willing to move the nomination to the discussion page once I've answered the questions? I'll probably get to it later tonight or tomorrow (I have an accounting study group to go to). Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. --Nehrams2020 22:12, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I've accepted the nomination and have answered the questions on the nomination page. --Nehrams2020 22:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

A little rain for your parade...

In the future, before you take it upon yourself to assume that an image is in violation of Wiki policy and then hastily delete it (wasting everyone's time in the process), I strongly suggest that you have the courtesy to at least post a warning on the site regarding the image first, giving the poster of the image time to post a copyright, or failing that, at least a rationale. In the case of Ugly American (magazine), your deletion of the image was ludicrously ill-conceived considering the fact that the image is of one of the magazine's covers, and not a "photograph" taken by anyone, and as such - to the best of my knowledge - falls unequivocally within the category of "fair use" (not to mention the fact that the image was posted by an ex-editor of the micro-zine, who - as much as these things can be determined with a collective zine that was almost never actually copyrighted - can be considered one of the "copyright holders"). The fact that you are seemingly free to vandalize articles at will and without warning is ridiculous, and the shoddiness and thoughtlessness of your actions should be condemned and not supported by the Wiki administrators. I suspect that your "road to good intentions" has unnecessarily caused quite a bit of trouble, and you might consider cleaning up your own act first, before your knee-jerk actions (and de facto vandalism) get you tossed from the site. J. Marlowe 02:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Deletion of image from UA (magazine), ad nauseam...

At the risk of beating a deader-than-dead horse, I'd like to offer a few comments regarding your decision to delete the "fair-use" image from the UA (magazine) article. In the greater scheme of Wiki, the UA (magazine) article is an insignificant speck, and judging from your history, your deletion of unauthorized images by the boatload is a regular occurrence. That being said, you happen to be the only administrator that I've ever had a problem with, and I feel that this situation touches upon a number of larger issues that may be of interest to other contributors who've experienced the same frustrations. Since you've been gracious enough to share your knowledge of Wiki with me, allow me to be bold enough to offer you a few suggestions in return. Backtracking a bit, I have to say that I'm still rather surprised by your deletion of the sole image within the article, for a couple of reasons: 1) The image in question was of a magazine cover (with the title of the magazine clearly written on the cover), and was used only once - quite judiciously - solely to illustrate the fact that the zine did, in actuality, exist. No other administrator has ever questioned the patently fair usage of the image. Now, I understand that any contributor posting an image is required to provide either a notice of copyright or an explicit fair-use rationale. The article, like every other article in Wiki, has, during the past year or so, been "tagged" with various clean-up notices by the administrators, and all of their concerns have been promptly addressed, which leads me to my next point: 2) Despite your claim that the poster of the image was "notified" and given "at least a week's" warning, I have been unable to corroborate this claim, and furthermore the image was never "tagged" in the article as being unauthorized and in danger of deletion. Given both that the image was posted over a year ago by an individual who seldom contributes, and remained uncommented upon by the administrators for over a year, notifying the poster - if this was even done - can be considered at best a "warning" done in bad faith, satisfying perhaps the letter of the Wiki law, but certainly not its spirit. The deletion of the difficult-to-obtain image, far from advancing your goal of "perfecting" Wiki, has led to a poorer article (and a huge hassle), which could have been avoided had you taken even two minutes to simply post a tag on the article where every contributor could see it, and given the contributors, who have lives outside of Wiki, a bit longer than one week to address the issue, instead of unilaterally deciding in your zeal that the contributors have refused to comply with your wishes and that the image must be deleted. All of this leads me to the larger issue of your modus operandi. The "Wizardman/FAQ" page stongly implies the arrogant assumption that most, if not all, of the contributors' complaints are superfluous and beneath contempt, and any challenge to your actions receives only a brusque and often redundant recitation of various Wiki rules and regulations. I understand your desire to make Wiki better and more authoritative, and I'm fully aware of the fact that there exist many articles in need of outside assistance, but if Wiki is to truly succeed, the administrators must allow the contributors to feel free to liberally contribute without fear of provoking the ire of said adminstrators, or without fear of one day finding an article gutted or deleted by an administrator without warning. My overall point is that your hard-and-fast judgements, bolstered by your bureaucratic adherence to the rules of Wiki (and perhaps whatever degree of power or status you possess), might need to be tempered a bit to allow more give-and-take between the contributors and the administrators. I offer this suggestion hoping that other contributors don't experience the same frustrations that I've had, that efforts to "improve" Wiki don't have the opposite of their intended effect, and, most importantly, that the experience of contributing to Wiki remains positive. Thank you, goodnight. J. Marlowe 22:01, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Edokter

I just nominated Edokter for RFA. I can't get the edit count on the talk page to look the way it does on others. What did I do wrong? This is my first RFA nom. Rlevse 23:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I added the br's in myself when I tried to fix it. So the thing to do is run the report, copy the results, and drop it on the talk page with pre tags. Now we know.Rlevse 23:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

My Wiz!

It's always wonderful to have you visiting me, my dear Wizard! :) I trust everything's okay, and that life's treating you with all the goodness you deserve, my friend. While I'm visiting you now, I've noticed the new section you created for your many, well-deserved awards; and I couldn't help but to think I could help you with a design for that brand new part of your userpage. You may want to see, for example, the way I arranged the awards section for Dihydrogen Monoxide and Into The Fray, and consider if you'd like your to look like any of them. Should I have a go on yours? :) Love, Phaedriel - 02:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


RfA thanks

Thank you very much for your support at my RfA. Regards, Jogers (talk) 09:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:admin

Wow, that's really nice of you! I would be honored if you nominated me for adminship. I don't know if I'd do very well, but one has to try. I've been here for nearly a year and a half, have made over 5,800 edits, and I'd be up to the job if approved. Thanks a lot! Reywas92Talk 18:27, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I've been really busy in real life and havn't been able to answer the questions yet. I want a nice block of time to respond thoroughly, but i haven't had time yet. I hope to accept soon. Thanks for watching out for me. Reywas92Talk 21:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

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Dreadstar RfA

Thanks for your support! I took the easy way out of thanking everyone by stealing borrowing someone else's card design...but know that I sincerely appreciate your support and confidence in me and my nominators...who are some of the greatest editors on the 'pedia, and I'm thrilled to have had them nominate me..! Your vote means a lot, I've seen your good work! And I love your username...!  ;) Dreadstar 09:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

  On September 19, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sam Zoldak, 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.

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RFA Thanks!

Thanks for your participation for my RFA bid and for your support.--JForget 23:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:Images

so sir what I do, i want to upload these photos because my articles want these pictures. i have collected these picture my self but I don't know about Licensing. please sir can you help me for that.

thankx

Mangrio

  • i got these all picture from the website of Sindhi Adabi Board website is www.sindhiab.com and other one in www.mangrio.sanm.com
  • Thank You sir now iam going to follow your way of five rules. now i don't put these on my user page. i put those only for collecting all Sindhi scholars at one place that why I did that. now i will not do it. sir thanks for helping me.
  • Sir still i am in trouble. iam not understanding can you upload any image from your side, but add tags and source that you want tell me for my images. then i will see that image and then I start uploading please sir....



some are still alive but many had died.

--Mangrio 16:19, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

here are links

Allama_I._I._Kazi

Elsa Kazi

Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo

Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi

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Mangrio

—Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 15:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Nehrams2020 RfA Thanks

I want to thank you for nominating me and showing your support for my RfA. My next task is to learn all of the cool new tools and further immerse myself into Wikipedia! If I make any errors, please be quick to point them out, so I can prevent them from occurring again. I hope you continue to nominate other editors and keep the admin process moving along. Your work is very appreciated, so keep it up and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 06:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

JzG thread on AN/I

You closed it right after two other editors asked for a block on an editor making a number of troll/attack statements. I'd appreciate a self-revert until the question of a block is settled; closing the thread like that doesn't defuse the situation, and it needs resolution. Thank you. ThuranX 02:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Very grateful. I infer from your statement you concur with the need for a block. If you're an admin, can you handle it, or would that be a COI, since you're opening it back up for consideration? ThuranX 02:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good, I'll follow up there. ThuranX 02:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for your compliments about the Baldwin-Wallace college pictures. I was pleased with them as well. :-) IronGargoyle 00:48, 30 September 2007 (UTC)