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Gary Kirk's RfA

Ultimate Wikdown of Pedia Destiny

Congrats!

Congrats Daniel.Bryant. You have been a participant in The Ultimate Wikdown of Pedia Destiny, as Theodore Logan.

DarknessLord | T | C 00:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Wha...? Daniel.Bryant 14:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your signature

How do you do? Nice user page you have here. I've been brought here by your signature in the talk page at Esperanza. Your signature uses font, which is an ilegal attribute in XHTML, which is what Wp uses for markup. This is a problem, but I don't have the time or energy to try to talk everyone into not using font. Yet, I think that if I explain you the issue and you consider changing "your ways", then maybe we both can convince other people.

I propose you the following alternative code that you may use if you like:

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Daniel</span>

Hope that helps. If you are curious, you should check the W3C site for best pratices, as well as many articles at A List Apart. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your time.--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant ^{talk / contribs} 12:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Responded on User talk:Saoshyant. Daniel.Bryant 09:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Non-Notability

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Non-Notability. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Non-Notability/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Non-Notability/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, -- Drini 22:53, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Culverin

Just a wee note for when you return, the above wants your attention per User talk:Culverin#Answer me daniel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I've advised you're away till the 20th. Thanks mate, all well here BTW :) Glen 09:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Glen, thanks for the note - I responded on your talk page. Feel free to make the decision as you see fit, however I gave my opinion on your talk. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 14:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Done He's unblocked. Good to have you back bud, how was your trip?! Glen 06:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not back - I'm using the internet in a cafe. I have got to go in about 10mins, cos my credit is running out and I don't want to buy more (I'm leaving tomorrow, and won't spend the 500 Baht credit I would have if I bought some). Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 06:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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Portal:Iceland

Hi Daniel. I recalled that you can speak Icelandic so I thought that you might be interested in Iceland and thus interested in Portal:Iceland, which I've just created. Feel free to add any contributions to it as you wish. Best regards.--Húsönd 00:28, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Been making some minor changes. Anything you need, just ask :) Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 10:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: You guessed it - Signature

Hey there,

Thanks for changing your signature and avoiding the use of font. I'm creating a small project in my userpage that will work as a campaign of sorts to tell others of the issues of an invalid Wikipedia by the use of bad/broken HTML.

Regarding your use of sans-serif, I'm afraid you do not understand that that isn't a type face, but it rather tells your browser to display the default sans-serif font of your operating system (Arial in Windows, DejaVu Sans on Linux). Sans serif refers to letters that aren't "seriffed". Wikipedia already tells the browser to use sans-serif fonts by default (if you can read CSS, you can see for yourself), so while it doesn't hurt to leave the font-family, it's kinda redundant. However, if you were to choose a specific font, like Tahoma, the use of font-family would make sense. Anyway, just trying to share some of my knowledge on this issue, even though you might already know all of it as well.

Oh, and I have a request if you don't mind. I see that you nominate pages for the DYK. Could you try putting Vorbis in there? Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant ^{talk / contribs}

OK, thanks - I understand now :). Regarding DYK, only articles which are less than 5 days old, or have been expanded greatly (ie. from a stub to a healthy-sized article) in the last 5 days can be accepted, so nominating them would be fruitless. However, if you find a new article, or write one yourself, feel free to ask me, and I'll make one up for you :D. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 11:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the answer. The Vorbis is of healthy size and around two years old, so I assume it can be a candidate for DYK. Can you help, then?--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant ^{talk / contribs} 09:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, sorry, it's too old. T:TDYK has the rules for inclusion on DYK. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 09:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA

You don't need to wait. You are more than ready, but it is, after all, your choice. Dfrg.msc ^{1 . 2 . 3} 13:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I have declined. I am not 100% sure that I'm ready. An admin moved the nom here, and deleted the page for the future. Feel free to nom (or co-nom) me when I am ready, however I'm not at the moment. The link explains in more depth. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 11:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Do i hear admin bells? Culverin? ^Talk 12:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, not quite yet. Daniel.Bryant 12:30, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

You need not apologize, it is, after all, your choice. If you feel are not ready, then it would be wisest for you to wait. When you are ready thought, know that you have my support. Dfrg.msc ^{1 . 2 . 3} 00:13, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for that. I was wonduring where it went. Culverin? ^Talk 12:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

No problems. I forgot to add it :). Daniel.Bryant 12:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Ummm.......

I did??? Hours ago I thought! Glen 12:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, not where it was originally created with the User: suffix. Daniel.Bryant 12:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Daniel.Bryant/Wikiproject AFL Umpires

For some reason that page is appearing in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:46, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

No idea why it's happening, but I wanted the page to be deleted anyways. Cheers, 14:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

All gone now. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Cheers! Daniel.Bryant 14:03, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you kind Sir

For the barnstar :) Glen 14:59, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Ha :). Daniel.Bryant 03:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Abusive material

Hi, I am always getting abusive material on my user page. Hkelkar always vandalises my user page saying that i am a sockpuppet or have sockpuppet. I use my university computers to edit wiki. Mujeerkhan 16:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Why does this concern me? Daniel.Bryant 08:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

RFCU Cretanpride

I've added the letter F, community ban evasion. Do I have to add something else? There's the block log to prove that Cretanpride is permanently banned.--Aldux 11:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Responded on User talk:Aldux. Daniel.Bryant 11:31, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually this permanent ban wasn't estabilished by the ArbCom; it was comminated for the reasons explained on User:Cretanpride, with the relevant link to the WP:AN/I [1].--Aldux 11:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Responded on User talk:Aldux. Daniel.Bryant 11:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Daniel, the finalists have finally been chosen. You can go ahead and spam the contestants and judges as I told you before. Cheers! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 10:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

My, that was prompt ;) BTW, I've decided to add the spammer guidelines to the main page again. It states there clearly to "let the spammer do their job". I don't think non-spammer people will try to interfere. As for the parameters, I think I'll explain it thoroughly. Tell me if you feel there's any other problem. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 10:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, that's OK. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 10:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza User Page Award

Greetings, Daniel.Bryant. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to MacGyverMagic for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. Daniel.Bryant 10:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Hamedog RfA

Hey Daniel, you wrote that you were neutral pending HD's responses to questions. He's filled 'em in now (poor thing, there's about 20 of them), so you might want to update your vote? Take care, riana_dzasta 04:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Daniel.Bryant 10:14, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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UnBlock

Thanks that must have been cut off when I copy pasted it. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 11:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

No problems. Daniel.Bryant 11:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Hkelkar

I have replied on his talk page. Thanks for informing me. - Aksi_great (talk) 07:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

No problems. I think I know where this one is heading... Daniel.Bryant 07:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Stub cat. you created is up for deletion

The stub category Wheel of Time stubs is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion from Oct. 24. If you don't want it to be deeted, please explain there why not. Eli Falk 10:44, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Responded, and I guess it might as well be speedied. Daniel.Bryant 10:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Nice user page...

Maybe the best layout I've seen...thanks for your prompt revert on Joseph Byrd, but I'd add I also think it's important to have the user in question admonished for their actions, in order to do something to make them cease and desist from something that's affected, from the look of their user log, many other people. My guess is this is a teen that simply gets off, for whatever bizarre reason, on doing what they do, and it truly is annoying. Again, my thanks. Tvccs 13:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Pending Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mattisse. Daniel.Bryant 11:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

User:StalinsLoveChild

Greetings! I'm not sure if you've seen it, but there was a discussion here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:StalinsLoveChild. I'm not entirely sure if it's kosher for the blocking admin (me) to decline the unblock; I was hoping someone else was watching and would do it. SLC is clearly a trolling account. Most of the mainspace edits are minor grammatical tweaks which change nothing, null edits (adding or removing a space), or vandalism/trolling ([2], or especially [3] -- make sure you read all the way to the bottom). After establishing a mainspace presence, he proceeds to troll, and every single user talk edit is a nasty one indeed. After Hawker's apology -- he hadn't really done anything so bad -- SLC began the harassment campaign, targeting Hawker's own picture. Look at his last edit [4] -- this is harassment, and has no value towards our goal, which is building an encyclopedia.

When we face users like this, we need to ask two questions: 1) is this person here to help us build an encyclopedia? 2) if not, is this person actively interfering with those of us who are? When the answers are no and yes, respectively, I helieve it is our duty as administrators to show these people the door, with as little drama as possible.

I will post this message, or one closely related, to AN/I. Thanks! Antandrus (talk) 14:50, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't see that discussion. It doesn't matter - WP:USERNAME showed up to be the be-all and end-all of this whole mini-saga. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 10:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Your reviewing unblock requests and IRC

Hi Daniel! Sorry that I missed you on IRC. I'm sure that I'll catch up with you soon, though! Cheers hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 15:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Missed you again... Daniel.Bryant 11:20, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

RFCU

Hello Daniel. Thank you for your suggestion. I was thinking of creating a report at Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets instead, because I doubt another checkuser will turn out anything more fruitful than the last one. I will be compiling a thorough list of similarities either tonight or tomorrow night. What is your opinion? BhaiSaab ^talk 11:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

That's probably the best idea, yes - as you can see from Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Hkelkar and Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Subhash bose, technical evidence is plagued by the fact he edits from a shared IP. Because WP:SSP is more style-based, this would probably be best suited. An excellent judgement by you for suggesting this, however one word of advice - complile your evidence at once, and submit, rather than staggering it, and adding diffs here-and-there - that will only feed him. I also recommend you compile it in a user subpage, ie. User:BhaiSaab/SSP or similar, as this will make it easier to do what I mentioned before. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 11:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I have not yet compiled a list in my own userspace because I don't want it to be mistaken as an attack on another user and then the page will be put up for deletion by someone else. I will probably compile the list offline. If I say so myself, I have a knack for detecting sockpuppetry (this case which was successful). I will be following a similar format for the case regarding Hkelkar. BhaiSaab ^talk 11:44, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, that would be better yet still! Don't forget to save often! Daniel.Bryant 11:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I will email you a draft so you can evaluate it. BhaiSaab ^talk 02:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

No thanks - I'm staying out of this one, for now. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 14:30, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Why did you remove your statement? Can't you leave your statement posted and then say you want to remain uninvolved? I found it insightful. BhaiSaab ^talk 21:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, sorry - zero involvement means exactly that. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 10:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Administrator?

Hello Daniel, I have seen your contributions everywere and I think that you should run for administratorship. Even though your first try was unsuccessfull I still think that over time your mistake was and should be forgotten. I would be very upset if all wikipedians were judged on their mistakes, I for example was blocked for using a sockpuppet I fought the block after 2 unblock requests and now I have 8 awards and have over 1000 edits. If you run I would support you and I think others will too, you have shown maturity and I would trust you with the extra buttons, have a nice day--Seadog^Talk 12:43, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree. BhaiSaab ^talk 02:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

No thanks. I'm still in consultation with other admins regarding a number of advanced topics related to administration, and I want to wait for these to finish before being nominated. Hopefully, I should be strutting my stuff on the catwalk in about 5-6 weeks. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 09:42, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Achaia Football Clubs

I saw your comments in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Achaia Football Clubs Association and I want to tell you that I strongly agree with you. The guys there told me that I am anti-Greek and it only has no interest by me. How ever what I see all the foreigns who came supported its deletion. However, after they saw that they had no support, they coaliated and together agreed to find more Greeks to save the article, eventhough the non-Greeks do not want it (see contributions of FocalPoint, user:Tony esopi patra and more specifically of Georgeg). I would like from you if you could help and bring more people to vote DELETE because in wikipedia there will be an article eventhough is unimportant because some Greeks feel so patriotic to have stupid information in wikipedia (not a coincidence that they called me Anti-Greek). KRBN 16:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Frankly, sorry, but I'm not going to do what I berated them for doing - "I would like from you if you could help and bring more people to vote DELETE because in wikipedia" - and it is unethical, as well as against Wikipedia's meatpuppet policy, as well as a deliberate attempt to circumvent concensus, which is a blockable offence for disruption. Daniel.Bryant 22:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

More of Greek Wikipedia

You might want to look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PAEEK. There may be a possible meatpuppet incident like the discussion about the Achaia Football Clubs Association. Most of the same peoople are involved in both discussions, especially Greek Wikipedia users who have recently made a number of edits, after "voting" on the Afds. T REX_speak 00:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but considering the rabble I faced when I merely suggested it on the AFCA deletion page, I'm retiring from anything to do with these guys... Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 09:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:UW Help

Hi Daniel,

You recently said you maybe willing to help with the user message and template harmonistion program. We will be starting the actual changes, we hope within the next week. But prior to that, what we would like from yourself is instead of an evening of vandal fighting or patrolling recent changes, you monitor the RC page for those actually doing the reverts and leaving user page messages. We would like to make as many people aware of the fact that the templates they use are going to change. If you could seek out the RCP's and Cut n Paste the following message to their talk page that would be appreciated, or reworded as you see fit. Thanks for your time. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 09:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

==Upcoming template changes==

Hi, I've just noticed that you recently left a templated userpage message. I'm just bringing to your attention that the format and context of these templates will be shortly changing. It is recommended that you visit [[WP:UW|WikiProject user warnings]] and harmonisation discussion [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_user_warnings/templates|pages]] to find out how these changes could affect the templates you use. We also would appreciate any insights or thoughts you may have on the subject. Thanks for your understanding. Best regards ~~~~

Responded on User talk:Khukri. Daniel.Bryant 09:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)