User talk:Giggy/Archive/October 2008

re:Kurt and RFA

Fair enough. I just don't like the stigma that seems to be attached to self-noms; however, I shouldn't be taking potshots at those who can't defend themselves (you're right.)

If you'd strong-opposed a lolcat I'd have been much less agreeable, however; lolcats, regardless of what's all said about them, are teh awesum. :) Gladys J Cortez 03:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. I'm always right. You're learning. :-)

Lolcats are epic. Check out my userpage some time. :P Giggy (talk) 03:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay, the userpg kitties made me go "awwwwwwww." :) I'm a sucker for tha kittz. (If you have, incidentally, the slightest notion of to what Syn is referring re: my "mistakes"--clue me in? since apparently he/she isn't planning to elaborate.) Thanks for the support, anyhoo. Gladys J Cortez 09:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

If you don't know, what chance do I have!? Giggy (talk) 11:44, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Melbourne Airport FAC

Hi Giggy. Thanks for your suggestions in the Melbourne Airport FAC. I've responded to all of your concerns (and hopefully fixed them!) and would appreciate if you could see how the article fairs now. Mvjs (talk) 00:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Looking pretty good there. I'm going to take a few more passes over it and hopefully support today/tomorrow. Giggy (talk) 01:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. Looking forward to it. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. Mvjs (talk) 01:42, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge FAC

Yo Giggy. I have addressed your concerns at the FAC. Could you take a look again at the article? Thank you. Jappalang (talk) 08:54, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Will do! Giggy (talk) 11:44, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (September 2008)

• Newsletter delivery by xenobot 12:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Flocke at FAC

Hi, Giggy, thanks again for your helpful comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Flocke. As you suggested, I've attempted to fix the awkward phrasing in the lead here. If you have the time, could you perhaps give it a quick look to see if it's improved? Any and all suggestions are welcome, of course. Thanks! María (habla conmigo) 17:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiMeetup - Brisbane 2

I am wondering as to whether the second Brisbane meetup took place, if not shouldn't the date and event be re-scheduled as it has gone. If it did, should a third meetup should be planned. Thanks. Hpfan9374 (talk) 02:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

If I recall, it ended up not happening. We failed. Another one sounds like a good idea, though school holidays are almost over now...(damn!) Giggy (talk) 07:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for September 2008

The Alternative music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 18 - September 2008

"And suddenly the plane dropped to the right, then to the left, and the ground was right there. And all I could think was, Fuck, I didn’t finish "Fix You." That would have been my last thought: I didn’t get that chorus right."- Chris Martin Project news Disintegration reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to NSR77 and WesleyDodds. List of Björk awards, List of Rage Against the Machine awards, and List of awards and nominations received by Muse reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Gary King, who wrote all three featured lists. David Lovering was featured on the Main Page on September 17. We collaborated on Parklife, Tragic Kingdom, Bauhaus (band), and OK Computer during the past month. During the month of September, The White Stripes, "Yellow" (song), No Depression (album), "Speed of Sound" (song), "The Scientist" (song), "God Put a Smile upon Your Face", "In My Place", Demolition Plot J-7, No Age, and "All the Way" (Eddie Vedder song) were promoted to good article status. Help us select good versions of WP:ALM articles for inclusion on the Wikipedia 0.7 release! Find out more about Wikipedia 0.7 selection on the project talk page and add your thoughts to the discussion. If you are personally responsible for a Featured or Good Article listed here, please the select a version to include in Wikipedia 0.7 on that page if you haven't already. Page versions must be selected by October 20. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home (2006).

New members ThinkBlue joined the alternative music fold during September. Editors User:WesleyDodds

SoxBot II (talk) 20:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

The Stolen Earth on TFA

Hi, Giggy. I considered putting The Stolen Earth up for Nov. 23, but I think it gets fewer points than Doctor Who missing episodes does. The Quatermass Experiment was on TFA on July 18, which is about 4 months prior to the planned Nov. 23 date. So I think The Stolen Earth gets only 2 points, 1 for the anniversary and 1 for >3 months since similar article. And if Raul chooses any TV-related articles between now and October 23 (there was some talk about Degrassi: The Next Generation going up tomorrow) then The Stolen Earth would get only 1 point. By my calculations, Doctor Who missing episodes gets 4 points: 2 for age since promotion, 1 for the anniversary and 1 for >3 months since similar article. If there's another TV article between now and October 23, Doctor Who missing episodes would get 3 points, which is still good enough to hold a slot on the requests page. (If Raul decides, say, to put Treehouse of Horror up on October 25th, then the Doctor Who article scores would go down to 0 and 2, respectively — but that article has only one point at the moment, so there's only a small chance of that happening.)

Anyway, my point is that I think that if we want a Doctor Who article on TFA for the anniversary, our best bet is the missing episodes article. (And we've got 5 years to get An Unearthly Child in shape for the 50th anniversary in 2012!) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I think I know who made the "request" you mention in the edit summary — I made these same points to him via email.

Hi Josiah. In all honesty, you're more likely to get a meaningful response from the guy you emailed. I just did this because he had been very much hopeful of getting that date. Taking another look it seems you have a good chance with the missing episodes article, so good luck with that. Giggy (talk) 04:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

(In other words, feel free to do whatever with what I added to that page. Giggy (talk) 04:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC))

Fair enough. I'll drop him a line, I guess. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:50, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

GA elimination drive

Hi there. Is there any chance you could advertise a GAN backlog elimination drive to active GA reviewers as per G-Guy's suggestion at WT:GAN? Peanut4 (talk) 21:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

FA help thanks

Thank you so much for your help! Sandy just bumped The Greencards to FA status. :) rootology (C)(T) 00:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Awesome :-) Giggy (talk) 04:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Quentin Bryce image

Re: Yeah, I definitely made it clear that it should be GFDL-licensed. If I succeed, I'll post the whole e-mail transcript. — Jeremy 07:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:RfA

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:RfA&curid=2681176&diff=243174906&oldid=235513839.
I support your change. Thanks for mustering a little boldness and implementing it. We shall see how it pan out.

Anthøny ✉ 13:46, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I like it too. ;-) Giggy (talk) 13:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:RfA&curid=2681176&diff=243190308&oldid=243174906.
Evidently, such novel schemes are doomed to fail. Ach well.

Anthøny ✉ 15:06, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

*sigh* The day we need to get a consensus before making an edit is the day WP discussion fail more than they already do. I'll go back to writing articles. Giggy (talk) 07:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Fair use images

Haha, thankyou :) Black Kite 13:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Mark Speight

Hi, would you mind giving the article a thorough look over? Jbmurray has strongly opposed it at FAC, and won't tell me what the issues are so that I can fix them. Would you mind going through, as someone who hasn't edited it nearly as much, but has lots of FA experience? Thanks a lot. -- how do you turn this on 14:19, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I was just doing that now. Giggy (talk) 14:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Huggle

Bug, I'd imagine. Admins are keeping an eye on him anyway--looks like gwp. (Also, the talk page redirects for a reason.. please use the redirect next time; I'm not as likely to pay attention otherwise). Prince of Canada ^{t | c} 08:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about hitting the wrong page. Giggy (talk) 08:30, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem.. I only created the account so I'd have a lot less random cruft in my contribs--makes it hard to find things! Prince of Canada ^{t | c} 08:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day... aww, crap! That means I'm done for the day! ;) It's gwp's pattern, not sure if it's new; 10 innocuous edits, wait a while, then bam! a brazilian pagemoves. I also wonder whether doing that whitelists him in Huggle, actually. Prince of Canada ^{t | c} 11:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

From memory, Huggle only auto-whitelists users with +500 or so edits. Should be fine. --Closedmouth (talk) 11:18, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Ahh.. good to know! Thank you. Prince of Canada ^{t | c} 11:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

RE: Yay :)

Thanks, it's good to be back. I started working on OK Computer after WesleyDodds nominated it for CotW, and because he has the Exit Music book until the 10th I suggested that we work really hard on all the OKC articles and try to make a Featured Topic of it. "Paranoid Android" seemed like a good place to start as far as the singles went. I may have been more pleasantly surprised to see you working on it than you were me, in fact :). --Brandt Luke Zorn (talk) 13:48, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:TFA

I see Midtown Madness is the WP:TFA. I am not sure why some of the minor details have been removed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm not sure what your point is? I can't monitor the article 24/7, but have taken a look at it now that I'm online. Giggy (talk) 07:23, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Re-evaluation for FAC

Can I get you to re-evaluate the FAC for Crush? I think the points you raised have been addressed. Thanks. --MASEM 18:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Email

You have one. Nousernamesleft (talk) 00:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

No Jacket Required

Hello there! I've never really nominated an article for Peer Review before, so bear with me. I have just recently nominated the article, No Jacket Required for Peer Review. I was a major force in turning it into the bare bones article it once was, to the Good Article that it is at the time of this message. I would love to improve it and make it a Featured Article, but I stink at these kinds of things, and usually go in a totally wrong direction! I looked at the Peer Review volunteer's page, and thought that you'd be a great person to look the article over, and see if any improvements are necessary. The link to the peer review is here. I would appreciate any sort of input, but if you are too busy, I certainly understand. Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you at the peer review! CarpetCrawler (talk) 01:23, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Mark Speight

Hi, you commented on the (failed) FAC; please can you help me out by leaving some feedback at peer review? Thanks, and best wishes, -- how do you turn this on 12:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey Giggy, I know this occurred a while ago but I only just noticed the comment you left me here. It was very kind of you to offer and also very rude of me not to acknowledge it. My apologies ——Possum (talk) 22:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem. :) Giggy (talk) 23:11, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Giggy! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:15, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

were are archives?

My i please ask were are your userpage's archives? As it is becomeing very confuseing finding your talk pages as at first i had to find your archives to get to your talk pages and then you seemingly deleted them, this is becomeing very confuseing, so can you please help me? Thankyou, mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool (talk) 16:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Why did you need the archives? –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 16:05, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

When you click any link that takes you to the edit screen for this page, you'll see a message pointing to the archives: User talk:Giggy/Archive. Giggy (talk) 06:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyedit request

You probably saw this at Jb's talk, but could you look over Nevado del Ruiz for me if its possible? Cheers. — ceranthor ^(strike) 23:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll try to; depends on time and energy. Giggy (talk) 06:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

alright, any help is appreciated. — ceranthor ^(strike) 13:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Storm Hanna (2002)

Hey Giggy; as a considerable amount of copyediting has gone into Tropical Storm Hanna (2002) since you commented on the FAC, could you take another look at it? Cheers. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:55, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Still a few issues up at the FAC, I'll hopefully be able to support soon though. Giggy (talk) 10:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Remember me, Giggy?

Well, I'm back. Just thought I'd check in. So here it is!

I see you're back to Giggy, again. Nice move.

Justin^(Gmail?)_(u) 15:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Giggy. Yeah, school's going along very nicely, so I decided there was no reason to continue lurking in the shadows, pushing my sockpuppets through RfA (JK, wouldn't that have been awkward). Hope you do well too. Justin^(Gmail?)_(u) 15:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

personal attacks by user logical premise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logical_Premise/editorluv
Thought you might want to know about these personal attacks.
Messengerbot (talk) 21:11, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Logical Premise/editorluv. Thanks. -- how do you turn this on 21:23, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

FACR

Giggy, you posted at one or more of the recent discussions of short FAs. There's now a proposal to change the featured article criteria that attempts to address this. Please take a look and consider adding your comments to the straw poll there. Mike Christie (talk) 23:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Nevado del ruiz FAC...

that would be here... ;). I'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks. —Ceran (Strike!) 00:40, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Seems to have been withdrawn. Giggy (talk) 01:35, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

My eyes, zee templates do nothing!!!

I'm not sure if you've taken a look back at the whole genre field debate/discussion/free-for-all, but I think I've come up with some guidelines for editors to follow if the infobox field is restored. Also, I'm thinking it might be time to write one of those self-important Wiki essays, on the subject of how to write a good music-related article. Thoughts? WesleyDodds (talk) 05:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

PR

I hope you don't think I'm ignoring your comments on the No Jacket Required Peer Review page, because I'll get to your concerns when I get my laptop fixed. Thank you very much for taking a look at the article! :) CarpetCrawler (talk) 14:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Any chance you could do a GA review of this article for me? I'd much appreciate it. I'm hoping to construct a series of articles and bring them to GA status, and afterwards make a Good Topic of them. This article is one of those on my list. Thanks in advance, Jordan ^Contribs 14:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not particularly active at GAN reviewing at the moment. Giggy (talk) 23:28, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Joking Apart

Hi Giggy, Thanks for your constructive comments. Like other reviewers this time, I appreciate the time you have taken to specify the problems, and, in some cases, offer alternatives. I think I've addressed your concerns (other that the "unfortunate" point). The JPS^{talk to me} 18:35, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

PNC Park FAC

I've either fixed or commented on your comments about the Featured article candidate of PNC Park. If there is anything else that you feel needs attention please let me know and I'll get right on it. Thank you! Blackngold29 03:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, nevermind I guess. The article just got promoted, but if there's anything else, please go ahead and fix it or let me know. Thanks. Blackngold29 03:46, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

O hai

Good to see you are able to support. I was beginning to question whether or not it was still possible. لennavecia 03:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Well that's good to know. Giggy (talk) 03:57, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA questions

jc37; I think I understand the reasoning behind your adding these questions; not to get people to repeat policy, but to see how they interpret it, etc. Q7, especially, can have interesting results. And while this might be a noble cause (I certainly won't say it isn't one!) my main qualms with the questions you ask are 1) I'm strongly in favour of a diffs-required policy on questions; that is, if you want to ask a question, you must include a diff to an edit made by the candidate. Obviously, the question must be related in some way to that diff, eg "based on your actions here, explain BLP in your own words", or "would you have blocked based on this AIV report you made". 2) They are still easily game-able. We're (generally) intelligent people around here; sure, someone's not gonna rewrite the policy when it's clear you don't want them too, but they can easily rewrite someone else's answer and show absolutely know original thought. And that's the problem. Hopefully this helps answer your question. (I don't watchlist this page so please poke my talk page if you'd like me to reply to anything you say here.) Giggy (talk) 07:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments.

I've personally seen rather fascinating answers to all of the questions. 5, 6, and 7 (and even 4d), in particular. Essay questions (which is somewhat what these are), require a person to try to put more than a couple words together in a sentence. And even that can provide information.

As for your 2 concerns, while I can accept your concerns on both points, I think I disagree slightly.

First, the questions are intended to be designed to be so basic that most existing admins should be able to answer them. (I wrote them in response to a slew of trivial, and meandering, and trick questions I had seen.) That said, I think questions regarding specific diffs are useful too. But it's been rather amazing how many candidates understood even some of the basics of the tools/responsibilities.

And as for #2, gaming the questions requires some work (and a leraning curve) of some kind. (And honestly, we're likely not going to catch an individual determined to game the system.)

I'm not necessarily looking for original thought, either.

And finally, thank you. Even though you didn't exactly answer what I was asking, you did somewhat. - jc37 07:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... if not original thought, what are you looking for? Obviously not a reciting of the policy (or do I misunderstand?), so something else? I am somewhat curious as to your motive (which, when I read this over, sounds like I'm suspicious of something. I'm not.) for asking these questions. Giggy (talk) 07:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps I should backtrack that statement, as it occurs to me that "original thought" is broader than the context I was thinking of when I made that response.

I have lots of reasons (some of which appeared after I started asking the questions. The questions sort of re-affirmed themselves "in the field", as it were).

But I hesitate to list, mostly due to your #2 : )

To try to put it somewhat succinctly, I read responses for content at several levels, which I compare/contrast to "other stuff". (Their contribution history, for example.)

My main goal for asking recently for feedback at WT:RFA was because I'm always looking for ways to make them more concise and clear, while still being as "all-inclusively universal" as possible. (Hard to explain, I suppose.)

Does that help clarify? - jc37 07:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

It does help clarify, yeah. I see what you're getting at (without giving too much away, obviously). Yours definitely aren't the worst RfA questions and they do provide some useful insights. So thanks for that. I dunno if they can be made more concise by their nature, and last time I looked at them critically they seemed pretty clear. I think it's more a matter of explaining to, well, the people you saw at WT:RFA that they aren't zomg evil copypastah stock questions. I dislike those as much as the next man, but I dislike over the top assumption-based reactions to totally different things more — and that's exactly what you were treated to. Sorry about that. Giggy (talk) 07:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Well thanks for the sympathy. It's appreciated : )

And at the risk of being accused of canvassing (though I suppose with it being on CENT, that shouldn't be a concern), you should see two of my recent proposals (At the VP) to help others. One on rollback (posted to VPP by mistake), and the other at proposals (which is currently ongoing).

And if I add to that the bad faith vitriol I (and others) have at or related to CfD. (I've been receiving in trying to help with the cleanup of fictional character-related categories.)

And these are just a "few" examples.

Well anyway, let's just say it's been a "fun" time of it : ) - jc37 08:04, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. Saw the block/admin one, didn't see antyhing about rollback? Reading and thinking. Giggy (talk) 08:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

It's been archived.

Essentially it was to provide a single checkbox option line in preferences to allow those with rollback to be able choose to prompt for an edit summary if they wished.

Anyway, at the moment, I'm more in a "we'll see" mode.

I think that these are great ideas, but it's like pulling teeth sometimes to help others see a "thinking-outside-of-the-box" proposal.

But then, it's typically difficult to deal with personal entrenchment, and default opposition to change. Shrugs. - jc37 08:22, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Edit notice on your talk page, and requesting a copy edit and/or peer review

How'd you get an edit notice to appear on your user talk page when MediaWiki:Editnotice-3-Giggy remains empty? Also, if you have time could you copyedit Half-Life 2: Episode One and/or peer review it at Wikipedia:Peer review/Half-Life 2: Episode One/archive1? I've been working on the article on and off for six months and so I'd finally like to bring it to FAC. Thanks in advance! Gary King (talk) 16:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Giggy/Editnotice. Comments will come as I have time and inspiration. Giggy (talk) 20:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Rfa Spam

Thank you so much for your support on my RFA, which today passed unanimously. I will do my best to make sure that I don't let any of you down. If you ever need any help with anything, feel free to ask me, i'll be happy to. Thanks again--Jac16888 (talk) 17:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, good luck. Giggy (talk) 20:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

User names

Wow, you started a trend when you changed your name... I'm looking at the people who contribute to RfA's and keep thinking, "I need a user identification guide... who is who???"---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 17:26, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Ooops... :) I suppose it's another reason to improve (somehow) all those tallies of RfA data. Giggy (talk) 20:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it was one of the holes with the data... Rudget for example changed his name since then... and thus isn't included in the sample because I didn't know his name off the top of my head.---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 20:50, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Caulde, I think? Giggy (talk) 20:51, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Nod, but I had to look it up on RyRy RyanCross' page where they had a big discussion about everybody changing names.---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 22:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Tea & Sympathy

What needs rewriting? I could help Fritzpoll (talk) 09:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

The article ;-) I have final exams in (counts on fingers, panics slightly) two weeks, birthday celebrations after that, then I'm overseas for the rest of the year. I could probably do it if I a) didn't do well in exams, b) don't party hard, c) ... nah, screw it, I'm going skiing. Nonetheless thanks for the note; it was appreciated :-) Giggy (talk) 10:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

and back from the dead...

Movieland returns to the Good Article list. ViperSnake151 01:10, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture

Hi,

Were you aware of this WikiProject? I'm surprised you aren't on it. It's horrendously out of date - the open tasks box was last update in June 2007, and the articles list is too - I just added 4chan to the list of FAs. It would be good if you could help get it back up to scratch, since you seem to have worked quite a bit on related articles.

PS Fancy doing a collaboration? I thought maybe getting Lolcat to GA, since someone suggested on its talk page. Best wishes, -- How do you turn this on (talk) 00:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I joined... though I don't really do much in terms of project-based editing. Anyways, a collab sounds good - lolcat is on ma watchlist, patrollin 4 vandalisms (oh I just can't resist throwing in a meme), so I'm happy to work on it if you want to. Giggy (talk) 08:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: :D

Thanks! It's probably inappropriate to do that in an edit summary, but you just have to jump on these opportunities when you have them!

By the way, how did you get your talk page to have this custom message above the edit window instead of just the generic "This is a talk page. Please respect the talk page guidelines, and remember to sign your posts by typing four tildes ~~~~" ? Something special in your preferences? —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 02:14, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Giggy/Editnotice. Giggy (talk) 02:20, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 02:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Half-Life 2: Episode One

Done Gary King (talk) 04:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Not sure where to place it so I commented it out. Not entirely all that crucial in understanding the game's gameplay. Gary King (talk) 05:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Tay Zonday picture

The picture of Tay Zonday was taken by me and I release it to the public domain. Please do not post false accusations of copyright violation. -Neutralpov

Erm, no, it was taken from here; Tay Zonday's myspace profile picture. Btw. you can sign your posts and include a link to your userpage/talk page by adding ~~~~ (that's four tildes). Giggy (talk) 04:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Why do you presume that because the photo is on TayZonday's MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter profiles that A)I did not take the photo and B)It is not public domain? The fact that it's NOT an ugly cell phone shot in poor lighting of the person spotted in public is not evidence that the photo is any less public domain. Your suspicion is baseless. Your judgement is poor. The public domain status of the photograph is every bit as plausible as the one it replaces. Neutralpov (talk) 07:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Humour me; how did you take the photo? Where was it taken? What camera model did you use? Giggy (talk) 07:52, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Clearly you have some bias in this matter toward ugly photographs, since you hold them to a lower burden of evidence. I will get the photo approved by the Wikimedia Commons evidence process, independent of you. It is, in fact, out-of-bounds for a Wikipedia editor to assess the public-domain-status of a Wikimedia Commons file, as the commons has its own process (and dedicated staff) for these tasks. Please refrain from removing the photograph from the article and allow the Wikimedia Commons process to adjudicate the image. Neutralpov (talk) 19:00, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, up to you. I'll keep deleting it on Commons until you prove it's PD. Giggy (talk) 07:59, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

FA Mentoring?

Giggy, Would you be willing to help Cornucopia and I try and work through the FAC feedback on Veronica Mars with an eye to renomination? Neither one of us had been through FAC before... and it showed. We're both still committed to the article, but need a willing, FA-veteran mentor. If not you, can you recommend anyone else who likes doing FA's of TV shows? Thanks, Jclemens (talk) 16:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I'd be happy to help. I'm not sure what exactly you'd like me to do; help resolve the issues (I can do prose stuff to the best of my ability but I'm useless with content) or something else? Giggy (talk) 07:59, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

If you can help with prose and evaluating whether sources (and rationales for inclusion, as needed) are up to FA standards, we'll do the content work. It's not going to be nearly as hard to mine sources for Veronica Mars as it was to get enough to make Whedonesque.com a GA. Oh, and since your tutoring, I now have 3 more good articles under my belt, so your investment in tutoring me then has been paying off since... :-) Jclemens (talk) 19:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Well done! :-) See the article's talk page. Giggy (talk) 08:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

VG newsletter feature

Hey Giggy, I'm having a bit of a tough time putting together the feature for the next VG newsletter. It's suppose to be about the GAN process from a VG editor's point of view, and is meant to familarize editors with process and encourage their participation in either writing or reviewing. Anyway, I was wondering if you can provide some insight.

See discussion for the current draft. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 19:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC))

I suppose there's only so much we can say as a monthly feature. I haven't been active around GAN in ages but at a glance that seems like an OK start. Giggy (talk) 08:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi, I recently saw your user name in thr list of Peer review/volunteers, and was wondering if you could, please review this article about a Spanish power metal band, where I've been working for a long time. Remember, you don't need to help me if you don't feel like it, this is an invitation thaat I hope you'd find interesting. Thanks!  Rockk3r Spit it Out! 21:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry... I have very little free time at the moment. You might get lucky but chances are I won't have the time... Giggy (talk) 08:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Flocke

Hi Giggy, I've been away for around a year, so my apologies for the late response. I'd love to help, but I'd have to figure out how to pronounce the name first. With Knut, I simply knew because of tv reports I saw in German, I never heard about this one before. If I can figure out the IPA code or find a video about the cub that has the name pronounced, I'll make a sound file for you. - Mgm|^(talk) 22:09, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Dunno if I can help; I don't know how it's pronounced either. I just poked you because you had made a similar one and the article was up for FAC. You might want to ask Yllosubmarine. Giggy (talk) 08:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Augie March

Meep! Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 23:40, 24 October 2008 (UTC).

• PS. Feel free to add yourself as a co-nom if you like, I'm not that clear on that the norms are for doing that at FAC. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 23:40, 24 October 2008 (UTC).

Note

Ew, a clean talk page ! Just a note, Giggy ... I know that Tony has started using the terminology, but we really have no such option as a "quick fail" at FAC;[1] everyone gets a shot as long as they nominated according to instructions. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Sandy, I'll take a note of that. Giggy (talk) 05:13, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Connie Talbot

Hi- no doubt you'll be commenting at the third FAC some time soon, but you're listed on Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers as willing to copyedit music related articles. I think I already owe you a favour, but if you're willing to, the article could do with a copyedit. If not, then any comments you may have at the FAC would be as appreciated as ever. J Milburn (talk) 19:30, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. I've never quite mastered the "find time for Wikipedia in a morning" thing... J Milburn (talk) 22:53, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

help editing my article

i am writing an article about an album released by Phil Lynott that wasn't listed. I have started my own page and am adding to it. Would like to know if you are interested in helping me get it formated correctly / better. I have most of the generic general information. I wanted to try and add a photo of the album cover but I am not sure how to do it even though I have read the FAQs. Please take a look at my page if you are interested. Thanx for your time! ray From texas —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray from texas (talk • contribs) 23:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. The most important thing would be to add some reliable sources to help verify the information in the article and to prove it is notable. Let me know if you need any help doing that... (for the record the article is Live In Sweden 1983, right?). You can upload cover art here. Giggy (talk) 04:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Batman-FAC

I addressed your concerns with the WP:RS policy. Cheers. Wildroot (talk) 03:03, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Operation Epsom

Giggy, are your image issues resolved now? Pls leave a note on the FAC. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:31, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Augie March

Is it usual for a FA nom to go so quiet so quickly? Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 01:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Depends... chances are we'll get hit with a stack of comments in the next day or two (hopefully!). Giggy (talk) 08:04, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Request for peer review

Hello, if you can please take a look at this video game-related peer review. Thanks. --MrStalker ^(talk) 19:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)