User talk:James086/2008/Archive1
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Strauß
Hello James. I'm surprised to see that you restarted the requested move at Talk:Franz Josef Strauß. I think that this shouldn't have happened before a month or two had past since the canvass. Regards, Húsönd 02:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
For what it is worth James, while the initial closure struck me as unfortunate, I agreed with you and after many disagreed with the closure you opened it up again after a few days, as was proper on a consensus based project (whether those asking for the re-opening were too hasty is for them to decide, not you IMO). I don't see anything wrong in your actions and do not feel you have anything to regret or feel embaressed or such over. Infact I admire that you were willing to override your own previous decision when people asked. Hope the experience doesn't sour you to the understaffed WP:RM. Narson (talk) 10:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
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Hello James, I hope you had a pleasant New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC) |
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Strauss
Your opinion might be helpful at WP:ANI#Please halt this as you closed the original RM discussion. —Random832 18:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR
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Response to a vandal revert
No... its not quite vandalism. Vandalism would be if I made up stuff, much like your run of the mill retar... I mean born agains do. I just pointed out that they are an extreme minority, even here in the US, and that most sane people don't like them. Thought it made the article better myself. And by the way, I'm flattered you care enough to follow my edits on two seperate articles. Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.144.161.219 (talk) 09:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
dickhead
please dire in a fire, tomorrow, at your house ¦-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.155.129 (talk) 11:46, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:GEM Monopoly box.jpg
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Copy of Deleted Article Sri Asaramayan
Hi James,
Can you please provide me the copy of the deleted article Sri Asaramayan. I was away on holidays and couldn't get a chance to see and reply to the discussions of deletion of that article. I am yet to ask the administrator who deleted the article as well. But in the mean time if I can get the copy from you, it will be great.
Re. Strauß / Strauss
That's okay, I wasn't mad about this situation or anything. :-) Thank you for contacting me about it though, your gesture was genuinely appreciated. Best regards, Húsönd 16:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank
I am not a Nazi :D. I did it for Wikipedia because some Nazi use this template as a fact that Wikipedia allows editors use Anti-Nazi icon on Userpage and troll Wiki-Vi >.< Userpage: [1] and he/she said [2]
Bởi vì các wiki khác đều cho phép sử dụng hình này trong trang thành viên: bằng chứng là họ có infobox đây:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_no-nazi
In English ( I translate he/she didn't say)
Because another Wikipedia let its editors use this image on their userpage. In fact, they have this infobox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_no-nazi
ya. Gl and HF
Magnifier (talk) 13:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Barrachois Harbour Yacht Club
Hi James. I'm getting ready to reinstate the Barrachois Harbour Yacht Club entry if you don't mind, with complete information on why we're significant, I can send you four or five articles about our Club from Atlantic Boating News (www.atlanticboatingnews.com) When I launched the page this past summer, we were at sea on vacation and really didn't have time/opportunity to perhaps go into depth as much as I could have. (i.e.- SUPERB hurricane hole, as evidenced by Hurricanes Gustav (2002) and Hurricane Juan (2003), which pretty much destroyed marinas in Halifax and Pictou, Nova Scotia and two marinas in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Our Club burgee has been added to Yacht Club page as an example because New York Yacht Club yanked theirs over copyright issues. Not a problem with us, as I designed the Burgee and released it to the public domain.
Discussion would be most welcome. Thank you!
Image
You recently deleted an image on the 'antistatic mats' page. We own the image and use on our website. Could you explain the reasons why it was delete (in plain English), as I dont understand the technicalities of why it was deleted. thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seb-Gibbs (talk • contribs) 15:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
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Image
You recently deleted an image on the 'antistatic mats' page. We own the image and use on our website. Could you explain the reasons why it was delete (in plain English), as I dont understand the technicalities of why it was deleted. thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seb-Gibbs (talk • contribs) 15:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- The image Image:Antistatic-mat.gif that you uploaded was licensed (an image license says where and under what conditions the image may be used) only for use on Wikipedia. While this may seem an appropriate way to license images, Wikipedia aims to be reusable so that it could be printed by someone or put on disc etc. That means that an image permitted for use on Wikipedia could not be reproduced. Also, while Wikipedia isn't commercial, images that aren't permitted for commercial use aren't allowed either because it is designed to be re-usable by anyone, even if that is for commercial gains.
- In order to use an image on Wikipedia, there may only be a few restrictions on its re-use. It would be hard to explain, so I will provide examples of licenses that are allowed, hopefully this will make it easier to understand:
- Public domain: This means the image is completely free, the person who made it has released all rights so that anyone can use it for any purpose with no restrictions.
- Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY): Anyone can use it for any purpose, the only condition is that the original author of the image must be credited.
- Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike (CC-BY-SA): Anyone can use it for any purpose, the only conditions are that the original author of the image must be credited and when re-used it must be under the same license. This means you can't edit the picture and then make it copyright.
- These are the preferred licenses, and while there are more, they are very similar to these in conditions. If you own the rights to the image, then you may license it under one of these licenses (or similar)and it can be uploaded to Wikipedia. If you do not, you could take a photo of an antistatic mat and license it as you choose. I hope it's not too much to take in, I was very confused at first, but I now find myself explaining licensing to many others. If you have more questions feel free to ask. Thanks, James086Talk | Email 03:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Article
Could I have the text of the deleted article List of Dragon Ball special abilities? Earthbendingmaster (talk) 19:47, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind. Earthbendingmaster (talk) 21:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- No, thats perfectly ok. I already have it anyway. Cheers. Earthbendingmaster (talk) 03:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for your constructive criticism and input in making Alpha Kappa Alpha a featured article.
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Hi,
The members of WP Football keep getting their knickers in a twist about wanting to delete the Sheffield United project (or subsime it into some taskforce thing). (See here) I've headed them off at the pass so far but more views and consensus on the Blades project page might be of help.
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Re: Email
I'm guessing Frankie didn't respond to our email? David Fuchs (talk) 00:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- I guess... what email account did you use? Perhaps a school or .edu account will work better (assuming they have a spam filter that eats up free email addresses.) David Fuchs (talk) 02:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- It's possible... I'll send an email tomorrow. For now, it's off to the real world. Cheers, David Fuchs (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
WP:ACID Nom
Hello James, I have nominated the Ford Falcon (Australia) article for WP:ACID, for reasons such as improving the general Australian car category (because that both you and I know it is an important article) and others. If you believe that it should be improved to FA, could you please cast a vote for it? Much appreciated HarrisonB - Talk 05:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
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Deletion of page about Loyola College
Hi there. A page about Loyola College i recently created has been deleted. I read the reason but didnt understand very well. I Would appreciate it if you could explain for me. I would be happy to fix the problem or remove what ever it was from the article that may have been innapropriate to wikipedia guide lines =) thanks
By the way i tried to include the source which was a link to the school website but i dont think i did it right... please help
School now has a source
Hi James 086. The Loyola college home page has now been added as a source. I'm not sure how the message at the top saying it doesnt cite any refrences can be removed but i assume someone will. By the way can you tell me why the page appears differently to most other wiki pages. I cant quite pin point its exact difference but somehow it appears unique as if missing certain default features found on other pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ADude8 (talk • contribs) 11:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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I had idea that, wikipedia will not hurt to others. But what to do without waiting. Ok I will not remove but the administrator will take care of this issue.--Librarianpmolib (talk) 10:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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*wave* Hi! :D
Hi! I was recently paired with you by User:Mbisanz for admin coaching. I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am currently a junior year undergrad student majoring in mechanical engineering. I first joined Wikipedia in 2006, but didn't actively edit until October of last year.
In January, I was nominated for adminship, but for several reasons, including only being active for three months (which technically really would have been four months), I did not show enough experience to the editors to get the mop. I was recommended to receive admin coaching, so here I am! :-)
I'd like to work on narrowing down different WP:CSD categories (especially when some new articles fall into multiple categories), how to effectively proceed with AfDs (how to AfD an article with NPOV, judging objectively, properly keeping discussions civil, and possibly close AfD discussions), and properly participate in wiki IRC to interact with more editors to gain more experience.
I currently work on WP:NPP using WP:FRIENDLY (I can tag articles, but I can't seem to find where to click to send the generic welcome user-talk template) in conjunction with WP:TWINKLE. In addition, I patrol articles on several categories with WP:AWB, including typo fixes, fixing formatting errors, tagging proper project banners, etc. I also manage the WikiProject Universities Collaborations of the Fortnight as well as managing most of WikiProject Robotics.
I was also recommended by another editor recently to perhaps begin to create new articles in my field of interest on WP:RA. Although I love the sound of that, I keep finding wonderful existing articles in my fields of interest including robotics, mechanical engineering, and others. Any help in narrowing down which topics I should start articles on would also be great.
I understand this is a lot to ask of you, and seeing that you already have two other students, I know I'll be stretching you very thin, but I'll be stretched thin as well. My academic studies in conjunction with the fast approach to my senior year academic design project that is required to complete for my bachelors degree, I'll have a lot of time before I will even think of accepting another RfA nomination at least until May, if not later, so I hope in the several months to come, I may learn much from you. Anyways, a brief bio including a link to my previous RfA is on my userpage, which feel free to browse around! I look forward in learning from you! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 09:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
First thing to ask... haha
Hey! How's it going? I'm in a bit of a bind here. I'm trying to see if I can settle this proposed change of the WikiProject Universities infobox (discussion here). I really don't see how changing fields (and particularly, the chain reactions the proposed changes will affect) will help the WikiProject. I've just started an informal voting to get a jist of what the general vibe from the editors is. Personally, I'm against this change, but I just can't find the proper words to convince them that the problem right now is the editor who inputted the data into the article in the first place may have made errors and it is not the fault of the infobox necessarily.
- Oppose: current system has made adaptations to accommodate a majority of university articles on Wikipedia. Main argument at the moment revolves around few articles with specific needs that can be solved with simple line breaks (<br />). Although pointing out weaknesses in wiki templates is encouraged to provide better revisions of current standards, this particular string of edits does not seem very constructive to the WikiProject. Making changes that affects the thousands of article this WikiProject affects based off of few individual articles shows the unwillingness of the original nominator's inflexibility and lack of knowledge in infoboxes themselves. No offense or anything. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 01:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm seriously thinking someone's going to whack me with a WP:CIVIL bat, so I was wondering if I could get a second opinion (you know, the third person always sees the clearest?), refining my wording, perhaps you might understand where I'm coming from and identify the thing I cannot put into words for some reason. Any help would be great! Thanks! (Oh yeah, if you're on AIM, my s/n is "Jameson L Tai"...yeah I know, not very creative. hahah) - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 01:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Your CSD Essay
It's really nice and provides some pretty good insights to some of my CSD discussions. A couple of questions though...
- G4: If the article was speedy deleted before, can I nominate for CSD G4?
- Articles with titles that does not correspond with the article whatsoever, what should I do with those?
Thanks for your help with this. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 02:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
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I just noticed that template:XD5 was deleted by you? XD5 and other XD* templates are historical, and probably should be kept. Please undelete at earliest convenience. Thanks for your time!--Kim Bruning (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. See WP:XD for whence they came from, btw. :-) --Kim Bruning (talk) 04:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
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Daewoo Royale
Hi James, could please move the Daewoo Royale Series article to Daewoo Royale? Because the redirect already exists, the software will not let me make the move. By the way do you know anything about this car? Apparently it is based on the Holden Commodore, but so little information is available. OSX (talk • contributions) 09:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, User:Chris Rodgers has expressed some concerns over the deletion of an article I tagged last night. You were the deleting administrator and I would like you to take a look his arguments on my talk page and contact him if necessary. I have already left him a friendly message about the deletion process.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 23:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- TWW's response was helpful and a worthy example for wiki discussion, but my reply on his talk page explains in clear detail why the article did not qualify for a speedy kill (as opposed to even a rewrite or VfD tag). Anticipating also your significance comment above, it also explains why the article is significant. Especially as fast as new articles fly by these days now, I take you at your word when you say above that you're capable of mistakes like the rest of us. If you want to suggest points for improvement, I'm open to them, but it is/was definitely not the advertising/non-encyclopedic speedy-delete material that G11 provides for, and I'd appreciate your reviewing my comment there and restoring the thing. Thanks. Chris Rodgers (talk) 01:21, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Article moves
Hi again, could you also move these articles to more correct titles:
- ACP Magazines Limited --> ACP Magazines (more common name).
- Toyota Highlander --> Toyota Kluger (WikiProject Automobiles states that the nameplate of the original country (Japan) should be used).
- Sedan (car) --> Sedan (redundant title).
Cheers OSX (talk • contributions) 09:26, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Possibly promising
I resent your image request through Bungie.net messaging to Jarrad, O'Connor, et al, and Luke Smith actually responded, so we might be making some headway (I had to explain to him our fair use policies suck :P) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 11:46, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
My RfA
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Hi James086/2008/Archive1! Thank you for your support in my RfA (87/3/3).
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April 2008
- You have been blocked for violation of our signature policy. Wait, we have a signature policy...well we do now! Tiptoety talk 01:25, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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- You cant unblock yourself! Admin abuse! Admin abuse! Tiptoety talk 01:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, wait.... *starts to panic* Shit, and here comes de-syoping. Tiptoety talk 02:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Sig
I want to beat the hell out of your sig, seriously! lol ~ Riana ⁂ 04:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
"Admin vision"
Not that I really care since I'm not a sysop, but this code in Sysop.js is not going to work because addLink() is not defined. P.S. Please do NOT reply on my talk page. —AlexSm 04:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
AFDs...
So I've closed the second and third one... The first one's kind of tricky. So I'll need a little bit more time to work this one out. I've got loads of research and assignments due this week, including my junior engineer design poster presentation on Friday's Senior Engineering Design Showcase. I'll try to do the first one some time within a day or so. Sorry for taking so long. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:27, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yay! I'm done! :D Sorry it took so long. Hope you're having an OK week! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 14:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
status update
Just so you know, I responded to your query at Talk:Flood (Halo) about the image; as for the Bungie images, Luke hasn't responded to my last message, so I may have to bug them again. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 14:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- by the by... what kind of info does the Halo Effect have? If it's got some good out of universe info, I'll prolly buy it off Amazon. (I still need to get a print copy of Contact Harvest so I can source stuff when I get to working on Covenant (Halo)...) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 14:21, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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Re: Socratic Barnstar
Thank you for the recognition through the barnstar, it is much appreciated. The only one I had before that was given by a friend. KV(Talk) 12:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your intervention on my talk page
I appreciate it. --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:03, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Revert
No problem, just don't revert away anything important. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 13:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
sorry!
i didn't know about that rule! i wont do it anymore. (I did mark about 20 articles though)
216.229.227.141 (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thanks
what kind of music do you like? you ever listen to me group?
216.229.227.141 (talk) 15:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia sucks dick
yes itdoes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.145.216 (talk) 06:23, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
james086 is a complete duece bag who loves the cock and balls biatch
hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha fag!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!1!!!1
- Hey, I never knew James to be a bag of playing cards. You learn something new everyday. I was tempted to revert this for you James, but I thought the caliber of vandalism was kind of funny.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 06:32, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
nigga fuck you know what im sayin faggot ass geek hoe cakes
fuck cunt shit balls dick pussy skank fag cock boy cunty lips silly fag dicks are for chicks
why don't you like my post? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.213.51.100 (talk) 06:34, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Large Amounts of Vandalism
James, I'd revert this vandalism for you, but it doesn't seem like it's bothering you. And agreeing with Torchwood Who?, the playing card joke was slightly humorous. I'll leave them on your page for your viewing pleasure.
Oh yeah, one question though on AfDs. I've been looking into people who relist AfDs due to no consensus. Is there a script they just type in to relist everything or something? I'm used to Friendly XfDing everything such that I'm not exactly familiar with this particular one. Thanks. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 05:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
White Gold
I added the [citation needed] citation to the statement added by someone else? I fail to see how I was unconstructive? Matthew Glennon(Talk) 09:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
User:Cooltunes
User:Cooltunes has requested an unblock. Could possibly be worth taking a look at. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 13:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Why James Why?
I have very good points on everything I have written. I just don't understand why you are being so mean to me. (I still have three out there, and one is really good)
Happy Hunting:)
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Maserati MC12
I was reading over your great work on the Maserati MC12 featured article, and I noticed it needs a bit of updating, at least for the MC12 GT1. Most everything seems to stop during the middle of the 2006 season, or at least I think it does. The final paragraph caught me off guard since it claims their drivers finished 5th and 7th, yet Bartels and Bertolini actually did win the 2006 championship. I assume when you wrote that, the team had merely won the teams championship and had yet to secure the drivers championship?
Anyway, I figured it'd be good to come to you before attempting to write not only about the 2007 FIA GT season, but also preperations for 2008 as well as what eventually happened to the Doran Maserati in ALMS. The source I had provided for that needs to be replaced as well since the-paddock.net has since shut down. The359 (talk) 21:23, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
More Maserati MC12
I'll try and offer what I can to the article, especially regarding 2007 and plans for 2008. Also, since I found some CC pictures on Flickr earlier today, I was wondering if you think that this picture might be better for tha article than the one already in use. It's the same team from the same season, but I think the first picture is much clearer, and is a nice 3/4th shot so you can see most all of the car. It also fills the picture more than the current picture. The359 (talk) 03:44, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
DragonHorse
I'm sorry, it's a well known fact they cannot play live. They had even admitted to it. Theyre a studio band. While most of what I did was vandalism, it is true that they cant play live. 74.12.218.22 (talk) 13:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- If you can provide a reliable source then you can add the information to the article. Something like "Dragonforce have been criticised for their live performances being out of time..." or something like that with a link to where somebody says it. Just adding your own opinion (along with "Dragonhorse") is not useful. James086Talk | Email 13:36, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- Half the stuff on this site doesn't even have reliable sources, or links pointing to some evidence anyway. But sorry to have bothered you, I was bored and sick of hearing that they're "amazing"... By the way, would a youtube vid of them live count? 74.12.218.22 (talk) 13:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- Not really because it doesn't actually have anyone saying that their performance was bad (some people might consider that performance good). If you could find a review of one of their shows or perhaps a review of a music festival that they performed at which has a quote that would be perfect. Yes a lot of the stuff on Wikipedia is without sources but it is slowly getting there. For example the number of Featured Articles is increasing at a rate greater than 1 per day and the sourcing in those must be excellent for them to pass. James086Talk | Email 13:44, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- Half the stuff on this site doesn't even have reliable sources, or links pointing to some evidence anyway. But sorry to have bothered you, I was bored and sick of hearing that they're "amazing"... By the way, would a youtube vid of them live count? 74.12.218.22 (talk) 13:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
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You reverted my edit to list of buildings in EastEnders - why? Its a valid edit. In the show, Getaway Motors has now changed back to Pats Cabs, so i moved it. 172.159.110.157 (talk) 09:53, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- Ah, I was incorrect in reverting you. All I saw was you removing the entire section and did not realise that the name had changed. My apologies. User:Loren.wilton also reverted for the same reason I'm sure. Sorry about that. James086Talk | Email 09:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Its ok. Thanks anyway. 172.159.110.157 (talk) 10:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Image tagging
As I said, the image is wrong. The fifth-place team(fourth-place of playoff) cannot gain a UEFA Cup ticket directly. It need to do some work. Raymond Giggs 11:53, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it, although, IMO, User:Thingg's is much better than mine.
Your diff was pretty funny, but after this, I have tried not to include potentially offensive things in my list. I hope you won't take offense for me not using your suggestion. Cheers! J.delanoygabsadds 16:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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- ([4], [5], [6], [7], this is a like 5RR violation)
- Although most are not within 24hrs, the "5RR" violation does include 3 reversions within 24hrs. He was only "officially" warned about the 3RR rule here. Should I hold off filing a report on WP:AN3 until such time as John re-breaks the 3RR? Should I go back through and re-undo his reversions? Thanks in advance for your help. J.delanoy
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Maserati MC12 updated
After much delay by, well, my own racing on the PS3, I've finally had a chance to take a stab at updating the MC12's racing history. Added several citations to the section on Doran's two races, as well as correcting some of the information on FIA GT in 2007 (mostly regarding JMB's entering the Citation Cup). Also have the list of drivers and teams for 2008. Feel free to change it as you feel necessary to better fit the article. The359 (talk) 22:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- Now that I think about it, I wonder if some mention should be made of the pre-season testing carried out by Maserati/Ferrari in preparing the GT1? Dailysportscar has lots of news archives from 2004 regarding the development of the MC12 as well as test drivers, modifications, teams, and the debate regarding the legality of the cars. The359 (talk) 22:59, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Adeyto
Can you please userfy this page, I found some sources but am unfamiliar with the previous content to know if I can improve the article or not. --I Write Stuff (talk) 12:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- I think you are right, with all of the present drama I think it is a bit naive of me to assume he would take it any other way and I should have taken Bigtime's advice. I db-self'd the article. If she is notable I am sure someone else over time will have it undeleted and work on it. Thank you for your assistance none-the-less and sorry for wasting your time. --I Write Stuff (talk) 14:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- hi James086, I was just hoping that more editors will have the chance to see that the Adeyto article wasn't a hoax and that it wasn't either spam nor selling anything but informative and verifiable. With your new deletion, an objective opinion won't be possible. May I remind you one of Wikipedia's basic rules: If an article currently does not cite reliable secondary sources, that does not necessarily mean that its topic is spam or advertisement or not notable. If the content currently isn't, can it be made so? If the topic isn't, can it be made so? For articles of unclear notability, deletion should be a last resort. Tsurugaoka (talk) 14:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- The problem I see is that the article mainly links back to Adeyto, and reads more like a list of every time the person appeared on TV, instead of starring roles which I could not find. Yes they are on IMDB, yes they have been in a lot of movies, but as extra's, not the star, which makes it a pain to formulate a serious article. There is also a lot of talk about doing a video for other people, but those people are not notable, or at least do not contain articles themselves on Wikipedia so we can state, ok they are a music video producer for the stars, like Hype Williams. --I Write Stuff (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)--I Write Stuff (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- There is something like culture difference between your (occidental?) way of classifying her works and our Japanese way. Yes she was main actress in a couple of Japanese dramas (for example when she played Marilyn Monroe) or in the film Silver Kamen that is the last art work of the recently deceased Jissoji Akio, a cult director in Japan. She had supportive, memorable or key roles in many of the dramas and films. Nevertheless it is almost impossible for a foreign actor to play the main character in a Japanese drama so even cameo appearences are quite respected. We here never consider that as -extra- especially not when actor's name appears on the credits.
- I do agree though that a mere list of roles isn't too useful for anyone outside Japan and it is true that the article needs elaborate information about the actual roles. I hope that this section will grow in time, myself included will research and add data. Tsurugaoka (talk) 11:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- The problem I see is that the article mainly links back to Adeyto, and reads more like a list of every time the person appeared on TV, instead of starring roles which I could not find. Yes they are on IMDB, yes they have been in a lot of movies, but as extra's, not the star, which makes it a pain to formulate a serious article. There is also a lot of talk about doing a video for other people, but those people are not notable, or at least do not contain articles themselves on Wikipedia so we can state, ok they are a music video producer for the stars, like Hype Williams. --I Write Stuff (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)--I Write Stuff (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- hi James086, I was just hoping that more editors will have the chance to see that the Adeyto article wasn't a hoax and that it wasn't either spam nor selling anything but informative and verifiable. With your new deletion, an objective opinion won't be possible. May I remind you one of Wikipedia's basic rules: If an article currently does not cite reliable secondary sources, that does not necessarily mean that its topic is spam or advertisement or not notable. If the content currently isn't, can it be made so? If the topic isn't, can it be made so? For articles of unclear notability, deletion should be a last resort. Tsurugaoka (talk) 14:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- It seems that the article will be restored anyway (Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 April 30) so I will let that be the process of restoration. There were a lot of links to cafepress (a website aimed at selling calendars for Adeyto), definitely qualifying as spam links (not necessarily the whole article) and the notability wasn't clear. I'm not saying the initial deletion was correct, in fact I haven't even checked whether it was correct but my deletion was because the user requested that a subpage of theirs be deleted. The article can be restored to the mainspace like it would have been if I hadn't userfied it, if the admin closing the DRV doesn't know how to do this I can show them. James086Talk | Email 01:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Please take a look at the article, it's now on my talk page. I happen to come across it when I_Write_Stuff had it on his page for few minutes. I searched like mad for the CafePress Calendar selling links and I couldn't find ANY. So I will politely beg the participants in this discussion to refrain from this accusation. I never saw those links in this artist's Wikipedia anyway. Yes there is one on artist's Official Site but that is absolutely standard and only a fool could blame them for that.
- It seems that the article will be restored anyway (Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 April 30) so I will let that be the process of restoration. There were a lot of links to cafepress (a website aimed at selling calendars for Adeyto), definitely qualifying as spam links (not necessarily the whole article) and the notability wasn't clear. I'm not saying the initial deletion was correct, in fact I haven't even checked whether it was correct but my deletion was because the user requested that a subpage of theirs be deleted. The article can be restored to the mainspace like it would have been if I hadn't userfied it, if the admin closing the DRV doesn't know how to do this I can show them. James086Talk | Email 01:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- One last comment to the over-discussed pictures, they aren't simple pictures of that person, they all are artworks as in self-portraits and as far as I understood self-designed (costumes, paintings) therefore I support keeping as many as needed, just like we would keep Van Gogh's self-portrait on his Wikipedia article, please excuse my comparison and no need to attack me for this but I just want to make clear my idea. Thank you for understanding Tsurugaoka (talk) 11:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
why?
thanks for reverting that change to Nietzsche. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.64.134.212 (talk) 02:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Chewbacca
why you dis chewy
chewy will eat your socks
- Your edit was plain silliness and Wikipedia is not just a playground. James086Talk | Email 02:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
ill vandalise —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.28.157.193 (talk) 02:35, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
was up
was up
IP Ban
I would like to know why you have banned my school's IP adress. I find it a pain to log in if I would like to edit a page. Vinni3 (talk) 14:02, 8 May 2008 (UTC) Well James, there is a problem with that. My school has an internet filter, and that makes life hard. Thanks for you help though! Vinni3 (talk) 20:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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I have the IP address of our school: 193.164.114.4. I hope that you understand that I have taken action, and spoke to the Deputy Headteacher about this issue; rest assured that this will not be happening again. Vinni3 (talk) 10:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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I saw that {{pictures}} was deleted. Where's the "original" version of this. I've been searching and searching for it but could not find a template like {{pictures}}.
Can we get {{pictures}} back? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flashpoint (talk • contribs)
Response to a revert
What's unconstructive about the truth Randi-boy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.49.224.70 (talk • contribs)
- Nothing, so why not start adding truthful information rather than attempting to disparage James Randi? James086Talk | Email 05:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
James Randi and truth. Sorry. That's like matter and anti-matter. But since we can't mass produce or yet mine anti-matter, and Randi will never be anywhere close to the truth, there will be no explosion. So his behind will still be there for you. Pucker up Randi-boy.
Vandal blocking thank you
Thank you for being around at (what for me amounts to) an odd hour and picking up on a needed block without my even asking. It's noticed and appreciated. Jclemens (talk) 05:10, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- Ditto. I get so sick & tired of vandals... Trekphiler (talk) 07:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Kaneohe, Hawaii
You spell Kaneohe K-a-n-e-o-h-e —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.227.95 (talk) 00:32, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
wat
oi wat was vandlism about that bruz, i call it constructive input and it highlights the page in a special kind of context that you would not understand —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.202.109 (talk) 12:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- If it were helpful content for inclusion in an encyclopedia then I would not have reverted. Saying that you consider it a waste of your time should not be included in an encyclopedia and it's pretty obvious so I reverted immediately. You could say that on a web forum or blog if you like but Wikipedia is niether of these. James086Talk | Email 12:33, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
but would you agree she is a waste of time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.202.109 (talk) 12:33, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- I don't know. It doesn't matter because you need to provide a reliable source to add info like that. James086Talk | Email 12:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Reaper episode list
To clarify: this is in regards to the edit you "undid" of mine which was undoing an edit. for reference your edit and his will be referred to edit A mine and the original edit B. A vandal (you can see his IP address) changed the page to include graphic words (read- genitalia). He/she also changed the finale episode summary to read three words repeated over. And the edit he made which i corrected and you reverted also included information that was false.
The episode hinted at that, but it was never explicitly said. meaning, it's not true. Once it airs, if it is true, feel free to change it if you so desire. However, putting anything like that would be considered spoiling(if it's true and it's put out there before the episode airs). The episode the vandal put it under was the past episode but like I said, it wasn't proven. Therefore it shouldn't be on wiki- after all this is supposed to be facts no?
That's fine. Sorry about that I go defensive- I thought you were upset about the other episode change :) where i took out some more of that :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolceruleanblue (talk • contribs) 07:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Johnny Damon
hey you deleted my johnny damon comment, that wasn't very nice!. :( :( :( :( :( :(
September Dawn
Hi! Your a total flamer why would you say that my edit wasn't constructive. I do believe that my point that it was a terrible movie is very credible just watch it, terrible. Christopher Cain should give up directing and you know it nobody even knows he exists. try to find his wiki page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pol pot hates hitler (talk • contribs) 13:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It should not include the personal opinion of people who haven't had that opinion published by a reliable source. That would mean a film review or magazine article. Also asking rhetorical questions is not encyclopedic so should not be included either. James086Talk | Email 13:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
you are the biggest flaming faggit on the internet i didn't vandalize anything you homo. i just stated a fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pol pot hates hitler (talk • contribs) 13:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Please block an IP
Can to perma-block this IP? (193.164.114.4) For I know, it's not my school, and it could be another school sharing the same IP as us. Cheers. --Vinni3 (talk) 07:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC) Yeah, cheers for that snippet of info. --Vinni3 (talk) 20:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
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212.108.198.192 (talk) About Sigma Company Limited page, this is the main line of the company's history... I don't like it but this is the situation, once I will be capable to upload a not pr based article on Sigma, but this time have not come yet. Other companies are "advertising" in that way in Wiki...
Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.108.198.192 (talk) 14:54, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- I've reworded Sigma Pharmaceuticals. If you are working on the article that's great, it could really use some content other than it's sales figures. James086Talk | Email 12:07, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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Re: Soviet Halo
Sure, the more the merrier! I saw the code for it at User:Haha169's page, and then I saw this for inspiration... :P Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 13:27, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
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Yeah, I can't create the page, but I can edit it (and so can your IP) now it's been created. —Giggy 13:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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Re: Goo
Nope, I don't remember finding anything via ProQuest, but on the other hand I've lost access to it so I can't double check :\ Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 13:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for the admin coaching again!
Hey, I wanted to take the time to thank you again for the Admin Coaching back in April. I hope the experience will help out my current RfA. Hope all is well. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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Articles to be renamed
Hi James. Here is a short list of articles that need to be renamed as per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Automobiles/Conventions#Titles.
Kia Borrego --> Kia Mohave
Kia Carnival & Sedona --> Kia Carnival
Hyundai Elantra --> Hyundai Avante
Thanks in advance. OSX (talk • contributions) 07:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
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Deletion?
Hi James i'm asking you why i got a new message saying I made/edited the page Muzza that doesn't exist, sorry but i haven't edited any pages.
Kind Regards, Carl
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my page got deleted im sure u get this all the time
hi im sure you get some person who made a stupid group complain about this all the time but im hoping the fact that well lets see my names james i love halo 3 (im a brig) the fact that i am a major car enthousiest ( have an infiniti 96 g20 which i work on a little as well as my pride and joy my 88 5 speed merkur x4ti rally car which i love to drive)anyway i am a member of the band Umlaut an up and coming band that consist of my friends and some other members. we recently made a profile ( i dont know another term for it) telling about our band and our styles and things of those nature which were all backed up by multiple people when the profile was threatend by deletion by a Nyttend for not having any "importance" i contested the deletion and provided ligitiment reasons not to delete the page. there were also several post made by people who have heard the band and support sources provided that helped contest the deletion in the short hour or so that the page existed if there was more time i beleive that there would have been more. I would simply like to ask what was so unreasnibal about the artical to the exstent it didnt serve a purpose there for needed to be deleted, even when theres articals about MILFS on this site that have no support. so in the future i may rewrite the givin page to be more sutibal to Nyttend aparently high standards thank you James Sarley —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamessarley (talk • contribs) 06:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- I'll grab this one if you want... - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 06:22, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
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