User talk:Mushroom/Archive 13

Thanks

Hi Mushroom,

Thank you for the welcome message. I forgot to log in (it happens often), so I will do that.

Regards, 71.226.112.183 09:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC) a/k/a GURoadrunner

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 10:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you....

..... for the welcome message. I've added and amended some stuff already and hopefully have not damaged anything! :-) Hope you had a good break and it's good to know that you are there if I get stuck. Wickidj 10:32, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. Feel free to contact me if you need help :) Mushroom (Talk) 10:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Cheers

cheers mate i heart you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Concretedhappiness (talk • contribs) 10:46, 5 September 2006

Wow, thank you! Mushroom (Talk) 20:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome...

Cheers Mushroom - nice to be greeted and made to feel welcome.

I'm excited about contributing many more articles in the future, and look forward to help and guidance from the community. My main area of interest is literature - novels and books on all subjects, and I hope to add to the list of important author entries on Wikipedia.

One quick question I have already - how long do articles usually take to get approved? I have one from yesterday waiting, and just wondered what sort of time scale is involved from creation to acceptance.

All the best.

Jellis2000 10:46, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Jellis, Wikipedia:Articles for creation is for unregistered users only, since they are not allowed to start new articles. But you are registered, so you can create the articles yourself. Just follow this red link: Michael Kenyon and paste the content of the article. This way you won't have to wait :) Mushroom (Talk) 20:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh right, I didn't realise that. Thanks for that. So what is to stop nonsense being posted? Do the admin team check new articles and verify content ? I hope somebody does !! :-) Jellis2000 07:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, many editors routinely check Special:Newpages (the list of new articles). Articles that are particularly bad are sent to Category:Candidates for speedy deletion or deleted on sight. Mushroom (Talk) 08:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh good - that's reassuring! Thanks for your help. Jellis2000 09:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 09:26, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Many Thanks

Thanks for the welcome Mushroom. Much appreciated. Not everyone is so welcoming.

I've already been involved in a discussion about the page on Punk Rock which I believe is strongly biased towards the US even though UK Punk music was much bigger, popular and more influential and has always been reagrded as the start of punk.

See my discussion point - 'Who rewrote history to say punk began in the USA'.

Before this, rightly or wrongly, I made some minor edits to the main 'Punk Rock' page to rebalance the article but these were rejected outright without so much as a by your leave by someone called WesleyDodds. I then read the guidelines on 'being nice to newcomers' which tells Admin to be more encouraging to newcomers!!

I noticed there are also guidelines about not making pages biased. Are there any guidelines about people using a few flimsy references to rewrite history, contrary to the memories of millions of people still living from that era? Jcleary 12:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Jcleary, three of Wikipedia's most important policies are Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:No original research. if you find mistakes in an article, the best thing you can do is correct them and provide a reference to a book or (reliable!) website, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Citing sources. Hopefully, sourced statements won't be removed. Mushroom (Talk) 20:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

upload

Sorry I took so long, but i had troblesome real world business to attend to. anyway Mushroom if you go to google and type Freeza you will find on the top row all the way to the left a picture of a lizard. go one over to the right and you will see that same lizard with its fists at it's sides and a big aura around it. I want to upload this to--freeza Jig-Saw 22:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 22:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the patience youre the kindest admin ever nothing like user:curps the ruthless one. Jig-Saw 23:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 23:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome

Yep... Thanks for the welcome. --64.14.194.26 18:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Ooops, sorry. I wasn't logged in wasn't I? --Beef noodles 18:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 00:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

nickname

i wanted to register under nickname "kamikaze" but it said it was already in use. Look here though. Is there a way to change my nickname into "kamikaze"? SuicidalZero 09:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

You can do two things:

• Request a username change here: Wikipedia:Changing username/request to usurp.
• In the meantime, change your signature to say "Kamikaze" instead of "SuicidalZero".

Mushroom (Talk) 10:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Your edits to List of Internet stations

Thank you for your attempt to remove any advertisements, but may I suggest and large changes like this to be discussed on the talk page. DemosDemon ^{(Talk - contrib)} 17:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I answered on the article's talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 18:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Test? What test? I didn't do a test?

I didn't do a test? I don't remember doing ANYTHING to the Darth Vader page, have you gotten me mixed up with someone else by mistake? Or has something else happened? I'm confused. :-s --88.104.206.233 22:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Probably it wasn't you, but someone else from your IP address. On July 21, 2006, this person did a test to the Darth Vader article, as you can see here. Mushroom (Talk) 11:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Pedro Almodóvar

Hey Mushroom. Thanks for reverting the recent link spam by Danielsparrow (talk • contribs) in articles related to Pedro Almodóvar. I just wanted to note that this was a somewhat careless use of the rollback button: this wasn't simple vandalism, so I think it would have been better to revert manually with a descriptive edit summary: use of rollback here is going to be confusing for Danielsparrow (as a new user). Anyway, I've left an explanation on his talk page of why his actions were inappropriate. Cheers, --ⁿɡ͡b Nick Boalch\^talk 11:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I thought about that, and I was going to write him a message explaining why his additions had been removed. Then I saw that you had already contacted him, so I didn't do anything. But you're probably right: rollback might have confused him, or some other editors. I will try to be more careful :) Mushroom (Talk) 12:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Thanks for the nice hello... I'm still trying to figure stuff out now, like how this site works. I've used it for 2 years for research, but I'd like to start contributing to the site.

I've been looking around the site, I'd like to write a fair article on Banlist (Warcraft III). I searched for it, but I couldn't find one, so I decided (as an avid user of the program and a forum member at banlist.nl) that I'd like to write about it. How do I get started? I went to sandbox and started writing, but everything got deleted!

And what is this "Talk" page... is it like a message box? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sephram (talk • contribs) 13:22, 13 September 2006

To create an article, follow the instructions at Help:Starting a new page. Please make sure that what you write is verifiable, properly sourced and written from a neutral point of view. The talk page is used to talk to other editors, so it's similar to a message box. See Help:Talk page for more information. Mushroom (Talk) 04:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Manual of Style

I'm new to Wikipedia editing and didn't want to be out of line, but when I see something that goes against the rules of English spelling in the Wikipedia style guide, I feel it should be changed. How can I start a new topic on the Talk Page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.244.25.130 (talk • contribs) 13:29, 13 September 2006

Just go there and click the "+" button at the top of the page: it will start a new section. See Help:Talk page for more information. Mushroom (Talk) 04:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Username change

it seems the suggestion you made me about changing username was ineffective. i have added a request to the page you indicate me but i'm yet to receive an answer. could you give me a further avice? and by the way, i couldn't seem to find your archive link.SuicidalZero 13:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I can't do anything, only bureaucrats can change your username. Maybe you could try to ask one of them directly. My archive is here. Mushroom (Talk)

Can You Help?

Hello, Mushroom, I turn to you as my first point of contact in Wikipedia. I am still a little green, though things are beginning to fall into place. I am turning to you for help and advice. The work both I and others have done on the Axis Powers page is under threat from a user with somewhat eccentric views on the poiltical status of Denmark during the Second World War. He has edited in what I consider some highly biased and unsupported contentions. I tried to correct the situation but have reached my 'edit limit' on this page. The user in question has now reverted more than three times in twenty-four hours. Is this not contrary to Wikipedia rules? I'm sorry if this seems horribly trivial to you; but it's an important historical point, and I hate to see reasonable views extinguished by a relentless thrust of POV. Many thanks, White Guard 05:33, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I have blocked Garamundi for 24 hours. Since this is clearly a content dispute, I suggest that you read Wikipedia:Resolving disputes and, if necessary, request informal mediation. I also suggest that you talk to Garamundi when he's back: you didn't explain to him why you consider his edits "a massive political distortion". Mushroom (Talk) 06:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your action in this matter. Actually, if you look through the whole talk page you will see there is a fairly detailed discussion-and rebuttal-of the points he was making, both by me and by others; but he just seems unwilling to listen. This is the first time I have come across such determination to push at all costs an opinion which simply does not accord with the facts. If it happens again I will ask for mediation, as you suggest. Once again my thanks.

White Guard 23:02, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 08:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I am afraid he is back to his usual personal attacks. Also he posted this on his talk page...

"I reverted three times the vandalism of WhiteGuard. Then a sock puppet named MartinDK vandalized the article a fourth time and reported me for violating the rule! Neither WhiteGuard nor MartinDK have pointed to a single factual errort in my addition. They simply vandalized by deletion." That is a downright lie and false accusation against me.

I am no sockpuppet (although I suspect him of being a sockpuppet of earlier user Grungoria since both have the same writing style, don't sign their posts properly and use the same reasoning and arguments and expressions). Could you please take action against him again? There is a clear and total majority against him yet he just gets nastier and more persistent the more you argue with him. Thanks in advance! MartinDK 22:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I have warned him. If he persists in making personal attacks I will block him again. Mushroom (Talk) 08:59, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Changing account name - possible?

Hi Mushroom, thank you for the invitation you posted when I first created an account.

I wanted to create my account under the name "anachronist" because it matches my primary email addresses. However, this account name had already been created on Wikipedia.

Upon investigation, I found that user 'anachronist' has made only one submission ever, and that was way back in 2002.

If this account name is inactive, is there any way I could possibly adopt it? I've gotten so accustomed to logging in as 'anachronist' but of course I can't do that on Wikipedia.

Thanks. -Amatulic 04:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Username changes can be made only by bureaucrats. You can request it here: Wikipedia:Changing username/request to usurp. Mushroom (Talk) 10:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah. Thank you. Hm... reading that page, it appears that requests can be made, but not granted at this time. Oh well, at least my request is now logged on that page. -Amatulic 17:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Rumours

I never removed it, that might of been someone else. and the fact that MY RUMOURS HAVE BEEN Validated should surprise you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by El-dood (talk • contribs) 19:05, 21 September 2006

Page move question

Are algorithm names capitalized? The reason I inquire is because I think I might have found an article (here) which might be a candidate for renaming per Wikipedia's naming conventions, but I am slightly hesitant to do so, as I am not sure if being bold is covered here. I'd rather be sure in this case, and then do so. Any advice in this matter would be most appreciated. Kyra_~(talk) 05:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes you're right, it should be renamed. Please do so :) Mushroom (Talk) 10:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for welcoming me --Johnston49er 06:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 12:16, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Yellow Generation Article

You cited that Yellow Generation Did Tooku Made (Far Away) for Vampire Hunter D, But isn't that Do As Infinity's Song Performed as a special bonus track in the D Movie/Ova OST? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yaye (talk • contribs) 04:49, 25 September 2006

I'm not the one who added that sentence. An anonymous editor did it. According to Anime News Network, Do As Infinity performed that song, so I have removed the sentence. Mushroom (Talk) 12:16, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Petty redirects

I've noticed you've dismissed my reasoning added at RfD candidates. Ricksy

Yes, I did. The correct procedure is to wait for an administrator to close the RfD. This should happen after a week. Mushroom (Talk) 00:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Omega Phi Alpha Co-ed Fraternity

I noticed you deleted the page: Omega Phi Alpha Co-ed Fraternity for Copyright violation. What copyright did the page violate? Profet

The article was copied from the site of the fraternity. Furthermore, it didn't prove the notability of the fraternity or its members. Mushroom (Talk) 13:01, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

So it's you who keeps deleting fictionalcities from the Venice page

What is the problem? I've checked the Guidelines and I qualify, especially as a 'unique resource' and information not contained on the Wikipedia, I think, and I'm in none of the proscribed categories. The many people who come to my site from other Wiki pages each week presumably agree, as do the many people who click through from the Venice page when you haven't deleted my link, again.

jeffc@fictionalcities.co.uk

Links normally to be avoided, number 3:

A website that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked to. This is because of neutrality and point-of-view concerns; neutrality is an important objective at Wikipedia, and a difficult one. If it is relevant and informative, mention it on the talk page and let other — neutral — Wikipedia editors decide whether to add the link.

That is the correct way to add a link to a website you own. Mushroom (Talk) 23:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair-use removals

I see no reason to why you are removing fair-use images from certain articles. Note that this is the English wikipedia not the Italian, Portuguese etc where fair-use isn't allowed. The English wikipedia laws are covered by those in the USA, in which fair-use is allowed.Pedrovsk 16:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but those two copyrighted images in Suspended animation are not fair use, since they are not used to illustrate articles about the movies they were taken from, but something else. For example, I can't take the movie poster from Magnolia and put it in the Magnolia article. While it's true that the movies are briefly cited in the article, I don't think it's enough to claim fair use. If you disagree, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Fair use. Mushroom (Talk) 23:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Dangerous ground

Hi Mushroom, On Oct 11 (22:15) you reverted edits by 24.5.187.31 on the Steve Jobs page.

Unfortunately one line by this same 24.5.187.31 got through on Oct 11 (22.13) identifying the school attended by Jobs' 11 year old daughter. This adds nothing to the bio of Jobs and is both intrusive and dangerous. Have removed that sentence but it is there in the history for anyone to read. And there is nothing to stop 24.5.187.31 ([reverse DNS - c-24-5-187-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net]) from entering it again. Is there anything you can do? - douga6

I have deleted all the revisions containing that information. I have also warned the user (it was 63.195.88.72, not 24.5.187.31). Mushroom (Talk) 18:34, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Mushroom. I also discovered my error about the sender - there had been so much vandalism and revert vandalism in that part of the history that it got very confusing. Thank you for handling this so swiftly. - douga6

Edits on the "voice over" page

Last night, was exploring the voice over page on Wiki. To my surprise you had removed all the external links that a group of us has been editing for the past few months. Your reasoning was that the links were spam. I find the judgement unfair seeing as all the links were industry-related. In my humble opinion, not one could have been considered spam. Would you be so kind as to allow the external links? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, David interactivevoices

No, I won't. Those links had to be removed because:

• Links to commercial sites are not allowed.
• Links to sites about specific voice actors should go in their articles (if they are notable enough to have an article).

Please read Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:Spam for more information about which links are/aren't allowed on Wikipedia. Mushroom (Talk) 18:34, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Pamela Anderson

The article I added to Pamela Anderson IS appropriate. You think the pictures of her in a bikini are appropriate for young kids? Well if they are then you should RE-add my link.

BTW: You should better understand the definition of "commercial" in America. Commercial means that the person's website SELLS PRODUCTS OR SERVICES which many of the external links you remove do not do.

You're a joker with a highlighter and you don't even know what you're doing with it.

Linking to your own website is never appropriate. You should better understand the definition of "spam" on Wikipedia. Mushroom (Talk) 19:11, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Received your message

I understand your concern about inappropriate links, but I think you'll find that all these linked articles fit the guidelines and are well suited to be linked to from these pages.

Thanks,

James

As you can see in the external links guidelines, Wikipedia articles should not link to blogs and other self-published websites. Furthermore, adding a link to a website you own or maintain is forbidden. Mushroom (Talk) 22:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

The Departed

Please reconsider my link for The Departed. I'm very passionate about this film and Martin Scorsese films in general. Thedeparted.net is filled with good reliable content. Thanks.

Make a proposal on the article's talk page. If the other editors find the site useful, maybe they will add it back. Mushroom (Talk) 22:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi this is thedeparted.net guy... Who do I talk to about getting my link back up on The Departed wiki page. Thanks in advance your help.

There's not much you can do, except what you have already done. Wikipedia is a community project, so you'll have to wait for someone to answer your request on the article's talk page. If no one does, your link won't be added back. Mushroom (Talk) 14:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Suspended Animation

You recently removed the images that were in the article. Why? --Jason Palpatine 23:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Those two copyrighted images could not be considered fair use, since they were not used to illustrate articles about the movies they were taken from. For example, I can't take the movie poster from Magnolia and put it in the Magnolia article. While it's true that the movies are briefly cited in the article, I don't think it's enough to claim fair use. Mushroom (Talk) 23:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)