User talk:NSLE/Archive 10

rfa thanks

NSLE, I want to personally thank you for your support (initially), and then constructive criticism on my RFA. I was really excited when I first saw your support. I've seen your voting patterns at RFA, and I consider you to be a tough and stringent voter, and a good judge of character. When I saw you had withdrawn your support, it made me reconsider whether I was ready to be an admin. By the time it took me to decide that I probably wasn't, it was pretty clear that I wasn't going to gain consensus anyway. This has been a great learning experience for me. I hope that I'll gain your support in the next couple of months. Holler at me if you need anything. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 01:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Image problem

Hey, following that recent vote on 2005AHS, I am working through the minor storm articles improving them. However on Hurricane Philippe (2005) I have encountered a strange problem. I attempted to use the storm pic from the list article in the infobox, but the attempt got a weird error code. [1] Do you know what to do about this?--Nilfanion 01:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Philippe05.PNG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Philippe05.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Rory096 02:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Page move request

Would it be possible that you move User:Hurricanehink/Cyclone Mala to Cyclone Mala? The latter is currently a redirect, and I would like to move the article I created there. Hurricanehink 00:14, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. Someone copied and pasted (forgot about that). Hurricanehink 01:05, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

General Eisenhower

General Eisenhower is pretending to be an admin again. Look at the top-right corner of his page. He has that little admin logo: the wikipedia logo with the mop at the bottom. --GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 18:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

He removed it. --GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 20:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

A landslide victory for The JPS (aka RFA thanks)

Hey, NSLE, thank you so much for your vote and comments in my RfA, which passed with an overwhelming consensus of 95/2/2. I was very surprised and flattered that the community has entrusted me with these lovely new toys. I ripped open the box and started playing with them as soon as I got them, and I've already had the pleasure of deleting random nonsense/attacks/copyvios tonight. If I ever do anything wrong, or can help in some way, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will do my best to correct my mistake, or whatever... Now, to that bottle of wine waiting for me... The JPS talk to me 21:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: 2007 Season

How do I de-categorize it? I don't even know how I categorized it in the first place. →Cyclone1→ 19:17, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

The 1997 Hurricane season

Since you are in the Tropical Cyclones Wikiproject I hope you can help me to improve the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season article to FA. I've seen it is a good article, but I have noticed that it is being ignored. Maybe some people never care about these hurricanes, but I live in an area that suffers struggles from these hurricanes. Please help; I've been asking someone to help me with this for two months and a half, and I've not got reponse yet. juan andrés 00:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Reverts

You erroneously reverted one of my edits without providing any reasoning to why. Please pay attention next time. Oren Ishii

It's not a duplicate, open them side by side to see, hold on, I'm on IRC talking to admins (who by the way had to un-sprotect your talk page) Oren Ishii

Are you on #wikipedia at this moment? that would be easier. Oren Ishii 03:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

User:E-Series

User E-Series had made un-authouzied edits to his talk page. Storm05 19:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Lar as admin

I see you opposed lar's RfA. It's unfortunate it succeeded. After several run-ins with him online, and knowing some of the story behind his run-ins with others, I can only conclude that he is *NOT* the kind of person who works well with others in an admin role. I have known him for several years and I, like most people he meets, had a positive view of him after our first meeting (yes we have met IRL). But since then I have come to realise his standard modus operandi is to rein in his combatative nature until he has enough support to gain a position of power. Every admin role he has been actively involved in (in the LEGO community where I know him from) he has done exactly that, and ended up being so unworkable that he's been kicked out (if possible) or basically forced to resign.

Anyway, I guess wikipedia will find out all about that in due course. I don't think he'll do much damage, but I have no doubt he will end up alienating a lot of people, both admins and not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.178.148.25 (talk • contribs)

I see you've noticed too..

...about a certain editors bizarre contributions. You were quick to rv his/her random wiki-linking. This user has been popping up in my watchlist more and more lately. I've spoken to a another editor about these "odd" additions but they didn't see anything peculiar about it. As I said to them..."it doesn't stink, but it certainly has an odour". I've been quietly following behind and trying to clean up when I have time. Perhaps if you notice it happening you might let me know. Cheers and take care! Anger22 01:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

his modus operandi has switched to "slightly" altering image sizes(he has a thing for 240px). If his goes into "serial wiki-link" mode I'll roll it back with VandalProof. I doubt it'll make a difference. He's received several warnings already. Cheers! Anger22 01:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Follow up...He's returned the past few nights with the same ridiculous wiki-linking and image altering. I did as you suggested and rolled him back with a couple of vandal warnings but to no avail. He just keeps returning to the same pages and adding his useless fluff. Any ideas/tips you can pass along? Cheers and take care! Anger22 00:31, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Good show!. I tend to focus more on the "malicious/racial slur/blanking" sort of vandal. Useless wiki-linking isn't on par with those types of actions. But still...that guy was really starting to get on my nerves. I have about 100 countries on my watchlist. Should a new user suddenly appear with habits similar to ol' Reg...I'll know not be be so slow in keeping up with their actions. This guy had over 550 edits. I doubt even 50 of them were of any value. Cheers! Anger22 01:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Review

Please try to restrain yourself from posting nasty things about me on trollboards. If you have a personal problem with me, you're welcome to talk to me about it. Ageism is not a "personal attack" by the way. I accept that I court the disapproval of teenagers by suggesting that they should not be empowered, but your reaction actually confirms my prejudice rather than makes me feel that it was misplaced. Regards, Grace Note. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.38.246 (talk • contribs)

Jennifer Government: NationStates

Back on May 6 you locked Jennifer Government: NationStates from editing with the note that it should be unlocked after 3 hours. It looks like the article is still locked, as it is unable to be edited. Can it be unlocked now? -- MisterHand 19:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

:-)

Where ^(talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}} or {{subst:smile2}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

==He's Back==

Just in case you're keeping track our "serial wiki-linker" has returned. Slight name alteration but the same useless edits. Cheers and take care! Anger22 01:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Typhoon Chanchu

I reverted your move of Typhoon Chanchu because it is general practice, in cases for the same name being used in the same basin but at different intensities, to use the higher intensity (Typhoon, Cyclone, or Hurricane depending on the basin). In general, tropical storm is used for the same name in basins where the prefixes (that is, Typhoon, Hurricane, or Cyclone) are not the same. For example, consider the disambiguation pages on Hurricane Madeline, Hurricane Joyce, Tropical Storm Greg, and Typhoon Bolaven. Madeline is used only in the East Pacific, so it is "Hurricane"; Joyce was used in both the east Pacific and Atlantic, so the disambiguation page is "Hurricane"; Greg was used in the west Pacific and east Pacific, so "Tropical Storm" is used to avoid having to decide whether to use "Typhoon" or "Hurricane"; Bolaven is only in the western Pacific, so it is called "Typhoon". In the case you mentioned in your edit summary, the reason the Katrina disambiguation page is at that location is because it was used in the southern hemisphere (the term "Cyclone" is used there).

I hope this clears up any confusion about disambiguation page naming. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 17:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: NSLE

You know, I had a feeling that it was you in the back of my mind. I looked at your contributions and saw an edit to a Singapore article, and it clicked: "Is that NSLE, or am I just imagining it?"

Anyway, a lot of tropics-people at another forum "celebrated" the ringing in of the EPAC season at 15/0000 UTC, and in a server on IRC the same.

I suppose a better question would be: What time does the NHC consider the EPAC season to have begun? 15/0000 UTC? 15/0000 ET? 15/0000 PT? :) -- RattleMan 21:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/KDRGibby

KDRGibby returned to Wikipedia last week and engaged in edit warring and personal attacks. His behavior has become grossly uncivil. Because his behavior seems to be getting worse, not better, I am considering invoking his General Probation:

KDRGibby is placed on general probation. Any three administrators, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, may ban him from Wikipedia if his general pattern of activity is unacceptably disruptive.

I'd like to hear your opinion on this. Would you support a move to ban him at this stage? --Tony Sidaway 02:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I've opened a discussion on this on WP:AN. I'd like to see if there are reasonable objections before pressing ahead. --Tony Sidaway 14:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:HurricaneWarning

I noticed you reverted my removal of Residents of areas affected by {{{1}}} are advised to seek advice and information from local authorities through television and radio, and official weather forecast websites (links below). From the TfD, I inferred that the main concern of other editors was that users understand that Wikipedia makes no guarantees vis-à-vis the accuracy of information disseminated, such that users should not depend on Wikipedia for current and accurate information or take action in view of Wikipedia's info. I don't think, though, that there was a consensus for our continuing to advise users as to what specifically they ought to do, only what they ought not to do. I understand the reasons for which keep was supported, but I don't think the TfD can reasonably be interpreted as supporting the position that we ought to counsel users as to how they ought to make their decisions with respect to hurricanes/cyclones in their areas. I'm going to revert to my revision, but I'll not revert you if you should elect to return the template to the erstwhile advisory fashion; I'll likely raise the issue on the template's talk page then, but I thought I should write you first inasmuch as template talk pages aren't often watched by users. Joe 04:13, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey

I know we've had a couple of minor disagreements, but maybe this will clear up any thought of them;

Icelandic Hurricane has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

FYI

Hi there. Maybe this is really nothing... but I'm not certain so I figure I would ask. I happened to notice a past conversation you had with this user regarding a bunch of "special" pages in his User space. It seems that s/he just moved them to a new spot within Wikipedia. Doesn't seem like this would be allowed either... although I am not an expert on this so I wanted to have someone with more knowledge than I take a look. The new pages don't seem to be related to any other pages. Am I putting my nose where it doesn't belong? -- eo 20:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Daniel Brandt and audiatur et altera pars

NSL, how can you accept this violation of fairness principles even though you seem to be a member of Wikipedia:Esperanza which also links to the Wikipedia:Kindness_Campaign? Please think it over. There must be another solution to the problem at hand. If not, then Wikipedia is indeed seriously flawed. --DenisDiderot 13:10, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

A little something

Greetings NSLE, just thought you should be aware of this list as you are mentioned by name. Cheers. Netscott 15:47, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Resid, again

Hello NSLE, I thought you might want to be aware of this RFCU filed by User:Azate. Thanks. Netscott 10:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

You know, Resid Gulerdem should just be reblocked and his case again posted to the noticeboard. It seems everything he's connected to results in the community's patience being tried. Not only has he tried the community's patience here on English Wikipedia but independently he's tried the community's patience over on the Turkish Wikipedia. Regardless of whether or not he indeed again engaged in sockpuppetry he definitely engaged in that other kind of puppetry that starts with meat. The time for continued patience with his disuptive editing on Wikipedia is over (again). The tone he's taking on his RFCU in terms of referring to a fellow Turk's (Azate) editing as being vandalism is just indicative of his continued defiance. User:Cyde was right to perma-block him and the other puppets (whichever kind they are) and let other more constructive editors get on with the business of writing this great encyclopedia. Please re-block Resid and post doing so on the admin's noticeboard. Netscott 15:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

RFCU has confirmed [[User:Rgulerdem] to be the puppeteer of User:Mokotok and User:Light&Truth[2]. What's next? Straight block or a AI or what? The inner works op WP are not my strong suit.Azate 23:14, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Greetings NSLE, could you take a look at this 3RR report filed by User:Irishpunktom related to the whole Resid Gulerdem Fethullah Gülen blocking fiasco? Thanks. Netscott 17:49, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for helping stop the sceala.com disruption. --Craig Stuntz 15:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Icelandic Hurricane/Hurricane Craze

No problem. You are completely right. People need to lose attachment to anything they post. This is an encyclopedia, not a diary or a novel. Hurricanehink (talk) 02:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

EWS23's RfA

Thanks NSLE. I appreciate your support after the fact just as much as I would have appreciated a vote in my RfA. If you ever see me doing anything that you think I could do better, please send me a message. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 07:03, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

You'll Never Walk Alone/Anti-Everton vandalism elsewhere

I didn't bother putting in any comments for the first 10 fixes I did to revert various bit of mischief but it was getting beyond a joke.

When it comes to the You'll Never Walk Alone issue the user is simply reverting to his bias account. It isn't accurate to just throw Celtic in along with the other teams as they have been singing the song for basically the same amount of time as liverpool.

I simply ask that you provide compelling evidence in support of your position - that Celtic supporters have invariably sung the same song from 1963 to the present day - yet you have failed to do so, instead repeating the tired mantra that I am in some way biased. It simply won't do. Ste B 02:04, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Please don't bicker on my talk page. Discuss it civilly at the YNWA talk page, cheers. NSLE _(T+C) at 02:08 UTC (2006-05-25)

Yeah I'm not sure on what to do on those talk pages. What is the protocol?

For that matter I'm not really sure about messaging on here either.

Replied at your talk page. NSLE _(T+C) at 08:33 UTC (2006-05-25)

Rgulerdem

Just so you know, the CheckUser evidence has come back positive. I have reinstated the indefinite block. --Cyde↔Weys 23:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the info about Resid. I'm sorry I wasn't able to be more help to him, but he just clearly isn't able to fit in. Johntex\^talk 01:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey

I was surprised to learn about the way your RFA dropped off at the end. You were looking strong. Anyhow, just to tell you that you have my support should you re-apply in future. Cheers, NSLE _(T+C) at 00:25 UTC (2006-05-25)

Thanks for the uplifting remarks. It's simply so hard to guage community consensus. Perhaps the community as a whole thinks that I was attempting to lawyer my way to adminship. Perhaps they think I'm more concerned about promoting Islam than creating an encyclopedia. Perhaps they think my every action is part of a plot to gain adminship. Ngb stated that Certainly the behaviour you have exhibited during this RFA is beginning to convince me that, without a fundamental change of attitude, you should never become an administrator. I thought I handled the situation as best I could, responding to comments in reasoned defense rather than attacking oppose voters. But perhaps the Wikipedia community agrees with Ngb. I simply don't know. From here, I don't know what I'll do. I'm sure I'll be back to my regular editing, but I'll most certainly take a break for a day to rebound from this and possibly be a bit less active for a couple more weeks so I can focus on ending this school year. I don't want this RfA to bring me down, but I'm afraid the community now has a less than desirable image of me. An image that will never be erased. And I don't say that because that image may dash my chances to become an admin in the future, but rather I say that because that image may dash my chances at being seen as a credible editor. It's simply unfortunate.

Winston Churchill once said, Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. I hope I still have a bit of that courage remaining. joturner 00:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

3RR

I have a question about 3RR. The article in question is Sonic the Hedgehog (character). I have this anon who keeps reverting and reintroducing bad information and punctuation [3]. It is a fact that you cannot trap ANY enemy in the game, just most of them. How should I handle this situation with 3RR? -- RattleMan 00:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Jersey Dragons

An anon AOL IP just copied your distinctive signature in an AFD vote [4]. I'm assuming it's a straight-up forgery, but just in case, can you confirm that it wasn't a case of you editing without being logged in? Thanks. --Calton | Talk 05:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Religion of Peace

Would you please do the Wikipedia:Deletion_review#History_only_undeletion I've requested. I'd like to see the differences between the previous version (which has had a successful AfD) and the current version. Raphael1 10:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

I was wondering if you could provide me with some creative criticism on my Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Computerjoe 3. This way, I can at least improve. Computerjoe's talk 18:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

F1 portal featured article

The F1 portal (in which I assume you have some degree of interest, as your name is listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One) is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One#Suggestions_for_Featured_Article: and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

What Did I Do?

Yo What Did I do?, I didn't do anything wrong, why did you block me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ElBoricua (talk • contribs)

User's block log empty, assuming autoblock. NSLE _(T+C) at 05:53 UTC (2006-05-26)

My RFA

Thank you for your recent vote on my RFA, regardless of how you voted. I appreciate all votes. I am going to wait until I have more edits in all namespaces. (And also improve answering impossible questions ;). Hopefully one day I will be more sucessful than it was looking, once I meet most user's voting standards. Again, thanks for your time! ~Linuxerist E/L/T 02:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Jordanhatch

Thanks for reminding me. No explanation has been given for the vandalism, so I'm not prepared to unblock him (on probation) unless or until he clarifies that his computer was being used by someone else or that he was drunk at the time or something like that. It doesn't seem to be a vandalism-only account, but made three vandalism edits is close succession after a wiki-break of nearly two months. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 10:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Hexagon1

Thanks! +Hexagon1 (talk) 12:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

huh?

Am I the only one that karmafist's page looks funny to? with the short it messes it up (for me atleast). ILovePlankton ^{( L)} 03:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem, I don't mind being reverted when i'm wrong :) ILovePlankton ^{( L)} 03:54, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Your revert

Hi. You reverted my edits to Template:Wikibreak. I was just adding default parameters to have more options, so people wouldn't have to subst it and change it, and I also added some default parameters just in case somebody forgot to fill in the variables. I didn't vandalize it. If somebody put {{wikibreak|Example User|June 89, 1786}}, then it would still be normal. I have reverted the revert. If you believe that I shouldn't have added special extra options, then please contact me on my talk page. Thanks, GeorgeMoney ^T·C 03:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

What? --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 04:02, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I found the problem. I fixed it, and now the template should work properly. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 04:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Current events - Meteorology

I didn't get it. Be reverting and 'leaving message' you considering topic closed? -- tasc ^talk_deeds 12:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Jacknstock

Thank you very much for your help. I am happy that my indefinite blocking is over! --Jacknstock 13:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Don't be so hard on Rayven the Crook. I just issued that anyone is allowed to create my subpages. General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace ☢✍☎☺) 01:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

A possible nom for adminship?

I plan on nominating myself for Adminship on 7 June, on my one year anniversary when I joined Wikipedia. If you want to nominate me before then, that'd be cool. If not, then I'll do it myself, and then we will see the end result. — Ian Manka Talk to me! 06:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Eh, that works too :) — Ian Manka Talk to me! 07:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On May 5, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Typhoon Joan (1970), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Cactus.man ✍ 12:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm Back!

Mailer Diablo has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

And thank you for your well-wishes during the WikiBreak! :) - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 15:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Commons

Just a tip, if you probably (read: definitely) need the assistance of a steward or dev, then you should probably (read: definitely) approach a steward or dev, rather than the haphazard bunch who happen to scan commons:COM:VP. Unless you know of some reason we should chase this up for you...? :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 17:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)