User talk:Reyk/Archive4

Re:Merhawi Abreha

I know 'bout the hang on thing I just ain't wanna use it. Stop hating on that page. You not see that one facebook linky link?Rebel Without a Pause (talk) 03:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

No dice. Stop being a hater. Shit why everything gotta be so serious with you.-Rebel Without a Pause (talk) 03:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I ain't never scared, I'm everywhere, you aint never there. Snuff said.-Rebel Without a Pause (talk) 03:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Yea you wouldn't respond. You just mad cuz im stylin' on you.-Rebel Without a Pause (talk) 03:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

re

you're welcome. please let me know if he continues when his block is up. VanTucky 04:07, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

• Will do, but I hope it doesn't come to that. Reyk _YO! 04:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Secret code

Can you give me any hints on EEs secret code? Graham (talk, contrib, SIGN HERE!!!) 08:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

PS: Yeah, I agree with your Pedantry section. I strive to be formal (with good humor added), cuz peeple hoo tak lik dis arr prety stupd. You'll understand from the gangsta two sections above.

• Hmmm. Not sure how much of a hint I can give you without making it too obvious. And I hope EE doesn't mind... Once you figure out what the first symbol is, you'll see you've got 99.9% of the answer. Reyk _YO! 11:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

• • No cheating :) ElectricalExperiment 16:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Salvaging the Paraguay River travel info

Thanks for the heads up, I do think we could import that article to Wikitravel. I'll need to get the original author's permission to relicense as CC-by-SA 1.0, though. So hopefully she/he will respond to my request before the deletion rolls in! --Peter ^Talk 04:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

• No problemo. Reyk _YO! 04:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Attock Cricket Club

Yeah, I've seen it, good job. And regarding the AfD, isn't playing in a 1st division an assertion of notability? Victor Lopes (talk) 03:22, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I've got the same situation here, so I won't try anything. Let's leave it for someone who is familiarized with the subject. Victor Lopes (talk) 03:37, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Busbee

hello! please stop messing with the "busbee" page...aka mike busbee. that is me. someone who is NOT me has taken it upon themselves to add information about me that is partially true and is not the professional information about my career that i would like available to the world. i would prefer to NOT have a wikipedia page at all. i do think i have that write. so again, please stop changing "my page." thank you kindly! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mijarybu (talk • contribs) 07:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC) Moved to the bottom of the page by Reyk, text unaltered

Out of interest (the answer!)

To answer your question: I often run head-first into WP:BACKLOG and pull out wonky articles for AfD consideration. Tonight, I decided to go to the back of the backlog and work my way forward. That is why we have a surplus of Z-related stuff up for discussion. Thanks for the nice message!

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Notability of 2005 California Golden Bears football team

Thank you for your concerns on the notability of 2005 California Golden Bears football team. The Wikipedia:WikiProject College football welcomes discussions and collaboration on issues surrounding college football. You can read and discuss notability issues of college football at the College Football Notability essay.

The College Football project considers notability discussions of existing articles in the project a priority. While the project maintains in good faith that the article does indeed meet notability standards, we will begin additional work to improve the article in question through addressing specific concerns, providing more details, and supplying stronger sources as much as is appropriate. In return, we ask that you consider our essay on notability. If you feel an article needs a specific improvement, please feel free to make those changes yourself.--Paul McDonald (talk) 12:27, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Med Cab case - Characters and Groups in Bionicle

Hey there, this case caught my eye, so I've gone ahead and opened it, but I'm not sure if mediation is really what you're looking for. The idea behind mediation is to find common ground between all the parties involved, i.e. develop a consensus with some help from the mediator. If this is more a "does policy say this" discussion, you might be better off getting more community opinions. Shell ^babelfish 15:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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Dear Reyk,
was that you who has helped with my note draft "Qu Bo (novelist)" I am sorry that I have got really confused. I only trying to put Qu Bo, the novelist not the footballer into Wikipedia. I did not know how to do it and I found a software that could convert HTML to WIKI. I have put my one page note in my windows live space, but I cannot get the references linked there either. I do not know how to publicise a note or biography onto wiki. The source of the image? I own the photo and made it jpg file. Could you please have a look of my windows live space [1] and help me to put it onto WIKI? I have found it is too difficult to learn. I am frustrated. I am so sorry. Thank you very much for your time and I might not be able to make it. If you are so kind to help, my user name is Miao Miao Qu, Password is wangsheng 淼淼 01:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Human trafficking

One was nominated for deletion (Human trafficking in Serbia) and I decided to proceed because it seemed like there was a consensus that it is good to use these as starting points for articles. Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:04, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries, I take nothing personally here. Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Racism and BNP

Regarding your block request and discussion at User talk:80.229.149.112 and the article in question, as you can probably see, I've declined to block this IP for the moment and requested further clarification regarding those edits. In looking at it further, I am finding it difficult to see why BNP belongs as a link in that article in the first place. It is a disambiguation page and it's not at all clear to me why it would be there. BNP is not mentioned anywhere in the article that I can see - just in the "see also" section. I have searched for each of the disambiguation pages by name in the racism article, and can't find that they show up by name (rather than by the BNP abbreviation) either. Can you identify which of the pages it might be referring to? We want to strike the right balance between protecting the encyclopedia and biting the newcomers. Thanks!  Frank  |  talk  14:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

• I'm 99% certain this is supposed to link to the British National Party, a far right-wing political party with membership restricted to whites. I've just fixed the link accordingly. Declining the block is your call, but I find it increasingly difficult to assume good faith when this IP has done nothing but vandalize since they've been here, won't answer honest questions about their edits, and ignore Meldshal42's warning. Reyk _YO! 22:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree the editor could have (and should have) been more forthcoming, but I don't think we can legitimately classify the edits as vandalism when the removed text was linking to a disambiguation page with >10 link targets on it. I for one would never have guessed the correct target without reading the pages themselves. It does look like you've settled on the right one, but without that, it seems a legitimate edit to remove it in the first place. No further edits occurred after the report to AIV; we can always continue to watch and see.  Frank  |  talk  22:40, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I've learned a bit from this. Reyk _YO! 22:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Now I just hope the block doesn't become necessary :-) Thanks for the constructive dialogue.  Frank  |  talk  01:32, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Qu Bo

Dear Reyk,
was that you who has helped with my note draft "Qu Bo (novelist)" I am sorry that I have got really confused. I only trying to put Qu Bo, the novelist not the footballer into Wikipedia. I did not know how to do it and I found a software that could convert HTML to WIKI. I have put my one page note in my windows live space, but I cannot get the references linked there either. I do not know how to publicise a note or biography onto wiki. The source of the image? I own the photo and made it jpg file. Could you please have a look of my windows live space [2] and help me to put it onto WIKI? I have found it is too difficult to learn. I am frustrated. I am so sorry. Thank you very much for your time and I might not be able to make it. If you are so kind to help, my user name is Miao Miao Qu, Password is --------- 淼淼 01:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Miao Miao Qu (talk • contribs) 01:01, 31 July 2008

Thank you very much Reyk for your help!!!!

Qu Bo is looking good. I have deleted my password too.
It is magic to me for what you can do on wiki and I like your scientific classification.
Cheers! miaosquared 03:47, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

• My pleasure. If there's anything else I can help you with, drop me a line. Reyk _YO! 04:06, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Nelson Rojas

Yes, it was a pure attack page. Its only content was to disparage the subject. • Gene93k (talk) 09:58, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Qu Bo (novelist) image provides no source

I am sorry that I have another problem of describing the source of the image. The image will be deleted soon, but I remembered that I when I uploaded it, I checked something like that I own this photo and made it jpg file. I have tried to make a change : | image source= Miao Miao Qu, but I am sure I am not right.Miao Miao Qu (talk) 11:16, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

thankspam

Thanks to everyone who participated in my RfA, regardless of their !vote. I have withdrawn the nomination as a failure at 19 supports, 45 opposes, and 9 neutral statements. As has been written and sung, you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need — and what I need is to go back to working on our shared project. Not everyone has to be an admin; there is a role for each of us. After reflection, I feel I don't have the temperament to secure community consensus as an admin at any point, and I will not be applying again in the future — and hey, that's all right, 'cause I stay true to the philosophy that adminship is no big deal: I tried, I failed, and now I'll return to doing what I've always done. I have an extremely strong belief in the consensus process, and the consensus was clear. I will be devoting my energies to volunteering at MedCab and working up a complete series of articles on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, among lord knows what else. Thanks again to everyone who spared the time to weigh in on this one. It was made in better faith than it probably seemed. Mr. IP 《Defender of Open Editing》 14:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in at my RfA. I take adminship more seriously than it probably appeared, but you may be right to suspect that I am not a good candidate for it. At any rate, I will be looking to serve Wikipedia in entirely different ways and hope to work positively with you and everyone else in that capacity. Not everyone can be an admin, right? Cheers! Mr. IP 《Defender of Open Editing》 14:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks!

Thank you... ...for participating in my RfA, which closed with 119 in support, 4 neutral and 5 opposes. I'm honestly overwhelmed at the level of support that I've received from the community, and will do my best to maintain the trust placed in me. I 'm also thankful to those who opposed or expressed a neutral position, for providing clear rationales and superb feedback for me to build on. I've set up a space for you to provide any further feedback or thoughts, should you feel inclined to. However you voted, thanks for taking the time out to contribute to the process, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Gazimoff 21:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Pixologist rewritten

Hi, I've rewritten pixologist and encourage you to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pixologist to see if your concerns have been addressed. Please note that a name change to pixel artist is almost assured if the article is kept. Banjeboi 20:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Tried to De-orphan Qu Bo (Novelist)

I have linked Qu Bo (novelist) to Mao's era, Chinese literature. There are few articles I can find to link to. Could you please have a look again? Saw your contributions, absolutely brilliant. Thanks again and again. Miao Miao Qu (talk) 07:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Howard Perdew

The prize that you cited in the afd is a "NSAI Songwriter Achievement Award". Those are a dime a dozen; 99% of Top Ten hits seem to get them. So yeah, it's hardly a notable award, and Perdew still seems to fail WP:V. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 16:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Rollback enabled on your account

Hello Reyk,

I have noticed that you revert quite a bit of vandalism. Since you have demonstrated that you have a good grasp of what constitutes vandalism, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback can be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback may be removed at any time.

If you no longer want rollback, then contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some information on how to use rollback, you can view this page. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, just leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Happy editing! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:24, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

• Cheers. I gave it a go at New Admin School (it gave me a chance to legitimately make some really childish edits) and I can see it'll come in handy. I appreciate you trusting me with it. Reyk _YO! 22:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou

Just a little note to say thankyou for participating in my successful RFA candidacy, which passed with 96 supports, 0 opposes, and 1 neutral. I am pleasantly taken aback by the amount of support for me to contribute in an administrative role and look forward to demonstrating that such faith is well placed. Regards, WilliamH (talk) 10:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Reyk, thank you for your contribution to the discussion at my recent RfA. If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 20:54, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

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Space elevator

The tagged concerns are valid. Much of the article is bordering on uncyclopedic original research and unpublished synthesis. Please do not remove valid tags until the issues have been resolved. 203.7.140.3 (talk) 08:37, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

• They looked spurious to me, and still do. Particularly the one about not differentiating between fact and fiction. What do you mean by that? Reyk _YO! 08:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)