User talk:David Fuchs/Archive 07
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SpoilersSo many editors are violating policy here - many are becoming incivil, and many are becoming just plain illogical. I'm hesitant to say this due to a potential backlash, but I'm thinking that it's just not worth it to have all these editors drag themself through the dirt and violate multiple policies just so one (this one) can be satisfied - especially on this small an issue. I mean editors have let a debate over something meaningless (it's what, like six words?) turn into a massive warzone. I think we should use WP:IAR and vote. Thoughts?--danielfolsom 19:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Rar! WikiProject Halo?Dear David Fuchs, Wondering if you'd like to write a short blurb about WP Halo for the Oracle Newsletter this week...I think I'd also enjoy investigating the possibility of a collaboration between WP:Halo and HP...what say you? ;-) Cheers, RR [iTalk] 06:18, 6 July 2007 (UTC) Greetings!Hello! It's been quite a while (three months) since I've been on - but I've found more time to come and edit and work towards my goal of being an admin (eventually :D). Soo... few questions for you. I recently (as of three minutes ago) reworked the VundoFix article. How is it? I plan to keep going with it. Also, could you help me find and/or start a WikiProject on malware? I find it to be quite interesting. Thanks :) Zeratul En Taro Adun!So be it. 18:15, 9 July 2007 (UTC) July 2007 GAC backlog elimination driveA new elimination drive of the backlog at Wikipedia:Good article candidates will take place from the month of July through August 12, 2007. There are currently about 130 articles that need to be reviewed right now. If you are interested in helping with the drive, then please visit Wikipedia:Good article candidates backlog elimination drive and record the articles that you have reviewed. Awards will be given based on the number of reviews completed. Since the potential amount of reviewers may significantly increase, please make sure to add :{{GAReview}} underneath the article you are reviewing to ensure that only one person is reviewing each article. Additionally, the GA criteria may have been modified since your last review, so look over the criteria again to help you to determine if a candidate is GA-worthy. If you have any questions about this drive or the review process, leave a message on the drive's talk page. Please help to eradicate the backlog to cut down on the waiting time for articles to be reviewed. You have received this message either due to your membership with WikiProject: Good Articles and/or your inclusion on the Wikipedia:Good article candidates/List of reviewers. --Nehrams2020 23:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC) ThanksThank you for reverting vandalism to my talk page. I greatly appreciate it. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 18:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC) OblivionI only get migraines when others make bad decisions. I've nothing against you, but your deletion nominations are quite ill-reasoned. I'd suggest you change your vote to one of "keep", since no policy or guideline supports your actions. Might I remind you that WP:CIVIL is policy, and that it does advise against giving people headaches. "Whereas incivility is roughly defined as personally targeted behaviour that causes an atmosphere of greater conflict and stress, our code of civility states plainly that people must act with civility toward one another." You're causing me stress with a series of personally targeted acts. Please stop. Geuiwogbil 13:53, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm really just...baffled. I never thought Wikipedia had any restrictions on detail. That's what WP:PAPER's all about, right? If people don't like that detail, fine, they can read the Oblivion article and skim over it. If they want greater detail, they read the subarticle. I just...I just don't really have any hard sense of "What should be in an encyclopedia", I guess. If I limited it to 10,000 pages, sure, I could trim down the list. If I limited it to certain varieties of content, again, sure. But...if the info's well-organized, well-sourced, and well-written....The more limits there are to what type of content we should have, the more uncomfortable I am in editing. "Unspoken" rules, I'm really uncomfortable around. Here's what PresN said to me before I broke the article out: "As to Oblivion, I've been noticing those sections get longer and longer, and they definitely need something to happen to them. I agree with summarizing the downloadable content section and moving the details to the development page, which I think I saw you do this morning....I'd also recommend that you do the same with the ratings change—right now that section is huge, and it should really be about one paragraph, though like everything you write, it's so hard to cut it down because it's all so interesting and well-sourced. I think the details could have a place on the development page as well, though." I mean, I was really enthused while writing it, and it seemed like PresN agreed in some sense. When the AFD came, I was surprised and angry; AFDs are just so bitter-tasting. I guess there was some, um, irritation, condescension and indignation on my part. Thanks for the softer tone; I feel...calmer now. Really, really, thanks. All the tension is gone now. I feel much better. Geuiwogbil 15:02, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I Would Like to Know
I've made the changes.Thanks for the speedy assessment — it made my day (or night). I've now tagged everything with dates and removed the "In-Universe" tag. Any reference that doesn't label the author means that the author hasn't been stated in the source itself. Thanks. Ashnard Talk Contribs 20:51, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Need help on editing issuesHello. I was wondering if I could ask for your help in settling an editing matter. One editor proposes character name changes since he/she don't seem to agree with the official english version and prefers what he/she deducts as the right translation. For instance: english publication says Rubel, Japanese phonetics say Ruvur. Said Editor prefers to spell it as Louvr. Debate is on going at: Claymore Discussion. Thank you.-Mickey WowHey David, hope your summer has been nice - I thought you might enjoy this User:Magnus_animum (click on "edit this page" then try to copy and paste the seemingly unreadable writing into your address bar) (spoiler warning: idk how but all of the edit text is backwards and then when you copy it out it's normal again).--danielfolsom 03:11, 26 July 2007 (UTC) Unusual Adoption RequestHi! Im an English teacher in Toluca Mexico (west of Mexico City). My Advanced B classes will be contributing to Wikipedia as the focus of their English course for Fall 2007. I am looking for people who would like to mentor my students (who will be working in groups) as they do the following assignments: Edit and article (adding a citation), writing a stub with a citation, translating an English language article for Spanish Wikipedia and for the final project, writing a full article for English Wiki (they can expand on the stub mentioned previously). What I would like to do is put a list of "mentors/adopters" on my talk page as a kind of short cut for my students, who have limited time to get things done. The semester begings Aug 6, but the real Wikipedia work wont begin until the beginning of Sept. If you would like to add your name to my list, please go to my talk page and add it there, perhaps with a short introduction, if you like. Thank you! Thelmadatter 20:00, 26 July 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter Smile![]() Connell66 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! AFD for List of people with epilepsyYou may have noted that I broke apart your group nomination List of horror film killers (2nd nomination) due to a consensus to split up the group and relist the articles individually. All the articles are now listed separately. The article List of people with epilepsy was on your original list, but you did not place an AFD banner on that article, nor did you create the discussion page for that particular AFD. I placed the banner and created the discussion page because the article was on your list. Had you intended to nominate that particular article for deletion? If it was not your intention to nominate that article, I would suggest that you go the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with epilepsy and withdraw the nomination. If you had intended to nominate it, then no further action is necessary. On a further note, it would be better in the future to list all articles in a group separately, especially when the articles are not closely related. A group nomination really applies only when the subjects of the articles are all closely related. ●DanMS • Talk 16:47, 29 July 2007 (UTC) AFD closed for separate nominationsI have closed the nomination debate that you posted for List of books by title. Please break up the group and renominate the articles separately. When you renominate, please add a link to the previous group nomination. Unrelated nominations should be listed separately. In the future, please do not make group nominations of unrelated articles. Group nominations are not for convenience of the nominator. They are intended only for very closely related articles, such as all the characters in a single film, or something of that nature. Please note that this is the second time that I have notified you about this subject. Thanks for your cooperation. ●DanMS • Talk 00:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image (Image:Covenant-war.png)
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 19:21, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Chocolate Rain at ANIYeah, I saw the main article was being discussed before I deleted the dead end redir... I just really didn't/don't want to get into a possible WP:WHEEL on a meme article... especially when I live in a black hole devoid of pop culture and have never heard of it.--Isotope23 talk 18:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC) Blocking DiemacherO MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH! Sox23 19:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey mate, I've placed the GAC on hold - it just needs a small lead fix, some image rationale changes, and a bit of link fixing, but it's really, really close. I'm going away in two days, but I reckon you can fix it before then (or I will, and pass it). Get back to me ASAP :) Giggy Talk 23:29, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Block of good faith editorCan you please review your block of Sox23 (talk · contribs) ? It appears that you blocked him for violating the "3 revert rule" but he was never notified in advance that there was such a rule. Given that there was no advance warning, the 48 hour block seems rather harsh since he was evidently making edits in good faith, removing what he believed was either mis-information or vandalism. Burntsauce 21:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey, your edit to Spirit Airlines ([1]) broke the info box because the '|' character is at the end of line. Thanks --Matt 22:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Is Diemacher still blocked? He hasn't responded since...have you talked to him? Sox23 05:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Halo series GAI think once we copyedit the article, add just a few more references, the series article would be GA status, and that would make the halo games a featured topic! Judgesurreal777 06:18, 10 August 2007 (UTC) ArchivingI'm not going to add to the size of the already groaningly-huge Wikipedia talk:Spoiler but I have made my opinion on this known here (Click this link to contribute while it's still live). A reasonable archiving period and general agreement that older discussions can be revived would be beneficial. Inflicting huge page sizes on a discussion page, even though the discussions are obviously not ongoing and are never revived after restoration, is unacceptable. --Tony Sidaway 04:47, 12 August 2007 (UTC) GAC backlog contest
Your deletion of Eve of the ApocalypseWhy did you delete Eve of the Apocalypse? I can't seem to find any policy or whatever that got it deleted. Discombobulator 00:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Adopt Me!Hello. My name is Marine954, and I would like to be adopted by you. I love everything related to Halo (it seems that they're not many of us here :(} I am relatively new to Wikipedia. Please get back to me ASAP. Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marine954 (talk • contribs) Okay, Let's Do ThisLet's make a barnstar and userbox for the Cruft Eaters. I have a design, but don't know how to make it in accordance with WP - Arcayne (cast a spell) 00:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
GA status and WikiprojectsI'm not entirely sure how this works as my understanding is that the GA nomination is a formal process whilst the Wikiprojects assessment is not, but once an article - in this instance Characters of StarCraft - passes the GA nomination should the Wikiproject templates on the page be updated to match this? I noticed you already did this for the Wikipedia Strategy Games template for the article, should it be done to the Wikipedia Video Games template as well? -- Sabre 22:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish space schoolHi, following the rewrite of this article, with plenty of reliable sources to underpin notability, I should be grateful if you would revisit your recommendation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish space school. TerriersFan 00:22, 17 August 2007 (UTC) Spells in Harry potterIt is currently under a deletion review. Therequiembellishere 17:14, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Question About Deleting My ArticleI recently created a Wikipedia page for myself, Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff. I knew Wikipedia opposes autobiographical pages, and I thought about asking others to submit a page for me in their own names, knowing they would gladly have done so, but that seemed not quite honest to me, so I submitted my own page in my own name. I was new to Wikipedia, learning everything from scratch, I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes, and I ultimately included substantial citations to credible outside references which supported what was included in my article. In response to the concerns about the article being autobiographical, I offered to ask others to rewrite the article and add to it, a compromise several editors seemed to view as satisfactory. Shortly after submitting my article, my websites, boards, and blog were targeted for attacks by "not420/chan", "Anon," "Legion", the "Internet Hate Machine," aggressive internet hackers, in other words. My boards were hacked and spammed with racist, misogynist rhetoric and pornography, e-mail accounts of board members were hacked and violated, and my sites were subjected to "gigaloader" attacks over many days which ultimately forced them off the internet. My life has now been threatened many times in e-mails and via comments to my blog, and I have also received many rape threats, as have my commenters, colleagues and supporters. I am still receiving murder and rape threats. My personal information, address, telephone number, and other information was published on "Encyclopedia Dramatica" alongside ongoing strategizing as to how to destroy my websites and web presence, harrass me and my family in an ongoing way, and cause me real life harm. The reason for this targeting and harrassment is that I am an outspoken radical feminist. As part of these attacks, persons were urged to come to Wikipedia and to vote that my Wikipedia article be deleted. Iamcuriousblue, who has evidently written for Wikipedia at some point, was the first advocate for deletion and continued to press for deletion for days and probably weeks. During the discussion of deletion, my article was repeatedly being vandalized, filled with links to racist, misogynist pornograpy, my interracial children were called "mud children," and the most vile speech imaginable was included as "edits", in part by those sent to vandalize the site by Encyclopedia Dramatica. Iamcuriousblue, who again spearheaded the drive to delete my article, has a long history of attacking my writings and political activism because he is opposed to radical feminism and anti-pornography activism and is, himself, a pro-pornography activist. I followed some of the discussion of deletion and noted that fair-minded, intelligent, credible and, most importantly, objective, Wikipedia editors voted not to delete. One editor noted that among certain populations, my name is a household world. He's right, it is. I am cited as a credible outside reference in at least one Wikipedia article. The discussion, however, continued to be spammed with anonymous deletion votes which in fact were part of the internet attacks against me. My sense is that the vote to delete may have resulted more from a desire to end the ongoing, very toxic and hateful vandalism of my page and ongoing flaming and conflicts than because any sort of consensus had been reached that my article should be deleted on its merits. I ultimately cited to many independent, outside references which are, in fact, thoroughly credible. I do not see how what happened to me here can be consistent with the community ethos or values of Wikipedia. I think what happened to me here was wrong. The deletion of the article is now being touted as a "victory" by internet thugs at Encyclopedia Dramatica and elsewhere, as well as by those who oppose my long history of anti-pornography, radical feminist politics. And it is a victory for them, but I think it compromises the credibility of Wikipedia's editorial policies and processes. I would ask that you give what I have written here your serious consideration. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff And I've responded on my page to the slanderous (and serious) responses and ongoing attacks by iamcuriousblue, here and all over the internet, in the interests of taking the first steps in Wiki's Dispute Resolution process. My issue with iamcuriousblue is his conduct, which I think is in violation of Wikipedia's User Conduct policies and guidelines. I posted this here because according to the Dispute Resolution guidelines, we are first to go to those directly involved in the incident that gives rise to the dispute. Thanks for your time. Heartsees2 20:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
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