User talk:Szyslak/Archive 5

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Recently Died Template

Do you think it would be better to change the word "died" to "passed away"? Thanks. B e arly 541 03:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Where's your recently died template? I need to copy it so that I can make a WP:AUTO template. Thanks! Bearly 541 22:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Nah, I was going to re-edit the template in order to make a new one relavent to WP:AUTO. But, seeing this one, I can save some time! Thanks for your help. Bearly 541 22:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Omg

But they're going to end up deleting it if the notice stays! :( -24.92.43.153 21:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

hello szyslak

hey, it seems the ucr "featured article drive" is starting out well. i was thinking for the UC wikiproject, it might be a good idea to post an inquiry or just announce the project on all the UC talk pages, and recruit from there. It seems to me that most of the UC pages are pretty dead, if we have anything to be gratefull to UCRG/IB for, it's for the community that developed in opposition to them.--Amerique ^dialectics 08:13, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. I was wondering if "ranking" the UC articles might be getting ahead of ourselves at this point. Also, participants might want to use such a "ranking" system to justify focusing attention on UCB and UCLA articles. I think it would be better to start out with a dry list of UC articles, which, if they were to be ranked, should be done initially in order of apparent work to be done as opposed to the supposed "importance" of the subject... actually, there is a lot of work to be done on all of them, some maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to rank these articles at all? Anyway, it seems our next move would be to announce the project on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals. If you want to do that I'll post announcements/invitations to the project to all the UC wiki talk pages, maybe with something like "UM and MSU are currently the only featured articles on public universities in the US on Wikipedia. To correct this problem, we've started the UC WikiProject to develop all associated UC articles to featured status." What do you think? Best,--Amerique ^dialectics 20:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello Szyslak,

Re: Good article status for UCR, I don't really know, but I wouldn't mind initiating a peer review to determine how to best improve the article in the meantime. (Should we query the talk page?) I think the referencing format needs a lot of work, and the text of the main campus section is incomplete. I don't really like how things under "Academics" and "Student Life" are currently organized, but the content that's there is ok.

I think your recommendations for phrasing the proposal for the wiki project are good. Let me know once that's posted and I'll use that language in the UC talk page announcements. (Don't mind my comments re: ranking importance. I think i was being paranoid:-)--Amerique ^dialectics 23:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

It seems I have reason to be paranoid around here. Anyway, it may be too early to say this, but the IB:Amerigue SOCK episode seems to have passed. Still no admin action on the IB account, which is discouraging, but I'll continue to check on his user page anytime he (or another sock) posts anything.

Anyway, lets wait til next week before posting the WikiProject. I was thinking it might be better to just create the project base page directly, using the "WikiProject" template, along with announcing the project to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals, and then do UC talk page recruiting. Once we have 5-10 active participants I guess we could hold a meeting as to how we would like the project to work and what we would like to do immediately. Best,--Amerique ^dialectics 17:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your assistance and intervention with the impersonator on Talk:Adolf Hitler - I guess I feel a bit embarassed, how on earth do I tell if this is going on!? Thanks again. MarkThomas 22:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Ditto that, Szyslak! I think its UCRG, but confirmation will depend on whether he's posting from his old IP address or not.-- the "real" Amerique, vandal assassin^dialectics 03:17, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors participation drive!

Dear League member,

We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you can, please help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the articles ready for final proofread section.
Select a different article to proofread from the articles ready for final proofread section.

Thanks for your help! Rintrah 16:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

comma

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Recent_death&diff=107047948&oldid=107015793

Please re-think your reversion; have you forgotten your grammar?--Hollerbackgril 15:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Any more images?

Hey, my page got raked this morning by admin of all "Fair Use" images per WP images policy. I am currently displaying your Merrill College pic for UCSC (I am a Merrill alum :-D, and thanks) and was wondering if you happen to have any more UCSC pics that you would be willing to share as GNU free or Public domain works?

Would it be alright if I uploaded your Merrill College image to Wikimedia commons with credit to you? Public domain photos are usually put there and can be categorized into University of California, etc.

Bob - uriel8 (talk) 17:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of flops

Hi, you withdrew your nomination of the "Lists of flops" and speedy closed the discussion for reason of "Withdrawn by nom". However, as there was already one "delete" vote and a number of the "keep" votes urged keeping not just on procedural grounds (bundled nomination), but on the merits of the several articles, would it not be more appropriate to let the AfD run its coursee? A similar situation has arisen at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bisexual people and the decision was to let the AfD run its course. -- Black Falcon 19:44, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok...

So I can edit later? Thank you for the reply. Dylan Schiff 20:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Television program cancellations by year

Last month, you commented on this CfD - you are encouraged to join the discussion on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television#TV_program_debut/cancellation_categories to gauge consensus on whether to rename the cats, and to what name. Dl2000 02:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheeky usage note

I see you everywhere! :D

That note on usage from the VT massacre page was mine. It born from a marriage of pique and frustration very early this morning. While most Americans were still in bed, the Britons were busy incrementally remaking the articles related to the VT shootings in the Queen's English. The final straw came with a condescending edit summary by an overconfident Canadian.

The intention wasn't to put the Commonwealth people off from editing. It was to put them off from "correcting" spelling and putting full-stops outside of quotes faster than the (small, at that hour) American contingent could set things right again. I put the note on the VT main page, the VT talk page, and the massacre main page. If you could, please leave my version of the note up on VT-proper's pages so no one has to explain why we're getting so anal about the dialect-creep. The note was starting to get in the way on the massacre page though, and I'm glad you came up with something that worked better. --Dynaflow 23:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Recent UCSC reversion

Did you notice that the edit to the UCSC article you just reverted came from a DoD computer? --Dynaflow 07:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

SummerThunder

What is this asshole's problem? He's even following my contribs to make spurious reverts and accuse me of being his own sock puppet on a totally unrelated AfD I'm trying to push through. Was he mistreated as a child or something? God, I hope so. =D --Dynaflow 00:53, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

He strikes me as a guy who starts each morning with a nice, heaping spoonful of crazy in his coffee. I made the mistake of reverting his edits and filling out the form at WP:SSP first before heading over to WP:AIV, but I won't be making that mistake again. I assume that it'll take me approximately thirty seconds to put up sockpuppet tags on his latest avatar and file a report with AIV, and then he can be bludgeoned with the banning bat by whatever sysop is on duty within another minute or so.

I noticed that my SummerThunder report went straight to the head of a rather lengthy AIV line when I submitted it. He certainly seems to be a popular fella 'round those parts. --Dynaflow 03:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I've done some poking around on teh Internets, and I think I've figured out who "夏雷" is. Well, I don't have a name as of yet, but I have a probable age, a location, a couple of e-mail addresses and a cell phone number (I used to work for a private investigation service, and I am bored -- a deadly combination). I'm really not sure what I'd do with this information, but it's nice to know that the smug bastard isn't as anonymous as he thinks he is. Y'know, I can't say I disagree with his politics (judging by his posts to Digg, cNet, and elsewhere), but the way he goes about promoting his views is incredibly obnoxious and immature in the extreme. The paranoid shlemiel is doing his cause more harm than good. Oh, this may strike you as funny: [1] --Dynaflow 04:42, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, that was an interesting game of whack-a-mole. Without running afoul of the no-personal-information thing, I have reason to believe that SummerThunder is a college dropout in his mid-thirties who most likely acquired his bitterness towards PRC Internet practices while he was teaching English in China, possibly in Sichuan. If it's not him I've dug up, then SummerThunder can take comfort in the fact that he has a karmic twin "out there" with similar linguistic quirks, pet peeves, and username preferences. --Dynaflow 10:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I experienced this user tonight as sock-puppet Gyroglad. What a strange cat!!—Gaff ^ταλκ 09:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

UCSC article

Whoo!: [2] --Dynaflow babble 19:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, while I'm here, the best SummerThunder revert, ever: [3] --Dynaflow babble 03:01, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Sierra Nevada is always good for a celebration. I'm probably going to skip the champagne and head straight for the Wild Turkey instead once we get that thing up to featured status. Do yo want to take on one of the tasks from the UCSC Talk page? I'm thinking of continuing to work on the history section. --Dynaflow babble 07:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

College Nine Article

This is a courtesy notice to you regarding the College Nine article. You appear to be a substantial contributer to the article. The article is uncited, contains possibly original content, and is not neutral. It has been flagged as such. -- Nuncio 22:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Pictures

Thanks for the info. Jorobeq 03:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Anaheim Angels/Anaheim Ducks

I left a comment at Talk:Los Angeles, California stating my opinion. Please check back there and reply to my comment. Thank you. --Ksy92003 (talk) 14:25, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I've started a survey on this issue on the Los Angeles talk page to hopefully get this dispute resolved. --Oakshade 01:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks, Szyslak, for the rousing welcome. :) I will continue to ask for help from members like you until I get the hang of being a sound contributor. --bandishhh 12:00, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Tidied ...

... your userpage just a bit. Hope you don't mind :) - Alison ☺ 06:54, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Good batch

Hi, Andrew pmk. I noticed you just welcomed Good batch (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I wanted to make you aware he's a sockpuppet of hardbanned user SummerThunder. See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/SummerThunder and Wikipedia:List of banned users#SummerThunder. szyslak 10:38, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

How do you know that? This user's edits seem legitimate. Have you checkusered Good batch or something? Andrew_pmk | Talk 10:42, 26 June 2007 (UTC)