Just trying to get things better organized around there. Toward that end, I've created a task list template for the project. If all the members of the project placed it on their user page, we could all keep in touch more easily (with announcements, alerts, etc.). It, and the latest announcements can be found at:
Thanks for the advice, but I'd rather go without one. Kinda one of the problems of being an IP that I'm going to keep-to show we can edit without special tools. I know how much it would help, and I really appreciate it, but I think I'll have to hold out for now. 69.145.123.171Hello! Monday, July 3, 2006, 19:37 (UTC)
Sure. But I'd like to represent anons as a whole, not just those who can get monobooks. Again, thanks. It wasa really nice idea and I normally would have accepted. When I undertook this idea, however, it changed my plans. I'm afraid I'll have to go without one, much as I'd like to have one. 69.145.123.171Hello! Monday, July 3, 2006, 19:44 (UTC)
After browsing your userpage, I found some really awesome stuff, like the nifty piece of work of the statuschange. I set it up on my page, and credited you. I'm just making sure that it's alright, and congratulating you for the truly awesome bit of wikiing you've done. Thanks! .ιΙ Inhuman14 Ιι.( talk | contrib)01:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
George, will you please block Shakim67? He has repedeatly vandalized my talk page and Samir's talk page, the latest example of which is here. He was blocked and warned yesterday, and he has also blanked his warnings. Please help me, Thetruthbelow"aka" Mr. Matt01:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't know what kind of money you wanted, as I don't know of any (at least not here) money that has signs in the corners and such. I should've told you but I've been caught up in work and all in the last month. Master of PuppetsGiant Enemy Crab!02:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I finall finished; just a small abstract image with a bit of blurring text (hope you don't mind that it's an animation). Of course, if you don't like it or want something changed, feel free to tell me, I won't mind. Hope you like it and cheers, Master of PuppetsGiant Enemy Crab!06:20, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yo. How're you doing? :) Well, erm, okay, fine. Could you please make me an admin on this test wiki I know you're on? :) I'm under the same username, since I obviously love Oreo cookies. Erm, well, yeah. I know I don't know Xyrael but I'll get around to it eventually... Øřêōş15:16, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You blocked me. XP You can't unblock yourself...can you? o.0 I once blocked you for two seconds... Øřêōş20:53, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Being my idiot self I must have not seen it earlier. :P Too bad you can't block someone for a nanosecond. That would be funny. Øřêōş21:41, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Those articles look REALLY overly technical, just posting the source code with little explanation, but it's still helpful. --Robocracy17:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I'm glad you approve. I've also just left brief instructions for using the template without all the extras. I just hope I haven't broken (m)anyone's current use of it... Yours, David02:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
PS Have added comment within {{wikibreak}} code to explain presence of parameters not mentioned on the template's page.
Maybe we should just TfD the other ones now. Or we can integrate a {{#switch in the main one so we can have all of them in one template.GeorgeMoney(talk)23:35, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've just converted {{Long wikibreak}}, {{Attempting wikibreak}} and {{Exams}} into calls to {{Wikibreak}}, but #switch may be better; I'm not knowledgeable about ParserFunctions. I guess these templates could be TfDed if/when their use is replaced by calls to {{wikibreak}}, perhaps something a bot could fulfil...? Hopefully no-one currently using them would be offended...
Seems fine to me. So long as the unified template remains simple to use for those folk not interested in tweaking it but carries the functionality for those who are, I'd say it's an improvement. How best to handle the legacy of those folk currently using the old template or its variants is something I feel others more experienced than I should handle; as before, commandeering a bot to update these instances would seem the norm. Thanks for your work! David14:56, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations! To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well! ♥!~Kylu (u|t)23:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for contributing the impressive the pile of supports gathered on my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 0x0104/0x01/0x00. I'm happy that so many people have put faith in my abilities as an admin and promise to use the tools wisely and do my best not to let you down. If I ever may be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page. Misza13, the rouge-on-demand admin wishes you happy editing!
NOTE: This message has been encrypted with the sophisticated ROT-26 algorithm. Ability to decipher it indicates a properly functioning optical sensor array.
I have a question. Is it considered acceptable to modify or highlight the postings made by another editor on the talk page of an article ? NATTO08:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The article edit goal is good, especially writing from scratch a few good new ones, and doing some major improvements to others, you want to point to solid contributions to the encyclopedia. Active vandal fighting with all the appropriate warnings and WP:AIV notifications will get you noticed too. You already have contributed to Wikipedia space discussions, keep adding to your expertise by participating in more and different policy areas than you have so far. It may not be a good idea to force yourself to wait so long to do an RfA, candidates with 10,000+ edits (with some discount for the mass edits - such as your new user welcomings) raise eyebrows too for why they waited so long. Pick a date that will fall after one month of solid activity, and focus that month on doing tasks that could be done easier as an admin, giving us a reason to promote you. Your history is already in the past, waiting a year will not gain you any more than just waiting another 3 months or so. Also, seek out to be helpful to all those regular RfA voters, with your tech abilities that should be easy enough to do (just don't forget to help me ;). I have always navigated my way into new and interesting areas of Wikipedia by selected a few good users and following them around, looking at their contributions list. You are doing fine, just build some good articles and jump into the hot discussions (AfD and ANI etc.) always as the voice of reason of course. NoSeptember 22:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
You only look desperate if you apply too early or too often, you are not in that situation. Just wait for a well respected editor to nominate you and no one will see that as desperate (of course you can arrange a nomination ahead of time). I knew my nomination was coming ahead of time and I changed my editing pattern to facilitate positive voting, although I probably didn't need to. If you don't like vandal fighting, don't do it, except for that few weeks right before your RfA (gaming the system a little bit doesn't hurt). Just show us that we need to give you tools so you can help us in some way. I don't use my admin tools as much as many do, but when I stumble onto something, they are useful to have (people requesting autoblocks lifted or pages deleted, etc.). My philosophy is to accept the tools when you think the community is ready to give them to you, even if you aren't planning to use them heavily to start with. Many big time editors go along fine until one day they get into a big fight or pick up a trollish enemy. If this happens to you, wouldn't it be better if it happened after you became an admin? If it comes before, your enemy will make it a big issue on your RfA. On one of his subpages, Durin has done some calculations that show that after a certain point, those who wait to become admins actually have a lower success rate. Oh, and no complaints about the welcomings - that's a good thing. I was just saying that if someone questions why you waited until you had 20,000 edits you could explain that X,000 were welcomes using AWB or whatever. Having 20,000 manual edits looks suspicious. These are just my views, I am sure others see things differently. Have a Happy Birthday :-). NoSeptember 09:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the (late) birthday greeting! The only reason I'm not on the Esperanza calendar is because a new member (about a week or so) and I haven't gotten around to putting it up yet. Hope your birthday was fun, too! :) --EvanRobidoux02:28, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
P.S.: Yeah, the 26th is my birthday, too. Weird, huh? (OK, mabye not. I know a lot of people who have the same birthdays.)
Hey, George, thanks for supporting my RfA, which registered a tally of 104/4/7. Which means...
I am now an admin!!!
I was and still am very flattered by all the kind comments that I recieved, I will also take into account the comments about how I could improve. I guarantee I will try my best to further assist Wikipedia with the mop. Feel free to drop in and say hi or if you need anything. Again, thank you so much! Yanksox04:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Welcoming the user sounded like a good idea, so I've done that.
It seems unlikely the user will respond, though, and it looks like the page may be used to host original research of some sort which may later be added to an article.
The user's name seems to be an attempt to create an article in the user's name space, but I agree that good faith should be assumed (the page was nominated as such).
My main problem with the page was it wouldn't be easy to notify the user of concerns about their editing or for the user to spot them: maybe a move might be more appropriate if this is the case.
Sorry for the delayed response. I'm worried that constantly subst'ing a template would increase server load, when I don't see much of a need for people to change the format. It also could look ugly if the format is changed, as then several different formats would be used on Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations. What are your thoughts on the matter? -- Where16:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would be open to suggestions if you want to change the format (although for the previously mentioned reasons, I'm not sure if it wsould be a good idea to make it use a template). Regarding edit summaries, it is a good idea, but I sadly do not have time to fix that at the moment. Thanks very much! -- Where22:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Mr. George... how are you? Today's my first day of a new school grade, which sucks :P Dropping to say hi. Hey, did Snopake leave or something? Øřêōş20:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
For any interested users, GM threatened to block an indefinitely blocked account. See User:KI. I wonder what standard wikipedia guideline led him to make this threat... Tchadienne18:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"Please do not remove warnings from your talk page or replace them with offensive content. Removing or maliciously altering warnings from your talk page will not remove them from the page history. If you continue to remove or vandalize warnings from your talk page, you will lose your privilege of editing your talk page. You have been reverted many times by many users. Please stop now. GeorgeMoney (talk) 00:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)"
I added a few </div>'s. Is it OK now? No, I haven't been able to fix the color issue. NoSeptember 11:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
About the color issue:
Do you mean the font color is bleeding through? Or the background of the hide/show box?. If it is the font color, which it is most likely to be, look at this screenshot of it fixed. Is that what you wanted? screenshot here. GeorgeMoney (talk) 14:26, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your efforts, but it is the background that has the problem. It is the blue background that I cannot seem to remove. I've uploaded a new version of your screenshot highlighting the problem of the blue background bleeding through. I have tried to removed it, but I can't find where it is coming from. screenshot here. Thanks. -JCarriker14:56, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi George! I saw your css code on main page's discussion. Would you know some code to put the box of categories at the top of the article pages? :) Thanks, and sorry for the bad english. Cyb3r17:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the post on my page. However, my movement on the pages were not done. I was going to have an Admin merge Full House to Full House (disambiguation) so there would be no disambiguation page. Full House the topic should not automatically direct to the show. Thanks 04:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
I didn't get a chance to mention the merger on proposed page. Also, it's debatable whether people type Full House for the show or the poker hand. I came for the poker hand. Kyros05:34, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, beautiful rpotd. Do you mind if I make that one one of the ones that recycle when there isn't a potd for that day? My rpotd is getting much less contributors recently, so I had to start a recycling system using m:ParserFunctions. GeorgeMoney (talk) 01:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
By all means, add it to the rotation. I'll see if I have anything else particularly impressive to contribute as well. :-) --ghoti21:40, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi George. I notice you've changed the "ö" characters in the Oberon article to "ö". I think this is a bad move. People who don't have that character on their keyboard (e.g. me) will be unable easily to change the article.
OrangUtanUK10:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You were half of the people that I want to remember as friends from Wikipedia. I have left because this place is getting worse. If you want to still talk to me, repsond to this with an email or IM address. I am never coming back under this user name. ―Linux|erist23:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
