User talk:Redvers/Archive13

This is an archive. Edit here, get ignored. So don't edit here. QED? ⇨REDVEЯS 21:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

tranter vandalism & implied death threat?

also noticed this ([1]) eventually while rv-ing the categories. one assumes the same person, is this grounds for banning both?  ⇒ bsnowball  13:14, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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3RR and removal of sockpuppet tags

Hi. I notice that you have been monitoring the Hanuman Das, Danuman Has situation. Could you please advise me on the following question. The 3RR rule generally does not apply to edits to ones own user page. Does it apply to removal of sockpuppet/puppetmaster notices? The notes to the suspect state that the the notice should not be removed for 10 days. Would removal of such a notice still be exempt from 3RR rule? --BostonMA ^talk 21:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I see that the question has become somewhat moot. However, if you know the answer, I am still curious. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 21:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. No, I wasn't objecting to your action. I was wondering what the rules were. I notice that Hanuman Das has declared that he will not use socks in the future, which inclines me to support his unblocking (or at least shortening the block). On the other hand, he is very reluctant to listen to others, which is likely to land him in trouble again. I think I would personally give him another chance, perhaps after a cooling off period. I know other editors would be angry at me for that, because an indefinite block would eliminate a long standing conflict. But I am in general of the opinion that if an editor is willing to work on improving his/her conduct, that he/she should get a second chance. Just my $.02. Thanks again for the response. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 21:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Lol. "has argued that you won't disrupt Wikipedia in future". I didn't say it quite like that. ;-). By the way, now I will have to duck rotten tomatoes being thrown at me. ;-) --BostonMA ^talk 22:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, since you insist, I'll ask. What is going on in RL? (If you really don't want to say, take this as a joke, and accept that I wish you well whatever your travails). --BostonMA ^talk 22:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for protecting User_talk:Danuman Has. I only intended to use it for a single edit as a joke. Seems some people have no sense of humor. Another user, as far as I know not an admin, who is in a content dispute with me removed db-user tags from both pages. He has engaged in both conflict of interest and harassment over this incident, which in no way called for such abuse. The sock made NO POLICY VIOLATIONS WHATSOVER. This whole thing is ridiculous! Please delete and lock both user and talk pages, and lock the account so nobody can use it. Thanks. —Hanuman Das 21:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Why is it that I make a single joke edit with a sockpuppet and get harassed for it, yet Mattisse who has been [confirmed to have used 18 sockpuppets abusively has not been indefinitely blocked for it? Why? —Hanuman Das 21:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again!

Seems to have worked this time. Cheerio! —Hanuman Das 23:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day, Redvers/Archive13, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and Bearly541! Congrats for staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Have a great day! --Randfan

Have a great day! Randfan 20:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Good job for staying with us! Keep up the good work. Cheers! :) —Randfan!! 00:52, 15, December of the year Anno Domini 2006m (UTC)

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Party!!

Dear Redvers, Happy first edit day! May you enjoy many more. Thankyou for contributing to the project for an amazing amount of time. Hope all goes well for you, and have a great day. Dfrg.msc ^{1 . 2 . Editor Review} 05:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Whee! Syrthiss 12:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 17:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Email

Hi, I sent you an email yesterday. Hope you got it. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 02:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Like your own ready-made project?

Yes? Know WikiProject BBC? Yes? Then take it, its yours. Unisouth 11:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest

Your whole argument that you are creating an encyclopedia, so smaller, local, bands should not be included is a contradiction. According to Merriam Webster this is what an encyclopedia is.

Main Entry: en·cy·clo·pe·dia Pronunciation: in-"sI-kl&-'pE-dE-& Function: noun Etymology: Medieval Latin encyclopaedia course of general education, from Greek enkyklios + paideia education, child rearing, from paid-, pais child -- more at FEW

a work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject

All branches of knowledge insinuates that people from Valrico, Florida should be able to lookup bands, from their area, on this "encyclopedia". Maybe what your definition of an encyclopedia is more like a history book, where only "notable" things and events are included. I just find it hard to believe that you exclude information in an encyclopedia. Its suppose to have information on anything and everything. A library of knowledge, for research. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thatsme804 (talk • contribs) 20:42, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

Hello

Popping in to say hi. --BostonMA ^talk 03:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

'List'

OK, I need some help here. On your user page, you have a list of userboxes in one the right side of your page. How can I make a 'list' of those on the right side of my user page? --Kabuto Yakushi1 20:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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on your user page you mention that practice makes perfect. How exactly do you practice???

Why the heck do u care? D•a•r•k•n•e•s•s•L•o•r•d•i•a•n•••CCD••• 15:23, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Reasons for Quitting

This is the "Wikipedia" reason I'm quitting. These fair use laws (even though I don't live in Florida), these complaints, these WP:____ which I haven't even heard about, these facts they've reverted even though they know it's true but it's unsourced even though there isn't any source of it yet on the internet). My immediate "BOO"s on my self-RfA really helped my stress now.

Now the real world. You see, the person behind Simply MP had been invading my privacy making fun of my userpage, and that was a little takedown. My mother has anger issues, my sister is a demon, my school has cruel teachers and even crueler bullies, etc. etc. etc.

Good friends, I say goodbye. I might still come back to chat, or edit my fav pages, but the number-two (can't forget Jimbo ;) ) user is not gonna do anything spectacular anymore.

Redvers, you may not remember me, but you uploaded an image for me, remember? I thank you for that, and that is why I'm giving u this message. ;)

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Interested?

Hi Redvers, You probably don't know me (or you probably do) but I like to help/welcome newcomers and as a result I have created my own little Help Desk for newcomers and anyone seeking help, and I have created a section titled "Still need help? ask another editor!" and have writen about what to do if you need help and I have mentioned about the {{helpme}} tag and other stuff, but I have also added the "Ask one of my recommended administrators" (I promise, you will understand this fully if you see the article) and I am in the process of picking admins to add to that list, and as you are priviledged you get to be the second admin on that list :-), but it would require helping anyone who wanted questions answering and helping newcomers, etc... So if you dont mind (If you dont want to be on the list, because your too busy, etc... I totally understand) becoming one of my recommended admins on my list? If you do, you can add your name straight on to the list, or be just telling me a simple "yes" and your name will be added.

You reserve the right to remove your name from the list at any time, for whatever reason. If you do remove your name, i will not quiz you for the reason you did.

Thanks

Dep. Garcia ^{(Talk to Me)} 18:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for argeeing to help, as soon as the RL problems are sorted out i will add you to the list, just let me know.

Dep. Garcia ^{(Talk) (Help Desk)} 17:19, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7518 Maybe they'll fix it. It's been up there for months, though, and so far ignored. Anomo 12:43, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

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Accessibility issues

Hello. Nice page! However, I've made some small changes to avoid some accessibility problems: non-decorative images should have an 'alt' text, namely section headers. Otherwise, blind users couldn't read that content (use a text only browser to see the problems).

Other important point is that those section headers should be <h2> instead of <h3>, but I haven't make this change myself because it will underline them. Do you know how to fix this with CSS? Thanks for your attention. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Suruena (talk • contribs) 11:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

Thanks for making changes to my user pages to fit with the accessibility policy. This policy doesn't apply to user pages, so your effort, whilst appreciated, was probably a bit misdirected with a million and a half content pages to assess first. Nevertheless, I have noted the hard work you put in on the page.

The changes you made to the transcluded /Talkheader page I use broke the operation of the talk page itself and caused users wishing to edit the talk page confusion. They emailed me instead, which led to a delay in replying and further confusion. I reverted those changes as, on that basis, they seemed to reduced accessibility in the name of increasing it.

Whilst I don't claim ownership of my user pages - quite the reverse - it is estabilished Wikipedia etiquette to consult with a user before editing "their" pages unless removing serious policy violations. It is also established etiquette to sign your edits on talk pages as not doing so is a complete barrier to accessibility and is just plain annoying.

Thanks for your edits and I hope you enjoy building articles for Wikipedia in future. ➨ ЯEDVERS 21:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Redvers. Sorry if my changes annoyed you, I've made before accessibility improvement to other user pages like User:Fir0002, and people have never complained (quite the reverse, because now they understand how easy is to have an accessible user page and they make the proper maintenance). Also I'd like to ask you why do you think this policy doesn't apply to user pages. User pages are important when you want to communicate with another editor, and disabled wikipedians should be able to read them too. I'm interested in this point, because otherwise the policy should be changed to reflec this. Thank you very much.

More specifically about the accessibiliy changes —I assume the problematic changes are not those made to your user page but only to your talk page— you are right with respect to the edit button: it can be confusing, and thus reducing usability. That image need not be a header in this case, however it is a non-decorative image so it should have a non-void 'alt' text (in this case it can be simply "Welcome!"). Best regards. --surueña 09:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

PS: Feel free to reply on your talk page (so the question and answer are together). I ALWAYS watch talk pages I've posted comments to for a while.

PS2: I am an experienced wikipedian, and probably this was the first time I forgot to sign a message :-)

Well, yes, I confess to being annoyed. On several levels. First, there are 1.5m pages of content on Wikipedia and someone chooses to make user pages accessible. I appreciate that you don't see the ridiculousness of this plan, but I would have to postulate that any plan that tackles something a minor as user pages before making the actual content accessible has a very big fundamental flaw when it comes to understanding what Wikipedia is for. Put it this way: if we ever ran out of server space, what namespace would we delete first? Second, I don't care whether your friend was happy with the changes you made or not. You could simply have asked me (and, for my user page, got a resounding "yes!") but you didn't. You just made the changes you wanted to make and then told me about them. Whilst I don't own my user page, asking me would have been common courtesy. Thirdly, if you're going to make inessential changes to inessential pages, please don't break them. You caused confusion for new users, you caused extra work for me and you generally made life harder for five people (ignoring anyone who didn't write to me because of the confusion you caused). You didn't even correct the errors - just walked off after failing to RV them when you knew you'd done a boo-boo.

So, yes, I am annoyed. And my typing this - something I put off - is making me more annoyed at you. That's not good. So I suggest we call a truce here and go our separate ways on this subject. You're a great editor and well respected for very good reasons, but I happen to believe you're misguided on this issue. And, if you're sensible, you should think the same of me, given the diatribe above! But I hope you'll avoid messing with mark-up you don't understand in pages that are inessential to the project and instead concentrate your obvious talents to those pages that those of us with disabilities would like improvements to be made.

And, in case it isn't clear, I'm really sorry for my tone in this post, but I was really really pissed off and it has taken time for it to drain away. Happy editing! ⇨REDVEЯS 20:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Transparent background for band logos

Hi there, how's it going for you? I posted this upon request of your help. I have a logo for a band, and in that i need a way in which I get rid of the unneeded white background so that it will be able to blend in with the lightsteelblue background of Template:Infobox musical artist. I don't have Photoshop, so could you suggest any ways. Thanks! '''[[User:Suduser85|(SUDUSER)'''^{[[User talk:Suduser85|85]]}]] 15:37, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

RfA

Can non-admins add statements of support to an RfA? Thanks! --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 04:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Season's greetings to you Redvers, I hope you have fun under the mistletoe and see in the Ney Year with style! --Alf ^melmac 10:15, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

I see that others have wished you a merry Christmas, so I will go out on a limb and wish you a merry Christmas as well. People started editting Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BostonMA so I thought I should complete it :-). I have accepted the nomination, and I would be pleased if you would list it. (I do notice that there is a date on the top that will need to be corrected -- but I'm sure you know about that.) I feel very honored. Thank-you. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 22:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

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