User talk:Clicketyclack/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

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==Thanks==

Thanks for your help with the Independent Media Center page. I think we did a good job. JamieJones ^talk 13:07, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Anytime. Yeah I think your average WP reader (including supporters & critics of IMC) can be satisfied with what's there now. Time will tell I guess. :) Clicketyclack 16:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

yeah man, we gotta get that pov offa there again! JamieJones ^talk 19:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Invitation

I noted your recent edits to the Diocese of Sourozh article and wanted to invite you to come over to OrthodoxWiki and edit the parallel and similar articles there. —A.S. Damick ^{talk contribs} 02:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Fr. Andrew. I do have an account on OrthodoxWiki, and have contributed a few minor edits. I'll try to contribute something more substantial soon. Clicketyclack 09:10, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy

Hi there! I've noticed that you've edited articles pertaining to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I wanted to extend an invitation to you to join the WikiProject dedicated to organizing and improving articles on the subject, which can be found at: WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy. This WikiProject was begun because a need was perceived to raise the level of quality of articles on Wikipedia which deal with the Eastern Orthodox Church.

You can find information on the project page about the WikiProject, as well as how to join and how to indicate that you are a member of the project. Additionally, you may be interested in helping out with our collaboration of the month. I hope you'll consider joining and thank you for your contributions thus far! —A.S. Damick ^{talk contribs} 03:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:DPL

Thank you for your help with the disambiguation page Nomenclature. However, please don't change the link count when you move a page from the "To do" section to the "Done" section. We keep track of the original number of links to see how close we have come to completing the dump. Also, I noticed that there are still about 40 pages with links to nomenclature in the article namespace. We usually don't move a page to done when there are that many remaining, even though 42 is a lot less than 100. Again, thanks for your help, and I hope you'll work on fixing ambiguous links again in the future! Dekimasuが．．． 04:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

My apologies! Thanks for setting me straight about this, and thanks also for correcting my changes to the Done section. Clicketyclack 08:41, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Judging on the frequency of your edits, you do all the boring disambiguation job manually. May I suggest that you get hold of AWB, which is an ideal tool for such jobs? Just apply for the download here. Thanks for the good job. Duja► 09:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, I will download and register for that today. Clicketyclack 09:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Rating the ToK

Hi. I'm trying to get members of the Psychology Project to get together and rate the both the quality and importance of the Tree of Knowledge System. Hope you're interested. Have a great day! EPM 19:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Re Othodox Christian (now redirect page)

You prodded it as having a misspelling in the title. I think that was the point, actually, so I removed the prod. Redirects from common spelling errors are acceptable. You could always take the page to Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. --N Shar 06:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Re Cultural mediation

Thanks for looking at the article. I was wondering if you could give specific advice on how to make the article conform with wikipedia standartds so I can get the tags removed. Important note. As a graduate student of Vygotsky, I have found that the birthday cake example is a very powerful way of explaining the theory of cultural mediation. Without it, most people under-estimate the power and all encompassing nature of cultural mediation. So I wopuld like to keep the example while mmeeting wiki standards. amerywu Feb 20, 2007

Thanks for all your work on it, it's a very accessible introduction to a difficult subject. I'll dive in now and wikify it a bit. Clicketyclack 16:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

corrects

Hi,

I want to thank You for correcting Żelechów article. I haven`t fought there is much errors in it, until this edit ... Well, I have been thinking of putting en-3 in my babel, until this edit. Now I see that I must learn more ... Thanks Sfu 21:55, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Anytime! I've not been able to become truly fluent in a second language yet. Even in a highly regular language like Spanish, I can only honestly rate myself es-1. So I respectfully tip my hat to any non-native speaker of a highly irregular language like English who can climb to the heights of en-2 or en-3. Clicketyclack 11:35, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit

Thank you for your edits to Massachusetts Maritime Academy. I like how you made the article clearer by editing the wikilinks. I feel I've learned from your edits. I plan on making a Marine Transportation page to describe that specific major, but for now your edit to change those links to lead to ship transport is a good one. Again, thank you. -- Pesco 05:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

You're most welcome- glad to hear the edits make it clearer. -- Clicketyclack 10:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Jensen page

I'm much newer than you, James A Jensen being my first contribution. I'm not even sure if this is the way to reply to you and let you know I read your notes and appreciate them. It is interesting how much our interests overlap - biology is probably the lowest interest level for me from your list but it's there. I did a Ph.D in linguistics and anthropology at Indiana University in 1973 so overlap you in several areas that way. Anyway, thanks for your contribution.Doctorjrj 16:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

That's good to hear, thanks. Jensen was a remarkable man, but I'd not heard of him until the disambiguation link appeared in a list I was working on. Are you by any chance related? Thanks for introducing him- it's a very well-written entry. And yes our interests do certainly seem to overlap, though I haven't got a Ph.D. yet! Hope to work with you some more soon. Clicketyclack 23:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for peer review

The article Clinical psychology has just been listed for peer review. You are invited to lend your editing eyes to see if it needs any modifications, great or small, before it is submitted to the Featured Article review. Then head on over to the peer review page and add your comments, if you are so inspired. Thank you!! Psykhosis 20:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Cathay Camera Club edits

Hi ClicketyClack. I noticed you made a minor edit to Cathay Camera Club. I'm actually a member of this club. Can you tell me how I can stop the page being classed as a 'notability problem' ? Hkrick 15:13, 25 March 2007 (GMT)

Hello Hkrick, the best advice can be found in Wikipedia:Notability, including in some of the links on that page. I recently found this essay useful too.

In a nutshell, articles need to cite reliable, external sources to demonstrate notability. For the CCC, this might include citations in the news, or in online histories, or some other source (I'm not a photographer myself, so you'd be the best judge of that) that demonstrates the club's notability in the photography world. Searching for "Cathay Camera Club" in several English-language search engines may be helpful with this.

Bear in mind that the admins evaluating it for deletion are probably not photographers, and probably not from Hong Kong, so try to let the evidence require as little local or specialist knowledge as possible. Good luck! Clicketyclack 08:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Edit Summary

		The Edit Summary Award
		For your amazing use of edit summaries, I award you this Edit summary award, created on the fly ;-). Keep editing this way, and good luck! Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 09:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

BTW, I'll deal with your NPWatcher application ASAP. Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 09:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

My first WP award, hurray! :-) Thanks. Clicketyclack 09:14, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Your NPWatcher Application

Dear Clicketyclack,

Thank you for applying for NPWatcher! You've been approved to use it. Before you run the program, please check the changelog on the application page to see if there is a newer release (or just add the main page (here) to your watchlist). Report any bugs or feature suggestion here. If you need help, feel free to contact me or join NPWatcher.

Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 10:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Ash Discography

You're right. I was too quick on the trigger this time. Shoessss 15:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

No worries. It's a pretty busy day for spam today... Thanks, Clicketyclack 15:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Need another opinion on Buyology

Noticed that we've both tagged Buyology for speedy delete and the author has removed the tag each time. User:MrsWardh wrote back that it's not intended to be an add. Do you want to take a look at it again? I'm at least going to tell MrsWardh to stop removing the db-spam tag. Thanks Ar-wiki 16:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

IMO, it's definitely blatant advertising: "Buyology stores offer the general public key products for day to day use. When entering a store you can get a variety of items for your home or garden. From quality furniture at budget prices to food and drink." Clicketyclack 16:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk:William F. Halsey, Sr.

Please see the discussion there. — MrDolomite • Talk 02:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Elementary School

I was just in the middle of creating a stub page for the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic School. It has taken me an hour or so. In the middle of my editing, you marked it with a "This article or section is written like an advertisement." Please point me to an elementary school article that doesn't sound like an advertisement. It's an elementary school, for crying out loud, not a government!
I don't know whether you looked at the awards or not, but this is one of the top schools in the country. I know. They all say that. But it has made "the" lists during the years. I have moved around the country a LOT and this is the best I have ever seen.
I think you should cut schools, particularly the lower grade ones, a little slack. I have worked with colleges and high schools and this is no worse, and in some ways a lot better than most of them. It is also (to tell the truth) more distinguished, relatively speaking, than most of them.
If you're looking to pick on an article, try the United States Navy. They could use a little criticism! The US Navy has never done anything wrong! Try picking on those adults for awhile and see where it gets you!
If your job as an admin requires you to bully grade school articles, I apologize! Student7 23:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello. I've edited it to make it sound less like an ad, and remove the advertising tag. By the way, what would you like to see changed on the US Navy page? Have you considered editing it yourself to improve it? Thanks, Clicketyclack 00:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes. You've improved it. Thanks.

I still don't see what set you off, though. What set me off is I was in the middle of creating the article out of nothing. It was (and is) a stub. I have to take the info from somewheres. At this level and this subject, it's usually done from material that may well be advertising. I try to trim it down. While it may not have been enough, I still don't see why this article was singled out from among all the schools in the United States which sound pretty much the same. Student7 00:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Your new page turned up during Wikipedia:New pages patrol.

To avoid having your new pages being tagged with warnings while you're editing them, you might want to create your own subpage for "sandbox" editing, make the edits there until you're satisfied with the result, then post the contents up to a newly created page. Thanks, Clicketyclack 00:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:Girl w/Pearl Earring

Thanks for the help. Glad to see that there are still some sane Wikipedians out there. Axem Titanium 22:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Axem Titanium 03:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

History of the Jews in Iceland

Hello. Please have a look at the recent contributions of the editor who half-removed the prod: Special:Contributions/86.135.23.96. The prod removal looks like more vandalism. Also, please note what the prod tag says:

If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason. To avoid confusion, it helps to explain why you object to the deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page.

So we really should keep the prod tag up for now since, as you noted earlier, it's worse than no article at all in its present state. If the author(s) objects, then let's come to a consensus about what to do. Thanks, Clicketyclack 18:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate your concern but the rule with prod has always been that anyone can remove the tag - even shady anonymous editors who don't provide a reason. The pertinent part from the quote above is "You may remove this message ... if you ... object to deletion of the article for any reason." I still think the article should be deleted but at this point we have to bring it to AfD if we still wish to pursue the matter. Haukur 09:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, scratch that. It seems the article was copied from here so I've speedied it as a copyvio. Haukur 09:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Well spotted, thanks. Clicketyclack 11:06, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks with your help on fixing categories on Allocation questionnaire. What are the rules on making such categories and such widgets? How can I improve my new articles? Obi-Wan Clicketyclack, help me! Bearian 22:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

(waves his hand horizontally) "These aren't the categories you're looking for." :-)

Hello. Wikipedia:Categorization is the best place to start learning about categorization. Anything more specific, just ask away: there's a fantastically helpful community here. Clicketyclack 08:03, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

ooxml

Adding in links for a "white paper" asked for by an action groups against OOXML I consider link spam. The whole document is only created for bringing forth POV which should not be in the wiki article. As it is the article is already filled with a lot of POV already. Also the linked docment is certainly not a white paper but just a long onesides complaint about ooxml.

And finally the person who editted them in is likely the person who wrote them. All his edits are adding in links from the freesoftwaremagazine. It is bad policy to allow people to anonoumsly add in their own articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.84.111.211 (talk • contribs)

You're right, that editor seems to be linkspamming, though please note that you have contributed many more anonymous edits, to many fewer articles.  :-)

That paper, however, provides a useful comparison between the two formats, and contributes to understanding OOXML, even if it does openly express a POV in a debate. There is a separate article Comparison of OpenDocument and Office Open XML formats though, and the link more correctly belongs there, so I'll restore your edit to Office Open XML. Thanks for the heads-up. Clicketyclack 12:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Accusations of French genocide against Algerians

Why did you put the re-creation tag back? I can't find any AfD discussion related to this article. -- lucasbfr ^talk 14:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello- there's a link to the AFD discussion in the db-repost you just reverted, have a look. The verdict was "Delete", so I assume the speedy should stay up. Not sure why it's been up so many months since the debate ended though. Clicketyclack 15:22, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

The deletion discussion wasn't for that article, and I analyzed the deleted histories of the two articles, they are different. I, as the restoring admin removed the tag. You are welcome to nominate it for deletion again, but I feel that a new deletion discussion should be made.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 17:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Uh-oh. You're right, I didn't check the archive title carefully enough. Sorry.

No, I won't nominate for deletion again, since I don't want to see it deleted: I only thought I was preventing someone over-ruling a strong consensus for deletion. Thanks for clearing that up. Clicketyclack 17:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from creating inappropriate pages such as Andrew siegel. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Clicketyclack 01:07, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Miss Arkansas Outstanding Teen

Thanks for putting in the redirect. I got interrupted part-way through by a waking kidlet. Gruber76 03:23, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

No worries. :-) Clicketyclack 08:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Reply

See my bots talk page. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 11:14, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

See it again. (Well this time it's my talk page since I'm logged in as my bot :) ) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RBot (talk • contribs) 21:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC).

Oops...my bot account auto-marks all edits as minor, and minor bot edits don't make a "new messages bar," so just see my bots talk like I said above. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 23:39, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

You know the drill :) --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 00:23, 5 May 2007 (UTC)