User:Irunongames 2009 Archive

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Just checking in

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Hey Irunongames! Just saying hey, and that your recent contributions look really great! I especially liked your mature handling of the message board cruft on Talk:Channel One News, with the deletion and warning - great stuff. While you seem to be doing awesomely, please remember you can always poke me with a question or for help. Happy editing! FlyingToaster 23:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

  • Hey Toaster! It's been a while :(. Yea, I've become more active in the past cupple of days. Also as a person with rollback rights that talk page was infuriating me. I'll contact you if I ever need help! :D Irunongames • play 00:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Washing machine GA nom

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Hi, Irunongames, I noticed that you nominated the article Washing machine. Seeing that the article does not meet the GA criteria, especially since it lacks inline citations, I'd like to direct you to the Ga criteria. Perhpas that could help you guide the article to a good or even featured standard. Feel free to ask me more questions or ping me if you have concerns. ceranthor 00:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

{{Appliance stub}} and {{Home-stub}}

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Greetings! Two or more stub types which you created have been nominated for renaming or deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature. Grutness...wha? 02:07, 6 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Your good article reviews

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Hi, thanks for your good article reviews, but please remember to follow the instructions and list the article under the correct topic at Wikipedia:Good articles after (and if) you have passed it. Thank you. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:05, 8 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

  • Sorry about that. I will remember in the future :D
Also, when you pass GA nominations, please leave "GA" as the edit summary when you edit the talk page to put the GA banner on there; it makes it easier for {{ArticleHistory}} maintenance. Thanks. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
Please do't just upgrade articles without a review. I had to revert what you did on Charlie Crist. Thank you. Hekerui (talk) 07:18, 9 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Request to participate in University of Washington survey on tool to quickly understand Wikipedians’ reputations

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Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington. In April, we met with Wikipedians to learn what they would like to know about other editors’ history and activities (within Wikipedia) when interacting with them on talk pages. The goal was to gather feedback to help design a tool that could quickly communicate useful information about other Wikipedians. We have now created a few images that we feel represent some of what our participants thought was important. We would appreciate it if you took a few minutes of your time to complete an online survey that investigates whether or not these images would be useful to you. Your quick contribution would be very valuable to our research group and ultimately to Wikipedia. (When finished, the code for this application will be given over to the Wikipedia community to use and/or adjust as they see fit.)

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Your signature

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I think something may be wrong with your signature. Either that, or it is a template problem.--Rockfang (talk) 20:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yea. That happens. It's a glitch in the Account Creater Interference. My sig works when I use it with wikipedia though. I will work on a new one right now for creating accounts. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Irunongames • play 20:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
You are welcome. I have a question for you. I have Enable SQLBot-Hello welcoming of the users I create ticked in the preferences section. If I just want to use the "default" ~~~~ as a signature, do I need to fill out Your signature (wikicode)? Or should I just leave that blank?--Rockfang (talk) 20:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
Hmm....I think either way would work. Try ~~~~ it should work. Irunongames • play 21:33, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

User:Bearian

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Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my page. Bearian (talk) 22:14, 29 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

No problem :) Irunongames • play 22:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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The Teamwork Barnstar

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  The Teamwork Barnstar
Hi Irunongames! I am awarding you this barnstar for your great team efforts while improving the Marco Polo article. Hopefully we could work more often together like this. Kind regards, LouriePieterse 10:40, 15 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
Thanks LouriePieterse :D This barnstar means I realize their is no I in team but instead their is a me, right :P Irunongames • play 14:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Talkback

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Hello, Peter.C. You have new messages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Life and death.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Chisholm

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You wrote "When I nominated the article, the article was much smaller and only have one source. Sorry for any inconviance to the editer"

Yes, well perhaps that's why you should wait more that six minutes after an article is started before nominating it for deletion. You literally nominated it while I was in the middle of writing it. Dodge rambler (talk) 17:47, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

I thought that the user had finished with the article. Their is a "this article is under construction template" so that these mistakes don't happen. It is not my fault that I though the user was still editing the articles to improve it. Irunongames • play 17:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
I think adding a stub template would have been more appropriate given that the bio in question was of a police chief of a major metropolitan area and thus was ipso facto notable. Rather than jumping the gun and slapping a deletion template why not try to see if an article is salvagable first? Dodge rambler (talk) 18:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
You did not explain why he was notable at the time Irunongames • play 18:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
It was self-evident from the bio - first chief of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force and he shot himself to boot. Dodge rambler (talk) 18:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
Here is the orignial text

John Chisholm ( - July 4, 1958) was Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force until he committed suicide.

Chisholm was found dead in his automobile in High Park having killed himself by a single shotgun wound to the head.[1] He had been suffering from ill health since the previous Christamas - Police Commissioner C.O. Bick told the Daily Star that his "neves" were bad, and had been rumoured to be considering submitting his resignation.[1]


Being a police cheif does not mean to automaticly get a article and just becuase you were about to resign does not mean anything. You just specualted in your last coment. Also You can't only use news sources in articles. Irunongames • play 18:12, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Actually, the speculation was in the news article I cited in which the reporter, Jocko Thomas I believe, reported that there had been rumours for several weeks that the Chief would resign. Dodge rambler (talk) 18:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

"Also You can't only use news sources in articles" Where does it say that? Dodge rambler (talk) 18:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

WP:NOTNEWS Irunongames • play 23:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
That's a redlink. Dodge rambler (talk) 02:02, 17 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
Typo - look now Irunongames • play 12:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

News reports. Wikipedia considers the historical notability of persons and events. News coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, but not all events warrant an encyclopedia article of their own. Routine news coverage of such things as announcements, sports, and tabloid journalism are not sufficient basis for an article. Even when an event is notable, individuals involved in it may not be. Unless news coverage of an individual goes beyond the context of a single event, our coverage of that individual should be limited to the article about that event, in proportion to their importance to the overall topic. (See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons for more details.) While including information on recent developments is sometimes appropriate, breaking news should not be emphasized or otherwise treated differently from other information. Timely news subjects not suitable for Wikipedia may be suitable for our sister project Wikinews. Furthermore, Wikipedia articles should not list frequently asked questions (FAQs). Instead, format the information provided as neutral prose within the appropriate article(s). See also: Wikipedia:News articles

That does not say you cannot use only news sources in an article. What it says is that not all news warrants a wikipedia article, which is an entirely different thing. Dodge rambler (talk) 13:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

IRC cloak request

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Are they tasty? Irunongames • play 16:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Adoption

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It would please me to be adopted by you. Thank you very much.Ratattuta (talk) 04:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC) No sorry. I don't have IM. Ratattuta (talk) 02:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC) Okay I joined.Ratattuta (talk) 19:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Spotlight needs suggestions

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Orphaned non-free image (File:Insflag battlefield 2.gif)

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Thanks for uploading File:Insflag battlefield 2.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Orphaned non-free image (File:Rebelflag battlefield 2.gif)

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Adam Lambert straw poll on including/removing "Order #" and "Results" columns from the performances section

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Hi, this may seem rather trivial but I'm trying to gauge community consensus on including or removing "Order #" and "Results" columns from the performances section on the Adam Lambert article which you have been in some way recently involved. The poll is here. Your time is appreciated. -- Banjeboi 21:38, 8 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

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As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 00:43, 22 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

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