User_talk:Alai

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==Louis_Glackens== chris adams 18:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC) Re: Louis Glackens You recently catagorized one of my articles as a "stub". While it is indeed a short article, I don't feel it warrants stubification. Wikipedia states that one way "to define a stub is an article so incomplete that an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial internet search or a few minutes in a reference library". I have been interested in this person for years, and I must say that six sentences is all I can come up on him. I doubt there is much more information available. And so, I am respectfully destubify this article. -- Chris == Thanks! == I'm grateful for your kind welcome to Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to many happy hours of editing ahead. Ezratrumpet 06:17, 23 October 2005 (UTC) == "Scotland-related stub" creation == Hi, thanks for the warning. I have put some comments on my own talk page, and would have no problem putting it through the right channels. The UK category is a bit broad, and I believe it would also take care of various Scottish stubs which don't fit too neatly into other categories e.g. Curragh (both a Scottish and Irish related article maybe).--MacRusgail 16:08, 23 October 2005 (UTC) == Thanks Alai! == Image:beer.jpgThanks for going through the extremely dull work of sorting the stubs categories of the heap of articles I've created recently, my dear Alai! You deserve a rest and a cold beer for the task. So come to the table and have one! I doubt that you remember me, but we had the chance to talk back in April regarding the edit war at History_of_Germany with Heimdal. I'll have to revisit that article and see what remained of it... It's great to see you again. Have a nice day, and hugs! Shauri 11px smile! ''00:48, 24 October 2005 (UTC)'' :I'm glad you liked the beer, Alai :) In fact, the stubs I was referring to are related to the Texas Rangers, like John_Coffee_Hays, Samuel_Hamilton_Walker, Leander_H._McNelly, John_B._Jones and others, all of which you've wisely categorized. I went on a stub-creating spree on these guys because I greatly expanded the Rangers' article and FACed it... which fortunately ended up successfully! :) I'll add the proper stub category to other ones that I made in such preparation. Again, thank you! Hugs, Shauri 11px smile! ''21:07, 24 October 2005 (UTC)'' == Nomination ==

'''Freestylefrappe would like to nominate you to be an administrator.''' Please visit Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Freestylefrappe (email: danofalltrades7@hotmail.com) to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/{{PAGENAME}}. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Freestylefrappe 01:14, 13 October 2005 (UTC) == Inlining image == Ta for inlining image at WP:SCOWNB!--Mais oui! 10:50, 28 October 2005 (UTC) == Welcome == Thanks - I have much less time to edit now - and will be doing some stuff on Physics since it is less emotionally charged for me. I have been cleaning up my watchlist of LDS articles so I can focus better. Therefore, please let me know if there is an issue in the LDS community where I could be helpful. I am a little disappointed to see my Infobox removed from Joseph Smith - but I agree with some of CODGEN's reasoning - perhaps an edit to Joseph_Smith,_Jr./Infobox could address his concerns while keeping the style similar to the other LDS prophets. I must say that I absolutely hate the toccolours style and its derivatives that are used in the biographical template - yuck! {{User:Trödel/sig}} 11:52, 29 October 2005 (UTC) ==American Football Bio Stub== I'd suggest first splitting it into players, coaches, and other figures. That could cut it down from the 900 to something more managable. After that, maybe look into league, decade, and whatnot...but that seems the most logical to me.jfg284 15:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC) == Robert Steadman... == Oh yes, there have been much, much worse - I just hoped they'd notice how silly it was getting. Thanks for putting this up on RfC, it promises to be a lot of fun. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 00:47, 1 November 2005 (UTC) == Cheers == Cheers, Alai, most welcoming! ben 06:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC) ==Re: Macao-stub== Let's sort it out at WP:WSS/P and WP:SFD. :-) — Insta ntnood 21:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC) *Don't expect him to answer you. SchmuckyTheCat 07:50, 10 November 2005 (UTC) : I think I've responded your concern, that is, the issue over spelling variants was not appropriately handled, and some arguments were based on assumptions that are not entirely true. — Insta ntnood 16:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC) == You're a sysop! ==

Hi, {{PAGENAME}}, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop

right Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date. Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at '''The Administrators' how-to guide''' and the '''Administrators' reading list''' before you get started (although you ''should'' have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp «Talk»=

Please also add your name to WP:LA. =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC) :Congrats on adminship. Dlyons493 Talk 22:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC) :Congratulations! You'll be a ''great'' admin! Kirill Lokshin 18:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC) :Congrats - didn't even see you were up, but it is well-deserved and overdue. -Visorstuff 22:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC) :Congratulations! I knew your RFA would pass easily. Jonathunder 23:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC) :Congrats from me too! As to voting early and often, there are times when that would be ''very'' useful on sfd! :) Grutness...''wha?'' 07:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC) :Congratulations! The reason I voted for you was as follows: Despite our obvious disagreements, you've always been polite in regards to the SFD debates (unlike some editors I've encountered). Also the wikistress level is a bit old... I never fixed it. --'''Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)''' 02:12, 17 November 2005 (UTC) == Ag stub == (I've also added this as ancomment on SfD entry, but I wanted to make certain you saw this.) **Actually where I live, Ag is fairly common. A Google on ''ag'' and ''farm'' returns over 7 million entries, but I noticed that the first 50 entries (which was as far as I inspected) were all United States and Canadian sites, so I suspect it may be just a North American English thing, which probably explains why you are unfamiliar with it. Caerwine 06:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC) ==Highways== I believe you are mistaking what we believe. A "state highway" is a noun, a "California State Highway" is a proper noun.Gateman1997 05:53, 21 November 2005 (UTC) *It is a proper noun because California State Route is a particular type of state route. While a California state route/highway could refer to any route in California state.Gateman1997 22:35, 21 November 2005 (UTC) ==Admin== Hi Alai! I've explained my answer to that question (#6) at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ronline. Ronline 04:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC) :Well, the point I'm trying to make is that, in a dispute I am actively in, I would not use my admin powers in any way that would disadvantage the "opposition". However, I don't see anything wrong with continuing to apply objective things such as 3RR, simple vandalism, etc. So the answer is "No, except for things that are blatantly and objectively against policy." Ronline 04:35, 27 November 2005 (UTC) ::Yes, I understand how those things can be conflicts of interest. Which is why I would never protect a page I'm disputing in. Which is why I wouldn't block users on these pages for inserting information, even if it's false and tendentious. Is my answer OK now (see the candidature page)? Ronline 04:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC) :::OK. Revised once again. Ronline 05:13, 27 November 2005 (UTC) ::::No, what you've done is perfectly fine. Administrator abuse is a terrible thing because it leads to alienation on the part of users, which is what lack of communication also leads to. And alienation is a major factor in leading to conflict, not only in Wikipedia but in the world in general. Ronline 05:27, 27 November 2005 (UTC) ==Your comments== Thank you, both for the expression of support and the chuckle! I hope not to let you down on that... I'm not sure whether ot not I hope to be elected/appointed/whatever! :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC) == Re: RfB == Hi, you expressed some concern about my answers to the candidate questions in my RfB. I've tried to clarify them further, so would you mind taking another look? I don't mind if you decide to stay neutral. Anyway, good day to you and happy editing! Johnleemk | Talk 07:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC) == Halibutt's RfA ==

Image:Tournesol.png I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works.
As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibu tt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks for the welcome and sorry for my discrepancies! == I hope I didn't aggravate anyone with my plethora of unlabled and minor edits to the Atlantis page. I'm a bit nitpicky and of course very compulsive with knowledge. Thanks again, and I hope to be of service. gustable ==Stubs For Deletion Option== No offense, but please give me another option, having it in permanent limbo is unacceptable. The stub is posted on WP:NH(kind of as a point of pride), and that little "This Stub Is Up For Deletion" makes our state's transportation network to seem not worthy of its own stub despite the fact that there are nearly 100 in that stub cat. People looking at that little template on top of the stub may decide not to use it in the belief that it's temporary even though the worst possible thing that would happen here is that another, almost identical one would take its place. If SfD can't resolve this issue, i'm tempted to send SfD to MfD. karmafist 08:35, 30 November 2005 (UTC) :That's no prank, and quite frankly, the reason why I said that is most likely the reason you put closing the discussion in hyphens. No progress has been made in ''two months''. The average afd takes a week, and has clear rules on closing. I'm moving over to the log now, that discussion has gone on for too long and somebody has to Be_bold here, I'll go to the village pump later to ask in a change of policy, but that rarely does anything, so I might have to still pull an Ed Poor and do what I said before. By the way, our wikiproject just started ''halfway'' through this discussion, and we've already added 5 members and tagged around 3 dozen articles. We all have better things to do than deal with stub bureaucracy cruft. karmafist 16:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC) ===I'll try in a bit=== I've been having a bad week, i'll try in a bit to craft a better description of what i'm trying to say, it wasn't my intention to insult you or anything. Lately, everywhere I look I see a tangled mess of invisible rules and entrenched regulars established with the old way of doing things(which is arcane and outdated many places, IMO) to do what seems to be needed. That's what the bureaucracy was about, I encourage clearly set guidelines so if there's a problem, there isn't an arguement over what should be done in order to do what is basically maintenance. karmafist 19:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC) == Early_life_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr. -- featured status vote == Thanks for your suggestions on this article. The article is now up for featured article status. Please vote here, if you can. ''COGDEN'' 22:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC) ==Highway madness== Hi Alai - I was under the impression that the official designation of those roads was "Washington State Highways". If they're simply Washington state highways, then they should stay as lower case,, but I don't know which way the legislation runs on them. I'm willing to go with whichever is the correct name. Grutness...''wha?'' 01:09, 2 December 2005 (UTC) :Yeah, I should have guessed I wasn't the first to make that joke. As to the official names, if he takes it to cfd, then someone there will surely be able to quote chapter and verse on the correct capitalisation, and - as pointed out - the sfd result will all depend on cfd. Grutness...''wha?'' 01:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC) I have moved the debate off my talk page and to User_talk:Rschen7754/Highway_Capitalization. --'''Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)''' 03:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC) ==Mindmatrix ~~scam~~ adminship== right I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this Loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC) == RFA for TheParanoidOne == Hello Alai. Thanks for the vote of confidence in my RFA. I have now officially received the badge, so I shall try my best to be a good administrator. Thanks again. --TheParanoidOne 21:01, 4 December 2005 (UTC) == Verifiability == Hi Alai, regarding your comment on WP:V, I can't see it in both the policy and guideline categories, and I can't see two headers. It's policy so that's where it should be. Am I not seeing something you can see? SlimVirgin ^(talk) 07:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC) ==Cheese with whine?== Banons, I don't no stinkin' banons! Caerwine Caerwhine 05:26, 6 December 2005 (UTC) == KTVX == You have received this message because you have edited a Salt Lake City media article in the past. We have recently had an edit war regarding the wording and inclusion of a paragraph on the KTVX article. In hopes of resolving this I have put together an informal survey. If you are interested, please stop by Talk:KTVX and add a vote. Thanks, A 09:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC) == Remedies applied only to articles? == As the disputes involved in this case explicitly include categories, and have recently spread to include the [[Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion#November_2nd|stub namespace]], would the arbcom consider broadening article-related provisions to category-pages and templates, too? :The decision includes everything whether it is technically an article or not. Fred Bauder 13:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC) Incidentally, remedies 5 & 6 appear to mandate that Instantnood be informed if either of the other two are barred from an article under the terms of their probation, which I assume is a cut-and-paste error. Alai 05:34, 3 November 2005 (UTC) :They need only be notified of a ban on themselves. Fred Bauder 13:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC) :fwiw, This was corrected in the final decision. SchmuckyTheCat 15:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC) == {{tl|mea-stub}} == Hi there. I noticed your post-mortem comment for this on WP:SFD as well as your comments on the WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles talk page. I've added a further comment there to see if I can get a response. Deleting this would be a waste of a lot of effort, so if there is no response I will be highly tempted to just carry out the proposed {{tl|MEA-expand}} rename. Good idea? Bad idea? --TheParanoidOne 23:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)