User talk:Wknight94/Archive 17

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• Archive 1 | October 19, 2005-January 13, 2006
• Archive 2 | January 14, 2006-April 2, 2006
• Archive 3 | April 3, 2006-July 22, 2006
• Archive 4 | July 23, 2006-September 23, 2006

Good idea

I don't know the first thing about changing my user name, but I don't go around trumping or pretend to be the baseball player. Please help me change my user name to hykos. Regards. Delinodeshields 20:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for protecting my user and talk pages. It's good to know that although there are some assholes out there, there are people like you who are willing to combat them. Once again, thank you. ReverendG 01:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

No problem. S/he will be taking a break for 24 hours. Enjoy the silence.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 01:44, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I intend to. It's always good to meet an administrator that obviously deserves that title. By the way, do you have any idea why people would suddenly start using unbelievable vandalism just because of a minor disagreement? It might just be the shock of suddenly noticing such a thing against me, but it worries and puzzles me. ReverendG 01:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Forgot to give this to you last time, here's a non-barnstar "award".

For helping to make the internet not suck, I ReverendG award the banner of unsuckiness to Wknight94.

Requesting administrator assistance on IRC

I am taking these accusations of lack of process for using IRC quite seriously. Whether IRC should or shouldn't be used: the fact is it is used, and not just by me. Instead of debating whether using IRC is against procedure, I've proposed a procedure for when sysops use IRC to listen to Move Requests, which for now I've put on the village pump (policy) page: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Requesting_administrator_assistance_on_IRC. Your feedback is welcome. —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 00:45, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Really

I am, and the scary part is my wife is 6'0" we are going to have some really tall kids someday. Whispering^(talk/c) 03:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:My RfA

I appreciate you pointing out some of my edits, and I just thought I should explain some of them.

1) [1], I thought it was vandalism at first, but the user contacted me on my talk page, and we cleared up the whole issue. I apologized for the warning I gave and such.

2) Dealing with images isn't my strong point, as can be seen with some of the problems that have occurred. Although they were 2 months ago, put into consideration that it was only 2.5 months ago that I uploaded my first few images onto Wikipedia.

3) I know that I lost my temper over a few misunderstandings I had with that editor (I thought he was calling me stupid), and I have made amends with that editor.

4) Those edits are considered fighting? I originally thought it was friend I knew that made that edit, so I took the edit jokingly and such.

5) That edit was a misunderstanding, and I resolved that. I was accidentally talking to the wrong user about that (see first neutral vote).

This RfA has been a really enlightening experience for me. I personally never would have thought that people would think negatively of some of my comments, and I have realized some points that I need to avoid, and some things such as image policy that I need to review over. The RfA ended with a consensus of a promotion, and although you may think badly of me for this, but I just want to assure you that I have learned from my previous mistakes, and I think I can perform well as an admin.

Thanks for your concern, Wknight. You brought attention to some other situations that I should potentially avoid in the future, and I will take that into consideration as admin. If you have any more comments and such, please add a message to my talk page and I'll respond as soon as possible.

--Nishkid64 22:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Nishkid64's RfA thanks

Thank you very much for participating in my RfA, which closed successfully earlier today with a result of (60/9/4). Although, I encountered a few problems in my RfA, I have peacefully resolved my conflicts and made amends with the people involved. If you have any further questions or suggestions, feel free talk to me. I hope I will live up to your expectations. --Nishkid64 22:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

CaCee Cobb deletion

Hello Mr. Knight,

I am relatively new to the whole Wikipedia editing thing, but I have been using it as a reference tool for a long time. I see that the CaCee Cobb article has recently been deleted. I would like to propose undeleting the article.

I came across her name in an article on People Magazine's website. Not knowing who she was, I searched for her on Wikipedia but didn't find an entry. I did however, find the Google-cached Wikipedia entry, which helped me understand who she was and why she was notable. I read the deletion discussion, and while I agree she is a borderline case, I think she should be included for the very reason that I wanted to look her up. I had never heard of her before but found out from People Magazine that she is dating an actor from the TV show "Scrubs". Because I wanted to know if she was notable for anything besides this, I searched for her on Wikipedia. If the page had been there, I would have known that she was Jessica Simpson's assistant and childhood friend who had appeared on numerous episodes of "Newlyweds." She seems to move enough in celebrity circles to warrant an entry. My apologies if this is the wrong location to propose undeletion.

-Jacob Gothia

Unity08 Interest?

Hi! You're one of about a dozen wikipedians who have edited Unity08 (which puts you in pretty rarified company :-)) and it occured to me that you might be interested in something in that vein. I don't want to clutter up your talk page but I wanted to let you know about my user page being used to talk about the intersection of wikis and the Unity Movement. Sorry to be a bother, but "a dozen out of hundreds of millions" seemed like a small enough group to think there might be some common interests :-)

- JenniferForUnity 02:09, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Bexley Hall

Apparently you were requested to move Bexley Hall (Seminary) to Bexley Hall creating a primary topic page. I don't think anyone agreed or even maintains there is a clear dominance among the items on Bexley Hall (disambiguation). "Where there is no such clearly dominant usage there is no primary topic page" -WP:D. So shouldn't Bexley Hall (disambiguation) have been moved to Bexley Hall? --J Clear 22:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. --Nishkid64 21:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

One Piece articles

Did you fulfill User:Justyn's move request for Seven Warlords of the Sea to Shichibukai? If so, keep in mind that several people have contested the naming changes.

I learned about this after Justyn told me that Wikipedians in general support what Justyn is doing, and he cited you as an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Justyn#Fish-Men.2FFishmen

WhisperToMe 01:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

WhisperToMe is putting words in my mouth, I never said that Wikipedians in general support what I am doing, I said that I was not the one that moved the page. Here is a link to his talk page ([2])(Justyn 02:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC))

No, it seems like it was your personal opinion to move the page.

Wikipedia:Requested_moves SPECIFICALLY states that it is to be used for uncontroversial moves. User:Geg and I had opposed the moving stuff, so... WhisperToMe 02:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Another suspect

I think I found another possible Spotteddogsdotorg sock - Tecmobowl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) TV Newser Tipline 09:35, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Some of his recent behavior seems to confirm my suspicions! TV Newser Tipline 09:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

My RFA questions

Thanks for notifying me! I am watching the page, but today I've been away from my computer for longer periods of time than I had anticipated. (Figures.) It's on my watchlist and I go back to it more often than I should. I knew it was going to be nerve-wracking, but, holy! This is intense! Thanks for your feedback and assistance. -- Merope ^Talk 16:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Tecmobowl: Sockpuppet

Just look at Tecmobowl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and his contributions. He has targeted baseball related articles, something CFIF (talk · contribs) has had a run in with TBTA (talk · contribs) who was the unwitting victim of the Spotteddogsdotorg (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) sockpuppet ring thanks to Scott Brown from tvnewstalk.net. TBTA feels he was driven off Wikipedia by Tecmobowl and communicated his suspicion that the user may be part of the sock ring.

Tecmobowl's ëdit styles, types of edits reflect the those of the sock ring, as his reaction to being accused, including denials and anon ip attacks. What has changed is that he did not target CFIF directly with this latest sock, leading me to think that this is most likely a new form of attack from this problematic vandal taking the time to make seemingly good edits, along with many questionable ones, such as claiming links are spam when they are not. I feel that the overt avoiding of CFIF is a move to throw off suspicion, as is his avoiding AFDs. However, the other activities by Tecmobowl, especially the choice of who he attacked and the anon attacks seem to be typical of the Scott Brown/Spotteddogsdotorg sock ring.

Respectfully submitted. TV Newser Tipline 21:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I am getting quite frustrated with this person. He/she refuses to engage in a conversation with me on his talk page about this. He insists on trying to engage others in conversations about me, yet hypocritically reverts my comments on his page. TBTA was not driven off by me. That user made ridiculous edits on Baseball card and refused to make accurate edits. I ended up having to do it for him. I never once attacked you or anything you said until you started this harassment. At that point I told you to go learn to read. I believe there is nothing that will come of this, but I would like to be kept abrest of the topics if they are going to involve me. The pages I have edited are mostly related to Baseball because that's what I am a fan of. Of cours I'm going to react to being accused of this and deny the claims when they are untrue and totally uncalled for. I'm not vandalizing anything. --Tecmobowl 01:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Follow-up

A Coin Off Rims (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been reverting my recent edits, calling them minor. Also, look at my talk page history and there is an IP there that claims they are Displaced Brit. --CFIF ☎ ⋐ 02:08, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

• The user name seems to be an anagram for "CFIF is a moron" which makes it a blatant attack. TV Newser Tipline 15:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

X in literature watchlist

Thanks for your note about the desirability of having the X in literature articles on people's watchlists. Firstly, I agree with your point that it would be good to have them all "babysat". Secondly, these articles figure highly in the niche I've found for myself on Wikipedia. So, yes, I'd be willing to monitor some of them in my watchlist. Is there any kind of concerted plan to "divvy" them up among a group of editors? --Lini 12:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Another anon vandal

72.9.108.50 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) just take a look at what it has been doing! TV Newser Tipline 15:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

• Just did a whois [3] and it appears to be an ISP in NYC. If it is just one person they must be using some sort of proxy. TV Newser Tipline 15:47, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Images on episode lists

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The images on the episode lists improve the article, and the images can idenitfy the key points of the episode, the summary can do that too, but some people like to see whats going on in the episode. Please help me (Yugigx60 17:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC))

IP Block

I noticed the sporadic editing by the user, and that was why I made the initial block of one week. I have changed it to one day now, because I don't want this block to affect other potentially good users from editing on Wikipedia. My reasoning for the initial block was because the edits were so spaced out, and the person had vandalized every few days, and I thought if I blocked them for a week, I could possibly discourage them from contributing negatively to Wikipedia. --Nishkid64 18:22, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I have a question here. See here. I was about to block that user for maybe a day or two, but not for a whole month like DVD did. Would this be a case in which a long-term block is appropriate because the user has only made bad edits? I would think that is the reason for his decision (and also because the last block was a month long), but I just want to make sure. Thanks for answering my question. --Nishkid64 18:27, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:Entertainers by age upon death

I noticed that you are supportive of the Entertainers by age at death which has recently been deleted. I saved the contents of most of those categories. Should the option to listify them be explored? Q0 20:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Sure, why not. It would be best if it were sourced and came from some other reliable source's list though. —Wknight94 (talk) 20:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

How should this be done? Should I create some of the lists and/or would you like me to send you the lists? If I were to create one of these lists, would I be at risk of violating a policy of Wikipedia to create a listified version of a recently deleted category? What I have is basically a copy/paste from the categories, so a bit of formating would also be necessary. I guess the way to reference it would be to find sources that indicate the date of birth and death. However, I think there is a good chance that the lists will eventually be deleted, so I'm not sure if it would be worth the hassle of referencing. Q0 20:31, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Dredging up episode list image issue again

Yugigx60 (talk · contribs) is being persistent on this issue of images on episode list articles. It's my understanding that such usage is not allowed. Some people say no fair use images should be allowed anywhere and some say it should be a free-for-all but I think at least not allowing 150 of them on an episode list article is a good compromise. I think this pretty easily fails #8 of the WP:FUC policy as well as #3. The images are already being used in the articles for the specific episode - using them again in the episode list goes beyond the policy. A few people - User:Ta bu shi da yu for one if I recall - have gone through sports-related articles removing team logos from standings tables, etc. —Wknight94 (talk) 16:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't really have an opinion on this anymore: I was leaning towards including images before I was aware of the real copyright problems, but now I really don't care; whatever you guys want to do is OK with me. —Mets501 (talk) 01:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Talk page

Don't ever threaten me again. I don't take kindly to that at all. Your tone is disrespectful, insulting, rude, and inconsiderate. Rarelibra 02:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh wow, thank you SOOOOO much for "keeping an eye out" on things - like noticing the blatant renaming of the improper naming convention in Italy. Wow, what a hero. Next time thank me for keeping the country safe, bud. Rarelibra 04:11, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for noticing and reverting an impersonator who vandalized my user page. Thank you so much. Best regards Húsönd 03:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)