User talk:OhanaUnited/Archive 11

WM Can question

Hi,

I responded to you on Meta m:User_talk:OhanaUnited#WM_Can_meeting here. Ping me there or on WV. Historybuff 00:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey OhanaUnited. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας •discussion• 19:01, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

CANNOT BE ADMIN

A PERSON WITH SUCH MENTAL CAPABILITIES AS YOURS CANNOT BE ADMIN.--198.22.123.106 (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Not cool, warned user. SQL^{Query me!} 19:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Sorry, I was correcting someone else's formatting, but my signature showed up because I hadn't substituted the four tildes. They corrected it themselves so I removed the duplicate! :) Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 20:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

WQA on you

Just to inform you that you are the subject of this WQA filed by Mbz1. Though it just looks like noise, you may want to look at it to see why he was upset. Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

No worries, and cheers for the note. You're right to be thinking he would probably take it further, but you and I both know what the outcome would be if he did. ;) Meanwhile, I'm going to let it go stale. Hopefully he gets the message and stops with the harassment. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh my, I hope so too. But I can imagine his request now - "please ban them both - they're ignoring me" lol. Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Tsk tsk @ your friend's new posting. It's almost like he wants to be blocked. Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

New admins - your Signpost entry

Hi, in the latest Signpost (26/5/2008) you said there are five new admins, but you only list four.--Anthony Nolan O'Nymous (talk) 12:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

The FA-Team

Hi. There has been some discussion of how to improve the FA-Team's functioning. It's be grand if you could comment on the new suggested structure, and perhaps also look at our current proposals. Thanks. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:38, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

CHALLENGE

I have completed your challenge for WikiProject Environment. Still no Barnstar --Megapen (talk) 16:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. --Megapen (talk) 16:54, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Your !vote at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dihydrogen Monoxide 3

Responded to. Nousernamesleft^{copper, not wood} 21:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Signaling pathways

Dear OhanaUnited, Thanks for the honor concerning the pathways made by me. My very topic is the Chemotxis/Signaling/Cell Biology and I could feel that it is hard to find review figures for e.g. FPR. If you know about other needs on this field please let me know - I shall try to compose one. Thanks again. Best regards from Kohlasz (talk) 07:31, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Photo Barnstar

Didn't check my mail for a while, so I apologize for not acknowledging you earlier. Thank you again. Hopefully you attended the 2008 doors open event where Bay Lower was briefly open to the public.Abebenjoe (talk) 15:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 17:58, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Global warming

That's an old notice; that story's pretty much died already, I think. Ral315 (talk) 06:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Reviewing the technical articles

Hi, please tell us your viewpoint about this issue.

Signpost

Just to tell you - your link to Werdna's successful RfA was incorrectly placed, {{goa|Werdna|_3}} was required rather than simply {{goa|Werdna}} as you had it. I have updated this link for you - hope this is okay. Bobo. 12:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Diego Velázquez

Hi I just chose you at random; please sprotect Diego Velázquez so I don't have to watch it anymore :) It is receiving vandalism because it is linked to from Google's logo. Sprotect for 24 hours is more than enough. Gary King (talk) 01:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Challenge

Hello. I have done my best to meet the criteria for your award challenge at User:Sharkface217/Awards Center#WikiProject Environment, assessing the remaining unassessed articles for the project. Best --Eustress (talk) 22:22, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

May monthly update

Thanks; included now. Tony (talk) 08:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

translation from Chinese

Hi OhanaUnited

I have a pdf in Chinese about Chinese weapons and armour. page 134 to 139 are dedicated to crossbows. It would greatly help if you translated these section so that we could counter the eurocentrism of the crossbow article. Thanks a lot. Wandalstouring (talk) 13:36, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles newsletter

Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 02:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Because it's all about me...

On Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-09/Features and admins, there should probably be a tiny notation about a certain someone becoming a bureaucrat. EVula // talk // ☯ // 13:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

FA-Team Mission 4

Mission 4, a series of articles on the Everglades, could do with help from the FA-Team! Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 13:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Portal Review

Could you take a look at the new Ancient Near East portal? I'd like to submit it for a Featured Portal review when I find/improve a few more articles for the "selected article" section, and would welcome any feedback you could offer at this time.

Thanks, IansAwesomePizza (talk) 21:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Translation request

The Commons:Help desk has a request (header "Translation Assistance") left a few hours ago by someone who has pictures of signs in China but can't read them. Would you please be willing to help? Nyttend (talk) 05:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Cheongsam

It seems you took either no notice or disregarded the fact that I removed the unnecessary trivia and incorporated what was relevant and sourced into the actual body of the article, as well as re-wrote parts. You also restored two fair use violations... With respect, I think you should be a bit more careful about what you restore and have a bit more respect for your fellow editor. Seraphim♥Whipp 12:46, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced edition

This edit has reverted what appears to be your logical edit. --AdVocare (talk) 22:47, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I also noticed there was no source for the edition of "this material" which you added to the article. --AdVocare (talk) 22:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Sustainability Accounting

Hi Andrew

Thanks for your welcome - I will try and make a few contributions in the next week or two.... but it will be a while before I catch up to you! Very good of you to offer to put Sustainability Accounting on show - trouble is it is still very much under development. Wont take long - but at least a week. So I must ask that this is not done - thanks all the same.

On a more important matter - I have posted a message on the "sustainmability" page see below.

"There are several appeals on Wikipedia for a re-write or total reorganisation of this article. I am willing (with trepidation) to carry out this task but it will certainly entail a substantial reorganisation of the material to fit in more with the conventions of Encyclopaedia articles and formal citation of sources. I realise that this might cause concern. It may be possible to post a preview of the article somewhere to allow comment and feedback - but I dont know how to do this.

Anyway, at present my proposal is to replace the current article with the new one on 1 July 2008. If this causes offence or upsets protocols please let me know."

Is this OK and am I following procedure - I'm a bit new to Wikipedia. Granitethighs (talk) 22:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

GA Open Review proposal

Thank you for your contributions to the discussion on GA process reform at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles/Reform. Based on the suggestions made, a proposal has been set out (at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles/Reform#Open review proposal). Your further input would be very welcome, as there are a number of areas that may need more discussion before this proposal is put to the wider community. All the best, EyeSerene^talk 10:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

6/21 DYK

On 21 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article sustainability accounting, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford ^Pray 05:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Hudson Valley/archive1

I addressed your comments. Cheers, Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 00:26, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

FPOC Portal:Chicago

Further clarification is requested.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

"Fair enough" is pretty vague. Is there something that I have to do to get your support?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 13:04, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for Editing

Thanks for your editing of the Sustainability Accounting article. In future I will follow your method and save you work. I will still be working on building up this article over the next week or two. Granitethighs (talk) 06:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

OK - I'm now reformed - no more minor edits when they are more than that. Thanks for setting a good example to follow - it helps us learners Granitethighs (talk) 01:45, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

One last request. I've been looking for a simple way of avoiding writing the same reference twice when it is cited twice in the same article. I dont seem to be able to see this discussed on the WIKI:REF page. Thanks. Granitethighs (talk) 02:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Is there an upper limit to the length of an article - I was wondering about glossaries that can expand almost indefinitely - is that OK? Granitethighs (talk) 05:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Features and admins

There may have been some confusion because last week's issue published a week late, but I am publishing again later tonight; this is what would have been the June 23 issue. If you have time to write features and admins in the next 6 hours or so, you can; otherwise, I'll write it later tonight, and I'll let you handle next week's F&A. It's no big deal for me either way, so whatever works for you is fine. Ral315 (talk) 21:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem; I just wanted to make sure you knew what was going on. Thanks a lot for your help. Ral315 (talk) 00:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Environment template

OK, I will remember it. Sorry about that, I wasn't aware of the problem. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 12:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Advice please

I am currently (as you have probably noticed) working away at sustainability (in general) trying to open up Wikipedia's resources more to users. As part of this process I have undertaken a Wikiproject to do a "Topical outline of sustainability" which I am working on now. Also a reconsideration of the "sustainability" article and a new page on "sustainability science". Of course all these link into one-another and also into "sustainable development". I dont think it helps to merge all these topics but need advice on how to deal with their similarity in terms of encyclopaedia entries. I notice you have environmental science experience and also a good feel for how Wikipedia operates - so you would be ideal to guide me along the best path. Hoping you can help. Granitethighs (talk) 04:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

and one more thing - I see firefox has a suite of editing tools for Wikipedia. Should I be using Firefox rather than Explorer? Granitethighs (talk) 04:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Computer generated imagery review request

Hi, it's very early days, but would you please swing past and tell me if I'm on the right track - the Topics show where I'm planning to go. This is part of a broader effort to get more quality illustrators and 3D graphics artists interested and involved as per meta:Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project, but taking a different route. Dhatfield (talk) 18:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Size charts

Thanks. :D There's plenty more to come if I ever feel like it (a bit burnt out on 'em). If there's any specific fossil beasty you'd like to request, leave me a message. Abyssal leviathin (talk) 20:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)