User talk:Titoxd/Archive08
Welcome to my Talk Page! DO NOT EDIT OR POST REPLIES TO THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE. This archive page covers approximately the dates between December 29 2005 and January 8 2006. Post replies to the main talk page, copying or summarizing the section you are replying to if necessary. Please add new archivals to User talk:Titoxd/Archive34. (See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.) Thank you. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 02:54, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Award Counseling... :)Thank you for your terrific advice and for the links and stuff. Recently I've been getting more involved with the CDVF program, and also a little bit of RfA and AfD...so I guess I'm on the right track. I definitely agree with what you said. Your advice was very much appreciated...between you, User:Banes, and Sango, I have an excellent group of mentors. I can't thank you enough. I'll be working where you suggested. I agree, the user_talk page edits could go against me...but I'm working on a few of my own articles right now, so...we'll see. Thanks again!--ViolinGirl♪ 12:54, 29 December 2005 (UTC) AWBHi, there is an option in the menu to mark all edits as minor, but just clicking the minor edit tickbox in the browser to do a one occasionally won't do any harm. Martin 21:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Color schemesAll right. Don't tell me, but they probably kept 1 or 2 of those stupid Easter egg colors. "...strong hint noted." ?? I'm stupid, could you enlighten me?? :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by E. Brown (talk • contribs) 00:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Congradulations!You have been chosen by Esperenza to participate in the Advisory Council. As a member of the election staff, I wish you good luck. ...Make Wikipedia prosper with your leadership...
Another VandalHi there Tito. Was wondering if you could do the honors in blocking this vandal, Ham Kazerooni, another one of the vandals from earlier today. Thanks for all your help. — Moe ε 04:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Got your messageThanks for the advise, and this message is to you, the other messages were not to you, nor your business, so get a grip and mind your own business. Thank-You Order of the phoenix 06:03, 30 December 2005 (UTC) open proxiesActually, it was User:Fvw who had some code for checking open proxies, but he just ran it in batch mode, not in response to each IP that got blocked. However, I was under the impression that the developers actually put in code for this behind the scenes and were running it at one time, but got some ISP complaints and stopped. However, it could presumably be revived, and at developer level the code would undoubtedly have access to the underlying IPs of blocked registered accounts as well as blocked anonymous IPs. So that's probably the thing to pursue. I recall this being discussed with Brion or Tim Starling but don't recall the outcome... maybe it was left up in the air. -- Curps 07:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Negroponte editsI'm the one who edited the John Negroponte page that you reverted. I stopped cycling the edits once I realized that you are an Admin. Nevertheless, I believe that if you take your role seriously, you should take a hard look at that page and take action on your own. I have absolutely no axe to grind in this one, and don't know Negroponte from Adam. On the other hand, as a fair-minded, rational person, seeing an article that consists virtually COMPLETELY of partisan attacks (and no, just footnoting someone else's attack doesn't make it 'verifiable') makes a mockery of Wikipedia's 'peer reviewing'. If you look through the history of that page you will see quite a few questions about the NPOV issue, and calls for peer reviews. Unfortunately, the only people spending the time to write (surprise, surprise) are the partisans. What I did in the large edit that you reverted was simply to exise the attacks (which were COMPLETELY unbalanced. By no conceivable stretch of the imagination could they be considered remotely neutral.) What I left were purely the objective, verifiable facts, along with the dozens of links to the attack pages that say the same thing as the attack verbiage in the article. If you really want to help Wikipedia, take a serious read of that article, and consider it from the perspective of a truly objective academic. If you were a university professor, and some student handed in a paper that relied primarily on that "wisdom of crowds" Wikipedia entry, you would give him or her an F. I would have no problem with that 1500 word hatchet job if it were balanced with a 1500 word supporting piece. But it isn't, so where is the neutral point of view? As a result, what is a fair-minded, NON-partisan Wikipedian supposed to do? I'm neither a fan nor a critic of Negroponte. As I said, I don't know him at all, or even much about him. But I do know a pure attack screed when I read one, and I was simply trying to help keep Wikipedia neutral and useful. So I ask you: if I'm not enough of an expert to quote chapter and verse in praise of Negroponte, but I'm reasonable to know that the existing entry is clearly UNreasonable, what am I supposed to do? Leave it so some impressionable elementary school kid researching a term paper swallows all that stuff without hearing any objective facts? I guess that under the concept of 'incremental revision' you were right to revert my wholesale edit, but now that you have stepped in, I think it is incumbent on you to carefully review that whole article you just replaced and determine whether it is, indeed, written with a NPOV. And if you don't believe it is, then YOU edit it in a way that would be acceptable to the Wikipedia community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.90.146 (talk • contribs) 02:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC) ImagesIt's actually not hardcoded anywhere as its not really egregious. It is considered good style to right-align images at the beginning of a section as it becomes easier for the eye to read the text. Most of the top ten-fifteen people on this list avoid the left-alignment at the beginning, or do away with it completely. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Copyright of the Mexican governmentJust wanted to give you a heads-up regarding images and works published by the Mexican government. These weren't in the public domain as per the "Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor" as it was written before July 23, 2003. Even with the current rendition of the law, it isn't entirely clear what is the copyright status of works by the government. This in relation to this image in commons and any others you may have seen around or uploaded yourself. Thank you. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 18:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Advisory Council meetingFirst, let me congratulate you on becaoming a member of the new Advisory Council. I would like to arrange a meeting with the Advisory Council in IRC either on Saturday or Sunday and wondered when it would be possible (taking time zones into account). Please could you respond on my talk page as soon as possible. Thank you. --Celestianpower háblame 20:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Congrats!  Congratulations
Congrats :) - hope you stick around! WhiteNight T | @ | C 00:38, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Congrats to you and yours, and thanks for stickin' around (I don't hope, I beg, that you stay around for a good long while)! -Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 00:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Congratulations, and you're very welcome! I know you'll do a great job. --King of All the Franks 01:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC) AWB?Are you sure that AWB thing is cleaning up correctly? Sections using the "new section" tool (like this one) create titles that have a space between the ==s and the words, but the AWB thing removes them. --AySz88^-^ 22:17, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Esperanza electionThank you for your support in the Esperanza Election. I was unsuccessful in the end of the election but I would like to thank you for having confidence in me to be a future admin general/ advisory council member. — Moe ε 23:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Esperanza ElectionNo, thank you! I look forward to working with you on the Advisory Council. karmafist 00:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Congratulations
ThanksHello Titoxd/Archive08, I wish to thank you for your vote on my RfA. It has passed with a final tally of 59/0/0. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 04:15, 31 December 2005 (UTC)yay! more newbie questions. (aren't you glad you're in esperanza?)Hey Tito! Hope you had a good Christmas. I don't know if you enjoy stopping the vandals but you were very helpful to me last time so I have another question for you. I found another one! 202.63.168.43 has done 3 blankings. Should I skip to a substtest 2a? maybe a 3? It seems like letting them vandalize like 10 times and hoping wikipedians aren't too lazy to warn them 4 times before we do anything is not very efficient. Is this up to the admins or is there a strict policy governing this? What do you think? Also, someone blanked my comment on a talk page and several things have been added since then. Would reverting it take away the recent legitimate things? What do I do in this situation? thanks tito! --Victoria h 08:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Esperanza Elections Thanks for voting for me at the Esperanza Elections. I've made my way into the Advisory Committee, so if you ever need any help or have any queries about the stuff we do, please do not hesitate to ask me. Thanks again, FireFox 11:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Hapy New Year
Inverse Spanish Translation
You support for Spanish Translation of the Week. This week Solar panel was chosen to be translated to es:Panel solar. Note that this week we are doing an inverse translation from English to Spanish. Hope you can help.
Admin CoachingSure, that sounds great, but I still think we should proceed with caution. Right now, all I expect we should do is comb through his diffs, and check out the work. Knowing what the community wants on WP:RFA (talk page interaction, RC patrol, and the like), I think we should be able to give some help. But I do have a little doubt about the process, just because I don't want other Wikipedians to see Esperanza as a "happy cabal," inserting their own candidates for adminship. What do you think? Cheers, Bratschetalk | Esperanza 01:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC) DittoSounds good to me, also have you talked to WikiFanatic? He does a similiar thing on his own, it may be good to ask him to team up. karmafist 02:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Works for me. I'll get right on it. -Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 06:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Esperanza and the Tool
Advisory Council StuffHey Titoxd, we had a good meeting on IRC the other day, one of the things we talked about was trying to make a reformed version of NPA through the ideas of Esperanza as a whole, I was wondering what you thought about my process for it, as well as the idea overall. karmafist 08:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Julius Caesar and BC/BCESorry about my reversions to BCE. All I saw were IP diffs with no summaries. I thought they were the ones changing it from standard. I wish you had left me a note on my talk page regarding the debate on Talk:Julius Caesar after you reverted me, as I ended up making the same mistake two more times. I should have checked the history, but a note would have been helpful. WAvegetarian (talk) (email) (contribs) 10:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Re Admin CoachingExtremely nice to hear from someone about this. So when do we start? -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 11:48, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Admin CoachingHi there Titoxd. I noticed you were in charge of the "admin coaching" program. It is truly a great idea, one I think will provide a great service to wikipedians. I myself am not an admin yet (been here since July, declined a nom in December), but have quite alot of experience with the RFA process, having made three nominations. The long and the short of it is am I eligable to be a "coacher" if I am not an admin? Indeed, am I wanted to coach? (If those are both "no", dont worry, I wont be deeply offended.) Thanks Banes 19:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
BlocksThis made my day. Thank you. [[Sam Korn]] 21:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome!Thanks for the "Flowers, and you are most AAAAAACHOOO Welcome! (Sorry my pollen allergies are acting up:). I've seen you in action and know our confidence is well placed. Congrats and Happy new year fellow Esperanzian!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 02:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC) Edit countingI know a little Java. However, I have access to the toolserver now [1], and if the block on faleg.org meant anything, it was that developers should use the toolserver rather than writing scrapers, so I'm working on getting things running on the toolserver instead. About the javascript version though, I really strongly believe that's the best non-direct-database way to go, beans or not. Even if someone were to delete local pages, it's still something that's rather democratic, in that offsite copies will always exist, and individual users can always make their own completely independent copy inside Wikipedia (since AJAX security restrictions require it to be served from en.wikipedia.org in order to run properly). So I'd urge you guys to work on that version instead, but that's just me. Anyway, at this point, I mainly need 1) time to implement on the toolserver the ideas I already have, and 2) any new ideas others might have that can be implemented reasonably easily. Though at the point that faleg.org was blocked, I had quite a few ideas, and I'm sure some of them will be popular if they're ever implemented. --Interiot 03:10, 3 January 2006 (UTC) Hey cronieSince you can usually be counted on to oppose me, and I saw your name while leaving this... I just like to have nice clear reasons for things. So whatever the outcome, I'd like wider input at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Conglomerate. - brenneman(t)(c) 04:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC) 2005AHS footnotesThank you for actually being the one to do the tedious job of putting all those links back! :) --AySz88^-^ 06:10, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank You!!Even though it was unintentional, this made me laugh as hard as I have in weeks, and that was what I needed! I do have a question for you as well, is the KC affiliated with Esperanza? KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 09:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
This was discussed in October hereThanks, I had misplaced that. And it's kind of annoying to grep "rollback" in your contribs log. Radiant_>|< 23:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikibreak Gah, not you as well! :( the wub "?!" 00:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
mfd archivesI'm not sure if you noticed, but I created archives for all the miscellaneous for deletion debates, and if possible, when closing a debate, would you mind moving it to the relevant archive? Cheers, Steve block talk 10:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC) For the love of GodFirst, I'm honored to be quoted in your manifesto. Second, I swear, if one more person in the Esperanza hierarchy goes on break, I'm deleting it as a blight on the site. First JCarriker, then Red, then me, then AA and RN, now Celestianpower and you! Esperanza is supposed to be keeping people here! Gahhhh! -- Essjay · Talk 21:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Bye for nowTitoxd, I just read your rant and I was struck by how well you put in words what I see happening at Wikipedia these days. As I described it to someone else, yesterday, "The Wikipedia community is starting to turn into a big zoo, with big cats cornering each others and monkeys making lots of noise" (of course, this does not apply to every user and every part of the community, and it is in no way meant as a personal attack on anyone in particular). I'm not planning to leave it myself, for now I'll watch and learn, but it's painful to see so many people leaving. I hope you'll return one day, and even more, I hope one day the conditions around here will be such that you will want to return and feel good around here again. See you! --JoanneB 22:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Glad you're back admin twin even if it is in a limited way. To be honest I'm feeling unsure about my own future here on Wikipedia. There is obviously too much contempt among the "elite", and no amount of restarting RFCs will take back some of the things that have been said. That rant sums up my feelings perfectly, I hope you don't mind me adding it to Category:Wikipedia essays and linking it shamelessly. the wub "?!" 23:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC) User box TfDYou said, "Delete all, per Tony's reasoning," thereby agreeing with Tony's statement that, "These userboxes must go because they turn Wikipedia into a network of people linked together by their factional interests,and as such are a grave danger to the neutrality policy." If you truly think that user boxes that convey factional interests should be deleted, then you should remove the Sun Devils box from your user page. Not only are you a Sun Devil, but a proud one to boot. This is a highly factional POV stance. The owned by cat box isn't far behind; it even has a category attached. Note that I think that both of these are perfectly fine boxes and hope that you change your mind instead of your user page to avoid hypocrisy. WAvegetarian (talk) (email) (contribs) 00:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
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Admin coachingJust pinging to check if you got my last message on the thread above. Cheers. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 01:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC) Check this outbest...throwaway...username...ever :).--Sean|Black 07:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC) hi there... I see you protected the list of social networking sites. Might I suggest it's time to now unprotect it, and see what happens? In any case, we need to remove Angpau and Favorville from the list now that they have been deleted for failing WP:WEB, per AfD discussions. Thanks, └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 18:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC) Rfa thanks
User:Titoxd/Status/BusyAny chance you can make {{{3}}} without the wikilink brackets around it? Thanks for the feature..it's very useful. JHMM13 (T | C) Admin House isn't a coaching program. WikiFanatic 05:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC) Merci beaucoupBanes bothering you again about admin coaching...I hate to be a pest old chap but what about those pending and unassigned admin coaching cases? Do we have to wait for you to assign them? Or do we just notify the trainees and get started? Regards Banes 17:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC) Could you help me with my monobook.js file? I want to add a tab to send the test-n messages, but I can't get it to work. Thanks, Prodego talk 00:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC) ThanksMany thanks for your {{subst:RFA cliche 1}} on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me. --Alf melmac 10:04, 8 January 2006 (UTC) |
