User talk:American Eagle/Archive 3

Indented tables

I cleaned up the indented tables causing your user page to display improperly. I also tweaked the userbox section to use wiki tables and a couple minor formating issues. -- Creol(talk) 12:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProjects

Hello again. As you can see from my contributions ubx, I've been pretty active here this last 18 hours, reverting vandalism, creating articles, etc. I was wondering if I could start a WikiProject here. If I can, may I have a page that shows you about wikiprojects (if such page exists :P). Thanks, Eagle. -- RyanCross (talk) 19:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

It's been started. Feel free to join, but it's still in construction. -- RyanCross (talk) 19:56, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

You can create the ubx. I'll see how it looks when its done. -- RyanCross (talk) 21:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Look good. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 21:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering if there was a list of baseball players here. That could be useful for my wikiproject. --RyanCross (talk) 22:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, now this might be one of the longest lists ever created. I'll go ahead and start adding to it. -- RyanCross (talk) 22:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Moving pages

I'm guessing that users can't move pages. Can only admins move pages or can autoconfirmed users move pages? --RyanCross (talk) 23:38, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't have the tab yet since I'm not an autoconfirmed user yet. In 3 days I should have in there. Thanks anyway. ;) -- RyanCross (talk) 23:44, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Reply to your email

I've replied to your email. Cheers, Razorflame 02:39, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

RE: Review

I have done so and added another question for you to answer.--  † ChristianMan16  04:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Editor review

Do you think you can review me? Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 04:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done -- America ^†alk 05:02, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure. It says for me to do so anyway on Wikipedia:Editor review. -- RyanCross (talk) 05:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done -- RyanCross (talk) 05:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Baseball uniform

Hey! I noticed you were online. I was wondering if you would like to help me get baseball uniform to WP:GA status. Can you help? Oh, by the way, I redesigned my user page. The other one was too boring. -- RyanCross (talk) 00:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The problem is right now with the article is that there are many red links. I'm currently creating those as stubs. Sure, I'll let you look over and copyedit the article. And thanks for saying my user page looks good. -- RyanCross (talk) 00:39, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I wasn't really planning to nominate it now. I just needed some help with it. I'll be busy with something right now. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 01:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, thanks. :D -- RyanCross (talk) 03:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I just put in my thoughts and help into the article to help get it to GA status as quickly as possible. I wrote on the article's talk page what I think still needs to be done before it can gain GA status. Cheers, Razorflame 03:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, yes I go to bed. A six-eight hour nap is good enough for me. Let's just say I'm very dedicated to this project. -- RyanCross (talk) 06:00, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Yup, but probably not as active as today. But I should have at least 750 quality edits by the end of tomorrow on my third day here. ;) Good night. :D -- RyanCross (talk) 06:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it me. :P I was offline for most of the day though. I should be active again now. -- RyanCross (talk) 02:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:

I missed church today...our car broke down.--  † ChristianMan16  03:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I spent my day watching Star Wars episodes V and VI.--  † ChristianMan16  03:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually "broke down" stretches the truth...The automatic sliding door broke and we only have about 40 miles left on the warranty to get it fixed and needed every mile of that to get the vehicle to the dealership to get it fixed. So we were "grounded" at home for the day.--  † ChristianMan16  03:17, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I love the Star Wars films...especially Episode III!!! :D --  † ChristianMan16  03:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

So, we still edit in between messages.--  † ChristianMan16  03:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Most of my knowledge of wrestling and Star Wars are thanks to Wikis (Wikipedia and Wookiepedia respectively).--  † ChristianMan16  03:45, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar and Welcome.

If you're interested at all in the game articles, I created a Video game WikiProject, and we could use users who could make more articles and improve the existing ones. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:49, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied

My reply here. -- RyanCross (talk) 04:12, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

You have an email. -- RyanCross (talk) 05:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Our copyediting and wikifying

Hehe, look at recent changes. :D -- RyanCross (talk) 19:53, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I think that's all. Oh, I caught on when I found out you were wikifying/copyediting all of User:Beefball's articles. ;) -- RyanCross (talk) 20:03, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Um, yeah, I;m still here. That's what being active means. I've been active since my first day, no, hour here, right? Regards, RyanCross (talk) 01:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I've noticed. I'm just copyediting today. I do a lot of that. -- RyanCross (talk) 02:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that two. ;) RyanCross (talk) 02:04, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Oh, by the way, this is my 999 edit. What do you think I should spend my 1000 edit on? :P I know it's a bit silly... but still. -- RyanCross (talk) 06:07, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Yup. I decided to create that as my 1000th edit. ;) Good night. I'll probably see you tomorrow. Best, RyanCross (talk) 06:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Why are you creating redirects to O RLY? named Jonathan the Snowy Owl, Fark owl, Orly owl? They do not seem to have any connection. You are also creating too many redirects to one article. Chenzw  Talk  02:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I, too, think that you are going a bit overboard on the redirects. Cheers, Razorflame 02:12, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

This is unlike him. Could it be compromised? Chenzw  Talk  02:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Nah, he's done it before. Cheers, Razorflame 02:14, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied here. Thanks -- America ^†alk 02:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

That was tiring...

Ack, yeah... when I was watching simple wikipedia today, three vandals started vandalizing out of nowhere. No admins or registered users were online so I had to clean up all of their edits, reverting all their bad edits, warning them (I reported one at WP:AIV) and tagging nonsense creations. Just look at the beginning of today's recent changes. It's a good thing they stopped. The worst vandal was blocked a few hours later by User:Gwib. He finished the cleaning up by deleting the nonsense articles and blocking the vandal. That was a relief. -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 07:48, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

my rFa

Thank you for your recent support in my RFA which closed successfully with 26 supports and a lone oppose. I hope to serve the community to the best of my ability. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookies

I've never gotten a virtual plate of cookies before - it was a rather pleasant surprise! Thanks! Staeiou (talk) 01:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Welcomes

Hey there. I was wondering where you could find welcome templates that you can use to welcome new users. I've been using {{Welcome}} and I would like to use different ones. Thanks, Ryan†Cross (talk) 04:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

You know that list of MLB players? Well, don't you think it will get really long? Wikipedia-en doesn't have one. What do you think? -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 06:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

But when we have thousands of players, what will happen? -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 06:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Evolution..

Hello, I am in the process of "re-vamping" Evolution so that it can still be a very good article. I invite yxou to contribute what oyu think can be done. In the revampled article I created a section called Responses to the idea of evolution. It links to Social responses to the idea of evolution as a main article. When the first ideas of evolution began to be discussed (afaik Lamarckism) there were of course people who did not like it; ever since, people have talked about it.

I would be glad if you could do a proofreading/copyediting

All the best --Eptalon (talk) 15:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Editing

Ohai. Gwib an me filled recent changes with our copyediting and wikifying today. Just skim through Special:RecentChanges and our contributions. Oh, and I saw the message above this one, and I'm also helping the cause. You could be of help. Cheers, RyanCross (talk) 00:13, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

No, not really the for "edit counts". Razorflame just didn't wikify his article creations completely. Cheers, RyanCross (talk) 00:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Certain words should be linked to be properly wikified and that word wasn't linked in a lot of his articles. Cheers. RyanCross (talk) 00:57, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: 5,000 :)

Congrats on the 5,000th edit :)

Congratulations: You have been given a Barnstar! Mr. 5000 :) Razorflame 00:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Template:BD

When using {{BD}}, it should be placed at the end of the categories, not the beginning as the dates categories are the least important. -- Creol(talk) 05:18, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Birds

American Eagle, I have just reverted your changes. The word "like" was used correctly in every single instance where you changed it. I suppose you did it to avoid confusion with the use of the word as a verb to indicate a positive feeling eg "I like icecream".

The word "like" is correctly use as a conjunction, forming a " simile" (saying that two things are similar). Many of your changes made absolute nonsense of the sense, or else resulted in a statement which was simply false!

"Though birds are warm-blooded creatures such as mammals, they do not give birth to live babies." Nonsense!

This is one of your changes which has resulted in a ridiculous inaccuracy. Birds are not warm-blooded creatures such as mammals. This makes mammals a sub-category of Birds! Birds are warm-blooded creatures like mammals.

let me say once again that this use of the word "like" is a simple, old, correct English use. If you have mmade similar changes to other web pages, then please revert them, because it is creating chaos.

Amandajm (talk) 10:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

My Barnstar!!!

		ChristianMan16's Barnstar
		For your hard work on not only articles but helping out other users and just being an overall good person. For the first, time I hereby award you my barnstar.--  † ChristianMan16  23:08, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think I made it clear in the message on the star, but your the first to receive this barnstar.--  † ChristianMan16  05:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

:P I didn't watch Star Wars this week.--  † ChristianMan16  13:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Great Users

Wow, just noticed I am in your list of Great Users. Im so proud! :D ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 08:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, I was wondering if I could steal your code for your userpage? See User:Kennedy/Sandbox for what I mean. I will change it about, remove the userboxes etc, so its not exactly the same as yours. If thats okay? ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 09:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks. Now I can complain that you are copying me ;-) (Only joking!) ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 07:58, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course! If im stealing from someone, I like to let people know who im stealing from :) ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 08:10, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Sorry if I was beastly. Thank you for your generous response! Amandajm (talk) 11:35, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Charles

Hey American Eagle - I see you've put Mr Spurgeon up for VGA. I'd like to help. First thing is that since it's about a British subject you should use British English, not American English - so less z's and more s's. But I'll do a thorough review and hope to help you get the article promoted. All the best! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:40, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Email

I've sent you several emails that I need your help on. Cheers, Razorflame 23:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

IRC

Hey there. Can I speak to you on IRC? I guess Swirlboy's IRC would be fine. Can you go?-- RyanCross (talk) 04:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm there, but I don't see you... -- RyanCross (talk) 04:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

No worries. ;) Sure, I'll be there. Just give me a minute or two. -- RyanCross (talk) 06:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Ohai again. IRC? -- RyanCross (talk) 06:56, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, your out to bed. Well, I'll be on a Wikibreak, so there's no need to reply to this message really. I'm trying to keep my talk page empty so that when I come back, I can reply to them swiftly. See you in a few days, RyanCross (talk) 07:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

/me is nosey; which IRC? Microchip 16:51, Thursday, June 26 2008 Utc

Not #wikipedia-simple? Microchip 16:02, Thursday, June 26 2008 Utc

In which case use whatever you use to reach swirlboy, and type /j #wikipedia-simple. Microchip 17:11, Thursday, June 26 2008 Utc

Hey America

Hey man well now I'm a member of this Wikipedia. I don't have much questions except how do I use SoxBot/Status to show my Status? Best regards--Ezekiel ^†alk 16:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

(butts in) - At the moment it is blocked due to the big number of edits. However, simply go here and change the text to anything. Then go to your userpage and type {{User:SoxBot/Status|Ezekiel}}. Microchip 19:56, Wednesday, June 25 2008 Utc

Sorry, wrong thing. {{User:SoxBot/Status|User:SoxBot/Status/Ezekiel}}. is what you should type instead. Microchip 19:56, Wednesday, June 25 2008 Utc

Revolutionry War

Hi American Eagle,

The /new page under the american rev war article is a rewrite that i'm starting on, with the normal english article as a starting point. Is there a "correct" way to do this?

Thanks. Atanamir (talk) 23:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

RE:Hi,

eh, I don't know. I don't want one I guess. Oysterguitarist 00:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Cheers, as well. Oysterguitarist 00:07, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

RE:

Much better.--  † ChristianMan16  01:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

IRC

Can i speak with you at #wikipedia-simple? Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 23:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

User page changes

To prevent potential nested tables (you already have one) and make future changes simplier, you may want to keep the basic table setup on your main user page and just put the content of each section into sub-pages rather than including the table content in the sub-pages. This will greatly help with things from cleaning table issues to complete page redesigns. -- Creol(talk) 01:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Baseball uniform

I've done some major referencing to the article, just look at Special:RecentChanges and my recent contributions. :) I'll nominate it soon. -- RyanCross (talk) 05:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Oh, and thank you for your help also. I don't see really anything wrong with the article. I'll keep on adding references. Cheers, RyanCross (talk) 05:45, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed from all those edits that filled recent changes. >_> Useful tool actually. Good work with it. ^_^ -- RyanCross (talk) 03:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Citations/References

I was just wondering if you knew whether or not is is considered ok to cite other Wikipedias as sources when adding citations to an article. I tried once before but someone removed it so could you clarify this for me. Cheers.

--The Flying Spaghetti Monster (talk) 14:57, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Ana's refs

Well, as far as I'm concerned, if the title on the web page doesn't use the diacritic then the title in the {{cite web}} should reflect that. If the diacritic is there then fine. Either way, how do you feel about the article now it meets all 10 criteria for VGA? The Rambling Man (talk) 19:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I really appreciate your efforts on simplifying Ana's article. Thanks again. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help and your support. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Licensing

Where are licensings in the help desk? Thank you for help, I sure, you can help me.--Vatrena ptica (talk) 20:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Umm...

I went on an editing kick this morning. I'm not sure if I will stick around or not. But I'm here for now. --Andrew from NC (talk) 19:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

PS: I read about your sister on Simple Talk. Congratulations!

I will try to review you when I have a bit more time (I don't want to rip you off by only spending the minute or two I have now). Perhaps I can do it tonight. I like your user page. I've never spent much time on mine since I don't stick around for more than a week or two at a time. Maybe I will improve it some day. As for Charles Spurgeon, I hope he makes it as a good article. I would hope for featured, but somehow I don't think our current admins would go for it. Anyway, I've enjoyed my stint here at Simple. Perhaps I'll be back tonight or tomorrow. --Andrew from NC (talk) 19:57, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Mr Spurgeon

Well done on all your hard work on getting Charles up to VGA. He'll be on the mainpage in no time! Keep up the good work. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Samford University

When you created the article Samford University, you called it "Bob Jones University" at the top of the infobox. I guessed this was wrong so changed it to "Samford University" - that is right, isn't it? Thanks, - tholly ^--Turnip-- 17:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Ana's table

I've expanded the R2 to Round 2 (for example). And I've modified the Round article to include the possible definition. Hope that helps you understand what it means! All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

It was my pleasure to help. As you know I'm new around here so all I'm trying to do is improve the place, make good (or very good!) articles and make Simple English Wikipedia a great place. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps when you get the chance you could have a look at Daniela Hantuchova and see if it's as good (if not better than) Ana Ivanovic? I'd appreciate any comments, suggestions, improvements and, ultimately, support if possible! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your clean up work so far on Daniela. Hopefully you think it's in a good state already. Keep up the great work. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:20, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome ;> Xeno (talk) 20:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:Chris

There are several problems with Chris's article. For one thing it needs extensive expanding in the career section...there needs to be a personal life section added.. Promotions section removed cause it not that notable...what's notable will be documented in the career section. A section document the events surrounding his death. Sources. Those are a few of the things off the top of my head.--  † ChristianMan16  20:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Editor review

Haven't you been under editor review long enough?--  † ChristianMan16  00:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

Wow, thank you! My aim is to have all the years in the 17th century done at some point. Many thanks, - tholly ^--Turnip-- 18:39, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

RE:July 5...

Just because the fourths over doesn't mean I'm gonna stop celebrating my patriotism. USA, USA, USA, USA!!! (*to himself* Now,... Where in the world are my sparklers?)--  † ChristianMan16  05:36, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

Thank you. :) Rudget 09:34, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Nomination

As per the discussion before I left, are you ready for an RfA? I am willing to nominate you if you are still willing to run.

Also, can you tell me some of the happenings/going-ons around this site while I was away?

Cheers, Razorflame 17:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

O_O, your running an RfA without my nomination. :O Well, at least your running. Good luck! ;) -- RyanCross (talk)

Yeah, I do. I just wonder if I could squeeze in my nomination. Do you think I could do that, or should I just WP:BE BOLD? -- RyanCross (talk) 01:50, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

If you really want to nominate, you are, by all means, completely allowed to co-nominate. I decided to be the main nominator because I realized that I would have too much to say about this user to be a co-nominator. Cheers, Razorflame 01:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

 Done. You might want to tweak your acceptance a bit. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 02:40, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh no!

I know. Well this is probably my last one for a bit. The whole Wimbledon thing going on right now has inspired me! If you want to suggest something else (similar!) I can turn my hand to then please do! Anyway, Anna's article is far from complete right now so it won't be quite the speedy success of Ana Ivanovic (and I haven't finished expanding her article either). I'm actually really enjoying the fact that Ivanovic, Hantuchova and (soon) Kournikova will have better referenced articles here than on en-wiki! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:33, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Well I hope so. I don't want this to become "Simple English Eastern European Female Tennis Wikipedia" but the subject matter interests me! Next up will probably be a local geography article or something odd like Airbus A320. Then back to something more interesting like Maria Sharapova! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Obviously she was a big favourite of mine then she started whining too much when she didn't win everything, and she screams too much when she plays, and her odd Russian/US accent doesn't help either. But she's a great player and usually streets ahead of the competition. So she'll get the TRM treatment eventually! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)