User talk:Caliburn/2014

Latest comment: 9 years ago by George.Edward.C in topic User: Lombardi4kids

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Welcome change

Hello! I noticed that you may have come here from another Wikipedia, so you know a little about how things work here. I hope you like it here and decide to stay! Here are some links to help you adjust:

There's a lot to do here. Most of it is writing articles that do not exist yet, which you can do by translating from other Wikipedias, but have a look around and see what you want to do. Thanks for joining us, and you know how to contact me if you need any help. Mr Wiki Pro (talk) 13:33, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

July 2014 change

  Hello, George.Edward.C. It looks like "Maximum Overload" was derived from the English Wikipedia or another version of Wikipedia. If that is indeed the case, please make sure you add some form of attribution, either in your change summary or on the article's talk page. This must be done, even for derivative works, or the article will be deleted in time. More instructions on how to do this are at Wikipedia:Transwiki attribution. Thank you. The article Fury of the Storm also needs attribution. Auntof6 (talk) 20:17, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

2014 deaths change

Good work on all that splitting. Please be sure to categorize all the new articles, with appropriate sort keys. They probably should also have intro sections. Also, since there's no real content in the main article now, I don't think we need all the subheadings. The individual articles could just be in a list. Make sense? --Auntof6 (talk) 06:53, 24 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Yep, I'm on that now. 06:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits on the article! Try to double check if the person you add are notable like having a link to the English Wikipedia. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I believe all of the people I have added are notable... George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 08:38, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh yes I know and I'm grateful, but someone like Jason Curley, for instance are better off redirected rather than having their own article like the English Wikipedia. The others you added are great. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I will take that into account, thanks @TDKR Chicago 101! George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 09:06, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Other than that the article looks good wouldn't you say. I'm a little worried that creating Deaths in 2015 might be confusing! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 09:07, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Not really confusing, shouldn't we put some form of condolences in the talk page? For respects sake. George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 09:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
lol okay. I hope you're around (active) when 2015 comes. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 09:48, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I can't see why I won't be. George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 09:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Heavy metal change

Hi, George. I noticed that a page you created, Glam metal, had a link to Heavy metal. That page is a disambiguation page. The page for the music genre is at heavy metal music. Please use the correct link when writing about the music.

Speaking of disambiguation, I was looking at User:Project/Heavy Metal (which I noticed that you signed up for), and I saw that two entries under the list of people/bands weren't to the correct pages, either. Those bands were Anthrax (US band) and Slash (musician). I fixed the links there, but maybe as part of your work for the WikiProject, you could check links to anthrax and slash and change them if they are supposed to be for the musicians. It would be great to see a WikiProject being active, because we have so many inactive ones. Let me know if you have any questions about any of this. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:43, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

I will review these links and incorporate your advice. Thanks! George.Edward.C 16:45, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! Sometimes it's lonely in the disambiguation trenches! --Auntof6 (talk) 16:56, 26 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

asked for quick deletion about Mitra Jashni article change

Hello! I think there is enough proofs to not delete this article . I insert about seven links as references in official and credible websites.if it needs somethings more , please let me know. [qd 1][qd 2][qd 3][qd 4][qd 5][qd 6][qd 7][qd 8]

  1. iranpainters.com self-report. [1]
  2. www.uitgeverijemdejong.nl/aanleveren/ons-weekblad/ newspaper article in Dutch. [2]
  3. www.lahora.com.ec newspaper article in spanish. [3]
  4. www.centroculturalpuce.org news in spanish.[4]
  5. www.elcomercio.com newspaper article in spanish.[5]
  6. holaciudad.com the interview tv in spanish. [6]
  7. ecuavisa.com National news article in spanish. [7]
  8. telegrafo.com National news article in spanish. [8]

Palete (talk) 19:09, 5 September 2014 (UTC) Palete (talk) 19:13, 5 September 2014 (UTC)paleteReply

Also check out the talk page, as more people have listed sources. George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 06:21, 6 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Nationalities of people in the deaths articles (and even other places) change

I am leaving this message for George.Edward.C, Jonny Nixon, and TDKR Chicago 101, because you three have been making most of the changes to articles like Deaths in 2014.

When you link the nationality or ethnicity of a person, please try to make sure that the link is not to a disambiguation page (also called "dab page"). There are a lot of words that can be nationalities or ethnicities, but which can also be other things (like languages, cuisine, etc.). Right now on the Deaths in 2014 page, there are links to Indian, Polish, and Serbian, all of which are dab pages. Looking at those dab pages, those links should be piped to go to India, Poles, and Serbia, respectively.

Here is a list of pages that might be used as nationalities, ethnicities, or something similar, but which are dab pages:

Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Baltic, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Celtic, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hakka, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Khmer, Kurdish, Leonese, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Neapolitan, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Semitic, Serbian, Sicilian, Sindhi, Slavic, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Valencian, Venetian, Vietnamese

It can be hard to spot links to dab pages. I have something in my monobook.js file that highlights dab pages in yellow (as well as highlighting a few other things like redirects in other colors). You are welcome to copy it if you want. I think all you would need to do is add these two lines into your js file:

importScript('User:Auntof6/linkclassifier.js');
importStylesheet('User:Auntof6/linkclassifier.css');

You might want to make your own copies of the individual link classifier files, because I don't guarantee anything about the copies I have.

Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions about this. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:15, 14 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Welcoming vandals change

George, is it good to welcome unregistered users whose every edit is a clear vandalism? It does look rather strange. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:48, 16 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

I do use the applicable template for vandalism. But I'll use the correct template in future. George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 18:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

On a similar note, please be sure that registered users are not vandals before welcoming them. One user you welcomed, Cyphoidbomber, turned out to be a sockpuppet and has been indefinitely blocked. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:18, 23 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

IP Vandal. change

64 something or 60? something is putting in wrong info. --Wui389 (talk) 15:37, 29 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi! I'm not sure which vandal your talking about, could you please link to their page? In any case, I'm not the person to contact, as I don't actually have any rights on this wikipedia. You want to get in touch with an admin, and they'll decide what can be done! George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 15:42, 29 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

‎64.6.124.31 (talk)‎ --Wui389 (talk) 15:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

As far as I can see they've just been adding in the multistub template. If you are concerned, please contact an administrator. George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 15:57, 29 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

My mistake. apoligys. --Wui389 (talk) 15:58, 29 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Rollback Request change

I have approved your request for rollbacker. Please remember to only use it for actual cases of vandalism, any other reverts should be done using another method. -- Enfcer (talk) 18:04, 23 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Enfcer :) George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 18:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

I wondered if you had any additional thoughts regarding how to improve this article. We were discussing some possible solutions. Rus793 (talk) 18:31, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

@Rus793: Ah yes, I've been meaning to get around to that (to be really honest, I forgot about it). In my opinion we should split the article (possibly per decade?), and link them all in the core page (probably not like Deaths in 2014, as there won't be enough content for one article per year). We'll also need to find references (a flaw in the EnWiki page) for each flight. In the end though, we'll probably have to resort to rewriting the whole article. George.Edward.CTalkContributions 18:57, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
It’s a very large project any way it’s divided up. It’s four articles if by quarter-century and ten if by decade. This article is simply a copy of the enwiki list article; the difference being enwiki has links to all the articles (most with decent sources) that back it up. The transwikied article is a massive list of articles we don’t have. Usually the articles come first then the list. So copying just the list article (this article) here was not a great idea to start with. The subject is salvageable I’m just not certain how much (if any) of the article is. I don’t see sources as being a problem; plane crashes were certainly written about. Question: if started from scratch, what do you see as a replacement for this?
It would be certainly easier to create the articles first, as you said: the articles come first. George.Edward.CTalkContributions 08:19, 30 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Mike Moustakes change

infobox would be awesome! --Z2dkfj (talk) 19:07, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Wikipedia! I'll see what I can do :) George.Edward.CTalkContributions 19:11, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Z2dkfj (talk) 19:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Towering Inferno change

i love video games and i see you do to. maybe a helping hand? ty --Z2dkfj (talk) 19:20, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

My primary concern for this one is notability. The article on EnWiki is considered stub quality by Wikipedia's Video Game project. I'll try and find sources, but let's start with more popular ones, since they will have more sources linked to them. If you're unsure about our notability policy, here it is. George.Edward.CTalkContributions 19:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

I found a source. --Z2dkfj (talk) 19:29, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Category:Assassin's Creed change

Thank you for creating this new category. Unfortunately, the category did not contain enough entries, and it has been deleted. Here on Simple English Wikipedia, we want at least three entries in each new category. You can read about this requirement at Wikipedia:Categories#Is there a need for the new category?. If you want to create a new category, please be sure first that there are at least three articles ready to go into it. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about this. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:40, 31 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Ah yes, I feared that would happen. No matter, I plan to make more articles that would be applicable for this category. Thanks for the message! George Edward CTalkContributions 14:55, 31 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Disambiguation pages change

You probably know this by now, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. In this edit back in August, you added Category:Disambiguation to the article Jack. That category should not be added directly. Instead, please use the {{disambiguation}} template. Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 03:31, 3 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

A Reason to Smile change

  Here's a plate full of cookies to share!
Hi Caliburn/2014, here are some delicious cookies to help brighten your day! However, there are too many cookies here for one person to eat all at once, so please share these cookies with at least two other editors by copying {{subst:Sharethecookies}} to their talk pages. Enjoy! Amanda Atom (talk) 16:34, 3 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Amanda! :D George Edward CTalkContributions 19:11, 3 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Are you going to pass this message on to two other users?Amanda Atom (talk) 19:31, 3 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
After I find people that deserve them ;) George Edward CTalkContributions 16:30, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm, Fair enough! :)Amanda Atom 16:33, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
How did you make your userpage title the way it is?Amanda Atom 16:57, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Text}} <-- Like that George Edward CTalkContributions 16:59, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
How did you get it to work?Amanda Atom 17:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
The display title has to match the name of the page. George Edward CTalkContributions 17:02, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! change

4 the help on my contributions! --Gunner1292 (talk) 16:41, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

No problem! Just be sure to add references :) George Edward CTalkContributions 16:48, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Closing RfDs change

Since you are not an administrator, please do not close RfDs. The page you cited in your edit summary is a suggested guideline, not an active one. Even if we did use non-admin closures, they would be appropriate only when the vote was unanimous and the user closing had not voted in the RfD being closed. Neither was the case here. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:08, 9 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

And... As per usual I screwed up. Thanks for notifying me though George Edward CTalkContributions 17:10, 9 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
No problem. We all learn somehow, and this was easily reverted. I'd close that one myself if I hadn't voted in it. That's actually the reason I don't always vote -- so that I can close them later. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:28, 9 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks change

Thanks George. will remember that.

I wanted to preserve the "edit history" of Ganga Not tata (talk) 14:47, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

No problem! I believe it's possible for administrators to merge histories (someone may need to confirm that one) George Edward CTalkContributions 14:56, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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? change

No George.Edward.C, I never did such a thing. That IP is not me. --Hafspajen (talk) 16:57, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I know that IP was not you, that's why I messaged the IP user saying something like "Unless you are in fact Hafspajen, please stop adding the retired template to his/her talk page", or something along those lines. I can't really remember now... George Edward CTalkContributions 17:03, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I think that it would be a good idea to protect that page somehow. Or if not possible delete it all together, it is just bad style and it went on now for months. --Hafspajen (talk) 17:04, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

The IP (Mac) user seems to have stopped now. You could simply delete both pages using the U1 QD criteria. George Edward CTalkContributions 17:14, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I can't delete it, I am not an admin. -- OK, got that, on my own request. Sure why not. They seems to exaust themselfses vandalizig that talk. Hafspajen (talk) 17:16, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Cool, hope that you'll get this vandalism problem soved once and for all :) --George Edward CTalkContributions 17:20, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hope I got that right. --Hafspajen (talk) 17:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, you did. Good luck! --George Edward CTalkContributions 17:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Borrow change

Mind if I borrow your userpage vandalism counter?Amanda Call Me 18:11, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I didn't make it myself, Razorflame did. Feel free to transclude it if you want! George Edward CTalkContributions 18:13, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks.Amanda Call Me 18:14, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
No problem! None of my current userboxes were made by me, I plan on making a few at some point though. --George Edward CTalkContributions 18:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
One of the few things I'm good at on Wikipedia is formatting. If you need help, just ask!Amanda Call Me 18:25, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

A book for you change

 
This editor is an Apprentice Editor and has the right to show this Wikipedia Picture Book.

Congratulations George, you have now qualified for a book (it is actually the second book, but I missed the first one, sorry). You can put this on your user page, or you can change it to a userbox, or a medal, or a ribbon, or even all of them! Thanks for your contributions.--Peterdownunder (talk) 22:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! I might use some of them :) --George Edward CTalkContributions 19:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Song titles change

Hi, George. I noticed that you put an italic title template on These Boots Are Made For Walking. Song titles are formatted with quotation marks, not italics, so I took that tag off and put quotation marks around the title in the text. When you use the italic title template on something that does take italics, be sure to italicize the title in the text as well. If you're interested, there is information at en:WP:MOSTITLE on when to format with italics and when to use quotation marks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:34, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for pointing that out. I assumed it was the same as albums, but thanks for correcting me ;) George Edward CTalkContributions 18:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Barnstar change

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I keep seeing your vandalism reverts in new changes -- good job! Auntof6 (talk) 19:44, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Auntof6 ;) George Edward CTalkContributions 20:04, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome. There's an awful lot of vandalism today. I wonder if there are a lot of students home on a snow day with little to do or something. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:11, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Seems like the vandalism has calmed down now, will keep a close eye just in case. George Edward CTalkContributions 20:23, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Madonna change

Hi George, with regards to User:MadonnaHuish, this is actually a common spambot pattern (both the user name and the user page) often seen cross-wiki since a year ago. I used to keep track of them, but now I just tag them when I see them. See m:User:Mathonius/Reports/BAABP for more information. Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 18:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Unless activity starts getting suspicious, I don't think QDing the userpage is necessary. George Edward CTalkContributions 18:20, 2 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Understood. Mathonius (talk) 11:57, 3 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Warning levels change

When you warn vandals, please do not start with a "final" warning as you did with the IP user 216.73.79.66. This is especially important with IP editor cases like this: the only recent changes were within a very short period of time, so we can be pretty sure those were all done by one person, but the previous bad changes might have been done by someone else. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:16, 4 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

I don't normally do that, but in this case I felt it was especially necessary, as the user was on the road to a block. I will try to refrain from doing so in future, but I felt it was necessary in this instance. Looking at the diffs, they seem to have been performed by a single individual, but nevertheless, I'll try to avoid jumping to IM. George Edward CTalkContributions 18:24, 4 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for your warm welcome!

Does anyone use photos of themselves on their user page?Stmullin (talk) 18:00, 9 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Not problem! :D As for your question, I'm not sure. I know some people at EnWiki do, but I'm not sure about here. George Edward CTalkContributions 18:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Would you be interested in writing articles about Zelda? My daughter is a great fan of that series. If it proves to be a safe environment here (no malware or browser issues, no harassing, or other such behavior) I'd like to allow her to edit. Smlombardi (talk) 00:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

The environment here is normally friendly :). I am a fan of Zelda, so I'll be glad to help! George Edward CTalkContributions 20:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Then I will create an account for her here. Please let people know that her account is not a "sock" . . . she is a child using my IP address but her own account.Smlombardi (talk) 21:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
I created an account for her but it is not yet searchable . . . how do I find her page again?Smlombardi (talk) 03:44, 12 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
After the /wiki/ in the URL, type User: then her username. George Edward CTalkContributions 06:22, 12 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Please take some care when welcoming users. You welcomed user Jadenzering1022 after he/she had vandalized several times and made no good edits. If we welcome vandals at all, we use the welcome message designed for that. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

I really cannot believe I made that mistake, noted anyways... George Edward CTalkContributions 19:09, 17 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Userbox change

George, please email me. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:08, 17 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Ok... George Edward CTalkContributions 06:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
  Resolved, thanks. George Edward CTalkContributions 16:45, 18 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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User: Lombardi4kids change

Hi George! Do you know why there is a vandalism notice on the User:Lombardi4kids page? She does not know how to add templates so I am concerned.Smlombardi (talk) 18:46, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

It was just a random IP user, so don't worry about it. Auntof6 quickly reverted the user's actions. George Edward CTalkContributions 18:59, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
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