User talk:Razorflame/Archive 11

I don't mind

Thank you :) --Bianca (talk to Bianca) 23:32, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem! Ask me if you need any more help in the future. Razorflame 15:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Grammar

Hope you don't mind, I made a grammar correction to your userpage. Lights § talk 23:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. In the future, if you see a mistake, feel free to fix it without letting me know. Razorflame 15:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Helen Clark

Hello, Brother. There's something I didn't understand it well. In en:wiki, they wrote: In 2007 Forbes magazine ranked her as the 38th most powerful woman in the world. In simple:wiki, they wrote: As of 2006, she is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 20th most powerful woman in the world. So please can explain it? It's just make an analysis only, check it out. Cheers.....--≈ RecorDprodUceR (talk) 13:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Are you there?--≈ RecorDprodUceR (talk) 13:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I am here, but I was unable to access this site over the weekend. The English Wikipedia has more up-to-date information than we do, and Forbes ranks women differently every year. While she may have been the 20th most powerful woman in the world in 2006, they may have rated her differently in 2007. Hope this clears it up. Razorflame 15:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

En:wiki, their some times up dated-some time not. There's certain article I found it in en:wiki and simple wiki, but en:wiki was not up dated, and simple were alreday be up dated!! What do you think? The article was Auckland Grammar School, see also in en:wiki:Auckland Grammar School. I translate this article to my local Wikipedia (sw:wiki) and I found it two pla ces, so who is correct? Cheers...--≈ RecorDprodUceR (talk) 14:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Most of the time that this happens, I would suggest doing a simple Google search and then seeing what the majority of the other websites that you find on the subject say about it. Razorflame 14:06, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Other Websites

if you go to google and type in User:Runningblader you will run into other websites that copied my pages =|.

even my youtube file =|

Runningblader,the owner of Vandlism Template 02:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I really don't know what to say about that. I'm betting that there will be a lot of people copying what I've written on here. Razorflame 15:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Philosophy of science

Hi,

I answer to your message : if you have time, is it possible that you take a look to what I have added to Philosophy of science ? My english is very basic, and I don't know if what I try to write is correct. Thanks. Alfred (talk) 10:51, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

What you wrote is fantastic! The article itself is very good, but there is a problem with it. Some of the English that you use in the article is complex and hard to understand. An example of this would be logical expression. I doubt that a person who doesn't understand english or understands only a little bit of English will understand this. Razorflame 15:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

User talk:170.161.70.163

Please be careful with ViP reports. Not only is this IP a school user but they did not vandalise after a last warning. Tygrrr gave them a different warning as activity had been quiet for several days.--Bärliner 17:36, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll make sure to look before I leap from now on when I report things in the ViP from now on :). Thanks for telling me off, now I know what not to do :). Cheers! Razorflame 17:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Re

Sure! What does subst do? SwirlBoy39 (talk) 21:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

It substitutes what the template says into where you put it in. I'll give you the full usage in a second. Razorflame 21:22, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

A template gives a link to the template. subst:template prints what the template says on that page. It saves server resources for warnings etc that will not be updated--Bärliner 21:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I was pretty close with what I said.  :) Razorflame 21:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar and cookies!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your hard work fighting vandalism. Lights § talk 21:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Enjoy! Lights § talk 21:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Lots of cookies! I'll have to share some of them with my friends :) Thankee!Razorflame 15:51, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Claz2201

She has only made three changes, all to het userpage which is called The Autobiography of Bob. She is not using the edit summary as an advert, two of which at least were autogenerated.--Bärliner 22:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Alright. I just wanted to ask you before I did anything about it. Razorflame 15:52, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

"Stay"

Check this out! I like this song. Can't wait for their new album to come out this 2008/09:) --§ Snake311 _{(T + C)} 06:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

My school has blocked it, so I'll have to check it out this weekend. It seems like it could be a good song :) Razorflame 15:52, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Stuff

Bamberg

The otheruses made no sense. If there is a dismbiguation page ready, then say something like Bamberg in Bavaria|otheruses|Bamberg (disamb) Just to say this article is about Bamberg, for other uses see Bamberg disambig makes no real sense. Agree?

I was just fixing up the template that was added by the person previous to me. I do agree that it doesn't make sense though. Razorflame 16:29, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Standard usage in the colonies United States and Canada is City, Province or State so you could use the pagename in the otheruses template. For European places you always need to add a little extra. --Bärliner 16:35, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I didn't know that. Now I do. Razorflame 16:42, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Dresden

I have no idea whether this is a cache problem or not. I recently changed a template. I should now have Regierungsbezirk Dresden in cat:government regions in Saxony, which is a subcat of cat:government regions in Germany. Can you look at Regierungsbezirk Dresden at see if it really is in those categories. Thanks. --Bärliner 16:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

It is definitely there. Razorflame 16:42, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

It is for me now, the servers have been busy all night, so I probably couldn't get a proper reload. Now I know the template works I can create the articles for Saxony's urban and rural districts and recategorise them--Bärliner 23:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

That's good to know :) Razorflame 14:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War protected for a few hours--Bärliner 16:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I've noticed. I would've protected it for a few hours as well because of how many times it's been vandalized. Razorflame 16:42, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

mmm

[1] --Bärliner 16:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I suppose that was true. Eh, I didn't think that that was true before, but now I do. Razorflame 16:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

what about the "nonsense" warning ? --Bärliner 16:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll go remove it. Razorflame 16:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

External links

Ok, I'll remember that for the future. Guess I forgot that headings require simplification as well. Thanks for the note. The Wolf ^Bark 17:07, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem! I just wanted to let you know what we do here on the Simple English Wikipedia! Razorflame 17:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Bali Nine

if you could help me by adding inter-wiki links to the bali nine it would be appreciated.--Sinbad (talk) 20:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll go look for some. Razorflame 20:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.--Sinbad (talk) 20:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I've added some to the article. Razorflame 20:53, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Barnstar

Thank you! :))) --§ Snake311 _{(click here to chat)} 22:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem :) Razorflame 14:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Switzerland, Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Svizra

I thought you were going to start this project. Did you? It is not advertised on Wikipedia:WikiProject--Bärliner 12:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I did start it, but I haven't had time to get the list of articles to expand and the list of articles to create completed yet. I will advertise it as soon as I get those two pages completed. Razorflame 14:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

KCollis

I have noticed your userpage has a redlink. Apart from a very new user not knowing what you mean by redlink, Why not wait a day or two. Most editors will create a page, but jimping on them seconds after they sign up is a bit intimidating--Bärliner 20:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

All right. I'll stop adding this from now on :) Razorflame 20:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Ben Williams

You say 3.8 million google hits on the RfD but did you see how many are for this Ben Williams?

Yes, my mistake. I thought that the page was for the goalkeeper, so it was my mistake. I have corrected my vote to make it a delete vote. Thanks for catching this for me! Razorflame 02:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Notability

So how many Google results is considered notable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.133.3 (talk • contribs)

At least 50,000 is good, but that doesn't mean that it is notable. Razorflame 04:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Need a hand?

Hi, hi! :) It looks like a vandal has sweeped a lot of the music articles, and you're the only active user that does anything about it... Care if I help lift the load? --Bianca (talk to Bianca) 04:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't mind. I'm currently playing Scrabble, so I can't really deal with it much anyways. Feel free to make reversions as you see fit. Razorflame 04:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Vasari

I just undid your change but inadvertently did leave an explanation. "Vasari's Lives" is the shortened form of the title of a book. It isn't a quotation, but it does need parenthesis. Amandajm (talk) 09:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

If it's the title of a book, instead of using quotations, why not use italics? Razorflame 19:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

OK

I'll try to remember that, thanks ^-^ --Bianca (talk to Bianca) 23:00, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

All right. Just thought that I would let you know about that. Razorflame 23:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Fra Angelico

Razorflame, your tag about the language used in that article is nonsense. When you say that it is almost a paste it indicates that you obviously haven't read either of them. I am the author of the wikipedia article, and I editted the Simple wiki article so that your average 12 yr old can read in. In otherwords, I broke it into shorter sentences, rearranged those sentences that had a complex form to direct speech, and explained words like "beatification" by putting them into a context like "he is on his way to becoming a saint". Every single sentence of the article has been reconsidered and reworked. The SimpleWiki article is also a great deal shorter than the original.

I'm removing the tag, because I consider it inappropriate. Amandajm (talk) 04:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

It is still complex in my mind. I will be happy to remove my reason for the tag being there in the first place, but that article definitely needs the complex tag. I read the whole article, and there were still some complex words in it. If you still think that I am wrong, I would like to recommend looking over the article again, making sure that it is indeed not complex, and simplifying parts that are still complex. Again, that article is definitely still complex, so there should be no reason why you should be removing the tag. Razorflame 04:57, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

For comparison

• Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent".[1]

Rewritten as:

Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18 1455), was an Early Italian Renaissance painter. Giorgio Vasari, who wrote the Lives of the Artists said he had "a rare and perfect talent".[1]

NOTE:

1. Guido di Pietro omitted and explained below in a simple sentence
2. Vasari's whole name given and identity explained
3. "Referred" changed to "said"

• Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole). In Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, written prior to 1555, he is already known as Fra Giovanni Angelico (Brother Giovanni the Angelic One).[2]

Rewritten as:

Fra Angelico has been known by many different names. When he was born, he was called Guido di Pietro. People who knew him when he was older called him Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole). When Giorgio Vasari wrote about him in Lives of the Artists, in the 1500s, he was already known as Fra Giovanni Angelico (Brother Giovanni who is like an Angel). [2]

NOTE:

1. Simple explanation "Fra Angelico has been known by many different names"
2. "Born Guido di Pietro" changed to a full simple sentence "When he was born, he was called Guido di Pietro"
3. Likewise the third sentence has its order reversed and is greatly simplified.

I won't bother to go on.... The entire article has been adated for SimpleWiki in the same manner. Amandajm (talk) 05:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Simple English

Razorflame, there is a common misconception at this site about what constitutes "Simple English". This misconception results in some appallingly stupid and convoluted sentence constructions from people who are trying to reduce everything to words of one syllable.

Part of the art of writing Simple English is to construct clear, grammatically correct sentences. For maximum simplicity, the sentences should have the subject and verb in that order. And the time frame at the beginning rather than the end. eg:

At his birth, he was known as Guido di Pietro.

At his birth,(phrase telling when) he (subject-the important bit) was known (verb-following immediately the subject it's about) as Guido di Pietro (phrase- telling what was known). (fullstop- just one idea in this sentence).

This is a much simpler form than "Known at his birth as Guido di Pietro, he ...." Which goes: verb, time frame, phrase, subject... and follows on with the next idea.

Secondly, what type of words are actually in the Simple English vocabulary? From the "a" list:

account • acid • addition • adjustment • advertisement • agreement • amount • amusement • apparatus • approval • argument • attack • attempt • attention • attraction • authority • automatic •

And from the International list we add:

alcohol • Algebra • aluminum • ammonia • anesthetic • Arithmetic • asbestos • autobus • automobile.

Words like "apparatus", "authority" and "attempt" are not easy to simplify. In order to understand them, the reader mmust be able to look at the context. That is why each sentence needs to be very well constructed. The grammmar is more significant in many ways than the vocabulary, bbecause a person can look up a word in a dictionary, but they cannot decipher badly-written verbage.

Probelm: The creator of the Simple English list made a good attempt at providing terms that would serve in many different circumstances, including business, and daily life. But the list falls down in various areas. I keep nnoticing that very bbasic words used to describe the visual arts are completely missing from the list. "decoration" is one of the basic visual words that is missing, even though the word "decorate" is familiar to any child who has ever had a cake or a Christmas tree. If we follow the vocab exactly with no leeway for the subject with which we are dealing, then we can attack or adjust our tree, (and do various other things to it), but not "decorate" it. For this reason, a certain degree of common sense, and a good knowledge of ordinary spoken, non-jargonistic language is a very useful thing.

Please go through the article on Fra Angelico and make me a list of words or phrase that you find hard within the context. This means that you can't understand them even by reading the two sentences on either side.

If you would like to corrrecct my horrrible double letters and find the place where I frequently write "and" for "an" and "their" for "there", it would be much appreciated, because every time I look, I see another one. Amandajm (talk) 06:05, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to do whatever you feel is right. I am not a very philosophical person, so I had trouble following what you said, but if you want, feel free to remove the complex tag. Razorflame 20:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Zürich Zurich Zuerich

Do you still need help with the Zürich municipalities?--Bärliner 17:38, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I do. Feel free to do them as I add them to the site :) Razorflame 20:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Any Zürich municipality is automatically added to the Municipalities of Zürich category by the template. Helps your umlaut problem.--Bärliner 11:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

By which template? The Swiss town template? Because if that's the case, then will it be the case for every municipality? Razorflame 14:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

Congratulations: You have been given a Barnstar! For your hard work on municipalities of Switzerland.--Lights § talk 03:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thankee much! :) Razorflame 03:20, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem, you deserve it.--Lights § talk 03:23, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Runescape

Runescape's been ruined completely by these merchanting and wildy downgrades. I can't make money anymore since a 3k profit is the maximum anyone can make and frankly, it's not worth the trouble. Do you want my account or shall I just let it gather dust. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 09:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I'll be willing to take accounts if you don't wish to use them anymore. Razorflame 14:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to either rid it or continue training him. He's quite good (IMHO), so it would be rather a waste to just let him go though...

I've a different password for my Wiki account though, so you're out of luck there :p. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 14:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Used to be, I got him the best of the best. Ancient Majicks, Barrows gloves, he had full dragon but I promised it to a friend. You could easily get it back though, with his 76 FISHING. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 14:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Only 76 fishing? My main has 91. Razorflame 14:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Well mine has 80+ every single combat stat, so there. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 15:04, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Including prayer? Razorflame 15:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Nah, prayer is 62, I think. Go check out his highscore stats! But keep in mind I've not played on him for around 9 months, so any new skills that have come out will be lvl 1. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 15:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

You've got email Razorflame --Bärliner 15:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Taken care of. Thanks for letting me know Barliner. Razorflame 15:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Warning users

I don't mind if you do, but it may create a problem if they ask you why you warned them when I made the reversion. Also you may want to bring this up at simple talk if you were to do it for other users, because I know that other users revert and don't warn also. Oysterguitarist 14:20, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Alright. I wouldn't do it for everyone, just for you, and even then, not all the time. Razorflame 14:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Userpage

I don't really have an answer, I guess I just wanted too. Oysterguitarist 17:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. Alright. See yah later. Razorflame 17:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Berlin

I am going to filling in some redlinks on the Berlin page, ready to nominate it for GA. What else else do you thinik the article needs? --Bärliner 17:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I think that it needs more references, but personally, other than that, I think it would be a good GA. Razorflame 17:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Lenzburg

I went over Lenzburg and did a lit (lot?) of copy-editting and term linking. Mainly just word choice and sentence splitting. -- Creol(talk) 17:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I noticed. Thankee much! I fixed a little error in "Most people who live in Lenzburg go to work in Zurich" to "Most people living in Lenzburg go to work in Zurich." for better grammar. Otherwise, I appreciate much of what you did. Thankee again! Razorflame 17:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Aye(Help)

How would i get an image from commons to the article? --Aye (talk) 16:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

You can use the syntax: [[Image:<insert name of the image here>]]. To add more information about the image, you can use this syntax (although it is optional): [[Image:<insert name of the image here>|thumb|left|150px|<insert a caption here>]]. This will insert the picture as a thumbnail on the left side of the article at 150 pixels with whatever caption you insert into it. You can also type in right instead of left to have it on the right side of the article. I hope this helps! Razorflame 16:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Hägendorf

You say Hagendorf but the 'net says Haegendorf.--Bärliner 17:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I know that that is the alternate spelling, but I still think that people would type in Hagendorf if they are English than Haegendorf. That's just in my honest opinion. Razorflame 17:16, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

stars

Hopefully that isn't a warning for giving you the barnstar :) Razorflame 17:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Response

Hi Razorflame, this is my response to your request on Overleg gebruiker:CrazyPhunk that I have read the message. CrazyPhunkbot (talk) 17:38, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for responding to my request! I wish you the best of luck in getting your bot flag! Razorflame 19:20, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Dang

Sorry...just thought you would want to laugh.--  C h r i s t i a n M a n 1 6 19:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

That is the one thing that I would never laugh at here on the Simple English Wikipedia. My first thought when I read that was that I had been blocked, and I was already starting to think about the actions I would take to get myself unblocked. Then, I read that all it was was a joke block, which I find not very humorous, and in fact, caused me some amount of panic and emotional thinking (unneeded). I would like to request that you not place that on anyone else's user page as this isn't Uncyclopedia. While it may be appropriate on Uncyclopedia, I do not find it to be appropriate here. Razorflame 19:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Too late. Tygrrr got one too. --Bärliner 19:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

You obviously have never been on the English Wikipedia.--  C h r i s t i a n M a n 1 6 19:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I am an editor on the English Wikipedia. I know the English Wikipedia. I highly doubt that they would approve of such a template on there, either. I will say that I am not a very active editor on the English Wikipedia, as I don't like how active is it, but I will say that during the time I have been on there, they are way more official there than we are here, and therefore, I highly doubt that any user would like that posted on their userpage there. Razorflame 19:33, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

You might want to check out WP:HUMOR there and User talk:Example there.-  C h r i s t i a n M a n 1 6 19:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

The link to the user page there was not an actual user's userpage. It was just an account made to be humorous. I doubt that if you posted that template onto a real users' user talk page, that they would delete it without another look at it. Any more responses to this topic will be deleted. Razorflame 20:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Fine, have a good day and lighten up.--  C h r i s t i a n M a n 1 6 19:51, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For being razorflame Bärliner 19:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Thankee much for the barnstar! Razorflame 20:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Move page

How do you move a page? I might need to do that in the future. BirdsArmy Talk 22:55, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

On the top of a page, there is a tab that should be titled move. It is to the right of the history tab. Click this and then on that page, type in the name of the page you want to change it to and give a reason why you are moving the page and click ok. The page will then be moved to the new name, and the software will leave a redirect from the old page to the new page. Hope this helps! Razorflame 22:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a move tab. Is it because I'm not old enough or something?BirdsArmy Talk 23:05, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Correct. You have to be at least 4 days old in order to get the move tab. Razorflame 23:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on writing your 1000^th article!-- Lights  talk  02:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thankee much! Sorry that I didn't get back to this immediately, I had more pressing duties (like responding to the long messages belong with equally long messages), so I was unable to answer this until now. Razorflame 21:03, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

VGA voting

In regards to this edit and your votes on United States and Canada: what does it mean that "you agree with some of the points in the oppose section" and yet you vote support? Do you not realize that an article has to meet all of the criteria in order to be promoted? Or maybe you don't understand the responsibility involved in this voting process? Or maybe you're too stubborn to admit you made a mistake in proposing these articles? I'm really interested in knowing what possible reasoning you could have for supporting promotion of an article that fails 22% of the criteria. · Tygrrr... 03:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I can't vote Oppose on them because I nominated them. The nominator has to vote in support of the article, otherwise, he/she wouldn't have nominated them in the first place. Neither of those articles had the unreferenced tag on them when I nominated them, so I thought that they were good choices for GAs. Sorry if I didn't make it clear on my vote. Razorflame 03:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

So basically the response is you're too stubborn to admit you made a mistake. I see. You know, people are allowed to change their mind if they're given valid evidence for an opposing viewpoint (in this and in life in general). Another option is that you don't have to vote at all if you don't want to support or oppose it, even if you did nominate it. However, if you think the criteria aren't important and shouldn't be followed, perhaps you shouldn't be proposing articles for promotion or voting on them... · Tygrrr... 05:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I admit that I did make a mistake for voting support for those three pages. If I had thought of this solution before the pages got archived, I would've easily just removed my votes to those three pages. That is what I should've done instead of stonewalling you here. Sorry for my stubborness, but at times, it is a good thing. This is not one of those times. If there is anything else that you would like to bring up for me to work on, feel free to do so now. Razorflame 05:07, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Just make sure you're being extremely thorough before proposing an article for promotion to GA or VGA status and just as thorough when voting. Just because an article doesn't have an unreferenced tag doesn't mean it doesn't need one. As the nominator it's your responsibility to make sure an article meets all the criteria before you put it up for voting. I want to feel confident that not just you but everyone is following proper procedures to get an article promoted. The process becomes worthless if no one follows the rules. We don't want to have the same situation down the road that we had before where we're stuck with a bunch of articles that are marked as good or very good but don't meet all the requirements needed to hold that higher status. We need to get it right this time around. I know you'll take my words to heart and be more attentive in the future. :-) (p.s. It's okay to be wrong. We all make mistakes sometimes and no one will look down on you for it. In fact, admitting a mistake and then taking the appropriate steps to fix it is quite admirable.) · Tygrrr... 05:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I will make sure that all articles that I nominate in the future meets all of the new requirements down pat before I nominate them in the future. Thank you for your patience with me on this issue; I now see the light of day for this issue :). Razorflame 22:20, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

3 months

Your userbox shows that right now, you are approx 6 days short from reaching your 3 month milestone. By then, I think that you would have about 12k edits, which is enough edits to prove your activeness and hard work to this wiki. Although some people think otherwise from a past controversey which I assume would may not want to here again. Anyways, you have been nominated 3 times by now, the first two as self-nominations (me co-noming your 2nd RfA) while a third one was done unintentionally by Terry. I just wanted to bring this notice up to you so people don't like nominate you suddenly w/o your permission and that when you'd decide to run for adminship. --§ Snake311 _{(click here to chat)} 04:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your concern about this. As for now, I am just biding my time and waiting until the time is right. That time might not be in 6 days; in fact, it most likely won't be in 6 days. Terry has already been told that he should ask before nominating someone for administrator in the future, and I believe that she has taken that message to heard. As for my next RfA, I will post a self-nomination, as there are some things that I need to address personally instead of having someone else do it for me. You are actually off in your edit count by around 2,000. I actually have around 14.3k edits; toolserver hasn't updated my edit counters in several weeks now. The total number of edits that I have according to the my settings tab is 15,013, but you then have to count the 630ish deleted edits and subtract that from my total. I'll send you an e-mail concerning this topic more tomorrow. If I don't send it to you by mid-day tomorrow, feel free to poke/prod me on here to get you to send it. Cheers! Razorflame 05:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm just going to throw this out there. Do with it what you will. Sarah Ewart said something in one of Spiderpig0001's RfAs that I think would be good advice to you too. "You would do better to wait until somebody respected in the community tells you that you're ready and is willing to put their own reputation on the line by nominating you." Just something to consider. Like I said, do with it what you will. · Tygrrr... 05:36, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

That is a good idea Tygrrr. That would definitely be a good thing. That is what will happen. I will wait until someone notable from the community tells me that I am ready for an RfA. I personally think that I have gotten the hang of the deletion policy now, and as for the protection policy, I've already learned that you don't need to protect pages often and that when you do, you should read the page's history as see how many of the past edits have actually been vandalism and how many of the recent edits have been good faith. Razorflame 22:18, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Well other than Hailey_C._Shannon, Cethegus, and probably a few other users, there's pretty much no one else to run a RfA. Last (successful) one hasn't occurred for more than 1 month by now, which is kind of unusual for mid-sized or growing wikis. --§ Snake311 _{(click here to chat)} 05:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

It shouldn't really matter whether or not someone puts up an RfA or not. Wikipedia is Wikipedia; people will eventually start coming here and we will get more administrators in the future, but for now, there aren't too many people that will actually fit the ticket. There are, in fact, only a few users that I would be comfortable nominating for adminship in a few months, but other than that, I do not believe that there are any other users that would be wanting to put up an RfA. I've already asked Cethegus if he/she would like me to nominate him/her for adminship, but it was declined. Same goes for Hikitsurisan. I feel that you aren't active enough to be able to complete a successful RfA, and I haven't even seen Hailey on in a while. There are several users that I would be comfortable with posting an RfB for, however, RfB's aren't needed because apparently, we have no need for any more bureaucrats. There are 2 users that I have been thinking about nominating for checkuser, however, of those two users, one has already declined it when I asked him about it in the IRC channel. The other user, I feel, is just about ready to become a checkuser, but then again, I do not think that we need anymore checkusers, mainly because there is hardly anything for checkusers to do on this site because we haven't had any issues as of late. Razorflame 22:18, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

3 checkusers and 3 bureaucrats seems to be enough for now. For the 'crats, their only job is to change user names when requested, flag bots when needed, or promote admins (although not many successful RfA happen anymore). As of now, the checkusers have pretty much nothing on their hands to do, except for cleaning up categories or helping in the VGA/GA process. Also, we have enough admins (maybe too much) in this wiki. Since most of them are active, I'd say this wiki is going fine in its current status. Anyways, the other users have declined RfAs. For me, I don't plan to run another RfA since right now, I've become more and more addicted to YouTube, Buzznet, and several other websites that limit my activity in wikipedia. Maybe if I snap out of it, I could be more active again, but then there is always homework *blows raspberries*. --§ Snake311 _{(click here to chat)} 21:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

encopypaste

Don't forget the date on {{encopypaste}}. I changed Irensei.  :) --Bärliner 18:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

There's an option to put the date onto it? How do I go about adding the date onto it? Would it be {{encopypaste|<insert date here>}}? Razorflame 22:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

{{encopypaste|1=<date>}} I think. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 22:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks much, Gwib! Now I can start adding dates to the encopypastes that I put onto articles. Razorflame 21:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Friends

I feel honored ^_^. It's people like you that make Wikipedia more than tolerable.

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For help with getting the hang of the site and its differences from the EN wiki. Thanks! The Wolf Bark 21:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

There ya go! The Wolf ^Bark 21:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thankee much for the barnstar!  :) Razorflame 22:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Welcome! The Wolf ^Bark 22:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFA

"it is preferred that you be a member for at least 2-3 weeks"

I think you meant months :-)-- Lights  talk  02:16, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think I did mean months :) Razorflame 02:17, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Here is the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your hard work in reverting vandalism. BirdsArmy Talk 19:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thankee much for the barnstar! I will now add it to my userpage :) Razorflame 19:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Aye (Userpage)

Got a userpage now, thanks for the heads up. --Aye (talk) 21:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

It wasn't necessarily a heads-up. I just wanted to let you know about it. Razorflame 01:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Redirecting pages

Just wondering how to do it; the en wiki way doesn't seem to work here. The Wolf ^Bark 00:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, Tygrrr replied. The Wolf ^Bark 01:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)