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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by East of Borschov (talk | contribs) at 17:31, 2 December 2010 (→‎Resistance is futile: Good advice!). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Temporary Resignation of Administrator Tools

I have decided that it might be a good idea for me to step away from the administrator tools for some time. Accordingly, if you are here to ask a question about an admin action I may have performed, please either to the administrators' noticeboard or to the talk page of another administrator, all of whom for the time being I am granting permission to overrule any admin action I may have made. NW (Talk) 03:34, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hope it's not permanent. Looking at the edit of your userpage is it because you want to focus on content creation? Secret account 03:40, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorta. I also just need a break, and this will help. NW (Talk) 02:36, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If you need an admin --> NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 03:18, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to hear of this, alternate temporary accounts superceeded by Polargeo 2. Polargeo 2 (talk) 10:29, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Query

Hello, NuclearWarfare. You have new messages at FT2's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

FT2 (Talk | email) 12:47, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And followup. FT2 (Talk | email) 06:57, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Collage at Talk:Man

The conversation regarding more diversified images at this page has restarted if you'd care to be involved. I've been going by the lists of possible alternatives generated last month at the talkpage there. I dug up a few today and am waiting for input from other users before I go any further. My general plan has been to get consensus on a set of 10 to 12 images, and then get consensus on placement of those images into the collage format. Pop in any time and see what you think. Regards, Heiro 21:34, 29 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

"Doesn't rate" Doesn't Mean what you think it means

That's a British colloquialism, meaning you didn't think much of him. :) (for example, see [1] SirFozzie (talk) 00:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, those silly Brits. Just because they invented English doesn't mean they can come up with nonsense like this ;)

Thanks Fozzie. NW (Talk) 00:10, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(e/c) News travels fast. I came here to say the same thing. At last, a small portion of your anonymity is stripped away: you aren't one of us. Someone should discover the etymology. I'd like it to be related to the Rating system of the Royal Navy William M. Connolley (talk) 00:12, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I'm not English myself (american born and raised), but you can't follow English soccer (waiting for the first "CALL IT FOOTBALL" comment), without picking up some of the lingo. :D SirFozzie (talk) 00:16, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
CALL IT FOOTBALL SpitfireTally-ho! 00:19, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
THIBBBBITTT! (:P) laughs SirFozzie (talk) 00:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
(boring) I think it comes from the Latin. Oh, and CALL IT FOOTBALL :) Black Kite (t) (c) 00:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{ArbComOpenTasks}}

Two open requests for cases, and two requests for clarification, not shown in the template :-). Isn't there a helpful bot to do this? EdJohnston (talk) 18:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I wish. Updated.

Also, would you be interested in being an ArbCom clerk by any chance? NW (Talk) 18:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I don't believe I'm at that level yet. It seems to me the current top line in Template:ArbComOpenTasks for the new YM request is malformed. It looks like a real case with a bunch of red links, and it has no actual link to the current case request. My fixed version is at User:EdJohnston/Sandbox. By disobeying the template instructions (Using ArbComOpenTasks/line instead of /line/interim) I got it to look better. What do you think? EdJohnston (talk) 00:10, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Looks much better, thank you. (Looks like Carcharoth already got that). I hate that template and all its subtemplates, so good thing you got it working :)

Also, are you sure about that? You really don't need anything to clerk besides clue, which you have in spades. NW (Talk) 01:13, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do Some Work

I have done a little today. But do you think referencing one sentence and then adding a refimprove tag is worthwhile? e.g. Julian Hee and Chen Pingyuan. In balance I also AfD'd Bruce Schwack and ref'd Antonio Palafox without the tag. Polargeo (talk) 15:58, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent. I actually don't think that spending time to reference just a little bit is that worthwhile, unless I actually care about the person or their position. I mean, if you want to do that, that would be great, but hopefully people will check that the article they are doing that to seems fairly neutral and doesn't have any contentious unsourced statements. The way I have been going at it is opening up a couple dozen tabs at once and then scanning them very rapidly. I'm going to miss a few that way, but every now and again I'll find articles that definitely need to be deleted. NW (Talk) 16:02, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually that is exactly my position. I would reference a sentence if the individual is obviously worth a place on wikipedia and I care and they don't have any contentious unsorced statements but I suppose I am doing this in the light of editors blanking BLPs without a similar level of thought. Polargeo (talk) 16:12, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resistance is futile

I found the big red knob at the gossip column. Surely you meant "delete", not "reference"? The first six random picks were half prod stuff, half csd. The seventh was ... The Bishop! One out of seven worth is worth some effort. Others will just lay in waste. I'd say, let them go. If no one wants to salvage the unsalvageable, delete. East of Borschov 16:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I found quite the reverse of this. An extremely notable but difficult to reference singapore actor (difficult because of language), a major Chinese academic (again a little difficult because of the language). Then a winner of two international tennis doubles titles (but in the 1960's so not an immediate easy reference) then an article on an international business man who will probably get through the AfD I have started on him even though I think he probably should not. Polargeo (talk) 16:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
After another ten rounds I finally found someone whom I already know and like, but woops, no RS on bio. Lots of reviews in Greek and Danish, but nothing that can help building a proper referenced bio. East of Borschov 17:22, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well if you are just looking for eye candy then maybe wikipedia is not the right place for you. Polargeo (talk) 17:25, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You've nailed it! I'm gone. East of Borschov 17:31, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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