User:Celestianpower/Archive32

This page is an archive of the thirty-second 20 topics on my talk page, lodged between the 2006-07-20 and the 2006-07-29. Please do not modify this page. If you wish to revive a discussion here, please don't hesitate to copy it back to my current talk page and add your comment per my policy.

#wikipedia-esperanza

I was told to ask you whether I should be allowed back in the channel or not. So am I? Will (message me!) 07:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi there!

Hi there! It's a bit improper to remove other people's Wikibreak messages from their pages. When a Phaedriel is back from her break, she will remove the notice at her discretion. Her notice said she'd be back around July 19th. July 20th is rather close to the 19th, right? Her page is quite frequented by the community and the notice lets a lot of users know what she's up to. With that, I'll ask you to replace it. Also, I'm quite happy to meet you, mate and if I seem at all unkind or anything in my message, please note that it isn't my intention at all to chastise you in any way. I know you were acting in good faith. Cheers! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 07:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Good stuff. I can't imagine any inconvienence at all. hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 09:02, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

WIkipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Celestianpower, thanks for signing up for the Esperanza User Page Contest. The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 10:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

my RfA

I noticed your comment on my RfA and responded to it. I just wanted to post you something here to make sure you saw it. The basic gist of my comment is, anything you'd like to know or hear, just ask, I'll be happy to answer. Cheers! :) - CheNuevara 10:51, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Im a little stressed

Im a little bit stressed because I can't manage to earn a barnstar, or even a thank you for anything. Please give me a bit of advice on how to earn a barnstar, cheers —M inun ^Spiderman 15:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... Your advice is worth a try, i'll see if it works, cheers —M inun ^Spiderman 15:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Anyway, is there any current articles I can help with —M inun ^Spiderman 18:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Please list any random article here, cheers. I'll also help with your tasks if you want, cheers —M inun ^Spiderman 10:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Delete the page

I do not think that there was a concensous for the delete I think it was spit between people who wanted to keep and people who wanted to delete so I think no concensous was reched .If I am tottaly wrong then please tell me what constitutes a concensous.--Lucy-marie 21:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: User account block

Former part of header: "explanation of suspected activity, and request to unblock"

Hi.

I appreciate your vigilance in protecting Wikipedia from vandalism, and can only guess at how exasperating that can be. It obviously requires fast judgement calls in order to minimize the damage a vandal can do. And even though this may block some innocents (like me), that is a small price to pay for protecting Wikipedia from vandalism.

Yesterday, you blocked my account User:List Expert, because you interpretted as vandalism some redirects that I had created. I'm writing to you now to assure you that they were not intended as vandalism, and to request that you unblock my account as I had started some discussions with that account on a page I was working on, and need the account for the sake of continuity. Here's a full explanation of what I was doing:

I was working on the page List of sexual slurs, and linkified all the terms defined on that page in order to see the subject's redlink profile. I then proceded to fix the redlinks. Rather than use pipes on the synonymous terms, I figured, since the terms were presented with source citations on a glossary-like page of Wikipedia, which increases the chances that someone might try to access those terms later via the search box, that redirects for each of the terms were warranted. And rather than redirecting the terms to the glossary, which would have created circular links, I figured it was more appropriate to redirect them to the synonym which most closely defined them (that is also a member of the list on that page). A redirect actually solves three problems at the same time: the redlink, an unsupported term in search, and allows the links to be automatically supported in the future should the redirects ever be replaced by actual topic pages.

If you had sent me a message, we could have resolved this matter withuot shutting me down for a day (as I do have another account upon which I do most of my work), but who knows how much damage a real vandal could have caused during the time it would take you to write a message. So I understand why you didn't. The reason for the new account is that I wish to keep work on the more colorful areas of Wikipedia under the new account, to as not to detract from nor distract attention away from my other body of work on Wikipedia.

Now that you have read my explanation concerning the redirects, may I go ahead and create them? Or would you prefer that piped links be utilized instead?

And please, unblock User:List Expert.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, --List Expert2 23:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Misza13's pile!

Thank you for contributing the impressive the pile of supports gathered on my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 0x0104/0x01/0x00. I'm happy that so many people have put faith in my abilities as an admin and promise to use the tools wisely and do my best not to let you down. If I ever may be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page. Misza13, the rouge-on-demand admin wishes you happy editing! NOTE: This message has been encrypted with the sophisticated ROT-26 algorithm. Ability to decipher it indicates a properly functioning optical sensor array.

No problem whatsoever, Sir. I like your Animation :). —Celestianpower ^háblame 23:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Broken desk

*repeatedly whack head of edge of desk* How many GA noms am I going to have to fail from him? Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 16:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, plenty more I should think :). —Celestianpower ^háblame 23:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I am giving rudimentary classes, see Talk:Cloyster for my new teaching video, Italics and References for the Ameoba in You! XD Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 23:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Hehe - that was quite funny, but is it really necessary to be so patronsing? —Celestianpower ^háblame 23:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh yes. Oh yes. Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 23:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Editing

Can you please teach me how to be a good editor —M inun ^Spiderman 18:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

User who hold in high regard

In regards to your friends, mentioned in your FAQ, there's a couple of mistakes. Firstly, CLW and Moe have gone. More importantly, I am nowhere to be seen! ;P Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 23:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, Natalya isn't on it either. You really should update more often, Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 23:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

OMG! No Natalya!?! What an atrocity - now rectified. Along with the reluctant other three - sad to see those two go and I begrudingly added you: you'd just get offended if I didn't. —Celestianpower ^háblame 23:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I am a king... apparently. Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 23:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

*shifty eyes* Yes. Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 00:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Something Banes said...

Copied from Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Barnstar Brigade.

I am the only awarder of the week. ; ) Even Blugyen (yeah, that's how you spell it ;) has disappeared! The barnstars haters are sneaking us awaaaay! (gets dragged under bed by football fans) No! Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 16:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I noticed! Well, I'll change that tomorrow. :P Yeah, it must be the World cup, how boring... -- Banes 17:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• IDIOTS: (football hooligans enter stage left) Woo! World Cup! Wooo!
• STEPHEN FRY: (Stephen Fry becomes visible stage right with a bright spotlight and sighs) Who is exactly playing?
• IDIOTS: (pause conufsedly) Uh?
• STEPHEN FRY: (smarmily) Thought so.

Heheheh. Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 17:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Lol! Our admin general would appreciate that post! -- Banes 17:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll stop bugging you now... Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 00:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

A new portal

I have created a new portal (Which I don't know why because im not really interested in the topic). Its at Portal:A Series of Unfortunate Events. Would you like to be a maintenencer of the portal? I really need help to clean it up —M inun ^Spiderman 12:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I can still maintain it myself, anyway, cheers —Min un ^Spiderman 18:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposal on Notability

Because you're a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians, I'm notifying you that the inclusionist proposa Wikipedia:Non-notabilityl is in progress to define the role of notability in articles. Please help us make this successful! Also note the proposal Wikipedia:Importance is a deletionist proposla that seeks to officially introduce notabiltiy for the first time. --Ephilei 04:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

*poke*

You should really update the Esperanza info on your userpage... ;) (code: I want to steal the AG box). :D -- Natalya 05:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Something Pokemon

Hi CP!

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think you know a thing or two about Pokemon? The article Talent Showdown was nominated for AfD but with no reason given or subpage created. I've cancelled it, but would like an expert to tag, delete or AfD as appropriate. At the moment, it's probably CSD-A1 but I'd prefer someone with experience of the subject to decide that in this case.

Thanks, my friend! ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

PS: Just got Skype - can I add you to my contacts, even if we never speak? ➨ ЯEDVERS

Ah, that's cool. I used to work for Tiger Electronics, maker of the Pokedex, before they were absorbed violently by Hasbro. Best place I ever worked... but all things end, I suppose. Despite working for a Pokemon licensee, I never once developed any knowledge about the subject. And yet, if you have a Furby, I have an unwanted encyclopedic knowledge of them. And a bedroom full of unsold ones we made after the boom had past (and that's part of why the company died, of course).

Good idea on Skype microphones, BTW. I was given a Skype USB phone that doesn't work and have a headset that is fine if you are happy to pretend to be talking to a guy underwater... via semaphore. I've made several podcasts for another website that are of severely limited quality thanks to that headset! I think the time has come to upgrade somewhat. Nevertheless, I'll try to add you to my contacts tonight (I'm the obviously named one mostly in Belgium, if you have a clamour of other admirers!). ➨ ЯEDVERS 21:05, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you so much for voting in my recent RFA. It passed on the relatively narrow vote of 38/8/8. It was also one of the least-participated-in RFA nominations in several months, so pat yourself on the back, and join the party on your left, but first, take your cookie! NOTE: I can't code HTML to save my life. I copied this from Misza13. I guess I should write him a thank you note as well. Cookies sold separately. Batteries not included. Offer not valid with other coupons. May contain peanuts or chicken. Keep out of the reach of small children, may present a choking hazard to children under the age of 3. Do not take with alcohol. This notice has a dark background and therefore may be eaten by a grue at any time. The receiver of this message, hereafter referred to as "Pudding Head" relinquishes all rights and abilities to file a lawsuit or any other litigious activities. RyanGerbil10, Jimbo Wales, and the states of Georgia, North Dakota and Wisconsin are not liable for any lost or stolen items or damage from errant shopping carts.

Thank you so much! RyanGerbil10(The people rejoice!) 03:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

my RfA

Thanks for your support in my RfA! Unfortunately, the request did not pass, with a vote of (43/16/7). But your support was appreciated and I'll just keep right on doing what I do. Maybe I'll see ya around -- I'll be here!
Cheers! - CheNuevara 17:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Bulbasaur (again)

Just wanted to say congrats again - enjoy your day of front-page Bulbasaurness! -- Natalya 00:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Seconded! Make screenshots, print them and hang them all around the house :) You did a good job! --JoanneB 07:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I was told that you are largely responsible for today's featured article, Bulbasaur. I just want to say what an amazing job you did. You took a rather arcane topic and turned it into something studious and learned, yet quirky and fun. At a talk I am giving to a group of teachers tomorrow, I plan on mentioning this article as a prime example of what they can do with their students to promote research and writing skills. Thanks. Danny 01:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations. I am glad that it has finally has its day on the Main Page. Well done, not least for your persistence. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats, good to see all your efforts have been worthwhile. :) What JoanneB said... -- Banes 10:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, congrats. pschemp | talk 14:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

➨ ЯEDVERS awards this Barnstar to Celestianpower for getting a great FA on the front page after so much hard work and then letting the naysayers complaints about it wash over him.

Oh, crap, Bulbasaur was on the main page? It must have been on for about 12 hours or so because I was online just yesterday and it wasn't on, and I came online just now to see it's something else. But my full congratulations for achieving that for the Pokemon franchise and its billion or so fans anyway. And my thanks for taking a picture of it for me to see what it looked like! :) Erik the Appreciator 03:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Protected 5 times. Torchic is never going to happen... Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 11:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)