User:That Guy, From That Show!/archive/02

guido vandalism

I just wanted to let you know that the revert you made still had some unacceptable content (not your fault!) but that you should be careful to make sure that you revert ALL the vandalism, not just the most recent addition. Still, thanks for helping out. Archtemplar 22:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome and I'll be more careful in the future. -- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 22:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

User page revert

Just wanted to say a quick thanks for reverting my user page...and updating the vandal count :-) Seems to be happening a lot to me at the moment. Ah well, I guess that's part of vandal fighting :-p Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 07:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm doing my best to make this a better place and it's nice to get positive feedback!

-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 08:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: continue to vandalize pages

I do not understand? What do you mean by vandalizing pages?

You have replied again under a user name below so I'll remark on the issue under your other login. -- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 07:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

If you are going to start pushing threats of banning IP's, first you should go back and read what Vandalism is and what it is not. Also, you should follow the procedure that Wikipedia has set for dealing with vandalism instead of jumping right into threats of banning. Although you may not have liked the edits that I have done, they were by no means vandalism. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlabamaPI (talk • contribs) 07:07, January 25, 2006 (UTC)

When you wander through pages and modify articles with multiple links that direct to outside sites, that is a form of Vandalism. "Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia." This is not about whether I like your edits or not.

Yes, you are correct if wikipedia vandalism policy is defined by that one statement. However, it is not. "Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism" As I agree that I was in the process of ill-considered link spamming, your message did bring it to my attention. although, a simple "Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. " would have been a bit kinder.

"Please don't bite the newcomers"

Although they may not have been appropriate, the links that I did create were at least relevant to the articles and not "a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia."

I am still green here.

Bill 16:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:External_links for more information about this particular subject.

Also, the basic tutorial might be helpful. It shows how to add your signature, how to edit, and other helpful information. Please, in the future, do not use multiple identities to post complaints or edits to a user (or article) page such as you have done here. See WP:SOCK for further information.

I am not using multiple identities, I followed the recomended policy and registered as a member which caused me to no longer be listed as an anonymous identity. Again, green here!

Bill 16:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I will be glad to help and answer questions in the future so don't hesitate to comment here if you have questions or issues with what I've done or said. -- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 07:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

And That Guy knows where to find zis Guy, who has no difficulty in identifying linkspam as vandalism and has the Power to stop it. But I note that AlabamaPI seems to have undone the damage in at least two places (a good sign). - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 09:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, but jumping to conclusions because of what something appears to be is not identification of a vandal or spammer. When it was brought to my attention, I did revert what I could remember back to it's original form as I saw the error of my ways. As a new Admin, (Congatulations) I am sure that you would agree that slapping someone for not wiping their feet at the door with the threat of being kicked out of the house is not the wikipedia way.

Bill 16:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you both for your help and please feel free to bring any issues that come up to my attention, just kindly discuss it with me before the threat of banning is made in the future. I am here to learn and help, not be labeled due to lack of experience or a mistake I may make. Have a great day Bill 16:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback. Well-spoken replies to issues such as these are few and far between. I'll be more careful about how strongly worded my messages are in the future and spend more time considering the above points before writing them. One of the most important priorities with a project such as this is that people communicate well so that they can work together more efficiently and also not lose contributors.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia and I'm always available to help. -- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 21:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

And thank you for your time and input. I can understand that after doing this awhile it probably becomes more routine because of all the deliberate spammers and vandals that I have been reading about. Please feel free to critique anything that you notice is out of the norm. I will not be able to spend a large amount of time here but I am willing to learn anything that you are able to pass my way.

Bill 03:55, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

User:That Guy, From That Show!/navigation

User:That Guy, From That Show!/navigation is very nice. — Itai (talk) 18:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I looked around for a decent navigation aid and found one by some user and modified it just a little. That reminds me, this is the second time in a week that I've realized that always edit-commenting (even in my own user page space) for changes would be extremely helpful so I can remember things like the source of my navigation bar. Thanks for dropping by! -- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 05:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I came here to see if you had any info about your fabulous username and saw your excellent navigataion bar and had to comment. I may just have to use that to tidy up my userpage! Thryduulf 09:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ganesha

Thank you for your contributions! I was looking for vandalism and noticed your edits to that page. Although I didn't know anything about the subject previously, I found the article extremely interesting and informative. Thank you very much for your efforts. -- That Guy,

You are more than welcome. I have actually quite enjoyed working on it and have learned much myself.--Lacatosias 09:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

History

Thank you. There is a problem that many articles have contradictions. User:Skoglund

• Yes, that is a big problem. I've been working on some of that myself and there is some discussion about related issues at Ancient Egypt, Chronology issues

-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 07:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

America's theory

Cancel article and waste the job of other people is vandalism!

This is my personal theory and it exist on this world as me.

This is a new theory and it is written there,so please read it and don't delete it.

Pierco

• The article was speedily deleted. Wikipedia is not a place for original research. —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-11 05:39Z

• Do not recreate speedily deleted pages. Discuss your issues about the speedy deletion [here]

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-11 05:44Z

My friend,that's not origianl research,that's a theory,my personal theory named "America" so please allow me to write it on Wikipedia.

• Personal theories fall under the Original Research category. Please take the time to learn what Wikipedia Is Not before creating or editing articles. Notice the "Wikipedia is not a place to publish your own thoughts and analyses." part of that article.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-11 06:03Z

My Birthday

Thank you very much! (And how are you getting those nifty "X words changed" messages in your edit summaries?) —Kirill Lokshin 06:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, that. It's AWESOME. I've been using User:Quarl/monobook scripts for a few days. They are documented a bit but I had to play around with them to see exactly how they function. For one example of many, there are links to the left for the last 3 days of WP:AFD. For each article up for deletion, there is a VOTE link added and I can easily click, type "D" for delete, and then enter a reason. These scripts are incredible time-savers!.

You can see my modifications anywhere you see "That Guy..." in User:That Guy, From That Show!/monobook.js (where I have copied a few scripts to my own user space to change a few things).

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-11 06:39Z

== T_T Sorry ==

I should have just added the 3rd party thing to that line. I wasn't thinking T_T Seraphim 05:28, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't a big problem. I do the same thing myself from time to time but try to catch myself and come up with a compromise to a difference of view or knowledge and add that information into articles.

Thanks for the note and caring about Wikipedia! —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-16 05:36Z

Ancient Egypt category

Ohh no. You have put almost all Ancient Egypt articles into the main cat. This is not good. They are already in sub categories of Ancient Egypt, thus they do not belong in the main cat also. I’m gonna removed most of these again. Twthmoses 21:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

My apologies. I will stop and review categorization.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-19 21:08Z

Nothing to worry about. I have done this myself before :( Twthmoses 21:21, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Beardo

Thank you for your welcome message. You are, of course, right about the Nefertiti page - thanks. -- Beardo 01:48, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Category:To do, Ancient Egypt

Sorry I did not let you know I nominated that for deletion. But I wrote about it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt. I assumed that you are an active participant in that project, since you posted there, and you were dealing with a category announced at that project, so I counted on relevant people seeing my note about nominating the category for deletion.

But I agree that letting you know on your talk page would have been more effective. Will keep that in mind. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

And categories don't get erased soon, so no need to do rush. :) It takes a week until people vote on whether to keep a categrory or not. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:42, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. It's always appreciated and I don't often take things personally. It didn't take long for me to pull the category reference from articles and now I know I'm a bit more educated about how important GOOD categories are. Ancient Egypt needs quite a bit of work and I'm getting the tedious stuff out of the way to make it easier for us editors to do some improvements to that area of knowledge in a more efficient manner.

Thanks for your input. —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-22 18:31Z

FM Train Master

On 24-Feb, you blanked FM Train Master. Given your edit summary, I'm guessing this was a broken edit. I also see you were using AutoWikiBrowser so if you think it was a bug instead of operator error, please report it. I've reverted the article to the previous version. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 17:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the report. I was getting some errors (lost session, wikipedia error page, etc...) from wikipedia at that time so it was my fault, not a bug. Blanking sometimes happens with editing in that type of situation and I need to double-check my edits when there are server problems. Sorry for the inconvenience.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-25 19:21Z

No problem. I've had issues with server errors as well. -- JLaTondre 20:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Depending on who you are...

I see that Jason Marsen's homepage says "that guy from that show" on top. If that's you, I might edit your article to mention that you're a Wikipedia contributor.

...5'3" and he comes from Rhode Island too. LOL

It is an imitator. After so many years without copycats (well, one USENET troll), I never thought that anyone else would pick such a silly name as mine and want to be me ;)

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-27 01:29Z

Book references

I have no idea exactly what you just did to the book references on the Nahshon Even-Chaim page, but - er, thanks anyway. If they work better now, then that's good. Grimhim 01:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Cite Book is the new standard and Book Reference will be removed in time. We're working on getting articles switched over from the Book Reference templating to Cite Book. See Template:Book reference and the new Template:Cite book if you want more information.

Thank you for your note and your numerous contributions to Wikipedia.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-27 01:50Z

Umm...

Instead of the 3000 edits you just made, you could have just redirected {{Book reference}} to {{Cite book}}. Or, better yet, just asked someone with a bot to do the migration; it would've been done in no time. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-27 02:40

Thank you for the helpful information! —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-27 03:12Z

I am finding all these edits quite distracting in my watchlist. Are you guys almost done changing every last usage of the template which you apparently regard as obsolete? Please note that in future articles by WikiProject GTR, we will use the new template, but I am not anxious to go through this agonizing piecemeal replacement again in a few months. Shouldn't citation templates be stable? ----CH 03:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for any inconvenience. The changes to article space are done except for a few protected pages. The discussion and information about the change is at Template_talk:Book_reference (deprecated).

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-27 03:26Z

Template substitution

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

-Mulder416 03:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I just changed to another welcome template an hour or so ago and forgot about that.

Thanks for the heads-up and your contributions to Wikipedia.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-27 03:51Z

User:Betacommand

No problem that is what a Wikipedian is for Betacommand 15:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ta bu shi da yu 2

Hi, I noticed your message of support to Ta on his talk page. I'd encourage your comments at his RfC. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 22:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

question

HI That Guy, From that Show!

I emailed you - this concerns a specific person, the suggestions I received will not work, I didn't want it on a public page. I just need to know who has authority or if we are all equal - you will see in your email. Thanks.

Ok, we'll take it to email. —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-01 02:10Z

request for you to use AWB again

Someone vandalized the page before your helpful edit, so I had to revert. Can you redo the edit on Rapping which had the edit summary "migrate {{web reference}} (deprecated) to {{cite web}} using AWB."--Urthogie 09:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It has been taken care of. Thanks for the note! —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-02 13:41Z

Page blanking

I doubt it was intentional but FYI in case of a broken script or somthing: [1]

--Stbalbach 21:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I saved something I shouldn't have. I'll get some sleep :)

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-02 22:37Z

• You're very welcome. You are a great asset for Wikipedia and I'm sure that you'll be a great administrator.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-16 11:48Z

Hello!

Hello, That Guy, From That Show!! I just wanted to say hi to you. Well, good luck on that 'Ancient Egypt' project! RAcHeL 22:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Regarding this. This is the weirdest edit summary I've seen. Emphasis on the word "summary" :) For a second it looked really scary. I thought you might have rewritten the whole article. Aucaman^Talk 07:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Spellingscheck on User:Henna/VF

thx for the spellingscheck, I have absolutely no idea how to write which/wich/witch ussually :) Henna 09:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem at all. It's the least I can do considering your heroic efforts working on the code of the most useful and customizable anti-vandalism tool.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-12 09:36Z

Wow nice

I like ur user page a lot... even my friend user:secfan can't even make a page this good, and he's no wiki-noob, let me tell you that! Darkroom Danny 06:46, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

JASON MARSDEN

So I assume your real name is Jason Marsden.

There was a British actor or musician named Gerry Marsden, wasn't there?? No, I am not going to ask you anything stupid like if you're related to him, but I was wondering if Marsden is an Irish name.

It's good you clarified which show your username is referring to, otherwise I would have had to guess that you are Wilder Valderrama, or Topher Grace, or Adam Brody or Ray Romano or Ed Asner, etc...

Cheers/Slainte

I'm glad that I was able to help. —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-19 09:15Z

That magic PYRO-ENERGEN device

I did a partial rewrite on the version in my sandbox. If you have the time to take a look, I'd appreciate it. I'll notify Jtakano as well, and see what he thinks. Henrik 10:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

It looks very good. —-- That Guy, From That Show! <