User talk:Finlay McWalter/archive7

Corega router

Wanted to contact you about a question you had left on the Reference desk about a Corega router. I left an answer for you but wanted to email you also but couldn't find your email address. Hope what I wrote helps, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009_July_17#NooB_wireless_LAN_question (jc.imbeault@gmail.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.226.198.122 (talk) 00:52, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I hate you

I hate you u fucking cunt y would u delete an obvious new religion, U suck ur moms dick little pussy im going to bite ur moms balls off. U need 2 get a life u fucking little whore. Now i have better things to do then talk 2 a mommas boy so go suck ur moms cock.Goodbye fucking loser. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.140.186.168 (talk • contribs)

Ah, okay.

No problem, it wasn't that much work to do. I wasn't aware an article already existed. Thanks for telling me.----occono (talk) 16:45, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Zaccar

Hello, Finlay McWalter … Just wanted to remind you: Do Not Feed the Trolls … the lack of WP:RS coverage of the subject should be enough to get this piece of vanispamcruftisement deleted Real Soon Now … at first I thought that they were directing their vitriol at me, so I respond on their talk page rather than pollute the discussion, but then I realized that they just were not smart enough to follow the links and find my websites. :-) Besides, they stopped using that account and came back as a new sockpuppet. <Sigh!>

Happy Editing! — 141.156.161.245 (talk · contribs) _{19:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)}

Reference Desk archiving interval

There's a discussion running on the RD talk page about decreasing the archiving and transclusion thresholds to reduce the page size, perhaps to as few as four days. I don't care one way or the other, but I'd like to make sure any consensus includes input from some long-time regulars, so I'm dropping this note on the talk pages of a few that pop to mind. (I hope no one feels this is improper canvassing.) —Steve Summit (talk) 01:19, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

My request to be unblocked

Hallo Finlay McWalter,

thanks for your quick reply. As I already mentioned in reason for my request I can indeed login as long as I deactivate my privacy service. As I mentioned there as well, this is not always feasible. Sbstn (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia through open proxies, and similar systems like TOR, is generally disabled per the open proxies policy, as the overwhelming use of such services has been to vandalise Wikipedia rather than to edit it. There is some limited support as detailed at Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall; specifically the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject on closed proxies are the best ones to go to for advice, and will organise the appropriate administrative action if they feel it's appropriate. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 17:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Messina Hof

The page has been deleted three times previously. The continuing recreation smacks of abuse. DarkAudit (talk) 20:12, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

CSD:G4 reads "A sufficiently identical and unimproved copy". This article is entirely different, by a different user, and with enough references to support at least a modest claim of notability. G4, in essence, applies to content (under whatever name) not the name itself. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 20:19, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

"perfectly respected Wikipedian"? Thanks for the compliment, I've been called a lot of things, but never perfectly respected (it's usually jackass). Cheers!--kelapstick (talk) 20:33, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

I fear most perfectly respected Wikipedians are jackasses ;( -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 20:34, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Wfm emily strange fairuse poster.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Wfm emily strange fairuse poster.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. JaGa^talk 21:58, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

I've restored its use in the appropriate article. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 22:04, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Bandar bin Sultan

After this edit [1] I gave an "only warning", and now the user is repeating the unsourced edit again. Sole Soul (talk) 07:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Microwave

Thank you for your thorough (and witty) reply! --Dweller (talk) 20:40, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

With all due respect

Dear Sir

I find it hard to believe that you did look at my history, because if you did I'd think for certain that you'd find your assertions were baseless and your accusation a small distance short of offensive. Wikipedia has a policy that we assume good faith; this manifests itself in a community in which accusations are not banded about with good reason.

However, because I have not registered you feel that I am not a member of your community but am only here to disrupt. This is, unless I have made some sort of chronic failure in my logic, certainly not 'assuming good faith'.

I do not want register; because that acknowledges that, there is a two-tier system of users in Wikipedia, something that is most definitely a problem with the project. However, I would appreciate it greatly if you still treated me, and other red link/IP users with the same respect.

I hold no doubt that if I was an established blue link user (which if I joined I would be, but my IP changes periodically and I get a new history) you would most certainly not be threatening me with a ban.

I neither expect nor wish to receive a response to this, and will be deleting you message from my talk page. I would be pleased if you would now do me at least the courtesy of letting the issue rest.

Yours Sincerely,

The user currently known as 129.67.39.49 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.39.49 (talk) 15:30, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

You posted a link to an internet site that seeks to harass a living person by posting naked photos of her. You post abusive personal attacks about other users. You should take my warning extremely seriously. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 15:34, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

The website is obviously a hoax, it doesn't take much of an acute mind to see that it just an attempt to create a viral to hoard money off advertising (what kind of jilted boyfriend copyrights his burn website and puts in the small print that if you give him your email he will later be spamming you). To comment on the other incident, I still fail to see how referring my homework with a profane adjective is a personal attack at all, so that accusation is baseless even without taking into account the blatant sarcasm. I will take your threat about as seriously as I take you, and request that in future you observe the wikipedia etiquette that you purport so churlishly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.39.49 (talk) 15:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Thekiller35789

Hi there, I've noticed that you've given this user a final warning for page blanking. I'm fairly sure he also edits under User:67.246.254.35 too, since they reply to the same questions, never sign posts, blank talk pages etc. Just thought I'd let you know in case you've been too busy to rummage further. Brammers (talk) 20:08, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Finlay McWalter. You have new messages at WP:RD/C.
Message added 20:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

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WinRK

This was deleted. I checked the backlinks and found you listed it in your "bragging rights". How comes you didn't object to its deletion?

Because I didn't know, and I don't care. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 22:29, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Rendering problems

Hi McWalter! A while ago you fixed problems with encodings of url. Can you do the same for reference 35 in List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts-swords)? I tried to replace the parantheses in the url with %28 and %29 but even this did not help. I have no idea why the reference is not properly rendered. bamse (talk) 17:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

The problem isn't the url - it's simply that the particular cite journal ref doesn't have a completed "title" attribute. I put in "foo" for it in my sandbox copy and it renders fine. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 18:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. bamse (talk) 19:38, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Bay to Breakers map

Sorry, I don't have access to the original Illustrator file, no. Alas. jk (talk) 22:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Misunderstanding... sorry

Finly so sorry for misunderstanding. I don't have intention to Spam around or to remove something at Wiki for promoting Forum. I was only try to add some interesting information's and remove one my outdated post. Because of that I'm registered, it'll be logical to spam anonymous here...

One more time sorry for misunderstanding and my bad English.

Best Regards,

Samker —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samker (talk • contribs) 16:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

WPA2 and TLS

Thank you for your recent excellent overview of WPA2 on the computing reference desk. At some point several years ago, I learned all about how WEP worked; and before I had even realized it, WEP was insecure and obsolete and everything had moved to WPA and its variants. I had never had an explanation of the new protocol except that it "fixed a flaw" in WEP. I think after your schematic overview (and the links to the appropriate parts of the relevant articles - specifically in IEEE 802.11i-2004), I finally understand the new systems. Excellent overview, thanks for summarizing what is a very complicated, acronym-filled system! Nimur (talk) 20:35, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

The articles desperately need a proper trace of a session being established, showing all the various handshakes. I've not found one on the Internet, and wasn't able to make one myself. Tracing it on Windows shows nothing of the handshake - the place in the network stack that winpcap attaches to doesn't see any of that traffic, so Wireshark only sees what happens after the WPA traffic is all done. The raw socket pcap trace on Linux does work okay, but because most of the traffic is in encrypted bytes inside various packets, it still doesn't show nearly enough. I guess I could add debug to the Linux WPA Supplicant, but frankly that's where my patience for the project ran out. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 22:33, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

National treasure swords

Hi! I stumbled over User:Finlay McWalter/sandbox through a google search. Since it appears to be a copy of List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts-swords), I was wondering if you have any plans to modify the article? I am presently working on getting the list up to featured list quality and could use some help. Are you interested in improving the list? bamse (talk) 21:54, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

No, I only have a copy because I was experimenting with it, to fix a rendering issue you had (see #Rendering problems, above). I'll blank the sandbox copy so that it doesn't interfere with future searches. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 22:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again for the fix, I had forgotten about it... (Too bad, I thought I could trick you into writing about Japanese swords :-) ) 22:24, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for semiprotecting Holidayz

I was getting tired of sitting on it. Though I suspect that given that only two IPs were repeatedly editing, and they're both from a similar IP range (and ISP), that they were the same person whose ISP reassigned their numbers when they logged off. Also, both IPs were adding infoboxes to the article as well. What a coincidence. Oh well. Thanks again. elektrikSHOOS 09:59, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

I did consider blocking (and warned the first of them at User_talk:122.172.21.79 that I would), but these addresses seem to be the gateway proxy for a large ISP (cf User talk:122.172.32.140) I fear blocks would incur too much collateral damage. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 10:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Image annotations

Just to let you know, I'm the "beat" writer of the Tech report - feel free to go ahead and edit this week's (ASAP! the deadline's coming up) - maybe a "Briefly"? - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 18:45, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

EC's

Don't you hate it if you write a careful answer, and then find out that essentially the same thing has already been said? "Great minds" and all that ;-) --Stephan Schulz (talk) 13:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

invitation to my talk page

204.112.104.172 (talk) 08:29, 7 August 2010 (UTC) See my talk page and give your honest oppinions on the voice of judy on jetsons movie. I have a forem there under august 2010. invite others please as well. Thank you.

PDF + Text-added in one file

Hello from the netherlands,
>scratching behind my ear<
This question - and your answer - allready is archived, but I still want to give it a try.
(Yes, it does imply "just" adding a txt-layer "under" an existing pdf.)
Well, there are 2 distinct situations (I use "txt", but I do not mean only old-fashioned ANSI):
1) Add a txt,
2) Change an allready existing txt ("re-load" / "type-over").

And, yes, there are problems (that I can think of):
a) When there are pictures (I suppose the 2 layers shoud "communicate" / the txt should be "at pace" with the pdf);
b) The text as-on-the-pdf is in 2 (ore more) collums;
c) For whatever reason, the txt is shorter than the pdf - e.g. a 10 pages pdf off wich only pages 3-5 are "translated" / transcribed. This one should be a "users own problem" ;-)

Just an example - of my choise - to give you an idea. It is in german, but I am shure you will recognize the "f"-like "s" of "Erlass" (= "Erlaß"). Also, there is "Oe" instead of Ö: index of Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, 1856.

Please, couldn't you be persuaded to expand your example programm to a (minimal) working program?
(Just asking, and thank-you for your time.)
Regards, StaNi 1 (talk) 14:04, 12 August 2010 (UTC)