Welcome to my Talk Page! DO NOT EDIT OR POST REPLIES TO THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE. This archive page covers approximately the dates between July 4 2006 and July 30 2006. Post replies to the main talk page, copying or summarizing the section you are replying to if necessary. Please add new archivals to User talk:Titoxd/Archive34. (See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.) Thank you. Titoxd(?!?) 00:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Yikes, my take. Well, I just blocked Dyslexic for personal attacks. I did hope this would sort itself out, but I think the meat of the issue is that eventually they will both have to be banned from editing articles in which they engage in edit warring, or they'll both have to be banned full stop. Neither of them seems to be able to collaborate with each other, although of the two DA seems the more able to collaborate with others. T-Man's edits are not usually aimed at collaborating but at getting across his own methodology, whilst DA seems to have a compulsion to blindly revert T-Man's every edit. It can't go on much longer. Steve block Talk 18:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank youFor helping to sort out that whole fiasco. :P 69.145.123.171 Hello! Tuesday, July 4, 2006, 21:04 (UTC) "Old AFD Full"Hi Titoxd, I noticed when you close keep-AFDs you add the {{oldafdfull}} tag under the heading "== Old AFD Full==". I think that heading is very idiosyncratic - only people who have closed AFDs will know what that refers to. —Quarl (talk) 2006-07-05 03:59Z User adviceI'm not sure what exactly to do with a couple things I saw today, so I thought best to ask someone who has the admin mop and more experience than me. Storm05 created Tropical Storm Hanna (2002) after copy/pasting it from a subpage. I speedy-tagged it for a history merge and that problem was sorted. However when I explained the purpose of the tag to him, I think it wasn't understood and given what else he did at about that time, I think pretty much all his articles are copy/pastes. The second thing is HurricaneCraze32 uploaded this post-hurricane damage image. The site in question does not seem to have any copyright information, but he initially tagged it as GFDL-licensed. Hink has removed that since, I think there is certainly a fair use case for that particular image, is that right? Anyway, that raised my interest and looked at his other uploads, and see plenty of PD-NOAA tagged images and other GFDL-tagged images. The NOAA pics are fine but the GFDL ones dodgy. I'm not sure what to do about those incorrectly tagged images, may be best to delete them, its possible to get PD ones of road signs I'm sure. I guess both users need the relevant things explained to them to stop them carrying on, but I'm not sure what to say really. Could you go do that and maybe give me some advice on how to deal with this kind of stuff? As for the mess they have left behind, that could keep you busy for a bit...--Nilfanion (talk) 22:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you were in some recent edits with User:F.O.E. and decided to notify you on his newly opened RFC. Thank you! — The King of Kings 00:38 July 08 '06 Version 0.5 eligibilityTito, thank you very much for your support at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.5 Nominations about the Wikipedia:Articles eligible for Version 0.5. You are kind and think clearly. Maurreen 04:57, 8 July 2006 (UTC) AFDsHey, thanks for closing the SWU afd. I was wondering, there are some AfDs from July 2 (star wars lists and whatnot) that need to be closed. I can't do it, since I was involved in their discussions (I deleted/kept the unanimous ones); some may borderline delete, others reflect a keep consensus. Could you look into it? Thanks. — Deckiller 01:30, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Humo(u)r and chest hair Hi there. Thank you for making me crack a smile in the early morning. I, MacGyverMagic, hereby award you the Barnstar of Good Humour for this short, but incredibly funny edit. - Mgm|(talk) 10:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC) Esperanza votingThat was me who nuked the sig - I thought the bot didn't like it. Apologies :) -- 9cds(talk) 17:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC) Topic priorities for release versionsHi, Tito. I had an idea related to Silence's idea about assigning priorites of importance to articles considered for Version 0.5. I think the general idea of priority levels for topics is good, regardless of how much acceptance or agreement happens at 0.5. But I'm thinking there might be a more efficient way to do it, mainly by using a larger set of numbers to designate the priorities, and also with a scale that is somewhat less relative. By that I mean that each priority level would correspond to a set of some defined number. Here are a couple of examples. One option is based on powers of 10.
Another option is based on doubling.*Priority set 100 -- The 100 most important items.
These could be set up by continuing in the same vein as the core topics or with categories or both. Categories could allow subcategories, such as "the art articles within level x." Walkerma mentioned a four-level scale already in use. But that only designates priorities within a given Wikiproject. The idea proposed here could apply to an article, and help put them in context with each other. Maurreen 12:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Seeing that NSLE has basically left and I think hink has gotten annoyed with this enough, I thought I'd ask you this; Do you think my articles on Typhoon Aere (2004) and Hurricane Dolly (1996) in my sandbox are ready for publication as their own articles? If Dolly is published, I think I'll still work on it, but there really isn't much more info. So what do you think? And if you have time, could you give them a nice copyedit? íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 12:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Track mapsDon't mistake the fact that I've managed to get the program working and mess around with the code with actual competence, I'd rate myself as a beginner. I haven't really looked in any real detail at the source or attempted to understand it yet, so I don't know if its beyond me or not. Jdorje was good on adding useful comments to the source so I could easily see how to change the things I wanted to. In any case thing about toolserver seems interesting, what exactly would that involve and what would we get as an end result? Oh and another thing could you look over Commons:Template:Hurricane auto track map? I played with it slightly to see if I could get the images assigned to the commons category with some logic. I tested it on Commons:Image:Epsilon (2005) track.png and it worked fine. However I'm concerned about storms which are not of the form {type} {name}, 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane for example. Its probably best to leave those as they are currently and that also doesn't break the old track maps before I update them. It seems like a switch on the template is the best solution there as that allows both the current arrangement and a split into {type} {name} when easily doable; could you do that? It may be possible to some more with the unnamed storms, but seeing how I'm going to upload the named storms first anyway, one thing at a time. (Not least because I'll have to mess with the script to correct its automagic suggestions).--Nilfanion (talk) 12:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC) Please help on AstronomyPosted by →LzyGenius 12:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID maintenance team. NumismaticsJust something to keep ya busy! :)
Joe I 21:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC) Help!, other useres are trying to delete my article but I objected saying that the plane crash is notable. Please vote keep on the vote page in order to save this article.Storm05 15:38, 12 July 2006 (UTC) AMS Journal Pictures: PD, Fair Use, or No Use?Me and HurricaneHink were talking about this issue twice (once involving the picture of Hurricane Fifi and most recently involving a picture of Henri of 79, both of which are in AMS documents). Some documents are the same as the ones Hink got the pictures for the 1977-78 and 80-82 pictures from and others are the same as the documents I got my pictures from (such as Hurricanes Dora and Hilda). Are pictures from AMS journals fair use? Also, I found a part of AMS' FAQ page that answers on needing written permission to use excerpts, but we're unsure if this applies to pictures. The excerpt is on the [page] for the 79 Atlantic season under "Images". Thanks! Jake52 My talk 20:55, 12 July 2006 (EST) Just wanted to pop in and tell you, I like this new template you created. Looks very good. Well done! -- RattleMan 03:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC) For some reason, the JMA's severe tropical storm designation (and the light blue color) isn't showing up on this template. I can only get the regular classification to show up. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 05:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Portal approvalWikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Portal approval process counter to Wikipedia's aims? Discussion opened. SilkTork 08:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC) Tropical Storm Gamma (2005) aftermathSince my Spanish speaking is horrid, and I believe that you said that you can speak the language, could you add info from here to the Tropical Storm Gamma (2005) article? Most of it is aftermath, I think. Good luck! íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 15:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
RfA thanks
Samsara (talk • contribs) 21:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC) My RfA For those of you who supported my RfA, I highly appreciate your kind words and your trust in me. For those who opposed - many of you expressed valid concerns regarding my activity here; I will make an effort in addressing them as time goes on while at the same time using my admin tools appropriately. So, salamat, gracias, merci, ありがとう, спасибо, धन्यवाद, 多謝, agyamanak unay, شكرًا, cảm ơn, 감사합니다, mahalo, ขอบคุณครับ, go raibh maith agat, dziękuję, ευχαριστώ, Danke, תודה, mulţumesc, გმადლობთ, etc.! If you need any help, feel free to contact me. PS: I took the company car (pictured left) out for a spin, and well... it's not quite how I pictured it. --Chris S. 23:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC) Sources requiredAs a self-professed Wikipedian from Mexico, please help to find sources for Fresa (AfD discussion) in order to make a verifiable encyclopaedia article about the concept. See chav for how such articles should be sourced. Uncle G 12:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC) Version 0.5Hey, Titoxd, I replied to your question on my page and kind of expected to hear from you again, did you lose interest? I could do a little Version 0.5 reviewing, if I understood the process. Bishonen | talk 23:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC). Thanks! ...for reverting attacks to my user page! (I realize it's a bit after the fact, but I didn't even realize that it had been vandalized before!) bd2412 T 04:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC) Track mapsThere's a couple housekeeping tasks which I'm not sure how to go about with having updated the entire Commons category. The 2006 Pacific storms are all hosted incorrectly on here and not Commons. In addition to those 2006's Alberto has three copies on commons of its image: Commons:Image:Alberto 2006 track.png, Commons:Image:Alberto 2006 track2.png and Commons:Image:Alberto 2006 track.jpg. I know the first is the one which should be recolored, but should the others be deleted first? Also, Commons:Image:1926 Nassau hurricane track.png was created as a new file instead of being over the old one: Commons:Image:1926 Nassau Hurricane track.png. That's another redundant file which needs to go... Should I put them those 4 images up for deletion on commons? And what do I want to do about the 2006 Pacific storms - get them on commons then recolor?--Nilfanion (talk) 14:41, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support!
Version 0.5: accelerating loss of brain massHi again Titoxd! Thanks for your patience. The problem might be in my head in a generalized way (loss of brain mass), or specifically in my not knowing the "Good article" process that this is based on (I think?). I haven't been involved in that. Could you assist me with a single example, and then maybe I'll get a handle on it? I don't think The Giver ought to be part of Version 0.5. It's here (under "Literature"), here, and here, but not here or here. So is it up for review? If it is, where/how would I do it? Bishonen | talk 09:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC). Hydnjo's response to the blocking proposalI thank one and all - Jarandal, Antandrus, Titoxd, Xaosflux, TenOfAllTrades, mboverload, PseudoSudo, Knowledge Seeker, Haukurth, Deathphoenix, Zzyzx11, Tyrenius, Zscout370, AnnH, Rick Block, Tyrenius (again), Zscout370 (again) and NoSeptember for your support. To Jeffrey O. Gustafson who initiated this block request I ask why? We have had no interaction until now so how do you come to this requested action at WP:AN? Did you come across my account during your own research or are you acting as a proxy for another admin/user with whom I've caused to be angry with me? In reviewing your contributions I see no such "letter of the law" before now and so I feel singled out by you and I have no clue as to why - that to me is most disturbing. If you've come to this action on your own then should I be always wary of another admin challenging the legitimacy of my account? For TenOfAllTrades who advised me not to worry and Rick who made me laugh I give special thanks, you've helped me to not take this so personally. And to Jeff, thanks for being courteous in informing me of your action and for letting me feel that your heart wasn't for blocking me. I wanted to say all of this before it all goes to archive heaven. I still have a lingering concern that this may arise again and don't want to go through WP life looking over my shoulder or worrying that I might piss-off some admin and cause another inquiry about the legitimacy of my account. If any of you who have been so gracious as to take the time to support me here have any suggestions to prevent such an action, please drop your thoughts on my talk or by email. Finally, on a personal note to all, I never ever expected so much supportive response from all of you. I know that I've been moody at times and have spoken in ways that I have regretted the next day. I hoped otherwise but it seemed that those unfortunate responses might end up being my legacy as they were the foremost in my mind. And so far as this being a "role account", I think that I'll let the descriptions of AnnH and NoSeptember (both above) stand as the most intuitive descriptions of this account. My (and our) warmest regards to all of you for your understanding and outward support for the continuation of hydnjo's user account and future contributions. Again, my delighted and humble thanks :-) --hydnjo talk 02:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC) addendum: Jeff, I was confused at the outset in that I wasn't aware of the "role account" policy and then after becoming aware I was frustrated that I had made so many edits which could mislead someone to the conclusion that my account was a role account. I'm sorry that in my zeal to understand your actions that I posed the possibility that you were acting at someone else's behest. I have no evidence of that and it was improper of me to even mention that such a bizarre conspiracy was possible. I find myself guilty of "blaming the messenger" and posting an inappropriate comment about your motivation. As for my account, I want to state that it is not a role account and I apologize for leaving the impression that it is one. "hydnjo" is the signature that I commonly use for much of my correspondence and thought it to be appropriate when I first started my WP account. The portmanteau is an acknowledgment of our shared existence and not an indication that Heidi and I share in editing at WP. I thank you for your courtesy in informing me at the outset of the discussion at WP:AN and for your compliments about my contributions. The comments in my response were made in the shadow of my own frustration with my having left a trail of edits that could easily be construed as having come from either Heidi or myself. I sincerely apologize to you for making any suggestion as to your motivation in bringing up a legitimate policy question. You have a genuine concern for the orderly behavior of our editors and I thank you for initiating this discussion and providing me the opportunity to explain the nature of my account. --hydnjo talk 18:54, 18 July 2006 (UTC) Re: Welcome backThank you! I've grabbed the changes on CVS now; thanks for putting in the optimizations. :) How've things on Wikipedia been? Happy editing! —AySz88\^-^ 04:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC) RfA thanks. :)
My RfA thanks
Request for help on monobook.js issueHi, Titoxd...I don't know if you have admin rights in both wiki:en and wiki:es, but here is my problem: I was trying to install the Monobook-Suite and I did something wrong with the monobook.js of wikipedia in spanish monobook.js because now I'm not able to login at es.wikipedia.org...please help!!! Thanks a lot --cybedu 13:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC) Hi, appreciate your thoughts on some things: After this edit [1], I blocked DA for 48 hours[2], an increase on a previous block I had given for 24 hours based on this[3]. After this latest block the user seems to have become embittered, and this string of edits worries me.[4], [5], [6] and [7]. The user seems to be obsessing with T-man, note the comment "I am completely and utterly fed up with being treated as the bad guy for my efforts to control T-Man's actions". Appreciate some input on this. Steve block Talk 21:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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LibyaHi, I've recently added Libya to the list of featured article candidates. Overall the candidature is going well with many of the objections now sorted out. The final concrete objection is with the article's prose. I have been the main contributor to the article and have been looking at it for the previous 9 - 10 months. My eyes no longer see it freshly, so I am not a suitable copy-editor! To meet the final demand of copy editing, I have been advised to ask different people to edit parts of the article. I would really love to get this article featured as you can probably see from the page's history! I've worked very hard on it and I see this as possibly being the final hurdle. You can see the prose objections, mostly raised by Sandy, on the candidature page. If you have the time, please choose a section (Politics, Religion, Culture etc.) and Thanks a lot, --Jaw101ie 16:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC) Has been deleted. --Quentin Smith 14:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC) admin coachingHello Titoxd. Are you still running the admin coaching page, or is Petros? Well, HighwayCello decided he doesn't want to run for adminship. And my other coachee, Firsfron, is up for RfA. I'm pretty confident he will succeed. So soon I'll be ready to take on another coachee. Just an FYI. Thanks! :) --Fang Aili talk 23:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC) "Broken" talk pagesAre all those "broken" talk pages thanks to the db slave unsync earlier today? Titoxd(?!?) 03:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Status boilerplate usageJust letting you know that I am using your status boilerplates. They look great! -- Sarsaparilla39 05:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC) Hurricane Debby (2000) copyeditI was just wondering if you thought Debby needed a copyedit, or if it should go straight to GAnom (again). Also, just a friendly reminder that you said you would give Typhoon Aere (2004) a copyedit. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 21:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the copyediting and various other fixes and improvements on Esther - it passed FAC earlier. :D --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 04:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC) TC Dabs and CatsYuck, this is horrible... I'm starting to plod through these now, but I feel its just going to be hideous. For a start I think I'm going to need admin help for a lot of them. Here's a couple so far:
As you can see thats barely halfway through A, theres going to be many many similar problems I'm sure. Should I just list them up at WP:RM as and when I find them? Also I made a created a couple bad cats in the SH recategorising, Category:2005-06 Australian tropical cyclone season instead of Category:2005-06 Australian cyclone season and Category:1983-1984 Australian cyclone season instead of Category:1983-84 Australian cyclone season. Fancy a couple quick deletes?--Nilfanion (talk) 22:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on the projects talk on the dabs. There will be several moves needed I'm sure, but as they are possibly contraversial it needs discussion there first.--Nilfanion (talk) 15:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC) HillaryYeah, I figured if she's too drunk to spell her name right I shouldn't let her edit. ;-) Antandrus (talk) 04:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
T-Man accusations - call for his banT-Man acused me of lying here. please take the appropriate action. -- Dyslexic agnostic 19:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Thoughts?
SorryJust seemed out of place and didn't want anything to go wrong with the page. SorryO-TOWN'S AT 06:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Now we both deal with hurricanes so there is no reason to argue so please chill the hell out.O-TOWN'S AT 06:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Copyright on track mapsI'm not sure about the copyright issues with utilising Gary Padgett's summaries for making the track maps. He prepares track data for all storms in all basins, generally utilising data from the JTWC. The raw data from the JTWC data is available online at the NRL. Does this mean I can just use his text to make the track map and then just source to the JTWC, without attribution to him? After all I could collate exactly the same data myself but it would take a lot of time and effort. If I do have to give him attribution, does that mean that I cannot claim the image as PD-self? Would some other commons-permissible license be usable if that is a problem? In addition he utilises other sources (the RSMCs) than the JTWC in preparing some of the tracks. Can I make use of the JMA or Australian BoM best track data at all, and if I can do I need to use a different license to PD-self (for the images). Again, do I need to attribute GP when I make use of his tracks, some of the time he uses his judgement to pick which of the JTWC or the RSMC to go with. And then there is Catarina where he publishes a track prepared by another private individual. Is the image description I have provided there adequate? Or am I just worrying about nothing here, as long as I source the location of the original advisories can I just use it as is done with the Atlantic storms?--Nilfanion (talk) 14:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't not say hello to Tito!So there you go! Hi Tito! :) KOS | talk 06:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC) Highway's RfA Thank you for contributing to my my request for adminship. Although I wasn't promoted to admin status, with a withdrawn vote count of 14/27/14, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was pleasantly suprised at the support, and was touched by it. I will also work harder on preventing disputes and keeping cool under stress. Hopefully I will re-apply soon and try again for the mop. Thanks again, Highway Return to Oz... 13:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC) Admin coachingI noticed you were the coordinator of the admin coaching page. Could you put me on the "Unnasigned" users list, cheers —Minun Spiderman 18:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC) T-Man out of controlYour "mentee" T-Man, on top of his usual antics, is now accusing me of having a sock puppet, at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Dyslexic agnostic. He continues to place personal attacks against me, at User talk:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow/Vandalism & Harassment, a page I have asked to have deleted repeatedly. And his spelling is atrocious... one of many examples is "Image:Fire From Olimpus.jpg"... I mean, the correct spelling is in from of his nose, on the image itself! Please rein him in. -- Dyslexic agnostic 01:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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