User talk:GentlemanGhost/Archive 2: Difference between revisions

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Dear GentlemanGhost, in the past you have shown interest in the article 24/24 World Concert. I have listed it for deletion since I believe that it is too early to establish its notability. I would appreciate if you can take a look at the AfD and add your opinion to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/24/24 World Concert. Best regards, gidonb 13:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Please see my answer to your comments at User_talk:Gidonb#Vanity_page.3F. My excuses for the impersonal language of the message above, especially after you referred me to a related article. In order not to lobby one outcome or another, I added this standard message to the talk pages of all those who participated at some stage in editing the page, including its creator. It is always advisable to be consistent in these matters. Best regards and keep up the good work! Regards, gidonb 01:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

No offense taken at the impersonal nature of the post. Moreover, I appreciate the kudos and the interest. It's good to know it's not for naught. GentlemanGhost 03:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Please leave the deletion notices for my article (Mrozinski). No disrespect intended but my personal info has been edited repeatedly and erroneously, and I want the article deleted. Please comply with my wishes. Mrozinski 14:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Gidonb has made a final edit and hopefully you all will leave this page for deletion. It seems to have been the target of interest for people with no stake in its content. Now they can move on to objects of more legitimate concern and leave me alone. I do not know why everyone insisted on editing a page which is about me, but I guess I should be flattered. I hope they are happy to find someone else to harrass. Mrozinski 16:41, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Would you do me a favor and STOP FUCKING WITH MY INFORMATION. I don't know what your problem with me is, I am not a therapist, but I really think you need to take care of your own control issues. By the way you are neither a gentleman or a ghost. Take care of your own life and back off. Let this page be deleted and concentrate on your own excuse for existence. Mrozinski 02:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

If you check the history page for Mrozinski, you will notice that I have not made any changes to it since May 31. I have only contributed to the discussion regarding it. GentlemanGhost 02:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

In the past you have shown some interest in the Mrozinski article. I have nominated it for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mrozinski. Regards, gidonb 17:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Howdy, as you may have suspected, earlier versions of the Public Image Ltd. were written in a way that compared the band's history to the plot of Spinal Tap. While this was funny, it wasn't very encyclopedic and so most of the references were removed, but not all of them as you've discovered. Just FYI/FWIW. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I saw the improvement you made to the article about James Randi. Would you look at the article Philip J. Klass, and see if it needs similar improvements? Thank you. Bubba73 (talk), 00:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks pretty dense. It may take a while to sort through. I did remove one item, though. In fact, it looks like it was one that you added. Sorry about that. --GentlemanGhost 02:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Baklunish Basin has been proposed for deletion. If possible, please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baklunish Basin. Thanks. --Robbstrd 17:52, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

You have an "etc." after the three articles you name as having edit wars going on.[1] You might want to list those articles so people can check them out. Getting dragged into an edit war over a newcomer's insistence on adding a "Batman as villain" section to the Batman article is driving me nuts. I've found that strength in numbers can help resolve these things without any one person wearing him/herself to death over it. I'd like to offer my two cents on these edit wars, to lend a hand to whoever is trying to bring them to an appropriate conclusion. Hopefully I won't get drawn into the whole-scale battle, but like I said, just showing strength in numbers, bringing in a variety of perspectives, can really help. Doczilla 07:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I didn't list more articles because I'm not sure how many articles this edit war spreads across. Although I have become involved, I suppose I should have mentioned that I am not one of the primary combatants. I decided not to name names on the notice board because I didn't want to make it too personal. Besides, looking at the article histories, it's farily obvious who I'm talking about. But, I see your point. I, too, have leapt into the fray to add my two cents and show strength in numbers. I didn't want to check all of this new user's contributions, because I didn't want to pick on the new guy. But now that I think about it, if there are edit wars occurring on multiple other articles, he probably already feels picked on, so it won't really make it that much worse. I'll do some research and add to the list. Thanks again! --GentlemanGhost 16:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Here's Asgardian's justification for ignoring everything we're telling him about his edit warring: [[2]] Doczilla 02:52, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

P.S. He reverted Man Beast three times today. He can hit his fourth revision if he goes back before 10 a.m. his time tomorrow. Doczilla 02:55, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, as you saw, he has now reverted it four times in 24 hours. I'm not sure to whom this should be reported. I've never done that before. (And, yes, Asgardian, I know you'll see this. I don't know what else to do when you refuse to listen to so many people. Yes, tattling is childish. Do you really not see where your behavior is childish?) Thanks for bringing this mess to our attention, Ghost. Doczilla 16:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I was surprised to find that CovenantD hadn't reported the edit war. It looks like there was some administrator mediation early on, but the war was pretty much going on unabated when I stumbled on to it. As of now, Asgardian has been blocked for 24 hours, so I assume that you figured out how to report the 3RR violation. In case you didn't, all the info about it is here. Thanks for your help! --GentlemanGhost 20:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Update: You might want to weigh in on to Admin Noticeboard entry. It's December and this stuff is still going on. Doczilla 06:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

This is the first time I've seen this thread, so I hope you don't mind if I comment. When User:Asgardian first appeared and started editing comics-related articles, I attempted to dialogue with him and explain why many of his edits weren't appropriate and refered him to the guidelines and policies that covered those edits. He became very combative, essentially dismissing anything that didn't meet his standards and would simply revert to his preferred version. I attempted to get a couple of admins involved in the discussion without any success. After weeks or months, I gave up trying to explain why his edits were being reverted and just did it. Others have occasionally become involved on a specific article or type of edit, and more often than not my interpretation has been supported by others. CovenantD 20:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't mind at all. You're welcome to comment. I share your frustration. It's tough to maintain civility and assume good faith sometimes, but I have tried to do so. It does appear that some admins are taking an interest, at least. For the moment, it seems like things have calmed down a bit. I'm hoping that it will all work out without any drastic measures being taken. --GentlemanGhost 20:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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Good work! SqueakBox 00:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! The person that made that edit appears to be a new user, so I left the "nothanks" template on his talk page. Hopefully, it won't scare him off. --GentlemanGhost 01:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi CovenantD. What did you find objectionable within the Civil War section of Wiccan (comics)? It wasn't immediately apparent to me. --GentlemanGhost 20:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Most of it starts in the middle of the third paragraph, with the sentence "The young heroes become the prisoners and victims of the sadistic Warden." It gets worse from there, with lots of subjective adjectives like atrocity, fortunately, abominable and daring. And the entire turn to the Dark Side phrasing, complete with wikilink, is OR at best. Basically, the entire tone way too subjective and assumes too much about the motivations and feelings of the characters involved. Hope that helps. CovenantD 20:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --GentlemanGhost 20:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

You know, you kinda did that page move in the wrong way. By merely copying and pasting the contents, you lose the edit history of the article. There are other methods of moving articles that are more effective. See WP:MOVE. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 00:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized that after I moved it, but I don't know if there's a way to fix it now. --GentlemanGhost 04:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Just a question, but what was the reasoning for bumping the rating?

I had noted that I may have low-balled it in the "rating comments' when taking it down from "Top". It maybe worthwhile for the project as a whole for the reasoning for the bump be noted in the same section so that others can apply the same standards across the project.

Thanks for listening... — J Greb 15:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I responded here. --GentlemanGhost 15:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

1. Cited examples [10] are from more than 24 hrs.

2. It is not for you to judge.

Asgardian 00:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Look closer. They are within the same 24 hour period. And that's why I took it to the appropriate venue. --GentlemanGhost 22:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. Well, if the edit warring continues, you can always try WP:RPP. At least we now know who is who. ;-) Khoikhoi 05:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I've protected Galactus. I'm not sure if the other pages need it though. If the edit wars continue once the page is unprotected, it's time to start blocking the edit warriors instead. I've seen sevral admins use this method instead of protecting pages. Khoikhoi 03:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info on how Asgardian got blocked. I still say Steel needed to cross t's and dot i's more carefully when posting the block notice, and sure shouldn't have deleted a comment of Asgardian's from Steel's talk page. I'm amazed that these edit wars over Thor-related and cosmic Marvel pages have gone on for such a long, long time, which is all the more reason for admins to make damn sure they handle these things carefully if they really mean to bring the edit wars to a reasonable end. Regardless of whether Steel aimed to improve Asgardian's performance or drive him away, sloppy work like Steel's won't do nearly enough to resolve anything, which leaves everyone involved with one headache after another -- and by everyone, I mean all of the considerable number of people banging their heads in frustration regardless of which position they take. Steel didn't exactly impress me as the kind of "cooler head" you needed. Doczilla 08:46, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Heh. It doesn't sound like it, but I haven't followed all the links to judge for myself yet. All I asked for was page protection, as suggested above by Khoikhoi, which would force both parties to cool off and concentrate on other things. However, if punishment was to be applied, I feel it should have been applied to DCincarnate as well. --GentlemanGhost 09:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

As a side note, these were the charming edit summaries which spurred me to request page protection. [11] --GentlemanGhost 09:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Doczilla 10:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

To follow up on previous discussions, I've posted a few potential solutions there. - jc37 23:53, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! It looks well-thought out. I am fine with whatever decision is made, including no action. --GentlemanGhost 00:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

There's been a Request for Comment initiated at Talk:Whizzer#Request for comment over style and content issues between two versions of Whizzer, one by Tenebrae, the other by Asgardian.

You're a regular and diligent contributor to WikiProject Comics and to the Whizzer article, and so might be a knowledgeable and disinterested party who could add an informed opinion. --Tenebrae 13:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support for the image, I just want to tell you the issue has been resolved on User:Veinors talk page because he realized I wasn't trying to replace the original comic book image, but to illustrate its specialty by showing it in its packaging and its quality rating, but again thanks. Rodrigue 23:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. --GentlemanGhost 23:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, GG. I've been nominated by a fellow editor — from out the blue, believe me — to be an admin. That's a lot of work and responsibility; I was asked to do it once before, and didn't think I was either ready or needed. But User:Steve block and User:ChrisGriswold, who came out of WikiProject Comics and know the nuances of comics, are on indefinite hiatus, and someone who knows comics, the basis of some of the biggest things in pop culture, should be an admin. Some of my Comics Project peers are also qualified, and if they were to step up, I would step down from this nomination. But we need a comics-knowledgeable admin in any event. If you'd like to enter the discussion either way, you can go to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Tenebrae2. Thanks so much,-- Tenebrae 16:38, 15 May 2007 (UTC)