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Regarding your revert

Hi. Regarding your revert, might I suggest that it's brainless actions like yours that are damaging Misplaced Pages? I'm not sure what your revert accomplished other than re-introducing errors into Misplaced Pages. :-/ --MZMcBride (talk) 23:34, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)How is respecting a retired editors choice of words brainless? What is the justification for making the changes, given that its a signed message? Monty₈₄₅ 23:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

It's not your place to go around copyediting other users' personal remarks. Other than the its/it's change, there's absolutely nothing in that change that you could actually call an error. Sure, it's not how you'd write it, but you're not the user that left after suffering the brunt of a hostile community. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, it wasn't as though he was going to come back and do it himself. This is a wiki. Surely there's no greater testament to the wiki spirit than copy-editing someone's final remarks. The links and expansions were minor, but incredibly useful to anyone reading the message who doesn't study Misplaced Pages-related initialisms and jargon. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:54, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

"... given that its a signed message"? Now you're just taunting me. :-( --MZMcBride (talk) 02:54, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I suggest you find another bear to poke. --Guerillero | My Talk 03:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't follow. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:59, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

He means "drop it and go away". I agree with the sentiment, now get off of my page. You're doing this just to annoy me at this point, and to be honest, it's working. If you continue to bother me, I will find an admin willing to force you to stop. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:56, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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By the way, you generally don't want to add a border to an image (as you did to File:In Solidarity.png). It's easy enough to add a border using ] syntax. When you add a border to the image itself, it means the border can't be removed or customized (made thicker, dashed, red, &c.) when the image is used. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm fully aware of that. As this is a personal image that I didn't expect to catch on with other users, I made the choice to add the border, and I don't see any reason to change it. Now that I have addressed your concern, please kindly leave my page and do not come back, per above. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:56, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikia note

In case you're coming over from Wikia trying to confirm that this Sven Manguard is that Sven Manguard, it is. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:35, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

{{cn}} Logan _Talk 03:22, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I could log into both accounts with you watching me, but you chose the wrong city to go to college in, so now we'll never meet in person. Your loss. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:00, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Liao Dynasty

Hi, Sven. This article has come up for review at the copyright problems board; it was listed automatically by the close paraphrasing tag. I see that you have been working to address copyright issues, but am unsure if they have been resolved. The article hasn't been substantially edited in three weeks, so I realize that it's possible you may have finished. If it is still a copyright problem, we should blank and remove or replace the sections in accordance with policy so that we don't continue to violate the rights of Mote after the copying issue has been discovered. Conversely, if the content has been substantially rewritten, the close paraphrasing tag should be removed. I've done a spot-check of the article throughout and have not yet found any duplicated passages in the book (which is available for preview), but that's not in itself conclusive. It's certainly not as good as having the book in front of you. :) --Moonriddengirl 20:05, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

I have the book on my desk. It's pretty damned close in the 'Foreign relations' subsection. I'd say that it's close enough that it has to be rewritten but not close enough that it has to be burned with fire. The easy way to tell where I worked and where I haven't is that the sections with in text citations were ones I did, the ones that have no citations (and are also, for the sake of discussion, written poorly) haven't been cleaned up yet. I'd appreciate it, if you decide to delete anything, a) do it on a section by section basis, and b) email me a copy of anything you delete. I write everything from scratch, but I make sure to keep the coverage at least comparable. I haven't worked on it lately because I've been hella busy. I'll be able to get it done in May though (it might be my last substantive contribution to Misplaced Pages, considering how I'm drifting away from it). Keep me in the loop, what ever you decide. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:50, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that you're drifting! Misplaced Pages's loss. :( Do you think it would make sense to blank the section with the {{copyvio}} template until you've had a chance to replace it? Stopping publication can minimize damage and hence liability, but I'd need to trust your judgment on whether the content is likely to be similar enough to constitute a liability. :) If not, we can keep the {{close paraphrasing}} tag in place a bit longer. --Moonriddengirl 12:12, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Lets leave things as is for the moment. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:10, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

YGM

A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

PROD for 22nd anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Perhaps you would be interested to give your two cents? Colipon+(Talk) 16:20, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

I commented on this, but I'm not sure why you asked me to comment. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:35, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Just a gesture of goodwill, really, I saw you around a couple of other articles on my watchlist! Colipon+(Talk) 20:11, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Ah. That's got to be either a very large watchlist or a very strange one then. I mainly edit in obscure XBLA games and Chinese dynastic history. Thanks then. Goodwill is hard to come by on this project nowadays. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

It's nice to make a wiki-friend once in a while. :) Colipon+(Talk) 02:39, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for participating in the January 2012 MTC Drive. The drive was a big success. As a result of the drive thousands of files was transferred and many files was nominated for deletion because of copyright issues or because they were not usable. For your big work transferring files to Commons you are hereby awarded this barnstar. Cloudbound (talk) 20:01, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Taiwan

I still say that by criticising us equally you give too much credibility to the sad individual who made the idiotic allegations. While I agree that my posts may not have looked good to a newcomer, every single one of them was IN RESPONSE TO something inflammatory posted by 96.40.129.169. I don't appreciate such criticism from him or you, unless you can see, and clarify on the Talk page where the problem started. If 96.40.129.169 had not posted what he did at 20:35, 28 April 2012 (UTC), there would have been no problem. I rightly condemned it, because it was blatantly wrong and an attack on me (among others). You condemned me. Hmmmm. HiLo48 (talk) 04:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

I really don't want to hear it. Responding to a personal attack with a personal attack is still a personal attack. I'm not a perfect user when it comes to interactions myself, but you are out of line, irregardless of the circumstances. I'm going to treat you equally because I don't really care about the contents of the argument so much as I do that it's a flame war. If you want me to treat the two of you differently, I should be harsher to you, as an established user who supposedly knows better. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Pedro's recall criteria

You may care to reconsider your position. Malleus Fatuorum 03:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

I personally think that someone who has set up a recall monitor list shouldn't be retroactively removing from that list, but at this point there is very little that will convince me to wade into another massive wiki-brawl, so at the moment, this comment is all I'm willing to give. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:13, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. Malleus Fatuorum 17:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Invitation

Misplaced Pages experience Survey Invite Hello Sven Manguard. I am currently working on a research about Misplaced Pages to know more. That's why I have created a short survey about Misplaced Pages and your experience editing it. I'd love to have you participate in this short survey created by me. Please click HERE to participate. Thanks for editing Misplaced Pages. This is not compulsory. I will not force users for doing it. However, input will be appreciated. Thanks you. Dipankan 08:13, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Dipankan 08:19, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

The very least you could have done was ask me if you could use my name in the survey. I don't know how I'd have answered had I been asked, but having not been asked, and seeing the survey itself, I can tell you that I'm quite pissed. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:25, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Replied in my talk. Dipankan 15:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

File:Krantmlverma.jpg

Thank you very much My dear Sven Manguard ! You have really proven the worth of your user name by helping an old man like me. God bless you. With regards Yours semper fidelis Krantmlverma (talk) 06:45, 4 May 2012 (UTC)Dr.'Krant'M.L.Verma

New Pages update

Hey Sven Manguard :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:16, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Image notifications

Hey Sven. A while ago we chatted about CommonsNotificationBot & image notifications in general. I've had quite a lot of feedback about the bot, but neglected improving it for some months - this month I might have a little time/motivation to fiddle with it though. Have you had any recent thoughts about images in general - and the bot in specific? I seem to recall you mentioned the idea of having a dedicated image noticeboard for images; was there ever anything there? --Errant 12:01, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: DelSort

SineBot

I saw this, but didn't want to sign it for you as it seemed a little rude fo me to do so.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 18:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

The Amazing Race 19

Why did you remove the promo image of Marcus in Leg 2 from the article? There's absolutely nothing that states that such images are not allowed.—Ryulong (竜龙) 19:04, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes there is. The non-free image criteria states that "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding." The image I removed does not meet that standard. Sven Manguard Wha? 19:34, 11 May 2012 (UTC)