Misplaced Pages

The new version still doesn't render properly for me. "Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article" should render as Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article but doesn't, (it comes out red) when I invoke the template. Maybe it's my browser or something. I hope that it turns out well for the other users. Thanks for your patience, I'm just confused  :-) --hydnjo talk 03:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

OK got it. In putting the template on retroactively I was doing MONTH DAY which works fine. Last night however I was invoking with DAY MONTH which isn't fine. The reason for my switching formats was to remind me of when the template was being used to replace the FA date statement (before there was a template). There is no problem with going back and changing the DAY MONTH input sequence but I don't know to enforce this requirement with future users. --hydnjo talk 15:28, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your support in my RfA. It's nice to finally be an admin. Anyway, enjoy your wikibreak. -R. fiend 16:47, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Greeter

LMFAO im loving the greeter. JobE6 21:23, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Great Lakes Storm of 1913

Thanks for putting up the Mainpage date for this article. I'm sure that you had a lot to do with its becoming a FA in the first place so, congratulations. --hydnjo talk 23:28, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

And for the Battle of Hampton Roads. :-) --hydnjo talk 00:36, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Category:Powell and Pressburger films

The renaming of this to "Films directed by Powell and Pressburger" isn't completely correct. It's true that they were dual directors on many of the films, but on some of them, Pressburger was only the writer, but they are still considered films of "Powell and Pressburger". — BRIAN0918 • 2005-09-25 15:48

Hmm. Other than removing the articles that do not have both of them, or seperating them to two different cats, I am not sure what to do about it. I posted the Cfr notice on it last week and allowed all of them to be dicussed. I gather most people wouldn't know that, so didn't get any comments about it. Have any suggestions? ∞Who?¿? 15:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

This seems like something we should probably take back to Cfd. It will take a week, but then we will have a proper discussion about it. ∞Who?¿? 15:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I removed the entry from the deletion list and added a new Cfd here if you wish to comment on it. ∞Who?¿? 16:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Brian, the best suggestion we've had for what is the meaning of those initials Babyface is writing is that it could well be his name. Something like "Theodore d'Arcy Fitzroy". SteveCrook 23:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

There are other trivia items about the film on the PaPAS site at www.powell-pressburger.org. Use any you feel are appropriate. SteveCrook 23:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Uncalled for comments

Brian, Sorry if you felt like I was being a contrarian, but I found your comment to be quite rude. I would hope you would assume good faith that there was a reason for what I was doing. Films that have been considered the greatest ever has a long history of which you seem to be a recent contributor. The problem has been the large number of people adding films because they are personal favorites. I try to track down the legitamacy of what people add and remove things without citations. This has been the consensus of the editors of the articles. There is also a general organization to the article which has been first listing broad critical acclaim, then audience/box office favorites and then academy awards. It seemed to me to make sense to keep the academy award musicals together. One historian does not make broad critical acclaim, (indeed, perhaps there is broad enough acclaim to list Gigi on top, and I was trying to encourage you to document it more.) My last edit was basically the same information that your has, just ordered differently. I have tried in my edits to give the musical section the same editorial approach that other sections in the article have. Also, the lists have been slowly turning into complete paragraphs and I thought this a good time to make that change also. If I am guilty of anything, it is not leaving you this message sooner to explain thing and I am sorry for that. I just have not had time to do much of anything on Misplaced Pages recently. -- Samuel Wantman 09:27, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Myfortress

Why are you removing all the links to myfortress.org? Articles are allowed to have external links that are critical of the article. These pages simply list quotations by the individuals.

I have to disagree. Consider the self-proclaimed purpose of the website, found here. Hardly a reliable source of anything, if you ask me. - Jersyko talk 03:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

• I'll have to disagree again. If an external link is prima facie not reputable, such as a site that openly announces it's biased/slanted agenda like myfortress, it's truly worthless in the process of compiling an encyclopedia. I suppose, however, that we'll just have to live with our difference of opinion on this, since this issue is a lot broader than websites dedicated to bashing some crazy televangelists. - Jersyko talk 14:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Blocks

Heya, you are aware you're supposed to warn people before blocking them, right? Also, please try to avoid personal attacks, especially in block messages. --fvw* 14:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

As above. I became aware of this issue on IRC, #en.wikipedia on freenode, you're welcome to join there to explain your actions if you like. SOme concern has also been expressed at the administrators' noticeboard. I feel that your actions are at the least a severe abuse of discretion. A block for a month for two tests, with the block message of "sneaky bastard" is not acceptable, especially without warnings. Pakaran 14:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

What they said. A representative sample of all the blocks you've done suggests that they were all done far too hastily, and the personal attacks are also uncalled for. Blocking is a measure to be used when a warning doesn't help, not the first line of defense; you create more problems than you solve when you block too quickly. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:46, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Christopher Burke Gibson

Tnx for showing an interest on its talk page (which i make a pt of not lk'g to, lest the added Google attention to it further grieve Dr. Lotspeich). I don't want to call the AfD on the article, given my heavy (and not necessarily entirely wise) involvement in the debate, but for his sake, i'd like to see it quickly drop off the world's radar. Would you consider making the call?. I'd be glad to follow up on the call if you preferred. Tnx.
--Jerzy•t 17:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

• No worries about bringing me further grief. My posting the article in the first place was nothing more than the misguidedness of a newbie. The sooner the better for it to come down, in my opinion. It does not matter to me who deletes it, I have saved the text and may forward it to the people who put up christopherbgibson.com a couple months ago. (Hope that will not violate any[REDACTED] copyright rules protecting deleted content). --Daniel Lotspeich 02:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

By the way I know that you have established quite the reputation for yourself here at WP, but I found the comments that you left on the talk page of this article less than helpful. As a "newbie" my first article published was a tribute to a dear friend of mine, recently tragically dead. Upon realizing that the article would not meet inclusion criteria, I was eager to see it taken down. Your comments were less than helpful, to say the least. I wish you well and I am a believer in the potential of WP to bring a quality encyclopedia to every person with internet access. In the future, you might do well to consider the consequensences of your words prior to posting.--Gaff 09:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

1911 EB

Ok, Sorry if I stepped on you or conflicted anywhere. You are doing a magnificent job! --DanielCD 20:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your note about my user page. Seems like you're doing a grand job on 1911 (hopefully the information you are putting in isn't too archaic ;-)). I also get frustrated by people using the Google "test" as authoritative - if the web already knew it all there would be less need for Misplaced Pages! Although I am hestitant to waste much time on the GNAA, it seems like your alphabetic solution is a reasonable way to do it, given that there is no consensus about relative importance. Pcb21| Pete 13:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Dodgy image

Hi - why are you adding the unknown source (and uploaded by you) Image:Walmart_greeter.png to new user's pages? It doesn't help those of us trying to deal with backlog of dodgy images to have one seemingly officially placed on new user's pages. It also doesn't have any cultural reference outside North America. From the caption I presume that US supermarkets employ people to welcome new customers. Secretlondon 15:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:Walmart greeter.png has been listed for deletion

Hotlist

Thanks for updating the hotlist - but we have to count blue links as well as red ones. (Some blue links point to different subjects than the ones other encyclopedias do.) I have a handy script to keep count, so it's not really necessary to update this unless I'm on holiday. Thanks though, and I hope you stick around and contribute more! – Quadell 21:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey

I've been seeing your work around here, so I decided to give you a barnstar.

(moved to User page)

Thanks for the WikiThanks. Molotov (talk)
05:05, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

GNAA troll?

Since when am I a GNAA troll?

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Armands_Leimanis&action=history

For your information I'm not part fo the GNAA. I have all the necessary prerequisites, I watched Gay Niggers from Outer Space, I first posted twice on slashdot, but I never applied for membership.

So please stop making false accusations and revert your edits to the page above since my vote is legit and you shouldn't have removed it.

Thanks. - Femmina 16:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)