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User:Evilphoenix/status

Re: anon on my talk page

No, that's fine, go right ahead. What on God's green earth was he talking about, anyway? I've never edited anything to do with Bosnia, Herzegovina (sp?), or any country at all, not even to revert vandalism, I don't believe. Confusing. Hermione1980 22:24, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Splitting list of villains

Hey, Evilphoenix. Before the recent explosive arrival of T-man, the Wise Scarecrow, Turnstep and I were pretty much agreed on splitting List of villains into List of fictional villains and List of historical people portrayed as villains (or something with a better name — List of historical villains and List of non-fictional villains are problematic, because we don't want to make the judgement that they're villains, just report that they were portrayed that way.) Could you head over to Talk:List of villains and weigh in on whether this split would be a good thing for the page? Thanks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 03:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey!

haven't seen you in a bit on IRC, how've you been? --негіднийлють 06:08, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm good, busy and working a lot, so I don't hop on IRC much. Man your sig is like, practically indecipherable. So how much longer till you have three months on the wiki? Ëvilphoenix 06:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

6 more weeks, I think... if Kate's tool was working today, I'd think that I finally hit 1000 edits :P (my sig is Ukranian for "Vile" "Rage" --негіднийлють 07:01, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

So in other words, another month. :-P. Ëvilphoenix 07:05, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Heh, I forgot about that.... Yea, another month, I spose :P --негіднийлють 07:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Pffft I still say you should pop in on IRC sometime ;] Time schmime! ;] --негіднийлють 02:00, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I actually archived today, and this thread almost went! I've actually been on IRC on occasion recently, even popped on today in search of an Arbitrator, which I did find, fortunately. My problem is I get too sucked in to vandal-bopping when I'm on there, and I just have other things I want to work on. Plus I've found myself "mediating" (or whatever it is I'm doing) a lot recently, and have actually been doing a little article contribution (shock!). That and trying to finally finish the Original Campaign of NwN. Ëvilphoenix 02:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Shocking indeed! Ya, I've seen you about, doing stuff ;] I actually wrote my first two articles last month ;] (Hi-Point Firearms and APDD, both DYK'ed). I tried my hand at mediation, but I think I need to go back to school on that one. Altho, it did end the edit war.... so I'm not sure ;] I have you on my bloody notify list on IRC, I'm surprised i didn't notice you ;] HEY! this is my 1600'th edit ;] --негіднийлють 02:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Nooo! Not the Thread That Never Dies!!! omg your sig is huge in the edit window. PS I want to nominate you when you get over three months, unless someone beats me to it, or you object at that time. Just letting you know. Ëvilphoenix 02:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Ya, I need to find a way to consolodate the HTML. NP, I doubt anyone will ;] I'd do it now, if I didn't think I'd get timecountitis'ed out ;] --негіднийлють 03:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Just wondering if you played Continuum or not, seeing as you edited it ;)

Nope. Ëvilphoenix 19:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

A quick question

Hey, I just wanted to ask a quick question as I'm not sure what to do. I came across an article (Naz Burger) that seems totally unencylopaedic, I could only find one reference to this place on Google, and even if it's a real restaurant the article is very badly written. What should I do with/to this article? Should it be deleted? If so, how? Otherwise, is there a place to ask for someone who might know more about this place to fix the article? Sorry, that question wasn't quick at all : ) Becksy 10:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Of course. Check out Cleanup Resources and Articles for Deletion. Also feel free to familiarize yourself with Speedy deletion, but in my opinion this particular article is not a speedy candidate. Do carry on! Ëvilphoenix 19:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Clemson University and University of South Carolina

Looks like things have quieted down at these articles-- sorry I didn't see this sooner. Let me know if problems resurface. -- Mwanner | Talk 00:31, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Yup, it looks like things are okay now. Let me know if you need any more feedback on this. --Deathphoenix 14:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Straw poll at List of villains

Hey, Phoenix. (Hope you don't mind me dropping the "Evil".)

We've had a bit of trouble over at List of villains with an anon (213.114.215.199 who keeps reverting the page back to the old, alphabetical format, without comment. (He's done similar things before, as you can see on his talk page.) Rather than being adversarial about it, however, I started thinking that maybe the consensus to move towards organizing the list by medium of first appearance wasn't clear enough. To make it clearer, I decided to hold a straw poll. I'd appreciate your input, since you helped us move forward before. Thanks! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 01:57, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Karmafist

Just a note asking you to watch Karmafist's talk in case you aren't already, as he wants to discuss the block with you; he's also on IRC at the moment. Thanks, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:23, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I do have his Talk on my watchlist, but I'm heading to bed in a few. Ëvilphoenix 05:02, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Rhode Island

Awesome! I know of at least a few Rhode Island Wikipedians, but I have never met up with anyone. If you want, perhaps we could meet at somepoint (especially for Wikimania 2006; carpooling is good). Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 05:22, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry!

Mistook the templating for a blanking. By the time I realised I'd screwed up, you'd fixed it. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 04:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:ChemicalGalaxy Longman 1951.jpg deletion

This was not an orphaned image as it is linked to Chemical_Galaxy. - RoyBoy 05:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

You're absolutely correct. I deleted it because it was uploaded by Scottfisher (talk · contribs), who has previously lied when using the pd-self template, and therefore I feel that we cannot know which of his uploads are potential copyright issues or not, and therefore I feel we can't afford to keep any images that he has uploaded. Ëvilphoenix 05:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I uploaded it, not Scottfisher. - RoyBoy 00:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Ahh. Pardon me, I got confused. The image you were questioning me about was deleted on October 16th. I had earlier yesterday deleted a large group of images, having not deleted any images in a while, so I assumed the image you were asking about was one of those images. Currently, and I assume at the time I deleted the image, there were not in fact any links to that image. If you uploaded the image yourself, I'd encourage you to re-submit the image and link it to Chemical Galaxy. Best regards, Ëvilphoenix 01:27, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Coo, I'll do a restore and put a better fairuse excuse up. - RoyBoy 04:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, I'll deal with Roomba. I don't want to use the image quite yet as the size of the article would make it difficult to put it in, but it is linked. Something will have to give. - RoyBoy 20:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

:"D - RoyBoy 20:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Not sure where you got 2004 from, but it was restored/updated by Philip Stewart around then. And just to clarify, the 2004 version is used, the 1951 version is linked. - RoyBoy 20:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

POTW sockpuppet

I marked 81.5.140.5 as a sockpuppet of Pigsonthewing. I notice you created the category to hold suspected sockpuppets of him, so I assume you were interested in keeping track of any IP's he used. As I really would rather not get any more involved in this than I am already, I thought I'd bring it to your attention that The wub blanked the user page, removing the {{sockpuppet}} tag from that page (which in effect removed the account from Category:Misplaced Pages:Suspected_sockpuppets_of_Pigsonthewing). —Locke Cole 23:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Eh, it's not that big a deal, I'm not going to really worry about it unless he goes around creating sockpuppets, which so far he has not done. He's also pursued other banned user's Sockpuppet's pretty aggresively, so I imagine he knows that any sockpuppetry on his part would A. be a bad idea and B. get squelched pretty fast. Ëvilphoenix 01:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

k, just wanted to make you aware in case he did decide to go that route. Especially since his Arbitration is closing. —Locke Cole 01:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Rest assured, there's plenty of people keeping an eye on him. Ëvilphoenix 01:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

User:NetworkAnatomy

When you get a minute, can you look at User:NetworkAnatom and tell me if this is obvious SPAM? (the Talk page too). How does it get fixed? Thanks. JanesDaddy 05:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Re-posting comment from user accidentally posted to one of my Archive pages. Ëvilphoenix 01:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, the link you sent me to isn't actually a User page, nor has it ever been one, nor is it an actual registered Username. Are you sure that's the correct link? Best regards, Ëvilphoenix 01:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Typo- should be User:NetworkAnatomy with a 'y'. Thanks for the comments, by the way. JanesDaddy 16:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I see the user page is deleted. What's the best way to tackle this sort of thing in the future? Post a note on your (or any admin's) Talk Page? ....still learning... JanesDaddy 18:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanking

Meh. :P (You'd get the exact same thing if you vote, so if you're unhappy, don't vote ;))

PS: Joking, don't take this seriously :P NSLE _(T+C+CVU) 01:51, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't care whether or not I get one, I only noticed it from watching another user's Talk page, my issue with it is just that I think it's poor form. And I'm afraid I've already "taken it seriously" and have now voted, but I do hope you're only giving me the wrong impression, and that your administrative actions will be exemplary. Best regards, Ëvilphoenix 01:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way, and let me assure you that I have no intention of not showing any exemplary behaviour. Anyhow, thanks again for voting, even if it was an oppose, I've taken what you said into mind. PS, do go back to the RFA, I made a comment about using {{PAGENAME}} NSLE _(T+C+CVU) 02:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

User:CosmicCastaway

I'd rather not say, considering it doesn't matter that much anymore, and it's up to him/her to reveal private stuff like that. Wait...thats not exactly what i mean. What i mean is that i think i should ask that person if they are fine with me talking about them first. Of course though, it doesn't really matter much anymore in any case. Hmm...oh, and i don't think he/she will be much of a bother as of now (though i might be wrong). Does that help? Or not? --Quadraxis 02:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

What motivated you to edit their user page? That's an unusual action. Ëvilphoenix 02:28, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's not really unsual :) But i know what you mean. Well, i introduced him/her to Misplaced Pages, and he/she asked a question of me, which i answered on their talk page. --Quadraxis 02:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Is CosmicCastaway a sockpuppet, specifically yours? Ëvilphoenix 05:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I was waiting for this question. Nope, not at all. He/She is just a friend of mine that i introduced to wikipedia, and who decided to do a few less than smart things (vandalism, obviously). --Quadraxis 23:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

The Quitting Thing

Yeah, I just assumed that I had lost face and would have to do things that would make me have to leave in order to make things work out and blah, blah, blah. Thanks for the intervention, here's a barn star for your trouble, my friend. Please let me know if I can help out in the future. karmafist 04:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Aww, I am flattered, that's my first Barnstar! (In addition to the flamethrower that Drini gave me that I still need to add to my User page). You've not lost face in my book, and things will work out. Keep the faith, and rock on. Ëvilphoenix 05:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

CustomerVision...my bad.

Sorry about the mix-up. The author politely asked that the article be reinstated, which it was...but in the same "adspeak" as before. The link they sent me on my talk page actually looked pretty good. Still, I support your decision. Just giving you a heads-up.  :) Watching your back, I remain, Lucky 6.9 06:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok. Now my feelings are hurt since you say I talk in adspeak. I was trying to be as plainly factual as I could and I did not mean to use adspeak.

CustomerVision entry

After a dialog Lucky 6.9 said the CustomerVision entry was ok. Can you please undelete or explain why. Once someone with authority such as Lucky 6.9 ok's the article is their a way to tag it so it doesn't get deleted again?

It's an advertisement, and we're not a web directory. I'm not going to undelete it at this time, and no there's not really a way to tag any given article to prevent another Administrator from Speedy deleting the article or another user from nominating it for Articles for Deletion. I suggest you post a comment at Deletion Review, I'm too tired to look at it again tonight. Best regards, Ëvilphoenix 06:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

This is the point I made before:

I understand what you are getting at with this but I think the article was appropriate. CustomerVision is a real company with real customers and we are very much a peer to other companies with similar entries on the site. The post I made was very factual and not grossly promotitional. Here is a link to our site if you would like to verify our history.

http://www.customervision.com/ http://www.rapidwiki.com/

My attempted contribution was pretty mild and I felt it was very similar to other peer articles. I feel like I was respecting the standards I found within related articles.

Pigsonthewing

Whee, Pigsonthewing doesn't believe I should be able to say anything on his talk page in response to his accurations re: me. Here's the diff with my response to his suggestion that my block log with offer all sorts of incriminating evidence against me: . Note that he reverted my response twice. I'm all for users having control over their talk pages, but removing a response to an accusation in a mixed company discussion should be a blockable offense IMO. If you have any questions about my two blocks, feel free to contact me here or on my talk page. —Locke Cole 09:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah! How dare he prevent you from responding to comments in his talkspace? He should be blocked for that! Just as soon as his (latest) block for trying to respond to comments in Scottfisher's talkspace ends.

Oi! --CBD ✉ 09:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, quite. Andy Mabbett 11:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

That would be fascinating if he'd been blocked for commenting on Scottfisher's talk page. —Locke Cole 21:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Stubs

I know, huh? Some people just can't get past their confusing instruction cruft, often because it lets them have complete control of their little "kingdom" of things.

Right now, the redirect stub looks like it'll survive, but I assume this is just another round on the never ending cruft wars. I'd hate to do so, but I'm wondering if I should ask Timecop for advice on taking on the cruft, as it seems he's been fairly successful in deleting blogs, albeit in a more than likely crooked way via GNAA means.

Heh, it looks like POTW's at it again up there, eh? I guess David Gerard was right, eventually he'll just piss off so many people that somebody will give him an indef block and nobody will care otherwise. That's good enough for me to leave it alone. karmafist 16:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm actually not familiar with the specifics of the issue you're having with the stub sorting team, if you'd care to help fill me in that would be awesome. As far as Andy goes, I'd suggest to you that you just not make further comments about it. Let the other administrators deal with it, and if you find a problem, feel free to bring it to my or another administrator's attention, but otherwise I'd suggest not making any comments about it. Just a thought. Ëvilphoenix 17:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

It's basically about deleting {{New Hampshire-stub}} as a redirect to {{NewHampshire-stub}}, and the only reason so far seems to be "policy". As for dealing with POTW, I don't want to, but i'm not going to feel intimidated because of the vagueness of WP:NPA. If anything, the past month has taught me that WP:NPA has degraded to the point where it means nothing anymore. It'd probably be better off merged into WP:CIVIL. karmafist 17:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

New Hampshire-stub

From your comment on the vote on this stub redirect I think you may have mistaken what is being voted on there. {{New  Hampshire-stub}} is a redirect to the stub template {{NewHampshire-stub}}. Only the redirect is being considered for deletion, not the template. The redirect has been nominated because it contradicts the naming guidelines for stub templates. Caerwine Caerwhine 17:50, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I know, and I'm voting to keep the redirect. My vote stands. Ëvilphoenix 18:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: User:Leonig Mig

Man! I go and ask if he wants his page unprotected, and by the time I look, you already have done so! Grr.... Titoxd 18:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

It happens.  :-). Ëvilphoenix 18:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Barn Stars and Stub Wars(that kinda rhymes at least)

I'll let Slim know you're here to help in case she doesn't get back to my page soon. Right now she's told me she's deep in thought over what the pictoral representation of "citation" should be, so I'm guessing she'll be awhile, I definately can't think of how that would look unless there was some old school marm looking librarian or something.

Also, it looks like I have an issue with Grutness, (and to a lesser extent, Caerwhine, who seems to be his sidekick) regarding all of this stub business lately. I'm thinking of entering mediation after he sent over a veiled accusation of vandalism earlier today. Let me know what you think here. I'd like to avoid another POTW situation, but I think Grutness and POTW are apples and oranges for the most part. karmafist 06:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah I'm kind of keeping an eye on it, but I'm sure it can be discussed and worked out. That comment was a little underhanded on his part, but best to let it slide for now. Keep up the good work. Ëvilphoenix 15:47, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

USC

Well, it wasn't an oversight on my part, but I can understand if there's disagreement. Under the theory that an article should either be in a category or a subcategory, the University of South Carolina article doesn't need to be under Category:Universities and colleges in South Carolina when it's under Category:University of South Carolina. In my opinion, you can remove a lot of colleges from the main listings on those pages when you have a pseudonymous subcategory already there. But it's just an opinion.--Mike Selinker 16:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

WDC Template

Great work on the custom template for Wikiproject Drum Corps! Thanks for such a great looking contribution. I appreciate your work on the project. Mr Bound 01:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Ëvilphoenix 03:04, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey Man

I figured I should show you this , thanks again for being a shoulder to lean on in regards to this apparently continuing nonsense. karmafist 19:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I saw it. He was already blocked by the time I came on today. Doesn't take much. I'd say, just let that one go for now, he's said some particularly horrid things today (his response to the Arbitration decision notice was particularly notable), he's already gotten blocked, and he's going to keep getting blocked, or he's going to get banned, or he's going to behave. One of those. Thanks for the link, feel free to point anything else out to me, and keep up the good work. Also, if you'd care to check out Talk:Agnus Dei (disambiguation), I'm getting in a debate over there that I'm going to be looking for some outside input on soon. Thanks. Ëvilphoenix 19:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Someone turned Hermione Granger into a fan page.

I left a note on the Harry Potter Project page, but figured I'd also drop you a note here directly.

A very enterprising new editor spent a couple hours today making some massive changes to Hermione Granger, adding a profusion of images, complete with POV captions, as well as changing the layout to make it inconsistent with the other Harry Potter pages.

I've reverted the page back to an earlier version, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this particular editor may be persistant. → Ξxtreme Unction {ł_blah} 22:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:user-hp-project

I object to the Housist maneuver of putting the Gryffindor seal on the template!!1!!1 Seriously, do we have perhaps a picture of the Hogwarts crest we could put on there? (The template is really cool, btw. So are the user House templates. Ravenclaw, huh? I'm Slytherin.) Hermione1980 01:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I was being NPOV, I wanted Ravenclaw. I think the Hogwarts crest actually got deleted, but if you can find it lying around, I'll put it on the template. Ëvilphoenix 01:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Hogwarts crest.jpg Hermione1980 01:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Clueless me, I installed mIRC trial version, joined #wikipedia-en, now I don't know what else to do. Clue me in? Hermione1980 01:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:AN/I Comment

I just wanted to thank you for what you said there. I still can't get CBD to understand that difference between POTW and me, but you can't force your opinion on others like POTW tries to do I guess. I'd be willing to bury the hatchet with POTW if I figured it'd be productive, but I think we both know it wouldn't be ;-) karmafist 04:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)