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Chetblong is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Misplaced Pages on June 15

HOW'S MY EDITING?

Please review me!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  --soum (0_o) 16:51, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Archives

Archive 1

Re: I can't see my new version.

When you're uploading a newer version of a recording, the newer audio version replaces the old one as soon as the upload has successfully completed. Unfortunately, anything you write in the "Summary" section of the "Upload file" page gets ignored (it's only used the first time you upload a new recording), so when updating a pre-existing recording, you have to change the information on the recording's "Image:" page manually, so that people know which text version it's based on, among other things. I've done this for you, as an example. To see exactly what I've done, click on the "History" tab of then click "Compare selected versions". These changes need to be done every time you update your recording. I've also re-uploaded the recording with a spoken license statement appended to the end, as this is an important part of every spoken Misplaced Pages article (see the recording guidelines), although it would sound better in your own voice. :) Review here. -- Macropode 09:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing more to be done; the "listen to this article" link in the article always (automatically) points to the latest audio version that's been uploaded. I'm not really familiar with Yahoo! Music Jukebox, but my guess is that they're still serving the older version. Download it directly from the Misplaced Pages page and play it with an Ogg-capable player (VLC is a good one, because it'll play Ogg Vorbis without you having to download any extra codecs) and you'll get the latest version. -- Macropode 09:35, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Nice work. Your audio editing's getting better! Review here.-- Macropode 08:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Engaging in dialogues

Hi there, in regards to the way you are writing your comments in the discussion on the talk page of the Criticism of Windows Vista article, I would like to point out that when you insert your response between someones else's comments, it makes the entire thing hard to follow. Like when you inserted your response between paragraphs of Warren's comment, even though it keeps the answer closer to the point where the issue was raised, someone who is following the discussion has to hunt through the pile to figure out new info (no diffs are not that helpful for large discussions). As such, it is better to respond below someone else. Even better, refer to the point that was raised before you put down your answer. Thanks, and regards. --soum (0_o) 17:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, my mistake. You didnt do that. But the way you used indents made it seem like you were inserting your answers between others. Sorry. So, when you have to quote someone or some article, instead of using indents, I think it would be better if you just italicize and use quotation marks to demarcate that. --soum (0_o) 17:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

That's OK I'll do what you suggested. -- Chetblong 17:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing this, Chetblong, it really helps. -/- Warren 17:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Your Page.

Dude I'm sorry, but THANK YOU for welcoming me!--Tdjzcsdrpf 23:24, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Adminship nomination

You dont have to do anything when nominating self. If you are nominated by someone else, they put the time of nomination. When you are accepting, you should change to the time of acceptance, so that it is kept open for 7 days since acceptance. --soum 16:25, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome. And all the best with the RfA. Most evaluators look quite some experience. You are a good editor, you are lacking in experience. Also, even in self nomination, you have to explicitly state that you are accepting, just before the questions. --soum 16:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Your Rfs is not considered active till you explicitly state acceptance of nomination. See mine. --soum 16:46, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I missed that question. But you could have followed up on that. Plus that was hardly a response to the issue I raised: that all (but maybe an isolated incident or two) are notable people whose opinions can (and it does) sway people's perception. As such, the issue becomes notable. Instead of answering how this is irrelevant, you point out that I have given only one incident in the example (its just an example, why should I reiterate everything that is in the article?) How was that a relevant response to a question raised against your suggestion? Anyways, we can continue this discussion on the talk page. For now, try to gain some experience with how things work here from the RfA. --soum 17:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Plus there are also general issues with your contribution. You uploaded a few fair use images but all lack a fair use rationale. This things will be pointed out in RfA. Please try to rectify them. --soum 17:37, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I will respond to your comment tomorrow. I will be signing out in a few minutes (My lab is going to close for the night). See you tomorrow. --soum 17:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for your persistent reverting of vandalism to my user page tonight. I really appreciate that. --Bonadea 19:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Your recent RfA

I'm sorry, but I've closed your Request for adminship prematurely. Simply put, you've only got 365 edits on Misplaced Pages; while edit count isn't the only determining factor, and numerous people have their own personal standards that they judge RfA candidates by, there was no chance that the RfA was going to pass.

I'm sorry about this, and hope you don't take it personally. If you continue to contribute to the project in a positive fashion, I'm confident that you could possibly run a successful RfA in the future. You may want to consider submitting yourself to Misplaced Pages:Editor review for feedback on where to get some good experience, and when you're ready for RfA again, there's a great Misplaced Pages:Admin coaching program for you to use, as well as a guide to requests for adminship.

If you have any other questions about becoming an administrator, please don't hesitate to ask me. Good luck! Evilclown93 23:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Award

Hey Chetblong. Here is the award that you've earned by finding my super secret you-know-what. User:Selfworm/HiddenLinkAward Congratulations! _selfworm_ 00:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA

I am sorry it was closed early. Don't take it personally. Your lack of experience is what went against you.

I would have said this earlier, but didn't so that you weren't discouraged from that RfA. And due to this reason only, I did not vote there. Lack of experience is the most serious question. You have 300 odd edits in total, and a majority of them have been welcoming newcomers. While that is definitely a very noble thing to do, it does not show how good a contributor you are to the content of wikipedia. We are here primarily to build a quality repository of informative content, not to build the largest database of registered users. Also, low main space edits obscure how good an understanding you have of Misplaced Pages policies. About the fair use images, after I pointed that out, you rectify them with just adding a template that says it has fair use rationale, but not adding any rationale whatsoever. This lack of understanding of policies and their enforcement can be excused for a new inexperienced user, but cannot be the virtues of a administrator. Take a look at WP:FURG on how to add good rationales. As for the answer to my question, your response has been rather unsatisfactory. Of course you gonna sort it by talking, thats the only thing you can do here. In the conflict, your interpretation was against everyone else's. In this case the answer that I was looking for was that you would dig up precedents of such conflicts from other similar articles and see how it is handled in general in Misplaced Pages. If it is not the way other editors are handling it, show them and resolve on those lines. If they indeed are doing it that way, assume the tried and tested way is better and respect consensus till you can come up with a definitive flaw in that. Sure, a better answer would have been awesome but this was the least I was looking for. Anyways, the limited main space contributions that you have has been good. And you are a good vandal fighter. But that is not enough to judge whether you can be trusted with additional powers. Do not take this as hatred against you, no. Interpret this as a pointer to where you need to improve to show others that you indeed can shoulder the responsibility. Keep contributing to articles, vandalism reversion and non compliant article deletion. Take part in deciding whats to be done with them (xFDs, AN, AIV, UAA), and leave the enforcing to us for the time being. Once you gain enough experience, I am sure you will qualify then. Good luck. --soum 08:44, 9 June == 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou for forgiving me dude--Tdjzcsdrpf 00:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Help

Hey, can you help me to put a picture on a page(Chester Middle School)

--Tdjzcsdrpf 00:46, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:Gnome Week

Sure

Thanks for the invite to Gnome week, I'll try to participate. Thanks for all the tips--Tdjzcsdrpf 22:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey

Can you give me a simplified version of adding pictures--Tdjzcsdrpf 22:07, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

I thourght I was reverting vandalism from that page sorry Genda change help us 14:45, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Your Welcome

Any time buddy. MaximusNukeage 17:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Tahnks for the simplified version. It makes more sense.--Tdjzcsdrpf 19:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Dude thanks for the recognition on your home page. Can you help me do up my page like yours. Hope you had a good Wikibreak!--Tdjzcsdrpf 19:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Your page

Hey, I noticed that on your user page you wrote "My Veiwpoints". I corrected it "..Viewpoints". If it was supposed to be like that I'm sorry --Tdjzcsdrpf 20:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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