User talk:Crazytales/Archive6

Hey

Hi. Please do not change my sig in discussion pages. Thanks :) INFORMA TION CENTE R© ^Talk ^Contribs 05:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting WP:SYPOTP: "Very long signatures that contain a lot of code ("markup") make it difficult for some editors to read talk pages while editing." "Long signatures with a lot of HTML/wiki markup make page editing more difficult." I consider your sig to be very long. In my full width edit window on a 1024x768 monitor, it takes up 11 lines, which is 11 times larger than the preceding comment. This is pretty distracting when I'm trying to edit pages. It's 760 bytes long. Note also that my sig only takes up 2 lines in the edit window. ~Crazytales (talk) 13:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Computer helphep

I'm planning on installing for my grandmother an adapter for her new DSL cable. Any thoughts on the matter of deconstructing her Dell and installing the adapter? --tennis man sign here! 00:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

My RfA

Thank you for nominating me for RfA! It succeeded, and I now have The Tools – which I'm planning to use as wisely as I possibly can. I hope I will be worth your confidence. Thanks again! :-) –mysid ☎ 20:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confident. Would I have nominated you if I weren't? ~Crazytales (IP locations!) 23:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wanna give you a prize

Hi, I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.

I've seen you've created some articles about Spanish culture.

Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.

I, Javitomad, give you this Barnstar for contributing for a better Spanish-English Wikipedia. January 23rd, 2007.

(copy and paste this in your user page.)

Faithfully. Javitomad (...tell me...)

Thanks! May I ask which article you noticed I had created? ~Crazytales (IP locations!) 18:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IP locations

I figured this might be interesting to you. --Brad Beattie (talk) 17:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Re: User talk:Dev920

Users may do what they wish with their own talk pages. They are not required to keep anything there if they do not want to (an exception existing for vandals). While the edit summary was slightly incivil, restoring the comments was not appropriate. In addition, I encourage you to read this essay, as you might find it helpful. Regards, —bbatsell ¿? 02:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You know, you could have just slapped me with a {{templater}}. But seriously, point taken. Templating Dev may have been seen as a bit unfeeling. ~Crazytales (IP locations!) 02:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why I use a proxy

I use it for security. Wikipedia doesn't prohibit editing with an account via a proxy. They just don't allow editing directly through the proxy. --Azer Red Si? 00:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I don't edit through a proxy and tend to view proxy usage dimly as it's a nice way to bypass account blocks. Sorry about that. ~Crazytales (IP locations!) 12:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Random smiley

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
originated by Pedia-I
(Explanation and Disclaimer)

Jerry lavoie 03:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! ~Crazytales (IP locations!) 13:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Itunes47SS.PNG)

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Editor review

Hi. Could you provide links to your RfA's? It'd help reviewers focus on any problem areas, and you could also provide a summary of what you've done since those RFA's to correct the problems. Xiner (talk, email) 17:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. ~Crazytales (AAAA and ER!) 21:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for Quick Action

Thanks for Quick Action [[1]]. cheers Khalidkhoso 22:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. ~Crazytales (AAAA and ER!) 22:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your photograph Hopes for the F C Cen.

hey Chris, I noticed that you had planned to take pix of both Whiting and Longway (articles I wrote! yay!). That makes me happy, and what I was hoping to do was get a good night shot of Whiting for the lights and any shot of Longway. The only problem is, I have not been down to the Cultural Cen. recently. Well, randomly, I said this all. Anyway, I just thought that a night shot would be best for Whiting due to its lights. What do you think? --tennis man ^{sign here!} 04:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Uikipedians

Hello Crazytales,

Effeietsanders seems to be inactive on nl:wiki for the moment, regretfully. Re your question to him: the oldest literary fragment in Dutch is hebban olla uogala nestas bigunnan hinase hic enda thu / wat unbidan wi?, meaning "All birds [fowl] have started nests, except for you and me; what are we waiting for?" The user page varies on this, replacing uagala with uiki. Best regards, Bessel Dekker 18:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. ~Crazytales (AAAA and ER!) 18:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you me?

We're exactly the same. Man.

Anyway, about that Soms fellow.

Tell him that Flameviper says "I fear you not, only God Himself".

~ Flame vip e r ^{Who's a Peach?} 18:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okaaaaay.... Anyway, I think your banning in the channels was justified, but not the termination of service from your ISP. ~Crazytales (AAAA and ER!) 18:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes. And besides, my TV and my phone are connected to the cable. If those bastards cut me, there's going to be hell to pay. ~ Flame vip e r ^{Who's a Peach?} 18:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oddity

Is it odd that, on a student driver car, the license plate began with AGF? I thought that it seemed funny. --tennis man ^{sign here!} 15:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen several AGF license plates. I think AGF is a good policy while driving. ~Crazytales (AAAA and ER!) 01:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just saying Hi

I was just browsing around wikipedia and decided to drop by and say Hi! :-D (PS: I posted on your sandbox's talkpage by mistake. Sorry!) Seraph 00:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC) (forgot to sign...)[reply]

Hi SRF! Where'd you notice my sig? ~Crazytales (talk) 13:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed your sig in one of the Spanish to English translations I was doing. I had a bit of free time so I just browsed around until i ended here. See ya around! Seraph 12:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Your sig

What is wrong with your sig? I see nothing. Plus, are you the Crazytales2 on #wikipedia? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)}^|^HISTORY 19:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I'm the Crazytales2 on #wikipedia. As well as multiple other freenode IRC channels. My sig might be considered inappropriate because my talk page link doesn't say 'talk', it says 'Hasta la Pasta'. Some admins are anal about that. ~Crazytales (Hasta la Pasta!) 21:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IRC

Nice work, it made my day! Crested Penguin 01:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For your work on April 1

Thanks! ~Crazytales, your resident godking (I AM THE AVALANCHE) 01:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your page

Hilarious. ;) Is that onl an April Fools' thing? — $PЯINGrαgђ 21:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. (: ~Crazytales, your resident godking (I AM THE AVALANCHE) 23:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old page?

I see that your old user page was vandalised why not just delete the vandalism and keep using it???

I moved the page when I got my username changed. I did revert the vandalism. It's just a badge of honour to have your userpage vandalised, as that means you're a good enough vandal reverter to piss off the vandal that much. ~Crazytales 01:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mail

Hi. Please check your e-mail. Thanks. Newyorkbrad 03:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied. ~Crazytales 11:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Audio Signpost

I'd be most concerned with you covering the main stories. For other stuff:

WikiWorld- I'd make a brief reference to WikiWorld and this week's topic ("Hodag" this week)
News and notes- I'd do the stories, but not necessarily the "X Wikipedia has 500 articles" stuff, etc.
In the news- Whatever seems important to you.
Features and admins- I'd mention the administrators and featured articles; the rest is optional (and obviously featured pictures would be tough)
Technology report- You could probably ignore anything that you don't deem important.
Arbitration report- Maybe just cover the new cases and closed cases? The rest you could do if you want.

But it's all up to you. As far as licensing goes, there are issues; you'd probably have to license it under the GFDL since that's what the text is licensed as. If you get the audio project going, I might ask contributors if they'd be willing to license their contributions under the CC-BY-SA license. Ral315 » 19:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting back to me about this quickly. Image:En-WPSignpost 2007 04 16.ogg is my effort at this week's edition. I'm covering all the main stories, ITN, News and notes (including milestones), and BRION. (Well, there was no BRION this week, so I didn't have anything to cover.) I'm not doing the TROLL report on orders from ShakespeareFan; I guess it's not relevant to WikiCast. I didn't do WikiWorld this week, since images don't translate well to text. I'll probably do it next week though - referto what it is and where to read it, as well as the topic du semaine. What I'm doing as far as the main stories (and everything else really) is summarising it to about 1/3 size - saves on tedium. With a full Signpost, that means by my seat-of-the-pants judgement it'll take about 20 minutes or thereabouts. I'm also using the Image:Arpeggio.ogg music by Oona Svan, which is CC-BY-SA. So I'm split-licencing the file as CC-BY-SA for the intro music and GFDL for the spoken content from Signpost itself. Again, thanks for getting back to me about the Signpost, and I'd like your input on the audio files. Cheers, ~Crazytales 01:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I'd say that even for WikiCast, if someone's listening to things like the technology report and news and notes, TROLL would be relevant- to me, it's all internal wiki-related news. But that's ShakespeareFan's department, not mine, and I have no problem excluding it as well. I'll try to listen to this week's edition tomorrow or Friday and give more input. Ral315 » 07:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing of typo

Hey, thanks for fixing the typo on my userpage! *Cremepuff 222* 17:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I spelled "of" wrong... XD *Cremepuff 222* 17:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I like to fix typos, even if I do a lot of them myself. (: ~Crazytales 17:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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OPV Request

Hey there, Crazytales. Sorry for the very slow reply, but thank you very much for your offer to help with the WP:OP project. I have absolutely no objection to adding you to the verified users list, so welcome to the team! If you have any questions or need any help, please let me know. Additionally, I have a server-side nmap install running that's available to all OPV users; e-mail me if you would like access to it. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. —Crazytales ^o.o 23:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OP

Hi. Thanks for confirming the open proxy IPs I've listed at WP:OP. You should probably point out that you are not blocking them. I notice you are listing them as confirmed but they are never being blocked - I imagine because people see your icon and think you already blocked them. Just a thought. Thanks! WRK (talk) 21:51, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. It's because I can't block them - I'm not an admin. —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 22:38, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know but admins aren't catching on to that. They're not blocking them. WRK (talk) 23:34, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. I'm going to move the confirmed ones to "block requested" section then. —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 23:45, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OP

Is your email active? Navou 21:56, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 22:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*poke* I sent you one. Navou 22:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reminding me - my Wikipedia email is different from my regular email address. —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 23:47, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee is proud to wish you a very happy birthday.
May all your wishes come true!
Thank you for all of your contributions to this wonderful encyclopedia.
Yours truly,
Eddie 00:21, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday Crazytales!

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.

--RobNS 00:56, 16 June 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Happy birthday! Be happy and enjoy your special day :) All the best, Peacent 01:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Crazytales, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

FROM YOUR FRIEND:

ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 22:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm 15 now, and I have my permit to drive with a parent. Finally....... (Anyway, I got more comments here than on my Myspace. :D —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 21:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Belated! Sorry I missed it Crz-tales. But will these things make it up to you? --tennis man 02:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The best car there is, IMHO
Your own plane!
A boat for you!

Thanks! Although a Volvo 240 is more my style. :D —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 12:25, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UserBox

I undid one of your userboxs, it was redlinked. Hope ya didn't mind. Regards, Navou 03:01, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In vino veritas

You are correct in your translation. At the time, I felt like using a Latin phrase in my signature and that was the phrase I decided on. Captain panda 03:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Diffs at your RfA

What exactly is this about? Miranda is giving you tons of grief over this and some log. Check up, offer rebukes ASAP. --tennis man 04:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was the previous edit that's a problem, and IMO the edit summary there answers the question. G 1 ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 04:52, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Crazytales, could you please explain these edits? Do you know User:^demon such that you know how he would interpret these changes? -- Patleahy 16:13, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've explained them on my RfA talk. I probably shouldn't have assumed that he would take the changes well, he was just doing his job and being a serious admin. My sense of humour goes a little far sometimes; I'll probably stay out of April Fool's stuff if I get the mop. —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 16:19, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for answering me. I had not looked at the talk page. -- Patleahy 16:40, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked user

Since Republicofwiki (talk · contribs) has not been connected with any known blocked user, banned editor or abusive sockpuppet, I do not see any rationale for an indefinite block. Additionally, consensus seems to indicate that we should unblock assuming good faith. Given those facts, I am willing to unblock, despite my suspicion. If you have any substantive objections, please let me know. I will not take any action for 24 hours, to allow time for your response and any further evidence to be presented. Be well! Vassyana 07:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No objections here. —Crazytales ^{(talk) (alt)} 13:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adminship

Congratulations, you are now an administrator! If you haven't already, now is the time look through the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or at the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Warofdreams talk 11:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, CONGRATS! Politics rule 11:56, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations from me too! Regards. Will (aka Wimt) 12:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Crazytales. Enjoy clearing those backlogs. —Anas ^talk? 17:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please accept my congratulations also. Cheers. Keep up the good work.--VS ^talk 13:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Crazytales. I have been wondering where you have been the last five days, and I hope all is well in real life. I hope to see on the admin block soon. :) Nishkid64 (talk) 21:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, come back soon! :) (and congrats again) Majorly (talk) 22:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! (I've been on vacation without internet, and I'm signing in from a public computer at a library. —Crazytales (public computer) ^{(talk) (main)} 15:43, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minari Weyr

Thanks for your note. I'll leave the page protected for the time being, User:Minari disappeared for a bit and then an anonymous editor left a couple of attack sessions on the talk page of Minari Weyr, no coincidence methinks. I'd like to see how it goes, but thanks for the message. The Rambling Man 18:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC) [reply]

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Congratulations

Remember you doubted your admin eligibility by AGFing me? [2]. Seeing that you indeed got your adminship, it shows that when you give the benefit of the doubt, everyone is a winner. I hope you are patient when you feel you must take action and block. Adminship takes a lot of self control and if someone is bothering you, find out why. I know in that situation how tempting it is to paint that person as a "troll" and block them. BuickCenturyDriver 06:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I intend to go easy on the buttons and ask for other admins' opinion in my early days as an administrator. —Crazytales !! 15:34, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Late congrats on getting the mop. Miranda 02:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]