User talk:Harryboyles/Archive 1 (Issues)

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Nobody lives in a perfect world. From time to time, people have issues with the way other people work. I'm no exception. Over time people have has issues with me and I've done my best to help solve them peacefully. If you have an issue, bring it up with me on my talk page and I'll do my best to sort it out.

Harryboyles

This is an archive. Please do not edit it.

Please add any new comments to my talk page

Archives

Complete Archive		Summarised Archive (2006)
Archive 1	January 1, 2006 - August 10, 2006	Congratulations	Mistakes
Archive 2	August 11, 2006 - December 31, 2006	Suggestions	Issues
Archive 3	January 1, 2007 - June 13, 2007
Archive 4	June 2007 - June 2013
Archive 5	June 2013 - December 2021

Applicaton Firewall

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Application firewall, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material.

This article appears to be a direct copy from http://sfasoft.com/kb/Application_firewall. As a copyright violation, Application firewall appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Application firewall has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Application firewall. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Application firewall, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words.

Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 04:58, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from Application firewall talk page

I looked at the site and it appears that the page in dispute is actually a copy of the Wikipedia article. After some digging I came over this page on their site saying that their knowledge base articles came from Wikipedia:

"Knowledge base articles are obtained from Wikipedia, a Wikimedia Foundation project. The text is under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (Copyrights)."

So according to this I believe this article does not breach copyright laws Harryboyles 03:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that; I didn't notice the SFASoft site was taking the article from here. I Googled for a phrase in the article because it seems so like a copyvio due to the tone - it reads just like a lecture or presentation. It doesn't feel like an original work. AUTiger ʃ ^talk/_work 04:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: CityRail trains

Why was CityRail trains labelled as a copyright violation. JROBBO moved the content from the CityRail article and rewrote the content to make it more readable. Harryboyles 08:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It obviously looked like a copy/paste from a website somewhere. If it wasn't, the fact that it had rarely-used fonts on this site made it look like a copy/pasted copyvio. Sorry. --Shultz IV 08:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of duplicate word using AWB

This issue came up with three separate editors, soon after I began using AutoWikiBrowser. Stude62 first brought up the issue at 19:27, 28 April 2006 (UTC). Jmabel also brought it up at 21:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC), a while after the following discussion and clarification was made. [reply]

Hi - I've just reverted your "corrections" of my user page and talk archive, which changed grammatical sentences into non-grammatical ones. The trouble with automatically replacing duplicate words is that that can cause problems when the places where double words are are written that way deliberately (FWIW, the sentences changed read "The [New Zealand maps] showing where [places] are are mostly my work." and "[some images aren't there. Those] that are are the coats of arms of local authorities." :) Grutness...wha? 12:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you correcting errors on people's talk pages? It's not really a big deal, but I think you should leave people's comments alone, errors and all. Pfalstad 12:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was a user page, not a talk page (my mistake) - but the archive was a talk page archive. In any case, the "corrections" weren't. Grutness...wha? 12:16, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that this issue has come up on two occasions (see above) suggests to me that there is some misunderstanding and divided opinions as to whether it is acceptable to correct grammatical errors in talk pages (although in this case it was a mistake on my behalf and I accept that. Yet to me it still reads badly in a way. Perhaps a comma to separate the parts so it does sound clearer). I believe that simple grammatical errors should be removed for grammar and readability reasons. I do not wish to change the meaning of any contributions that anyone has made as they are all valuable (except blatant attacks that aren't justified). If there is a general consensus by the Wikipedia community that archives should be left alone then I will accept that view. I do believe this is an issue that needs to be discussed so I can clarify it for myself. Harryboyles 13:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I want to ditto these other concerns. WP:AWB is very clear that it shouldn't be used for making trivial changes to non-articles. It doesn't really matter if there is a slight misspelling or grammatical error on a talk page. Each time you commit a change you are saving the entire text of the article as a new entry in the database, which is an amount of overhead that simply isn't worth it for fixing miscellaneous errors in old text on talk pages that no one really cares about. Previous users have lost their AWB-editing privileges for using AWB to make trivial edits on non-article pages. AWB has a feature to trim all non-article pages from the list it is currently working on. I suggest that you use it. Thank you. --Cyde Weys 16:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for clarifying the reasons for me. I was only trying to do my bit for Wikipedia and I didn't know what others thought. By the way, what is the option to exclude talk pages from the list in AWB Harryboyles 06:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes from The Simpsons

Thank you for joining The Simpsons WikiProject. I can see that you have been copying stuff from Wikipedia to Wikiquote. Wikiquote however is different from Wikipedia and has its own set of rules, which we should follow. I've been asking the experienced editors how the rules are at Wikiquote:Wikiquote:Village_pump#Quotes_from_The_Simpsons. I suggest that you read or join the discussion. When we get all the answers we need we can start a coordinated effort. --Maitch 18:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JROBBO's Archive

Please don't delete or black your talk page. Other people's comments are very valuable. If you want to keep your talk page clear, you can archive your talk page and include a link on the talk page. But please dont't delete portions of your talk page. Harryboyles 08:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I delete my archive because I don't want it coming up on Google searches. If there is any way to stop that, I'm happy to leave it there. Until then I'll keep deleting it periodically. The history is still available so anyone who wants to search it can use that. BTW, I actually did archive the last bit I did - I just haven't linked to it yet. (JROBBO 08:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Morisset Train Station

Just wondering why you have deleted all the station info and replaced it with a link, if you are going to do this it would make sense to change every stations info box. This would make it all uniform across the stations. Even by saying this I don't think it is a good idea to substitute it with a link. Anyhow discuss on the Morisset Staion talk page. Woldo 08:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Woldo on this one. The photograph is low quality and is also has a question over its usage so preferably should not be used. Please also see my remarks on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sydney#Railway station userbox header redesign for why I have reverted the template. MyNam e IsNotBob 09:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:JROBBO

Why'd you revert my post on JROBBO's talk page. While I realised that what I was saying was a mistake on my part because I misinterpreted JROBBO's edit, that's no reason to revert it. "Please do not compromise the integrity of pages." Talk pages don't have to be as rigid in their quality and integrity because they are talk pages, not articles. Harryboyles 08:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't mean to revert that. I didn't think it had done it. --JD[^{don't talk}|_email] 08:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page

The user help page for talk pages says that deletion of the talk page, once issues are no longer relevant, is a valid measure. I would prefer to keep it blank than to archive it. (JROBBO 13:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC))[reply]

DB-Userbox template

The reason is that the last time I tried to create a template with a speedy deletion notice, it was deleted somehow. Thank you for your comment nonetheless. Perhaps I will try to make the notice look like a userbox. PoccilScript 09:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please take a look at the template now. Respond at my talk page. PoccilScript 10:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userboxes

Harryboyles, i see that you changed some GUS userboxes on my page to normal userboxes. Please don't, i want GUS userboxes (though i don't no why). And if you looked close, i already have those userboxes, so you made it so that i have about 4 or 5 different userboxes twice! I already have a problem with bots doing the same thing. In the future, please do not change them. Thank you.Qmwnebrvtcyxuz 18:37, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Illawarra Line

I'm wondering where you got your source for the "official" name of the CityRail blue line - according to here and here and [1] on the official site it's "Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra" not the other way round... just puzzled - it's not the first time CityRail has it mixed up though (see Talk:Regents Street railway station, Sydney). JROBBO 12:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mt Druitt station

(revert vandalism) check information first i live local. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.173.102 (talk • contribs) 13:42, November 19, 2006

check before revert

not all information can be looked up on the internet check other forms before reverting infomation. some infomation is not common on the transport network inculding taxi stands —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.173.102 (talk • contribs) 15:08, November 19, 2006

All stations

Hi - thanks for the infobox upgrades, but can you please list stopping train type as "all stations", not "all stops" - that's the way CityRail list them on their announcement boards. "Limited stops" is correct though. JROBBO 12:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'll remember that from now on. The taxi rank at Parramatta station was added by an IP address along with other incorrect information. It was left there as a "compromise" as I think my actions in reverting the incorrect information may have seem as being a bit of a stand-off, even though I made attempts at explaining what the policies are here. Harryboyles 12:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't worry about him - I think you did the right thing. If people want to contribute and put stuff like that on WP, they should, as you say, back it up with verifiable sources. JROBBO 23:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]