User talk:Para/2008-08-08

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Para/2008-08-08! I'm Celestianpower. I noticed that you were new and/or have yet to receive any messages so I just thought I'd pop in to say "hello". Hello. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it's so big but we won't bite so Be Bold and get what you know down in microchips! If you do make a mistake, that's fine, we'll assume good faith and just correct you: it'll take a few seconds maximum! Here, however, are a few links to get you started:

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Please stop adding joke pictures to articles

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Animal communication. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Pete.Hurd 04:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why should an encyclopedia be done with such a serious mind? Pictures in articles make them much nicer to read, and everything I have added are on topic. Am I alone with the view that Wikipedia is different from conventional encyclopedias? --para 04:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dupes tool thumbnails

OK, should work with thumbnails now. Note that the script itself is slow because it has to copy images over the web. --Magnus Manske 16:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

coord & display preferences.

Please read the documentation for {{coord}}, as I asked you to do before your last revert. The template displays coordinates differently (DMS or decimal) depending in the user's preferences, as expressed via changes to their monobook.css. Also, with regard to usage, please note that the editor you cite says that they stopped counting at 5,000 - that's not the full figure. Andy Mabbett 10:06, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this note, your edits did not make it obvious you were talking about CSS. Out of the 4,448,000 registered users we have (from Special:Statistics), only 2,810 monobook.css files exist in the wiki (according to the month old toolserver database). --Para 10:39, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought "please read its documentation", where you will find a "display" subheading, was sufficient. In any case, you've just reverted for a fourth time, You might like to revert yourself, before someone WP:3RR you. Andy Mabbett 10:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If anything should be reverted, it's to revision 119222782. I am surprised no one noticed your attempt to change site wide policies earlier. A big change like that needs months of preparation from when the technical side is acceptable, you can't just do it overnight. --Para 11:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't attempted to change any "site wide policies"; nor can I see what that has to do with 3RR. Andy Mabbett 11:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Combining back information that you deleted and reverting based on bare facts is just editing, not edit warring. It might have been better on the talk page, but your single handed attempt to change site wide policies had to go as soon as possible. What was it based on? How many people use a microformat supporting browser compared to the number of people using Google Earth for example? Unfortunately I can't give numbers, but the results of a web search for the Wikipedia geo microformat show much less interest than the results for Wikipedia in Google Earth. You simply can not deprecate a template over another that you happen to have a personal preference for. --Para 12:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to reply to all the red herrings and straw men in your comments; but I haven't attempted to change any site wide policies. You, though, have breached 3RR and I have given you a friendly warning of that. Andy Mabbett 12:29, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Since the rule is intended to prevent edit warring, reverts which are clearly not such will not breach the rule." The style guide now lists the available templates objectively based on verifiable facts. Community consensus on the preference issue remains to be seen, but looking at the discussion so far it seems that people would prefer the old templates. --Para 14:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The_Anomebot

The_Anomebot is now adding coord - see The_Anomebot contribs (since 20 May - it was coor title d before that). The Mab-bot is adding coord to info boxes eg here. This all seems a little premature. -- roundhouse 00:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and it's sad to see information being hidden like that, but also too much work to start fighting for single articles. When the community isn't well-informed or interested enough to comment on the problem, I don't know how to make these people stop. --Para 08:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No information is being "hidden". New information is being added to Wikipedia. If the community isn't well informed, perhaps it's because of disinformation like that. Andy Mabbett 08:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anomebot's additions in this unsupported format are unfortunate, but still alright, since the data has never been on the English Wikipedia before. What you're doing though, as has been said repeatedly, by converting uses of supported templates into a non-supported one and making that information inaccessible for those who rely on the standard templates being used, is just that, hiding information. If you're not sure that the coordinates in your preferred format can be used by others, converting data to it despite numerous complaints is disruptive, and you should stop doing it until the community agrees with you. --Para 18:32, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The coord template is not unsupported. No information is being "hidden". No information is being made "inaccessible". Please stop spreading disinformation. Andy Mabbett 18:48, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The Mab-bot" - That's unacceptable. Kindly mind you tone. Andy Mabbett 08:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]