User talk:Raul654

Muriel re: Helen Lovejoy

Dear Raul, i removed this ***I didn't know Helen Lovejoy read Wikipedia! Glad to meet you. Anyway, you can consider it all part of their "liberal" arts education. →Raul654 16:57, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC) from featured articles candidates. I like both the Simpsons and your sense of humour, but you either make an opinion, or leave it. I think you shouldnt make fun at other peoples comments. Anyway thinking about children here is important, otherwise we'll have the Main Page of Wikipedia blocked by the parental guidance blocks some people use and we dont want that, or do we? Cheers, Muriel 15:02, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Meet the Feebles

Is it Madame Bovile or Madame Bovine in Meet the Feebles? I think I can guess but I haven't seen the video (looks hilarious) and I don't want to put guesses into the article. Or is it even correct as stands? Looks like a typo to me. Andrewa 16:47, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You are correct, sir. I just went over there and fixed it, as well as a few other typos. →Raul654 17:46, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)

Glen Quagmire - fair use

Re: Image:Glen quagmire.jpg Please note that in on the image page (I think there's a {{msg:fairuse}}) and it'll all be solved. --zandperl 19:48, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Done. →Raul654 19:52, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

No, I just found it on the web somewhere. It's a pretty uninformative photo anyway. Adam 03:12, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

What are you doing?

What are you doing? silsor 03:46, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

What do you mean? If you are talking about reverting Plautus on the RFC, it's because he is (yet again) try to move others' comments around. He's been warned about this, and I'm making sure it stops. →Raul654 03:47, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

I was wondering about that, couldn't tell what was going on. silsor 03:48, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

I am entirely aware of these developments... indeed, see Wikipedia:Block log... :-) Evercat 01:36, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Blushes

Wow, there Mark. Thanks, but I guess I was just kidding on The Anome’s talk page, really. I meant that I am 15 (the youngest possible WP sysop ever??) and have only been here <4 months. Thanks again, Ryan and/or Mero 04:07, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Five months, that'll be April. I'm giving you the "yeah, sure" now, but don't actually put up nomination until April 11th. --Ryan and/or Mero 05:15, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

MOS

Well, Raul thank you for your concerns about style regarding images and such. And since this month two years will pass since I am participating in this great project I guess I've learned some style of it. But times are changing as they say and styles are changing too. When I last read about style I can remeber the page Wikipedia:How to edit a page and <divs... are still there. I personally do not like current STYLE with automated generation of images in a plain square, but that is not an issue here. I've checked a page about MOS and I can't find restrictions of HTML tags inhere. Am I missing something here again? And another thing I would like to say is that images have to have some description and data with them. In this style this is almost impossible. You've erased the information about (perhaps the most famous) picture of Marshal Tito, when every German soldier had it during the Raid on Drvar, when German »Wehrmacht« so desperately tried to eliminate him. This place should be of some (and interesting) informative character too, right? And since English is not my mother's tongue I spend much longer time writting this, instead of doing something more valuable. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 22:34, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

See, for instance page on Lenticular galaxy and Arpingstone's image addition on 2003-11-21. I am not alone. :-) --XJamRastafire 22:42, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Another example of using HTML tags on Bolshevik. :-) Perhaps you should warn those authors too... --XJamRastafire 23:08, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

What you've been talking about images can be found at Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. There are still no restrictions on using HTML tags. --XJamRastafire 22:19, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Raul654/Plautus

Hi,

Just to let you know.

I'm out of the Raul654\Plautus page, at least for now. Arno 09:49, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

OK, that's perfectly understandable - I don't want to think about Plautus much either (especially since I consider it emminently unlikely that he will be unbanned) but I want to make absolutely sure that it comes to pass. Thanks for all your help - it's greatly appreciated. →Raul654 09:59, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)

If you could post a brief statement to Wikipedia:Plautus satire vs Raul654, that'd be appreciated. Martin 21:56, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Done. →Raul654 22:13, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)

Jon Postel image

Hi Raul, what's the license of the image on Jon Postel? I'd like to use it in de: and we don't accept Fair Use over there. -- TomK32 14:14, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Tom: I got the image from: http://www.postel.org/remembrances/los-angeles.jpg. I was fairly new to Wikipedia when I uploaded it, so I didn't check the copyright status fastidiously. I've taken the liberty of emailing the webmaster for postel.org to ask permission to GFDL it. We'll see what (s)he says. →Raul654 17:51, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

1st and 14th amendment cases

Don't forget to direct him to the constitutional law center at Findlaw.com. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:36, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Duly noted. →Raul654 18:41, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

I noticed that you left a message at User talk:12.65.0.80 about their vandalism. An individual from 12.65.0.0/16 (mis.prserv.net) has been vandalizing wikipedia since about April 2003. Their activity tends to include vandalizing many articles in a short period of time. Areas of interest include LeAnn Rimes, Stillbirth, and Testprog. Maximus Rex 07:26, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I was thinking about giving a warning first, but the situtation looked pretty clear-cut in this case. →Raul654 07:29, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)

Block of Michael

What did you find funny about it? Pakaran . 01:10, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well, I could have just typed infinite, but I figured that in ten years Michael might grow up :) Pakaran . 01:17, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

And call me stupid, but I still don't "get it." Pakaran . 01:21, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, thanks for your message and your support. Isomorphic 07:04, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Admin Request

You seem to have accidentally voted for me twice on the admin requests page! David Newton 14:06, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Whoops. Duly removed. Thanks for the tip. →Raul654 14:09, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

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Why are you reverting my edits to talk pages? reddice told me it was spam-like, so I figured I should revert it. Why would you revert me? Sam Spade 19:26, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Raul, so you know, Martin (MyRedDice) asked Sam to stop crossposting. Sam's removal of commentary is him attempting to cut identical copies of messages he posted all over the place. I think it's acceptable in this case, though I understand why you probably thought Sam was trying to hide comments. Jwrosenzweig 19:29, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Look, I was trying to ask for help. Martin seemed to think I was doing it in an annoying way. I tried to take care of it, and I get reverted. I am allowed to "hide" my own comments arn't I? How about if you give me a hand, or a scrap of advice, rather than reverting me w/o discussion? Sam Spade 19:36, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I came here in similar puzzlement to Sam, to be honest. I was glad to see Sam fixing the "mess" that he had created, and I'd have thought we would want to support that kind of responsible behaviour, not revert it. Martin 23:05, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry. James is correct - I misundertood Sam's intentions. Sam, I'm sorry. →Raul654 23:09, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

Ahh well, no harm done. Glad we've got that cleaned up, in both senses of the word. :) Martin 23:11, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

PS - I would have replied earlier but I was out all day. →Raul654 23:15, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, and sorry for being grumpy. This subject has been rather stressful for me, and so I was quite a bit more agravated than I might otherwise have been. Thanks again, Sam Spade 23:22, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

DSHIT

Yes, I'll be there for a while at least, if not necessarilly for the whole tournament. See you then, most likely. Isomorphic 06:00, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Y Tu Mama Tambien

What's the difference between this movie and actual pornography? Is it the fact that most of the movie has nonsexual content in it? 204.52.215.107 23:25, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well, "pornographic" movie means a movie whose primary purpose is to entertain by showing erotic images. Other movies actually tell a story. Y Tu Mama Tambien tells a story (and a pretty good one, IMHO). Therefore, it's not a porno movie, it just has pornographic content. →Raul654 04:22, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

Optim

Why did you remove Optim from Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians? Did he change his mind? Isomorphic 17:54, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I didn't - I moved it into the proper alphabetical place →Raul654 17:55, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)

Oh, ok. Never mind. Isomorphic 19:05, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dagestan

Take a look at my comments on Wikipedia:Protected page. It was not just a case of vandalism. Isomorphic 02:01, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Eagle Nebula

I've noticed your changes to my NASA Eagle nebula pic and can't see why.

Firstly, your caption replacement is wrong, it says Eagle Nebula which is incorrect, it's only a small (but very interesting) part of the nebula.

Secondly, picture explanations should not go in the main text . What if that pic were removed or changed? The pic text might not be removed or changed. Much better to keep caption stuff with the caption.

Thirdly, it was impolite to delete my hard work without explaining why to me (my pic searches take a very long time and I choose pics very carefully). I know that the pic is efectively the same as mine but all reference to my hard work on the Image Description page has gone and it looks as thought you did all the work which you didn't. Please do not revert me back to your version, Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone 10:09, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A few things:

You have a point that my replacement was narrower. In hindsight, I should have used the larger (700 px) picture in Wiki thumbnail form.
The picture you were using/are using (Media:Eagle.column1.arp.750pix.jpg)should have the caption at the bottom of the picture (Star Clouds .... Nasa) cropped out and replaced on the picture page itself. It is the purpose of the picture page to house the picture information, not the picture itself.
Long captions are bad. They're harder to read, and tend to get overlooked. Relavant information like that should be included in the article, on the picture page, or (preferably) both; not in a long caption.
I'm sorry if you took it personally that I changed the picture - there was nothing personal in it. However, the Wikipedia guidelines specifically say to be bold. If I make changes and someone asks me why, I'm very happy to explain my reasoning. However, I don't intend to ask permission before I make edits - that goes against the whole idea of being bold.
Since you feel strongly about the subject, I don't intend to revert. However, I would encourage you to think about what I said about captions. The manual of style might be helpful in deciding how to go.

→Raul654 18:07, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

fire department notice

We're having trouble tonight with a vandal, see Wikipedia:Block log. Some suspect it is the same user as User:Bird....if you have any way to help us stop this individual, it would be much appreciated. We are in IRC. Kingturtle 08:24, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Random act of appreciation

And since your name popped up on village pump, and since I seem to encounter your name a lot, and since in my short time here I've started to divide folks into "wikipedians I'll like working with" and "those I'll try to avoid," I wanted to let you know that you're pretty solidly in my first list. Thanks! Elf 03:52, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words - they are appreciated. Working with you has been a positive experience for me, as well. →Raul654 05:14, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)

Reverting

Never revert a page unless vandalism has occured. If you cant be bothered to read and correct the new version then you dont deseve to make a change. Bensaccount 23:06, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Nuclear Weapons

See talk: Nuclear weapon

The IP Vandal

Well that was weird.... vandalizing pages with "**** Islam" is one thing, but writing that on your userpage... =X ugen64 23:53, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)

That's how I tell I'm doing a good job (IE, it ain't the first time this week) :) →Raul654 23:55, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)

Damn, if you're getting rich off Wikipedia, please tell all of us how you're doing it. RickK | Talk 00:08, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Rrrright... ugen64 00:09, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

IP range blocking

Please read http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_blocks . Thanks. Maximus Rex , 02:09, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. So for my info, I would want to block 212.185.251.36/24, right? →Raul654 02:11, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

212.185.251.36/24 would block 212.185.251.0 to 212.185.251.255 I don't know what range you want to block. Don't do any range blocking unless you really know what you're doing. I don't. Maximus Rex , 02:20, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I read that because I wanted to block a range, and it was all Greek. Can somebody write that so that somebody can understand it? RickK | Talk 02:21, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ok, that's exactly the range I would want to block. Right now, I'm just sitting on the recent changes. If that vandal pops up again, I'm going to take ou the range. →Raul654 02:22, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

Pic links

Uh... I just broke (sorry), and subsequently fixed (phew!) your pic link on the Copyvio page. The secret for avoiding the use of external links, by the way, is the humble colon artfully placed before the word "Image": [[:Image:HighlandCow.01.jpg]] gives you Image:HighlandCow.01.jpg. HTH, as they say. –Hajor 04:42, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the good work and the tip. I appreciate it ;) →Raul654 04:46, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)