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Jimboothfan69

Thanks for the quick reverting -- you're very fast on the draw! bikeable (talk) 06:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NP, I'm sure you'd do the same for me! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 06:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IMAGES

How do you paste an image onto your user page? Jim16 07:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You can't but you can link to an image with [[Image:imagefilename.png]] from Images that are [[Special:Upload|uploaded] already. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 07:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your Welcome

Yea I'm already in it. LOL. Cobra 04:37, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I think I'll get on now actually. Cobra 04:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Thank you for undoing the vandalism to my user page.Mike 05:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anytime! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 05:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User: Turboboom and an Edit war

I saw you warned TurboBoom on his talk page earlier about the 3RR and his reverts of a section on the Xbox 360 page. I believe he made another account "GorbaLor" and is using it to get around the 3rr, on both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. If you look at the history on both pages GorbaLor (new user) just simply reverts to what TurboBoom had. On the Xbox 360 page it was blatant vandalism where he was blanking a section and when asked to move it to where he believes it to go he blanks it and says "you move it". Now it's been blanked again without any comment on the discussion page section I made for commenting on the issue, and I don't think i'm allowed to add it back due to 3rr.

I'm kinda new here and really don't know how to deal with stuff like this so i'm posting a not here since I saw you looked at him. If I need to post to someone else or somewhere else please let me know :) Thanks SeraphimXI 07:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See the reply on your user talk. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU

Arigato :p Seraphim 00:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oscar images

Hey, I just wanted to ask your opinion about something. 81.240.202.11 and Special:Contributions/NWill (the same user, I'm sure) has been making some useful additions to List of Academy Award winning movies, but this user has also added an to many pages in a format that doesn't seem to be useful to pages such as Pulp Fiction, Kramer vs. Kramer, and L.A. Confidential. The image is set at the top of the page, is left-aligned, and is not explained, but beside that, there are categories to describe things like that. I left a note on his talk page, and he has since stopped adding the images, but he also hasn't responded, so I'm asking you for your opinion on the matter. Thanks, JHMM13 (T | C) 20:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This doesn't look usefl for anything at all, and seems to disrupt the pages. Buutttttttttttt......It may have some use:BUt it would require some work, and maybe this person would be up for it, I'm thinking an Oscar award winning movies sub category of oscars by year, and include something like this as part of a non-intrusive navigational type tempalte, probally best located in the same place (I'd suggest the bottom center) of the articles. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 04:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeh, that's what I thought. So do you think I should revert all these pages, then? I will leave a message for the user involved (quoting what you say, if that's ok), and I'll guide him to categories and other such things. JHMM13 (T | C)

04:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think removing these images seems fine, but I wouldn't get in to an edit war about it, it will probally become apparent, as many other editors of these popular will probally remove them as well. It would be polite, but not required, to message them about removing their contributions, be careful not to remove any other contributions in between (might want to just edit it off rather then trying to revert per se). You are more then welcome to link to what I posted above, but I am in no way an authority of content; but am an outside view on these. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 04:40, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information, and I wouldn't get in an edit war about anything, I don't think I've done that in the past :-). I usually just make a revert if it seems clear, and then if it is debated, I discuss the issue. Then sometimes, like in this issue, I ask for a third opinion from a user I know to be respectable. Thanks again, and I'll drop you a line if anything strange happens. JHMM13 (T | C)

04:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No prob, If it comes to an RFC let me know, I'll copy my 'Third Party Opinion' up. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 04:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Yup...very good idea. I'm not going to put the notice on the page though - I'm going to be patient and stick around for the next 15 minutes and remove it. --HappyCamper 03:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem...I should thank you too - for your diligent work on Wikipedia. Glad to see someone who knows how to keep on top of things :-) Here's a WikiThanks for your hard work well done! --HappyCamper 04:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shrimp_on_the_Barby

He did it again.... I have reverted his changes to Australia Fosnez 5:31, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I've listed them all on WP:AIV xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 05:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User page vandalism

Thanks for rescuing my user page! Cyberevil 04:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Hey, Xaos. Did you get my email? I don't really want to discuss its contents on Wikipedia in case you decline, but if you received it, develop a code, then write on my talk page in the code about the email, and proceed to graduate from spy school :-). Anyway, a few other things I wanted to say. Since you have about 10,000 categories on your user page already, what's 10,001 going to pain you? Check this one out: Category:Wikipedians with 4000-10,000 edits. Also, who do I have to kill to get you to make me one of those top-o-the-page menus? JHMM13 (T | C) 05:10, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the email. Yeh, can I have User, Talk, Contributions, Email in that order? Thanks a lot, JHMM13 (T | C)

05:30, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I copied it over, and left some brief notes, if it causes you any issues jsut remove the top line of your talk and user page. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 05:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks! I owe you one :-D. JHMM13 (T | C)

05:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rfa thanks

Hello Xaosflux. Thank you for supporting my Rfa! :) I will try my best to be a good administrator. Please ask me if you need any help. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 17:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding the page Oceanic Flight 815

Hello I have cleaned up the page and after asking the original deletion notifier about my changes he viewed it and removed his deletion request and suggested a move. I am hoping to move the page to "Oceanic Airlines flight 815" as I think it is for the best yet I am a new member so I can not do so. Do you think you could take another look at "Oceanic flight 815" and see if you think I have improved the article enough for it to stay. User:Jezabelda

Thanks for the note, I've updated my comments on the AfD to Speedy Keep. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 05:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User page - menu

Hello, your doing some quality patrolling there, I apologize for distracting you with this message; but your User page is ... um, aethetically challeged. :"D If you'd like I can try to rearrange it for you. Less important, but a personal project of mine is to keep Wikipedia 800x600 compliant, your menu is too wide for my ol' monitor. Anyway, keep up the great work! - Roy Boy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the offer. I have put some time in to my userpage, but I'm not married to it. I generally have my resolution set to 1280x1024 or higher, just switched down to 800x600 and cringed! I just copied my page over to My Sanbox 4 feel free to suggest any changes in there, then leave me a talk note. Thanks! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 06:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Many thanks for your support on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me. --Alf ^melmac 09:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Pgk's RFA

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (80/3/0), so I am now an administrator. I was flattered by the level of support and the comments, so I'm under real pressure not to disappoint, thus if you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as an admin then please leave me a note --pgk^(talk) 10:08, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to RfA question.

Thanks very much for your vote of support! I'm sorry about the delay in replying to your question, this weekend has been a bad one for me - traveling 800 miles down the east coast with 4 dogs, 2 cats, and an entire car full of stuff to pack and unpack. At least I'm done now. Whew. - Trysha ^(talk) 05:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please use {{rail-stub}}, not {{train-stub}}

Please use {{rail-stub}}, not {{train-stub}}. The latter is a redirect to {{rail-stub}}. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 11:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/JzG

I note your comments and (ever one to learn from my mistakes) have added the "force edit summary" js to my monobook.js, to stop me forgetting in future. Thanks for the heads-up. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] RfA! 13:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I wasn't going to give you an Oppose for it, as your other edits seemed ok though. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 00:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And as your edit summaries have now greatly improved, I changed to support, keep up the good work! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 17:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed with godmode-light

Hello Xaos, as you are one of the most prolific on RC Patrol, I thought I'd ask you for help: I am trying to get the above script by Sam Hocevar to work. But everytime I try to revert something, I get "Getting article history (/w/index.php?title=Sam_Allardyce&action=history&limit=50)... Failed to parse XML data returned by the server. Hint: try to disable both "Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles (JavaScript)" and "Edit pages on double click (JavaScript)" in your editing preferences until a proper fix is found." Of course, I have disabled those two JS functions, but to no avail. And I am using the latest version of the script. So what goes wrong? Could it be my browser? I am using Firefox 1.5. Thanks! Cyberevil 19:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply on your talk. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 00:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Xaos. Well, still doesn't work. Apparently it is the browser. So I either have to wait for Sam to come up with something or go back to FF 1.0.7 :( But thanks for your help! Cyberevil 02:11, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correction, I got it to work. I was probably too excited to flush the browser cache after I tried your version of the script. I think I'm going to cry now :) Cyberevil 02:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Wow, in almost three years, RC patrol and 10,000 edits, this is my first ever barnstar. That's one item I can strike from my set of Wikipedia stories. Thanks! -- Fuzheado | Talk 06:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was sure you had them hid away somewhere, but not even in your talk archives! Should have given you the 'missing barnstar' one! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 06:21, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks from rogerdRfA thanks from rogerd

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Hi Xaosflux- Thanks for your support on my RfA. I appreciate the kind words that you used in your comments. If I can be of any service please leave me a message --rogerd 01:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]