User talk:Raul654

For your tireless work in making Wikipedia better, for keeping Template:Feature up-to-date, for doing the grunt work of cleaning up Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, for mediating in disputes, for adding lots of really nice pictures, and for still finding the time to work on articles! In a few months you've already become a highly valued member of the community. Stay with us and don't burn out, please. --Eloquence Apr 10, 2004

Talk-page archive

Congrats

You made arbcom. Woohoo! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations on your reelection, my friend. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 08:16, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you both very much. →Raul654 11:13, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Raul -- I have no idea how you can have endured the last six months and come back for more. :-) Congratulations on your reelection, and hey, get this batch of rookies in shape, all right? ;-) Good luck and best wishes, Jwrosenzweig 22:29, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congrats - you can whip me into shape anyday ;-) Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 00:11, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

American vs. Britsh spelling

Why should an article use the bastdard version of the English language unless it relates to American matters?

I find American spelling hurtful to the eyes, and as such, I reserve the right to make whatever changes I see fit. --TintininLisbon 11:17, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

If that is the attitude you are going to take, I suspect you will find your time here short and unpleasant. →Raul654 11:19, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Ruy Lopez - arbitration case

Congratulations on your re-election! Could you please take a look at my comment [1] before the arbitration case gets closed? Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe I found a mistake in the sentence. Boraczek 14:10, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee term

As the second-highest vote-getter, it's now your turn to decide how long you wish to serve. Theresa Knott has picked a 2-year term, which still leaves one 1-year term, one 2-year term, and four 3-year terms to choose from. What's your preference? --Michael Snow 00:49, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh, I guess Ambi has the information and has put you down for a 3-year term. So never mind, unless that happens not to be the case. Also, congratulations and good luck! --Michael Snow 00:56, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I had said previously that I was going to take a 3 year term should one be available. After multiple elections in as many months, I don't want to have to repeat the process anytime soon. →Raul654 01:11, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

With less than 50% support, you want a 3 year term?????? Lirath Q. Pynnor

Only one candidate got 50% support. What do you expect the other 6 "winners" to do? BLANKFAZE | (что??) 17:53, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I expect them to serve 6 month terms, and then allow elections -- what kind of tyrant sits on a three-year term that he knows he doesn't deserve? Lirath Q. Pynnor

Well, crackerjack, the man that founded and owns this website sets the term lengths, not Lirath Q. Pynnor. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 19:26, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Which dosen't remind me, the article titled crackerjack is in need of expansion. On behalf of (probably!) WP founder, Jimbo Wales, I am hereby, commissioning you, user:Blankfaze, for making it a feature article. Looking forward to it! El_C

Jimbo should resign, and Raul should know better than to take advantage of Jimbo's boundless goodwill. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Nice job spin-doctoring the election - you couldn't convince people to vote for you, so you try to convince people that the others didn't have enough support to serve full terms. A better job of muddying the waters I have never seen. Sigh, I guess I'll just have to join the ranks of those other obviously unqualified people who failed to gain a majority in their elections - John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, and Abrahamn Lincoln.

Oh, and as a side note -- I suspect the only reason you are still allowed to edit here is because of Jimbo's boundless goodwill. You are always free to run again during the next arbiration committee election next year, assuming you aren't banned by then. →Raul654 05:41, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

But a few weeks ago The Wikipedia foundation asked the public for $50,000 saying it was needed to keep the site going. He (abusive goader "jimbo"), now at least should respect the public that come here. And this site should be run according to norms that normal citizens expect. Apparently only 520 people voted (one presumes that's what they mean, although with the usual foolishness of the people who run control the Wikipedia they said there were only 520 votes) out of 200,000 or more users. If you look here you will see an example of the most extreme way in which The Wikipedia guidelines can be broken. How disgusting.WikiUser 20:06, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

El C, as your talk page doesn't have te facility for me to post I'm asking here, please show basic manners and restore the proper order of posting. WikiUser 21:47, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My talk page does, in fact, facilitate posting. As for basic manners, that it a rather courious comment – my comment stands out visually in the threaded discussion, I am surprised you have neglected to notice this. El_C

cogratulations on your election. sorry i couldn't vote, but i have just reached 90 days membership. Xtra 13:41, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes indeed, congratulations! I know continue to serve well. I have filed a Friend-of-the-ArbCom briefing for you to read at your leisure. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 17:59, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you both :) →Raul654 05:48, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Spam protection filter gone haywire?

recently recieved the following:

The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to an external site.

See m:Spam blacklist for a full list of blocked sites. If you believe that the spam filter is mistakenly blocking the edit, then please contact an m:Administrator. The following is the section of the page that triggered the filter:

http:// www zephyrgraffiti com (had to break the link so filter wouldnt scream)

This was in response to an edit on FAC where i commented that i had asked Zephyr, whom i then linked to, to come comment. It was not link spamming, as far as I know he has not link spammed the site, and I did not gain this spam notice when I included his site as a link from the main Graffiti page last night.

Can you please figure out whats going on? Thanks Alkivar 13:44, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Here's the skinny on the spam filter. As you can imagine, we often get spammers in here pushing products and websites. Occasionally, they keep coming back despite repeated blocks. When that happens, they get added to the spam filter, which prevents anyone from saving a page with that term. However, if the term is added and then someone tries to save a page on which the term already exists, then they will be prevented from saving, even if they are not spamming. You can get to (and modify) the list of blocked terms at m:Spam blacklist, just be careful not to break the formatting. →Raul654 05:56, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, this helps immensely. I was totally lost as to why this was occurring, and when the server went into read-only mode yesterday i was sorta stuck for a couple hours scratching my head. Alkivar 06:01, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Urgent request

Hi Raul, how's that temporary injunction going? Cause my user page just got vandalised by CheeseDreams. See [2]. She added disputed tags and dubious tags to the page. She is well aware that this is not allowed. I also feel under attack from this user due to my difference in world-view. Also she is attacking me for asking for her articles to be tightened up, something I feel is very fair to do. - Ta bu shi da yu 21:46, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

IMHO, that's pretty clear cut vandalism. I suggest you ask an uninvolved sysop (who is not arbitrating the case) to look at it, and if (s)he feels the same way, (s)he should block Cheese Of Dreams for a nontrivial amount of time (1-7 days). →Raul654 05:47, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Help!

I seem to be having a bit of a problem with an abusive user, namely User:Fvw. This individual has taken it upon himself to be the ombudsman of what is and is not a speedy delete candidate. He's reverted my edits and left some snide remarks on my user page and the edit summaries. I've listed him on RfC as well. - Lucky 6.9 23:43, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Today's featured article

Raul, I just noticed a couple of typos in the "today's featured article" spiel for the 21st and 22nd. WP:MOS is specific in punctuation (and as I understand it, featured articles should comply with it). In Free will, the punctuation should (per the MoS) be "up to us". That is, the full stop should come after the quotation mark. On Holy Roman Empire, the full stop should, likewise, come after the quotation mark for "Emperors-Elect". Thanks, jguk 00:07, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Award for Tireless Effort on the Wiki(s)

I award you a cookie for all your great and tireless service to this and other projects. Got Milk? :D Arminius 07:11, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm...cookie. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/^talk]] 07:12, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Btrieve

Hi Raul, thanks for helping with this! The article is Btrieve and it isn't actually complete but I'd like to know if I've got facts glaringly wrong and whether my style is OK. Also, it's getting pretty big! I'm not entirely sure how to split it up... in fact I'm not sure that Btrieve is the correct name to call the article title now. Any help or feedback would be very much appreciated! - Ta bu shi da yu 10:28, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I gave it a once over but it looks fairly good. →Raul654 02:25, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks mate :-) I've actually split it as it was getting pretty large. Nearly done! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:08, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Template:Edit

You removed the edit link from Template:Endocrine system. What is the real problem? It's otherwise fairly hard to add articles to ASBs. JFW | T@lk 13:45, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I removed the edit link because (in general) you're supposed to avoid cross namespace links - IE, don't link to a Wikipedia: page from the main namespace; don't like to the template page from the main namespace. That's (more or less) meta data. →Raul654 19:40, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Today's featured article

Popped this on the Main Page talk page, and someone suggested I tell you direct. So - can I suggest that the text 'Recently featured' be bolded, to distinguish it more noticeably from the text of the article above it? Dan100 22:23, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Posthumous Nobel Prizes

You said recently:

<Austin> The peace prize can't be awarded posthumously.
<Raul654> Austin - not exactly true
<Raul654> it *can*, and in 1948, they seriously considered doing it
<Raul654> but it has never been done

You were correct in saying that the prize can be awarded posthumously, but incorrect in saying that it had never been done. The 1961 prize was awarded posthumously to Dag Hammarskjold.

Respectfully yours, Dominus 05:46, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I stand corrected :) →Raul654 05:47, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Please vote

Raul, could I get you to vote on WP:IFD to delete Image:Ok magazine 89 cover.jpg? It's a picture of a child on a paedophile magazine. It needs to go. Now. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:05, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Main Page

Hi Raul - have you seen the discussion on Talk:Main Page? Quite a lot of people liked the new, simple, unclutttered version of the main page. I'm not going to get into a revert war about this, but I just wondered where the comment "this version is awful and I think everyone agrees" comes from. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:28, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Al, I think Raul was talking about the old wordy version he'd reverted to after the admins went a bit made making their own individual changes to the new one. Raul, there seems to be a good consensus on the Main Page Discussion page for the 'original' new intro as proposed and installed by Tom. It would be great if you could RV the Main Page to that version. Thanks Dan100 18:11, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I've gone ahead and reverted to Rdsmith's version (the polished new interface), although I did incorporate one change (moving the multi-lang icon to the template). →Raul654 19:52, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Lirpedia

I was informed that you intend to vandalize Lirpedia, you have been banned for one year. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Actually, I believe I said that I didn't want to admin status on Lirpedia because the temptation to vandalize it would be too great. There's a not-so-subtle difference. →Raul654 19:36, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

PS - Last I checked, Lirpedia is blatantly violating the GFDL by not giving the license or citing a source. →Raul654 19:36, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

multilang icon

Hey there - notice you just moved the language icon into the other template. I experimented with that but found that the location (in the included lang template) makes it's position look a little awkward. Also, quite oddly, it seems to need "font-size:92%" to show the bottom line of the image. Good luck with the "always wrong" changes! violet/riga (t) 19:55, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations

Hail to Raul - the first ArbCom member ever to be re-elected! :) --mav 02:53, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The photo that wouldn't die

I see from User talk:VeryVerily that VV has been banned, so I'm picking you almost randomly on no better basis than that you were a message-bearer: could you please weigh in at Talk:Nicolae_Ceausescu#Death_photo? Ratza again wants to include the death photo of Ceausescu, and VV was one of the (few) people watchlisting this page. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:55, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Edward_Elgar.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 05:04, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Image:Margaret Mead.jpg needs a source and tag too. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 07:01, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tucson, Arizona and more

Hi. I saw that you voted on the RFC regarding Tucson, Arizona, and I thought you might be interested in commenting on a broader application of the formatting to other city articles. The discussion (for now) is at Talk: Tucson, Arizona#Other Arizona and nearby cities. (It might get moved to WikiProject Cities, if there's interest in doing so.) Thanks! kmccoy (talk) 02:43, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blocks are not expiring

I'm posting this message on every admin who has made a block in the last few days. The title says it all really: because of a bug in the new software blocks are not expiring when their time is up. Until this is fixed can you get in the habit of manually unblocking a few everytime you block one. If everyone does this we'll be able to keep on top of things until the bug is sorted out. Note also that another bug is displaying indefinite blocks as expiring at the current time and date. obviously you don't want to unblock those. If you want to reply please do so here Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 09:45, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What is wiki's policy on MOD files?

As far as I can tell there is no copyright encumberment on .s3m, .xm, .it, or .mod files. Do we have a policy regarding them? I tried uploading a public domain .s3m file but Upload tells me its not a recognized file type. I cant convert it to Midi (doesnt use the instruments right), I cant convert it to Ogg (theres no converter), am I just outta luck? Alkivar 00:19, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The mediawiki software automatically scans uploads with the unix 'file' command and if it comes up as anything but a certain handful of file types, the upload is rejected. This acts to prevent the use of wikipedia (a) to spread virii, and (b) as a host for pirated software. Midi's are currently rejected as well, but Ogg is not. →Raul654 00:24, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

And if worse comes to worse, you can always plug the stereo out from one computer into the stereo in of another computer (yes, I have done it before to get around the above limitations) →Raul654 00:25, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

then the problem becoms your recompressing an already compressed file! aka it ends up sounding like total shit. Guess I go without till Jimbo pulls his head out of his ass and allows some other file formats. Alkivar 01:04, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Forgot to set /away

Got your message, and I do appreciate you doing this :-) Ta bu shi da yu 02:47, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Urgent assistance needed

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Grunt%AD is a user with a non-printable character on the end of his/her username. It's a GNAA member and they have been uploading goatse images. They need to be blocked IMMEDIATELY but I am unable to do this without block User:Grunt.

Ta bu shi da yu 08:26, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Christmas tree

Hi Raul - hope you won't mind, I've removed your pic from there as for some reason it was not loading properly (even crashed my computer, I don't know why) - MPF 08:58, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Images weren't loading properly across wikipedia earlier - it wasn't a fault of the picture or the article. I had some other people look at it, and it worked just fine for them, so I suspect the crash was just some random windows burp, and not the fault of the picture. →Raul654 13:16, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks; it was because the other pic loaded OK I thought there was something wrong. It is working OK now. Mind if I swap the positions of the two to have the more traditional one at the top? - MPF 16:09, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Go right ahead. →Raul654 17:15, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

Two trolls

grunt and lotusleaf. They are impersonation on IRC. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:19, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mailing list

Where have I contributed to the mailing list - XED.talk.stalk.mail.csb 22:07, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Donation link on main page

Hi Raul654,

I appreciate your comments on the donation link issue.

So, are you in favor of restoring the donation link for the tsunami disaster relief on the main page?

I find it rather shameful that large corporations such as Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple are all setting aside more space on their web site than Wikipedia. (I'm especially shamed by the Microsoft page.)

Although those other sites have set aside big chunks of their main page to helping out, we had a single line link, and now it's been removed.

A single line link, temporarily appearing at the top of the page. Not too much to ask.

No need to make precious little "slippery slope" arguments at a time like this.

Dante once said something to the effect that the hottest place in hell is reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of peril.

I'm not an Admin, so I can't do much to contest this edit, but I'm hoping more Admins will realize how selfish it makes the users of this site look, that numerous commercial sites are being more generous with their web pages than we are.

We can go back to our petty squabbles later. Please restore the donation link if is within your power to do so.

— DV 23:33, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Alchemy is not a belief

Per Wikipedia_talk:Featured_articles#Alchemy. Alchemy is not a belief nor a religion, it was an early form of science. I would like to reach an agreement on this point before I start rv your rv of my changes. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:43, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Can I assume you have no objections to my argument? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:32, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Question about emailed featured article

A while ago, I saw a link to get the featured article of the day wmailed to you. I went to look for that link and I cannot find it anywhere! Was the geature removed for some reason? Or could you point me to where I can get it? Sorry to bother you, but I could not find an appropriate place to ask the question and I noticed you edit the featured article frequently. Hope you can help me or point me to the correct place. Thanks. -- FrankH 04:05, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The link was removed because nobody is sending updates to that list anymore. Once/if that changes, then the link will come back. --mav 05:10, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

In a nutshell - Kate set that feature up, and she's the one who maintained it. Since her departure, there hasn't really been anyone to take it over. With the holidays and whatnot, I haven't really had the wherewithall to try to find a replacement, but within the next couple weeks I'm going to advertise the reason and see if someone wants to take over. →Raul654 05:17, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

Purple Heart award

Mark, I would like to remove the Purple Heart award from Wikipedia. Please see the discussion here.

I do not propose to remove it from those users who have already been awarded one, but I do not want to see it awarded in future. Thanks for your comments. Axl 11:42, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Malicious edits by admins to the Main Page

Since you started locking the featured article template on the main page, Neutrality has started reversing the quoting style from logical to conventional, in breach of the Manual of Style. I used to watch for such malicious edits and reverse them, but I cannot do so any longer. Do you have any suggestions about how to solve this problem? Any attempts to reason with the user himself are either ignored or deleted. —Wereon 17:53, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

So that's why all main page featured articles suddenly get written up into American English and all the AD/BCs converted to CE/BCEs! So much for Neutrality on an International encyclopaedia! jguk 18:04, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Quite frankly this is nonsense. I've changed the grammar (quoting style) on the Johnny Cash article to American English because Johnny Cash is American. Likewise, I've left only the perfectly proper British English on the House of lords blurb. This bogus complaint stems from the strange British English fixation of a few users. Neutrality^talk 19:04, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration thought

You commented on Ciz/Proposed decision:

I'm a little worried about how much the word "closely" could be stretched. I can only think of one other article that this ban should probably cover, and that would be furry. So I'd be willing to ban him from those two articles, but I don't think we need to ban him from "its closly related articles".

I can see the sense in that. However, the concern is that Ciz attacks zoophilia and furry in articles which are not "closely related", for example, animal abuse or animal behaviour. So the intent isn't a ban on specific articles, so much as specific topics and subjects. In fact he's already POV edited Homosexuality in animals this way, which was clearly motivated by a link from Zoophilia and a contribution by FT2.

What about a ban on "Zoophilia or furry related articles, and any edits in other articles related to these subjects." And then leave it up to admins in any given case, which shouldn't be too hard. Can I suggest that? FT2 08:26, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)

(Please move to the relevant Arbitration page if it should be there and not on your personal talk page. Apologies, Im not clear which is the right way to say it. Either way I hope it makes sense. - FT2)

Thanks for...

... picking up the ball on "Space Race".Sfahey 20:26, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Unverified image

Thanks for uploading Image:Marconi.jpg. Seeing as he died in 1937, I assume that the photographer died before 1955, meaning that the tag should probably be {{PD-old-50}}, but I wasn't sure. Right now, it's {{unverified}}. Thanks, ugen 64 01:23, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Meetup

Not to be overly mean or anything, but you didn't exactly give me much notice, if any. I already have plans this weekend so I will not be going. Mike H 16:09, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)

Perfectly understandable. I emailed Jimbo about it a couple weeks ago, but he was in Israel and apparently never got my email; so the planning didn't really happen until this week. →Raul654 16:20, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)

You're perfectly welcome to meet me alone, when I'm not having plans. I have class from 12 to 3:30 on Monday. Mike H 00:10, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

I would take you up on that, but I'm going home Monday at the crack of dawn. →Raul654 06:02, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Dr Zen

I could be seriously misreading Dr Zen's motives, but it seems to me that his current spate of edit warring on Clitoris may be a deliberate attempt to force a protection of the page. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:56, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I know. I saw it last night as it was happening. When one person takes it upon themselves to do that, it's better to block the individual than to protect the page - something which I was seriously tempted to do last night. If he does it again, I'll seriously consider blocking him. →Raul654 15:08, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Um, Schneelocke vprotected it anyway. Could we have it unprotected, please? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:45, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

I've done my best to comply with your request. Have a look. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:22, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment on my photography. Adam 08:39, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)