User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela. 11:48, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
Regarding Little Belt Bridge (1935)
Regarding Little Belt Bridge (1935) - it's not a good idea to create a page until you have something to put in it. Empty pages often get deleted, to keep them from cluttering up Wikipedia. But I look forward to your article, since I have no idea what this is! - DavidWBrooks 17:35, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the advice, it wont happen again, i'm working on the article right now --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:04, 2004 Apr 8 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing the link
Thank you for fixing the link on my user page, and for your work on the Baseball slang article. I have to warn you, though, that most Wikipedians get very protective of their own user pages; it's generally a better idea to leave a comment on their user talk page instead. - jredmond 15:10, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- No problem, i never edit other users pages unless it's a talk page or a small fix like this, like fixing a link --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:27, 2004 Apr 20 (UTC)
Regarding the StarCraft articles
Regarding the StarCraft articles listed at Template:VfD-Command no clear consensus was reached on vfd but most people were generally talking about keeping and/or merging the articles. Since you said that you'd give it a go, do you fancy this job, because I have to clear the backlog in vfd and do not know the subject. If you're not up to it yourself please feel free to list for merging in the appropriate place. -- Graham :) | Talk 22:12, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
Your formatting changes ( suck -Ed :)
Your formatting changes to the article Sexual slang (changing from plain lists to bulleted lists) make it harder to read and too vertical. --Andy5 04:34, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
- Discussion continued on Talk:Sexual slang --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 10:58, 2004 May 8 (UTC)
Flag of Iceland
That's a pleasure! I don't know where I picked up the phrase; I used to be a part time cinema projectionist, and know that different types of film (cinemascope, wide screen &c) have different aspect ratios, though I'm not sure I was aware of the phrase then ... and I recall the introduction of the new television aspect ratio 16:9, when previously it was always 4:3 ... still. I enjoyed reading the Flag of Iceland page ... thanks for editing it ... a very comprehensive treatment. best wishes --Tagishsimon
- Thank you, however i'm not even half-finished;) --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:34, 2004 May 14 (UTC)
Collation order
At Wikipedia_talk:Alphabetical_list_of_Wikipedians I made a note about expecting to see your name sorted in with the A's, as my dictionary would do so and some standards suggest. I'd love to hear your experience and thoughts on the question. NealMcB 02:56, 2004 May 18 (UTC)
Sysop
Congratulations! You are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Good luck. Angela. 00:55, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Currently at a netcafe in Amsterdam, wont be very active for the next few days. But defenetly in the fall:) --212.123.202.81 10:22, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
Starcraft query request
Was the output that Angela provided on SQL query requests enough for the merge, or are you still waiting for a list from a more recent database? Would it be possible to copy the given list, to clean up the page a bit? --Ben Brockert 02:14, May 26, 2004 (UTC)
- It was enaugh, hower its just so much work i havent gotten around to it yet
Vandalism
Hi. I reverted two anon edits on your user page. ([1] [2]) If you really moved to Ghana, then my apologies. As an admin you may consider protecting your page. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 01:03, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thank you for your concern, actually i made them without logging in because internet connection here is sometimes not good and it can take 30secs sometime to load a page ( not at the location i am currently at though ) which means that sometime it can be quite painful to log in. To get some credability though i will henceforth try to log in to make such edits. About protecting it however; i will not do that, see the notice at the bottom, the worst that could happen is that there would be some misinformation here for a few days until i get online, no biggie. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 01:36, 2004 Jun 9 (UTC)
Messages!
The drought of messages has now been quenched! You have a new message on your talk page! Enjoy, mate! :D Mike H 22:01, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
Your name
How is one to pronounce your unusual name? Since the letters are not native to English could you please put up the pronounciation on your page? Thanks Nichalp 18:39, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)
- I've been working on that, hover i don't know how to make the Æ and r sounds in the International phonetic alphabet so my work on that is not yet complete. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 14:44, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
Comment from Tannin
I knew that (about msg and MediaWiki 1.3). My memory, alas, ain't what it ought to be. :) Tannin
Explanation and Apologies
Sorry, I said I couldn't contact you because I couldn't figure out how to make User Talk work for contacting you...but RickK had an icon for User Talk next to his name.
Anyway, hopefully the whole GenMay business can be resolved soon. It was in a period of vandalism, during which I did delete the VfD notice (my apologies for that, I have no idea why it didn't show up when I pressed 'edit'), but it seems to have stabilized now.
Ivan yulaev 23:01, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Ahh, so that was why i thought you were part of this vandalism storm, anyway, welcome again. You've had a bit of raugh intro to wikipedia that page will 99.9% get deleted because it (probably) doesnt belong. But dont get discauraged, it's nothing personal, and yes, it's nice to sign your posts (write four tildes or press the signiture icon above the edit box);) --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:47, 2004 Jul 6 (UTC)
Moving stuff
Hi there.
I've just tried to move "Category:Melée weapons" and it appears not to be possible. It tells me to contact an administrator. Could you perhaps help then?
The word is spelt mêlée. There is an argument for Anglicisation, but that would give "melee".
Thanks in advance. — Chameleon My page/My talk 16:54, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Glad to be of help, actually categories can not be moved in the normal sense, the are magic pages that are autogenerated. You'll actually have to edit the articles that have [[Category:Melée]] to have [[Category:Mêlée]] instead. Just look at Category:Mêlée now, i've put my /tmp page in it ( feel free to remove it once you see how it works ).
- This is of course, a bit of PITA, however thats how you'll have to do it. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:12, 2004 Jul 7 (UTC)
Linux
You probably have Linux Kernel 2.6.5, I was talking about the version of my disto (Mandrake Linux). Unfortunately, I personally have the 2.4 kernel...time to do some updating. Ilyanep (Talk) 15:33, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- It was just a parody on the fact that "Linux 9.2" is a pretty meaningless statement;=) --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:40, 2004 Jul 8 (UTC)
IPA
If you would like help writing your name in the IPA, I can do it if you send or post a soundfile of you saying your name. It would be best if you said it several times at different speeds. --Darrien 04:48, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC)
- Willdo when i get home, leave on a flight from ghana today. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 13:32, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC)
Deleting an image
Twice you've removed my request from Wikipedia:Images for deletion to delete Image:IONbig.jpg, but the image still seems to exist in the database... am I making an inappropriate request, should the image stay? Brian Kendig 22:57, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- At this point it seems it's a software error, all i see when i go to that page in the top bar is:
- Image
- Discussion
- Edit this page
- undelete 2 edits
- watch
- Which would suggest that i have already deleted it, however i still see the image. I'll contact the MediaWiki developers because of this and file a bug report if approprite. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:07, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)
- Undeleted it, then deleted it again. It's still there though, will contact the devs. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:10, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)
- It's gone now! Thanks very much. It wasn't an important issue, but I was puzzled for a bit there. Brian Kendig 03:56, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Undeleted it, then deleted it again. It's still there though, will contact the devs. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:10, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)
- In the future direct all comments to bug 989827, thank you for reporting the issue. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 00:10, 2004 Jul 13 (UTC)
You deleted the image description page of Image:AshmoreandCartierFlagLarge.jpg but not the image. Please note that using the normal "delete" tab for articles does not delete the image. It will only delete the image description page. Instead, you need to click on the (del) tag in front the of the image upload history to hit both (if that's not what you've been doing). Cheers, Jiang 01:48, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I followed by deleting a few images/files using the correct mechanism. Since my internet is running really slow, I'll leave it up to you to finish the rest. Let us know somewhere if you still need help. --Jiang 01:59, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I went through the logs and copied the record of images I did not personally re-delete to here. I'll also list this under speedy deletions. --Jiang 07:34, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
More vandalism
Lucky 6.9, myself and another have been hit by the vandal at 66.2.146.*, and you left a comment to contact you if it happened again. Noisy 19:18, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I've blocked the range in question for 48hrs. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 20:18, 2004 Jul 15 (UTC)
- More vandalism on User:Hadal, User:Lucky 6.9, User:TheCustomOfLife, User:Neutrality and Hadal says he's done another 24 hr block. (Just keeping you informed.) Noisy 10:58, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I think that should have been 66.2.146.*, shouldn't it? Hadal seems to have blocked 66.65.70.246 for another reason. (I'm getting confused!) Noisy 11:43, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- And it was User:Maximus Rex who seems to have done the last block on one IP in the range. Noisy 11:48, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
MP3 ( Discussion -Ævar )
Thanks for calling people's attention to this issue. I think the proponents are probably just not familiar enough with the underlying philosophy of this project. Most likely they have a bunch of stuff in this format, and are just trying to be "helpful" in finding ways to contribute. They may not fully grasp why our commitment to open content makes such formats unacceptable.
The audiophile in me would disfavor MP3, even if it weren't proprietary, since it's such a low-quality format compared to the alternatives. So double thanks. --Michael Snow 05:43, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- No problem, indeed changing such core policies without _any_ consent was just uncalled for. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 06:09, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)
Thorn and Eth
I don't like disagreeing with you, but I do believe that these letters should be listed under their normal English names Thorn and Eth. Evertype 09:51, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
This is Public Domain
( Next two paragraphs moved from User talk:Roseba )
Okey, you seem to be the one that initially pasted the text at Clark Democrats, later that text was put on Copyright problems because a user had found it to be a violation of this sites copyright.
I've reinstated that it's a copyright violation, not to be mean, but until all doubt is off the case thats what it will be, now — i presume that you are in fact the author of the original article. What would ideal at this point is to get some proof that you are indeed who i think you are, in that case the article can be re-instated to it's original form for improvement by others. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 12:25, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
- Knightrider, his first name is Dom. He lives in Maryland I believe..... Together, with about 14 other Clarkies, :we wrote this text. How do I provide proof that we did this? It's kind of ridiculous given the source.
- We have a Yahoo group called "Clark Democrats" as well.
- I am not going to email Dom to try to restore this.
Roseba, please sign your posts by writing --~~~~, you can get that text by clicking the little signiture button above the edit box. Look at this from our point of view for a second, someone puts a page on wikipdia ( we dont know who since he/she didnt register ), someone monotoring newpages does a google search on it and finds an exact copy on someones blog, hence we presume a copyvio. What you can do is put a little mention on the site it came from, or email me from a email address listed there or in some way give us proof that you are in fact who you clame.
Roseba Not sure how to sign my posts with my name.
However....
On Feb 14, just after Clark dropped out of the race, I came up with the idea that we needed a meme, so we wouldn't be forgotten, like Reagan Democrats.
The post below is evidence that we started brainstorming the idea behind it. http://roseba.forclark.com/story/2004/2/12/16750/2670
Then Knightrider (Dom) came up with a logo. http://knightrider.forclark.com/story/2004/2/18/13651/1916
And the OLD logo: NOT SURE YOU CAN READ YAHOO GROUP STUFF http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_12071821/__tn_ClarkDemocrat4rd.gif?bcIdR_ABoTLA2naX
Sometime later, I complete revamped it. The Original Photoshop file resides here under my Yahoo name, divina27 as stated by Knighrider on this blog: http://knightrider.forclark.com/comments/2004/2/18/13651/1916/12#12
And Dom responded: http://knightrider.forclark.com/story/2004/2/20/0959/62337
Then we went private, as listed here: http://knightrider.forclark.com/comments/2004/2/18/13651/1916/31#31
NOT SURE YOU CAN READ YAHOO GROUP STUFF http://f5.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QAn9QFguyUGojl0_DH5VNk-Ec0e62on3dSXqdnwAW9JqXcuhG95ES5EhrHRF42G6yqEXME6qIdV4xJH4Za3x4Q/ClarkDem.psd
NOT SURE YOU CAN READ YAHOO GROUP STUFF http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_12071821/__tn_ClarkDemocrat4rd.gif?bcIdR_ABoTLA2naX
We went private back and forth on Yahoo Groups, using a word file, to iterate, what we wanted the oath, pledge, mission to stand for.
Clark Democrat openness doctrine. NOT SURE YOU CAN READ YAHOO GROUP STUFF http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QAn9QG-IQxWojl0_tyZY62N9Er5ihEKen4Tsk4srg2InQheJRtbRTTXeIkF0uW3qQE6V6bwqgAM3f30SQW4MQQ/The%20Clark%20Democrat%20Openness%20Doctrine
Clark Democrat Oath NOT SURE YOU CAN READ YAHOO GROUP STUFF http://f2.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QAn9QIY1Va-ojl0_uautE1RkLkltnc0Iyo5IbCafg1xBX0EXC2FjUHjf2lh7-9Ok1HSi5UUWfPNb1meDJVRK4w/The%20Clark%20Democratic%20Oath
Wes Clark alliance NOT SURE YOU CAN READ YAHOO GROUP STUFF http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QAn9QNXj18qojl0_fo2jp3m4Doa4454qLDAlPk2xMPdghWfkctzYlvwk2nk7L21zJaLT0uXxa9W5C7S1T_RI2Q/WCA%20Proposal.doc
We starting spreading the meme all over the John Kerry forum, DemocratUnderground and numerous Clarkie centric sites as discussed here: http://knightrider.forclark.com/
Here I am specifically mentioned for my help: http://knightrider.forclark.com/story/2004/2/20/0959/62337
More discussion: http://knightrider.forclark.com/story/2004/2/15/15811/4296
Roseba 13:00, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC) Roseba 13:00, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)~~
- Okey, even if it isnt a copyright violation, which i belive. Do you think it's valid encyclopedia material? -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 13:03, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
~~Bold textfrom roseba~~
Yes. Because it is an active and growing movement of thousands of individuals.
Do a search on Google for the word "Clark Democrat" or click here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=clark+democrat
- I've listed it on Votes for deleteion, you can see this entery for the vote on it, note that this is in no way a personal attack against you, but rather a vote to see if thats a valid topic for inclution in the encylopedia. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:41, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
Re: removal of second Alþingi link
Hey there. :) I just wanted to explain why I removed the second link to Alþingi in the Iceland article. Since the article is already linked in the first paragraph of the "History" section (with the spelling "Althing", which should probably be changed for consistency's sake), I did not feel it was necessary to link it again. From everything I've seen so far on Wikipedia, linking the same article multiple times within an article is discouraged. Perhaps this is something I'm not understanding properly? Beginning 19:37, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Oops, didnt notice that first link, will fix it now -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 19:42, 2004 Jul 22 (UTC)
So we're still going with linking it twice? I don't know why, but I've been under the impression for awhile now that linking things twice isn't good. I've seen people leave messages in their edits before saying "stop linking things twice", but I guess I was wrong. :) Thanks for correcting the spelling, in any case. Beginning 21:25, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Not at all, i removed the second link now, i was just under the impression that you had already done that. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 21:30, 2004 Jul 22 (UTC)
Typo on protected page
There is a protected page I would like to correct. See Template_talk:Noncommercial.
Thanks. — Chameleon My page/My talk 03:42, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
No, only the first c needed to be changed into an s. The second one was totally correct and needs reverting. — Chameleon My page/My talk 04:07, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Righto, you might want to provide better instructions in the future, but all is well that ends well. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 04:13, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
I did! I did! I pasted the exact text I wanted to appear, and explained the orthographical issues below in case you weren't aware of them. — Chameleon My page/My talk 04:15, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Not to be a total bitch about it or anything, but this is what you said:
- "License" is so spelt when it is a verb. This is not a US/UK difference: that issue affects the noun "licence", which Americans spell with an s just like the verb
- And this was the text:
- This image is not licenced under the GFDL. It is under a non-commercial-use only licence.
- Now, we have two occourances of licence, (well actually licence and licenced) in that text, since you didnt specify fix the former occourance of licence or similar all one has to go by is verb , and we none-native speakers genereally tend not to remember the jargons of english grammar offhand... – Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 04:34, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
Rock the vote
A vote has been initiated on the standard template for computer and video games. As a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and Video Games, you are being solicited for input into the proposed template. Please cast your vote any make any comments at Rock the vote! Thank you! — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:31, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
VV´s block
VV is going crazy over your block against him; he has contacted Guanaco and RickK via their talk pages to try to get someone to unblock him and is calling you a ¨rogue sysop¨. I would suggest following up there with justification. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 22:27, 2004 Sep 1 (UTC)
- Heading off to the sweet land of dreams, i'll write about it tomorrrow if he still has the desire to make a fuss about it. Cya -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:31, 2004 Sep 1 (UTC)
- GoodForYou...Node 00:11, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I reversed the block. Violations of the 3-revert limit are not currently recognized in Wikipedia:Blocking policy as grounds for blocking, unless the user is subject to an Arbitration Committee ruling (such as Cantus). Since VeryVerily is not currently under any such probation, you would need to state a different justification if you decide to block him. --Michael Snow 22:46, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/%C6var_Arnfj%F6r%F0_Bjarmason]] -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 00:29, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
In light of your comments on the RfC, I'm willing to just drop the matter. I've delisted you from RfC. Please note though that your "unblock" at 22:03 did not in fact unblock me. VV 00:35, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Strange, must have been some bug in the system. Anyway glad i didnt make you too angry by my actions. Hope there are no hard feelings. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 00:37, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
- What you unblocked was the IP autoblock created when VeryVerily tried to edit while blocked. This would probably have been the first item in Special:Ipblocklist at the time. Unblocking the IP alone doesn't unblock the underlying username - what's necessary is to unblock both, as I did later, if you really want to reverse the action. I'm glad this was a misunderstanding that has now been resolved. --Michael Snow 04:22, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Translations
Greetings Ævar!
There are two major translations underway:
- The 1,000,000 article global press release
- A Wikimedia newsletter
Perhaps you would be intersted in helping translate these?
Instructions and details are at m:Translation requests.
The block summary you gave for the blocking of this User:151.202.154.243, "asshole", is inappropriate. Please unblock him or correct your block summary to something more appropriate. Marcus2 23:02, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Well great minds must think alike! I came here to say exactly the same thing. Remember that an IP address belongs to a computer not a person. There is a chance that another user will share the same IP. They will see the block summary if they try to edit so it's always best to be polite. Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 23:08, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
(later) I checked on his contributions and noticed that his talk page was empty. We always give a warning here first so that users know their behaviour is unnaceptable. It gives them the change to change it. Anyway because no warning was given I've unblocked the IP. Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 23:33, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I admit to being slightly annoyed;) However i cannot fulfill marcuses request for obvious reasons. The user is also fully aware of why he is banned. But i'll try to be more polite in the future. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:17, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
- Theresa: please look over what the user has been doing regardless of the mistakes the admin who blocked him did. Because of you unblocking him he continued his vandalism until RickK blocked him again, might i add without warning him on his talk page, pehaps you'd like to unban him again so we can continue the whole charade? -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:20, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
- As far as I can see this user has repeatedly inserted a few links under the title of "parodies" in the Stallman article. He has done under more than one IP, but as far as I can tell no one has ever tried to explain to him (or her) why these links are unsuitable. I am not at all sure that this person is a simple vandal, but even if he is, temporarily protecting the article is far better than blocking (seeing as he is already using more than one IP). I will not however unblock him again, as I don't want to cause animosity between us. :-) Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 08:54, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Not to sound all snide or anything but in this universe its kind of given that inserting links that describe the man in question "play[ing] the skin-flute" (which i'll leave to your imagination what means) is an unjustified personal attack which has no place in a respectful article about any person on wikipedia and that is why we didn't burn too many braincells explaining exactly why inserting those links was inappropriate. I'm going to assume you didn't read the links in question. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 10:11, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
- Well you have every reason to sound smug (if not snide) because you are correct. I skimmed rather than read the "essays". Even so, it's policy to give a warning first.Like I said before, my main concern is that we don't scare away possible innocents who happen to share the same IP. Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 11:01, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Well you are right that my ban message was out of line and i should have given the IP address the standard warning on the talk page, i was just highly annoyed at this constant vandalism at the time. It seems however that it's not a dynamic address as nothing but vandalism has come from it since its first contribution 21 days ago. However there is no question that the material they are inserting is inappropriate and they know it. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 11:13, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
- Theresa: please look over what the user has been doing regardless of the mistakes the admin who blocked him did. Because of you unblocking him he continued his vandalism until RickK blocked him again, might i add without warning him on his talk page, pehaps you'd like to unban him again so we can continue the whole charade? -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:20, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
<Talking to VeryVerily> Admins are human beings. Nobody is perfect. Ævar has already said that his ban message was out of line, and he should have warned first.He's also said he'll try to be more polite in the future. I don't believe that he was trying to justify the ban, only explain it, when he said he was annoyed. As far as I'm concerned the matter is done with. Let's move on.Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 15:43, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Okay, but I see a pattern here, two instances in short time. Yes, he has been frank about the causes, but blocking is (a) an explicit not accidental act and (b) causes harm. Saying he's "not perfect" understates the case if users/IPs become banned for annoying an admin. But, I wouldn't have used the word abusing if I had it to do over. VV 06:32, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Should we go through RFC again? It was phun the last time;=) -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:02, 2004 Sep 7 (UTC)
- No Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 10:11, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Should we go through RFC again? It was phun the last time;=) -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:02, 2004 Sep 7 (UTC)
- Okay, but I see a pattern here, two instances in short time. Yes, he has been frank about the causes, but blocking is (a) an explicit not accidental act and (b) causes harm. Saying he's "not perfect" understates the case if users/IPs become banned for annoying an admin. But, I wouldn't have used the word abusing if I had it to do over. VV 06:32, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I think this banning stuf isnt for me, i'll promtly return to spreading love an happyness across the universe, cheers. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:45, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)
- You really dont need to go as far as that. The blocking procedure is very simple, warn politely, warn more sternly, block with sensible explanation for 24 hours (or shorter if you like) if they come back, check the IP and either a short term range block or long term block as appropriate. Once you've done enough of these, you lose the emotional factor and so don't become annoyed. It helps to remember that they always lose, even when we don't block them because there are so many more of us than them, we can simply revert them. Happy hunting! Theresa Knott (Nate the Stork) 20:09, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Picture
No, you don't have tits. Mike H 04:16, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
...is not a real calculator. The person that added it to TI-83 probably meant TI-84 Plus. As a result some anon listed it on VfD. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 00:54, 2004 Sep 9 (UTC)
Thanks for the translation
Thanks Ævar for the translations I still have to work on it and I'll check once more so that I could finish. Lmb 16:02, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
A few more words
Here I have more words to translate. Please, let me know in case I’ve made some spelling mistakes. These terms would help me to enrich articles about some Icelandic music bands that I’m writing about:
And I still have a few more to come. Thanks. Lmb 22:51, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Slöggur: It doesnt mean anything as far as i'm aware of.
- Þreita: Tiredness, but not "being tired" that would be "þreittur(male)" or "þreitt(female|gender netural)"
- Flughuhfið:This is some pseudo-word that doesnt exist (f never comes after h), are you sure you wrote it correctly?
- Kvaðje Jörd: Again, a pseudoword, could be "Kveðja, jörð" which would be an ackward way to say "goodbye planet earth" however it is not valid grammar in it's current form except if it were a list of words.
- En Ungur En: Another pseudo-sentance, "Er ungur enn" would be "I'm still young" or "[he is] still young" which is "hann er ungur enn"
- Rudið: pseudo-word, no idea what you mean
- Viní Mínir: You probably mean "Vinir mínir" which is "my friends"
- Í Tesrof: "in (untranslatable, the word does not exist)"
- Freyimdargretszchybusch: just some gibberish
- Bas: not a word
- Maggasyn: Could be a slang word for the vocalization of "Magazine" if it were written with icelandic phonology "Magasín"
- Tedrukkin: drunken on tea, or one that has drunk alot of tea, would not be used in any none-poetic language
- Ariareggae: not a word
- Ulfur: Úlfur, "Wolf"
- Iss: Not valid as a standalone word, however it is used a lot in common language, the equivalent in english is probably 'pff'. It is meant to show contempt.
-- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 12:19, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC)
Thanks for your assistance with improving the Exploding whale entry
Hi Ævar, I just wanted to drop a quick comment a) thanking you for your hard work in getting the exploding whale page up to scratch, and b) apologising if my difference in opinion has caused you any offense! I really have worked quite hard on the story and I do appreciate the feedback. I've tried to incorporate it as best I can into the story. Your modifications to grammar really are appreciated as this has helped us tighten up the story significantly. So though I guess I don't see eye to eye on all suggested changes and edits, I do appreciate your diligence and assistance on this article! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:32, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Good work Ævar :-) Your edits and comments were valuable in clarifying some of the language I used in the article. In Australian slang: You've done good. :P - Ta bu shi da yu 10:50, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Where did you get Image:Gestapo Flag.jpg, could you upload it as PNG without the drop shadows and provide info on the origin. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:04, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC)
- As stated on the image discussion page, I created it on September 5, 2004. You may modify it under GFDL as you wish. I really do not see the need to remove the drop shadow or save the image in PNG format (which takes more space and longer to load for dial-up users) since it is such low quality to begin with. Davodd 16:49, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
- P.S. -> I added the drop shadow on purpose - since much of the flag is white, i did not want it to disappear in the background. Davodd 16:52, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
Exploding whale is now a featured article!
Just wanted to say: thanks heaps for your help on this article! Your assistance was invaluable in getting this up to scratch :-) Ta bu shi da yu 14:39, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Hmmm... just noticed that this is my third thanks to you. I must owe you a lot :P Ta bu shi da yu 14:40, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
IPU
Just a note - the IPU page is protected. You're not supposed to edit it. –Andre (talk) 03:43, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Perhaps you should take some of your own advide and not make trivial formatting changes like the ones that provoked this message while a page is under protection. Both our edits have one thing in common though, they both reverted changes you made which in the first case gave the page a horrendous look (the reason i reverted it), and in the second stipped newlines between category and interwiki links — an unstandard notion here in the english wikipedia.
- You might be interested in reading the manual of style as well as look over some featured articles to learn how to best place pictures around text as well as how to make interwiki links.-- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 04:18, 2004 Sep 19 (UTC)
Now at User talk:Andrevan -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 04:18, 2004 Sep 19 (UTC)
- Wow, what's with the hostility? I hadn't known that trivial formatting of invisible elements counted under protection until I made the mistake (I was made admin today). By contrast, you actually changed the page layout while the page was protected, and I just passed along a friendly note in case you didn't realize it was protected. As for your changes, I actually thought the image looked better where I put it, and in my opinion it needs a caption to explain what the hell it is. And as for the stripping of newlines, I can't find mention of that in the manual of style, can you point me to it? I was trying to get rid of the annoying whitespace that shows up on the bottom of the page sometimes, and of all the things I tried, that worked for some reason. At any rate, two wrongs don't make a right - I made a mistake in changing the trivial formatting while the page was protected, but that doesn't mean you can do it with impunity. –Andre (talk) 04:25, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Contrary to what Kingturtle might have convinced you of making any changes whatsoever to protected pages is not advised against, frequently in these edit wars things get moved around and errors get made which then have to be rectified later, like i did in this case — if you look at the diff between the revision as of September 18 2004 and September 19 2004 (today) you'll see that the only things changed are the addition of the vprotected message as well as a trivial improvement to the image syntax with changes to actual content or its presentation being none. My reverting of your image-move around is favoring the stable version of this page which has been undisputed for approximately 2 months and one day (as of today), your additions of moving the IPU logo to the left of section 0 are nonstandard, layout breaking and as well as the caption being factually inaccurate — the logo in question is derived from the one made by the frequenters of alt.atheism and not made by them (guess who made the improved version), therefore i reverted your additions until this whole situation cools down.
- As for the stripping of newlines i was referring to the featured articles and other articles on wikipedia, they are placed one per line for readability and because of the difficulty of keeping them alphabetically arranged when they are all in one tag-soup, there is a guide somewhere on how to make those probably but i am unable to find it at this time.
I prefer to have merely messages sent to me, not full discussions, on my talk page. –Andre (talk) 09:28, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)