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Anyway, do you think it was okay that i moved the WP:RM manually and also created archive 88? Did i do the right thing to get Werdnabot to go to the new archive, by changing the code?

Its weird. Even though stats say that <1% are Admins, i still think half i know are admins. Simply south

Sysop

Please do not ask to be desysoped. You are one of the best sysops we have. Have a nice week and god bless. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 00:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

deleted article

Hello, A brief article I wrote was deleted by you as "Unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content". It was about a mostly forgotten old hardcore group (Damage), but in the context of a list containing many much more obscure bands that haven't been deleted, that categorization seems odd. What sort of information needs to added to indicate that the band in question wasn't "unremarkable"? potanka 19:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Oi! Barnstar!

		The Minor Barnstar
		This Barnstar is given to Gurch for lending a helping hand in protecting all those templates. Миша13 22:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Recurrent vandalism by 204.38.101.7

Hi! User 204.38.101.7, blocked by Gurch on 20th December for repeated vandalism, seems to be at it again on the "French wine" page. Please accept my humble apologies if I've gone about reporting this the wrong way, I'm a complete newbie. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Philip Trueman (talk • contribs) 17:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

Template protections

Hello Gurch, I hope you are doing well. I noticed that you perm-protected Template talk:WikiProject Texas and some other templates today. If you don't mind, I would like to inquire as to your reasoning. That particular template has existing for a long time without any trouble. Did something specific prompt the protections? Do you have a certain criteria you are using to decide which ones to protect? Thanks very much for satisfying our curiosity. Johntex\^talk 07:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Seems like Semi-protection would be better suited with problem templates getting full protection. Morphh ^(talk) 19:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Protection on images

Please don't assume I ignored your warning; I uploaded two images yesterday, Image:Stop.png and Image:Stop X.png. Because Stop.png and Information.png were already protected, I forgot that Stop X.png wasn't. -- Renesis (talk) 20:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#What is the status on this namechange?

I seemed to have sparked some criticism of your actions, and to fair I agreed with it, in the above thread and thought it only proper that you should be made aware of it. Since I cannot see that anyone has brought it up with you on your talk page, here is a heads-up.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 22:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

User_talk:66.173.152.158

This user has continued the act of vandalism, most recently at Dependent variable, even after your last warning.--æn↓þæµß¶-ŧ-¢ 16:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee Nysted: Deleted

You are not an administrator and I will seek that you be banned for deleting Nysted.

Lee Nysted, Owner; Managing Partner NystedMusic, LLC.

Counsel has been notified. – 17:32, 13 January 2007 Nyslee

Lee Nysted II: Legal Threats

My page has been the subject of vandals.

Please re-submit the following on Lee Nysted and ban the user that keeps changing my stats.

I have been in the music business for 30 years, playing for 40.

The obvious links to the name Lee Nysted can be traced back to Google or even Wikipedia.

Whoever has "protected" the page should be verified. If it is Chris_73, then that person should be aware that my company will pursue this issue until resolved.

Lee Nysted, Owner; Managing Partner NystedMusic, LLC.

– Lee Nysted 17:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee Nysted III: Return of the Bogus Notability Claim

Please go to www.NystedMusic.com

Verify published works and publicist's pdf files included in Wikipedia article Lee Nysted article

Please go to Google.com

Google Lee Nysted to verify the 15,000 web sites that Lee Nysted's music is appearing, incuding but not limited to

iTunes Amazon.com Rhapsody MSN Music TheOrchard AOL Music MusicFreedom.com iSound.com

If Lee must re-pay the publicist to load the above article under a different name, this Wikipedia has lost it's value as a source for honest information. When Bullies can lead to this, it makes a mockery of the whole system.

Lee Nysted Tierra del Sol

Aruba

Chicago, IL.

L.A. California

London, U.K.

– Lee Nysted 22:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee Nysted IV: The Revenge

1-13-07 From: Nysted Foundations Worldwide

My family; my trusts; NystedMusic, LLC., and our foundation will, effective immediately, pull any and all funding that we have pledged and were to give to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia and the foundation.

Our European holding company and utilities under the name of Nysted, will also discontinue any gifting to said organization.

50% of all after tax royalties and revenues of said organizations give to charities and foundations.

I will not seek to re-instate any of the articles about me, or my music, or my financial interests in the music industry.

Lee Nysted, Owner; Managing Partner NystedMusic, LLC. – Lee Nysted 15:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee Nysted V: This Time It's Personal

We are responding to a Google inquiry and, we get here. "Gurch" leaves the day after the bio of Lee Nysted is deleted?

Is there a reason why the music history and discography of Lee Nysted is not listed here?

Lee's band members? Current projects? The Lee Nysted Experience?

It is clear to us that he is listed in nearly every other publication on earth.

Please advise users a.s.a.p. – 12.35.96.66 17:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit To Kombai

The edit to the Kombai article was an accident. There was vandalism on the page I intended to delete but my changes blanked the article by mistake. I intended to fix this but I became sidetracked before I could. I'm sorry, I didn't intend vandalism. – 24.3.46.220 04:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Geo-stubs

Hi Gurch - good to see you adding stubs to articles. Can I ask one favour though? Almost every country in the world now has its own separate geo-stub in the form CountryName-geo-stub (e.g., Italy-geo-stub, SriLanka-geo-stub). If you can add the country where possible when you stub, it'll save a bit more work further down the line. Cheers, and keep up the good work :) Grutness...wha? 05:02, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, laziness on my part. I'll try and use slightly more specific tags

Any help is still good work, even if it's just the geo-stub tag. I just wasn't sure whether you knew about the country tags. Grutness...wha? 05:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, feel free to drop by at WP:WSS, the stub sorting wikiproject. Any new stub sorter (and any returning stub sorter from years past!) is always welcome :) Grutness...wha? 05:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Uncategorized articles

Please be aware that putting a stub marker on an article, as you did with Adowal, isn't good enough - please put in an actual category. Stub categories are Wikipedia maintenance categories, not subject categories. Eli Falk 11:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding you edit to Talk:Shawn Hownbeck/Archive

Thanks for fixing that, I was unsure the template to use. Navou ^banter 16:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

why did you delete...

Why did you delete the User:Ariele page?

I learned it was deleted when I was writing a reply to someone in which I was going to list the various sockpuppets who have harrassed me.

Ariele was the first sockpuppet vandal to stalk me. I made a big mistake to allow her to stalk me for so long. I did so because she seemed to be, well, mentally unbalanced, and did not seem to be aware that her actions were so contrary to the rules. I'd like to be able to return to her list of User contributions, to see where I went wrong, and cite her behavior in examples.

Now I don't know how to document that abuse.

What do you suggest I do now?

Was this deletion in conformance to some policy?

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 19:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for the help. -- Geo Swan 19:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Why!?!?!

I'm going to huggle you until you come back to Wikipedia, you bastard. Nishkid64 00:11, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment from Evlekis

When you return here, if this is still fresh in your mind, I apologise for the slight mix-up regarding Joszef Kasza. By reverting, I didn't realise that I was replacing a gallery of no significance, where-as my only intention was to change the font of the Cyrillic: having italics mde the stroke (/) look like an lower-case L. Once again, my apologies. Evlekis 14:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:'(

:'( Hope to see you every now and then, anyway! If you've burnt yourself out as an editor, I won't force you to stay, but you're a great friend to have around. Миша13 17:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment from Somelight

THE LEE NYSTED answers:

Album listed in AMG Notable players, e.g., Matt Walker on the album. Worldwide digital and retail exposure, e.g., Amazon, iTunes, etc. It looks and sounds just like a likely article candidate. I am a fan in Colorado. If I Google Lee Nysted, I get a Wiki link to here??? Please undelete the name so I can write something or help someone? Thanks, Somelight 21:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Somelight 21:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

User:%

Hi, I noticed that you blocked the user with the admittedly unusual username %. However, I don't see anything objectionable or potentially harmful about that username, so please could you either elaborate on your reasons or unblock the user? The user happens to be a friend of mine. Thanks in advance. — Timwi 23:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Sean D'Anconia

An article that you have been involved in editing, Sean D'Anconia, has been listed by me for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean D'Anconia. Thank you. beekman 19:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment from Anetode

You know, at first I tried to help by protecting this page after seeing the amount of irritation it had apparently caused you. The apology for doing so, and the rest of the note, were probably not a good idea, but now I don't care. Your treatment of this whole thing has been just immature. Yes, Wikipedia is a bureaucracy with too many pedantic pricks running about. Yes, users littering your talk page with inane barnstars and admin nomination requests can wear thin after a while. But then just exploding, taking your stress out on others, and admonishing those who dare try to lend support - all of this is just plain childish. You want to retire? Go ahead, everyone appreciated the work you have done. But then don't check your talk page every day and leave insulting messages, no one here deserves your abuse. Leave with grace, like others have done, even though they grew tired of Wikipedia. Or, better yet, stop the whole drama queen act, assume some responsibility, and come back to helping us make this a worthwhile project. Don't talk to the users you don't like, don't frequent areas that tick you off, contribute in a way that brings only enjoyment to you. Or don't, it's your choice, but know that your attitude is transparent. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 21:11, 31 March 2007 (UTC) ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 00:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for irritating you and anyone else who I may have irked along the way. On balance your decision to protect the page was probably a good one. It would have been fine had nobody made a fuss.

I'm not leaving because I've grown tired of Wikipedia. I would have gone a lot more calmly if I were. You're free to find fault in the manner of my departure (and I readily confess there is much to be found), but please bear in mind that doing so doesn't help anyone. Yes, my conduct was less than satisfactory, for which I have already apologized, and yes, my behaviour may be viewed as childish.

I wish I could simply "not talk to the users I don't like", but that just isn't possible. Not any more, for any length of time. I wish it were, but it isn't. I'm sorry. My actions were wrong, and I should have seen this coming and found a more constructive way to go about things. I understand that the continued reading and blanking of messages on my talk page may be viewed as unacceptable, and I shall stop doing so. If you feel I've violated a policy, by all means take things further.

A bit of explanation, which should hopefully show you why my departure has nothing to do with barnstars or anything remotely along those lines. I didn't really want people knowing about this (other than those I told privately) because I didn't want to cause unncecessary hassle, however it is perhaps best to be honest. This is not my only account. I have been contributing for eighteen months. I was an administrator for six months. I got frustrated with the project in January and briefly quit, decided I might be able to make things work if I came back under a different name and started afresh, did so, but only delayed the inevitable and ended up much worse off as a result. User:Gurch is my other account. Take any action which you feel may be necessary. In hindsight, this was a very bad idea, for which I apologize once again. I will, as you request, go properly this time.

Thank you and good luck – Qxz 22:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

About that notice you place on the top, are you really sure you're User:Gurch? — zero » 00:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

He confirmed it here. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 00:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I do not know why you had to change your account (Your old account shows that you were once a sysop.) — zero » 00:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, Zero, maybe it is time to quit conversation on Qxz's talk page. Did you read the message Qxz left? I suggest you do and contemplate, quietly and off-wiki, the message and what it means in relation to Qxz's actions and then refrain from commenting on Qxz's talk page. --Iamunknown 00:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I am sincerely sorry for getting involved and adding on to the mess. I understand and respect your decision to keep quiet about this, and I must say that any accusations of immaturity on my part are rendered completely baseless by your humble and honest response. Thank you and good luck. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 00:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Help!

I see you just moved the banner style ads to template namespace, but before you did that, the page also included links to speedy deletion logs and the like. Your regular userspace redirects to your talk page. Where can I find those logs? I find them quite useful. (Please answer on my talk page) - Mgm|^(talk) 08:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

To encourage fact checking I would like to see a banner to promote Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check, but my art skills are pretty much non-existent. I see you created at least some of the banners yourself. Would you like to help me out with this one? - Mgm|^(talk) 09:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

responded on User talk:MacGyverMagic – Qxz 10:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

• A shame to see you left. I've been informed of that by another user and already contacted AzaToth. In case you haven't noticed yet, you also have email. :) - Mgm|^(talk) 10:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Forgot to switch accounts?

;-) ? Anyway, about time you admitted that. ^_^ Миша13 10:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

No, I didn't forget to switch accounts, and yes, I decided it would be best to make it clear that both accounts are mine. I didn't do so initially because I didn't want to cause yet more fuss – Qxz 12:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back ;)

Welcome back, Gurch. Did you enjoy being a nonadmin? I wish (honestly speaking) more admins would do that when they get frustrated/tired of the tools. It's sometimes refreshing to be a non-admin for a change. Until you break on the other side, of course.

And I do hope this isn't an April Fools' Day prank you're pulling. Heh. – Chacor 01:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not coming back; in fact, quite the opposite. No, I didn't enjoy it – Gurch 10:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Qxz, thanks for the kind message on my talk page. I understand your frustration and hope that, whatever you decide to do, you have the best of luck. Regards, Iamunknown 19:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

:(

Bye Gurch. Sad to see you go. --Rory096 00:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

bye bye gurch

sorry to see you go; you were and are quite a Wikipedian. don't forget the good you've done 'round here. take care, and don't be afraid to come back. JoeSmack ^Talk 13:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you really have to go?

File:Cry-tpvgames.gif I really like your ads, but now there won't be anything new, and anyway, you are a great person, and we need you. I won't fuss if you don't come back, but I still want you to. RyGuy 14:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Gurch (nee Qxz). - Thanks for voting in my RfA. I was surprised to see you go. If you are taking too much heat for the Ads, might I suggest forming Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Wikipedia_ads? That way, the heat comes down on the project and not you. If you form such a project, I'll add my name to it. -- Jreferee 15:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC) P.S., check out (Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Advertising.

Voting? Oh. Yes. Sorry about that. It looks like my 'vote' got removed. I'm not sure you're meant to thank me... thanking constructive oppose voters, perhaps, but not people who oppose every RfA simultaneously and get blocked for incivility. I'd say sorry you didn't pass, but I maintain my view that adminship is a bad thing – in that one is vastly better off without it – so, er, congratulations on your unsuccess.

My departure has nothing to do with ads. Not sure what gave you that idea. Someone even suggested I was leaving because I'd been given too many barnstars (still haven't figured that one out...) – Gurch 16:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Oops! I meant thank you for "participating" in my RfA. If you didn't post in my RfA, I wouldn't have known anything was wrong in your part of the woods. I was just guessing about the Ads causing problems for you. -- Jreferee 17:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Until you'r finally gone :)

Image:Qxz-ad11.gif is tagged {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} can I make a derivative (translate into russian)?--Vaya 12:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

You can, but you'll need to tag the derivative with {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} as well – and it can only be used within Wikipedia itself (it's not 'free' in the sense that a GFDL or public domain image is). The tag is necessary because it's a derivative of Image:WP1 0 Icon.png, which in turn is a derivative of the Wikipedia logo, Image:Wikipedia-logo.png, which as an official logo is copyrighted by the Foundation and not available under a free license. This is all necessary because the banner is advertising the Wikipedia 1.0 project and so includes their logo; most of the other banners are public domain or under various free licenses because they are either entirely my own work or the images they use are free. Thanks – Gurch 12:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info --Vaya 12:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, this is like a funeral!

Well, I just love your ads!User:Trampton|Trampton]] 19:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

		The Original Barnstar
		Thanks a lot for making the effort to get that banner done. :) — Mgm|(talk) 10:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Are you still here?

Hey Qxz, (or Gurch, whichever you prefer) are you still doing the ads or was that contribution you did this morning just something you were already going to do? RyGuy 13:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Nobody else was going to do it, so I figured I might as well. Read the message I've put at the top of my talk page – I may make the odd contribution from time to time if I happen across something (while looking stuff up, say), but I don't wish to have any further involvement in admin/community stuff. I'm not going to make any more contributions with the Qxz account, so if you're going to refer to me, use my 'real' account name – Gurch 14:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for responding. RyGuy 14:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ads

I am still amazed at how these work. How do you get the images to act as links to other articles? Or is that your little secret? Simply south 23:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Not to steal his Gurch's thunder, but on Template:Qxz-ads in the edit window, you can see the imagemap delimiters (<imagemap></imagemap>), which enable the image as a hyperlink.  ~Steptrip 14:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Dammit Man

You were one of the only people I thought did a good job around here...oh, well...good luck with your retirement. I've never been able to get an account past 500 edits without getting frustrated out of my mind, so more power to you I guess. 67.86.86.217 01:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Fnord.

:o Gurch. No fair taking initiative while I'm still akwardly trying to figure out how to reply to that last email. My unfortunate tendency is to ignore things I can't figure out how to respond to, sometimes. Truth be told, I didn't put too much effort into figuring out who it was (didn't seem to be a profitable search?), but I s'pose I should've noticed. In any case, welcome back. I'll probably be returning to IRC at some point when I'm more caught up with offline life -- we'll see. – Luna Santin (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Misza13 figured out the connection the day before I got blocked (he's good with that sort of thing... as far as I know nobody else did). I still feel a little guilty that I spoke to you so much as 'Qxz' without saying anything... if you don't mind that, that's a relief, thanks. Sorry if I put you in an awkward spot; don't feel pressed to reply, that's no problem. Stay away as long as possible, it'll do you good – Gurch 20:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Gurch

Jeez...I could have huggled you a few times if you told me you were Gurch. =( Nishkid64 00:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, well a lot of things might have happened if I'd told people I was Gurch, but that would have defeated the point of trying to start again, wouldn't it? – Gurch 09:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

The Qxz Ads

Hi Gurch,

I am just wondering... Could I add an advertisement about my WikiProject to the ad template? You can design one for me, if you approve my request. My Wikiproject is linked via the shortcut WP:GHR.

 Smcafirst | Chit-Chat | SIGN  posted at 04:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

– Gurch 19:58, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes I'd like one for, Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 18:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

– Gurch 19:58, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I may need one for Wikipedia:WikiProject Åland Islands too. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 21:21, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

How'd you make all these? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 21:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

The images themselves are easy – most of them just consist of an icon, a border and some text. All that's needed then is software that can take several frames and make an animated GIF out of them, as well as doing effects like the fades. I use Adobe ImageReady, but there are free alternatives – Gurch 21:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you know some of the free alternatives? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 21:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

The GIMP has plugins that can do a similar sort of thing, I think. Haven't used them myself, though – Gurch 21:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

What about Paint.NET? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 21:55, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so; at least, I can't find anything about it on the website – Gurch 22:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you also do one for Wikipedia:WikiProject Åland Islands? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 22:10, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Just want to say GREAT JOB ON THE ADS! --Defender 911 22:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the ad for WP:GHR!  Smcafirst | Chit-Chat | SIGN  posted at 19:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

• Can you put the ads on other wikis?--Jakerl 02:21, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Provided you comply with the licensing terms of the individual ads (which vary from one ad to another, due to their use of various images under different licenses), there's not a lot I can do to stop you; credit would be appreciated but is not mandatory. To upload an ad to another wiki, save it to your computer and then upload it via that wiki's upload page. If you were intending to upload to a Wikimedia wiki, please upload it to the Wikimedia Commons (you'll need to create an account there first) instead, as this allows them to be used by all Wikimedia wikis. Wherever you put them, please make sure that you preserve the summary and licensing information – everything I've done is in the public domain, but where I've used other images this is a required for copyright reasons.

Also, please bear in mind that almost all of the ads are very much specific to the English Wikipedia, as they refer to WikiProjects and processes that only exist here. Thanks – Gurch 19:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

• I've downloaded Unfreez, a free alternative. I don't think you would mind if I put my name on the page, would you? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 11:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

By 'page', do you mean the description on Template:Qxz-ads? If you create and upload an ad, then you can add your username to the list of people who've created ads. Though you may want to check with me after uploading it, so I can make sure the template itself is changed properly (it's a little complex). Thanks – Gurch 19:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Uh, yeah. Plus I asked you to create a ad for WP:AX. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 20:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed you did. This irritating thing called "real life" (don't know if you've heard of it) tends to get in the way of such things; I have at least four others to do and I will make yours when I have time. I have made an ad for you already, remember – Gurch 20:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I remember. I'm just asking you do one other one. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 20:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Can you make one for WP:ATL too? - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 23:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• I need an ad for WikiProject Nickelodeon. Thanks — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 16:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Would you make an ad for my WikiProject User Help? Thanks a bunch in advance —Andrew Hampe ^Talk 17:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Australia

Hello Gurch, my name is HB4026 and I was wondering if you could make an ad for WikiProject Australia. What I would like it to look like is this:

Banner: Green and Gold (Australian Colours)

Graphics: A boomerang, a Kangaroo and an Australian flag to appear and than fade away.

Message:

After the graphics appear could you please put:

(Fade In) COO-EEE!!! (Fade out)

(Fade in) Interested in topics related to Australia? (Fade out)

(Fade In) Join us at WikiProject Australia~ (Fade out)

If you need any more information, feel free to contact me. Thankyou Harrison-HB4026 03:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: IP block and Userpage

You're the one responsible for the ads? Well done! :D

Also, I like your idea, thankyou for saying Wikipedia is not Myspace - I wanted to avoid that exactly, making a userpage that was braggardly or in some other way attention-whoring and not really about the Wikipedia project. If you or Luna could tell me how to forward User:Horst.Burkhardt to User_talk:Horst.Burkhardt I'd really be much obliged.

Also, thankyou for responding so promptly and clearly to my question about redlining. :)

Good Luck - Wikipedia probably needs more of your kind. Horst.Burkhardt 16:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

To make a page redirect to another, use #REDIRECT [[insert page to redirect to here]]. More information about this can be found at Help:Redirect. I've done this to your userpage for you; if in future you wish to turn your userpage into an actual page rather than a redirect, follow a link to it, find where it says "Redirected from User:Horst.Burkhardt" at the top of the page, click that, then click "edit this page". Alternatively, add "?action=edit" to the end of the URL, like this – Gurch 16:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

qxz-ads

i know you're supposed to be gone, but if you're ever bored, can you make an ad for wikiproject music? themcman1 (help me with my sig) 16:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

– Gurch 16:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

make an advertisement showing about Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. — ^tz (talk • contribs • autographs) 05:35, Saturday, April 14, 2007 (UTC)

– Gurch 10:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:SPOTLIGHT

Can you please make a banner for this project, please? Thank you! Real96 05:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Category

The category dates back to the Siegenthaler incident, and was created specifically to accomodate the fact that the Siegenthaler article was going to appear on CNN that day, and it was imperative it not appear in a vandalized form (which would have been a disaster). Since we forsaw that being a problem in the future we created a protection template for it, along with all the fixings. The point is that if we know an article is going to make a high-profile appearance and we need to guarantee that it's pristine at that moment we protect it to ensure that.

It's a rare event, but it's one that absolutely should be planned for, and it makes a clear exception to the category policy, which was quite clearly intended to deal with dead categories, not peculiar administrative categories. Phil Sandifer 17:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Where is this template? I don't see it on Template:Protection templates or in Category:Protection templates. This sounds suspiciously like something you created for your own personal use, or the use of a small group of people, that administrators in general aren't aware of. This is never a good thing. Note also that things have changed since 2005, and in more recent cases (Colbert, for example) the situation has been dealt with simply by protecting the page as normal – Gurch 18:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I see... AzaToth turned it into a redirect – which was the correct course of action, in my opinion, though he should probably have pointed it at the "full protection" template rather than the "semi-protection due to vandalism" one. I'll further reinforce the notion that things have changed since 2005 by pointing to the fact that it is now possible to set an expiry time for page protection, and the current series of protection templates have an expiry parameter intended to be used in such circumstances.

So. Suppose Jimbo was appearing on CNN tomorrow, and they were going to show the Foo article. An admin would hop over to the article, check it wasn't vandalised, protect it with the summary "Appearing on CNN tomorrow, needs to be free of vandalism", set the expiry time to two days in the future, and add {{pp-protected|expiry=17 April 2007}}.

Let's see if this is satsifactory. The page is certainly protected and free of vandalism. Newcomers can see that this is the case by looking at the template, and can see that they would normally be able to edit the page, and that if they wish to, they can come back in two days' time. Administrators or other experienced users wondering about the reason for protection can check the log and see exactly why it was protected. Was it even possible to specify a protection reason in the log at the time of the Seigenthaler incident? I seem to remember it wasn't – this alone seems to render a separate category and template unnecessary – Gurch 10:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Please do try to assume good faith - this is not "something created for my personal use." I haven't touched the template since the templates got re-organized, so I can't readily tell you where it went. (It was Template:P-protected which is now a redirect. As for Colbert, that was a different circumstance - the specific problem with Siegenthaler was that the page was going to be shown on CNN, live, in its current version, and Jimbo specifically protected it because he was going onto CNN. (You can find this in the protection history for the article if you want.) Colbert wasn't displaying a page live with advance warning. The idea of this template is so that we can take a page onto television without having to worry about it becoming a vandalism target - a huge deal with Siegenthaler because that was a major vandalism target at the time.

It's a rare case, as I said, but to speedy delete because it doesn't fit the rules exactly is an example of overly literally interpreting the rules at its worst. There may be reasons to remove the template and category, but they are not speedies by any useful definition of speedy. Phil Sandifer 00:04, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

While not relevent to the point of the discussion, you may be interested to know that in fact I can't find that protection in the protection history for the article, because in May 2006, all previous log entries were quietly obliterated. See the log for yourself. While the page history extends back to December 2005, at that time page protections didn't also get an entry in the of the page history as they do now – so even the luxury of being able to view deleted edits wouldn't reveal it. My attempts to find the missing log entry on another page led to a dead end – and the discovery that Freakofnurture thinks it appropriate to store deleted page histories of controversial articles in a subpage of his userspace named "crap", but I'll let that drop.

So much for transparency.

Anyway, if you feel there is a need for the template and category, fair enough. I'm getting close to giving up on this category reorganization altogether, as it just takes too much effort to get anything done. As you're an administrator and I'm not, any attempt at a CfD would be an exercise in futility on my part (do you see now why I tried to have it speedied?), so I'll leave the discussion here. Thank you for your time – Gurch 12:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks I forgot about that being there.

		The Minor Barnstar
		For watching out and helping a user keep his userspace clean I award you this minor star. Æon Insanity Now! 22:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

{{tprotected}}

Gurch, Thanks for the comment, I'm going to be off line for about 10 hours, but will reply back to you then. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Made some updates on this, effectively transcluding the new template with an additional variable. Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. Thanks, — xaosflux ^Talk 01:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Comment from FrankB

• Ping to answer and apology // FrankB 21:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
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OMG (flood). – Luna Santin (talk) 03:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I sended you that link. --CableModem^_^ 01:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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He used to. All you have to do is ask though. Ryan ^{Got something to say?} 13:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)