User talk:R. Baley/Archive2

Bamadude

Thanks for getting involved in this - I was off-Wiki all weekend. And of course I remember you - your advice was one of several factors leading me to de-escalate on the User:FCYTravis comment deletion issue. It looks like it's escalated to beyond the level that non-admins are needed, but I've left a note on Cheeser's page asking him to let me know if I can be of any use. Sarcasticidealist 00:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi SI! You're welcome, I'm a little sorry I didn't get involved sooner, but I was worried about inflaming the situation (my prior interaction and all). I hope you had a great weekend, after all, nobody can be 'on-wiki' all the time. I'm keeping an eye on the situation (which hopefully has waned) but in case I miss something, let me know, and I'll do whatever I can to help. Oh and thanks for leaving a comment a C1's (and in general for your work at WA). Talk to ya later, R. Baley 09:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Alkivar

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Lennon Picture

Hi R, I wanted to run this by you quickly. After laboring over getting the picture correct for John Lennon, I wanted to make sure I did everything to spec. take a look. It's the opening picture. Thanks in advance.Sixstring1965 22:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sixstring, I'm glad you received the the appropriate license, the pic looks good (I'm assuming it's this one. What you need to do to finish up is send an email, or permissions request, to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" (as per this link. It might take a little time for them to respond, they get a lot of requests. Once you've forwarded to them the permission you obtained for the licenses used, add "{{Otrs pending}}" to the image page (in the licensing section).

Sorry it took me a little while to get to this, I've been away from the wiki for the last couple of days. Try to read over the Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission article, I linked to earlier, and it's usually safest to send that email so that the license can be confirmed as soon as possible. Otherwise, an image might be in danger of getting deleted. Let me know when you send the email. Take care, R. Baley 05:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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Your welcome. Glad you got everything worked out. Don't really know why the SP request was a problem to begin with. Happy editing, R. Baley 15:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

My First Vandal

R., I was vandalized for the first time by 216.165.22.115 and don't know what to do next besides revert. Any suggestions? Sixstring1965 15:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, if you spend any time here, it's probably bound to happen. The most important thing is not to let it get to you. As for what to do, check out this page about leaving vandalism warnings. For the specific vandalism to your page [1], I'd probably go with a level 2 (It's important not to over-reach here, if you want admin action down the line, they like to see that users, esp. new ones, were warned properly).

Also when putting the warning on the page be sure to use the 'subst:' code in the template like this for example, type "{{subst:uw-vandalism2}}" not just "{{uw-vandalism2}}" R. Baley 15:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and created his talk page and left the warning (diff here). R. Baley 15:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

For future ref, if it ever gets too bad, you might also want to request that your user page be semi-protected at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection (short cut: WP:RFPP). They should be able to semi-protect anything except your talk page (except in really extreme cases, even then only for a short duration). And should the shit ever really hit the fan, there's always Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (short cut: WP:AIV). AIV works pretty fast in cases of ongoing obvious vandalism or abusive edits. Hope all this helps, and really hope that it turns out to be way more than you ever needed to know. R. Baley 15:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. You're the best. Sixstring1965 17:33, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

ANI

Hi. RE: WP:ANI#User calls me a WP:DICK for linking to policy. You've closed it (finally; thank you) stating that it has been resolved. Is that on the basis of my final comment left there? - Rjd0060 16:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

And I assume that you are talking about me in this edit summary; and I appreciate it. - Rjd0060 16:58, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes. R. Baley 17:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

(ec) Partly, I saw your comment on C1's page a little while ago. Both of you are good editors in general and just got caught up in a stupid situation because of a one-time thoughtless link to a meta essay (which is my problem with the essay, btw. I agree with the sentiment behind it). But the kicker for me was that the ANI thread seemed to be causing distress over a situation you were sorry had happened. Both of you would probably get along nicely were the circumstances different, and I hope that in the future, that's what happens. (People laugh at old shit all the time, after a little reflection, right?) Happy editing and take care, R. Baley 17:11, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

(E/c) I agree with you. Thanks. I (can only speak for myself) got caught up in that whole situation as it moved very quickly. I really didn't see any positive outcome if the conversation would have continued forever, which is what it seemed like was going to happen. - Rjd0060 17:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Greenwald_at_salon_logo.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Greenwald_at_salon_logo.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 21:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

My (Remember the dot)'s RfA

I never thanked you for participating in my RfA a couple of weeks ago. Thank you for your support, though unfortunately the request was closed as "no consensus". I plan to run again at a later time, and I hope you will support me again then.

Thanks again! —Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:39, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Perro de Presa Canario

If it's not too much trouble, would you mind taking a look at Perro de Presa Canario? It was unprotected and went back downhill rather quickly (and that sure wasn't my intention). Anyway, I think the more folks there are participating in the discussion, the better. I realize and admit that I'm coming at the subject from a different angle than most, plus I'm still getting up to speed on what will fly in this context - that said, I'm able and willing to be flexible. On that note, I'm not comfortable with a single admin (user:Rklawton) working on the content in a vacuum and he seems to be less than willing to engage in any sort of discussion with me. Thanks -- Frangible (talk) 20:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Glenn Greenwald

No problem. Had I known that comment was by a banned user I would not have replied.--Samiharris 20:28, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I've refactored my comment. WP:NPF clearly covers this situation, as I am sure you would agree.--Samiharris 10:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

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Your note

Hey, no problem. I've grown a pretty thick skin — you need it to survive here. And most people don't apologize, so thanks. Crum375 (talk) 05:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Rick Reilly's 4:03 high-school mile mark

You were right to delete. In 1966, he would have been 8 years old.  ;-) Hult041956 (talk) 16:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the backup. I hate to delete, but it didn't have a credible feel to it. R. Baley 17:52, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Arbcom comment on ANI

RE:[2] Please don't revert out my comments in the archived thread.

I started my comments before you archived, miraculously, I didn't have an edit conflict for some reason after you archived the comement, so even though my date stamp is after your archive, I was first.

Out of curiosity, are you an admin, or are you aspiring to be one? T (talk) 09:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Not an admin, and don't really want to be one right now (down the road, who knows?) I didn't intentionally remove any comments, so if that happened, sorry. Just didn't think anyone should have an ANI thread about their votes. Anybody is free to disagree and revert. For the record, I don't have anything against the Spartan guy either. . .sorry he would leave over something like this. R. Baley (talk) 09:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Also, for the record, I looked back over the edit, and it doesn't appear that I deleted any comments, accidentally or otherwise (here's my edit diff). Must have been some kind of weird edit conflict. Happy editing. R. Baley (talk) 09:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

re: Image question

Sending it to OTRS is fine. The e-mail address to send it to is permissions[at]wikimedia.org. That's how people generally do it, to avoid clogging up the image description page and to preserve others' privacy. Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 13:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for everything! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helper2008 (talk • contribs) 08:18, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Hey, I saw in your contributions somewhere, that you were thinking leaving because you thought you had "ruffled some feathers" (or something like that). I just wanted to say that you should stick around, don't let anybody get under your skin, and well. . .make sure you use edit summaries ;-) Happy Editing, R. Baley (talk) 08:32, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Sixstring1965 back again

The abusive sockpuppet Sixstring1965 is back again in the John Lennon article discussion, this time with the multiple IDs of Innocentvictim and 12.72.53.178. The prat actually isn't even trying to hide his identity, confident that we cannot keep him out. Is there an editorial equivalent of a restraining order we can apply to this unhappy little elf? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 04:15, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Glad to see you were able to put a stop to it. Sorry I wasn't around to help when it happened. The only thing I would suggest is that you don't let it get to you, delete when it's really obvious, and always drop a note to an admin (or noticeboard) if you have suspicions, whether it's obvious or not. If you delete a comment just put something like 'delete comment by indef blocked user Sixstring' in the edit summery, in a matter-of-fact way, without engaging him directly (taunts just invite further disruption). Good luck with the JL article, R. Baley (talk) 19:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I did let his sheer audacity let me spark off into a rantbut it seems to bother Andreasgede when I give vent to that sort of negative energy. I am glad I did it, despite Cardinal's freaking out over the vehemence of my post. I'm rather done with it. I said what I needed to, and I'm all better now. :)

Your advice is solid, as usual. I'll endeavor to follow it. A question, though: when I refactored the other sock's comments, I simply struck through the text, as some of the comments had been responded to by legitimate users. Am I supposed to remove them? Is there protocol for this? More, is there an article page (outside of WP:TALK) that discusses indenting protocols (increased indenting for subsequent edits, and such)? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 09:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

In this case the repeated re-appearance is disrupting actual ongoing collaboration for work on the article (repeated archiving if nothing else). In my mind it's enough that people know that a comment was there (for the legitimate responses already made). Any post or edit by an indef block user may be removed. This applies to edits or comments made after the ban (be judicious about deleting, striking is ok, too). And if someone disagrees, well it's a wiki -discuss. Oh, and be certain that it is a sock (I would say more but . . .WP:Beans applies here).

As far as indenting (I hope I understand what you're asking here) I'm not sure I've seen that written anywhere. All I know is that you try to make it clear who you're "talking" to. Some people just un-indent when the conversation has moved substantially to the right, and leave a note (un-indent- rp to _____). Hope that helps, R. Baley (talk) 10:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

(←dent)Okay, Last question: can a previously blocked user petition for re-admission? I've seen barnstars (though not awarded barnstars) for those editors who were banned and rejoined the community and have since made themselves useful. I've never heard more than rumours of such. Is there a path to re-admission that you have heard of? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 00:08, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Sure, anybody can appeal for reconsideration, either to the blocking admin, or getting a 2nd opinion (from an admin, I think by placing "{{unblock|your reason here}}" on their talk page. However getting an overturn without the consent of the original blocking admin seems to be rare), or by appealing to Arbcom. A couple of relevant links are here (Appeals Process) and here (Appealing a block). R. Baley (talk) 00:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

ber

Happy Christmas!! sixstring1965 (talk) 17:48, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

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yay. apparently this user is dumber than a sack of wet rocks. Maybe a community ban is going to be the only way to shut this slow little clown down for a while, so they can stew in their own juices. You can see the editor is not really caring about the regular blocking thing, and apparently has not interest whatsoever in regaining entrance to wp legitimately. Let me know your thoughts, and I'll proceed with the commban process. He cannot say we did not give him the tools he needed to do things the right way. WP doesn't support utter stupidity. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 05:44, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Note, could Bluewind be one of Six' puppets? - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 06:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Doubtful, but possible. . .keep an eye out. R. Baley (talk) 17:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

My contribution VERY MUCH helps editors to understand the forces that help shape an article on Wikipedia and justly belong RIGHT where I placed them. Any further attempts to remove them will be counteracted and put you in a position to be reprimanded yourself. Thank you 69.244.181.184 (talk) 10:02, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

good luck with that. R. Baley (talk) 10:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Took it to ANI for further input. R. Baley (talk) 10:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For filing a checkuser. They may decline it as "too obvious". With Obedium I have kind of decided I am going to waste no more effort on protocol than it takes him to switch IP and set up another sock. But it may turn up some more substantial socks too which would be good. --BozMo talk 10:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I did check with Alison first, and filed upon her recommendation. I agree about the obvious thing, but it never hurts to 'dot all the i's' so to speak. Hopefully a little more can be done from a technical standpoint in blocking this user. R. Baley (talk) 10:46, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

The New Year's Cards

Thanks from that format fix, I thought 1 div would have been enough to avoid this mess, but I've fix the rest, I've only send the cards to about a dozen users and the rest if needed will be without the cards. I'm obviously not the best editor as far as tables and cards and other stuff like that Also to yourself as well, have Happy New Year 2008. --JForget 18:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, and a happy new year as well. R. Baley (talk) 19:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Not a particulaly threatening person but certainly weired. I was tempted to just block him myself but it would be better if another admin did it. Thank you. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 23:27, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I thought you might be (who wouldn't be tempted) but you're one of the (many) good ones. Hope that some intervention is forthcoming. Oh, and btw happy new year :-) R. Baley (talk) 23:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikistress

Thank you. It is people like you, that make me want to continue here. Yes, I have been stressed from many on, and off Wiki conditions, Which include: Being uncerimoniously dumped by girlfriend, having my teenage mind corrupted by a phobia of death (which is thankfully subsiding), and having many issues with users here on Wikipedia. Thankfully, things have gotten a big boost here and there. I am happy you have reached out to me. It means alot. I don't know if I will ever be a 300-edit a day user on this site, but I do love Wikipedia. I'm happy there is peolpe like you on this site. It makes me know, that even in the darkest moment, there is life. Tech43 (talk) 08:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I will ask you for help. I have also reached out to users I have had problems with. Again, thank you. And I will take your advice with glee. Happy editing, Tech43 (talk) 08:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

your welcome, R. Baley (talk) 08:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

heh heh heh...

I wonder how many people noticed this.[3] C'est magnifique! Raymond Arritt (talk) 02:22, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Why thanks! It could have been worse. . .I mean there's always this. :-) R. Baley (talk) 08:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I appreciate your words greatly. After posting the nomination, I sort of had this weird feeling of complete uncertainty over whether I was completely out to lunch in nominating myself. The first supporter seemed to be supporting me solely on the basis that I'd nominated myself, which didn't really set my mind at ease, and the second didn't provide a rationale at all. Your !vote reassured me that even if my RfA was unsuccessful, I wasn't an idiot for trying.

As for whether I wanted it, I've thought for a few months (since I started contributing more in the WP namespace) that it's something I'd like to try for eventually, but it was really only once I started participating in others' RfA discussions that I decided that maybe I was ready now. Actually self-nominating now was more or less a spur of the moment decision this afternoon.

In any event, I hope you saw me partially credit you in my answer to Q2 for my decision to disengage during the User:FCYTravis/Star Wars kid/Adolf Hitler fiasco. I found your advice on that occasion to be very helpful. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 10:37, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and it hasn't been that long a time with the no see: I've had The Great Global Warming Swindle watchlisted since I participated in its RfC, so I've seem some of what you've been up to - I think I even reverted User:The Noosphere a couple of times. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 10:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh, that article makes people act crazy. . .I try to keep it at arms length. You're absolutely welcome for the !vote. We need more admins, and you'll make an excellent one; thanks for putting yourself out there. R. Baley (talk) 18:48, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

re: innappropriate orphaned image tagging

I'm not sure what I can do, the images fit the guidelines to be tagged and the bot has no way of knowing what pages the images were removed from. The only thing I can think of is reverting the page to the revision with the images until the dispute ends. BJ^Talk 20:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Protection of Minor Harry Potter characters

Re: this edit. I know people complain about protecting the wrong version all the time. I am only asking that you revert the page back to a version with the images because they are all being tagged as orphaned, thus ensuring their probable deletion at about the same time the page protection is expected to expire. This advances one side in the dispute unfairly. I have tried to remove the tags per template instructions, "Please remove this template if a reason for keeping this image has been provided, or . . ." but my edits are reverted by BJBot. The bot operator suggests that the page be restored to prevent this (inquiry here and reply here). Thank you for your attention to this matter, R. Baley (talk) 07:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

You might be able to put the images on another page (temporarily). -- tariqabjotu 01:28, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Nonconstructive reverting.

Please refrain from making nonconstructive reverts, as you did to the Barack Obama article. TheOnlyJason (talk) 03:32, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

umm ok. well, bye then. R. Baley (talk) 03:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thought you'd like to know, your pen pal has just begun a 48-hour vacation.[4] Raymond Arritt (talk) 03:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks like he'll be getting a little more time off than that. R. Baley (talk) 04:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

TheOnlyJason

I have redacted my own quote which was pasted here. Originally posted at this thread here on Kralizec's talk page. R. Baley (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm baffled too, but you don't have to be so mean about it. -- tariqabjotu 03:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you for your support. R. Baley (talk) 04:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't just you -- I put a note in WP:ANI seeking clarification as well. I was floored by that response. --Mhking (talk) 04:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Mhking, it's too bad you had to take it to ANI. That page is quite bloated. R. Baley (talk) 04:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

My mistake; it appears that I assumed too much good faith. --Kralizec! (talk) 04:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

AGF. . .ok. R. Baley (talk) 04:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

• Thank-you Ryulong [5] R. Baley (talk) 04:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message [6], but you have no need to apologize. I had an inexplicable lapse in judgment (for the life of me I have no clue as to what I could have been thinking), and you were understandably frustrated by my bad call. Thank you for your hard work to keep vandalism under wraps, and sorry again for my mistake. --Kralizec! (talk) 15:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Just cos

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RfA Thanks

Hi R. Baley - thanks for your participation in my request for adminship. I believe I've already indicated to you how much I appreciated your words, but it bears repeating: I greatly appreciated your words, and they helped convince me that I'd made the right choice in applying (the rest of the community seemed to need somewhat less convincing, the trusting saps). Anyway, it passed 52/0/0, and I'm now in possession of a shiny new mop. If I can ever help you with anything, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 08:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Congrats! I was going to say things were looking good earlier. . .but I didn't want to jinx anything. R. Baley (talk) 17:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Hey man! Thanks for reverting the SPA. Really appreciate it! Peace--Certified.Gangsta (talk) 06:34, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I like it

Your ANI comment is very sensible! Allow some discussion, then ban the user. You'll note that I haven't defended the banned user. I only noted others' comments and asked the user to defend himself. At first, he didn't know he was being discussed on ANI. Archtransit (talk) 20:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

MONGO RfA

Hey there. I was the user who added the note to an oppose comment in the MONGO RfA. I didn't realize that I was over-stepping my bounds, so to speak, and I struck the note. Have a nice day. Ice Cold Beer (talk) 08:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

It wasn't really an overstep. . .in any case, a gracious move on your part, I've done the same for mine. Nice user name by the way. . .I think I'll have another :-) R. Baley (talk) 08:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for getting rid of the harassing trolling message on my talk page. NHRHS2010NHRHS2010 20:13, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Public domain picture

Yeah, it sure is in the public domain. At the time, I thought that the photographer had to have been deceased for 75 years for it to be in the public domain; since I had no idea who the photographer was, I had no idea whether or not this was the case. I later learned that in Canada, anything not subject to Crown copyright that was published before 1949 is in the public domain. In fact, I later put an identical photo (Image:Matthew McCauley.jpg) on the Commons, although I hadn't fully replaced the old photo with it. I've since done so, and deleted the image you referred to. Thanks for the reminder! Sarcasticidealist (talk) 07:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Quit Harrassing User:69.244.181.184

Thanks! 68.40.200.77 (talk) 18:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi IP, I'm sorry you feel as if I've harassed anyone. It was not my intent. Looking back over my interaction with the above IP you mention, my last (and I think only) interaction was Dec. 22, over a month ago. I removed a comment s/he made from the O'Reilly article that was not germane to improving the article, but was instead an attack on the editors at wikipedia. At that point they made a non-credible threat to have me reprimanded, at which point, I posted at ANI for further input, and left it to others to enforce the talk page standards as they saw fit.

I can't help but notice that you're an anon IP yourself, if by some chance you happen to be the same editor as the one you mention in the subheading, I encourage you to rethink your method of participation here. No sense in beating your head against a brick wall. Check your political leanings at the door when you step in and it's really not such a bad place. R. Baley (talk) 20:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Terribly sorry

While reading into your post at ANI about Leave Power Behind, I pressed the wrong link and blocked you when I thought I had been blocking Leave Power Behind. I'm sorry for this mistake, and now I guess I'll have to double-check who exactly is on that page.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Ha! No worries. Thanks for the prompt attention. R. Baley (talk) 08:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I was fairly sure I had the right name in the field, until I saw yours on the screen after the block is put in the system. The bright side is, I think I found a bug in the MediaWiki script for that page because of this.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh well, you changed it back so fast it scarcely matters. The only reason I even noticed was because I was adding a note at ANI about the informing the account holder about the thread. R. Baley (talk) 08:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I guess it's also teaching me that I shouldn't be up this early/late. Take care. :)—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Mr.Baley...i am "O.Waqfi" ,i had uploaded picture for Griffin Frazen,i think it is File:Griffin Frazen 1.jpg...you can see it at My contributions...and a admin remove it.because it is for someome alive and from website..what license can you put? my Regards --O.waqfi (talk) 10:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

is there another way to upload it,mabye put it like a sreen shot.the proplem i took it from a website, how i can email someone?...can you see this plz.--O.waqfi (talk) 16:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Administrators will delete a screen shot in this case. Finding an email for someone who is authorized to speak for the actor (or finding the actor's email), and getting them to release an image is very hard. I'm sorry that the process is so difficult. I'm also sorry that there's not much I can do for you here, I wish there was. . . R. Baley (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

RfC question

Thanks for the feedback, I was asking because of this, which has been puzzling me for a while. Tim Vickers (talk) 23:23, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

That link I copied also shows the periods of highest editing activity, I would guess that an RfC of any substance would be around those same time frames. . . might help you know when to look for it. R. Baley (talk) 23:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I've drawn a total blank. Thanks for the suggestions though. Tim Vickers (talk) 01:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Sandbox

No, I'm fine with that. G-Dett also edited there. I'm not possessive, and I think your comments add some value. It's just a "sandbox" after all. Cool Hand Luke 01:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		I award you this Brilliant Idea Barnstar for your excellent suggestions and analysis of edit patterns, and particularly for your suggestion to use correlation coefficients to measure the similarity between time-of-day edit distributions. Cool Hand Luke 06:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

My very first A barnstar, neat! R. Baley (talk) 07:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, I found this to be pretty telling. I'm not sure what else I could do other than more comparisons. Cool Hand Luke 20:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure that would be an appropriate comparison—if they aren't online at the same time, they would just never interleave. In order to do flipping coins, we would have to assume how often they should be online at the same time, and we can't assume that because it's one of the things we're trying to demonstrate. I think it would be better to imagine strings of edits. If we go through their histories, I could establish the strings of editing. For example, say on one day one of the accounts edited four times over 45 minutes. Then I would use these blocks in conjunction with their editing patterns to randomly redistribute all of their blocks of editing such that they have the still same trends. We would then compare the number of times these blocks collide when rearranged randomly compared to what actually occurred (essentially no collisions). That's my initial idea, anyway. It seems like a tough problem. Cool Hand Luke 20:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they'll look like coinflips when they edit simultaneously, but these editors (and the ones I compared) do not edit every day. Nor do they edit at precisely the same time on days they do edit. They would only be like coinflips if we assume that they'll be editing simultaneously from the outset. Cool Hand Luke 20:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I see what you mean now. . .hmmm. . . still thinking. R. Baley (talk) 20:53, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

One of my favorite pictures

Thank you for participating in my RfA! It was closed as successful with 74 supporting, 3 opposing, and 1 neutral. I will do my best to live up to the trust that you have placed in me. —Remember the dot (talk) 18:48, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Googoosh edits

Thanks for responding to the fine young anon user's comments on my Talk page. I've just moved the comments to the bottom of the page and replied. For a bag of full-on crazy, check out this interesting fellow - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 20:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Went to the page, good stuff :-) Usually I delete comments like the one I came across on your page, but it made me laugh. And I figured I had seen you around enough to know that you probably wouldn't be bothered by it. Oh btw did you see this link (Onion Article) posted at (I think) ANI? R. Baley (talk) 20:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, we are all self-important boobs. ;) - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 20:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Gotta follow procedure as I see it.

Two or three warnings, depending on what it is, then report. I'd reported him a good five minutes ago. HalfShadow (talk) 20:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting at AIV, I can only assume there is some kind of lag before an admin notices. I wasn't directing that comment at you, I was leaving it for the admin as reassurance that a block is appropriate. Giving this IP joker extra chances to wp:game shouldn't be in the playbook however (generally speaking). Thanks, R. Baley (talk) 20:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Request

Guys, I know I'm guilty as anyone of this, by my initial revert, but please don't risk getting yourself in trouble. I did my BRD, and Now I have a request for a clerk to take a look. SirFozzie (talk) 17:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, I left a note a note at Krimpet's talk page [7]. R. Baley (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Your userpage

You have a very beautiful userpage. It's in a beautiful circle and then it's all segmented into sections. It doesn't have the popular segmentation where everything is hidden and you have to click "show" to view it and if you don't have javascript on, you can't view it at all -- I hate those. Your userpage is nice. Anyway, it's too bad you keep removing the meatpuppet of SlimVirgin tag on Crum375's page as everyone knows they are meatpuppets and a tag team. I would have vandalized your userpage for doing that if the design wasn't so good, just letting you know. 63.46.33.168 (talk) 23:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Very thoughtful of you thanks. . .can I ask what you hope to accomplish with your edits to Crum375's page? R. Baley (talk) 23:10, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

There's an imageboard where people post requests to stuff and then people all do it. 63.46.33.168 (talk) 23:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't sound like much fun to me, but oh well everybody's gotta get their kicks somehow, I guess. Oh, I forgot to add earlier, the userpage design isn't my own. . .I ripped it off somewhere (damned if I remember -but it was onwiki) and modified it so my stuff would fit. R. Baley (talk) 23:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for removing that sewage from my Talk page. Much appreciated. --Eleemosynary (talk) 05:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I just stopped by to echo that note of appreciation - I can live without Matt on my talk page. Best, Jay*Jay (talk) 07:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Can I just say, thanks to you both for leaving a message, in wiki-terms, it's been a trying day. . .R. Baley (talk) 08:07, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry to hear that you are suffering wikistress - so I decided to drop by with a smile
and a snack in the hope of brightening your day! As I said earlier, I wikiappreciated you
boldly acting to remove the offensive comments from my talk page. Although it is hard to
believe at times, this place really does have a lot to offer. Supporting each other through
glum wikidays will help us maintain the community in the face of vandals, trolls, and when
dealing with wikitrash. Keep your chin up. Jay*Jay (talk) 13:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

forking?

I don't understand. How is this a fork. I am complaining about disruptive and unsubstantiated warnings on my talk page. This has nothing to do with the content dispute. You have no right to move my comments. This is in good faith. Would you explain you actions to me?Icamepica (talk) 09:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For the comment in my RfB. Despite what happened, I hope I have your trust as a Wikipedian and an admin. See you around. :) Acalamari 22:12, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. Thanks again. :) Acalamari 22:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)