User talk:Ryan Vesey/Archive 21

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A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For this edit here--and you're not even an admin. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 04:00, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, although I fear my views towards socks will prohibit me from ever receiving a real one of those. Ryan Vesey 19:23, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Notification of discussion

A few months ago, you participated in a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Did you know about Gibraltar-related DYKs on the Main Page. I am proposing that the temporary restrictions on such DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012, should be lifted and have set out a case for doing so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. If you have a view on this, please comment at that page. Prioryman (talk) 21:54, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Dang, I almost beat the message. Ryan Vesey 21:56, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Better luck next time! :-) Prioryman (talk) 22:46, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Table fix

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Edit conflict at STID

I'm not sure what happened there. I had an edit conflict, but your edit wasn't showing on the ec screen. I re-added my text as usual, which it accepted, but seemingly knocked out your edit. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen recently. Anyway, sorry - just wanted to let you know that it wasn't on purpose. --Rob Sinden (talk) 14:05, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem, have you ever edit conflicted with yourself? If I don't see any changing on the ec screen, I normally check the history and at least half of the time my edit already went through and I conflicted myself sometime. Ryan Vesey 14:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Ha, yeah, that's happened to me recently too! I may start following your method. Thanks. --Rob Sinden (talk) 14:43, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

TfD reverts at ANI

Don't get me wrong, Ryan (and I'm not saying you did), edit-warring is bad. But not all cases are the same, and it's always preferable to handle them without blocking anyone. I was happy to see you agreed with that part. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 20:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Script enforced wikibreak

I do web development (including MW hacking). Can you tell me about your script enforced wikibreak? Sometimes I get too heated over ITN and need a break. --IP98 (talk) 23:49, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer, add the coding to your JS file. TBrandley ^{(what's up)} 00:06, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Make sure if you use it, you know that it is your local time, not UTC.165.123.233.168 (talk) 00:35, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

My talk

I have removed the section hopefully as moot, but I did want you to see I had answered your question. diff Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 03:53, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Chisamba

Chifamba is actually a wrong spelling, can you correct it in whatever article you spotted this missing link?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Your AWB version is really old!

Please go here http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ and download rev 8853. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

"Wikipedia backlog"?

Ryan, in this otherwise unremarkable AWB edit to Great Scottish Run, the diff shows you adding the curious text "Wikipedia backlog" (down where you took out the stub tag). I imagine this is some AWB weirdness. I've checked a bunch of your recent AWB diffs, to see if it's happening a lot, and I can't see any; they all seem just unremarkable. I do notice that (at least going on edit summaries) you haven't destubbed another article recently. Perhaps you should try destubbing a sandbox article, to see if if the "Wikipedia backlog" manifests again. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 23:52, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

This is completely my error. I never remove stub tags with AWB since it's a subjective measure. I don't normally look at the article to see if the stub tag actually should be removed, so instead I just put the stub tag back in the edit window of AWB. In this case, my mind wandered because I had just been dealing with a proposal at Meta:Grants:IEG/Backlog pages for all WikiProjects, so instead of replacing {{stub}}, I wrote "Wikipedia backlog". Ryan Vesey 00:03, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Editor of the Week nomination

Your nominee, Wetman, has been awarded Editor of the Week for this coming week. Thanks very much for putting forward the nomination and helping to recognize one of Wikipedia's many productive editors! isaacl (talk) 02:50, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey cool, thanks for letting me know! Ryan Vesey 02:51, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

And what a great nom, Ryan. As someone who edits in one of Wetman's areas, I've appreciated his edits—older and recent—since I started. Great nom! davidiad { t } 04:57, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

ENGVAR

The problem is mass (or collective) noun issues. American English would say "Australia wins the 2013 World Cup" whereas Commonwealth English generally says "Australia win the 2013 World Cup". Compare, for example, "U2 is a band from Ireland" vs. "U2 are a band from Ireland". Since someone always complains whichever way round the blurb is, it's better to rephrase the results of sporting events to avoid this. (more info at WP:PLURALS). Black Kite (talk) 19:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I had no idea that there was an ENGVAR issue when it comes to things like "Australia win the 2013 World Cup" which sounds so jarring to me that I would certainly complain. I have to assume it would sound just as jarring the other way to an Australian. Thanks for fixing it. Ryan Vesey 19:38, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Ryan kirkpatrick

It was not you, it was Ryan kirkpatrick because he doing these crazy jokes and old nonsense and he was the one being bad and we are not impressed with him. We are sorry that we confused your name with Ryan kirkpatrick because your name is not Ryan kirkpatrick, your name is Ryan Vesey, not RK (Ryan kirkpatrick) who is doing his crazy jokes. You are fine and okay. You did not do anything. You are good. --Starship9000 (talk) 21:52, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Ha, yeah my comment there was a joke. I knew they weren't talking about me. Thanks for the clarification though. Ryan Vesey 21:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I hope Ryan becomes good. --Starship9000 (talk) 23:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Advice/request

So I saw your name here and have seen you around before so thought you would a good person to ask for some advice about dealing with a newish user. I've spent the last several months editing articles to which Danish Expert (talk · contribs) is contributing. While the user is unquestionably making good faith efforts to improve the project, he has a hard distinguishing between notable and non-notable details, original research, and verifibility not truth. Generally our interactions go as follows: he adds something that is either unsourced, misrepresents what the sources are saying, WP:SYN from multiple sources, or WP:OR from WP:PRIMARY sources. I remove it or rephrase it so that our text only goes as far as the sources do. He reverts me arguing that his version is "100% accurate and correct" and "guarantee you that what I wrote was true" even if he acknowledges that it's not be directly sourced in the references. My response of course is that WP:VNT is the key, and he responds again by assuring me that his version is perfect.

The latest such example is at Enlargement of the eurozone over when the ECB will publish a report on Latvia. The user added the text "then the ECB will according to their standard procedures still wait to publish their official evaluation report until after having received the official 2012 fiscal data by Eurostat (which will happen on 22 April 2013)" and backs this up by arguing that

The ECB needs the Eurostat data to finalize their report
The Eurostat will release their data to the public on 22 April

Therefore the report can't come out until 22 April

Ignoring for a moment that this is SYN, my response was "How do you know they don't get the information before Eurostat publishes it to the public?" It seems plausible that the ECB could have access to the data before it's publicly released, hence making the assumptions going into DE's conclusions false. However, I got this response. For the record, as I said in my post on the talk page, I doubt we'll see the report before 22 April, but saying that it can't come out before this date requires a source that specifically says this, not logical deductions by wikipedia editors of the probable outcome under certain (unstated) assumptions.

I think that the editor would be a valuable contributer, if he could just get a better sense of the line between what wikipedia is, and what it is not. However, he long ago came to the conclusion that I'm out to get him. While our debates are mostly civil, he won't listen to any of my policy based arguments. Any time I object to anything he writes, he takes it very personally and accuses me of not liking him/not trusting him/being out to get him. I've tried to be patient with the user, and explain and cite policies for my removal of his content, but it gets extremely frustrating when I'm constantly being accused of acting in bad faith and lectured on how his edits are "100% correct and accurate" and that I'm "running a blind crusade against [him], and do not trust anything [he] add at all." I've tried to explain that I don't care whether his edits are correct or not, all that matters is whether they are sourced, but this has fallen on deaf ears. I've recommended that he check out Adopt-a-user in the past, but he took offense to the suggestion, claiming he already knew everything. I was wondering if you had any advice on how to handle this situation, or might be willing to consider helping DE in an "unofficial" mentoring role? TDL (talk) 02:23, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

TAFI

Hello,
In the past few days, Today's Articles for Improvement has gone through many changes.

We have modified the process for adding Nominations, which now uses a template/table format and requires only 3 supports for an article to be selected.
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Thank you and hoping to have some productive work from you at the Project,
TheOriginalSoni (talk) 10:41, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
(From the TAFI team)

Another note to talk page stalkers

Hey guys, I've got to disappear for another week with a script enforced wikibreak. I know I'm probably leaving a number of things unfinished that I should be finishing, but unlike on Wikipedia, in real life there's a deadline. And that deadline for me is tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, etc. See you guys next Monday. Ryan Vesey 00:11, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Congrats... You helped keep Teahouse an awesome, welcoming, safe, and helpful place!

I really appreciated your reminder to Teahouse hosts to keep the place friendly and welcoming for all guests. It's really important and I want to thank you for calling it out when it needed repeating. Thanks again,

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Ocaasi^{t | c} 20:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK for So God Made a Farmer

On 20 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article So God Made a Farmer, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the speech So God Made a Farmer was featured in a Super Bowl XLVII commercial entitled "Farmer"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/So God Made a Farmer. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

My Wikimedia Commons images

Please at my images on Wikimedia Commons. If they are copyright violations, go on wikipedia and tell Astros4477 on his talk page and then tell me on my talk page on Commons then tell Courcelles or INeverCry to warn me one last time. --Starship9000 (talk) 01:28, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

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Proactiv

Hi Ryan. A while back I mentioned an article where you had participated in the AfD discussion, Proactiv, had come under my wing of sorts in a PR capacity and I would offer a draft on the Talk page down the line. I wanted to let you know that I have now offered the draft here. I know you have been on and off Wikibreak, so no worries if you don't have time at this moment. CorporateM (Talk) 20:21, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Arouss Al Ayn

Hi Ryan. Just yesterday after our discussion I have posted a DYK opinion on the article's talkpage. I don't know if its appropriate to put it there or not, but from what I got is that any discussion regarding Arouss Al Ayn should be on its talkpage, therefore I did just that. By the way, whom should I ask if I believe that the current article meets a higher criteria? I have some articles which look like a C or B class but they are still listed as Start.--Mishae (talk) 18:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

So O.K, I tried to put it on the DYK nomination forum, but it wont let me. The links were all red, so I delete it. Can you do it for me, and I will learn as time goes by?.. Thanks!--Mishae (talk) 23:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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Follow-up re multiple links to same article

Ryan, did you find other pertinent link policy interpretations regarding the second half of this discussion? Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey Dirtlawyer, I dropped the discussion intentionally since the dispute related to the interpretation of a word. That being the case, there's no point in discussing the matter further since neither of us will persuade the other. Ryan Vesey 01:08, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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Apologies

I want to apologise for anything you may have interpreted in anyway as insulting. While I was not trying to be, it doesn't matter if you were truly offended as I respect you. I am also very impressed with your comment to Guy just now.--Amadscientist (talk) 06:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

You're a great guy. I've always tried so hard to be courteous to everyone on here, but this situation has really changed things. I'm just not going to be bullied. That matter had been resolved and I moved on. But he had to seek me out and post all that crap on my talk page. --76.189.111.199 (talk) 05:40, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem, I can tell you're upset, and I am too at this point (mostly related to Guy Macon's most recent patronizing edit, and the ridiculous insistence by the two of them that his section heading refactoring was appropriate). That said, I really suggest toning down your language. It's really hurting your case, and since the majority of administrators don't accept any swearing until you've hit at least 10,000 edits, it's likely to get you blocked. I'd even suggest refactoring your own comments to remove it. Ryan Vesey 05:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I am. You have my permission to refactor any of my comments you think need it. I really do respect your restraint, relatively speaking of course. Haha. Thanks, Ryan. --76.189.111.199 (talk) 05:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind, Drmies closed it. :) I have to say, even though I wanted it acknowledged that I was being harassed on my talk page, I was really impressed with the way Drmies closed the discussion. I don't know him, but I thought he handled it beautifully. I'm not happy about how I got so worked up, though. So I don't deserve to get what I wanted. But I just can't believe none of those editors were asking him why he did those things after everything was already settled. Have a good night, Ryan. --76.189.111.199 (talk) 06:04, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

You too. Drmies is a very competent admin, I'm usually very impressed with his closures and such. Ryan Vesey 06:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, if you talk to him please tell him what I thought of his close. And I apologize for my extreme venting. Thanks for the advice. 76.189.111.199 (talk) 06:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey, my little ears are ringing. I'll let you both in on a little admin secret, reached through years of ANIing. ANI is an important board but it tends to bring out the worst in people (including me). Many matters brought up there should have been handled differently, in different places, and when they reach ANI they tend to explode because a. the person who brought it wants action b. the person brought there is offended c. the peanut gallery wants to be entertained. Closure without action of cases where initially really no action is required is a good thing (Ryan did it for a thread involving me--if he hadn't, a BOOMERANG would have been flying, most likely) because while it leaves all three parties sides dissatisfied, no one gets blocked and that, in the long run, is better for everyone.
ANI goes up and down. I think we're up on the drama scale; for a while we were down and things were handled quickly and often closed quickly. When Dennis comes back full-time we'll see the drama go down, no doubt; and Fluffernutter used to keep a lid on it as well. Well, I hope Guy is not too dissatisfied, and I hope y'all will get along next time you run into each other. If you're bored, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us needs a more solid "Reception" section and a cast list, and maybe some more notes on the production. And someone needs to figure out who wants to waste $5 million on an atrocity. Happy days, Drmies (talk) 16:15, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Drmies, thanks for your great comments and for being such a good admin. :) 76.189.111.199 (talk) 17:15, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Re Question

Thank you very much for your kind effort to nominate my article! As a response to your questions about larvae vs tadpoles, I just copied it the way it was mentioned on all those sites. Yes, it did surprised me as well, but I tought not to mess with it, who knows, maybe the site is right! In this case it is wrong, but I check not one but numerous other sites as well... So it wasn't just a misspelling, or confusion, or even original research, it was a mentioned above... Apparently all the sites got it wrong, and dragged me into this mess... If its O.K. with Project Reptiles-amphibians, I can change it to tadpoles...--Mishae (talk) 23:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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I responed there. --Starship9000 (roller coaster fan) 00:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

S9K

Did you see S9K's resolution on his talk? When will he get it? Go Phightins! 01:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

YGM. Ryan Vesey 04:39, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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my draft article

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ITNs

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Commons upload .js

Hi, your "Old Upload" script at Commons is great. I'm not slick with code. Is there a way to get the link to go to [1] instead, to avoid that block of text at the top? That would be amazing. Thanks. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 03:41, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Ignore, this was taken care of. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 06:15, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

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User:Snotbot/Current AfD's

Erm, what? -- KTC (talk) 09:11, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

It was a mistake, I wasn't even aware I made it. Ryan Vesey 18:06, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Going away for a few months

After my RfA, I decided to be more active during the school year. I was able to use this to create a couple good articles, but recently I've found time to do little productive work and have instead only been able to find time for discussions. Taking part in discussion can be good, but it is nowhere near productive enough to make up for my time lost in real life. With that in mind, I intend to be away until the school year ends. I might swing by occasionally. Ryan Vesey 00:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

(eyes roll) Yeah right! You'll be back soon, I hope. Either way, your studies are certainly more important. Best wishes, AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 00:14, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I hope not. I intend to swing by occasionally, I might even clear out most of my watchlist and do one check a day of what's remaining. If I can't limit myself to that, I intend to update my commons.js page to keep me out until my last final is done. Ryan Vesey 00:17, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Do you think before you go I could persuade you to close out the Request Edit at: Talk:Comparison_of_online_backup_services#requestedit? Now that you've commented, anyone else I ask would likely come ask you first anyway ;-) CorporateM (Talk) 19:50, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm really sorry, I meant to get back to it, but didn't see that you had responded and forgot which article it was. The edit has been made. Ryan Vesey 20:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Near Eastern fire salamander

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Guthy-Renker

Hi Ryan. I know you're probably still too busy with school, but I wanted to let you know I've offered a draft of this article on the Talk page at: Talk:Guthy-Renker#First_draft.

We had talked about this article a while back, because it was related to the Proactiv AfD you commented on. If you have an interest, I would be appreciative of your time considering our work and any feedback is welcome. Cheers.CorporateM (Talk) 17:41, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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Can you point to where I was previously involved in dealing with the user? I really only recognized them from the picture on their userpage so I need something better to spark my memory. Ryan Vesey 01:45, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area

While "Minneapolis–Saint Paul" is commonly used to refer to the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the term can be very confusing, especially to people who do not reside in Minnesota. Does "Minneapolis–Saint Paul" refer to the two cities jointly, or does it refer to the two cities plus the surrounding metropolitan area? Please see Wikipedia talk:Article titles for an ongoing discussion on this general topic. I will proceed as you suggest. Yours aye, Buaidh 01:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Personally, I feel that the title should be "The Cities", but that might be pushing the boundaries. As an analogy to the former, you might consider Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD MSA which redirects to Delaware Valley. It's easily more ambiguous, but reflects the common name for the area. Ryan Vesey 01:31, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

What is the appropriate noticeboard?

Hi Ryan, I recently inquired this and this which contains quite some insulting harassment and personal attacks relating to some of Wikipedia's highly respected administrators. I realize this is not relevant to the encyclopedia itself, but I'm concerned that such attacks can be tossed around over fan-made dictionaries using personal analysis. I would like to add my concerns at an appropriate noticeboard, but I do not know which (if any) noticeboards to report this to. Do you have any opinions, as I'm very confused currently? TB randley 04:27, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

You could leave a note at Bongwarrior's talk page or at WP:AN. I'm not sure what would occur in the former, but in the latter they'll just say there's nothing we can do about it, which is the case. Ryan Vesey 04:37, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

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see the map. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 14:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

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I'm really sorry for leaving.

I'm really, really, really, really, sorry Ryan, for just disappearing into thin air. You see, my Math results came home, and they were really bad, so I literally got banned from the computer till the next test results came back home, and only if I did better, I was allowed back on. So, yeah, here I am, about 3 months later, finally getting my stuff back on spring break. If it's not too much trouble, can we perhaps pick up where we left off in that adoption program? :) Red Hat On Head (talk) 16:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey Sasha! Nice to see you again, and I'm glad you got your grades up. Of course we can take up where we left off. I'm writing an 8 page paper this week and I haven't started so I'll probably start your adoption program again on Saturday. Ryan Vesey 23:08, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

All right! :D What's the paper about? Red Hat On Head (talk) 23:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, claimed that he restored the Roman Republic. I need to talk about in what ways he rebuilt the Republic and what ways he differed from it. Ryan Vesey 23:15, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, that's so cool! :D I love Ancient Rome and such. I wonder what it must've been to live then. Red Hat On Head (talk) 20:46, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

You sir, are awesome

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You're not alone in the sentiment... :) --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 00:56, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for your comments

I been sick in the hospital for almost 5 weeks, but your suggestions are noted and I thank you for your help I will use them to edit more effectively.TucsonDavidU.S.A. 19:40, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

No problem, I apologize if I came across harsh at all. Article quality is important, and I recently turned in my own flag because I don't create articles at a high enough rate to be a burden. In any case, I hope you're doing better. Ryan Vesey 19:55, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Regarding your comments on my talk page, I have concentrated on creating short articles on names that are featured on popularity lists, using whatever references can be found online. I haven't had time to write longer articles in more recent years. If you think there is a problem with the articles, you are more than welcome to tell me so or edit accordingly. Bookworm857158367 (talk) 01:45, 30 March 2013 (UTC)