User talk:Nihiltres/Archive-22

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Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal

Hello, Depending on where you live in Pointe Claire you could take one STM bus, # 215 (Map Schedule), all the way from Fairview Pointe-Claire to the corner of Marcel Laurin and Côte Vertu. But if you live south of the RR tracks it becomes a bit more complicated. # 211 Map Schedule) to Dorval (AMT) then the # 202 (Map Schedule) to Du Collège Metro Station. From there to Côte-Vertu. Peter Horn 00:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

From Côte-Vertu

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
121 Sauvé/Côte-Vertu (west bound to Place Vertu)	Map	Schedule
171 Henri-Bourassa (west bound to Place Vertu & Sears)	Map	Schedule
215 Henri-Bourassa (to/from Bois-Franc train station & Fairview Pointe-Claire, for those coming in from the West Island)	Map	Schedule

Peter Horn 16:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Cool

Cool, so what is the image speedy delete tag? :-) ScaldingHotSoup (talk) 04:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

There's a full list of all speedy deletion criteria at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Nihiltres^{t.l} 04:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC) (cross-posted)

Great, thanks! ScaldingHotSoup (talk) 04:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

The Vicious Circle

I see you deleted The Vicious Circle. Can you also close the AfD I made for it then? -WarthogDemon 04:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Where's my head? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Vicious Circle. -WarthogDemon 04:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't see a head anywhere. Gotta get ahead in life. :p

Seriously, don't worry, it was a G7, and theoretically non-admins can close AfD's (just often the close requires the mop to be able to carry out the deletion.) Nihiltres^{t.l} 16:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

{{pp-meta}}

Hi Nihiltres. I think this might interest you: Happy‑melon is planning to totally rework {{pp-meta}}. I have seen his new code in his sandbox and it looks okay to me. (It just needs some minor fixes and a lot of testing.) See our discussion at Template talk:Pp-meta#Too abstract?.

--David Göthberg (talk) 12:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know; I've commented there. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 16:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

When a Knight Won His Spurs

Hi Nihiltres

I noted you deleted the page to this hymn as the hymn was not notable. Sorry to disagree. Tune collected and harmonised by Ralph Vaughan Williams, words by Jan Struther, it is very popular with children in England, especially in villages associated with St George and hence the Dragon. Part of the traditional patronal festival at Ogbourne St. George. I have also sung the hymn at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal). Any chance of it being reinstated? Lorddunvegan (talk) 22:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

That was deleted by proposed deletion, where it was deleted after no objections after five days; If you want to rewrite the article, go ahead; if you want the text of the deleted article or for me to undelete it so that you can rewrite it, just ask. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 22:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

A copy of the original would be useful to built a new article on - if you could send it me or undelete (whichever is easier) I would be grateful. Thanks Lorddunvegan (talk) 10:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Y Done - page undeleted; should be easy to improve from there. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 13:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Very many thanks, that is now doneLorddunvegan (talk) 14:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Blockip

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. —David Levy 14:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, yeah, and you shouldn't template the regulars. It's just a joke (not vandalism), and I noted in the edit summary that it was OK to revert, that it was just a joke for today. Relax! It's supposed to be fun. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 14:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

1. That's the third time today that someone has pointed me to WP:DTTR. In turn, I'll direct you to WP:TTR.

2. It isn't terribly harmful to modify a message that only sysops can see, but such actions can lead to disruptive edit wars between those who are amused and those who aren't. —David Levy 14:45, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

.js adjustments

Thanks for that - I rather enjoy having a "nuke from orbit" option on my toolbar. *g* Tony Fox (arf!) 18:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Awesome. :) I'll be reverting my change after today, but it's fun for today - too bad there are a few out there who don't enjoy the holiday. Nihiltres^{t.l} 18:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I am being drafted

Hi Nihiltres. Since you are one of the admins that I have worked with lately: Happy‑melon and David Ruben have been offering to nominate me for the mop. See their discussion at my talk page. Now Happy‑melon has written a draft for the nomination.

--David Göthberg (talk) 00:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

…And now I have written and posted the second co-nom for you. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 02:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

pp-semi-vandalism template

Your latest update to {{Pp-semi-vandalism}} broke it when it uses the expiry parameter – it gives a <imagemap>: no valid link was found at the end of line 3 error. — The preceding comment was signed, but a formatting error broke it; the correct signature is "Gary King (talk) 19:32, April 6, 2008 (UTC)"

Ah, yes. I know (intuitively, I remember the code) what the problem is; I'll fix it in ASAP. Nihiltres^{t.l} 19:38, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I think I've fixed it, can you point me to the original problem? Nihiltres^{t.l} 19:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC) (cross-posted)

It's fixed. Gary King (talk) 19:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the RfA

I know you already know this, but here is the official "thank you" message:

Thanks for that you co-nominated me for adminship. I was just made an admin! I have the distinct feeling that I might be the first user specialised in template programming that has become an admin here on the English Wikipedia. And that would not have been possible without your eloquent nomination. Now I got to come up with a name for my new position, perhaps "template specialist admin" or "admin specialised in template programming" or perhaps just "template admin". Or why not "admininistratorious templatius"? #:))

--David Göthberg (talk) 16:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Glad to have helped; you've earned it. And while you mention it, I think ianitor would be appropriate, perhaps also with something related to codex (though there isn't really a Latin word for "computer code"). :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 16:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage:)) Both times. Malick78 (talk) 15:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

De rien (It was nothing). :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 15:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

"New section" thing

Just to ask you, have you reach a consensus yet at the village pump? (personally, I actually like the idea), but still. Nothing444 16:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

There seems to be both a nearly unanimous agreement that a change is desirable, and a majority of those who have commented on what to change it to have suggested that "new section" is preferable. The consensus can change, and in such a case it can easily be changed back to "+" or to some other version, so it seems worthwhile. I feel it's in line with Wikipedia:Consensus. Nihiltres^{t.l} 16:14, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Reduced protection on "Expelled" movie page

I see you've reduced protection on the "Expelled" page. I hope you will help in cleaning up after IP vandals there now. The page is incredibly active, and it's hard enough sorting out the POV pushers with accounts much less dealing with the IPs. Thanks. --Aunt Entropy (talk) 17:44, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

To be blunt, no, I'm not going to particularly patrol the page. But after nearly four months of protection, we should at least try unprotection. If vandalism or POV-pushing becomes a problem, then one can always request that the page be reprotected. Nihiltres^{t.l} 18:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Gadgets

I saw that you added the gadget "addsection +". Then Cacycle removed your gadget and a gadget added by me. Your gadget was then readded by Random832. It seems that Cacycle and Alex Smotrov are set on stopping any new gadgets from being added. Those two editors already have their own gadgets installed. Some of Cacycle's wording hint at that perhaps he doesn't like "competition"? Have a look at "your" entry in the table at Wikipedia:Gadget#Currently installed gadgets and the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Gadget#"must be discussed first" - ick and Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Tighter page top tabs in MonoBook (and down from that section).

--David Göthberg (talk) 15:22, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Bit busy in real life at the moment, will get back to you as soon as possible. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 15:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm now joining the "debate". Thanks for letting me know. Nihiltres^{t.l} 17:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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Wikibreak time

I saw what happened here on your pages the last few days. You had me worried there for a time. May I suggest you instead simply put up a wikibreak notice on top of your pages and take some time off and rest up? I did that this autumn and it was very nice to do other things for some months. Remember, Wikipedia is just a hobby so we can spend as little time here as we want, you have no obligations what so ever.

--David Göthberg (talk) 20:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

It was just me really really wanting to check up on things here when I instead needed to finish off a large paper for Bioethics. Forcing myself to take a wikibreak helped me get that paper out without worrying about Wikipedia – it's no big deal, just natural (!?) stress as the semester comes to its end. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 01:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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Cmbox

I see that you're implementing the update.

When you make the change, would you please retain the already existing centring via:

| textstyle = text-align: center;

Thank you : ) - jc37 04:03, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

All right, I'll remember that next time I find one to update. :) Are there any I should immediately fix? Nihiltres^{t.l} 04:08, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll have to go back through your contribs, but when I was looking a moment ago, there were several. For example, Template:Parent category. - jc37 04:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I think I've now fixed all the ones that were originally centred; please let me know if there are any others. Nihiltres^{t.l} 04:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I noticed that you were going through them while I was : )

Now that you're aware, I have no problem leaving this to your discernment. (Honestly, there are several that aren't centred that probably should be : )

Thanks again. - jc37 04:24, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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IP Address 99.244.23.130 vandalizes my user page and other articles as well.

Yesterday, you answered my question on Yahoo! Answers and you noted that I may contact you about it.[1] (Yes, I'm Yahoo! Answers user "The Simon".)

Well, here it goes.

The IP user is 99.244.23.130 [2]. He has vandalized my user page as well as several other articles. He has made no useful & helpful contributions to Wikipedia to my knowledge. Also his edits to my user page attempt to make me look like a "drunk", old man, and other nonsense things but I have reverted all those edits. All of the edits he makes on my user page are completely not true for your information.

I'm not sure he has vandalized enough to get a block, and that's true, please at least, if you can give him a warning, that would be great.

Please contact me if you need to know anything else. Please check over his edits to confirm my claims if you need to. --NotYouHaha! (talk) 21:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

As the vandalism isn't current anymore, I can't quite justify a block, as blocks aren't meant to be punitive. I have, however, warned the user, as anyone may do (you don't have to be an administrator to warn against vandalism :) ) and if it's repeated, then escalating temporary blocks can be used. If you want, I'll semi-protect your userpage indefinitely (or for some length of time you specify) and that will completely prevent an anonymous user from adding nonsense. :) Nihiltres^{t.l} 03:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC) (cross-posted)

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