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Hi. Thanks for sorting out the references on the Tessa Jowell article. Is there a project page which explains how to use that particular referencing system? Thanks. — Whouk ( talk) 13:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Regarding some of your edits to Xbox 360, I figured in case you are unaware, I'd let you know that dates are rendered according to your prefs. For example: [[January 9]] and [[9 January]] appear as January 9 and 9 January, which will appear identical if you have chosen a preferred format at the Special:Preferences page, so it really doesn't matter whether the number is placed before or after the month name. — Mar. 7, '06 [09:07] < freakof nu rx ture | talk>
Hello. Got your message. I didn't know about the date format thing - but why are the dates displayed as links? (is it my browser or wikipedia?). Most of my unlinking was intended to remove unnecesary links - like links to countries etc.
My main reason was that there were 'more links than lines' in some cases
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(links)#Internal_links
and also
Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context.
In my defence I would note that all the dates were in named month format i.e Nov for November as opposed to numerical format i.e. 06 for June which can cause much more confusion.
HappyVR
15:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
G'day Oscarthecat,
I notice you added a copyright tag to Image:Calmoe.gif. Good work! However, this still doesn't answer the primary problem with this image: it doesn't have a source. An image's source is the place we got the image from, not the tag (the tag refers to copyright status). Cheers, fuddlemark ( fuddle me!) 01:56, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. Don't know how that happened, I must have somehow been editing an old version of the article. Jayjg (talk) 21:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Could you please block John oh? He removed a merge template I added to
Moe (Calvin and Hobbes character).--
FelineFanatic13
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I've removed the protection from the article. Hopefully John and FF can contain themselves. I wouldn't be reinserting the merge tags, since a) that wouldn't exactly be neutral behaviour from the protecting admin, and b) the tags don't really matter. One can merge without the tags. The trick is not to get reverted, and all you've got to do for that is reach an accord with John (if possible); the tag won't help there. Talking will :-) fuddlemark ( fuddle me!) 13:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I knew that if you had set a preference, you would get the date in a single format. However, the last time I tried a casual user without an account would see both 1 September and September 1 which, although nothing serious, may produce confusion in some cases. -- ReyBrujo 20:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
This may seem like a stupid question, but how do you get you signature to look cool like that? Thanks! - Mjg0503 23:02, 16 March 2006 (UTC) (Hopefully, it will look better soon!)
I got it working! Thank you very much! You like it? I think it looks cool!
Mike"mjg0503"
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00:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you reverted a {{ prod}} with the summary "author KEEPS removing the prod"; this is in fact perfectly allowed by the PROD system, as it means they contest the proposed deletion. Once that happens, two things generally happen:
Don't be tempted to get into an edit war with the author over whether or not the prod should be there; it's supposed to be only for uncontested, uncontroversial deletions. As a personal aside, I'm keeping an eye on Fullofbeans for now, as he's pledged to stop vandalizing and start helping out. Don't want to bite the newcomers! The Maxite stub can be dealt with a little later, maybe FOB will even understand why then. -- nae'blis (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
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Mike"mjg0503"
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01:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Please revert Ibn Taymiah back to normal and look if it can sealed. Otherwise it will be always target for Islamic-political ideological propaganda vandalism, which nobody wants to know if looking at the wikpedia. Thank you.
Hi Oscar. Thanks for your message. At the moment very little is known about the Nintendo Revolution's online services, and Xbox Live is widely seen as the current definitive online console service, so I believe that what all the referencing and main talk will be about what the PNP can do in comparison to Xbox Live. If you come across any news regarding Nintendo's online service plans, feel free to include the info as you see fit. As for the title, I believe it should stay as it is until more PNP-relatable info is released about the Revolution, but when that is reported (or if you find it) feel free again to edit as you see fit. -- CharlieA 01:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
After your fleshing out of your answers, I've added my support vote for you. Not only was I set to ease with your answers, but you responded civilly and embraced the desire to explain yourself. It seems lately that anything other then an immediate support vote gets the candidates extremly upset. I have the utmost confidence that you will be a superb admin. -
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ask
20:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
...is faster than I am, I will stop using pop-ups and check history when reverting these topics. Thanks for the heads up -- DV8 2XL 16:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Your signature occupies a number of lines of wiki markup and could be confusing on large discussion pages or where a user is using a custom skin or is otherwise unable to decipher it. Please consider reducing the use of XHTML tags. Thank you. Rob Church 21:10, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. :) Rob Church 10:34, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks man, it's nice to be noticed! Appreciated it! AMac2002 23:17, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
It is with regret that I have to inform you that your nomination for adminship was unsuccessful on this occasion. Kep up the good work and I look forward to seeing a nomination with your name on it again in the future. --
Francs
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02:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I voted for you, thought you deserved it.
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03:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
What percent of the vote do you have to have? You had 33 for and only 15 against. Too bad. Oh, well maybe next time :) -
Mike"mjg0503"
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16:03, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Please don't mind me asking, are you the same Oscarthecat who contributes to the free.uk.tv.bigbrother newsgroup? Had to ask when I saw your name!-- leaky_caldron 21:39, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
You put the {{ Neutrality}} on Tessa Jowell financial allegations. It is customary, when doing this, to go to the talk page and outline in detail your specific concerns about the neutrality of the article so that other editors can assess whether there is cause for concern and if so, remedy it. David | Talk 00:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Oscarthecat, my recent contribution to Gmail was NOT vandalism. Let me give you an example of what I was attempting to explain:
Let's say that you are using Outlook Express (POP3) in conjunction with a Gmail account called ???@gmail.com. If you were to try to email yourself -- the FROM and TO fields are both ???@gmail.com -- Gmail will not allow Outlook Express to download the email. The email that you sent to yourself will only be accessible via the web-based interface. CCing yourself would have a similar result. All of the workarounds that I attempted have failed. The final sentence found at the link below is Google's attempt to describe this behavior:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13291&topic=1555
You can also find many references to this issue in the Gmail section of Google Groups. Any ideas you may have on how to improve the wording that I originally submitted would be appreciated. -- Ycaps123 06:53, 26 March 2006 (UTC).
Hi,
Regarding your edits to this article; I notice (for example) that you removed the link to spark printer because it was previously mentioned in an image caption. However, although this may be strictly in line with policy, it does imply that the reader of the article should have looked at the image and caption.
Okay, it's no big deal, but I've certainly left duplicate links in place in some articles where it wasn't really reasonable to expect someone to have read all the preceding sections.
I'd like to hear your views on this, thanks.
Fourohfour 15:46, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Greetings Oscar, I've noticed your nice contributions on the V for Vendetta page (in particular in increasing the readibility of the article) and would like your expert advice on references.
(Basically, APA format simply allows) --> (Oscar, 1994), which can be repeated over and over. Is there a way to repeat this reference over and over with only using one number?
(I can't seem to find this in the reference section.) An answer would be appreciated, or maybe an intro to where I might find this info.
Again, thank!
-- P-Chan 20:16, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Oscar, why did you switch the formatting from inline citation to those awful superscripts? Didn't we discuss this once a while back? Further, Harvard referencing is one of the three methods listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#citation_styles I fail to see your reason for changing it and reverting hours of my work for no reason. Can you please explain your rationale? Thank you. -- Avi 20:22, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Further to your message the PS2 main buttons are analogue, digital buttons are not pressure sensitive due to binary's on or off nature where as analogue is a frequency enabling the force applied to the button or sensor to be measured. A quick google of ps2 analogue controller buttons will confirm this. I also did research on the 360 controller and as far as i can tell the main face buttons are digital, the only analogue buttons being teh triggers. Apart from the thumbsticks which are again analogue all otehr buttons are digital Hope that cleared that up for you -- TheEnlightened
We tend to wikify relevant names in references, that's why I restored the link at V For Vendetta. There was also a consensus at one point about wikifying links once per section, rather than once per article, although whether that still holds I don't know. Steve block talk 08:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
As one of the few British people I know (thanks to your Flag :) ), I must ask you this skill testing question... (related to the Vendetta Article).
Which one of these film critics is the most respected? (In America, it's Roger Ebert). Is there one that is clearly on top? Or are these guys all obscure? Thanks Oscar! (If you ever need anyting, just ask. :) )
-- P-Chan 07:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Cheers. By the way, on your user page, it says "3000+: This user has over 3,00 edits" (three hundred not three thousand). Kernow 15:44, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Mr. Cat. I've added some comments at Talk:Bill Gates regarding the changes to the article this morning. Please jump in! Kuru talk 16:23, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up after this user. I did notice he had blanked a number of F/OSS projects articles. I also cleaned up a few other articles he'd blanked. He stopped for a while but has again removed content from Warez. At least he provided an edit summary this time. Imroy 15:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to understand why there are so few Wikipedians who are graduate engineers. Once I get a grasp on that, perhaps I may be able to formulate some ideas on how to attract more experienced engineers to become Wikipedians. It would be very helpful if you would respond to these a few questions:
Please respond on my User talk:mbeychok page. Or you may respond to me via Wikipedia's email which I have enabled on my User:mbeychok page.
If you would rather not respond at all, that's fine also. Regards, - mbeychok 04:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Please come to Xbox 360 to discuss about the subject, thank you. Kenimaru 23:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Moulder has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{ subst:smile}}, {{ subst:smile2}} or {{ subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!
Actually, requests for protection go here. -- Woohookitty (meow) 06:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
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To all your contributions and the formatting work you did for the V for Vendetta (film) article. Gave it a nice polished feel. Great stuff, Oscarthecat! -- P-Chan 17:35, 24 May 2006 (UTC) |
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Why you delete GROU.PS link in Google Groups page? GROU.PS is an online service that takes google, msn and yahoo's groups approaches one step ahead. it's already available on yahoo groups and msn groups pages.. and this is not an external link; a Wikipedia link.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Esokullu ( talk • contribs)
Hi Oscar. X-Men 3 movie page is red hot, and I think is one of those articles that can progress quite quickly. Not sure if you're a fan of the film or not, but I recommend that you check it out. (I'll be trying to add value there, until the V for Vendetta article picks up again.)-- P-Chan 01:21, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to rename an image, see
Talk:Nintendo_DS_Lite#Image_name. Tried the help pages, couldn't find any advice. Thanks --
Oscarthecat
21:46, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I can't tell you where I saw it, but somewhere in Wikipedia guidelines it states that unless a date is vital to the context of the article it's not wiki linked. I just watched a bot go around to most of the comics articles that I watchlist and remove excessive linking of dates. CovenantD 21:42, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I recently came accross one of your edits to a different page and noticed that you have an image in your signature. Images are not allowed per our signature guidelines for various reasons. Could you please remove it? Thanks. Exploding Boy 04:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)