User talk:Eptalon

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[change] Billy Graham

Please vote in this Wikipedia:Proposed good articles#Voting section for Billy Graham. Thanks, AmericanEagle 04:36, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] British MPs

Hi, as I created the categories you've just deleted I was wondering what your reasons were, as there are over 600 MPs, and when they all have articles it will be useful to be able to refine the categories that they are in. --JulesN Talk 15:20, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I've given some thought to what categories are needed on my talk page in response to what you wrote. - JulesN Talk 00:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE: Tell me

About Billy Graham, can you tell and put everything that needs to be fixed/referenced like you did. I fixed added like six more references (all that you said+more). I want to make it as good as it could get. I'll be working on the article before I ask it for another proposal (probably soon). Thanks, AmericanEagle 23:15, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Category:Islands in Indonesia

I've recategorized the contents of this to Category:Islands of Indonesia as is done in en:wp and stuck a {{db}} tag on it. I'll be glad to talk about if I'm being too bold. Cheers, User:Jack Merridew a.k.a. David 13:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Done - deleted. Actually, there are a few others that are misnamed as "in" instead of "of". I've fixed a few of them in the past but haven't taken care of all of them. Jack, if you're interested in discussing categories with some of our editors who are quite knowledgeable about categories, you may want to check out "WikiProject" Categories in my userspace. You'll see that cleaning up Cat:Islands is on our list of things to do. · Ty grrr... 13:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Looking now... nb: I noticed this when I copied bits-'o-cat off of w:Nusa Penida and it came up red. Cheers, User:Jack Merridew a.k.a. David 13:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Question

~~Hi! I saw you use HotCat. I have that gadget enabled but I don't know how to use it. Can you explain please?~~ Also, could you look here please? Thanks! SwirlBoy 39 22:14, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE: Charles Spurgeon

I changed four references to cite news like you had said on the talk page. But can you do the book references. Plus what do you mean by "No space before ref tags"? I'm afraid I don't know how to do either. Cheers -- AmericanEagle 21:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Typing

Honestly! How do you sleep at night. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 17:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Hi

Please see WP:AIV. Thanks! SwirlBoy 39 22:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Reversion

Sorry for the reversion of your last 2 edits. I know that I could have gone through the article and erased them by hand, but that would've taken a while, so I decided to just revert to the version previous to the vandalism and put explicitly in the edit summary for you to redo your last 2 edits. Do you think I came to the correct conclusion? Cheers, Razor flame 16:01, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Better revert now, than be sorry later. --Eptalon (talk) 16:14, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

That was what I was thinking when I reverted it. It's not a big deal to have to redo a few constructive edits anyways... Cheers, Razor flame 16:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] World History

Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass so rasch ein weiteres Argument geliefert würde, die Entstehung des Menschen außen vor zu lassen. Bis jetzt sind die Leute ja noch nicht allzu zahlreich, die die berühmten sieben Tage auf ein historisch fixiertes Datum festlegen wollen. --Cethegus (talk) 09:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Vgl. dazu de:Neandertaler, de:Steinzeit. Meine Erachtens ist es irelevant ob die Lebewesen die diese "Tools" herstellten, noch Tiere, oder schon Menschen waren. Was unterscheidet denn den Mensch vom Tier? --Eptalon (talk) 11:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Short summary from the English-speaking crowd:

The basic question was wether to include "hominids" (i.e. human-like apes, lie the Neandertal, or others like it) in World History. My arguent was that these "beings" (whatever you classify them as) were able to produce tools. Perhaps they had a simple religion. Artifacts like the Venus of Willendorf have been found. Except for the age of the figurine (about 25.000 years) we know nothing, neither who made it, nor what purpose it served. There are two options, either nclude it, and present it as part of "World History". This would raise its creators to the state of "human-like" (if they were not already). The alternative is to leave it out, on the basis that those "animals" who made it were "not human" - therefore it does not belong in world history (all this is also in Talk:World History

Cethegus wrote to me he would not have thought that a new argument for not including the development of the human race would be supplied so quickly (read: creationism/intelligent design)

my reply to that was that whoever crafted those figurines, spear-tips, etc. was able to create artwork. In my opinion it would therefore be unjustified to not mention that (at least very shortly) in the article. I do however agree with Cethegus completely that there are still many holes in the article. The main focus should therefore be to fix the redlinks that are there, to expand the sections (see article talk page) and to find andinclude references where possible.--Eptalon (talk) 11:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Eptalon, hi

Eptalon, Hi there

I was wondering if you could unprotect my talk page. You know, now that my block is over, i may be needing it.

Thanks IuseRosary? ^(talk) 19:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Þakka þú

Þakka þú. Var nokkuð rangur með minn ritstýra? Ef svo , ÉG er hryggur.

oh, i am good at english also. yes, it is icelandic. you speak lot of languages! how manage you?

I learnt most of them at school; and no, I don't study languages - Learning languages is easier when you are young. ;) --Eptalon (talk) 18:45, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Welcoming

Please do look at the changes a user is making before welcoming them. - EchoBravo contribs 18:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Hi, Eptalon!

How are you? Fine? I don't think it's for long period of time... --Novodarsky (talk) 15:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Sockpuppets

Hey Eptalon, at last an admin online! Okay, there's an issue brewing with sockpuppets, e.g. User:Novossarsky, User:Novozhmursky etc created within 4 minutes of each other and then going on vandalism sprees. I'm not 100% up to speed on simple wiki protocol but presumably there's a Checkuser somewhere here who can run a check on these accounts and block accordingly? There are most likely other accounts. Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:29, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

And, as per the message above, User:Novodarsky... The Rambling Man (talk) 16:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

It's probably not worth doing a checkuser - they're obviously the same person, and just vandals. Majorly (talk) 16:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

My last ban (yesterday, of an IP address) banned all the Novo... for a week. I did this after doing a checkUser. --Eptalon (talk) 07:51, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] RfCU

A request for you to check out when you get the chance. I get the feeling the situation is fairly urgent given the user's edits. · Ty grrr... 18:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Block

Can I get an indef block on User:Razorice, User:Razorlight, and User:Razorair please? They are all dopplegangers that I created. Cheers, Razor flame 14:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Done

--M7 (talk) 14:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] User Page deletion

Hi Eptalon, you deleted my user page per QD U1. Well, I hadn't asked for it to be deleted but I don't mind it being deleted. Yet the talk page hasn't been deleted. Could you please delete it too? Noreen's Fish (talk) 19:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure, no prob. Usually I take a blanked page in Userspace as requesting deletion. Nevertheless I hope you stay with us... --Eptalon (talk) 19:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and don't worry, I stay. I just thought it would be a better idea to change my account to my main Wikipedia username, so I won't need this one any longer. Cheers. Noreen's Fish (talk) 19:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Relook

Have another look at the article. He is actually a United States Senator (former). Cheers, Razor flame 16:30, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please have another look at the article. I think it's quite clear now that Heinz is a notable addition. If you agree, we can go ahead and close the RfD. Thanks. · Ty grrr... 17:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] 86.105.181.238

Did you mean to block this IP indefinitely? I really don't think that we should be blocking IP's indefinitely. I think that it would be better if you were to block this user for a year or 2 instead of indefinitely. Cheers, Razor flame 16:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Please read the above message and please explain as to the reason why you blocked this IP indefinitely. I do not believe that any Wikipedia should indefinitely block any IP address as the users that are behind the vandalism usually move on and new users come to use it. Cheers, Razor flame 23:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

18:35, 30 May 2008 Eptalon (Talk | changes | block) blocked 86.105.181.238 (Talk) with an expiry time of 24 hours (anonymous users only, account creation disabled) ‎ (Adding nonsense/gibberish into pages: more reasonable block time, give this is an IP) (unblock)
18:34, 30 May 2008 Eptalon (Talk | changes | block) unblocked 86.105.181.238 (Talk) ‎ (change block time.)
17:02, 30 May 2008 Eptalon (Talk | changes | block) blocked 86.105.181.238 (Talk) with an expiry time of indefinite (anonymous users only, account creation disabled) ‎ (Bad behaviour/harassment) (unblock)

I'm sorry! I didn't see that in the block log. Cheers, Razor flame 23:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Sure you know, but...

...can I wave the last section of Simple Talk at you? Thanks. Microchip 18:09, Friday, May 30 2008 Utc]] 18:09, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Simple Talk

Just to fix bis alle Missverständnisse wir haben, dass RFCU wurde in einem MySpace-Kommentar von einem User verboten. ChristianMan fragte nach, was geschehen muss. AFAIK, war es nicht ein Antrag als solches noch nicht. -- Da Punk '95 talk 22:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE: The Copts

I don't know much about them, so I just tried to do what en:WP said. Thanks -- ✰American Eagle 22:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

For a Christian, I don't know much out of the denominations of Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, etc. I thank you for explaining that to me, I haven't learned that much about that sort of topics in Christianity. Cheers -- ✰American Eagle 23:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] StatusBot

A StatusBot has now been implimented on this Wikipedia. Feel free to follow the instructions at User:SoxBot to set up your Status. Cheers, Razor flame 03:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Barnstar of epic proportions!

		The Epic Barnstar
		For all of your work in World History, I hereby award you this barnstar! Razor flame 02:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Holocaust

If one puts in the sentence ""Holocaust" and "Shoah" redirect here. For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation)." like in en:WP there should be no problem, even if it is as you rightly explained. --Cethegus (talk) 14:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Changing category Documents to category Manuscripts

Eptalon, don't you agree with me that manuscript is a much harder word for a simple english user to understand? I think that document or documents is a much simpler word, but I don't understand the reason why you are changing Documents to Manuscripts. Maybe you can illuminate me a bit? Cheers, Razor flame 23:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Your last post was kind of rude and I did not appreciate it, especially coming from an administrator. Razor flame 19:03, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Animal delete

On that recent delete, I feel were were both wrong. Doesn't it fall under G3? I don't think it is a test page because it is not saying (or along the lines of) "Can I really create a page here?". It is vandalism. What is your opinion to what I just said? SwirlBoy 39 14:59, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE: VGA

Do you think that Charles Spurgeon is ready to be proposed for VGA? I have done much work, such as getting rid of all these words for comprehension. It has length, references, other websites, very much information, interwiki links, categories, no templates (such as {{complex}}), images, etc. Do you think it is ready to be proposed? (not voted yet, I know) Thanks -- A^pE^t_SIG 21:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

It has indeed improved a lot; I cannot judge comprehensiveness, I will leave that to the community; The article is most certainly long enough. What I personally think (nothing to do with the criteria) is that the section Some events in Spurgeon's life and Some things S. wrote are only bulleted. For the writings, I'd propose to mention what you (or others) think are the most important 2-3 speeches (in prose, not bulleted), and banning the others to a see-also/Main article section. For the Events of Spurgeon's life (I personally) would prefer prose, rather than bullets.If it is too much, do as with the others, move to a different article, and only give a short overview. If we list the article at the PVGA page, we have three weeks to improve these things. Before you list it though, I would suggest, you ask another regular editor, to get a balanced view. Congratulations on your work nevertheless. --Eptalon (talk) 22:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Organi[s|z]ations

We may want to take a look at consistancy of spelling when dealing with Category:organizations. Given that Astronomical organisations, Christian organizations, International organizations, Professional boxing organisations, Youth organisations, Non-governmental organization and Non-profit organization can not figure out whether they want to use British or American spelling and only one (International) can even reasonably try to claim one usage over the other (British is the more international spelling variant of the two) but is actually using the other, this could realy go either way. I think the major determining factor would likely be ease of change. UK has 3 subcats and 0 articles, US has 2 subcats and 2 articles for reasonable close. The major change would be the articles in the subcats though - about 10 for UK, and 50 for US. Also the main article is US with UK redirected to it.

Thoughts?-- Creol(talk) 14:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I am a non-native speaker. I have passed one of the Cambridge Exams (Proficiency). Since they are about British English, the -z- variants were noted as plainly wrong (No idea whether they changed that in the meantime), so I personally spell these words with an s instead of a z. Apart form that, it might be a lost battle no matter what we chose to decide (Traveller vs. traveler). Personally, I do not want to get into a fight over spelling (as it distracts from the main purpose of trying to create an encyclopedia that is easier to understand than the English-language one. We also have the benefit of being a much smaller project than EnWP. Personally I would go with whatever variant is used more often. When people learn English, one of the Cambridge Exams is a popular choice (s); so is TOEFL (which is based on US-English) (z). If you look at the origin, most of these -ize/ise words are from French (where they are spelled with an 's') (Same thing for harbour/harbor type differences). On another note: are such easy changes not doable by a bot script? - I think non of our thirty-odd users will be outraged with seeing Organis/zation spelled one way or another. So do whatever you feel happy with, but please be consistent (as in all subcats spelled the same way). --Eptalon (talk) 17:42, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, that's weird. I've just realised that I spell organization, but organisations... Microchip 19:54, Friday, June 13 2008 Utc

This may be helpful. I'm not sure, but I think that I remember reading somewhere that Jimbo Wales preferred the use of American spelling. But then again, I may be wrong. I was always taught American spelling (organization, gray, story, etc.), so I would say in general US spelling is better, at least for categories. -- America ^†alk 20:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I knew the current ruling; try to be consistent where possible. Try to step on as few feet as possible. While we are at it: English is not only spoken in Great Britain and the U.S, but also in other states (Canada, South Africa, or India,..). In theory all Creol wanted is to get a consisten spelling of organisation/organisation(s) in these categories.--Eptalon (talk) 20:22, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh yes, I know. And I'm sorry if my message sounded wrong. Now that I read Creol's and my message, mine came off all wrong. And didn't have to do with her(his) question. Thanks -- America ^†alk 20:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Barnstar!

		American Eagle's Barnstar of Excellence
		For all the hard work you do, and for all the knowledge that you have, even though it mostly goes unnoticed, I award you my Barnstar. -- America ^†alk 20:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Thank you

I am not sure how such a simple oppose got so out of hand. A time out is definately needed. -Djsasso (talk) 22:32, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

You are the one the time out was intended for. I was already trying to end the conflict and here you go, continuing to add flame to the fire. Razor flame 22:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

To both of you: This is my talk page. This edits only shows we all need the time out. So please stop attributing guilt (in the way I wrote in my comment on the RfA), do something else for that hour, come back with a clear head and continue with topical contributions. If you have absolutely no idea what to do, there is one VGA, and two GAs up for discussion, and Creol left a message on simple talk about a need for cleanup/NPOV checking to articles relating to Kashmir, mostly. --Eptalon (talk) 22:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Alright...

You mean, simplify? If so, I can do that. Cheers -- America ^†alk 23:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Working at that... -- America ^†alk 23:21, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I did do some, I'm not sure about how perfect it was. What is strange, I didn't know what it was before I started to read it. But the I realized I sing that song almost every week at a Home/Baptist church. Thanks -- America ^†alk 23:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] My recent reverts

I was wondering if I handled the recent vandalism edits correctly. I'm already experienced with reverting and deciding what vandalism is on other wikipedias, but I just wanted to make sure I'm doing it right here. -- RyanCross (talk) 12:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. And what do you mean by "successful"? --RyanCross (talk) 12:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Well-loved by the commmunity. The first among equals when it comes to assigning blame.--Eptalon (talk) 13:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and I was wondering if users are allowed to copy content from other Wikipedias to here, as long as it is in Simple English. I've seen some users do that in my time here and I was wondering if that was allowed. Of course it has to be in Simple English. -- RyanCross (talk) 19:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I taught was supposed to happen. Thanks again. -- RyanCross (talk) 20:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Quick delete

~~I recently tagged [this for deletion. I just thought if you would like to delete it. I see no reason for the article to be kept.~~ -- RyanCross (talk) 01:31, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind. It was done by somebody else. Thanks anyway. -- RyanCross (talk) 01:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Thoughts?

Umm... What?. Thanks -- America ^†alk 01:44, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for jumping in here, but I'd close that since the requester supported himself which I think is against that policy to. That editor is not even active so there's no way that can survive. -- RyanCross (talk) 01:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I personally look at is as a test edit, see Special:Contributions/Ich and Du--Eptalon (talk) 01:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Yup, no experience here whatsoever. Should it be deleted or just closed as normal? -- RyanCross (talk) 01:53, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I doubt the editor is even here anymore. -- America ^†alk 01:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Already closed early due to WP:SNOW. Cheers, Razor flame 02:01, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Wikipedia guidelines and policies

I was just looking through Special:Wantedpages and I noticed Wikipedia:Conservation status, a project space page, in that list. Can users like me create guidelines? Of course they have to be positive guidelines, maybe creating guidelines here form en-wikipedia but in a simpler version. Is that possible to do, users like me creating guidelines? -- RyanCross (talk) 21:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] My RFA

Thank you for your recent support in my RFA which closed successfully with 26 supports and a lone oppose. I hope to serve the community to the best of my ability. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:33, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Review

Hello, Eptalon. I was wondering if you could review me at my editor review. I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Ryan†Cross (talk) 21:00, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Now I have. Is there something you need help with? Oh, and no rush on you reviewing me. -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 21:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] List of Pokemon

Nobody cares, it seems. I have no interest in being the primary/only contributor to 493 stubs; I disliked the species articles intensely over on en, to be quite honest. I would have been more enthused if there were others along for the ride. I suggest quick deleting unless smoeone here wants to maintain the articles. Cass andra 07:06, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello. I may be able to help if I could have some details on what to do and what's happening to it. -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 07:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

No, we will split the main list into smaller lists. Don't QD it yet, I have created the navigation template already. Chenzw Talk 07:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

(ec) WP:RFD#List_of_Pokémon was the discussion debate. I said that I would try to recruit some users from the WikiProject over at English, but nobody responded except for A Link to the Past, who (like me) is more interested in game articles than the species ones. Eptalon closed it as keep with the option to quick-delete. Species articles require knowledge of the subject, which even for me is limited as I haven't read the magna or watched the show since Ash left the Kanto league (back in 2000). Cass andra 07:21, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I was a pokemon fan. If I still remember this stuff, I could possibly help out here. So, I don't really get what we're supposed to accomplish here. Are we going to create 493 article, or are we going to expand the list? I'll read the RfD debate, but I would still like an answer to my question. -- RyanCross (talk) 07:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Your WP:PGA nomination

My reply here. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 11:13, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Corrently working on extending Evolution to fit in my ideas of what it should look like; you are of course wlecome to help with any of it. --Eptalon (talk) 11:15, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Article building (mainly creating, cleaning up, and copyediting articles) is one of my main areas of editing. I'll see if I can help out in any way. Is there anything specifics I should know on what to improve in the article? -- RyanCross (talk) 11:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I generally use the talk pages of articles to talk about what to improve in them; At the moment, Evolution is mostly re-arranging things for readability (perhaps some simplifying), and creating/fixing the red links. Articles like tohse mentioned at PGA are mostly finding and including references, at least for Beethoven and Berlin Wall. --Eptalon (talk) 11:24, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah. I'll see what I can do in those areas. If I feel the need to discuss something about the article, I'll post a message on the article's talk page so everyone can pitch-in. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 11:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE: Evolution

Alright, when I get the chance I'll proof-read it. But I'm not the best at that, but will do. Cheers -- America ^†alk 18:13, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

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