User talk:The Rambling Man/Archive 1

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Contents 1 Welcome to Simple English Wikipedia 2 Nice to see you here 3 Complex words 4 Your welcome 5 BD template 6 Barnstar 7 Barnstar 8 Re: Songwriter / The Brill Building 9 Warnings 10 Re: Care providers in your own home 11 WP:RFD and WP:RFA 12 Replied 13 Hey 14 Can you? 15 English Wikipedia 16 Stonehenge 17 James I of Scotland 18 Friends 19 Re: Hey 20 Hello 21 Don't forget 22 Block 23 Citations 24 Thanks

[change] Welcome to Simple English Wikipedia

Hi, The Rambling Man! Welcome to Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes. If you need help, check out the Help section of Wikipedia, or leave a message on my talk page. Whenever leaving messages on talk pages, please remember to sign your name by typing four 'tildes' (like this: ~~~~); doing this makes your name and the date show up. Also, it helps if you write something in the box that says 'edit summary' whenever you change an article. Below are some useful links to make your time here simpler. If you make a short article please mark it with {{stub}}, our guideline is here: Stubs Happy editing! Razorflame 19:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC) Getting Started How to: change a page • write Simple English articles Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Administrators • Leaving a message for administrators Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Can this be checked? Saying where the idea came from • What Wikipedia is not Copyrights • Using images and Pictures Spam • Vandalism • Deletion policy The Community Assume good faith • Be kind Community Portal • Simple talk • TASERING Announcements • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Peer review • Cleanup Other Useful templates • Stubs

[change] Nice to see you here

Nice to see you here! Welcome to our little community :) Majorly (talk) 20:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

All looks good. Interwiki links are important though so remember to include them (just copy them off the English Wikipedia article). Majorly (talk) 11:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

By the way, popups is in the Gadgets section of your prefs :) Majorly (talk) 12:31, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Complex words

I just wanted to let you know that you should always look for more simple words that would fit into an article the same that the more complex words would. Founded to started is an example of this. Thanks, Razorflame 15:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Your welcome

Thanks for your welcome message. Just as you suggest that I sign my messages with four tildes, it would be good if you signed your welcome message that way, too. Particularly since you say I can ask you for help, and I have to figure out who you are otherwise. --Art Carlson (talk) 09:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] BD template

I noticed that you are using the births and deaths categories without using this template. {{BD}} Could you please use this for person pages you create in the future? Thanks, Razorflame 20:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your creation of many articles in a short period of time, I hereby award you this barnstar! Razorflame 19:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Barnstar

Thanks! I didn't realise the amount of work that needs to be done here. It appears there are no active editors from NI, so I'm having to do it all myself! (on a positive note, no political POV-pushing) It's nice to take a break from the cut and thrust of en.wikipedia and do some worthwhile editing. But make sure you don't let those 'crat tools go rusty ;-) EJF (talk) 17:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Re: Songwriter / The Brill Building

I disagree with your reasoning (though I won't contest your change, at this time), and I sorta wish you had moved the Brill Building data to its own new entry, instead of simply removing it. This Wiki could use such an entry. Zephyrad (talk) 19:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Nah, I'm OK with creating a new entry, and will likely do that today. It just irks me rather, when information is removed instead of moved (or improved); I recently went through what turned into a nasty, basically pointless debate on that subject, on English Wikipedia. (I just might list and link the Brill Building, with some sublistings for specific writers from it, on the songwriter page.) Cheers. Zephyrad (talk) 19:38, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Warnings

Here are a list of warnings that we use here on the Simple English Wikipedia:

• {{test1}} First level warning for general vandalism.
• {{test2}} Second level warning for general vandalism.
• {{test3}} Third level warning for general vandalism.
• {{test4}} Final level warning for general vandalism.
• {{test5}} A blocked template. Should be used by an administrator just before a block.

Removing content warnings

• {{test2a}} First level warning for removing content.
• {{test3a}} Second level warning for removing content.
• {{test4}} Same one as listed above, but can also be used as a final warning for removing content.

Test article warnings

• {{test1article}} First level warning for test articles.
• {{test2article}} Second level warning for test articles.
• {{test3article}} Final level warning for test articles.

These are for administrator use

• {{block}} For indef blocks of vandalizing users.
• {{blocked}} For indef blocks of established named users.

Cheers, Razorflame 14:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

The reason why I gave you these warnings was because I noticed that you were reverting vandalism, and I also noticed that you seemed to not know what the warnings were. This is the same post that I posted to several other promising accounts in the past and I managed to scrounge it up for you.

Also, if you are at a loss for other pages, you should check out the page WP:RFD for requests for deletion and WP:RFA for requests for adminship.

Cheers, Razorflame 15:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Re: Care providers in your own home

Yes it can , and it has been deleted by Tygrrr as spam. Oysterguitarist 22:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] WP:RFD and WP:RFA

I believe that you are an established enough account here to vote on both the open RFA's and the open RFD's. You can find both pages at WP:RFD and WP:RFA. Cheers, Razorflame 15:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Replied

I replied to your post at Razorflame's talkpage.-- Lights  talk  12:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

And I did the one on Lights' page. It's musical admins!!! -- Creol(talk) 12:26, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Added note on the topic: Moving/changing categories. As Lights said, cats cannot be moved. With any category name change, each article in the old category has to be changed to the new one. For the most part I would suggest either bringing the idea of a category name change up here or talking to either Barliner, Tygrrr or myself before making major changes. That page is the closest we have to a wikiproject:categories and we three are the editors with the most experience dealing with our category tree and some of it's oddities. Adding new cats is one thing, but major renaming should be discussed first. -- Creol(talk) 12:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Hey

Thanks for the Welcome. I have seen you around on the English Wikipedia. I saw your article on Vandalism. Thanks again! ṜέđṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ ^{Drop me a line}§ 12:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Can you?

You earlier offered to change the references that I made into cite webs. Can I ask if you would be willing to do that for me for all the articles that I've created since yesterday? Thanks in advance, Razorflame 15:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] English Wikipedia

I've been pretty busy on the English Wikipedia lately. Thought you might like to know because you are a 'crat there. Cheers, Razorflame 13:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Stonehenge

I was just wondering why we needed a caption. It, in my opinion, is selfexplainitory

[change] James I of Scotland

Fine to see you at work at British history! To help users even further with every article you should mention the interwikis, monarchs you may always use the infoboxes. In any case if one takes material from the English Wikipedi, as you did, one shoul mention it on the talk page. Creol created the template {{Enwp based}} to be placed on the talk pages of articles that are created based on simplified versions of En:wp pages. The template requires the complete address of the version used as the basis for the article (and will tell you if you don't include the url) while providing a link to the version itself and informing the reader of the available history of the article. This should completely cover the reference back/history requirements under the GFDL.

To see what that means you may look at your article now. --Cethegus (talk) 05:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Friends

I am happy to tell you that I've added you to my friends list here on the Simple English Wikipedia. You are definitely someone who is a true editor here on the Wikipedia, and therefore, I wouldn't mind to have you on my friends list. Cheers, Razorflame 16:33, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Re: Hey

Well, hello there. So... BRC is slowly taking over this Wikipedia, as well? Nice. нмŵוτнτ 19:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Hello

Hello. I would like to have a lame edit war with you on this Wikipedia. Where do I start? I'm thinking of insisting Main Page should be Main Pages because there have been lots of Main Pages. After that, I thought I might find a template we could argue over. Maybe whether or not there should be dots in initials in it. --86.146.209.237 (talk) 11:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Never mind. How about collaborating on Iwan Roberts or John Wark: Who is uglier? --86.146.209.237 (talk) 12:08, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

That would be... Roberts. Now sod off back to the en-Wikipedia before I hunt you down...! The Rambling Man (talk) 12:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

OK. I'll leave you with a gift. --86.146.209.237 (talk) 12:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Very kind...! The Rambling Man (talk) 12:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Don't forget

Everyone forgets sometimes, but when you revert vandalism, could you please remember to use the warnings as it helps us handle vandalism on this site. You've been doing a fantastic job handling and dealing with vandalism on this site and I am very grateful for your help with vandalism on this site. Thanks for your help, Razorflame 19:35, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] Block

Sorry, pure accident. -  EchoBravo  contribs  16:59, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Citations

Thanks for the advice IANAV (talk) 17:08, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Fixed a few of the citations[1] is definitely an improvment on [2] IANAV (talk) 17:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Thanks

Thanks for helping reverting....It was a lot to revert too....^^.The life of brian (talk) 15:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)