User talk:Carlosguitar

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Are we nearly there yet equation

Hi there. Since you voted on this AfD, BillC and I have posted some further analysis of the whole "media equations" phenomenon - I was wondering if you'd mind having a look at it and commenting again at the AfD. Personally I don't think that a couple of days' press coverage during the silly season automatically makes something notable, especially when the exercise had more to do with getting publicity for Skoda than solving important mathematical problems. I wonder if I've done enough to persuade you? Best, Iain99 12:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Propane page - external link

Carlos, I submitted my thoughts about the Propane link I had listed to the discussion page, as per your direction. Let me know if you have any feedback about it. Thanks, MattMtt124 22:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Carlos, What do you know about propane? You've been terribly quick to offer advice and correction. You give me advice and when followed, you are the only one to respond...with different advice. I understand you are a big wig here but I'd like to offer something that will help visitors and not be subject to your editorial formalities. I understand quality content and the need for presentable information but if you deem my additions against the rules or insignificant...I stand corrected. But I'm quite certain my experience within the propane industry, as well as my reputation allow me some authority on the subject. By all means, I'm simply trying to help. I'd love to make badly needed corrections to the propane article but I'm not going to do it just so you can delete it. If you need my resume, I'll happily provide it. Mtt124 02:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Just take a look at the "History" section and tell me that everything looks great there. Mtt124 02:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks very much for your early support in my successful RFA. Let me know if I can help you out with anything. Cheers!!! Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 20:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 96 supports, 1 oppose, and 3 neutrals. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm a new admin remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them. I would like to give a special shout out to Hirohisat, Wizardman, and Husond, for there original co-nominations. Thank you once again and good day.

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Hello Carlos

Carlos, I see that you have done a tremendous amount of work on Parkour and Freerunning pages. In the past, I have added a link to American Parkour when other links were present. I think that you will see that I was an original contributor to the Parkour article, and I was actually interviewed by the original creator of the article to get much of the original content.

I can agree that adding a link to APK may seem to be point of view oriented, however there are really only 3-4 large websites for Parkour and freeruning, so I don't feel that having a link to APK is biased in any way, APK is in fact an important part of the Parkour and Freerunning world.

I have refrained from making any edits to these articles for quite some time as they have clearly turned to flame wars, in my opinion they are no longer even factual, and there are too many people trying to add / edit them who have no idea what they're talking about.

In any event, if you could let me know why you now don't feel there should be links on the freerunning page (the links have gone undisturbed for a very long time) I would appreciate it.

Im afraid I don't understand what makes someone qualified to edit these pages or take an active moderation role, so forgive me if my comments are misplaced.

Thanks, M2 68.50.111.10 23:47, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello M2, thanks for your reply. About external link, the admin Can't sleep, clown will eat me (talk · contribs) removed EL section on Parkour article, I reverted him re-adding APK and Parkour.NET, then again Can't sleep removed ELs. Instead of reverting him, I asked about it, Can't sleep reply saying to use as citation not on EL section. As Can't sleep did a valid point and these communities are easy found via Google, I agreed with him to remove EL section, that is why I removed EL section on free running article too.

Also, I strong suggest you to leave your criticism in the talk pages of parkour and/or free running, thus me or other editors can improve article based in yours suggestions. Cheers. Carlosguitar 06:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Guarana

Hello, Mr. Guitar. I fixed those issues you have brought up relating to the Guarana article. MessedRocker (talk) 01:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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Dear Carlosguitar,

Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 83 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutrals. No matter if you voted (I mean, "!voted") support or oppose, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm new, remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them, and if I do anything wrong, feel free to add to the permanent chorus of disapproval on my talk page. Special thanks to Walton^One and Dihydrogen Monoxide for nominating me.

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Thanks for your participation for my RFA bid and for your support.--JForget 23:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Dave2.JPG

Hi. You tagged this image for speedy deletion with a rationale I'm assuming is copyright infringement. The image, though, is listed as having a GFDL license, so I'm a little confused. If you have reason to believe that the uploader is not the creator, that's fine, but could you please elaborate what led you to that conclusion? It's not entirely clear to me, and I don't want to perform a hasty deletion. Natalie 15:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. You also may find CSD criteria G12 helpful in this case. The general criteria cover everything - articles, images, templates, etc., and if this was uploaded by someone other than the creator it would be considered copyright infringement. Natalie 15:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

The image is a screenshot of youtubevideo. Carlosguitar 15:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I saw that, but the user has uploaded it with GFDL licensing, basically claiming that they own the copyright and are releasing it as GFDL. Do you have reason to believe that they do not have the copyright to this video? Natalie 15:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Come on Natalie, Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, the user did the same mistake on . Do you really think that the same user own the copyrights of a video of TF1 channel? That French documentary about parkour is a long time on internet, and hardly will be release on free license. Carlosguitar 16:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what your reference to bureaucracy is about, but I'm just asking for clarification of something that was not entirely clear. My figuring is, if you have already spent the time to investigate someone's contributions and determined that they are using the wrong tags, why not just explain that in the CSD tag, rather than expecting that the deleting admin will duplicate your work. CSD gets really backed up, especially with images, and the whole point of allowing non-admins to tag things to CSD is to distribute the workload. But if you are going to tag something without a real explanation (your original tag only read "This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. The reason given is: Speedy deletion - www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBapQdXxGKg") than I don't think it's unreasonable or expecially bureacratic to ask you to explain what you mean. But I'm sorry if this was excessively burdensome. Natalie 16:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Youtube video shows the description: French TV report about David Belle. The video shows TF1 logo all the time. User's contributions shows another copyrighted image licensed as free. In my opinion there is a clear copyvio here. Carlosguitar 16:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm absolutely not saying that this isn't a copyvio. I'm saying that you didn't put any of this information on the CSD tag and it is silly to expect someone to duplicate your investigation, when you could just lay it out on the CSD tag in the first place. Your original CSD message provided almost no information, which is why I asked you to clarify in the first place. Natalie 18:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I understand Natalie, but youtube link is all you need. You said: "I saw that". I am understanding that you saw the whole video. Did you saw the whole video? Did you saw the TF1 logo? Did you read video description? But you replied above still believing that is a true free image. If you saw just the first seconds and closed the video than that was the problem. Carlosguitar 18:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

(unindentint) I never said I watched the video (I was not in a place where watching a video online would have been appropriate). I was saying I saw the link, although I can understand how that may have not been clear. My apologies for that - I saw that you linked to YouTube, but what you meant by that was not originally obvious. However, I never said I thought it was a true free image: if you reread my first post you will see that I said that if you believe that the uploader was not actually the creator of the work, could you please explain why. The whole reason I contacted you was because I thought you probably had a reason for tagging the image as you did and simply wanted to know what led you to the conclusion that the image was not free. I absolutely understand and agree with your reasoning. What I am asking is for you, in the future, to make this obvious when you tag the image, which is why I suggested the specific G12 tag. I am also saying that, in the case where the uploader has tagged something as being their own work (through the GFDL template or the pd-self template) it is probably good to explain why you don't believe that it is actually their work. Natalie 20:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok Natalie, I will do a detailed CSD report in next time. Carlosguitar 22:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series) GA review

I've addressed the concerns that you have outlined here. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 09:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for your participation in my RfA, which closed successfully with unanimous support. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and vote and I can't wait to learn the new tools and further immerse myself into Wikipedia! Please don't hesitate to point out any errors I make so I can prevent them from occurring again. I'm always here to help, so if you ever need anything, just let me know. Also, thanks to Wizardman for nominating me and for guiding many other editors to become admins. Again, thank you and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 07:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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minidesambiguação

olá, você sabe como fazer o equivalente a uma minidesabiguação (da wiki em pt) aqui?

grato,

Leandro Prudencio 20:10, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Vc se refere ao {{disambig}} no final da página? Carlosguitar 20:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Não. É uma diferente. Como na nota em pt:Manon. Não sei se há isso aqui.

Mas, na en:wiki as pessoas não respondem na página do outro? Acho que deve ser assim.

até mais,

Leandro Prudencio 21:13, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, vc se refere aos esboços, existe sim, são os WP:STUBS, da uma olhanada nessa lista ai, ela é bem grandinha. Sobre responder na mesma página, é melhor continuar discussao na pagina que vc inicio ela, porque isso facilita outros editores a lerem.

Se vc refere a nota no topo do artigo, vc pode fazer usando o {{for|nota do artigo|nome do artigo}}. Carlosguitar 01:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

interessante como vocês fazem as discussões aqui (diferente da pt:wikipédia)

valeu pela ajuda, Leandro Prudencio 20:04, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a new administrator!

Thanks, Carlosguitar! Thank you for voicing your opinion in my RfA, which passed today with a unanimous 79/0/0 tally. It feels great to be appreciated, and I will try my best to meet everyone's expectations. If you have any advice or tips, feel free to pass them along, as I am sure that I will need them! Cheers, hmwith talk 21:07, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you clear this up for me?

Why do you keep deleting my edits on the "citations" page? The fact is this: if it is the same phrase, on the same page, it should NOT have to be cited twice. An illustration example can be seen here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/ShinyHubCaps/Example.png

A real-life example can be seen on the page for Michael Redd.(cite1) You'll have to go to the history page, but a huge war of edits is there. In it, some user wanted to cite the usage of Michael Redd's nicknames, but he was putting references (and one of them wasn't even relevant) in the infobox. So, I deleted those and took the ones out of the infobox. A different user then put the same citations in the infobox and left the other ones, which were in the trivia section. I deleted those, reasoning that the infobox is an overview of the article; he retorted, saying that the infobox needs references, forgetting that the citations were right there on the same page. I reasoned that you don't cite date of birth, college, draft position, etc. in the infobox, so why nicknames? I also provided a very reasonable stipulation in both my Talk page and the discussion page. A month later, he comes back, reverting my edits and asking that I provide him with Wikipedian literature to prove my point.

Then it occurred to me: there isn't any. I tried to post it myself, but it was outdone by edits and reverts. Now how is it possible that the same info needs to be cited at both occurrences in the same article? For further definition of my problem, a good example is on the Michael Redd page.(cite1)

In fact, I just did an example in this post. Look at the spots that say (cite1)... that is your proposal, that we cite the same information at every occurrence in A SINGLE ARTICLE. Now I know repition of a phrase is discouraged in the first place, but the continuity between the Infobox and the article should count as well.

Please clear this up to me, because it seems pretty suspect for a quality-standards specialist to make this mistake. ShinyHubCaps 00:36, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I think, that should be decided on a case-by-case basis. There are biographies too large and with a high number of sources, see Fedor Emelianenko, and I do not think that is bad to source infobox. That make easy to find in which source is the information. Carlosguitar 20:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, I believe that is fair. In my example, however, I have edited the article and used the discussion page, as well as my own talk page, as the platform for explaining my rationale. However, the other person that makes edits, namely to revert whatever I have done, does not write in the edit summary or the discussion page. I believe that there should be some rule in regards to this, perhaps as you mentioned with "relatively small" biographies versus relatively large ones. It's just frustrating because I know I am right to not cite the same information twice as close as they are, and I left my reasoning, and people just edit and revert senselessly saying "Show me in Wikipedia rules where it says that." Is there any chance of mentioning the repetition issue somewhere on this page? ShinyHubCaps 21:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, also I apologize for my angry tone, but some users act like they run the joint. I was needlessly carrying over some anger; having said that, I would love to resolve this with some discussion rather than an edit war. It would be great if you could help. ShinyHubCaps 21:30, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		For all your amazing work on getting Parkour to GA status, and then continuing that work on the way to FA status I happily award you this Original Barnstar. Keep up the good work! -Thereen 04:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, my first barnstar. :D Carlosguitar 04:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem! Thank you for doing what you do :D -Thereen 00:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

stop telling me what to do i allways though this site you can do as you please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.67.210 (talk) 11:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Hello Carlosguitar,

Thank you very much for coming out in support of my RfA nomination. It closed a few hours ago, and I was promoted.

I would like to express my appreciation for your effort to assume good faith on my behalf. To that end, I shall do my best to retain your trust going forward.

Please feel free to contact me if you need help with actions requiring administrative access; I shall do my best to be of assistance to you. Cheers, --Aarktica 01:46, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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My dear Wikipedian Carlosguitar,
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This end the usual RFA thanks spam. You may return to your regular editing now.

Hi - just a question :-)

Hi just wanted to ask you something - How can you make your own user page links? Please message me back as soon as possible if you can! Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by HMJ97 (talk • contribs) 19:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

A user you warned

Olá! I notice that User talk:148.177.1.218 you warned this IP for the last time. This is just to let you know that he has continued to vandalize (here and here). Dahn 23:19, 11 October 2007 (UTC)