User talk:HighwayCello

Reversion of edits

Hi HighwayCello. I've reverted edits that you have made which have been unencyclopedic and unacceptable. On the basis of your edits to A Series of Unfortunate Events, I checked your edit history which is where I spotted what you had done to the Kilbirnie article. In order to help you get a clearer picture of what Wikipedia is all about and how to edit it, I've added a standard "welcome" below which I hope you'll find useful. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, CLW 19:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, HighwayCello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Blanking

Please don't blank content from peoples' user pages, as this is considered vandalism. Thanks! CLW 17:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.

Without meaning to sound patronising, I note that your recent edits are much more - dare I say it? - "encyclopedic". This is the kind of stuff we want! Cheers (smile back!) CLW 17:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

What I had added to my earlier comment was another stab at you. Apologies, I was somewhat angry at the time..

PS - How do you get your name to come up at the end of posts? *feels miffed*

(Later on) Ah! *sees timestap option and feels like idiot* Right... --Highway 18:42, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

No problem. Sometimes when I notice new people making new articles I like to help out so they can learn by example. I hope you like Wikipedia, it's great to have one more editor! --Pagrashtak 19:17, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome ...

Glad to help out. -- ProveIt ^(talk) 07:47, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup Taskforce

I saw your post on the cleanup talk page. The taskforce is here: Wikipedia:Cleanup_Taskforce. --Kerowyn 00:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Summary

What did I do? I not sure what I did wrong...sorry if it caused you any hassle. =D Jumping cheese 02:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh...ok, I saw what I did. I only made the edits because the names do not need to be bolded and I thought the episode summary would be more appropriate in the List of Kim Possible episodes page. However, if you feel that your revisions are appropriate, I won’t touch them. If you have any concerns or additional complaints, please feel free to leave me a message. =D Jumping cheese 02:13, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help! (I need somebody)

I've lost my password! My computer is logged in, but I can't get it anywhere else.

Do you mean, you've lost your Wikipedia password? If that's the case, you can just log out and have the system mail you a reminder.

... you do have your e-mail in the system, yes? DS 17:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really sure... I might, how can you put it in? Highway 17:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Under "my preferences" at the top and to the right, the first tab there has "E-Mail (optional)" --pgk^(talk) 18:08, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! : )

Problemo sovled!

Fair use images

Hi, I noticed you added some Pokémon material to your user page. However, fair use images are not allowed on user pages according to fair use policy item 9. Also, please do not include your user page in categories such as Category:Grass Pokémon, as those categories are intended for articles. Pagrashtak 18:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, thank you for being so kind! I only had them on my user page as part of the WP:PCP, as I have trouble remembering the design of infoboxes and tables. You were so kind as to incinuate that I had done it on purpose, when, if you have even bothered to look, was not the case.

Second of all, I am a new member of Wikipedia, and I somewhat doubt that you went through the entire fair use policy before writing a single word!

Third of all! I did not add my user page in categories such as "Grass-type Pokémon"! As I said, I am a new member that hadn't noticed that when you add in a user box with species type tags that it automatically adds the article onto the list! And amazingly, neither did you, so you have absolutely no right to hound me about it!

I appreciate that I shouldn't have had the images on my page, but I never knew that, so you had no right to be rude! I am just incredibly mad, because you successfully managed to completely insult me and be incredibly prejudice about it. Highway 19:01, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry you took offense, none was intended. It's understandable that you have not read the fair use policy; that's why I was informing you about it. I was trying to be nice by alerting you to the problems on your user page so you could fix them. What should I have done instead? Pagrashtak 22:25, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for apologising, I just got slightly overamped. Well, perhaps a suggestion as to where I can do the work with the Pokémon infoboxes, if my user page isn't the right place. Is it possible to do it in your personal sandbox if you have one? If you can, it would be very helpful if you could tell me how to make one. Also, try to look at the user page before commenting : P 22:30, Highway 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I did look at your user page, that's how I noticed the images. ;) You can make your own user subpage to work on projects or just to store useful stuff, like User:HighwayCello/Pokémon, or whatever you would like to call it. The restrictions on fair use images and article categories apply to subpages also, but they allow you to keep your user page clean and organized. Pagrashtak 22:46, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I only really need it to move over boxes. Would it be okay if I have the pictures there for about five minutes at a time, infrequently, and then move them onto to the appropriate page and then remove them from it?

It's just whenever you try and do something big like that, everyone decides to start editting : P Highway 23:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NPA

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy: There is no excuse for personal attacks on other contributors. Do not make them. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that you may be blocked for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thanks, --Rory096 18:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Pokémon

While I appreciate your enthusiasm here, please do keep in mind that substantially modifying others' comments—which includes striking them out—is unacceptable; and that I'm quite capable of withdrawing my own objections when I feel they have been met, so there's no need to do that for me ;-) —Kirill Lok s hin 23:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

India portal

We had addressed some of the concerns that you had raised at the WP:FPCAN. Could you please check the page and advise? - Ganeshk (talk) 21:01, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Images

I didn't upload it but if you take a screenshjot from an emulator and crop it, you can copy and apply correctly the liscensing of the relevant image in Bulbasaur.
No. Take a photo yourself and you can liscense it how you like ({{GFDL-self}}, {{PD-self}}).
No idea. I dopn't think it takes up much bandwidth but I don't know.

Hope this helps! --Celestianpower ^háblame 14:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Emulators are widely available for google searches and Limewire. Try searching "GBA emulator" and "Pokemon Ruby ROM free".
You can't take photos from the internet and upload them. Either take one yourself or don't include one at all.
Cool.

D. --Celestianpower ^háblame 18:49, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The phantom deleter

Well hello you! Yes, I consider myself to be quite hot on grammatical issues (though I'm not saying that I don't make sloppy mistakes myself now and then...) - what was it you were wondering about? CLW 17:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Torchic

There you go. Some of my changes were just personal style preference. The main thing I spotted was "it's"/"its" - "it's" is short for "it is", whereas "its" is the possessive form of "it". Lemme know if you've got any questions about changes I made! Cheers, CLW 18:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1) Sorry - not sure what you mean when you say "I've taken about three new subjects". Maybe I'm being thick. What are you trying to say?

2) What type of image file are you trying to upload? Something standard like a .jpg or something exotic?

3) Well, lots of people might think that Pokémon articles are "for kids" and not worth the work bringing things up to GA status, but I say go for it for sure. I mean, what's the worst that can happen? You'll surely learn loads! Good luck! CLW 18:59, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, on talk pages you can start a new topic with three =s or by clicking on the + tab at the top between "edit this page" and "history".

The fact that you found the screenshot on a website shouldn't make it any more complicated, and it should work just fine as a JPEG. If you've having problems, try Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) - someone there's bound to be able to help. ONce an image is uploaded, you shouldn't have any bandwidth issues as it's then stored on Wikipedia's servers. Which is why people like me devote lots of time to deleting unsource, unlicensed and orphaned images. It's the Wikipedia servers that suffer, not the uploader's!

So, like I said, if you're still having problems try the technical Village Pump board and see if someone can help you out. CLW 20:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Failure of Queen article

I don't buy your failure for one second. You judged it on intenstely high standards. Okay, so there were a couple of grammar usages you didn't like. That just means the article isn't ready to become Featured. The assertation that a few sentences that you felt could be improved mean that the article isn't good is ridiculous. Some of the complaints aren't even valid - why should I define terms such as "arena rock" and "glam rock" within the article? They have separate pages! That's what they're for! Adding defenitions would simply lower the quality of the article. The article is absolutely a good article - I'm putting it back up for nomination right now, and I ask you to not to judge it (or any other article nominated to become good) any more, because you do not seem to be clear on the difference between "good" and "Featured". TheImpossibleMan 19:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I encourage you to actually read my statements before concluding that I'm harassing you and making personal attacks. At no point in my above statment did I disparage you personally. I simply did (and do) think that you're holding articles to far too high a standard.

Additionally, you may not realize this, but the Beatles are, by far, the highest maintained group on English Wikipedia. There are literally over a dozen Beatles-related articles that are Featured, and some (such as the Sgt. Pepper's article) are just short of being Featured. Even more, read articles like Something, then tell me that the Queen article isn't even good. TheImpossibleMan 20:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Getting yelled at sucks...

*hug* - CorbinSimpson 21:11, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I'm evaluating Queen (band) right now for GA status. I'm going to be honest, and he's going to have to deal with it. - CorbinSimpson 21:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Corbin in this respect, getting yelled at does suck. But, I don't feel you were yelled at. You were talked to frankly and curtly for what are high standards that you're setting. He has no right, to my knowledge, banning you from the GA process but he certainly wasn't personally attacking you. The article ascension process is tough (you'll find that out soon enough, especially with a Pokemon article and I should kniow better than anyone ;)) but so long as everyone is civil and respectful, it shouldn't be too stressful. I recommend you take a look at your standards (I feel that they are in fact a tad high) and strike out your PA claim, it was (in my opinion) unfounded. Please can we try and sort this out civilly and respectfully? --Celestianpower ^háblame 22:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As usual, CP says it best. All I have to add is this: Cheer up. Just because someone violates WP:ATTACK doesn't mean you have to take it to heart — just keep on working and writing what you want to say, and let people listen to your opinion. Okay? - CorbinSimpson 22:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe...

I hope I can in anything you're having a problem with, just ask ; ). That's my line. *wink* - CorbinSimpson 22:26, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Africa GA nom.

Thanks for your review. Maurreen 03:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: About Mickey Mantle

If you have reviewed an article (regardless of decision) you should remove it from Wikipedia:Good articles/Nominations to prevent confusion.

I thought I did that. [1] But it seems that a non IP user readded it after rewriting the lead section . [2]

The main problem with your review was that it wasn't very in-depth, as you only commented on the introduction, and ignored the rest of the article.

That was really the only negative I saw on the article. Since it is a main component of denying promotion, shouldn't it still be removed? Or am I too harsh?

Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:01, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yay!

Well done you! Nice one :) CLW 08:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Excellant, thanks for your Input. I will work on this. When I have, can i come back to you for your opinion? --Irishpunktom\^talk 13:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments on Babur: I'm responsible for the page citations. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and I was under the impression that we had to cite sources to support our arguments? In the first case I had changed the original sentence (which said that his name was derived from Babr, tiger) and had to justify it, and in the second somebody else had cited Tod inaccurately and I wanted to correct it (there was a row at one point with a someone trying to push a strongly pro-Rajput POV). In both cases the authors of these works, and the editors of the editions, have been dead for over 70 years and both books are out of copyright & frequently reprinted in India by different publishers. What is the correct procedure? Sikandarji 13:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, so, I think those things have been improved upon, have a look?. Its hard breaking it down into smaller sub-sections, but as much as I could - I have. I'm not sure exactly how I acquire images without going to india and taking photographs, and there is nothing I can find in the commons. I really think there could be more images, but I don't know how! Thanks again! --Irishpunktom\^talk 13:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hoozah!

Excellant! Thank you again! --Irishpunktom\^talk 15:44, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I still have a good deal to learn.Sikandarji 16:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bohemian Rhapsody

Sure. It's funny; I've been working on Queen (band), ended up fixing all the quotes and a few links, rewrote some sentences and removed some parenthetical asides. It's all good. - CorbinSimpson 01:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed...

Agreed... Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]