User talk:Qxz

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Help your fellow editors. Respond to requests for comments ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome new users, and don't bite them ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your suggestions. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 23:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the no-newbie-biting one – Qxz 23:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfC one 02:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I love the don't bite the new comers! Real96 03:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like the RfC one!--Tbon e 55 ^{(T, C, UBX, Sign Here)} 19:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ad suggestion

Hey, how about a possible AIV banner. Something flashy that would get the message across that people should report only after a user violates a t3 or t4 (uw-3 or uw-4) warning, and not before they go against the warning. That might be effective (maybe we can put it on AIV, itself lol). Tell me if you like the suggestion. Nishkid 64 04:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Idea; AIV - Report vandals! Then, the next slide "only after they vandalize after a t3/t4 warning!". Something like that. Nishkid 64 04:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your suggestion. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 04:14, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've made it more of a generic "how to deal with vandalism" one, and it links to Wikipedia:Vandalism, but it does explain when to report users (and it uses the same colours as the message on WP:AIV) – Qxz 05:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! That's a bit more helpful. =) Nishkid 64 16:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work! -- Fuzheado | Talk 09:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Pennsylvania

Would you mind making something for Wikiproject Pennsylvania to help promote it? The project isn't going so well, with only 22 members, and I was looking for something to grab people's interest and get them involved. Thanks, 1312020Wikicop 20:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your suggestion. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 22:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this OK? – Qxz 04:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great! Thanks alot! 1312020Wikicop 20:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Harder

Should we make Wikipedia harder from people who are vandalists or etc., like a special test? Trampton 04:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How exactly would this work (without affecting the fundamental anyone-can-edit philosophy of the project)? – Qxz 18:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, aren't we being too too easy, I think some users are kinda sick of vandalists and reverting their mistakes. Trampton 11:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed; I would count myself among them. However, I disagree with any attempt to reduce vandalism that makes life difficult for people who are interested in making useful contributions. For example, the idea of preventing anyone from editing unless they create an account has been brought up many times before, but consensus is very much against such a move – and with good reason. Quite apart from going again the "anyone-can-edit" idea, most of our actual content is added by anonymous users who make only a few edits. Those of us who are more regular contributors and have made thousands of edits tend to focus less on adding new information and more on fixing what's already there – formatting and rewriting articles, reverting vandalism and discussing changes – Qxz 20:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Julian Amyes

This shouldn't be a redlink as I just done a basi stub based on infomration in the IMDB and BFI databases (both entries linked from stub) – ShakespeareFan00 12:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, if you're referring to User:Qxz/Redlinks, you can safely ignore the fact that it's linked from there. I don't update it every time someone creates a page, otherwise I'd be here all day; rather, I run a script every once in a while to remove them all at once. The purpose of the list is mainly to assist me in redirecting article requests to articles that already exist under a slightly different title, which helps to reduce the size of Wikipedia:Requested articles; it also serves as a list of recently created articles that I can check for style, without having to wade through Special:Newpages. Thanks – Qxz 20:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Sailing vessels and rigging AD

Even though wikiproject sailing vessels and rigging is active it only has three members. Please create an ad saying basically this "WikiProject Sailing and Rigging needs Members so Join and Sail around Wiki", Thank you Cocoaguy ここがいい _contribs^talkTodays Pick 15:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your suggestion. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 20:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Cocoaguy ここがいい _contribs^talkTodays Pick 20:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

– Qxz 05:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You thats great, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! Cocoaguy ここがいい _contribs^talkTodays Pick 18:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ads

It would be nice if you had an ad code, that would be vertical, as well as the current horizontal.

Kind of like, real ads.

--Tbon e 55 ^{(T, C, UBX, Sign Here)} 19:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your suggestion. In fact, the ads are the standard "full banner" 468x60 size [1], probably the most common shape of web advertisement (or at least it was before the days of popups and Flash animations, neither of which I can do here). I'm reluctant to introduce a new shape mainly because it would mean re-doing all the ads, which would take a long time. Thanks – Qxz 19:46, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:

– Luna Santin (talk) 21:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ad project

Hi Qxz, your banner advertisements idea is nice. Suggestions: 1) an ad for RC patrolling, 2) create a WikiProject around the ad project (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Internal Marketing), 3) use protection instead of .css extension hack -- hey wait a minute! 30,000 edits? Do you want to be an admin yet :) ? I looked at some of your contributions; you have a standing offer of nomination from me whenever you're ready. (I know some people will oppose over wikiage, but you've contributed so much already. I was promoted after 2 months of activity, so "under 6 months" is not impossible.) – Quarl ^(talk) 07:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your suggestions. I'm considering (1); I've already added one about fixing vandalism in general. I'm not sure (2) would be such a good idea; people keep trying to put these things in project space and someone even suggested putting them above every article (which resulted in lots of people yelling at me, even though I hadn't suggested any such thing). I want to keep it clear that this is just a personal thing I'm doing on a personal user subpage, which other people can put on their userpage if they like. And I wouldn't call it "Internal Marketing" even if I did create one. Big problem with (3): I can't edit pages while they're protected. I don't think I would be very popular with the administrators if I had to make an {{editprotected}} request every time I wanted to edit my own subpages. So why have them protected at all? I feel I owe the 46 people who are using it a guarantee they won't log on one day and find their userpage messed up due to vandalism. Thanks – Qxz 07:46, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to User:Qxz/f.css

This is your only warning. The next time you make a personal attack as you did at User:Qxz/f.css, you will be blocked for disruption. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Gracenotes^T § 18:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meanie. – Qxz 18:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ads and image protection

I noticed you've got images being transcluded onto a large number of pages, making your Ads template a high visibility template really needing to have some protection (for obvious reasons). I've semi protected the css file and added cascading protection so as far as I can tell, all the advert images are fully protected. I hope this is acceptable and if you need admin assistance, just shout on me and I'll be happy to help. -- Nick^t 22:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please reverse this immediately. User CSS files are already only editable by the user to whom they belong and administrators. That's the whole reason I named the page with a "css" extension – it's just a normal template, not a CSS file, I named it like that so that it was protected. Nobody except administrators and myself can edit it regardless of protection status. More worrying is the cascading semiprotection; there is a bug in cascading protection which causes any transcluded pages to by FULLY protected; I can no longer edit the image pages – Qxz 22:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, since when has a template used by fewer than 50 users been "high-profile"? There are hundreds of more heavily-used userboxes that aren't protected at all. Not to mention the hundreds of far more visible article template – Qxz 22:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a blatant vandalism target. If you want to edit the images, all you need to do is untransclude the image from the css page. Personally, I find the potential these unprotected image have for being vandalised is too great. -- Nick^t 23:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The particular circumstances are irrelevant here; the protection policy states that cascading semiprotection should not be used under any circumstances. If you wish, I happily de-transclude the template from the pages on which it is currently used and request that the images be deleted (except those uploaded by AzaToth); however, I refuse to be prevented from editing my own images when they are used on fewer pages than, to pick an example completely at random, Image:Sweden stub.png on {{Sweden-geo-stub}}, which has sat unprotected – on articles, at that – for years with no objections. Thanks – Qxz 23:15, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Boo!

Huh, not sure what to make of that. My impression was that cascading semi doesn't work (it applies admin protection to everything transcluded, unless the devs fixed that bit). Also, that bulletin board is the craziest thing I've seen on the wiki in some time. Very interesting. :p – Luna Santin (talk) 23:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, exactly. Applies admin protection to everything transcluded. Yet because it was only semi-protected itself, I could still edit it, and transclude something else. See? Instant protection. Glad you like the page. Took me all day – Qxz 23:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfA animation

I feel now i am asking a really random question but can this animation be slowed down as i cannot read all the messages...?! Simply south 01:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your feedback. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 01:19, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Has been slowed down. You may need to bypass your cache in order for changes to take effect. Thanks – Qxz 01:25, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SigContract

I agree. Its original purpose was not for people to use it in their signatures, but rather to resolve a wikiDispute (see here). -- Where 18:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not that you would care, but...

I just happened to be looking at this page and noticed that it appears differently depending on whether I'm redirected or not. Just thought I'd tell you in case you didn't already know. Pretty cool stuff by the way... 67.86.86.217 04:40, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, odd. Could well be a problem my end; it's quite a complex page, so I may have screwed something up somewhere. Alternatively, your browser may have cached an older version. Bypassing the cache (CTRL+F5 in most browsers) may fix it. Anyway, glad you like it – Qxz 04:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that was it - now I only see the one "very important announcement" instead of three. 67.86.86.217 04:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, they were only tests; so I removed them. (Mind you, the remaining one is a test too. I'll remove it as soon as I have any real announcements to put there) – Qxz 04:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removing links from Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics

Are we really supposed to be removing links from this list? I would think the value is much higher with them left in, because it not only shows you immediately how much coverage we have but also the value as a "List of encyclopedia topics" is greatly reduced otherwise. Maury 12:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, a couple of points. Firstly, if you are interested in the overall progress of the "List of encyclopedia topics" subproject, you can see at a glance how much has been done by looking at the table on the main Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics page. Secondly, and more importantly, despite its name this list is not (and was never intended to be) an actual, usable list of encyclopedia topics. It's a maintenance page, part of the missing articles WikiProject and intended only for work on the encyclopedia, not for reference purposes. The name is misleading, what it actually is is a list of encyclopedia topics that Wikipedia does not have yet. Even if we did not remove blue links, this would still be true. The list was created some time after Wikipedia was started, and its original version contained around 78,000 links none of which, at the time, had articles. But by that time there were already tens of thousands of articles in Wikipedia and many "encyclopedic topics" had already been created. In short, the list never served that purpose (and never could, practically). If you want a list of encyclopedia topics, then there's always Special:Allpages; in theory, if our policies are followed, everything on there should be an encyclopedia topic, though that's not always the case. Thanks – Qxz 12:40, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One other thing, if you do want to see the original lists in their entirety and see what has turned blue, simply go to the page history and select the oldest version. It is easier for people who are looking to create missing articles (the intended target audience of the page) to see only what remains to be done and not what has been completed. Thanks – Qxz 12:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This may also be helpful: if you are looking for a page that is intended to be a list of encyclopedia topics, there are several around. Obviously attempting to list all encyclopedia topics is infeasible (there would be millions), but there have been several attempts to pick out a smaller collection of a few hundred "important" topics; one example is Wikipedia:Vital articles. Thanks – Qxz 12:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Forum Header

Hi Qxz! I just wanted to say that I think your forum-like header it neat! Ry Guy 12:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks – Qxz 12:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ad Suggestion (by me again)

Hi, I just had an idea. After I saw the ad for WikiProject Pennsylvania, I though that it would be good if there was an ad for The Strategy Games WikiProject. I also thought I could surprise my buddy AndonicO with it, since he made bothe the Portal and WikiProject. I'll post an image that you can use on the side, like the Penna flag you used for the Pennsylvania WikiProject. Ry Guy 18:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'kay, here's a good image to use, it's also used on the UBX.

Ry Guy 18:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

– Qxz 20:57, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject ASUE

As we're trying to attract more participants, could you construct an ad to promote the WikiProject:A Series of Unfortunate Events? It would be great if you could include this image. Thanks in advance.--Orthologist 20:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your suggestion. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 20:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

– Qxz 22:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot on behalf of the participants. Cheers, Orthologist 22:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talkpage indexer

What are the instructions for your talkpage indexer? It looks like a great program, whatever it's using. Are you running a bot under your username? Also, is it approved for general use? I'd like to index my archives, too; does this indexer retroactively index archives? Thanks! This looks cool! — Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 01:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It requires a number of templates to be transcluded wherever the index needs to go, and a data page set up to hold data for the index. I have written a script to update it, which I've run under my username purely for testing purposes. At the moment I'm trying to get approval to run a bot to do regular updates; I can't do anything at the moment, but I may be able to do so once the bot is approved. Indexing of archives is possible in the same way, if desired. Thanks – Qxz 01:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ad banners

I was wondering if you can make a banner for WikiProject:Armenia something simple, since theres alot of help needed on there and the articles etc, a simple banner maybe a ancient slogan etc anything. Artaxiad 01:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I'll see what I can do – Qxz 01:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, regards. Artaxiad 01:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]