User talk:Alex Holowczak

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I didn't write that lol. Check the history.. I thought you did! I was gonna say...

--LibLord 21:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

oi! don't delete the harry potter bit! it's true! you wouldn't know, you'd left the school... we had to help them make spell books and wizard cloaks! and there were harry potter print offs all around the rooms.

--LibLord 22:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

lol nope i'm not joking.. i'd actually like the school's page to be good. i just deleted the school song. or at least, wrote a paragraph about it and put the lyrics on a separate page. i thought it was crowding the place up too much, especially considering no one would read it.

Me? I used to go to 5 Ways. Not anymore though.

I just decided to spruce it up a little. And the origonal article had several spelling mistakes in it. So I gave it an air that would not attract Wikipedia Mod Attention

1 kefw chess
2 welcome
3 School
4 ArmchairGM
5 Deleting pages that you created yourself
6 Re: source
7 British drivers in IRL
8 Your GA nomination of King Edward VI Five Ways
9 Speedway Tables
10 Elite format
11 Billiards project invite
12 Top Gear test track
13 you
14 Did You Know?
15 RE: Wheeldon
16 RE: KEFW

[edit] kefw chess

Hey, check the latest edits to the Five Ways article. Someone called RobertGale added some stuff about sex offenders (which I deleted) but also something to the chess section. It sounds like it should be deleted, but I didn't want to look like I was being too territorial over the article, so can you check it out and delete if necessary? I mean, there might be some truth in it. 'Alex "checkmate" Holowczak', lol... LibLord 12:21, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Alex Holowczak, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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LibLord 21:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] School

Interesting way of telling me: OK I'll bring it in 1st day. -- Casmith 789 16:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArmchairGM

A tag has been placed on ArmchairGM, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Mhking 14:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

In its present form, the article reads like an ad for a non-notable website. To be honest, I can't see where the article should stay in any form. If it fails on Speedy Delete, I'll be nominating it for a standard AfD, as a non-notable subject. --Mhking 14:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

If there were reason for it to stay (as I said, I don't see it that way), certainly empirical outside sources would have be referenced in order to establish notability. --Mhking 15:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting pages that you created yourself

If you create a page yourself, and there are no content edits to it by other people, you can request deletion of the page using {{db-author}}. (If other people have edited, and it's an article, AfD (which is specifically for articles) is probably a better process to use than MfD (for userpages, portals, project pages, help pages, Talk pages, and anything that doesn't fit into the other processes).) Hope that helps! --ais523 15:33, 28 March 2007 (U T C)

[edit] Re: source

Hello Alex. Are you new to WP:MOTOR? New or otherwise, welcome anyway! Thanks very much for that source, but I personally don't work on that subject. I'm more about junior formulae, like F3 and FBMW. Nice of you to think that I co-ordinate the project, but really, I am just one of its most active (and pro-active) members. If were you, I would post a note about that source on the project talk page. Give it a general title and everyone can add useful sources of their own. I have one or two that I can list. Regards, Adrian M. H. 16:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British drivers in IRL

Although the British flag would seem a more feasible option, having seen live coverage from ESPN of previous IRL races, they do in fact show the individual country, e.g. Franchitti with the Scottish flag. I prefer the individual country flags instead of the UK one. I don't remember using the UK flag for Wheldon, I just changed the distance for the race on Sunday. Cs-wolves 17:46, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your GA nomination of King Edward VI Five Ways

The article King Edward VI Five Ways you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:King Edward VI Five Ways for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a reassessment. Noetic Sage 23:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Response to post on my talk page: The article needs a lot of work. As far as references, go through and pretend you know nothing about the school. Which statements might be controversial? Which claims might be disputed? Did you quote anything? All of these need references. I'll try to add some citation tags to help you out. There should be at least one reference per paragraph generally. Also, some sections are completely lacking wikilinks. Check out the manual of style to give you a better idea of how to use these. Basically, read through as if you knew nothing about the school and what words, people, or places would you want to know more information about? They should all be wikilinked. I think that will give you a good start. For other suggestions, check out the good article criteria and make sure the article covers every single criterion. If you don't know what things like the lead are, click the wikilinks and learn more. Regarding what's missing from the article, upon quick glance I notice no history section (which is absolutely necessary) and nothing about budgeting or finances. Take a look at some other GA-class school articles and see how they do things. That should help. Let me know if you have any other questions. —Noetic Sage 20:24, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedway Tables

Hello. Thanks for your help !! I have a copy of most of the tables, it is literally just finding the time to do the pages. I will gladly help you with them. What I will do is work backwards from 2007, if you work from the early years we can meet in the middle. If you copy the 2007 page I made as a template, we could crack this (quite) quickly.

Have you seen the speedway fan user box that is on my page ? Hammer1980·^talk 14:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

If you are not sure of a team name, give me a shout. I am will probably be able to remember.Hammer1980·^talk 14:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Was making it as we spoke ! Take a look. YOur page Looks OK to me. Long Eaton may have been called Archers at the time but I will change it if needs be.Hammer1980·^talk 14:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elite format

I think its mentioned on the motorcycle speedway page. The average calculation certainly is. The best person to ask about the Polish league is User:Radzinski. Hammer1980·^talk 21:59, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Billiards project invite

Great job so far on World Professional Billiards Championship! If you plan to create/edit more articles in this topic area, you may with to join the Cue sports WikiProject, which has a lot of resources. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 03:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I replied to you on my talk page at the message you left there. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 15:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Top Gear test track

Hey Alex, I just wanted to say 'Good work' on the TG track page, a fascinating addition to Wikipedia.
I admit to concern over the legal status of the graphic, which is great, but that will be deleted in a few days if you don't amend the copyright license. If the image goes, the article will lose much of its appeal, so we should try to keep it. I may be able to help you with that: the first step is finding out where you got it from. You can reply right here, or on my talk page. Thanks. ↔ Dennywuh (talk) 14:28, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

The first image, of the surrounding area, I don't see us being able to salvage. It's from Google Maps, Google Earth or similar, and you admitted as much when you uploaded it, so it's not going to last long. Google is very protective of its copyrights. I'm more interested in the second one, the layout of the track. Following your suggestion I checked the Sonydrone.Wordpress.com page, where they say they got it from the Top Gear page, where in fact it is, here. From the text on that page I deduce they got it originally from Sony, as part of the Gran Turismo 5 game.

That makes things very difficult, so much so I'm afraid there's not much we can do about it, the image is going to be deleted next Tuesday. This is Wikipedia's policy on the matter:

Images and photographs, like written works, are subject to copyright. Someone holds the copyright unless they have been explicitly placed in the public domain. Images on the internet need to be licensed directly from the copyright holder or someone able to license on their behalf. In some cases, fair use guidelines may allow a photograph to be used.

Image description pages must be tagged with a special tag to indicate the legal status of the images, as described at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Untagged or incorrectly-tagged images will be deleted.

Pity, because it's a great addition to a page that won't be much without it.

Regarding your additional points, the same image being in both places is unusual, I can only assume it's a cache problem. Let me have a closer look. Do you have Google Earth on your system? ↔ Dennywuh (talk) 18:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I've done some changes to the article (the track is 1.75 miles [2.81 km] long) and refreshed both the image and the page cache, but both pics are still the same. Weird. If you have GE click this link: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=71551 It'll take you straight to the track and place a map of the circuit over the runways so you can follow it exactly.

Sorry about the pics, but Wikipedia is a harsh mistress that way. ↔ Dennywuh (talk) 18:56, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Great idea the re-drawing the image yourself, kudos to you for that. Try and base it on Google Earth or Google Maps instead of the layout in the uploaded pic, as it's slightly unrealistic. Also, Wikipedia favours vector graphics over bitmaps, if at all possible. Let me know when you have it. Peace. ↔ Dennywuh (talk) 19:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I took the liberty of creating a new track map, showing the runways, taxiways and aprons, in addition to the circuit. I only replaced the image in the infobox. — Mustang_DVS (talk|contribs) 05:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] you

i can't believe you were on wikipedia on christmas day. also, did you really nominate the KEFW article as a "good article"? you could have just asked me if you wanted someone to tell you how lame it is! LibLord 18:17, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did You Know?

....that I nominated the expanded Top Gear Test Track article, which you created, for possible inclusion on did You Know? I think you should deserve a DYK banner nod. --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 21:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Wheeldon

It said...

"mr wheeldon is a smelly bum face, who has a moustach like adolf hitler"

Not very helpful content SGGH ^speak! 22:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: KEFW

I've reverted again, if the user continues to vandalise you can always report them to WP:AIV, thanks for notifying me anyway. AndreNatas (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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