User talk:AlmostReadytoFly
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[edit] Ahoy to you too!
Yep, I can let my inner grammar nazi run free here; Wikipedia appears to be the perfect place for it. (Also, userboxes are fun!) CameoAppearance 21:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome!
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[edit] Re:Vandalism
Hello - you left a message on my talk page today about admin status and asking me to do something about User talk:203.199.213.130.
First, I'm not an admin, although some people are really trying to get me to accept a nom. ;-) As for the warning: I appreciate the notice, but I'm the last person who should receive such a message. If you don't mind, I'd like to take you through the process for warning users, how we try to discourage editors from making unconstructive edits.
The dates are very important when looking at warnings on talk pages. I left that final warning on August 18, more than two weeks ago, so it doesn't really count as a final warning for vandalism s/he did today or yesterday. We try very hard not to bite the newbies, and it's possible – indeed, likely – that the person who used that IP address two weeks ago isn't the same person who's using it today. It could be someone who wants to constructively edit the encyclopedia and/or someone who is visiting Wikipedia for the very first time.
That seems to be the case with this IP address, because between August 18 and today there have been many useful and constructive edits from whoever got it after we gave a final warning. Since it's been more than two weeks since s/he vandalized, and since useful edits have been made in the interim, I would start all over at the first "your test worked and has been reverted" warning with this user. He/she would need to receive and ignore the full gamut of warnings before I would submit this IP address to Administrator intervention against vandalism for blocking or suspension.
In the future, if you're concerned about a particular editor, you should first warn them using the appropriate template, assuming always that it's a test from a new user. If that user has received a final warning within the last 48 hours or so, report them to AIV using the format described there. Don't leave a message on any other page about it, because you don't know when that user will see that message – it could be days, and if it's a true case of vandalism we want to stop that user sooner, not later.
Feel free to leave a message at my talk page if you have questions or need help, and you can find more about dealing with vandalism at Vandalism. Thanks, and happy editing - Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 23:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- No problem! If you hadn't left a message, I wouldn't have met you, so it's all good! :-) Don't worry about mistakes - you're not going to break the site, so be bold and jump right in. I remember when I started RC patrol I made a lot of mistakes - I mistook some good faith edits for vandalism, and I almost got my head torn off in a spat having something to do with how to present information concerning a sex scandal at an Australian school. I nearly gave up Wikipedia because I thought I wasn't wanted here. I'm glad I didn't give up, so if you ever feel like that please let me know so I can help you. This place can be one big Wikimess sometimes and we all have to help each other. Oh, and don't be shy about leaving a string of edits - it takes words and edits to tell the story, so use them if you need to. Personally, I'd much rather see links to appropriate pages or diffs than not, because I can more easily get to the crux of whatever issue I'm reading about. Anyway, if there's anything I can do to help you, please let me know! Happy editing - BaseballBaby 00:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Love, Shine a Light move
Hi there, it seems you didn't follow the steps on Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Steps_for_requesting_a_page_move when reqesting move for Love, Shine a Light, so I just delisted the request from Wikipedia:Requested_moves. Please list it again if you still wish to execute the move. Regards, Dijxtra 17:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
- A place for the survey is missing. --Dijxtra 17:25, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "MATERIALS/CHARATERISTICS (Homework?)" on WP:RD/S
Regarding your concern, you'll notice lots of "interesting" "facts" in the answers there. See Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/Science#Physics Magazine Guy for background. I don't know the actual atomic (ionic) radius difference of He-3 vs He-4, but I do suspect it would be virtually identical. DMacks (talk) 14:40, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- maintaining conversation on 2 talk pagesHi, The reason I asked was that while most of the "help" seemed to be correct but irrelevant (e.g. assuming Lorentz contraction), the bit where isotope sizes were explained as affecting gas pressure appeared to be wrong. Plus of course I like to argue minutiae when I'm confident it won't harm an important discussion. :-) AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 15:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
