User talk:Eran of Arcadia
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[edit] Welcome!
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I appreciate that you fixed the vandalism on the Rochester, New York page. --JeremyStein 21:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Barnstar #1
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| For your hard work in fighting vandalism on Pepsi – thanks! And have a nice day! Andrij Kursetsky ⊗ 16:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] July 2007
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. Chetblongtalk to me 16:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- I used to forget until I set Wikipedia to remind me. Here's how: click "My Preferences" then click "Editing" then check "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" then click save and you will never forget again. --Chetblongtalk to me 16:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
leave my dang article alone —Preceding unsigned comment added by PookieYum (talk • contribs)
[edit] Notability on WeBL
You dropped a notability reference on the WeBL page. What exactly are you looking to reference. This is an online game. I have included some references to rules and third party strategy sites subsequent to your notability note. Is that the kind of stuff you are looking for?--Art of Pugilism 12:37, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. We have about 3000 active users at any given time and have had more than 100,000 players over the last 7 years, so I would say it is pretty well established. Are the footnotes I have added including links to the site and other third party strategy pages about the game sufficient enough for you to feel comfortable removing the notability note? Or do I need to do something else to validate the site? --Art of Pugilism 12:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for removing the notability template. I can't imagine that anyone would think I made it all up, especially with all the links to various help sites and ranking sites that are listed in the article. If you follow some of these links, it becomes obvious that there is a well established gaming community associated with this site.
Regarding the cleanup template, can you be more specific as to what you want cleaned up. We are rookies at this, but we do want to be good wikipedia editors so any guidance would be appreciated. --Art of Pugilism 13:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the help page. I'll read it over and see if I can't make the article conform a little more with their style guidelines.--Art of Pugilism 13:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Eran, I've read the information you suggested and I'm feeling as if the article is not in such bad shape. If there are any specific editing suggestions you might have (specific parts that need to be edited, structure suggestions, things you find unsubstatiated or trivial, etc) please give me some specific areas to improve. Obviously you had something in mind when you added the cleanup template. I'd like to address it directly. Thanks. --Art of Pugilism 14:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Eran, once again thanks for the reply. While I understand your good intentions in marking the article for cleanup, you are really not giving me much to go on. Given the fact that you admittedly don't know much about the topic of the article (ie. online fanstasy boxing or fanstasy sports), and that you can't give me specifics on what you want to see changed, your marking if for cleanup seems a bit arbitrary. When I look at the other articles for fantasy sports and compare our article with those, ours is far more comprehensive and better structured than most of those that deal with a particular site. I think those comparisons are more apt than expecting this article is going to be a scholarly article with footnotes from college professors who have written books on the subject.
With that in mind, I respectfully request that you remove the cleanup template. If someone more familiar with the subject has specific criticisms, I'd be more than happy to address them, but for you to just arbitrarily say the article needs to be cleaned up without being able to articulate how, seems a bit unfair to me.--Art of Pugilism 16:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you Eran. I removed it. I didn't want to just remove it without consulting you because that would have been rude and possibly started a battle of "take it off...put it on". I do appreciate your responsiveness. Your original addition of the first template spurred me on to make a couple of needed changes and add some valuable material, so it was a good thing. However, at this point I don't feel it is necessary to red flag the article, inviting everyone with a computer to start chewing on the page. If others come and offer suggestions, the WeBL community and I can certainly address them. But at this point I'd rather those comments come spontaneously like yours did, rather than painting a target on the article that says "Tell us how bad you think this article is." Thanks for the encouragement and your time. Cheers. --Art of Pugilism 17:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Oh and by the way, if you see anything on the page that requires proofreading changes like spelling or grammar, please feel free to jump in. Those changes are sometimes hard to spot and help with them is always appreciated. I noticed that you took the italics off the opening statemet and I'm fine with that. I tried to make the opening more descriptive and less like a sales pitch for the site. I also included some information on how long it has been around and how many players have played so others wouldn't wonder as you did whether this was just my hobby site with 3 or 4 other people. --Art of Pugilism 17:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 3RR
You have been blocked for 15 minutes for violating WP:3RR on Peter Chen Keyong. The reason your block is so short is because the violation is relatively harmless, but you must understand that edit-warring is not the way to handle things - you must get input from your fellow editors if you find yourself battling an intransigent user. -- Y not? 20:02, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
thanks, i had no idea that some random guy blanked my userpage, thanks you for fixing it.
Sir de wario 20:33, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] DC Meetup notice
Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Virginia, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 22:09, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Aliens in America
While I do agree with you, you need to avoid edit warring, as you have already been warned and blocked before on WP:3RR. While I'm not going to submit you myself, because I think that 3RR should apply only to policy violations and not people correcting them, what you are reverting would probably not be considered simple vandalism, and I don't want to see you blocked. I recommend you back down, and if people insert that content into the article in the future, take it to the administrator's noticeboard, request page protection, or just add {{fact}} tags to it --L-- 12:56, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
- Np. I think everyone appreciates someone interrupting an edit war and mediating when they can. --L-- 13:21, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanx
thank u for removing the vandalism on my page.
i would have fixed it but u c i hadn't been on for a while since i waz sick.
[edit] Looking to be adopted?
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This user has been offered adoption by Dinosaur puppy (If you wish adoption by another user click here) |
, You seem to know what you're doing, but if you have any questions, just ask. T Rex | talk 14:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- I believe that you acted appropriately in this situation, except for breaking 3RR. The information that was being added by the anons was mostly speculative, unsourced, and POV. The show hasn't even come out, how do they know its racist already? If this happens again then it is best to go to Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents, however this case could have been brought to Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard. T Rex | talk 22:44, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for the page reversion. You still looking for adoption? I offer my services. WLU 16:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
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- POPUPS are pretty awesome in my mind, but I've never tried TWINKLE. They let you check out links by hovering your mouse over them, and a lot of one-touch changes including reversions, fixing redirects and watch/unwatch. In addition, you can check contributors history, edit count and a whole bunch of functions I've never even tried. It does slow down browsing sometimes, and the popups can be intrusive if you're trying to read, but I find it very worthwhile. There's also vandalproof, which I've seen other people use. I can only use popups becuase of the browser I use at home, but I'm very happy with it. Any questions? WLU 18:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Prod tag
I see you reverted the person who removed my prod tag. Thank you for doing so, but unfortunately, everyone is allowed to remove a prod tag or recreate an article that was deleted by the prod-process, because it is only meant for uncontroversial deletions (see WP:PROD for details). I will take the article to AFD instead :) Melsaran 17:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
- Echoing this for Coast Run. If someone removes a prod tag, it doesn't mean you can't delete it, it just means you have to use the longer approach. If someone de-prods but still fails to improve the page, use AFD instead. Also, it's always nice to give people guidance so they don't feel as picked on - tell them they can compose the page on a sub page before moving it to mainspace. Point out notability guidelines. Ask if they have reliable sources, etc. They may have good sources but they haven't used them yet, or don't realize they need them. Plus, if they turn into an ass at that point, you don't have to bother doing so again. WLU 00:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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- Okay, I have done that before (for pages that were for the most part, ultimately deleted) but I think I kind of messed this one up. I really need to be more careful - talk pages are my friend after all. Oh well. Eran of Arcadia 01:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- I'd suggest a re-read of WP:AGF as a reminder to use talk pages. AGF takes a bit more time in the short term, but lowers the stress of editing wikipedia considerably, and spares conflict in the long. I think the solution arrived at is a good one, and had we known of the College page, it would have been easier to just redirect there without going through AFD. Incidentally, User:FisherQueen is an admin I respect, in large part because of the way she handles conflicts and deletions - it'd be worth looking at her posts on user pages for ways of writing out polite but firm 'no you can't and here's the policy' statements. WLU 13:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Thanks for reverting my user page.--NAHID 19:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Banned user
Hi! I used to be an active editor here; thought I'd drop by for a moment. The user who's dropping those ridiculously short articles regarding things in Maine and other such things is a hard-banned user. You may wish to report it to an adminstrator. Back to obscurity for now. :) Regards, 71.102.80.39 18:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, please do not revert a copyright nomination to admins, per the wiki text, only admin can revert. This is for the Joe Szaja page that you just reverted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.240.30.26 (talk) 13:59, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
Please look at Joe Szwaja if you can again and copyedit? I cleaned up and rewrote all material from the claimed copyvio. thanks. • Lawrence Cohen 17:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Help at Spanish Wikipedia
Hi! I'm Jeneme. We need help at Spanish Wikipedia with LDS project. There 2 people working there Lokj and Rjgalindo. Please, help them with the Wikiproyect, expanding information about LDS Church. Thanks for your attention. --Jeneme (talk) 10:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Another origin of the name Eran
I thought u might be interested in knowing other meanings to the name Eran so i written the following:
In Hebrew the name Eran means Watchful and Vigilant. It comes from the old testament where it is stated that Eran is the grandson of Ephraim (Numbers 26, 36)
--Oren neu dag (talk) 13:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
