User talk:OSborn

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Yup! It's fun! Thanks, OSborn^arf 01:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

1 Dr. Mark Hamilton
2 Hello => Ajax-browser
3 dukes of hagard
4 About construction and runescape
5 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
6 UWBaja Work In Progess
7 Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pigford
8 Free MMOGs List
9 language identification
10 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SCAR (programming language) (2nd nomination)

[edit] Dr. Mark Hamilton

Hey there, I noticed you tagged the page Dr. Mark Hamilton as being possibly unnotable. If you look here you will find this statement: 'With significant roles in notable films, television, stage performances, and other productions.' Do you think this will cover this presenter as he is the presenter of a radio show on BBC Radio 1? If not, I will go any try and find some other proof that he is notable :P Thanks, Tiddly-Tom 19:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, here is a bit of news containing him, I am not sure whether of not it is worth including in the article though. Tiddly-Tom 19:15, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, most of the refs seem to be from the BBC itself, so I think he would need an external source for notability to be established (i.e., a major British website, magazine, newspaper, etc?) OSborn^arf 19:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Just found another reference here and added to article. Is this enough or want more? :P Tiddly-Tom 19:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks good enough for me. (removing the possibly nn) OSborn^arf 19:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Main thing I was afraid of was just another page about some radio host, you see. OSborn^arf 19:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely, I was not criticizing you. I would probably do the exactly the same thing if I was in your situation (used to request CSD, but now moved onto just reverting vandalism). Keep up the good work, Tiddly-Tom 19:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm trying to patrol new pages for nonsense and attack pages and the like. Have fun editing! OSborn^arf 19:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello => Ajax-browser

I mainly contribute on French History, Chinese History, and Chinese Calligraphy articles, this "software stub" is my first one. Can you give me some advice to make it more "standard".

I'm currently writing some question in the talk page (readable in 5 mins). Yug (talk) 05:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Well, a relatively comparable page would be PhpBB (internet forum software.) I can't really find the URL for Ajax-browser- is it here? OSborn^arf 05:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

(note: replied to a few questions at Talk:Ajax-browser. OSborn^arf 06:03, 22 September 2007 (UTC) )

Ok, thanks for your help ! but I will continue an other day, that's enough time lost for today. ;)

Many thankls for your quick and efficient advices,

Yug (talk) 06:08, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Your welcome, hope that helps. OSborn^arf 06:09, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] dukes of hagard

Heya - may want to remove your AfD, as the article seems to have been speedied. Cheers! - superβεεcat 21:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks- looks like it was closed by Shoyrudude5555 already. Thanks anyways, OSborn^arf 21:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About construction and runescape

It took the items which in members are only worth for fire training and low level fletch, and put em in the one thousnads, in a single day, and all the items dropped price, jsut as the dragon 2h did. but con put worthless items like planks, oak and normal logs and nails, which litterly had no use, and make them some of the most valued items in the game simply because they were in rare stock and all trees and rocks were being mined up simply for resources in the house. If this dosn't represent a massive shift and some inflation i don't know what does.--Cody6 22:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm a bit lost here... What? OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 02:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Tells you tomorrow.--Cody6 03:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

In the economy of members runescape, we have a very small base, it is like, the free play economy, is a pyramid, well, were a upsidown pyramid, are base is small and weak but the farther up the strogner its suppsoed to be, items at the bottom are largly worthless items and items from free play, follow?

nails, and the first two free logs were all very worthless, with logsm sotly for fletching, but on may 31st, they went from almsot nothing to being worth over a thousand gp, in a signle day, less then 12 hours actuly? still follow?--Cody6 21:08, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes. There was a major spike in logs and the nails market? OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 22:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

(update: oh, this must be in reference to this edit? OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 22:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC))

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[edit] UWBaja Work In Progess

Hi, I am currently working on updating the University of Windsor Baja Page. I will put all of the stats into a Wiki Table. I am working on gathering all of the information to put it all together. I took out all of the < br / > tags. I am currently working on building my understanding on Wikipedia and i appreciate your feedback.Thanks.

--UWBaja 21:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Great :). Only thing I just want to say again is make sure text is written from a neutral point of view, of course! (No "our", etc) - If you have questions or need help with wiki syntax you might want to check out the Community Portal. (Lots of links to help and such there) Again, happy editing! OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 22:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I notice that you have noted that I have cleaned up most of the formatting issues. I am currently working on adding additional stats. As well as some pictures. When you note nn - i take it that this means not notable. In order for me to make this notable what do I need to show to solve this issue? Thanks. --UWBaja 02:36, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi - yes, nn is wikilingo for not notable. Articles need to have reliable sources to establish notability. Online forums, blogs, and official sites generally aren't enough to establish notability, news sources and the like are most commonly used (when there is some sort of editorial oversight, I think) OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 03:36, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pigford

Thank you for nominating this article. What a mess, what a potential lawsuit! I had to speedy it. Bearian 15:28, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Are you sure you want to be a sysop? You have to "mop" up messes like this. Oy vey! Bearian 15:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

In a bit... Once I've learned how to use the mops, of course! :P OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 15:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Free MMOGs List

Why did you twice delete Underlight: Shades of Truth from the list of free MMOGs? It was a commercially run MMORPG for 8 years that is now offered for free by a motivated group of players. It is totally free, no ads, no gimmicks. It's exactly what that list is meant for.?

Cheers, LucasTMW —Preceding unsigned comment added by LucasTMW (talk • contribs) 17:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_free_MMOGs&curid=5017064&diff=167671653&oldid=167660517

The entry (IRC) said it was started in October of 07. Generally as a rule of thumb if it doesn't have an article, it isn't on the list. OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 21:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

It started in 1998, and was made free in Oct 2007. If you go to the Underlight page, you can read about the history of the game, and that the current free version was renamed.

Ah, it does have a page - if you link to that one (that exists) it'll probably be accepted. OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 15:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] language identification

Noticed you tagging a couple of pages with notenglish. Thought this might be handy. Couple of sites you might want to look at for working out the language: TextCat XEROX Language Identifier A^RendedWinter 15:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! That'll certainly help me out! OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 22:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SCAR (programming language) (2nd nomination)

Just a quick question - did you have evidence to suggest that there would be canvassing or shenanigans at this AfD? I ask because that's why the notavote template is usually added to the debate, whereas you've added with the nomination. Thanks, UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 15:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Let me add, I have no real objection - I was just curious. In order to get the formatting to look better, I moved the template within the nomination. Please correct my edit if I erred. Thanks, UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 15:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I suspect that SCAR has a very close forum following, and might be likely to attract canvassing. Haven't really seen any yet, but did want to be sure. OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 17:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

(that's why I added the template; I'm not actually to sure where it is supposed to be on the page, myself. OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 18:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC))

That makes perfect sense, and I have to agree with your reasoning. There isn't really a hard and fast rule on placing that template; It would have been fine, except for the previous AfD box. No problem at all. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 18:11, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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