User talk:Amalthea

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For your efforts with the Editnotice system

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work (programming and tools, bot building, admin or sysop work, link repair, Mediawiki developers, etc.). For your efforts in standardising and maintaining the editnotice system (initially a disharmonious mess that could easily have snowballed into a logistical nightmare), you get a da Vinci just for yourself. Great work, Amalthea! Regards, AGK 10:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but that was no big deal, really. :) Amalthea 11:59, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

I see you all over the place with editnotices. It was well-deserved. Plus what's a little barnstar :P? AGK 12:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Emblem of the Comoros

No, I cannot. It's been discussed already at Talk:National seal of the Comoros, where it was established that "national emblem" referred to the flag, not the seal. I'm not prepared to waste even more time discussing it. 81.111.114.131 (talk) link fixed 14:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see it established. But I replied there, let's keep the discussion in one place. Thanks, Amalthea 15:27, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Quintard Mall

Just letting you know I expanded the article. All it needed was a little love; many of the mall articles rot forever because no one can be arsed. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 23:11, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. Amalthea 00:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Custom Friendly configuration at User:Airplaneman/vector.js

Hello Amalthea, I'm Airplaneman. I'm inexperienced in Javascipt and am therefore failing to get the custom welcome configuration to work. If you have a minute, may you please take a look? Thanks, Airplaneman ✈ 01:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Change [[User:Airplaneman|Airplaneman's]] to [[User:Airplaneman|Airplaneman\'s]]. Since the text is surrounded by single quotes rather than double quotes, the single quote within has to be escaped by preceding it with a backslash. PleaseStand ^(talk) 04:05, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That, and two other things. Should be fixed, please bypass your browser cache and try again. And if possible, let's keep Friendly-related questions on WT:FRIENDLY. I'm usually just as quick to respond there, and it helps if others can find such resolved requests in the archives. Cheers, Amalthea 09:23, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, I'll ask there next time. Thanks to both of you, Airplaneman ✈ 18:30, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy/Prod question

Hi Amalthea, I noticed that you changed the speedy tag I added at Rip a stitch to a prod tag. Since you're an admin, and I'm trying to learn as I go along, would you mind explaining how you decide which is the right approach? I have a feeling I've been a bit too quick on the CSD trigger, but I'd like to understand more clearly. I've read the policy pages, but even there it doesn't always seem so clear. I've also just re-added the AfD notice, which the article's creator removed, probably without knowing what it all means. Thanks, First Light (talk) 01:36, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CSD G1's "patent nonsense" has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia, limited to pure gibberish and word salads (see WP:Patent nonsense). It's a lot narrower that one would initially think. None of the speedy deletion criteria matched this article, so the next step for an article was WP:PROD (which was removed/declined by the author, so we're now at WP:AfD).
The speedy deletion criteria are intentionally very narrowly defined, and limited to the cases where the community agreed that there doesn't need to be a wider forum reviewing the article before deletion. I could have just deleted the article anyway, ignoring the rules. In this case though, with an article that isn't linked to from anywhere, keeping it around for seven days doesn't hurt us, and may make the author understand that such articles have no place on Wikipedia.
If you're interested in the nuances of the SD criteria I'd recommend keeping WT:CCSD on your watchlist.
Hope that helps, Amalthea 09:41, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - that helps a great deal. First Light (talk) 14:09, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Better Luck Tomorrow & The Fast and the furious franchise

I am not vandalising anything. The user Kintetsubuffalo is vandalising "The Fast and the Furious" template ans the "Better Luck Tomorrow" article. Better Luck Tomorrow is related to the franchise. Because of this the link is there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.15.2.21 (talk) 08:32, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have blocked your account for block evasion, not vandalism. What you do do is edit warring though. It is obvious that your change is meeting opposition: If you are convinced you're right and that the addition of your link is beneficial, the only way to permanently keep it on Wikipedia is if you convince others, through a discussion on the relevant article talk page. Please do that. Amalthea 08:35, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

But I did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:The_Fast_and_the_Furious —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.15.2.21 (talk) 08:39, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You added a comment, which is commendable. You continued WP:edit warring, which is not. The same goes for the other side in the conflict though. Amalthea 08:42, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Better Luck Tomorrow

Hi Tariqabjotu,
could you revisit the Better Luck Tomorrow section at WP:RFPP. Talkbacking you since replies there tend to get missed. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 11:42, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I saw what you did there when I attempted to address the RPP request regarding the template, and I have to say it's a really tough call. Based on what I saw at the Better Luck Tomorrow article, there was no basis at all for the addition of the template, and the IP gave no reason for doing so. However, based on what he (very recently) said on the talk page, there appears to at least be some remotely understandable reason why that should be put in the article. Still, I just felt no pressing reason to upgrade the article to full protection. But, if you want I could change it. -- tariqabjotu 13:33, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would have helped if the IP had mentioned that in one of the early edit summaries.
I'll just keep both pages watchlisted and see what happens. I'll expect that article to get one more reversion, but seeing that I already protected the wrong version of the template that's only fair. ;)
Cheers, Amalthea 14:07, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

S Banack AIV

Why did you remove User:S Banack from AIV? Your comment said "will talk to them". What do you plan to do? --Biker Biker (talk) 17:37, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm a slow typist when I try to explain things to new users. Wait for it, please. :) From his comment I think he's a good-faithed user, not a spammer, and I'm hoping that if he gets a second opinion backing you up he won't add it again. Amalthea 17:43, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Much appreciated. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:45, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I hadn't noticed that you warned both editors. :) I noticed that the reports hadn't been handled by anyone for quite some time, and I didn't think the users were acting maliciously either, so I decided to just leave them comments and see how it goes. I'll try to keep an eye on the respective articles.
It's nice that you didn't jump to warnings right away, by the way, but left them handcrafted messages first. I would recommend to leave good-faithed users a welcome template as well, and escalate the warnings a bit more slowly. The level 3 and 4 templates are designed to be used once you no longer assume good faith/noobishness. Different story with clear-cut vandals of course.
Cheers, Amalthea 18:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Congrats

=) –xeno^talk 04:07, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, weird result. I kinda expected none of the candidates to meet the requirements due to the SecurePoll effect. Makes some sense that it was harder in the oversighters group to get enough focus on one candidate though.
No need for congratulations, though. Amalthea 09:05, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Condolences, then. Seems like a thankless job that will generate more abuse than praise. –xeno^talk 12:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm torn between congratz and the sheer lulz of the whole thing - a bit of an epic fail. Regardless, you do deserve some congratulations for everyone thinking you are, quite clearly, the best. ;) Ale_Jrb^talk 17:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well done from me too, unfortunately, you don't even get a t-shirt for passing a CU election.

Hope to see you around SPI as a CU soon. Kindest regards, Spitfire^Tally-ho! 18:04, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Will take a bit before I get up to speed (in particular with all the holidays), but I'll do my best. Amalthea 19:39, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

NCIS (TV series)

Is there a reason I can't see NCIS (TV series)? I can see Talk:NCIS (TV series) but not the main page. --AussieLegend (talk) 11:53, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite sure what happened here. There was some page move vandalism earlier today that affected this page. I know I didn't manually G6 the page, only as part of the move reversion, which shouldn't have done anything since it was already reverted. It looks like a kind of revert conflict, but the timing doesn't really make sense.
Anyway, I've restored the page, thanks for the note! Cheers, Amalthea 12:01, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. --AussieLegend (talk) 12:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

In case you haven't seen it already: WP:ANI#Oversight required —DoRD (talk) 12:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't, thanks for the notice. Amalthea 13:17, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning

Thanks for clearing that situation, I didn't know anything of it. I thought it was strange that this union didn't have a flag. Again, thank you! Tibullus (talk) 19:21, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't a warning, just an explanation. :) Cheers, Amalthea 19:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

MOTD

MAY you be of service please? Simply south (talk) 22:22, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, cleverly DONE. Amalthea 00:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to the team

Hi Amalthea -

You may notice some changes on some of your page views. That is because your CheckUser permissions have now been activated. In the next few hours, you will receive invitations to the Checkuser-L and Functionaries-L mailing lists, as well. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have; I think you will find your fellow CheckUsers are most supportive. Congratulations on your strong showing in the election, and thank you for your willingness to take on this new responsibility. Risker (talk) 00:02, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Woot! Woot! annon IPs everywhere congratulate you! 76.212.9.111 (talk) 04:55, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats from me too. —fetch ·comms 20:33, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SUCKER!!! Ur, I mean, uh congrats! ;-) — Rlevse • Talk • 22:57, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Amalthea, I always knew you are popular with the cabal ;-) Regards So Why 18:46, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, right, that must be it.
It's a non-accomplishment, but thank you for the sentiment, everyone – I appreciate it.
Cheers, Amalthea 19:20, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Useful scripts

Pathoschild's AJAX sysop script (imported from Meta) and User:NuclearWarfare/Mark-blocked script.js. Both should be highly useful for your new checkuser bit. Best, NW (Talk) 20:46, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. I've already looked around what others are using, but hadn't checked yours yet. :) Thanks, Amalthea 20:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

I like that Russian script already. :) Amalthea 21:10, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

My user page

No worries on the accidental deletion. We all get turned around with the mop from time to time! :-) Hiberniantears (talk) 23:28, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle opening SPI cases

Hi Amalthea. When Twinkle opens SPI cases, it apparently adds suspected sockpuppet and suspected sockpuppeteer tags to the userpages of those under investigation. That really doesn't help the SPI team out that much, and is not a pleasant experience for those wrongly tagged as well. Is there any chance that you could disable that part of Twinkle? Thanks, NW (Talk) 16:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, done. Will take a but until every user gets the updated script. I believe tagging used to be mandatory at one point, which is why Twinkle was still doing it.
It will still place user talk page notifications. Should probably ask before doing that, too. Amalthea 21:42, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

The talk page messages are fine, though they aren't obligatory. Thanks for the fix! NW (Talk) 23:52, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Justin Bieber

Where are all the admins on this site so I can discuss this block? - FutureMrsBieber —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.197.207 (talk) 23:15, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Which block? Amalthea 23:17, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Probably means the full-protection, see User talk:GlassCobra#ze bieber fever. –xeno^talk 01:15, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's fair that such a popular page is protected until the end of July - FutureMrsBieber —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.197.207 (talk) 13:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Andy593

Thank you for clarifying things on my talk page :). Janfrie1988 (talk) 11:34, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]