User talk:Fuzheado

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Sourcing

Is an acrobat file transcript of a movie stored online a citable source? If so, how should I cite it? Do I need page numbers?

Recent Deletion

The information you deleted in my update to "Fox News" is factual and from the documentary Outfoxed at around 15 minutes in.

High school alum

Thanks for the help... Tdanthony 02:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Toon Zone

Sorry about those edits accidently leaving the donations page, little new at this still (Dr. RKZ)

Disco Demolition Night

Leave the page semi-protected for a while longer. I'm hoping the vandal will lose interest in a week or soAce-o-aces 14:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

September 11, 2001 attacks

This video examines public videos of the several attacks on 9/11. It demonstrates substantially different facts from the article. This IS important and deserves your review before deletion. Consider the contents of this video:

• View this Video Documentary of WTC Collapse including the first building strike.

Copyright tags

Hello. This map is going to be deleted because of lacking copyright information. Do you think there's any way to fix all these images that are uploaded by HKU students? Thanks. — Instantnood 16:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Semi-Protection

Hey Fuzheado, I saw you just reverted vandalism on the article George W. Bush, and, not to sound too much like a TV announcer, but "Are you sick and tired of constant reversions? Do you wish there were a better way?...Well, there is! And it's called semi-protection!" In all seriousness, any thoughts/edits you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mysekurity 05:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea of semi-protection, as it's clear the GWB page is 90% vandalism. I'd raise the threshold a bit more, like the old SPAT (Sock Puppet Avoidance Threshold) of old, of 25 or 50 edits. Fuzheado | Talk 05:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Well the point is that we have more than one level; there could be a 10, 25, 50, or 500 threshold, all which could be incorperated pretty easily. -Mysekurity 06:02, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

What basis was homosexuality semi-protected on? It gets vandalised, but no more than usual, and I don't really see a justification for the ugly header. Ambi 10:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

While I understand where you're coming from, that's really not what semi-protection is for. Semi-protection is meant for short-term vandalism sprees - not permanent use on an article. There was no particular vandalism spree at homosexuality - at the very least, nothing to justify the ugly header. If that is going to be plastered all over the top of our most heavily viewed articles, it's really not going to do wonders for our credibility. Ambi 11:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Images keep being deleted

Hello could you please remind your students to tag the images they uploaded with the appropriate copyright information? Four images have been deleted for the article on The Standard alone [1]. Thanks. — Instantnood 17:12, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia

When you semi-protect a page, please remember to list it at WP:PP. It's especially important at the moment as the policy and technology are new. Also remember that semi is not a solution to apply to an article that is simple high-profile; it needs to have a serious vandalism problem. Also remember that protected pages are still considered harmful and that semi should be a temporary measure just as full-protection is. Admins must work hard to not allow Wikipedia to creep towards a uniformly semi-protected state. -Splash^talk 12:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

You seem to have semi'd quite a number of pages, without giving any reasons or noting the fact on talk pages. Semi-protection is not a "thank god, now anons can't edit anymore' option. Please don't overuse it. Ambi has unprotected Homosexuality and I've unprotected Evolution. Neither show then-current vandalism problems and so any level of protection at all is unnecessary. Evolution does show an IP address hitting the article yesterday, but then a block should be used. Protection is a last resort: and semi should be used no more often than full-protection as a rule. If you can block, block, if you can't and they won't go away, semi-protect for a little while. -Splash^talk 12:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

How long should an article be semi-protected?

I've raised this question here, as now it's actually real and happening I expect more people will want to comment. Dan100 (Talk) 15:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Careful with others' comments

Please don't add things before people's sigs. It makes it look like they made the comment. Please add your stats underneath the entry, with your own sig next to them. Thanks.

But I wonder why they are relevant. SP's purpose is to temporarily stand in the way of drive-by vandalism. It is not to walk around prohibitnig anonymous editing widely, and is not dependent on some history of vandalism. If an article needs protecting, it's because of a current vandalism problem, not an historic one. -Splash^talk 18:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Santa Claus

I clicked on recent changes and saw you reverted edits by 69.166.128.57...but his edits were not vandalism. All that he did was add links...please explain why you reverted.KI 22:45, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection of my user page

I already listed it under Wikipedia:Protected_page#User_pages. I think it makes much more sense to sort pages based on their type (e.g. Article, Talk page, User page), rather than based on which kind of protection was applied to them. However, I specifically marked the entry for it on WP:PP, as well as that of many others I reduced from full- to semi-protection, as "semi-protected". The Wikipedia:Protected_page#Semi-protection section is specifically for real articles being semi-protected, not for Talk, User or other types of pages. Owen× ☎ 23:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Block

Well, the person I blocked had been adding unsubstantiated rumours to an article on a candidate in the Canadian federal election. While I didn't warn the individual my previous edit to the article made it clear this wasn't acceptable (particularly since that article was the subject of a news report in the Ottawa Citizen accusing Wikipedia of allowing gossip in its biographical articles of election candiates (see Free online encyclopedia fuels gossip on candidates Speculation, innuendo rampant on Wikipedia)

The reason I blocked the IP for a month was a) it was a dedicated IP that had done this over a period of time and b) the election will be done in a month. Homey 03:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I also see that after you unblocked the person they went on to do the same thing one more time to the Cheryl Gallant article. Homey 03:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Tofu photo

Can you confirm that the change that was just made to the "tofu flower" photo you uploaded to the Tofu page is correct? Please take a look. Badagnani 16:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Liberal bias

Why is it "vandalism" to edit liberal non-sense ? Since when is George W. Bush is considered a member of the Christian right?

Why is this liberal lunacy allowed to continue in all impunity?

On Christian Right's persons list

What about the claim that Ann Coulter is part of the Christian Right? Her books "Slander", "Treason", and "How to Talk to a Liberal if You Must" are biased but have no religious content whatsoever. So again, how can Ann Coulter be in the Christian Right list?

Hank Williams dips into the surreal

Thanks for your previous comment on my semi-protection of Hank Williams. The issue with the vandal has now taken a surreal turn--the guy posted on the article's talk page that he witnessed these events and that I'm part of the conspiracy to cover up the facts he keeps inserting into the article (he also made a comment that I'm a "very stupid hillbilly indeed" but I can't help but laugh at that). Anyway, could you please advise me what to do. This is no longer a clear-cut vandalism case but instead a case of no original research. Since the user can't be blocked b/c he keeps using sock puppets, how do you suggest dealing with this? I have no desire to keep reverting the page, which is what previous experience with this user suggests will happen when the page is unprotected. Best, --Alabamaboy 16:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

AOL/Coolie vandal

Is there no way to stop this AOL coolie vandal? I suppose you can't block all AOL IPs, there needs to be a better way or some tool to use. -- MicahMN | μ 01:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Louis Epstein's user page

What was the reason for this revert? Owen× ☎ 01:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

McDull and Dae Jang Geum

Hello! I would like to take a closer look at the cultural impact of these two shows in Hong Kong, but it seems that there is not much written regarding this except in newspapers and such. Do you know of a more centralized resource for this? Thanks! --HappyCamper 12:56, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

I've updated your post count link (which had expired) as a little thank you for helping in reverting the vandalism on Robert Koch. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 15:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

xaosflux awards this Barnstar to User:Fuzheado for ultra fast resolutions on WP:AIV.

Thanks for the speedy cleanup! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 06:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hong Kong meetup

Hi Fuzheado. HK Wikipedians are organising a gathering some time around Chinese New Year. The meetup'll held on January 21, 2006 in City University of Hong Kong canteen. Please visit the Chinese site: zh:Wikipedia talk:聚会/2006香港春聚報告 for details. :)--Simon Shek 14:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

You should be ashamed

I thought better of you. You should be fighting against the very idea of the Counter Vandalism Unit, not participating in it. I can't think of anything better designed to encourage juvenile antagonism than paramilitary affectations about "protecting" Wikipedia. --The Cunctator 07:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Didn't Cunctator oppose Larry Sanger's proposal of a Wikipedia militia?--Shtove 21:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

1.0 Collaboration of the Week

Hi, I noticed you signed up as a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. Recently, a 1.0 Collaboration of the Week was created to work on essential topics that are in need of improvement, which will ultimately go in a release version of Wikipedia. You can help by voting, contributing to an article, or simply making a comment. Thank you for your support. :) Gflores ^Talk 08:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Meeting

Hi, Fuzheado. Umm...I don't know a lot about the meeting going on now, since I havn't joined last online meeting. We should find some university or company to support the meeting, therefore we think HK maybe a best place to held this meeting. They are still discussing about where to held the meeting and how to find university or company to support the meeting. :)--Simon Shek 15:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I'm Chungpui from Chinese Wiki. Now they plan to hold the Chinese Wikipedia Meeting on 26 and 27 August 2006. The location is still under election. Although Hong Kong gets alot of support, we don't have a solid plan on finance and veune, and seems that we lack core members who are mature (age18+) and willing to dedicate tehir time. At the same time Taipei have some core members and a possible support from Academia Sinica. So seems that now only Taipei has a realistic plan. I notice that you are from HKU. Do you think it's possible to get support from HKU (finance and veune) if HK hosts the meeting? If we can solve these 2 problems I think it will be very realistic to launch a HK meeting. The only thing is that 26-27 August will be in the orientation period of HKU and most facilities will be occupied by student societies.Chungpui 21:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I guess it's a firm date, as it was voted from the last meeting. But if we have a sound reason (say the veune only available in that that and that day blar blar blar) maybe we can alter the date a little bit. May I visit your office to have a brief talk on the meeting? I mean, if you don't mind. I'm not the "core" of the HK bidding committee as I'll leave HK very soon, but seems that they (or we) really need some advice in this stage.Chungpui 12:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

BTW I'm also a HKUian in fact I'm a firend of Alice. ;)Chungpui 12:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Fuzheado, I am a Hong Kong Wikipedian, you probably knew this already but Hong Kong has been selected to hold the Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006. A HK Workgroup has been formed to organize the event but we lack two persons to lead us. These two persons are responsible for reporting to the central organizing committee and representing the HK Workgroup. As you have so much experience in Wikimedia, are you interested in being one of the two persons? --Lorenzarius 14:58, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

User page

Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

got it

I'm on the discussion page.

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 07:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Meeting

Hi Andrew, just on the m:Special projects committee, you might want to know that we're having our first IRC meeting on Sunday. Anthere said she hadn't heard from you, and I have a few email addresses for you, so thought this was the best way of getting through. Ant should be able to help you if you can't get through to the spcommittee-l list - maybe give her or myself (cormaggio at gmail dot com), an email before then. Talk to you soon.. Cormaggio ^@ 23:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Aha! Best of luck with that move. Talk to you Sunday... Cormaggio ^@ 11:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Or soon, at least... +sj + 18:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you giving up on the SPC? The next meeting is Tuesday... give me a ping. Sj

Quote

I recently found what I thought was a great quote by you that was part of the Wikipedia Discussion at PoynterOnline [2]. I hope you don't mind that I've put it on my user page. If you would prefer that I do not use the quote, or would prefer that I use the larger quote to show the context, that would be okay with me as well. ^BlankVerse 20:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Katelyn Faber

Could you weigh in at the bottom of the Talk Page for Katelyn Faber regarding the inclusion of an image of her? User:Tufflaw, who unsuccessfully tried to have the entire article deleted back in December 2005 insists on censoring/deleting it for extremely specious reasons, and I've been asked to gather a consensus. Please read the bottom two sections of that page. Thanks. Nightscream 18:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

About Chinese Wikimania 2006

Hi, Fuzheado! You become one of the candidate in the election of Chinese Wikimania 2006's Hong Kong Working Group(Temporary name), you can see over here --zh:Wikipedia:2006中文維基年會/香港工作小組/負責人選舉. I have left a message in your Chinese version user page and send you an email, but still haven't receive any response. Hope you can see this message and join the part in this event. You can contact me by this page--zh:User talk:Stewart. Thank you.Stewartcc 14:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

「香港工作小組籌備工作」及「2006香港維基人第二次春聚」通知

• zh:Wikipedia:2006中文維基年會/香港工作小組/2006年3月29日事項通知
• zh:Wikipedia:聚會/2006香港第二次春聚/通知

Hope you can join! －－Stewart~惡龍 (Chat&講！) 15:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Version 1.0 "Release Version Qualifying"

Hi, Andrew, hope you're doing well.

I'm interested in your feedback on Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Qualifying. It's essentially an idea to use a process similar to WP:FAC to identify and handle articles and lists that would go in a release version. Maurreen 19:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0

I thought since you are interested in this project you might be interested to see a CD version of en now exists see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download & 2006 WP CD Selection. This is being discussed on the 1.0 project pages but progress breeds enthusiasm so I thought I would let you know. --BozMo talk 09:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Press contact details

If you are receiving this message, you are either a new, existing, or possible future press contact for one of the languages you speak. What does this mean, being a press contact?

The Wikimedia Foundation runs a Communications Committee, which co-ordinates requests for interviews from the press. When we receive a request for an interview, often the journalist wants to interview someone that speaks their "native tongue", or someone that lives in the same country as their publication. For this reason, it is important the the Communications Committee keeps an up-to-date log of contributors that they can trust to represent the community in a professional manner.

This list of press contacts has started to grow. The goal is to eventually have at least one trusted user on the list from every country in the world, and one user for every language that the Foundation runs a project in.

What are your responsibilities? Whenever a journalist requests an interview, either by phone, by e-mail, or (rarely) in person, you are able to either answer the interview request, or pass the request off to another user that you trust. Whenever a newsworthy milestone is reached on your project, you should help co-ordinate the creation of a press release, and once it's ready, send it to me to post in your language's press room.

Any questions, comments, or concerns? Contact me directly. -- en:user_talk:zanimum

Conference in the Philippines

Hello. Thanks for inviting us to your conference. It says in the PCIJ blog that it is free for "Journalists from the mainstream media." How about for non-journalists from non-mainstream media?--Nino Gonzales 06:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I was there yesterday. I hope the journalists spread the word and get more Filipinos to contribute to Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to your book! --Nino Gonzales 01:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Journawiki

Hi, Andrew. Thanks for your note and for bring more people to Journawiki. Hope you're doing well.

In case you or anyone is curious about the topics that I have so far in comparison to the topics I don't -- Since it got little attention initially, I decided to build a niche and eventually use that as a foundation to draw more people. Maurreen 15:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Of course your plans is no problem; I think it's great. Maurreen 15:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

James Carey

You recently created a page for an academic named James Carey. I will admit I know nothing about the man, but I do see that another user has redirected your James Carey page to the article about American actor Jim Carrey. This would seem to be a serious error. I thought you would like to know. --Charles 03:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence Brahm

Someone has recently nominated your article Lawrence Brahm for deletion. If this Lawrence Brahm is the same person here [3] and who wrote several books about doing business in China [4], it is likely he meets the inclusion criteria at WP:BIO and therefore should not be deleted. Please visit and contribute to the discussion here. Also, please modify the article to show how this person meets WP:BIO criteria (and make sure it is verifable information from reliable sources. This will avoid future nominations for deletion. I would make the changes myself, but I'm not really sure this is the same person who is an author... and to be honest I have zero interest in writing about businessmen, journalists, and CEOs.--Isotope23 17:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Better?

How is the old image better? ~Rangeley (talk) 06:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Libya

Hi,

I've recently added Libya to the list of featured article candidates. Overall the candidature is going well with many of the objections now sorted out. The final concrete objection is with the article's prose. I have been the main contributor to the article and have been looking at it for the previous 9 - 10 months. My eyes no longer see it freshly, so I am not a suitable copy-editor!

To meet the final demand of copy editing, I have been advised to ask different people to edit parts of the article.

I would really love to get this article featured as you can probably see from the page's history! I've worked very hard on it and I see this as possibly being the final hurdle.

You can see the prose objections, mostly raised by Sandy, on the candidature page. If you have the time, please choose a section (Politics, Religion, Culture etc.) and copyedit, perfect, ace it! I would be very grateful with any help I can get.

Thanks a lot,

--Jaw101ie 16:53, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania image licensing

I was wondering if, in the spirit of Wikipedia, you might license one of your pictures with me in it under a free license, say, GFDL or CC-by-sa. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 03:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, this image of Sheldon Rampton would be good to have. -- Zanimum 17:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Great to meet you...

...at Wikimania. And you did a great job (it was evident without even knowing exactly what you were responsible for)!

Peace, BCorr|Брайен 17:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Project: Teach the Teachers

Hi Fuzheado! I would like to ask for your support to a project I'm proposing to the Philippine Wikipedia Community. Your experience in using Wikipedia for education would be very helpful. I drafted a project plan: User:Nino Gonzales/TTT. There is also a discussion about it in our notice board: Wikipedia_talk:Tambayan_Philippines#Manila Meet-up and Project: TTT--Nino Gonzales 05:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Piano

I didn't understand: wasn't the piano invented in Italy? 84.222.8.168 08:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

User talk:84.222.8.168

Good message! You beat me on the rv to Art in the same minute, and I didn't realise you'd already done it. Tyrenius 08:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Danny's contest

Please email me, my email link works. As co judges we will need to coordinate. Thanks... ++Lar: t/c 01:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Churen Fuzheado, please give us our blessing!

To facilitate the TTT project, we need to have financial sources, and for which we are to make a Wikifoundation. I am aware that there in Hong Kong you are now having proposals about a Wikifoundation. Why not together with Japan, Singapore and Taiwan we create a big Pan-Asian Foundation to make our pool of resources bigger. If possible, I wish your affirmation to fill the role of the Filipino Community's bridge there. Xi Xie. --Justox dizaola 12:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC) ^_^

School block 82.198.250.67

Hi Fuz I am Kuf360, you blocked my school because of repeat vandalism please unblock so I may make some edits. I dont think anyone even knows about wikipedia in my school please reconsider!

Podcast

James tells me you've been looking at starting up a Wikipedia podcast of some sorts. I had some thoughts about launching a podcast as well (I even got to setting up an RSS feed for it) - perhaps we can join forces? -- Tawker 17:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

On the other hand... your email address appears to be dead... maybe you need to confirm it -- Tawker 17:47, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Need guidance about biased edits of California Air Resources Board

Fuzheado, I am asking for your guidance because you were the originator of California Air Resources Board (CARB) and because you have been a Wikipedian for very much longer than I have been.

I hope that you can advise me what to do about what are, in my opinion, some highly biased diatribes edited into the California Air Resources Board (CARB) article. The two edits involved were made today (October 6, 2006) by User:67.160.235.141 at 14:40 and 16:30 respectively. You should read them in that time order to see what he has done. I realize that there are people who disagree with CARB for many different reasons, but these two edits use some very biased, sarcastic and derogatory comments. What is the best way of handling this? Is there anything that you can do or will do? I will watch for your response here on your talk page. Thanks, - mbeychok 05:54, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of subpages

Please see [5], as this concerns several pages that I have deleted from your userspace for being in violation of WP:NOT. Naconkantari 04:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

0101

I have unblocked all the ones that I have blocked after the AIV report, and a great deal of others, but there are still quite a lot left (blocked mostly by Naconkantari (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves)).--Konst.able 07:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Looking at User:Fuzheado/jmsc0101/instructions#ASSIGNMENT_GOALS, I am somewhat nervous that you require your students to use a particular format of username, which includes their first name. Many people are nervous about posting their name online. In addition, the format of the username would allow people to identify them as JMSC students. Many people who have disclosed their real name online have regretted it. See Wikipedia:Username and m:Right to vanish. As an alternative, I would suggest asking your students to email their chosen usernames. Armedblowfish (talk|mail) 22:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Images in Civic Exchange

Regarding the images in that page, which you seem to have directed, maybe you should tell your students there that taking photographs of brochures, as opposed to scanning them, looks rather ugly in the article, wouldn't you agree? Other than that, I am impressed at the work. Peter O. (Talk) 20:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

October statistics

Hi there! It's been a while since I last heard from you, so it was a pleasant surprise to see your query on my talk page tonight. I have an account with all 250 wikipedia language projects, with an article counter on my user page. I have a special browser (IE2) which automatically opens multiple windows (my user page in the various languages) simultaneously. I then transferred them to a spreadsheet. Normally, I then copy them to the Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics tables, each month. I will get around to doing that in the next day or two. David Cannon 09:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Transcripts

Hey Andrew, how lovely of you to come thank me for something that trivial! :) I'm glad I could help out. I'd love to take part in one of the actual podcasts, but I'm rather short on time right now - perhaps sometime next year. It's going really well, you guys should all be very proud of yourselves. All the best, riana_dzasta 05:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

My talk page

Thanks for the revert, however I prefer to leave all messages on my talk page. If someone edits somebody elses comments then I will revert it but if the message is a comment or even an insult I prefer to leave it on as it is still a message. It's nice to see someone else on RC patrol though. See you round. James086 ^{Talk | Contribs} 09:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I would consider that a very sound policy especially with the number of people who vandalise wikipedia. James086 ^{Talk | Contribs} 09:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Statistics

Hi there! Did you get my e-mail the other day (I enclosed the spreadsheet as an attachment). I was a bit worried that the size of the file might be rejected by your e-mail server, so I wanted to make sure you got it. I haven't heard back from you, so I just want to be sure. If you didn't get it, I'll break the file down and send it in manageable chunks. Please let me know. David Cannon 11:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

That's great. I'm glad you got it - that's all I wanted to know. Yes, it's great to see the statistics page is live again! David Cannon 12:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Gillmor Gang

A tag has been placed on Gillmor Gang, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain web site, blog, forum, or other community of web users that does not assert the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content.

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Wikiweekly

Way for singling me out and missing the point. -- Steel 16:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, just to clarify that. There's currently a semi-protection backlog over at WP:PP and CAT:SEMI (people have brought it up on ANI and such and asked people to help out). The reason I was unprotecting en masse was due to this backlog. In fact, I know of one other admin who unprotected more than the 30 I did that day. I will accept that unprotecting Anus was a bad idea and poor judgement on my part, but one other of those you highlighted on my talk page (Asshole), has had very little vandalism since unprotection. One gripe I do have is with your statement that I unprotected articles "without even looking at why they were protected in the first place". I actually skipped over numerous articles on CAT:SEMI because I didn't feel unprotection would be beneficial (in cases where it was protected to prevent sockpuppetry or banned users editing and the like). Poop deck was ultimately unprotected after consensus was reached on ANI. At any rate, if I have to be a fundamentalist of any kind I think I'd like to be a wiki fundamentalist over the other possibilities. :)
Summary: I made a few poorly thought out calls with Anus and Douche, but I think you may have mistaken backlog clearing for indiscriminate unprotection of dozens of articles. -- Steel 17:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm the "other admin". I was planning on letting your latest criticism of my unprotections go unremarked upon, but since I've been referred to on the podcast and here...

Like Steel, I found a notice on ANI that there was a backlog of unreviewed protections. It was not an indiscriminate unprotection as I evaluated both the reason given by the protecting admin, the amount of time that had passed, as well as looking at the talk to see if there is was relevant discussion. In cases where the protection was recent, where the protecting admin stated that it was in effect an IAR exception to the guideline against indefinite semiprotection, or where there was current discussion on issues relating the reason for the protection, I did not unprotect. In the case of Jimmy Wales, the protecting admin's edit summary ("recent vandalism") clearly assumed that it would eventually be unprotected. The article had been unprotected about half the time over the previous two months, so there is no "It's always been protected so it should stay protected" argument to be made.

As Steel notes, protection review is an inexact process. In response to concerns from other users, I carried out an review six days after my 84 unprotects to J through M. Of these, 11 had been reprotected and 14 had not been edited at all. You can argue that I should be able to know that the 11 (and several others that I've noted returned to protection since) shouldn't have been unprotected, but how do you know that the 14 (as well as the dozens that returned to editing normality) should have, unless you unprotect them and see? (I did try to be a bit more conservative with the marginal calls in subsequent review.) There are a number of issues tangled up with this, one of which is that some users seem to think that protection is an inviolate action that should not be questioned, while at the same time admins are clearly protecting pages and forgetting about them. If an admin states in their edit summary that a page deserves indefinite protection, and I disagree, I would certainly discuss it before unprotecting. If an admin thinks that an article should be indefinitely protected but instead writes "+sprotect, lots of vandalism" as the reason, he or she should not be surprised if other admins can't mindread and eventually remove the protection in accordance with policy.

I have no desire to drag this topic back into your fine podcast, where I think your repeated criticism of unprotection is beginning to verge on off-wiki lobbying. If you do think it is worth comment, I trust that you will represent my reasoning above fairly, rather than using it as a entry point to restate your own position. No response is necessary; I'm prepared to walk away from this one. Regards, BanyanTree 16:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

BanyanTree and Steel359, I see your side of the issue, and I don't mean for WikipediaWeekly to be a bully pulpit for my viewpoint. As we've mentioned many times, we seek out a multitude of voices and issues, so I heartily invite you both to come onto the podcast to either talk about protection specfically, or as part of the greater discussion on the long-term trajectory of Wikipedia with regards to quality, openness and the participation of anons. It's an issue that we have talked about in passing many times:

• As Wikipedia (en: at least) moves forward, past 1.5 million articles and as articles reach more "finished" states, will protection only be used in the way it is used now, only as a last resort and a temporary measure?
• Is semi-protection a state that should be used as an article matures?
• What can we reasonably expect an anon to add to "poop deck" or "anus" that would be useful, as innovations in those particular subjects are not likely?
• Or should protection stay the domain of emergency measures when we get real "stable versions" in place with a "publicly approved version" and a "draft version"?

It's a conversation we want to have on WW, and we welcome your participation.

It may either be by chance or because "birds of a feather flock together" but the podcast crew for the last few weeks don't seem to vary much on this issue. But that could well be that the panel seems to have a preponderance of RC patrollers, who would likely favor protection earlier and longer than the average admin.

The only thing needed is a Skype account to participate, and again, we welcome your views on this. Let me, Tawker or Daveydweeb know, thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 22:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I definitely would... if I had Skype. -- Steel 00:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Daveydweeb RfA

I noticed you struck Wiki Warfare to Infinity's !vote - he's actually !voted on several RfAs this morning, and left this on David's talk. Just thought someone should know. Cheers, riana_dzasta 03:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Britney Spears article protection

Thank you, I welcome your concern. This article, in my view, was correctly protected due to the repeated inclusion of potentially damaging data without proper justification for its inclusion—indeed, the lack of justification seemed instead to increase—that appeared to be intended to circumvent the discussion thereof. Rather than a matter of a "content dispute" in which I am involved, this is a matter of abject (if not intentional) failure to abide by policy. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 06:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

The creation of "notability" when news organizations accept tabloid "wire" stories is not in and of itself notability (did you actually read the links, I wonder?); the "effect" in the cause-and-effect equation remains missing. Nevertheless, I accept your decision. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 07:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

McDonalds Vandalism

That IP you blocked was one of many IPs being used to vandalize McDonalds right now. Could you please semi the article? Thanks! Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 17:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Human readable pronounciations

Aren't, especially if English isn't the reader's first language. They aren't helpful. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

The Germans pronounce his name as if it were German (and that's how I'd pronounce it, German name == German pronounciation). The only people who'd be helped by your version are people who talk more or less like you and who care how it the name is supposed to sound. My suspicion is that most readers couldn't care less how John L. pronounces his name, any more than they'll care how to pronounce Łódź, Reims or Beaulieu. For those that really do care we have IPA. The set of people who care, and share your manner of speaking, is unlikely to be large. If you really feel that the IPA needs supplementing, why not add a recording ? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

wikipediaweekly

hey-o. just letting you know, the new episode is out but the wikispace isn't updated, and neither is Template:WikipediaWeekly-subscription (only that ep 8 is out and not it's summary). I'd do it but im rather involved right now in non-computery things for the next couple of weeks. JoeSmack ^Talk 05:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

course assignments

Fuzheado, you might be interested in these: User:Ragesoss/HIST 236 and User:Ragesoss/Assignments. It's a Wikipedia assignment that just wrapped up in the course I'm the teaching assistant for.--ragesoss 08:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

A DB-Bio Article

Hello Fuzheado, this db-bio article has been up for quite some time. Could you take a look at it please? Thank you.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 00:47, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I totally respect your work man

Man, you are the genius behind the most awesome page on wikipedia: Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars. I am not worthy to type on the same talk page as you type on.

I was wondering if you could include a couple of links to the edit history for your additions:

Wikipedia_talk:Lamest_edit_wars#New_contributors:_Help_other_wikipedians_enjoy_the_lame_edit_war_even_more

This one: Cauliflower

thanks. Best wishes, Travb (talk) 12:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Page for instructors

Hi Fuzheado, I'm looking for a page on Wikipedia which describes a little bit about how instructors can use Wikipedia and incorporate Wiki editing into course materials. Do you know where this page is? Many thanks, --HappyCamper 12:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection of talk page?

I find it's a very, very bad idea to semi-protect your talkpage. By being an administrator, you need to allow anonymous editors to talk to you for a variety of reasons.

1. There are a few anonymous editors with thousands of edits who are as respectable as any Wikipedian with a username.
2. If you warn an anonymous editor, they can't ask you for help.

Unless a troll is trying to vandalize (if so, put a message explaing the sprotect), I strongly urge you to unprotect this page. -- Chris is me _{(u/c/t) 02:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)}

Eh, sorry to jump on you. -- Chris is me _{(u/c/t) 05:08, 20 January 2007 (UTC)}

Wikipedia Weekly...

When is production resuming? ShakespeareFan00 14:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Great to see that you are back. I was looking forward for it for a long time. I hope you could get back your normal Internet service. Greetings, Longbow4u 20:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Wish you all the best in the year of the pig. Wish you a year full of knowledge and energy. As nurtured as a pig, as content as a pig. Greetings from Hong Kong. --Deryck C. 16:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Lamest edit wars

Thanks for starting this page - it beats the Bad jokes section hands down.--Shtove 21:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

"Context"

Hi, Fuzheado. Upon further reflection, I'm not as sure as I was earlier that there is any context that sufficiently justifies Essjay misrepresenting himself to the New Yorker reporter. Earlier, I thought that he had created the "professor" persona after being stalked by Daniel Brandt, but now it seems that is not the case. I'm not sure why he created the "professor" persona, but it was quite early in his Wikipedia activities (see here). Given that Brandt did subsequently stalk many prominent Wikipedians, it is understandable that Essjay would choose to maintain the professor persona, but it's not quite so understandable why he would then choose to speak to a reporter at length under false pretenses.

I also don't think that Essjay's current position of leaving any comment to Wikia's PR firm is particularly beneficial, to him or to Wikipedia's reputation. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

You are a great radio host. —Centrx→talk • 20:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree! Although the Essjay episode came about about 14 hours too early... :( I wish I could do something like the Wikipedia Weekly hehe, that would be really fun to do. Do you guys have anything like a signup sheet where I could come on sometime in the future? Hehe that'd be really fun. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 02:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For your response. --CSTAR 03:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Jalt

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Jalt, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Squids'and'Chips 01:12, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

God (expression)

Back in September, you speedy deleted God (expression). The deletion reason given was "short and stupid". Would you mind undeleting this article? Thanks. --- RockMFR 22:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Poke poke... --- RockMFR 04:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Multimedia and Wikimania

Hi Fuzheado. Thanks for including me in the discussion. See my comments here. --Charley • Q^#o • 23:56, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Prague

In about two weeks I could be available for you, but I can't say it for sure unless I know the date of your visit. Most probably I will be available. Am I enough for you, or you need more people? Please reply on my cs:User talk:Zirland page. --Zirland 08:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Great, let's try to rendezvous then -- Fuzheado | Talk 18:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Contest judge

Hello! You've been listed as a judge in Messedrocker's Contest. If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 20:11, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

km.wikipedia.org backlog

Could you please check km:Category:Delete? There are several pages that need to be deleted. Thanks. -- ReyBrujo 04:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Nice, hearing from you again. I will find some time to fill it. Thank you. BTW do you still have pictures from Wikimania 2005 with me showing a magazine to Jimbo Wales and giving lecture? Cheers! Meursault2004 12:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Videos of Wikimania Taipeh 2007

Hi Fuzheado, when I remember correctly from Wikipedia Weekly, you said that you plan to make the Wikimania 2007 more interactive, so that Wikipedians who cannot participate can at least watch the conference on video. I do not know if you organize the videos, or if you know the person who will be responsible. There were some glitches at Wikimania Boston 2006, and perhaps it is possible to not repeat them.

1. The videos should be taken in a free video format, at least as an alternative format. --> Ogg Theora. (Real media is not a good format)
2. They should be freely licenced with a Wikimedia Commons compatible licence --> e. g. dual-licenced GFDL/CC-BY-SA 2.5 or later. Even though Commons at the moment limits filesize at about 20 MB, it is very likely that in the future also bigger files will be supported, and then we need these files for documentation.

I hope this can be arranged. Many wikipedians from Germany are very interested in the conferences and discussions, but will not be able to participate, because Taiwan is so far away. And you do a good job at Wikipedia Weekly ! I listen in regularly.

Greetings, Longbow4u 10:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Freebase

Hey Fuzheado, I noticed that you mentioned Freebase on you twitter account. Do you by any chance have any invitations left? I've been wanting to play with it for a while now. Cheers, JACOPLANE • 2007-04-15 18:49

I LOVE YOUR PODCAST!

I LOVE YOUR PODCAST ! IT IS THE GREATEST EVER!WikiaAlexC 00:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination

I thought you'd be interested in this project.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC) ==Why did you remove my edits on the Keith Urban discography page? I was updating it to include his current single. I am a fan, and wanted to spread the information...make wikipedia work man... kylie minogue is awesome also... so dont hate her too.

207.69.137.21 03:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Why was the Skunk Bush page deleted?

Why was the Skunk Bush page deleted?