User talk:Eclecticology

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De-Adminship vote.
A vote is being held to remove your sysop privileges. The basis for this vote is lack of use of these privileges. You may want to participate at Requests_for_adminship. See also the discussion at Staff_lounge. --JMRyan 22:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Policy review
Policy is not the most exciting subject at Wikibooks but we do have some major unresolved issues.

The most important issue, in my opinion, is Dispute resolution which starts by declaring that:

"Currently there is no official organized process to resolve disputes between users"

The suggested remedy for this is: Ad hoc administration committee which puts into place the absolute minimum in terms of an enforcement apparatus.

The second most important is No personal attacks where a vote has recommended the policy be enforced but it still languishes as "proposed".

The third policy that is needed and which will prevent edit disputes from getting out of hand is Editing disputes policy.

Other policies that need consideration are at: Policies and guidelines.

Please spare a minute or two to peruse these issues and add a comment and/or a vote. RobinH 12:28, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Your De-Adminship
Hello. I would like to inform you that you will have your sysop rights removed here on 1 Nov 2006 due to inactivity. If you would like to discuss the matter, please see WB:RFA. You can re-apply for adminship at a later date if you wish. Thanks. -within focus 21:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:CHN-1941-0103-10.jpg
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There are a couple other new ones too... please add the licensing info when you upload! -- SB_Johnny | talk 10:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Template on WB:VFD
Hi Eclecticology,

I reverted your edit on WB:VFD turning the link to Votes for deletion/IPOD NANO back to an inclusion. It has been discussed on the talk page that VfDs should be archived on sub-pages of Votes for deletion rather than in numbered archives as was the practice. Let me know if you have any questions about this.

I don't quite understand your edit summary: "Seems as though this should not be a template since it causes it to be fixed in position on top of everything else!". My browser renders the inclusion perfectly. What do you mean by "fixed"? Fixed as in the CSS specs? Could you be more specific about how this is rendered by your browser? Which browser do you use?

Cheers, --Swift 04:32, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The following comment was moved here from User talk:Swift --Swift 06:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. The rendering seems to be OK now.  Your reference to what s meant by "fixed" seems to be what I had in mind.  That block of text, with "Mumfum" appearing at the top was staying in one place even as I scrolled through the page to get to the completely unrelated matter that interested me.  But for this I would never have touched it.  It could very well be that the problem arose from the vandalism which was reversed, but had not yet had the linkages in the servers caught up.  No real harm done. Eclecticology 06:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. Good that the rendering is fixed and everything is back to normal. I guess you're right about it being results of vandalism. I haven't looked closely, but it is a typical cause. Thanks for your efforts. --Swift 06:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
I noticed you editing on the recent changes log again. Welcome back. How was your Holiday break? --Iamunknown 00:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the welcome back. I've been around but often I spend so much time with the mailing lists that it detracts from doing any useful work. :-(  I see that you tried to restore a few stamp images for Latvia without success.  (Copyright issues are a little different with stamps.)  Are you planning to do more with that country?  I am trying to develop a scheme for cataloguing stamps, though I still regard a lot of it as experimental.  I tend to adapt as the problems arise.  One point that seems as though it would be a good one to make would be to have our catalog numbers for stamp match-up with image names.  Keep in touch on this. Eclecticology 01:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The images were deleted as they were un- or improperly-tagged and/or -sourced. One of the lovely things that happened while you were gone is that many images started being deleted (which is fair, appropriate, and legally necessary) and the dead links removed (which then makes is difficult to find replacements). I came across those dead image links and restored them so that we could keep track of which stamps we had but do not have know and indeed need.
 * The peculiar copyright situation aside, I plan to create a lot of dead links, mostly as a part of developing an image naming strategy for stamps.
 * To be honest, I have very few stamps myself. I love the idea of collecting just about anything (as I was, in a former life, a packrat ;)). I may sooner or later inherit a very large collection and would then be able to contribute.
 * My own collection of stamps is unreasonably large, but I find it a pain to work with scanning and getting the colours right. I also have a substantial collection of philatelic literature with a specialty in periodicals.
 * As to catalogue numbers, I like the ISO country code format that you are using; where to go from there, however, I am unsure. I would love to brainstorm sometime. Just start a page with your ideas and I'll comment and add on.
 * See World Stamp Catalogue/Numbering System. It could still stand more development, and I am adjusting as I go along.  I'm sure I would find your suggestions interesting.
 * Oh, out of curiosity, what mailing lists have you been on?
 * Best wishes, Iamunknown 02:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm on the Wikipedia, Wikien and Foundation lists. I've been receiving the Wikitech list in digest form, but I don't understand half the stuff that happens there.  There are several other low traffic lists in which I participate. Eclecticology 10:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Error in suggested format at WB:RFA
Eclecticology, I apologize for that error in suggested format; it was mine. I have fixed it. --Iamunknown 00:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello Eclecticology, how are you? It's been a long time since you've contributed here, it's good to have you back. I don't think anything significant has change since you were last around, no new policies or anything like that.

Anyway, I dont want to waste too much of your time. It's good to have you back! --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 00:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Electicology, Still I can not find a way to upload image into the section of India-stamps what I have created. Text I can format as well as enter. Reason for asking is I have a full collection of Stamps of India from 1947 onwards. I have scanned stamps Images on my computer and also published in to Photobucket. Is it possible that I can upload those Images here. If it is than how I can do it. I need some guidance. Khalakmu (discuss • contribs) 22:52, 10 March 2012 (UTC)