User talk:Neoptolemus/Archive 1

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PS: Txs for those cleanup edits... --Panic (talk) 20:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks much for these helpful links. Νεοπτόλεμος 01:47, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

IRC
You'll have to provide more info than "I get an error"...Good places to start: What does the error say? Do you have the appropriate software installed? – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 02:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The webpage cannot be displayed


 * Most likely cause:
 * Some content or files on this webpage require a program that you don't have installed.


 * What you can try:
 * Search online for a program you can use to view this web content.


 * Retype the address.


 * Go back to the previous page.


 * I will use the IRC page to try to figure out what to do, and let you know if I need further assistance. Thanks! Νεοπτόλεμος 03:34, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Figured it out, Νεοπτόλεμος 03:46, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Page moves...
After moving a page from its location, go back and check if the redirect is needed (if there are still pages linking to the old location) if not clean it and tag it with the template, if links exits, you can fix it or leave it alone depending on your available time. --Panic (talk) 20:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Done as requested. Thanks! Νεοπτόλεμος 20:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Page Deletions
Let me take a quick look at that list, and the pages that you want deleted. Give me about 10 minutes to ensure everything is right before I delete anything. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 20:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Sure thing. Thanks for your help. Νεοπτόλεμος 20:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I have deleted the pages now. One of the pages contains a lot of text content, and I would like to merge histories on it when you are finished with your merger. Also, I would like (although you do not have to) if you could try and reuse some of that old content. Let me know if you need any help. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 21:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * If you are refering to the Aegean Civilization page, it is a verbatum copy of the page that will be replacing it, minus two templates. Νεοπτόλεμος 21:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

np
no problem, you're doing the hard stuff finding things to be deleted and organizing, all I have to do is click a button ;). Hope all is well. Mattb112885 (talk to me) 18:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

a reply
Hello, this is GuoXia. I believe you sent me an email, and I replied, but I just wanted to leave you a little message here, as my email has been known to act somewhat spastically, and may not have sent. So just in case you didn't get the email, I thank you very much for taking an interest in this wikibook, which has been in dire need of reorganization, and I admire the work you've been doing. I'd also be more than happy to assist with the Chinese section, as well as wherever else you may need me. Just tell me what to do, and I'll try to begin! You can email me a reply, or just leave me a message. - --GuoXia (talk) 18:32, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Ancient civs
I believe you sent me an e-mail requesting my help at the Ancient History wikibook. I'm sorry, but I'm far too busy right now to work at a level that would actually be helpful. Best of luck. -JCarriker (talk) 17:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That's fine, I've managed to round up a few interested editors, and haven't yet heard back from a couple more, so hopefully they will be able to contribute. Thanks for getting back to me! Νεοπτόλεμος 17:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollbacker
You've been nominated; please accept. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 15:29, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks! I accept the nomination. I'll post this message there, also, just to make it prominent and keep stuff in one place. Νεοπτόλεμος 19:19, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Ip warning
I like the appearance and all, it's just that I am curious if some "welcome" info could be placed there. Thoughts? Laleena (talk) 12:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I just added something in there. Νεοπτόλεμος 21:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Moved page
I created this in error http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/1._e4/1...a5 and moved it. Do moved pages have to be deleted? I was under the impression(perhaps incorrectly) that moving a page means it's old page disappears. If not then would there be any purpose to moving rather then copying a page? ChessCreator (talk) 15:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * When you move a page, it takes the page's history along with it, so that editors can still see who wrote the page, and when. If you simply copy the page's contents to a new location, it would appear that you wrote the entire page at that time. When moving the page, the old page becomes a redirect (meaning that anyone who goes there will be sent to the new article). The old page still exists, but does not contain any of the previous content. Redirects are generally only needed if another page linked to the original. Since there are no links to the page you accidentally created, it's referred to as an 'orphaned redirect' and is probably not needed. You haven't done anything wrong- I was just cleaning up something we no longer need. Νεοπτόλεμος 15:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Todays Work
You've been very helpful indeed, keep up the good work - Urbane   (Talk)   (Contributions)  23:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Not much more to go, and hopefully the mess that was the Japanese Wikibook will be a bit more organized. Thanks for all the deletions! Νεοπτόλεμος 23:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

World at work
Could you please vote on the FB nom for this book? Thanks, Laleena (talk) 00:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Saw your note on User talk:Jomegat. When you think a block is in order, the best spot is WB:AA, where any admin can see it (though if you know a particular admin is online, drop them a note too). As long as that IP has stopped, I won't block. If they keep going, then yeah, grab an admin. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 01:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * All right, thanks for the tip, Mike. I'll do this from now on. Νεοπτόλεμος 01:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Quick reminder to please subst: vandal warning templates and the like; this reduces server load and ensures the messages don't change while on the page. Instead of use  for example. By the way, you can put your signature inside most (all?) these templates by doing this:, which I rather like :) So far glad we gave you rollback; good work.  – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 02:49, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * All right, want me to go through and change warnings I've made? Νεοπτόλεμος 03:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No need. Hopefully we'll get that silly throttle out of your way ;) – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 03:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Name
Hi Neoptolemus

I'm just writing to let you know that I've changed my name from Urbane to Reece. Hope this doesnt cause too much confusion.

Reece  (Talk)   (Contributions)  15:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. Shouldn't be too tough to remember. Νεοπτόλεμος 20:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome and the invitation. I'll help out whenever I can. I spend most of my time at the English wikipedia, but I'm all for working more on wikibooks. -Steventity (talk) 03:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Nissan revert
Thanks - could be a spammer, worth keeping an eye, regards -- Herby talk thyme 11:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll have to leave for school sometime soon, so I won't be able to keep an eye out for much longer. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 11:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * np - I'll be around for a while - thanks -- Herby talk thyme 11:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned redirects
G'day Νεοπτόλεμος, thanks for all your work helping to clean stuff up in WB. I have a request though - when marking orphaned redirects for speedy delete, could you please not destroy the page contents? Deleting pages requires some investigation and removing the content of the page when tagging for deletion just makes it a little harder. thanks, Webaware talk 03:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, some of the redirects link to other would-be orphans (through a double-redirect), so I removed them to make the second redirect an orphan as well. But I'll just  them from now on. Sorry for the inconvenience. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 03:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries, and thanks for all the good work! Webaware talk 03:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

US History
Could you please stop "delete" on those pages, when it would suffice just to move them? Now, though, I think that you aren't doing a bad job, it's just that it's easier for a move to occur than to put "delete" on all those pages. Laleena (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Serbo-Croatian
I do not want to talk about politics, but it is common knowledge that Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians speak the same language. It is very inefficient to put separate courses for them. Since they are 99% identical, you're just merely rehashing the same things put in one variant on the other. I propose merging them into one page. Yes, it is the ONLY Slavic language in two Alphabets-- Latin and Cyrillic-- albeit the Latin version of the language is more frequently used, even among Orthodox believers. After all, you wouldn't put Mexican Spanish and European Spanish as separate pages, would you? Nor would you put West German and East German as separate pages? Brokenote (talk) 22:47, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Lexical similarity? As I said, they are 99.9 per cent IDENTICAL. Why don't we merge the dialects into one? It will make everyone's job A LOT easier. First things first, put politics aside at ALL TIMES; this is NOT a political forum or a place to put all this useless junk that leads to nowhere. Brokenote (talk) 22:47, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Who said you have any political loyalties? I'm merely proposing what should be the page be: any hint of political biases or forums will be dismissed immediately; I've seen enough POVs from a lot of people and it really is a waste of time.Brokenote (talk) 22:47, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Ironically, Wikipedia ALSO treats them as one language (have you seen the Sprskohrvatski edition?): do you see any double-standards in it? IF they put it as seprate languages-- TRUST me, I;ve seen the discusison boards--- they're overloaded with endless ranting and political squabbling. Why waste one's time written three separate dialects that are practically the same language, putting all politics aside, and just put them into one? It saves time and memory space. Brokenote (talk) 04:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

World History Book
Hi, Neoptolemus,

I see that the World History book is semi-orphaned, in that it's being incorporated into a larger book about World History? Or not? I'm going to be having some additional time to deal with this project, so I'm curious how to help the effort go forward on the ancient history book... Andrew Watt (talk) 18:58, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not so sure that deleting the old table of contents was such a good idea... I'm not sure we have links to all those pages folded into the table of contents yet. urk. Andrew Watt (talk) 02:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

About Mike's page
Sorry, I'm just not used to using these wikis. That's the second mistake I made in the last ten minutes. Well, at least I tried to remove them as soon as I noticed it. The Kid (talk) 19:14, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

US History/Contents/Secession
G'day, have merged these page histories, could you please confirm that I restored the correct version? If not, just find it in the page history and revert. cheers, Webaware talk 23:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Compliment, Questions
Hey Neoptolemus, how are you? i've been watching some of your work as a page patroller, and you're doing a wonderful job. If you're interested, I'd nominate you for adminship.

Anyway, I'm about to turn my bot on and do some serious work over at Linear Algebra. If you're watching RC at all, I'm sure you've seen all the work I've done in it so far. All the manual work is done now, and it's time for the bot to take over. However, the bot is probably going to require a few passes, which is going to flood the RC list. Since you are patrolling, will this bother you? I could probably flag myself for the duration of the job so that i dont flood the list, if you want. Just let me know. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 01:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I'd support the nomination. You do a lot of good work here. --Jomegat (talk) 01:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Wow, I'd be flattered by a nomination. Thanks for the consideration and support, both of you.


 * I've been refreshing RC occasionally while working on some homework, and it'd be handy if you could flag yourself for a bit. If not, no big deal- I can go through no problem. Thanks for the heads up. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Point of administrivia: you need to accept the nomination for our votes to count for anything! :) Webaware talk 02:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks! Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 02:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Welcome
thanks.--76.28.67.224 (talk) 22:48, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I already have an account on wikipedia I am considering possibly having an account here (ive also been improving the article on the Paleolithic at the english wikipedia).--76.28.67.224 (talk) 22:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcome aboard
You are now an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask or just pop onto the IRC channel for assistance :). -- SB_Johnny | PA! 00:48, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks! Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 00:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Congrats Neo! Enjoy the new buttons! --Jomegat (talk) 01:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jim. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Congrats indeed. I was also going to recommend that IRC is an excellent thing indeed. As well, you can have access to the cross-wiki admin channel - just ask Az1568. Finally, there are some excellent books like MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook and Wikibooks Community that might be helpful if you don't know what one of the buttons do. I'm trying to fix them up currently, so if you have time in the first few months of adminship, please do take a look and note areas for improvement on my talk page. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 01:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Mike. I was looking at the MW Handbook a few days ago, glad you reminded me. I'll try to get acquainted with IRC as you've suggested. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Edit comments
G'day mate, a little request: when you fill in the edit comments, could you please not erase the section specifier, /* ... */? It helps others determine what section has been modified, and is especially useful on talk pages. thanks, Webaware talk 01:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure thing... I never noticed I'd been doing that. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I know about it because I did it for the first month, until I noticed the difference in RC :) cheers, Webaware talk 01:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Another not-very-problematic, but very friendly reminder :) Please mark pages as patrolled if you're tagging them. Unfortunately, this means that you must get to the page via Special:NewPages, but I think the process at WB:NPP is fairly straightforward. Get a page (or batch of pages) from Special:NewPages; look at the page; mark it as patrolled, then go back and tag/edit/whatever. This reduces duplication of efforts because other patrollers know that it's been viewed by a fellow patroller. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 21:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, I assumed that it would automatically mark it patrolled if an admin edited it... habit from a wiki I used to work on. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

How's Admining Going?
I just wanted to check in with you, and see how you're doing with the new admin tools? I've seen some of your work on the RC feed (I watch it when I get bored, it's like TV for me now), and from what I see you are doing great work. It always makes me happy when people I nominate turn into great admins! That means I did my research well.

Anyway, I wondered if you could do me a favor and read through some of the pages at Using Wikibooks/The Wikibooks Administrator. I'm not saying that you need to learn any lessons from this (you might, but I don't think you need it), but I really wanted to get some feedback from a new admin about it. It's intended to be a learning tool, but I don't know if it's good enough yet for anybody to really learn from it. Plus, in my old age, I can't remember what things are important, or what concepts are challenging, or whatever. You're welcome to edit the book or write up a bitch-list for me and I'll do it myself. God knows I need to at least pretend to be productive around here :) Thanks! --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 02:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear the positive feedback.
 * School has picked up quite a bit as the year nears its end (36 days left!!!), so I've been swamped with homework and the like and haven't been as active as I'd like to be, but still watch RC when I can. I'll take a look at this, probably sometime this weekend. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 02:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * All right, I read through the book today, and it is certainly helpful in explaining the role of an admin and outlining what exactly all these new buttons do. MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook fills a similar role in that it also explains how to use the extra buttons, but I think Using Wikibooks is definitely more helpful from a Wikibooks-specific point of view. I think there are more things that can be added into this book, such as the things that are touched on in the MW Admin Handbook (Special Admin-only pages, etc). MWAH covers quite a bit more content, so I think Using Wikibooks could benefit from borrowing from it's TOC list. According to the main contents page of Using Wikibooks, the Admin chapter is only half-finished, so when these missing topics are incorporated, I think it will become a very helpful tool in training new admins. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 00:38, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Edit war?
Take a look at this and this; I may ask you to intervene here :) – <font color="Indigo">Mike.lifeguard  &#124; <font color="Indigo">talk 15:14, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just saw him do it again and was going to protect it from moves, and then I saw where you'd warned him. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 15:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * If it sticks then no harm done; they'll have learned about the policy. If not, you can leave editing unprotected, and sysop-only pagemove. I'd keep indef until we can hash it out - they've not responded to any of my messages. – <font color="Indigo">Mike.lifeguard  &#124; <font color="Indigo">talk 15:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletes
My bad. As didn't notice that two of the pages where still linked. Thanks for sorting it out! ChessCreator (talk) 05:08, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

The_Hawk
It now uses cloaks instead of nicks to decide who it listens to. There's probably no real need for you to be able to issue commands, but if you want to you'll need a cloak. If you need help jumping through the hoops just ask :) – <font color="Indigo">Mike.lifeguard  &#124; <font color="Indigo">talk 19:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'm getting a cloak now. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 19:53, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject
I don't want to be overly discouraging, but it might not be worth it. Just something to think about if you haven't already. – <font color="Indigo">Mike.lifeguard  &#124; <font color="Indigo">talk 01:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the help on Template:Chesscreator/Invite1. ChessCreator (talk) 17:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. :) Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 17:18, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Translation
ping – <font color="Indigo">Mike.lifeguard  &#124; <font color="Indigo">talk 12:37, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, Mike. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 21:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks
Hello, thanks for the welcome! --<font face="arial" color="#8652b9">Kyok <font face="arial" color="#BA55D3">o 03:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Iranian History
You may :-)-Ravichandar84 (talk) 04:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Anyway, I would insist on an attribution, a link to my book or something like that in the "See Also" or "references" section :-) -Ravichandar84 (talk) 04:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it would be better if you could add the note to all the pages on Iranian history since it is a verbatim copy :-). Thanks -Ravichandar84 (talk) 02:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Spanish Template
I thought your templete was a good template for something like I'm doing. I'm not sure how much you would know about what I'm looking for right now, the independence of Suriname, I'm having some difficulty finding much information on it, and I want to expaned that page. So if you find anything on it, just let me know. Feel free to re-word what I wrote or add stuff in too. Any help is appreciated. (Red4tribe (talk) 22:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC))


 * Thanks (Red4tribe (talk) 22:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC))

Supergiant
Did you mean to tag this as a NC []? Looks more like a speedy delete to me. --AdRiley (talk) 06:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Deleted. Thanks! Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleting Japanese Navbars
Hey Neoptolemus,

I saw you'd done some work fixing links to navigation bars at the Japanese wikibook. Some of these I'm suggesting be deleted as they aren't used anywhere. Please let us know if you're interested in keeping these. --Swift (talk) 13:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Responded there. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)