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Nice Userpage

I was passing by and noticed your new userpage. It looks a lot better, and I can't wait to see when it is completely finished! Good job! Also, good work on the navigation bar you made for Polarwolf! Σpsilon60198 ! 05:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Aw, thanks! I can't think what else to add to it though, so I don't know when it will be "finnished"! — jacĸrм (talk) 05:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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Image discussion, continued

Where it's confusing and frustrating is that if you go back and look at what is there, I had posted a detailed image summary based upon what was considered acceptable rationale at the time, but apparently something changed. I am a professional writer and unless Wikipedia is going to pay me my rate of $75 Cdn. per hour I am not going to redo all 1,000+ image summaries. When I uploaded the images the fair use rationale I used was perfectly fine. I did my bit for King and Country. Wikipedia keeps changing the rules and as such they make THEIR problem MY problem and I don't care how "simple" you think it is, in my opinion it is stupid. They should come up with a rule and stick with it. If I were the only one with this attitude I would consider myself a lone voice in the wilderness. But I am not. In fact I am pretty much the only one in my Wikipedia "social circle" from this time last year who is still even involved in the project. The ever-changing image rules, combined with other factors, have driven many of them away to competing projects like Citizendium and why I even continue to contribute (don't even get me started on how Wikipedia keeps changing the rules on what it considers acceptable sources) I don't know. 23skidoo 14:01, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I really do agree with you, skidoo. I find it unfair that they change the image rules themselves and then dump the work on the users. Your images even stated which article they are being used fairly in, and just because they do not use the one exact rationale template, they are being deleted without any further consideration. It's a real shame, as anyone who uploads that many images deserves to be thanked and helped for their Wikipedia contribution, and someone should have done something about that. I really do agree with you in a call for a policy change, or more Wikipedia users are going to disappear elsewhere. — jacĸrм (talk) 17:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments (BTW for some reason the intial thread on Image-tagging did not appear on your page when I left the previous message which is why I started a new header, but now it's back. Weird. For the purposes of fairness I do admit my early uploaded images had very little by way of rationale, but to my knowledge I have updated them all to what I understood were the standards as of about 6 months ago. 23skidoo 23:20, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
It's because I archived them but moved them back as this was started. And yes, I think that's what people are considering changing, as some people are not aware the policy changed, then they are bombarded with tens of possible image deletion notices. — jacĸrм (talk) 23:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Just as an addendum to our discussion, you might be interested (if you aren't already aware) of this discussion thread that started a couple of days ago at Wikipedia talk:Non-free use rationale guideline regarding Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria/Proposal. So help me they're getting ready to change the rules again. I don't believe this. 23skidoo 21:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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My recent RfA

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA. Although the voting ended at 36/22/5, there was no consensus to promote, and the RfA was unsuccessful. I would like the thank you nonetheless for supporting me during the RfA, and hope that any future RfA’s proceed better than this one did. Again, I thank you for your support. ≈ The Haunted Angel Review Me! 02:06, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

It's a shame that you didn't get to be an admin, you'd have made a good one. Maybe in the future, huh? :) — jacĸrм (talk) 03:11, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thanks!

You're welcome. And I'm requesting protection of his talkpage so he can never make pleads anymore. In fact, he's planning that same scheme on Supercheats. If you want to say something, you might as well while you still can. -Goodshoped 02:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

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Adopt

Good luck with the adoption program - PolarWolf ( grrr... ) 05:20, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Aw, thanks! I'm a bit stuck on what to edit at the moment. I'm waiting for 2 articles I edited alot to be reviewed to see if they can become a good article or not, but I'm hoping to find more to do. That's why I'm adopting users. — jacĸrм (talk) 05:22, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Sounds like it'll keep you busy- oh, and good luck with your two articles as well! --PolarWolf ( grrr... ) 05:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
They're not mine whatsoever! I just contributed as much as I could to them, so it would be great to see them become good articles, though I only expect one of the two to be promoted to GA. — jacĸrм (talk) 05:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, hopefully they will become GA's - we could use more around the wiki :) --PolarWolf ( grrr... ) 05:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


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Vandalism

I did not vandalize Oscar Sanchez. I created this page for Mr. Sanchez. If the page was deleted, I did not receive a notice and it is not in the deleted log. I thought someone from the outside deleted the page. I have worked for Mr. Sanchez for over 10 years. I am requesting for the page I created for him to be placed back. Please, I spent alot of time creating this page and now it is deleted. Mr. Sanchez is very popular in Miami and has been recognized by several local news papers. He is currently writing a book and has many contributions to our community. Please take this under consideration.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by OscarRSanchez (talkcontribs) 18:20, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Oscar Sanchez

I did forget to place the accents on the O and A. sorry. I am not Oscar Sanchez. I work for Mr. Sanchez and he is very notable in South Florida. He has appeared in several news paper articles for his work. I was adding more information on his life on a daily basis. I don't know why the page became disambiquation. I created the page before it became a disambiquation page. What can I do to get the page back up again. Can you help me make the page better? This is also my firt time doing this. please don't delete my page. I spent alot of time making this page. I was going to surprise Mr. Sanchez. Now Iam all messed up inside.

I'm still not sure he satisfies the notability guidelines. Please read Wikipedia:Notability (people) and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons before adding more info to Wikipedia about him. — jacĸrм (talk) 23:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Henrik's RfA thanks!

Thanks for supporting my RfA, it closed today with a final tally of 39 supports, 1 oppose and 1 neutral. As always, if you ever see me doing anything which would cause you to regret giving me your support, let me know. henriktalk 18:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Coheed + Rush

The October 06 Issue of Guitar World magazine. The guys talk about how they tried to make the band work originally and the only drummer they could find would only play with them if they played Rush. "Well we were like 'Screw you and screw Rush!' But now they are one of our biggest influences." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.5.132 (talk) 03:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Userpage help

Heya, I hope you don't mind my coming to you for help, but I'm not exactly sure if there's a place for this. I'd like to have an infobox on my page, and below that include a series of userboxes, but trying to do this only puts the userboxes next to the infobox, not below it. I suppose I could subst them both and try to combine it, but it makes for a very ugly source code, one not easy to edit. Do you have any suggestions for me? Harukaze 19:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, sorry, I'm a bit busy lately. All I can suggest is using {{Userboxtop|}} and {{userboxbottom}} inside your infobox (before the }}). Place your userboxes inbetween this. Alternatively, you can make it like I made it here. It's not in your infobox but it looks quite good I think. — jacĸrм (talk) 07:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey, don't apologize, I'm the one coming to you for help. Beggers can't be, uhm, pushy... 'cause that's totally the expression... >.> Right. Anyway, the reason I didn't want to put the userboxes before the infobox close was because then they'd be squished on the right, inside the same table cell as the last bit of info. But I remembered I could cheat: I threw a </TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=2> before {{Userboxtop|}} and it was all good. Thanks for the help, I didn't even think of the cheat until I saw your response :) By the way, I really do like that old /Userbox2 page of yours, so if I ever rack up that many, I might just steal that. For now though, I think I'm going to steal a few of your userboxes anyway :) Again, thank you! Harukaze 12:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

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Signature

Helo, Jackrm. Thanks for signing my autograph page. I see that you've already received my card, but I'll send you another one anyway. Here you go:

Previous account

Hi, just wanted to double check - did you recreate your old account (Jackrm) or has someone else done so to impersonate you (see user creation log)? WjBscribe 22:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the concern. It was me, yes. I'm waiting for the contributions to come through to my new account before putting proof somewhere Jackrm is me. Thanks again. — jacĸ (talk) 22:28, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
It has varied in the past - usually it happens pretty quickly but I have seen examples where it took about 12 hours. Not entirely sure why the discrepency - it isn't obviously related to number of edits or anything like that. WjBscribe 22:41, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll see tomorrow. Thanks. — jacĸ (talk) 22:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Another RfA Spaming

Commenting out certain wiki markup

Jack, I have to comment out the singlenotice wiki markup from the user warning template you have as a subpage of your user page to prevent its inclusion in Category:User warning templates. While there, it may mistakenly be subject to deletion as we remove obsolete templates as part of WP:UW. Thanks for understanding, and I hope it doesn't present too much of an inconvenience. Warm regards. Bsherr 23:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

It's not an inconvenience whatsoever. You're just making Wikipedia a better place. Thanks for alerting me of what you did though. Great work. — jacĸ (talk) 08:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Good luck! -- Jack 19:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

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Have a happy birthday! -- But|seriously|folks  06:18, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou! First person to wish me happy birthday at all, real life and internet, so thankyou! -- Jack is celebrating his birthday! 06:21, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, happy birthday! Rudget 11:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Thankyou! -- Jack is celebrating his birthday! 21:34, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

AWB request

Rename complete. --After Midnight 0001 03:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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The article is currently listed as a GA. Dihydrogen Monoxide 08:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Help with an article

Hello, my name is daniela and i just write an article about tenango del valle, but i really don't know how to use wikipedia, i was wondering if you can help me editing my article and put it in the right way.

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I fixed it, check the article. It should normally be done like this. Jack 17:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

/Quotes

Your /quotes page has been deleted. Enjoy the freshening feeling this will no doubt bring you! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 03:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou, I see you're doing admin stuff! I supported your RfA recently ;). Jack 03:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

England

No, England could have mathematically still qualified, however unlikely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RednessInside (talkcontribs)

Ok, I fixed it a little, how does that look? Jack 21:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, a lot better, my version was too long winded anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RednessInside (talkcontribs)

Thanks for the welcome. --RednessInside (talk) 21:31, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! Jack 21:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

RfA for Canadian Paul

Four years ago this day, a foreigner was voted by the community to serve a land that he loved. Today, a new foreigner humbly accepts the charge and support of serving a community that he loves. Hopefully, he won't disappoint.


Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a vote of (47/0/1). The trust bestowed upon me by the community is one of the most touching honours that I have ever received, and I vow not to let you down. Whether you have suggestions for ways in which I could improve, a request for assistance or just need someone to listen, my talk page and my email are always open. I pledge to do what I can to help this project, in the words of a man who needs no introduction, "make the internet not suck." A special thank you goes out to Tim Vickers for nominating me. Cheers, CP 22:47, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi; thanks for your support to my RfA, which closed successfully at (51/1/2). I'll keep this brief since I don't like spamming anyone: I'll work hard to deserve the trust you placed in me. Thanks again. — Coren (talk) 23:26, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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No problems and thanks for that award.JForget 01:30, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

My RFA (Random832)

Thank you, Jack, for participating in my RFA, which passed 35/1/0. I look forward to helping out. If you have any concerns or suggestions/advice, my talk page is always open.—Random832 14:20, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

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My RfA - thanks

Thank you for your support in my request for adminship, which succeeded with a final tally of 38/1/0! I hope I can live up to the standards of adminship, and I will try my best to make Wikipedia a better place. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 18:33, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Jack

If there's anything I can do to alleviate the stress, please let me know. I know how it can get around here. If it's a personal issue, you can bend my ear. If it's project related, let me know what's going on and we will get it fixed. the_undertow talk 00:09, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

It's mainly due to real life and silly teenager related stuff like school and friends. Thanks very much for your offer :). Jack?! 00:44, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I can relate. I was a teen a mere 13 or so years ago. That was when America Online was $7 an hour. Yeah. Good times. Take care! the_undertow talk 00:50, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

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Re: Feeding the trolls?

I apologize Jack. My judgement at that time was poor because I was in a bad mood (in real life and about the whole picture thing), and reflecting on it I know it wasn't right to remove your comment. Again I apologize, and please do not take it as a personal thing. Cheers. -- Reaper X 21:32, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Official thanks, slightly delayed due to post-RfA crash (who knew?)

My RfA

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