User talk:TexasAndroid/Archive4

I object to your deletion of "Artistic Perspective Entertainment" as result of a Prod. This companies works are receiving world release and press for the artists involved. A.P.E. Films and its two directors C.S. Vernon & Jimmy Lee are certainately more notable than many of the other music video & film directors/companies currently listed in Wikipedia.

Please excuse if I did not post this objection correctly in accordance with Wikipedia policy.

Archived talk, 2005

Archived talk, First half, 2006

Archived talk, Second half, 2006

Thanks for blocking the latest Lucille Ball sock-vandal

Should I have reported that to WP:SSP#Reporting_suspected_sock_puppets? I thought that WP:AIV would be ok for such an obvious sock-vandal, but apparently not. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 21:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

This is how I spent part of New Year's Day: User talk:Bennbread... so my patience is at the same level (i.e. I'm fresh out). User:Antandrus shut down that sock...but I'm sure there will be more. I'm taking the same whack-a-mole approach as you are; I just have to hope for an available admin whenever a new sock pops up. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 22:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Protection Error

I would like to point out that your protection for Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg was not done correctly. I'm unsure if it was a mistake or if you just didn't know how, but when you protect an image from Commons, you need to make sure you get a Commons admin to protect the page there. Alternatively, you can download the image and upload it locally, and then apply protection as you did in this case. Thanks in advance, and I apologize if you knew about those processes already and this sounded condescending. -- tariqabjotu 23:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, you can add a parameter to the {{mprotected2}} template that says what article is associated with the protected page. For example, for templates transcluded into Ahmose I, you could put {{mprotected|Ahmose I}}. That might make things a little easier for admins looking to unprotect templates in pages no longer on the Main Page, as it gives them an idea of when the associated article was or will be on the Main Page. -- tariqabjotu 00:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

{{warning}}

I would like to replace the current image with Image:Fairytale waring.png so as to make the warning more friendly. I think warnings are often pointless and I would like to bring about more understanding of vandal culture. I am even thinking of creating wikipedia:penance program. frummer 21:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Short pages

Per your recent edit to The Llama Song, I'm wondering if it might be better in the long run to add some extra stuff to the {{deletedpage}} template so that it will automatically avoid being listed on Special:Shortpages. What do you think? ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 16:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

contested prod of 3760 B.C.

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from 3760 B.C., which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that this article should not be deleted from Wikipedia. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

It was orphaned because the year was wrong. Article has now been moved to 3761 B.C. --Selket 21:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Genesis

Hi TexasAndroid, I was wondering how long a template like this one usually stays protected after an article in which it's used is featured on the main page. I'd like to add something to the template. You can see the discussion of that here. Thanks in advance. Robotman1974 14:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! That was quick. I've read about that particular vandal... it's a real shame that templates have to be locked like that but I guess it's one of the only solutions for now. Happy editing. Robotman1974 15:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Long comments for Shortpages

Keep in mind for non-maintenance pages like disambiguation pages that can and will warrant textual changes it may be best not to add a long comments to push them off Shortpages. Many of these pages instead need to be expanded with additional items linked or need explanatory descriptions added or birthdate information for persons, or general disambig formatting, etc. —Centrx→talk • 04:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I am using Shortpages to flesh out these disambiguation pages and other pages. Though, for many of them there is not much that can be done to flesh them out. I am just asking that you consider when you go through them whether there is more you can do to make it a better disambiguation page that facilitates navigation for the reader, rather than just pushing them off. Hopefully we will get to higher and higher bytecounts—it hasn't been up to 91 at least since I've used it in the last seven months—but once you get up to the level of the disambiguation page there is not much vandalism going to be there anyway. So, to some extent it pushes the pages off only to get more of the same kind of page, until eventually we get to those commented-out pages again that could still use improvement. Just something to consider. —Centrx→talk • 16:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

To some extent, there is nothing that can be done to flesh out some of these. There are good and bad parts to adding the long comments, so I myself am divided on the issue. —Centrx→talk • 16:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Refectory?

Hi TexasAndroid--I am working on Blackfriars Theatre, and I noticed that Refectory has been deleted; I am sorry if I am addressing the wrong person, but the log appears that you deleted it as the result of a PROD. Do you know if there is a way to check the reason for the PROD? I would like to recreate the page, which has more than 50 links to it. I am a novice in this, so I apologize if I am doing something out of process. Jlittlet 01:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)