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[edit] hello

can you help me get started on wikiquote? i need a place to get quotes. --Coretega 07:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gabe newell speedy

Hi Aphaia. Why do you think Gabe newell deserves speedy? I agree with you that the article isn't up to much, but Newell is reasonably notable, and there is a quote, so I don't see which speedy criterion applies. If I'm wrong, let me know. Otherwise we can change the speedy proposal to a prod. --Ubiquity 13:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Anyway, I cleaned it up and moved it to Gabe Newell. See if you still think it needs to die. --Ubiquity 13:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your note, Ubiquity. I was not sure if it deserves to speedy or keep, as well as I was not sure if the comment really should go to him (out of context, the quotation doesn't seem to fall on any quotability). So I would have liked to take others' attention. Thanks for your time, again.
I am okay with your merger, unless someone claims it shouldn't be attributed to this guy. Until then, let us see. --Aphaia 14:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] user change request

Dear Aphaia, I can't create an account with my username .snoopy. so, can you rename me? :-) meta:user:.snoopy. --Dario vet 18:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. --Aphaia 18:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thanks :) --.snoopy. 20:38, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Alpha? Alpha 5? Alvin and the Chipmunks? --Cosby 17:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TAPEWORMS

Is it tue there is a japanese band called this?

[edit] Thank You

For protecting http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Macedonia from vandals. Greetings from Greece. DefendEurope 05:14, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulatory logo

I seems to have gotten the congratulatory logo working. I saw what you were trying to do, and you had it almost right both times. I used the first URL syntax (from "upload.wikimedia.org") with the second target ("Image:Wikiquote-logo-15000.png"), then purged the cache and forced a reload, and voilà! it worked. I'm glad, too, because I couldn't for the life of me remember what the syntax was, nor where or when Cbrown1023 (who's on a wikibreak) told me how to find images for use in MediaWiki functions. Thanks for doing all the work, and sorry to take the final credit for the change. <sheepish grin> ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:52, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] where to find/who to ask ... [stage dir]., tense of

Hi, Aphaia-san,

(could you tell me) where to find/who to ask ... (is there a guideline) whether [stage directions] should rather be in present or past tense ? (they seem to be mostly present tense, aren't they?)

with greetings from Vienna, Y.T. Wda 03:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC) , wda@utanet.at

[edit] Usurpation request

Hello, Aphaia Could you please consider the request here?--BrettR 09:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WQ:RFA scheme

Do you really think we should have a "scheme" like Wikipedia often uses to organize the support/oppose/neutral votes? I've never seen a WQ RFA that couldn't be tallied (purely on the position labels) in seconds even without such a scheme. On the other hand, I think it subtly discourages people from posting anywhere but in the "Support" section, which our supportive community hardly needs. Furthermore, in the infrequent times when we have complex discussions, the positions are more nuanced than mere "support", "oppose", or "neutral", implicitly labelling some editors' positions with stronger terms than they intend.

Given these issues, and the fact that we already tend to ratify nearly every admin candidate with strong community support, this just strikes me as a bad idea to import from Wikipedia. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Honestly I am not sure and personally rather against that. However when people put # at the head of their comment, it is pointless to mix supportive votes and no such. I won't mind if you turn that into a plain list without such scheme. --Aphaia 17:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
D'oh! I hadn't even noticed the automatic numbering. There is obvious logic to that. But I still think that taking advantage of this neat MediaWiki feature, as many do, isn't worth losing the more free-form discussion that uncategorized posts provide. I think I will change it, and perhaps then we'll see if anyone else has any opinions on this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rename a user

Hello Aphaia,

Is it possible to rename Special:Contributions/Yann (2 contributions) to something else so that I can get this account? Thanks, m:User:Yann 88.160.188.126 23:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, since the edits came from this user:Yann seems a meaningful goodfaithed edit, I am hesitate to let you usurp that account immediately. He must give a chance to challenge your request at least, I think. Could you please give a look to WQ:AN where you find a similar request and how we have handled it? Also I recommend you to submit your request to WQ:AN, instead of asking several b'crat personally, regarding it may not be necessarily an impostor. --Aphaia 00:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Protection of high visibility templates

Following our completely futile discussion on IRC, I'll request your assistance with the matter here on-wiki too, can you please have a look around and protect those templates which are transcluded into the main namespace, in order to better protect casual readers from having to suffer offensive imagery being transcluded into articles. I've also made a request at WQ:VP, just so you're aware. This is something that could do with being dealt with sooner rather than later, if possible. If you want me to compile a list of all templates transcluded into the main namespace, please don't hesitate to contact me and I'll try and have a comprehensive list drawn up as quickly as possible. Nick 22:38, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] usurpation request — Jack Merridew

Hi,

I see there are just three 'crats here and thought I'd would just ask directly. I've primarily been active on en:wp - and I'll answer any questions about that if you like. I've been harassed by en:wp's w:User:Grawp vandal and one form that's taken has been his creation of accounts on other wiki's using my preferred user name 'Jack Merridew'.

I've just been through this process at wikt:Wiktionary:Changing username#User:JackMerridew TEMP → User:Jack Merridew and that's done. I also see that you just dealt with a similar situation for User:PatríciaR; I know her on commons and if you have any concerns feel free to touch base with her.

nb: I'm having trouble confirming email; I entered it, but keep getting the message 'Invalid confirmation code. The code may have expired.' I've tried twice after requesting a new code be sent to me.

Cheers, JackMerridew TEMP 11:34, 20 April 2008 (UTC) a.k.a. David

Usurpation request are more welcome at WQ:AN. Thanks. --Aphaia 17:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Sure. FYI, I asked here per the bit at Wikiquote:Changing username that suggests asking "on an individual bureaucrat's talk page" as one route. Cheers, JackMerridew TEMP 09:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC) a.k.a. David
Thanks for heading up. I'll correct it (we handle with no usurpation request in that way; simple renaming could be).--Aphaia 12:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
For the record: the page pointed out has been no policy page. It was posted by an user on his discretion, just copying the other project policy and the things may happen in the way it says or not. I haven't known that page until today ... Rather things may happen on each b'crats' discretion and community convention. Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, --Aphaia 13:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I didn't realize the history of the page - or the newness. I believe I found it just by assuming the usual shortcut worked here with a 'Q' dropped in. Cheers, User:Jack Merridew a.k.a. David 15:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Conflicts...?

"your edits overwhelmed RC (without minor edit sign) and hinders the other editors do RC patrol"

I had no idea that having edits up on the Recent Changes was something offensive or whether it caused problems...but if it's necessary that I add "minor edit" to all the vote edits, then I'll do that. Thanks for letting me know. Bare in mind that I never even heard of overwhelming the RC before...this is something I just learned. - Zarbon 19:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Setting the minor-edit flag for adding votes to Quote of the Day is not appropriate. These represent standard, meaningful edits, not typo fixes. I must respectfully disagree with Aphaia's assessment of Zarbon's editing here. Although I can assure Zarbon that his efforts to get our community to feature quotes from Nazis will not be successful at this time, and are therefore pointless, I don't agree that his increasing participation in QotD should be treated as problematic to the project. As a regular, registered editor, he is entitled to his opinion. As far as the substantial additions to QotD pages in a short time, I myself have done this when the mood struck me. Yes, it can be inconvenient to RC patrollers, but it's not uncommon for good-faith editors to do this, even without bots (again, see some of my non-minor maintenance edits back in 2006), and is therefore just part of the work. Let's try to back down from this confrontation, folks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Alright, so should I or shouldn't I add a "minor edit" tag per edit? I'm confused and I want to know what to do in order to avoid being temp banned or something else that may be regarded as not following criteria. - Zarbon 21:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree with Jeff, but I'd like to offer my apology to force you to pick one way which could be controversial. So although I don't withdraw my standpoints (votes are minors in my opinion; anyway managerial things are overhead and not primary concern of this website), I don't mind you to keep your votes as "major edits". Personally you'll be appreciate to pace yourself down at your voting, if you keep them as major edits. Further discussion may be preferable in a public discussion place, like WQ:VP. --Aphaia 21:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

You know that I myself am apologetic when need be. I'm sorry myself if I may have given you the wrong idea Aphaia. I hope that we can all contribute and that all our perspectives can be heard and rightly so. Thanks for letting me know about my pace, I know I can be rather fast but rest assured, I don't vote without putting in thought first. - Zarbon 22:42, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot request

Hi, Aphaia. I'm not sure whether bot requests are closely watched so I thought I would drop you a line to tell you I have added my bot request at Wikiquote:Bots#User:MalafayaBot. Regards and arigato! Malafaya 11:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Any news on this request? Malafaya 14:16, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Test Editing?

Hello sir, I wasn't test editing, I was attempting to send you a message, however, it appears that the coding used here on Wikiquote is different than the coding on Wikipedia. My question to you was do you need more admin's here on Wikiquote? I am an established editor and a rollbacker on Wikipedia, and am therefore familiar with relevent policies etc. with the Wiki foundation. Dusti 03:42, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Dusti, thank you for your interest. Your question however doesn't seem relevant to your statements following. We welcome experienced editors and familiar with our project, and currently you are just very new. I don't think you are the guy we welcome our admin team right now, but if you get involved, someday you may be welcome. God knows. Thanks. --Aphaia 03:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rename help

Please take a look at this.--Mohamed0 18:24, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Usurpation User Jeroewn

Hello Aphaia,

On Wikiquote:Changing username/Usurpation#Jeroenvrp --> Jeroen you wrote; "since the contact happened on 14:39, 7 June 2008, this request won't be processed until 14:39, 28 June 2008". Meanwhile the user Jeroen had not responded, so can you please unsurp the user? Thanks in advance! --Jeroenvrp (talk) 14:32, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Usurpation Flint

Hello! Please help me to usurpate account named "Flint" for my SUL account. This is my home wiki:[1] --Flint Ru 08:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, please follow the guidance at WQ:RENAME. Thanks. --Aphaia 21:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Crum375

There is evidence that this was created by the same person behind the Cato, Yehudi and Poetlister accounts (and a great deal of the "community" support for allowing him to keep the username came from Yehudi and Poetlister in any case) - it may make sense to re-examine this decision in light of this. Random832 12:58, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

We have made no decision yet. There was no request for usurpation in the legitimate course about the Crum375. I only handle requests which come through the right process. Thanks. --Aphaia 14:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
That's patently absurd. Crum375 refused to post here precisely because he was afraid some unscrupulous Wikiquote CU would CU him. And, of course, his concerns turned out to be completely justified. Anyone, here's a suggestion; rather than insisting that "the right process" must be followed, why not instead do "the right thing"? That would be ever-so-much more sensible. Jayjg 05:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Replied on your talk. --Aphaia 06:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I've put in the request as a third party. Poetlister was acting maliciously when "she" refused the request; what's your excuse? Random832 12:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BLP

Err, yeah, so I see. Well, the lack of any such policy, or the existence of a weak draft policy, certainly won't do much to protect the Foundation when some wealthy individual decides to sue. In any event, with or without such a policy, material that is unsourced, poorly sourced, or sourced to primary sources, should not be used on Wikiquote, if for no other reason than common sense. It's no wonder people are agitating to disband the project altogether. Jayjg 05:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikiquote is a small project that can learn from the painful experience of larger and older projects. So far it seems remarkably resistant to doing so. Showing that Wikiquote can learn, including learning some common sense (e.g. doing the right thing is more important than following the right process), and in a big hurry, would go some way towards convincing others that the project doesn't need to be disbanded. The Crum375 and Poetlister/Cato/Yehudi fiascos were huge black marks against Wikiquote; don't compound that by being defensive and making excuses. Fix the problems, it's quite obvious what they are; I suggest you start by renaming the impostor/harasser Crum375 account. Jayjg 05:53, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for reverting

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. Stratford490 20:19, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please rename me

Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to to it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes 19:22, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks, though I already had three edits in 2004. It's not likely that I will do a lot here, but once in a while I may find something in an obscure work on Wikisource like the one from H. G. Wells that just needs a little more attention. Eclecticology 21:30, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot request - Lucia Bot

Aphaia

I make the request 2 months ago... and I have no answer. So I ask you: I can continue to run the bot here... or wait into I have the Bot flag? Béria Lima Msg 23:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Welcome-ja

Template:Welcome-ja, a template you created, is being nominated for deletion at Votes for Deletion. You are welcome to participate in the Wikiquote:Votes_for_deletion#Template:Welcome-ja|discussion]]. Ilikepie2221 01:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Username Correction

Trian and Error ---> Trial & Error Thanks for completing my username change request but there seems to be a mistake where I've had my account changed to "Trian and Error" rather than "Trial & Error." I have the "Trial & Error" name on Wikipedia and the commons as well. I'm hoping you can correct this when you have a chance. MP 14:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh sorry for typo. :(
Now you've got it I think. Thank you for your patience. --Aphaia 18:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Trial & Error 00:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Delete of Sockpuppet template

You deleted Template:Sockpuppet. On most of the WMF wiki's, this is a very important template. The Wikipedia sockpuppet templates are located here if you need any help on restoring it. Utan Vax 22:12, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Please reply. What you did was wildly inappropriate and abuse of your tools. (an anon)

Your saying is weird. It was just said if I need some help I could find it somewhere else. I didn't so left that message. Unreplying is no abuse of tools. And if you think my deletion is abuse, I disagree. There is no community agreement to employ that template and there were abuses of that templates we don't want to see. Please remind no integrated parts of this community have asked for undeletion only anons like you want to have it. Wikiquote has its own culture and norms and no need for being just a copy of Wikipedia. Thanks. --Aphaia 09:28, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Carmen Sandiego

The episodes are true and do not need to be deleted. It's 69.251.229.230's fault. --98.192.44.39 01:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for help

I kindly ask your assistance for the renaming of "dodo" account to something else (anything) here. This in order to proces the request on meta. All your help is appreciated. Thank you. Drini 19:21, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Please follow the procedure on WQ:USURP. We don't grant automatic-usurpation to anyone including SULed accounts, it should be based on the informed consent. Thanks. --Aphaia 19:47, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Vandalism"

Leave me alone eh? I only removed content from a talk page that was completely irrelevant to the article. That was cleaning it up if anything. Sioraf 14:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

It is not irrelevant. You are welcome not to remove warning templates. Thanks. --Aphaia 17:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I think {{test2a}} is a little harsh for a first warning to a newcomer. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a level 1 template appropriate for talk page conduct. Maybe we need one? ~ Ningauble 18:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Point taken. We have only one template message for blanking right now. If you make a variety, it'll be great. --Aphaia 19:48, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Stop being so aggresive.

  • " Please don't alter the article without telling me first"
  • "I did this, permission blah blah blah"
  • "Hope we can collaborate in future"

Absolutely trivial. Wikipedia discourages trivia. Irrelevant articles are removed, the talk was irrelevant so I removed it. YOU are welcome to WP:Assume good faith. Now stop annoying me. The warning template says may contain, blah blah blah, because it says may and not does or does not leaving it out is as good as leaving it in. Sioraf 14:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Various Japanese Wikimedia sites

As you are the only Japanese that I know very well at Wikimedia sites, I would like to ask a few questions:

  1. Per wmf:Licensing policy, I suppose that all Japanese wikis follow Japanese Copyright Law. Correct?
  2. Would you please help translate oldwikisource:Template:PD-US-1923-abroad/JA into Japanese or write a Japanese statement that pre-1923 works still copyrighted in Japan should not be transferred to Japanese Wikisource?
  3. Have you seen s:ja:Wikisource:削除依頼 about The Internationale in Japanese (s:ja:インターナショナル)? After I voted to delete the Japanese version still copyrighted in Japan, I have undeleted oldwikisource:インターナショナル with 1922 lyric by 小牧近江 who died in 1978. Multilingual Wikisource no longer has very active Japanese users as I know.
  4. Have you seen w:ja:インターナショナル_(歌)? It says that Japanese lyrics are left out due to copyright restrictions. Japanese Copyright Law forbids copying the entire lyric to claim fair use. Correct? If so, your fellow Japanese cannot freely sing The Internationale in Japanese. Conversely, we Chinese can freely sing The Internationale in Chinese by Qu Qiubai who was executed in 1935.

Thanks, --Jusjih 02:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

1 Right. All Wikimedia project in Japanese language follow both US Law and Japanese law.
2, 3: I'll have jawikisource people to give a look, they may be much familiar with issue. But in general if a person died 1974, his works are copyrighted until 2024, the 50 year later of his death. So oldwikisource:インターナショナル is also not in PD.
4: I've given it a look. It reads the copyright status of the Japanese lyrics is unclear so having the lyrics on the page may violate their copyright. For singing, if you sing it privately, it falls within the "private usage" which is a sort of fair use under Japanese Copyright Law, so you may safely sing it. In public space or for further publification you need to get permission instead.
Hope that helps. Btw I have recently put an import request on WQ:AN. Could you please to give a look? Thanks :) --Aphaia 02:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Jusjih, I am one of admins of jawikisource (my profile in English can be found at meta). For the 2nd question, I'd like to help translation. I have added it to my ToDo list. Thanks, Kzhr 17:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Aphaia, thank you very much for your answers and introducing Kzhr. I have imported what you have requested. Please check.--Jusjih 01:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome and thank you for your importing! --Aphaia 08:43, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate redirects?

Hi Aphaia. Would you take a look at the bunch of redirects created here. I am not sure this sort of thing is appropriate, but I am sure I don't know how to PROD a redirect. Any thoughts? ~ Ningauble 15:36, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for heading up. I am not sure if it is appropriate. I am afraid we've never thought to prod a redirect ... but it may be a worth to try. At least better to request a speedy. So just tag them using {{prod}}? --Aphaia 15:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, it worked. {{prod}} at the top of the page made it a "soft redirect", so the template message is visible. ~ Ningauble 17:21, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The McMahon Family

I do not understand just why all WWE Personalities' Wikiquote pages are being deleted. For many of us, this is our best way, if not our ONLY way, to find out many of the interesting sayings that the talent have come up with. Kaos 42 19:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

They were proposed for deletion due to their unmemorableness. The Wikiquote community may have a different idea what is "interesting". I myself have found nothing interesting on pages I deleted. Cheers --Aphaia 07:04, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


For you might Wrestling not good enough to be listed on Wikiquote. I don't think, that a Wikiquote User can decide by himself what is memorable for all people and what's not. Then you HAVE to delete all this stupid TV Series Quotes too! What is so interesting on a Quote of a 40 years old TV Series that Wikiquote list this?

Für einige von euch mag Wrestling nicht wichtig genug erscheinen aber das darf hier kein Kriterium sein oder möchten sich einige User hinstellen und auswählen was für den Rest der Leser wichtig ist und was nicht? Wenn man sagt, dass diese Quotes nicht wichtig wären, müssen auch diese ganzen lächerlichen Quotes der TV Serien verschwinden! Was ist an einem Wortwechsel aus einer 40 Jahre alten TV Serie so interessant, dass die es verdient auf Wikiquote verewigt zu werden?

You accused wrongly as if it was my personal decision. It was requested for deletion in the process of the community and thus deleted. For details see WQ:PROD. It was not me as individual but the community as corporated into the process. Thanks! --Aphaia 18:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:98.192.44.39

My block had expired on October 7, and how come do you think that now that it's gone for me to not delete my messages? I was just going by what some users do that if they had messages on their talk page long enough to delete them. --98.192.44.39 14:36, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Just what in the world is the problem of deleting my messages even if it was long ago and over? --98.192.44.39 15:09, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I replied you on meta. Please do not spam your message. As said there, it is not "your" page please realize that. It is of that IP address and not your individual user page. Thanks. --Aphaia 17:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A bit of help?

Aphaia, I think I am a bit confused on the latest request posted at Wikiquote:Changing username/Usurpation. At first I thought it really should have been just a user name change, but I'm not so sure any more. In any case, I am not entirely clear on what I need to do, since neither name that is shown exists on WQ right now. Can you advise? Thanks. ~ UDScott 14:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Commented. Let us see what happens next. --Aphaia 07:18, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
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