User talk:Tom-/2004

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 13:55, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hey Jude

I noticed that you had counting the "hey Jude"'s in the song of that name on your user page's todo list. I listened to it a couple of times and the best estimate I could get was 27 including a couple times it is said in the background that are quite difficult to make out. Hope this helps. --Jcobb 21:25, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for all your work on BBC! --Alex S 16:28, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cheers :) -- Tom- 18:26, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

BBC Timeline

I think that your timeline for the BBC article is a vast improvement, so I have inserted it straight away (with credit given to you in the summary). I hope you don't mind! -- Marknew 15:37, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, that's fine, will edit it a bit more actually... -- Tom- 15:38, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations

You are doing a really great job!!! --Taras 19:59, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Article of the week

Your idea has become reality... See Wikipedia:Article of the week. :) Angela . 13:03, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship nomination

Hi, Tom. I have nominated you for adminship for your great contributions, not the least your work with the AOTW. Please accept (or decline) the nomination. Cheers! Fredrik 00:41, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Thompson

Excellent work on this, this evening; well picked up. --Tagishsimon

Cheers :) Tom- 21:58, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

Hi Tom. I've noted your advice about image copyright and reviewed Wikipedia's guidelines - will be more careful in future!
Are you happy with your new DG? Kind regards Mark 10:38, 22 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers - I think he's a good choice myself, from what I've seen. Much better than some other candidates. Tom- 10:50, 22 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Sysop

Hi Tom, following an 80% consensus on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Congratulations and good luck. Angela . 22:33, 29 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, already read most of it, will try to be careful :) Tom- 10:31, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats :) Fredrik 22:54, 29 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) Tom- 10:31, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

XHTML

Thanks for nearly purifying the Main Page. I've finished Main Page (table free) & Main Page (text only), copying the Main Page style of using "div" tags to wrap the templates instead of "small" tags. Luckily they use the phrases Wikimedia sister projects & Sister projects instead of Wikipedia%27s sister projects :-). --Zigger 20:39, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

Template:AOTW

Hi Tom. As the only place it was linked from was your Article of the Week subpage, I've edited [[Template:AOTW]]. It now expands to:

This article is a current candidate for the Article Creation and Improvement Drive.

Please see the project page to find this article's entry to support or comment on the nomination.

Please create a task list for this page.

I've placed it at the top of the talk page for each AOTW candidate. -- ALargeElk | Talk 14:22, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Nice work getting the history link to work on template:protected. -S V 18:07, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Missing edit history

Much of the edit history about the Carpenters appears to have gone missing, probably when the article was moved. See Talk:Carpenters#Previous edits?. Can you shed any light on what happened? JamesMLane 03:48, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks much for fixing this! Just out of curiosity, was there anything a nonadmin could've done to take care of it? I couldn't even figure out where the old history was hiding. I thought it might be gone forever. JamesMLane 14:11, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

No, I had to undelete and merge edit histories as they'd got split up. Tom- 15:42, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Captions

Hi, Tom, I noticed your caption edits on 2004 Summer Olympics, but they're against the guidance at Wikipedia:Captions which is designed to help readers scan articles by looking at headings and captions. I'll try putting them back for now, and if that causes angst, let's discuss it at Wikipedia_talk:Captions. -- ke4roh 16:39, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Body of Myths

Hi Tom,

I'm still a little new here, but I've noticed three pages that I was wondering if I should mark for deletion, and I noticed you'd edited one of them, and you're an administrator, so forgive me for failing to "be bold," which I know is a common newbie mistake, but I was hoping for the help of an administrator before I started marking things for deletion.

The article Body of Myths seems to be a total vanity page, and it's also an orphaned page. I can find no actual information about an author named Joseph Cooper, and according to the page itself his only book is still two years away. You edited this page a little while ago; is there some legitimacy to it that I'm not seeing?

Also, I think the pages for Liger and Tigon are totally made up. Should I just go ahead and mark them for deletion?

DavidSky

Probably just a mad edit flurry, clearing something up whilst half dead without actually checking it. If they don't seem to exist, probably best to list them on votes for deletion. Tom- 20:59, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

But do see [1] and [2] first. Tom- 21:02, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! I've put Body of Myths up for voting, and done some more exploration into the mysterious Liger and Tigon, and I'm surprised to find that they might actually be real. One of the sites the Liger entry links to is almost certainly bogus, however. I'll mention it in the discussion for that page. DavidSky 22:23, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank-you very much for reverting my userpage when it was vandalized. I really appreciate your help :) -Frazzydee 23:36, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks x2

Thanks for reversion of my userpage, but please try to let me know when that happens. :) -- Grunt (talk) 00:44, 2004 Aug 29 (UTC)

Irish Minister...

I see you are reverting "Irish Minister for...", articles unfortunately a anon has spent the last day or more vandalising articles. I have taken every opportunity to talk to them but they just keep doing it and do not reply, senseless! Djegan 23:49, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

RC Patrol?

You keep beating me to reverting the vandals @ John Kerry and George W. Bush. ;) — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 21:41, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sorry! I do have a slight trick up my sleeve though :) Tom- 21:43, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Uh-oh. lol. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 23:41, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Template:United States

Is there any way to make the font more readable on Opera without making it a size larger on IE? (The "(Revision as of 19:28, Sep 15, 2004)" doesn't look bad on my version of Opera, btw.) I'm just hoping the font size can be reduced in IE without messing it up in Opera. Thanks. jengod 22:48, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

It's almost unreadable in Opera as it is, and the text is still very small in IE (6/XP) for me. Why do you want it any smaller? Tom- 23:12, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I'm just not sure why having it one notch lower than the standard size is showing up as so very tiny on your browser. I think having the 90% makes the template much bulkier than need be on IE and others. Opera users are important, but they make up only 2.3% of the net; it seems like all functionality issues should be addressed, but not every layout and design issue can be changed to suit O7's needs. Anyway, I would like the font smaller so that the {{United States}} template takes up less space and is less bulky. It's not like a list of U.S. states has an essay--people don't read it, they skim and click. IMHO. jengod 19:59, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

I agree with you, but my font-size modifications haven't actually changed the size of the box in IE at all for me, just made the font easier to read. And I find the slightly bigger font much easier to read in all browsers. Tom- 20:04, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Deforestation reverts

At deforestation you reverted a lot of vandalism (which is a good thing). A not-so-good thing is that you only reverted to the previous versions and missed a lot of junk. Those similar-ending IP addresses usually mean that the edits are done by the same jerk, just on a different dial-up line. Look at the history and make sure to always revert to the last apparent good version. Femto 17:54, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Main page

The main page doesn't look right. It has a big block of white space in the middle. Maurreen 06:03, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

What browser do you use..? Tom- 09:05, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

National Health Service

You voted for National Health Service, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 11:34, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Border color of floating images

Greetings, Tom. Regarding Monobook.css, I'd suggest changing:

#content div.thumb {
    border-color: #F8FCFF;
}
.ns-0 * #content div.thumb {
    border-color: white;
}

to, simply:

div.thumb {
    border-color: transparent;
}

In this way, it will also work properly when the background color is different, as it is often the case within the tables. -- Naive cynic 17:18, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

I'd use it if IE supported it, but they'd render in black, so not ideal. I'm looking into alternatives. Tom- 17:22, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ah, I wasn't aware of this. How about border-color: inherit, instead? -- Naive cynic 17:30, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, IE doesn't support the inherit keyword at all :/ Tom- 17:35, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That's cruel. :( -- Naive cynic 17:48, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

African art

Hi Tom!
Thanks for asking me to translate the article into English, but my English isn't really good and my knowledge to African art is very limited indeed. There are tons of resources on African art online and I'm sure you'll be better off with them rather than with my contribution.
I'm afraid I'll try to finish my work on w:sv:Frankrikes historia instead!
Good Luck! / Mats Halldin 12:31, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

DYK Format/Indent

Hi! Tom, the new indenting looks funny on Firefox. See: Image:Indent-sample-dyk-firefox.jpg. Would you mind reverting or recoding? jengod 21:32, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

Can you post a screenshot to show what problem you're trying to fix? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 08:14, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

New main page

Ta for the revert. Out of the myriad variations that have appeared, I like yours the best, and I hope it stays. Merry Christmas to you. Dan100 20:48, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

What on earth?

Why did you move my comments to a new section! I want everyone who reads the talk page to read them, I don't want them hidden away in another section! Please PUT THEM BACK! - Ta bu shi da yu 12:57, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Because the various discussions about the introduction were cluttering up the talk page, with repetitive discussions all over the place. Much easier to follow when all on one page, and there's a very prominent link to the discussion at the top. Tom- 13:03, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blocks are not expiring

I'm posting this message on every admin who has made a block in the last few days. The title says it all really: because of a bug in the new software blocks are not expiring when their time is up. Until this is fixed can you get in the habit of manually unblocking a few everytime you block one. If everyone does this we'll be able to keep on top of things until the bug is sorted out. Note also that another bug is displaying indefinite blocks as expiring at the current time and date. obviously you don't want to unblock those. If you want to reply please do so here Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 09:35, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)