User talk:Grm wnr

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Contents

9 Regarding M-II/Panasonic MII

10 MII correction...

11 RfA

12 Congratulations!

13 Congratulations! II

14 Congratulations 3

15 Stubs 4 Sydney Wikiproject

Bah!

I just noticed your edits on Puni Puni Poemi.... I was planning to try and have a big go at the page at some point. Looks like someone beat me to it!!!! :( - Xgkkp 21:08, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

feel free to work on it some more - the page is by no means perfect now. - Grm wnr 13:19, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I know, I wasn't being serious :)... - Xgkkp 16:44, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Halo work

Would you be willing to join me in my crusade to fix up and organize Wikipedia's content on Halo? It would be greatly appreciated. LockeShocke 01:53, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

I'm willing, but I can't promise that I will have time for it in the next two weeks. Also, I'm not very familiar with the subject and it IS a daunting task... Sounds like Wikipedia. Count me in 8) --Grm wnr 23:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks, see my user page and the link to my /Halo section. It's a rough start for a to-do list. LockeShocke 03:43, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Your signature...

...is really annoying. Every time I edit something with your sig on it I'm presented with

[[User:Grm_wnr|grm]]_[[User_talk:Grm_wnr|wnr]]

And all this to get a freaking colored bar?! Here's a PNG, free of charge: Missing image
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. Sorry, it's not as clever. :-) I find it amusing that this image is smaller than the HTML that encoded its rendering on my platform. JRM 11:06, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I went a bit overboard with that as well... I'm changing it anyway. --User:Grm wnr/sig 11:08, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Stubs

Hey, nice work on stub sorting - David Gerard 01:03, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Still a lot to do, however. And don't get me started on substubs... --User:Grm wnr/sig 09:08, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Enigma

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for helping me manage the catagories about their albums! =) I'm still relatively new to using catagories... --Andylkl ^(talk) 08:07, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

Music stubs

I'd be willing to help with music stub sorting. Where should I start? One easy thing would be to start putting all the record labels and/or instruments into your new categories; would that be the most useful? --Wahoofive 21:51, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! That would probably the most useful thing to do at the moment, since I've shelved my idea of genre music stubs for now. We can tackle that later. I'd suggest you start at the end of the alphabet, because I'm working from the beginning right now. Oh, and it would be nice if you could list yourself on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting page. -- grm_wnr Esc 21:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've done letters Y and Z (and Ü), including three VFD nominations. Not sure what to do with Ysaÿe Quartet (a classical string quartet). Hate to call them a band; is that what you've been doing? --Wahoofive 23:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'd use {{band-stub}}, since the stub message says This article on a band or other musical ensemble is a stub. By the way, I'm nearly done with A and B (I got a bit held up because I had to tweak the Categories) -- grm_wnr Esc 00:03, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Finished W and X. Not sure what to do with Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, a cantata by Bach. Hardly qualifies as a song, and there's no place to put classical compositions. Also, I'm new to this stub-sorting thing; do you find you do lots of other things during the process of sorting, like VFD, {{cleanup}}, redirects, and the like? --Wahoofive 23:06, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm leaving classical compositions largely in {{music-stub}} for now, unless they are really songs. And I do other tagging if it's really obvious, but probably not as thoroughly as I should. I relatively often drop a {{wikify}} or a {{copyvio}} though, and remove stub notices altogether if the article clearly is not a stub, but I tend to leave them in if the article isn't in any categories. And I never, ever use {{substub}}. I redirect when I know of a duplication, but I don't actively search for dupes. Basically, with big projects like this, I sacrifice complete tagging for speed. -- grm_wnr Esc 23:16, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm the one who commented out Opera-stubs, since it was questioned on the Stub-sorting-criteria page. (Also, since at first it wasn't appearing as a subcategory of music-stubs, I though maybe it had been deleted.) Since it seems there's no problem with it, it's fine that you uncommented it again. I should have done it myself. I've even been putting things in that category. Sorry. —Wahoofive | Talk 03:49, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think I should have checked the page history before wondering aloud. Your edit summary is perfectly clear on this one, so I should be the one to say sorry. But really, we both shouldn't ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 03:54, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

NATO: teh b0rken

Hi Grammy, I managed to pull in all the templates on Ranks and insignia of NATO by substing them all while enclosing the substs in HTML comment markers (apparently this works fine). This rendered right away, so it is the table syntax, not the templates, that are causing problems. Right now everything is commented out. silsor 02:15, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

That's cool. Did you ever test if normal HTML tables are less stressful on the servers? I think I'm going to try this out sometime soon. -- grm_wnr Esc 09:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, HTML tables should render very quickly. I think there are some inefficiencies with the wiki table syntax parser. silsor 20:14, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Teleprompter

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Hey Grammy, I just happened on your teleprompter image. Nice work, but I think the mirror in your illustration is generally called a 'one way' mirror. (Think of all those TV cops standing behind the one-way glass listening to confessions.:)Bookandcoffee 04:53, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Actually, in all prompters I've seen, that would be referred to as a "glass pane" ;). Much cheaper, and it works quite well (that's why the shroud is important). It's a holdover from the illustration I've replaced, and I think I'll change that as sooon as I find the time. -- grm_wnr Esc 08:17, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Regarding M-II/Panasonic MII

Hello Grammy, I got your messages you sent me regarding my and your articles regarding M-II and Panasonic MII, and I was thinking the exact same thing, to just merge my article with yours and give it a different name, like you suggested, and changing the aforementioned article names to redirects. Is this alright if I go ahead with this?

About the photos in my M-II article, I'll go ahead and take them down for now (with the exception of the MII logo, which I'll tag with a {{logo}}). I'll also temporarily take offline as well some photos i've used in my other articles, to prevent any copyright fracas, or deletion marking. I'll contact the original holders of the photos via e-mail to see if they're OK with myself using them in an article.

Pardon my amateurishness about the use of the photos, I thought that a "courtesy" credit would suffice. Goes to show you how much I know about copyright stipulations :P. I'm also kinda new at the whole Wikipedia thing. I've contributed and added to quite a few articles, not to brag, but I've been a member here for a little under three months, and I'm still learning new things about Wiki as I go along, especially copyright stipulations :).

But anyways, thanks for the feedback! misternuvistor 23:37, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

MII correction...

I went ahead and merged the two MII articles, it's now officially under MII (videocassette format). I went and updated all other links pointing to the old articles (now redirects) to point to the new merged article, just to neaten up things.

Oh, and thanks for taking care of the {{logo}} tag for the MII logo image, I never thought of putting it on the page for the image itself. Once again, something new I've learned... :) :).

Thanks again. misternuvistor 03:36, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Grm wnr. Hedley 19:00, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, 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. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 23:19, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! II

Congratulations on becoming an admin! Not many people would be better qualified for the job, as I see it. Cheers! --Sn0wflake 00:35, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! Kelly Martin 17:47, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Ditto Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congrats. You've done great stub-sorting work - much of it administrative already. If tyou do the same sort of work as an admin in general, you'll be a fine administrator. Grutness...wha? 01:31, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations 3

Good getting such a good consensus. I didn't think it would be that big, but now you've got it, use it wisely :p Hedley 20:31, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stubs 4 Sydney Wikiproject

Yeah, I deleted the category, but I'm not entirely sure why... go ahead and recreate it! I won't oppose this move: actually, it's probably a good move. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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