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Q4 2010

Talkback

I answered your question :) Elen of the Roads (talk) 17:51, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I was more than willing to support you before you answered my question, which you did answer satisfactorily. I changed my level of support to "strong" after reading your answer to question 9. It is the most thoughtful, insightful, intelligent, and coherent analysis of Misplaced Pages civility I have ever seen. Well done. Your eloquence and thoughtfulness set a high bar here, one that I one day hope to reach, and one the community should strive for. Sven Manguard _Talk 19:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Gosh, thank you. I try to bring what I can - in this case, the experience of people that I have had over the years. I hope the community can settle the "civility wars" and move forward, and if I can play any part, I'll be glad to have helped out. As I said to SandyGeorgia, I only hope I don't let you guys down. And I will finish that article one day :)--Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:47, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Note of reply

"Vandalism"

Sven, can you watch it with the vandalism accusations? This wasn't vandalism. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:28, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Normally I would agree with you, but this is the fourth time in as many days that the same change has been done. Each time by an IP or SPA, and therefore I wasn't comfortable with the edit being 'clean' so to speak. Yes, the middle button (non AGF and non Vandalism rollback) might have been a better option, but this didn't seem like good faith, it seemed like a slow burning edit war edit. Sven Manguard _Talk 00:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

HCLHanne

Hi Sven, you've informed me that my article (http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/HCLHanne) is reads like an advertisement and therefore can't be published -I actually found out about the firm whilst researching Legal Aid in the United Kingdom and then authored in a similar style to - http://en.wikipedia.org/Fisher_Meredith - I am currently researching the history of the firm and Legal Aid in the United Kingdom, I had hoped that my research could form a valid contribution to wikipedia, the article was definitely not intended as an advertisement, but perhaps I included too many references. If you could provide some further guidance it would be much appreciated as I am at present researching the founder of this firm and his history. I have now edited my article. Could you also look at my article on Herbert Curtis Lee Hanne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Everydeath (talk • contribs) 13:50, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010

Hi Sven, I noticed you checked out the article I created about the legislation. It's basically a stub right now; but you're more than welcome to contribute to it if you want. —Preceding unsigned comment added by InfoFan (talk • contribs) 17:33, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Category linking

Use ] to link to categories. Access Denied  05:35, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, I suppose it makes some sense, but I never would have gotten that on my own. By the way, what exactly does <tt> do? Sven Manguard _Talk 18:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

The tt tags create the machine font, which I use when I'm explaining code. Access Denied  00:31, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

(In corny robot voice) Thank you sir. Query answered within acceptable parameters. He, eh. No seriously, thank you for all the recent help. Sven Manguard _Talk 00:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

No problem. Feel free to ask at my talk if you have more questions. Access Denied  00:48, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Considering that you have just earned yourself a spot on the list of people that I trust to save me from my own incompetence, you have no idea what you have just gotten yourself into. LOL. In all seriousness, I'm not that bad. I do thank you for the help though, and I appreciate the outstretched hand. Thanks again, Sven Manguard _Talk 00:51, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject North America

Thanks for the unofficial barnstar, actually, I've received several over the years at various IP addresses.

As I had a power outage today, my IP rotated again. Oh well.

76.66.196.13 (talk) 06:03, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Make an account and that will never happen again. Believe me, I never wanted one before I saw myself forced to get one, now I can't imagine not having one. Sven Manguard _Talk 18:09, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Talkback

/ƒETCHCOMMS/ 23:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Your note on my page

Sven, of course you're welcome to join. BTW, could I make a suggestion you are quite free to ignore: why not make just your username shadowed, or whatever the graphic term is, rather than the whole string including date and time. It would be more effective, I think. I have to wear sun-glasses, too :-)

Tony (talk) 14:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah... well I already joined... and have spoken to the other three coordinators already. Thanks for the enthusiastic welcome though, it feels nice to be accepted (I'm not being sarcastic, I really am glad that all four other members have welcomed me in.) As for the signature shadowing, I think it's a glitch in the system. I can't get the date and time to unshadow. It's not decision I made, and I agree with you that it might be better unshadowed, but I don't know how to do it. Sven Manguard Talk 14:38, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Scratch that, I looked at it again and realized that the entire time all that was missing was a </span> tag. It looks terrible to me like that though. Maybe I just got used to everything being shadowed. Sven Manguard _Talk 14:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

• Sven Manguard _Talk 14:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
• Sven Manguard _Talk 14:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, to me it looks classy with date and time in normal rendering. (I'm a bit slow with the talkback template thing, sorry.) Tony (talk) 14:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC) PS and looking again, you might consider the same colour for "talk" as for your name. Just a thought. Tony (talk) 14:51, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

It's okay, there was no rush. As to changing the "talk" to the same color as my name, I regret to inform you that that is out of the question. The colored name and gold talk is "my thing." If enough people complain about the date and time, I'll consider changing it, but there are plenty of more colorful and possibly more distacting signatures out there, so I don't forsee needing to ditch the two color shadowing thing in its entirety any time soon. Thanks for the input though, I will keep it in mind. Sven Manguard _Talk 15:11, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Some help with Advertiser accounts

Hello there, quick question. Suppose I see a user who uses their main page as an advertisement for a company or product, as I recently saw with User:Handary, who was advertising the companty Handary S.A.

What is the appropriate course of action. Since I didn't know what to do, I put the user page up for CSD G11 (unambiguous advertising.) I considered also reporting the name to usernames for concern, but decided to wait until after I got an admin response here before proceeding further.

This situation happens a lot with me. Since I work at Articles for Creation, I see about one of these a day on average. The AfC was declined as a copyright violation, so that isn't a problem, my questions are more about the user and the userspace.

Thanks, Sven Manguard _Talk 19:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Note: Moved to AN/I. Sven Manguard _Talk 20:10, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup

I did this move for you. I don't really hang around AFC so I don't know how to close this request, so I didn't really want to do it; I assume you can take it from here. Regards, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:10, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the move, although it will cause a few minor technical difficulties. I can fix it, but poor EarwigBot is going to scramble to figure out what happened. Luckily, since I have screwed up with an AfC move before, I know that EarwigBot isn't going to break, and I can manually edit the tracking statistics. Thanks for the response. Sven Manguard _Talk 03:14, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again, everything should be in order, as EarwigBot hasn't done its hourly update since you made the move. Sven Manguard _Talk 03:20, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Oh well, too late. The bot updated and thinks that the article is still in review stage. Earwigbot will spend the next two weeks trying to find information that no longer exists (it lost its tracking information in the move) and then at 3:24, 9 November 2010 it will promptly forget that this ever existed, purge it from the submissions list, and be none the worse off. Gotta love a ruthlessly efficient bot. Don't worry about this, it happens all the time, the template that AfC uses to track submissions is... fragile. I'm just telling you this because some people find it humorous. Thanks for the help though. I believe stongly that doing the histories properly so that the submitter gets credit for the creation is important. Even in redirect pages. Sven Manguard _Talk 03:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Quantling

I modified my Statement by Quantling somewhat … letting you know in case it changes how you wish to word your response. Best —Quantling (talk) 15:01, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me. I regret to inform you that I will not change my opinion on the matter however, as I still see it as a bad idea, especially considering how small the number of votes was last year (less than 1000) Sven Manguard _Talk 15:23, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Kaʻb Ibn Māma

Hi Sven, thank you for reviewing the article, it's my first so please bear with me. I updated the spelling of his name, so you can find few results here:

http://www.google.ca/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%22ka%27b+ibn+mama%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=fbf719e6edf87023

He is a known icon among the Arabs (although Hatim al-Tai is more famous). For a measure of Ka'b's importance, please see page 101 of the following book:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=jKPhL5HVVQ8C&lpg=PA101&ots=E23tWgos2g&dq=%22ka%27b%20ibn%20mama%22&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=%22ka%27b%20ibn%20mama%22&f=false

which reports a speech delivered by one of the judges of Basra to the caliph at the time. The judge said:

"...or if generoisty is mentioned, you are better than Hatim in your liberality; or if we mention true speech, you are Abu-Darr in the truth of your tongue; or if nobility, you are Ka'b ibn-Mama in preferring others over yourself..."

Al-Andalusi (talk) 02:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)