User talk:Fish and karate

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Unblocking of User:Spot Image

Since no one told me about the discussion, or gave me a chance to give input, I feel your unblocking was premature and wrong. You need to at least wait until I had a chance to give input. Guiom did not tell me about the AN discussion, nor has anyone even tried to address my concerns. I'm not about wheel warring, but this is ridiculous. pschemp | talk 11:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

For the reader: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#User_talk:Spot_Image. Neıl 龱 12:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Neil. I've already asked him by email to try and find another username; I've also given him some advice regarding the POTD thing and asked him what the status of the discussions was regarding the removal of the watermarks. This is the second time I am involved in a wikidrama (the first time was about an emergency desysopping), I really should stay away from the AN :) Thanks again for your help. guillom 14:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Great Power

Hey Neil, thanks for deleting the potential great powers section at the great power article. Hopefully this will stop the edit warring. None of the regular editors involved on the page could have removed without starting an edit war. --Hobie Hunter (talk) 11:56, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Fingers crossed that will resolve things. If there's any further problems let me know. Neıl 龱 14:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

hi

it seems that "my" rfc is death so i want to know if i have recovered all my rights to edit whatever i want, like users Naval and Maurice do, or i still have your hidden block and your threatens to block me if i edit again. I want to hear from you to report it if i still have it, i think that or i am blocked or i have recovered all my rights but your hidden block it doesn't seem me legal and i will report it. thanks. --Sclua (talk) 13:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I never threatened to block you if you edited again. I threatened to block you if you edit warred again, particularly on the Coat of arms of Catalonia article. Neıl 龱 13:29, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Watermarks

Neil, we can't be running around after a user who keeps uploading watermarked images, and remove the watermarks. Users outnumber admins by a long shot, so who is going to be following around all the watermark uploaders if we create a precedent that uploading watermarked images is entirely acceptable? It's clearly not acceptable - for instance, watermarked images are completely forbidden at WP:FPC. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:17, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Of course they are not acceptable at FPC. And of course they are not acceptable on any article. Uploading them under a license that allows us to remove them isn't that bad - as the watermarks are all in the same place on each image, I would imagine a bot could remove them. Neıl 龱 14:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Who is going to write this bot? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't know. "I'm an idea man, Chuck!" There's loads of clever bot operators around. Neıl 龱 14:29, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Ideally, the user we're talking about is going to re-upload all images without any watermarks. No bot will be needed. guillom 14:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Has the user agreed to do this? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Read Commons:User talk:Spot Image - they are working on it. Neıl 龱 14:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Neil, you keep confusing this user with User:Shot info and it's confoosling me in the process! It's Commons:User talk:Spot Image. Sarah 14:44, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Aaargh! I had no idea. Curse you Shot info! Effing flabberjackers. Fixed (and now I'll go fix all the other places I got it wrong). Neıl 龱 14:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Alphabet to E-mail: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

I noticed you created this article, and that it's tagged for proposed deletion. Just thought you should know, in case you want to defend. WikiKingOfMishawaka (talk) 15:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I took the five seconds the nominator should have taken and added five references to the article. Neıl 龱 15:14, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/West Parish Elementary School

Hi, would you take a second look at this close, please? I think that there was a misunderstanding - the science park is an integral part of the school and not a separate entity. Consequently, an article on just part of a school is not practical. Whether the coverage of the science park part is sufficient to give the school notability is what the debate was about and the views were evenly balanced. IMHO this should have been closed as 'no consensus'. TerriersFan (talk) 15:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

According to the article (look at the picture) - it's a community science park. If you can find something else that says it's definitely part of the school I will certainly reconsider. Neıl 龱 16:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Tivoli Theatre (London)

Hi Neil. Is this talk page still being used? Regards, Rudget (logs) 18:35, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm sticking references there as I find them prior to creating the article. People keep tagging it for deletion, but G5 only applies for orphaned talk pages that aren't helping build the encyclopedia. Assembling references clearly does. Neıl 龱 19:58, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I saw it and thought it whether it may comply with G8 or not. I wasn't sure as the history was quite brief (and included a reversion) so I thought best to ask you before any action. Thank you for the response. Regards, Rudget (logs) 21:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weapons and equipment of the Tau Empire (Warhammer 40,000)

A little more explanation might be appreciated as part of any editorial decisions. "The result was delete." is needlessly brusque. If you can not find time to write opinions to support your decisions, you should not be passing them down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.97.110.123 (talk) 17:57, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

"The result was" is put there automatically. If you believe the AFD closing message to be too blunt, then you need to discuss that at Template talk:Afd top. Neıl 龱 18:10, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for young werewolves

Neil, greetings. You recently deleted an article that I have tried to rewrite and I wanted to check with you if I should re-submit. I have revision as my user page. Psychobot (talk) 15:38, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Neıl ☄ 19:54, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:NPA

I note in this edit summary that you refer to me as a troll. I am quite confident you are aware of Wikipedia:No personal attacks, as you have been an administrator for two years now. Further, I'm confident you're aware of civility being an issue since you cited Betacommand's remedies to this effect at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Betacommand_2#Remedies, which lists right at the top a reminder to be civil. I am not confident that you are aware of how we apply our non-free content policies and guidelines. I took the opportunity of providing some education on this matter, as it seemed to me you thought removing album covers from discographies was improper (for a start). I can understand you thinking of my request to block me for this work as a negative, but I am quite sincere. I do want you to block me if you should block Betacommand again for this work, thinking that the block was proper. Referring to me as a troll was entirely unnecessary and is most emphatically a personal insult. If you would please, avoid such behavior in the future. You are certainly welcome to disagree with me, but under no circumstances should you refer to me as a troll. Thank you for your time, --Hammersoft (talk) 20:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)