User talk:Sidhekin

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Sure you didn't mean "Vase, +vat"?

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about. GrahamBould (talk) 10:22, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Got it! Wish I'd picked up on it first time round. I had just assumed you had written to the wrong person. Cheers GrahamBould (talk) 10:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Confusing

thanks for your note. Yes, it was. Things like that happen. But it all worked out. Cheers, and happy editing. Dlohcierekim Deleted? 15:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to pass comment at Talk:Football in the Republic of Ireland#Requested move

Hello, I am leaving a friendly notice to invite you to participate at a requested move from 'Football in the Republic of Ireland' to 'Association football in the Republic of Ireland', due to your participation in a previous requested move. Hope to see you there! EJF (talk) 21:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Ponte

I know I put the db-bio tag on that article. I saw the big red box appear, but, I do agree that it's odd that it is not showing up. I don't really know what happened. Undeath (talk) 12:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• Correction, I know exactly what happened. I tagged it first and it was deleted. He re-created the page, so I re-tagged it and it was deleted again. Undeath (talk) 13:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

March 2008

Hi, the recent edit you made to Facebook has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. jon (blab) 18:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Oops. :-) jon (blab) 19:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Lipikaar

Hi Sidhekin

You recently rolled back two edits made to by me to the following pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_family

I believe you thought it was a spam link. However if you look closely, I think you will see that is not the case.

I have added them under the correct sections of articles relevant to the tool we have developed. Its a free Firefox extension. Its a typing tool to help people type in Indic languages. Where else would you put such information ?

If there is another way to edit a wikipedia page, other than I have done, any help to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

In any case please review the edits I had made. On closer inspection I'm sure you will detemine its not spam.

I'm unsure how to contact people on Wikipedia, hence I choose this route. Please forgive me if I crossed some rule here.

Regards Nigel. (for the Lipikaar Team.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lipikaar (talk • contribs) 16:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Regarding Lipikaar

Hi Sidhekin.

Wikipedia's system of inter user communication could use some improvement :-)

Thanks for the reply. I think the fault is mine for not reading the editing guides more carefully. I really appreciate the your efforts to correct me. I will push the links to the Talk pages and let them move to main page from there.

Many thanks. Nigel

Lipikaar (talk) 07:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

State terrorism

Thanks for your suggestions. Either version is fine with me. A very strict interpretation of WP:SYN or a broad one. What is important is that the same standard is applied to arguments of both sides. I hope that you agree with this. I think it is best to continue a discussion on the talk page of the article where everyone can participate.Ultramarine (talk) 21:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Taking a break now. Will reply later.Ultramarine (talk) 21:42, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

New sockpuppet?

Hey. Take a look at this edit by Rafaelsfingers. The account was made only at the end of last month and has suddenly jumped into to this dispute. Looks like a sockpuppet - do you know anything about checkuser requests? I've made one in the past, but I'm not sure how best to do it - nor who to file against. John Smith's (talk) 21:08, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

That edit is just a straight revert of a string of five revisions: diff. Nothing unusual, as far as I can tell.

Now, this is just my impression from following a few cases and reading the policies, but I don't think the checkuser crew would take such a case without fairly strong evidence of disruption: The policy is rather restrictive, and the crew does not exactly appear trigger happy.

But even if you are right, and this is a sock, it is not a big problem. Two edits on March 28th and two more today? If only all our problems were this small!  :) On the other hand, if the "problem" continues, we could soon have enough evidence to warrant a checkuser. For now though, my impression is we got nothing. — the Sidhekin (talk) 21:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

See ANI report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Admin_abusing_his_powers_in_content_dispute Please comment. Thank you.Supergreenred (talk) 11:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

chandu image

Thanks for the tweak, actually I think that was the first image I ever loaded, I am surprised that was the only mistake. EraserGirl (talk) 16:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure. I have yet to deal with images as such, but I know templates. :) — the Sidhekin (talk) 17:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Can you direct me to an article which explains them? I have been using them, but i would like to know a bit more on the mechanics. I just discovered that the order of the fields in use is overridden by the order of the fields set up in the template. Very interesting tidbit. EraserGirl (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

What, do you mean Help:Template (and more specifically, Help:Template#Parameters)? It is not the most accessible of documents, but if you want to know the mechanics, I don't know where else to point you. On the other hand, if you just want to use templates, mw:Help:Templates may be all you need. It won't tell you much of the mechanics though. — the Sidhekin (talk) 19:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm a geek from way back, I like to know how things work. EraserGirl (talk) 20:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Nihilism vandal

Thanks for the invitation. I still think my edits were pure gold, but I'm probably going to skip on the talk page. I looked at it and it's a bunch of people talking about Nietzsche and the meaning of existence and stuff. I'd feel dumb going in there to argue about a minor technicality from The Big Lebowski. Propaganda Kid (talk) 03:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)Propaganda Kid

Thanks for the heads-up!

I honestly don't know movies; I don't watch many. I might feel dumb if I were to discuss it. But there's no reason to feel dumb for knowing and caring about a subject, even if it is tangential and arguably a "minor technicality": Most of us don't want people calling Wikipedia inaccurate. :)

My only objection was that "Come on, bring back the quote. It's ten times better with the accent, and this wasn't even said in the movie. Do you want people calling Wikipedia inaccurate?" does not belong in the article. And the invitation to use the talk page is still open, should you reconsider.

Oh, and I'm pleased to see you've registered! Again again welcome!  :) — the Sidhekin (talk) 09:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)