User talk:HJ Mitchell

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Any stalkers about?

If anybody has any ideas for getting rid of that massive gap between the barnstars on my userpage, I'd be grateful. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lemme take a look. Stand by. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 19:56, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. I had to rebuild two barnstars. Their custom coding was goofing things up. There is one slight problem. I was using Vector and the page was all kinds of goofed up. It had the flag OVER the WikiGlobe, and parts of the page everywhere. Should we do something about that or leave as-is? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't look bad to me when I log out. There's a bit of overlap between a few parts of it, and we've tried to sort the flag out, but everything that works in Monobook doesn't work in Vector, but otherwise it looks alright. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks, btw, I appreciate the help! On another note, I watched the first few episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles today. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:51, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okie Dokie, as long as it looks good for you, that works for me. :) Really? How'd your like the show? I think it is a more hi-tech version of NCIS. NCIS, has the interviews and pounding the pavement with the science and tech; NCIS: LA has the all tech, all the time, super spies and all kinds of neat stuff, but little on the interviews and pavement pounding. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not bad telly, but NCIS is better imo. There's something more realistic about it, and it's funnier. Still, I've only watched the first few episodes so far, so I'll reserve full judgement. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:26, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It takes the first full season for all the characters to be brought out. Season 2 is even better and the Season 2 finale is AWESOME. Season 3 (which starts for us on September 20) is going to be excellent! - Neutralhomer • Talk • 21:34, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Metamorphosis (Hilary Duff album)

Hey HJ, hope you're doing well. I was wondering if you could copyedit Metamorphosis for me; I've been working on it for the past while trying to get it ready to take it to GA. It looks pretty good to me, but I'm sure there's probably some errors (maybe even more than some). I also opened up a peer review, if you'd rather just review some things there. I'd really appreciate it.

Also, I'd like it if you posted a talkback message on my page. Thanks you, ℥^nding·start 05:50, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I'll take a look. Does it need a fine-toothed comb or just a quick polish? And is there anything in particular you want me to look at? Funny, I haven't really noticed Hilary Duff for years. I didn't even know she was a singer, but I'm not surprised—every American child actress seems to end up releasing an album and the record companies don't seem too bothered about whether they can actually sing! But I haven't heard Hilary, so I can't judge. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:46, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A fine-toothed comb would be great. LOL, it's all about the money really. It's still me, Ending-start, I'm just on an old account I had before I created that one to start fresh because I have requested a username change, and I read that if I'm logged into it it might mess up it up. Zacharee (talk) 22:04, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see what I can do for you. Yeah, apparently if you're logged in when the rename goes through, your edits don't transfer properly, and you end up with two lists of contribs for one editor (and you have to get a developer to sort it out, and they're busy with things like keeping the wiki running, so I can't imagine they're too impressed!). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:20, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for letting me know. Hope nobody gets mad at me for using this account. LOL. Oh well, I won't be doing anything to drastic, and it redirects to my new one anyways. And thanks for helping with the review! :) Zacharee (talk) 22:27, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. And you're clearly the same person, so there shouldn't be any problems with the accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:29, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like they take a couple of days to do it anyways, so I think I'm good for right now. :) ℥^nding·start 22:29, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just making sure the bot doesn't archive this until I get to it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:41, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrol rights feedback - User:Arfaz

Hi HJ, I'm not sure if feedback on the later misdeeds of autopatrolled users is useful or not, but just in case, a note that User:Arfaz, whom you granted autopatrolled rights, has been indefinitely blocked for repeated copyvio and failure to respond to concerns about it. (CCI open at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Arfaz, very large unfortunately). Presumably no other action is required, since they're blocked, though. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 18:46, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback on something I did eight months ago isn't especially useful, and there were no indications of problems at the time—I'm guessing that was one I granted from the database reports, and talk page notices about copyvios/dodgy image uploads were something I specifically checked for. But it's interesting to know these things, so thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:58, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (film)

Thanks for the protect. Just a note though, putting the RfD tag underneath the redirect line makes the template fail to appear on the page, and readers bypass it instead of being alerted to the existance of the discussion. I'll move it back to the top, hope you don't mind me editing through protection, but one of the key issues is that because people kept removing the RfD tag, other editors were unaware of the existing discussion and debate on the topic. Regards, --Taelus (talk) 21:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Plus it was missing a } too. Perhaps that was why it was broken. Eh, either way I think its fixed now. Thanks, --Taelus (talk) 21:19, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Moving it below the redirect markup breaks the functionality of the redirect, but I guess we have to decide which is the lesser of the two evils. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:26, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How to have the closure of a RfC formally reviewed

Given I am unhappy with the closure of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Bureaucrat removal of adminship policy, how do I go about requesting a formal review since it looks like User:Chzz is not willing to budge? Mt king^(edits) 02:48, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't a formal procedure. You should try to resolve your differences with Chzz first (you could start by explaining to him what they are, or how you would have closed it), and then you can start a discussion at WP:AN, but I don't know whether it will get you what you seek. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:14, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your close of Sec. 4 of the above was excellent, and a superb example of understanding consensus against democracy. Thank you, and (appologies if this seems patronising - it's not intended to be) well done. Pedro : Chat 19:56, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and no, not patronising at all. I think it's a good example of the major flaw of straw polls over discussion—in this case, the idea needed more refinement before being put to a vote and people were more concerned with potentially massive loopholes in the policy than with the principle of desysopping in a genuine emergency. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:06, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Block

Special:Contributions/82.24.227.215 needs indef blocked please, avoiding indef block Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Iluvrihanna24. - (CK)Lakeshade - talk2me - 18:12, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We can't indef IPs—they get reassigned from time to time—but your friend looks like a very persistent pain in the arse, so I've blocked the IP for a year. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:18, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Persistent pain in the arse is a massive understatement -_- User talk:PD.Baker24 is just plain ridiculous, competence is lacking in this one. Thanks for the block. - (CK)Lakeshade - talk2me - 18:23, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MILHIST / Wikimedia UK

Hello, just wanted to drop you a line regarding MILHIST and GLAM collaboration. I'm the sort of de facto Wikimedia UK contact for military history - I'm a WMUK board member - while User:Fae is our main GLAM lead I tend to take an interest when we're talking about military history, as has happened at Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM. So do drop me an email and I'd be very glad to help. Regards, The Land (talk) 21:02, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, email's on its way! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:17, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Marinid dynasty and other articles

See here, here, and my talk page. It's an ongoing issue. You, me, Dabomb87 and Ioeth have protected at least 1 of Marinid dynasty, Almoravid dynasty, Almohad caliphate and Saadi dynasty. We should probably deal with it more seriously. Please reply here or on my talk page as to what you think we should do. - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 05:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"tell other Greek users of this interference, so we can stop the Bulgarian POV"

I see you blocked a few days ago AngBent. Could you take a look here (posted after two failed attempts here and here). Thank you. --Pylambert (talk) 07:06, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]