User talk:Thunderhead

[edit] About My Absense

Hey everyone, looks like I'm back for a while. Recently, I've been extremley medically sick, and that has restricted my ability to edit, but it looks like things are getting much better very quickly, so I've returned, at least for now. My editing is still going to be fairly limited, but I intend to get much more involved in Wikinews. I've only been gone 2 months now, but it feels like 2 years! If I've missed anything major, please let me know here, especially if I'm not likely to discover it on my own. Looking forward to coming back: Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 09:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Signature deletion warning

Please be aware that I intend to delete the signature template {{ss}} which you use per the deletion request. I'd also note the comments at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414 by one of the WMF developers, Brion Vibber, who says that "templates are disallowed in sigs" in response to the suggestion that not being able to use a template signature is a bug.

I'd therefore ask that you immediately update Special:Preferences to remove the template from your signature. By using this template, you have noted that having long signatures as part of a comment can be a nuisance. I'd therefore suggest that you greatly simplify your signature and carefully consider whether multiple links and different text styles really are appropriate.

I will delete the template after I've run my bot through the pages which it is used and substituted it to maintain the signature as per the template. Adambro - (talk) 19:58, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Just a reminder of the above, you might wish to look how your recent signature has appeared after my previous message, amend your preferences, and fix your recent signatures. Adambro - (talk) 17:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I've done :) I'll be updating those signatures as soon as I get the chance. Thanks for the reminder! Thunderhead 23:26, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 04/01/08

Glad to hear you are feeling better. On an entirely different, and less serious, subject: if you like, please visit my April fool's prank article. 69.140.152.55 22:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rfa

I have requested my old admin credentials back since I have returned, as a user who was around when I left I want your input on this, well I want the whole communities input but its nice to hear from someone who was around back in the day, and even supported the now failed WNN project. So check it out here.--Ryan524 - (talk) 03:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

I am, once again, putting myself up for Rfa. I would appriciate it if you could stop by My RFA and vote. Wheter support or oppose I would appriciate your vote to avoid another situation of having too few votes. Sorry to ask this again but the last one failed because of too few votes for a consensus.-Ryan524 (talk) 23:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews Bulletin

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Administrators and Accredidations Since our last edition, Cirt (talk · contribs) has been given the mop and bucket, and Ryan524 (talk · contribs) (now retired) asked for adminship. No one has became an accredited reporter on Wikinews. There are no requests you can currently vote or comment on, although there are lots of De-adminship Requests. Featured Articles and News In Pictures No articles were promoted recently. Several candidates are waiting for your vote, including two exclusive interviews. Several images were featured on the main pages, which you can check out in the News In Picture archive. Several images have been featured on the Main Page .The latest of which is available below. - [edit] Credit: Jon Davis Strega crossing the finish line to win the Gold Unlimited class at the Reno Air Races 2009 Original reporting Since our last edition, many articles have claimed original reporting. Here are the most recent: 6 December 2009: First snowfall of the season impacts the Northeast US 3 December 2009: Wikinews interviews Goronwy Price about the upcoming by-election in the Bradfield electorate of the Australian parliament 2 December 2009: US President Obama delivers address on Afghanistan plan 1 December 2009: Wikinews interviews Stephen Murphy about the upcoming by-election in the Higgins electorate of the Australian parliament 20 November 2009: UK lawyer comments on court case against Boeing over London jet crash 17 November 2009: British rapper Derek B dies at age 44 16 November 2009: Non-industrial emissions key for meeting Kyoto targets in Europe 13 November 2009: Blown for Good author discusses life inside international headquarters of Scientology 10 November 2009: Creator of website satirizing Glenn Beck on winning domain name case 8 November 2009: South African Vipers win Singapore Rugby Sevens Several others wrote stories based on television sources. The Wikinews Reports blog activity was mostly related to some of these stories. You can ask any of the blog authors if you want to help out on the blog.

Editor's note In the last few months activity on Wikinews has continued to decrease to an incredibly low level. There are hardly any new contributers joining and one of our best users, DragonFire1024 (talk · contribs) has gone on Wikibreak. However, some excellent articles are continuing to be written. Anonymous101 :) 12:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC) Site activity Brian proposes a new contest, and challenges everyone to get involved, donate something, or join! Try testing CSpurrier's new feed thingy. this may become the main wikinews feed at some point. Zach's new tool: Per category rss feed. Do a hard refresh, goto a category and click on the rss icon in your browser. New skin - Modern Settable in special:preferences, Wikimania call for participation We are now being syndicated by Wikipedia. RichardF convinced Misza13 to make Wikinews Importer Bot, which allows various wikiportals and articles to display headlines from Wikinews. (For example: w:Portal:Television, w:Film#External links) Recent RfAs: Ryan524 (twice) and Adambro (talk · contribs) (user did not accept nomination) Accreditation requests: none IRC activity Some of the IRC topics include Wikimedia Radio. ... (add more here if you know more...) Wikimedia News Candidate submissions for the 2008 Board Elections begin. Flagged revisions is now running on the German Wikipedia. There has been a large discusison on WN:RADIO There is a petition against the recent board restructure announcement.

[edit] Thank you for helping with the MainPage/HelpBox border

I'm kind of new to templates, but I can reverse engineer them quickly :) Thanks for fixing CompuHacker (talk) 02:15, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AP Stylebook

LOL, didn't see you owned a copy of the AP Stylebook til just now, could have used your input but I think now the matter has been resolved [1]. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 23:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Np, gtg, bbl. Cirt (talk) 23:17, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom

I won't be running or accepting nominations; I'd be happy to assist you on the election committee. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:52, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SUL Confirmations

I am using Thunderhead1 on the Russian Wikipedia to usurp Thunderhead. Thunderhead 04:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page

Having the logo on he main page seems like a good idea. Anonymous101 :) 07:18, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Note

As the one who changed the tag to {{publish}}, perhaps you could give an explanation to this person's comment ? Cirt (talk) 11:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Obama

Another Wikinewsie tried (unsuccessfully) to get an interview with Obama a few months ago. I can't remember who it was but I remember it being discussed on IRC several times. Anonymous101 :) 19:47, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I;m not sure, it was;t me who requested the interview. Anonymous101 :) 06:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder: WN:ACE08

Hi, as you are a member of the Wikinews Arbitration Committee Election Coordinators, I am just letting you know that the voting is supposed to be open now. It is supposed to run July 18, 2008, 20:00 UTC to July 31, 2008, 20:00 UTC. Cheers, --SVTCobra 22:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews Bulletin delivery

(Un-)subscribe  |  Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors Issue XI - May 17, 2008

Administrators, Accreditation and Arbitration Since our last edition, no users have been given the mop and bucket. You can currently vote on a request by Adambro (talk · contribs) No one has became an accredited reporter on Wikinews. There are currently no accreditation requests that you can vote on. The 2008 Arbitration Committee election has started. There are nine candidates and six places on the ArbCom. Voting ends on August 1. Featured Articles and News In Pictures No articles were promoted recently. Several candidates are waiting for your vote, including two exclusive interviews. Several images were featured on the main pages, which you can check out in the News In Picture archive. Several images have been featured on the Main Page .The latest of which is available below. - Credit: Muji Tra Although the 34th G8 Summit had ended, the demonstration of anti-globalists exposed a critical issue on poverty, etc.  » Full story Original reporting Since our last edition, many articles have claimed original reporting. Here are the most recent: 6 December 2009: First snowfall of the season impacts the Northeast US 3 December 2009: Wikinews interviews Goronwy Price about the upcoming by-election in the Bradfield electorate of the Australian parliament 2 December 2009: US President Obama delivers address on Afghanistan plan 1 December 2009: Wikinews interviews Stephen Murphy about the upcoming by-election in the Higgins electorate of the Australian parliament 20 November 2009: UK lawyer comments on court case against Boeing over London jet crash 17 November 2009: British rapper Derek B dies at age 44 16 November 2009: Non-industrial emissions key for meeting Kyoto targets in Europe 13 November 2009: Blown for Good author discusses life inside international headquarters of Scientology 10 November 2009: Creator of website satirizing Glenn Beck on winning domain name case 8 November 2009: South African Vipers win Singapore Rugby Sevens Several others wrote stories based on television sources. The Wikinews Reports blog activity was mostly related to some of these stories. You can ask any of the blog authors if you want to help out on the blog.

Editor's note In the last few months activity on Wikinews has started to increase again, and discussion has restarted on the embargoed wiki. Anonymous101 (talk) 11:50, 19 July 2008 (UTC) Site activity Wikinews supports the universal edit button firefox extention Move Wikinews:Story preperation into its own namespace (prepared:)? New rss feed extension prosed to be installed (see WC + Mailing list) Arbcom elections are now in progress. Discussion about flagged revisions is ongoing and in many places. This could be the biggest change to the Wikinews method since we abandoned the original article review system Brian proposes a new contest, and challenges everyone to get involved, donate something, or join! Try testing CSpurrier's new feed thingy. this may become the main wikinews feed at some point. Zach's new tool: Per category rss feed. Do a hard refresh, goto a category and click on the rss icon in your browser. (Now linked from most portals and categories via templates) Current RfAs: none Accreditation requests: none Wikinews Blog - Wikinews on Flickr - Wikimedia news - Wikipedia news - merchandise +/- IRC activity Some of the IRC topics include the embargoed Wiki . ... (add more here if you know more...) Wikimedia News Three new staff members were appointed, Rebecca Handler as the Foundation's Major Gifts Officer, Rand Montoya as Head of Community Giving and Frank Schulenburg as the public outreach coordinator. You can now contribute to discussion about the new community draft of the Wikimedia language policy which prevented the start of a Simple English Wikinews.

[edit] Blog

Hi Thunderhead. The wiki2blog feature is too buggy for general use, so it's not something Wikia is going to continue running. We might pick it up again in the future, but for now, you might want to delete the demo page at MediaWiki:Blog snippet which was feeding into the test blog. Angela (talk) 05:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FlaggedRevs

If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for joining! You're a founding member!

Thunderhead, thanks for joining the m:Association of Patrolist Wikipedians. Would you like to second the proposal to establish the Association formally? Thanks!! :-) Fr33kman (talk) 04:09, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Can you edit 5 Dean articles?

I want to add Category:Hurricane_Dean to the 5 pages linked from there. They're protected so I need the help of an admin.

Thanks. Jdorje (talk) 17:24, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I think someone beat me to it :-) Thunderhead 00:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube experiments with HD videos

You deleted this article in the middle of a DR. Normally DRs stand for seven days. --SVTCobra 23:23, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage sharing

Can I be added to the userpage sharing project please? Thanks! Dotty••|☎ 07:38, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] You edit!

/me waves. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

• Ooooh! A blast from the past seeing you edit. ;-) --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:48, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

• We've got Gadgets! Lots of Gadgets! Bawolff's Wiktionary Hover gadget works in about a dozen languages now and even has a version you can install on a WordPress blog. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 03:13, 8 December 2009 (UTC)