User talk:Ryan524/Archive1

Revert

I will revert a story that has the ability to damage our reputation. I apologize for not making a mention of it on the talk page, and I should have and you are correct in that respect, but a story that is as unfinished and developing as that should NEVER be a lead story, it belongs in developing stories. --Golbez 07:36, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Meet me on IRC

Meet me on IRC. NGerda 05:40, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

why reverted my edit?

the images are too large, and made the page mess. --Mosesofmason 21:21, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Amgine has changing them to 120px, it should be much better :p --Mosesofmason 21:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Good WOrk

Re;developing stories vandal. Paulrevere2005 19:57, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

<pin!>

The Medal of Persistence is awarded to users who have dealt with a large amount of vandalism

Here you are, Ryan524, your very own award for vandal-fighting! It's a dubious award, that you earned it is bad... but that you deserve it is great! Thanks for all your help. - Amgine/^talk 17:14, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou!--Ryan524 17:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Np, you've earned this one... <grin> - Amgine/^talk 17:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

King Fahd

Hi,

I deleted the King Fahd image, because it doesn't meet the guidelines on Wikinews:Fair use. Most importantly, there was no information on the source of the photo. A photo on the English Wikipedia is not automatically acceptable on the English Wikinews -- our fair use policy is much more restrictive.--Eloquence 07:18, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Reward story clean up

This is something new to me, Ryan524, to leave a story that has been headlined also listed under developing stories. If you feel the story is still developing, then move it back to the "Developing stories" box.

In my judgement, it should only be listed once on the Main Page. Is that wrong? -Edbrown05 19:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stories are moved off of the developing stories area once they are done and moved on to the day page. --Cspurrier 19:22, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I can see the point of leaving a headlined story on the "Developing stories" list, but I don't agree with it and I am sure it is not a policy here. Stories moved to headlines are still edited and contributed to once there, and less confusion exists when the instance of an article only appears once. Edbrown05 19:34, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I am not sure of an offical policy or even if there is one, but I have always seen that stories removed from developing stories, if we did not do this it would quickly fill the devloping story area. --Cspurrier 19:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vandel

You've had an awful morning with vandelism... i've deleted those pictures and banned the user, unfortunately its several hours since the attack. Thanks for trying to keep him at bay. → CGorman (Talk) 09:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Admin status granted

Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban users except in cases of obvious vandalism or excessive edit warring (24-hour "cool down" ban). What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Deletion requests for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun!--Eloquence 18:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Three day

Hi, saw your question on Amgine's talk page - if a story is listed on Latest news, you can take it off Developing whenever you feel like it. PS Yes I know my talk page has been vandalised...! Dan100 (Talk) 10:17, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User Block NGerda?

An edit of "Wikinews:WikiNews Network" by "User:NGerda." resulted in a block of "User:NGerda" which are not the same username. Please use your eyeballs - I won't even ask what the "whatever" talk in the IRC channel was. I don't think anyone cares if you made a mistake but don't be stupid and not revert the ban, unless you can show that User:NGerda was also User:NGerda(dot) Kyelewis 06:40, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I need a vaction, when I see vandalism, I react before I think and didn't even register the "." at the end of the name, sorry about that.--Ryan524 07:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What I don't get is that this all would've been resolved if you had pressed the [block] button next to NGerda. in the Recent Changes list. Maybe you wanted it to be me.....<shifts eyes>. Just kidding! NGerda 07:12, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

<rolls eyes> i see the recent change in #en.wikinews on irc.wikimedia.org i find a vandal i goto http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Blockip and enter the ip or username from that....--Ryan524 07:14, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just to quickly point out that it is much quicker to go to Recent Changes (on the left of every page), and select [block]. It's also much more efficient :) NGerda 16:10, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Wow the vandels are getting far more devious... they were so innocent a few months ago when I started as admin... just changeing thinhgs like '... and 100,734 applied to work in Germany...' to '... and 100,735 applied to work in Germany...' - I can just imagine the excitement they got from that sort of messin' → CGorman (Talk) 17:03, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They are sick. NGerda 17:04, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)