User talk:Steven Crossin

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Good luck and happy editing! Synergy 01:53, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ohai, thanks. ס ^Talk 01:57, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome! :) Master of Puppets (talk) 05:58, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great Job!! I can live with that though I will make one minor change to fix the wikilink.--  ✧ ChristianMan16  19:55, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that works better. Thanks for fixing my typo. I failz. ס ^Talk 19:57, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're learning not a failure.--  ✧ ChristianMan16  20:03, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful to check each page with a template you've changed present on it. If you'll look at Wikipedia:Username, the updated template is broken. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 06:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi there. {{ombox}} automatically adds a break in between each line, and wikilinks the shortcut. This should be right. See anymore, point them out to me. Cheers, ס ^Talk 06:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can you also centre the template rather than left-align it? --Gwib ^-(talk)- 06:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, by default, it's aligned left. I'll see if I can alter it to centre align it, hang on. ס ^Talk 06:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

kthnxbai. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 06:38, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it can be aligned centre. I'll ask around, but personally, I don't know how to align the text centre. ס ^Talk 06:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should stop updating templates for now. You barely waited on ST for users to voice opinions. Try waiting about a day (most editors edit in the evening) until you start editing. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 06:42, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright then. ס ^Talk 06:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The second bookmark you have up there, YouTube Download, I have that also as a bookmark. I even called it that and use the same icon! I thought it was funny. God bless, American Eagle (talk) 20:20, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Omai! But does {{ombox}} work the same for you? ^_^ That's the important thing. ס ^Talk 20:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a message for you on my talk page--Sunnah and Hadith ***THE MUZI*** (talk)

Hey Samekh. Good work lately, particularly with your work with articles and templates. :) I hope you'll continue to contribute to Simple English Wikipedia! – RyanCross (talk) 05:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks, I sure will. Can you clean out the QD category? ס ^Talk 05:05, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• All deleted (except for User:ChristianMan16 which we are currently trying to solve how it is in CAT:QDR). – RyanCross (talk) 05:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Heh, I just meant to delete the ones I tagged just recently ^_^. Thanks. ס ^Talk 05:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I know, I was just saying. ;) Hmm... but still, I'm wondering how User:ChristianMan16 is there. Could you possibly try to find out why? It looks like you're busy at the moment, so no need if you are. – RyanCross (talk) 05:13, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I'll have a look, see what I can do. (Update- I can't see it there. There are only 2 that I can see, neither of them are that page). ס ^Talk 05:16, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One point bot, one point user:

1. Your signature, while it works fine on Mozilla and Safari based browsers, causes big problems with IE browsers. The text of the person that edits directly under you is half covered up by your message due to an issue with line spacing in IE.

2. I would strongly suggest being careful on what templates get subst'ed - mainly on which pages you do it. Some people do not like others editting their user space and the subst of BS can bring up issues. For example, all your edits to my archives were reverted; I am fine with the templates as is and prefer my archives (and user-space in general) to remain in its original form. Other are totaly fine with people editing their user space, but some people are not. Content editing is one thing, but style editing can bring up issues. -- Creol(talk) 06:21, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Signature changed. As for the bot, I assumed that {{barnstar}} is a template that's supposed to be substed, but I'll watch what pages substs are done on, in future. Samekh _Talk 06:27, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, there seems to be an issue with your signature. It is bunching all the lines together and making your (and other) comments hard to read. A good example is here. Kennedy ^(talk) 09:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi, my signature was pointed out as having issues. I'll run my bot and fix things up. Cheers. ס ^Talk 10:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for that. Looking better now. Cheers Kennedy ^(talk) 13:27, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Great, glad to hear it :> ס ^Talk 13:28, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I have an issue with your bot running to fix your signature - too many diffs on my watchlist - but its done now I guess. I am not convinced that your signature is still resolved since I cannot actually read your name from looking at your signature - a little less style would be appreciated. Have you read WP:SIG? For example when referrring to other scripts - As a courtesy to the rest of the contributors, users with such usernames should sign their posts (at least in part) with Latin characters. Your name has Latin characters but you choose not to use them. This user finds it a bit annoying. --Matilda (talk) 19:24, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I disagree. I think at the moment his signature is fine. Its a little long perhaps (in the edit window), but not as bad as some. He does have "Talk" in latin characters, and if you roll over it, you see his username. I assume the "ס" means Samekh in Hebrew? Kennedy ^(talk) 09:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've considered whether or not to respond to your comment, Matilda, but think it's wise if I do. I don't think my signature is inappropriate, or unacceptable. I know some people like very simple signatures, I decided to go for something slightly more complex. In my signature, the ס, is a Samekh, hence where I got my username from., which I chose so I could sign my name with a single letter. As Kennedy points out, ס is hebrew for Samekh. As for my bot updating my signature, I see no other way this could've been done better. The signature needed to be fixed. It would've taken longer for me to do it manually, which would also flood recent changes. This was the best way I thought the task could be done. ס ^Talk 10:40, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • It is your choice not to comply with the guideline at WP:SIG but please don't say nobody told you what the guideline was - I again draw your attention to it: As a courtesy to the rest of the contributors, users with such usernames should sign their posts (at least in part) with Latin characters. I had gathered it was the Hebrew character and I have since noted you said as much on your talk page. In my view your disregard of the guideline is not in keeping with the purpose of simple English wikipedia as it is not reader friendly - mouseover is no substitute. I won't say anything more on the subject. --Matilda (talk) 04:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Decided to update it, I think its a compromise we can all accept. ס (Samekh) ^Talk 07:51, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You said you have a feeling that I would use the tool to enforce censorship. While yes I think some of the extreme things should not be on the front page I do not think Wikipedia should be censored except for a few images when their are medical diagrams that can serve the same purpose just as well and it's not the real thing.....my point is I would do no such thing cause that would be an abusing of adminship, and me as a Christian just wouldn't do that. I would properly take it up with the community, for a consensus. Thank you.--  ✧ ChristianMan16  19:02, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It's just my point of view. ס ^Talk 19:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to assure you I would not do such a thing.--  ✧ ChristianMan16  19:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Cheers, ס ^Talk 19:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I would like to find out if there is any way possible of finding out how many hits an article receives. I know you can do this on en wiki but what about the simple en wiki. Also I started this account on simple and when I went to the en wiki I automatically had an account over there as well. How can this be.--Sunnah and Hadith ***THE MUZI*** (talk)

Okay, to answer your questions.

1. - I'm not too sure if this can be done on simple wikipedia. Let me have a look around and I'll get back to you.
2. - Wikimedia now has a unified login system. This means if you go to another wiki, an account will automatically be created for you.

Best, ס ^Talk 08:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find the article with the most clicks, but there is Special:MostRevisions or Special:MostLinked which might give you some idea... Kennedy ^(talk) 10:30, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[1] has a Simple English option in the drop-down box. Tombomp (talk) 20:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You sig appears to violate WP:SIG#NL could you fix that please?--  ✧ ChristianMan16  04:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• What do you suggest I change it to? ס ^Talk 07:07, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thought about it, I think I can come up with a compromise. Sig change implemented. ס (Samekh) ^Talk 07:49, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thank you - looks good - no need to change it everywhere by bot! future use only is fine. --Matilda (talk) 19:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, my bot is busy, anyway ^_^ ס (Samekh) ^Talk 19:42, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Issue 1 - 15th November 2008 31,511 editors, 39,781 articles, 106,605 pages.
Announcements	♥	Administrators
Wikipedia has 40,000 articles - Yotcmdr created the Grambois article. Rollback enabled - See the Administrators noticeboard or an admin if you wish to use it. Wikipedia has 39,000 articles - The life of brian created the Down (band) article. Did you know... that the did you know section was added to the Main Page? User Articles Kennedy - Article 1 In his first article Kennedy welcomes you to the first Simple News newsletter, and explains how you can get involved! Bluegoblin7 - Article 1 Bluegoblin7 writes in his debut article about the DYK procedures. Watch out next month too!	[Subscribe] [Dates] [Discussion] [The Team]	Congratulations Synergy! - For passing a request for adminship! MC8's RFA ended on 1st November but he did not get enough support votes. Majorly had applied to be a Bureaucrat, but was not promoted. Seven Administrators have had their rights removed due to inactivity. User:ChristianMan16 applied to be an administrator, but was not promoted. User:Gwib has applied to be a bureaucrat and the voting will end on the 16th November 2008. QandA The QandA. Every month, Kennedy will interview one of Simple English Wikipedia's editors, asking them about themselves, and their opinions on Wikipedia. It is an exciting insight behind the anonymous face of an online username. First up is Microchip08! Click for his interview: Microchip08 Interview --GoblinBot (talk) 13:53, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't make useless edits like this one. Thanks. Giggy (talk) 00:42, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi Giggy. I'm using m:Standardize_interwiki.py. These changes are automatically built in to the script. I'll ask around to see how changing whitespace only can be disabled. Thanks. ס (Samekh) ^Talk 01:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks. Giggy (talk) 01:16, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I publish the IRC logs from the conversation that we just had about Benniguy/Iamandrewrice on Wikipedia? Jonas D. Rand ^T 05:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• You have my consent to publish the logs of our conversation regarding the matters we disucssed. ס (Samekh) ^Talk 10:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Yotcmdr Barnstar
		Thank you for supporting me in my RFA which passed with 15 supports and no opposes. The barnstar may not mean much to you, but your support did to me, thanks. Yotcmdr =talk to the commander= 09:08, 7 December 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Hello Samekh, Thanks for your offer. I have replied on my talk page. Thanks again! :D Kennedy ^(talk) 13:04, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Issue 2 - 13th December 2008 37,332 editors, 41,432 articles, 109,917 pages.
Announcements	♥	Administrators
Entry to the 2009 Wikicup is now open, and will close at 00:00 UTC on December 31st 2008. The cup will begin at 00:00 January 1st 2009. Did You Know? is now accepting seasonal hooks for Christmas 2008! Hot chocolate was promoted to Good article status on December 1. Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007) was promoted to Good article status on November 16. User Articles Kennedy - Article 2 It's a bumper edition from Kennedy this month, with a round-up of recent and future developments, and also news of a spin-off from Simple News. Bluegoblin7 - Article 2 In his second article, Bluegoblin7 writes of the new wikicup that has come to the wiki. Yotcmdr - Article 1 Yotcmdr writes about the Good Article and Very Good Article processes and how we need your help in his debut article.	[Subscribe] [Dates] [Discussion] [The Team]	Christianman16 has applied to be an Administrator. Yotcmdr applied to be an Administrator, and was promoted. Matilda had applied to be an Administrator, but was not promoted. Chocolates had applied to be an Administrator, but was not promoted. Gwib had applied to be a Bureaucrat, but was not promoted. QandA The QandA. Every month, Kennedy will interview one of Simple English Wikipedia's editors, asking them about themselves, and their opinions on Wikipedia. It is an exciting insight behind the anonymous face of an online username. Las month we debuted with Microchip08. Due up next was Shapiros10 but due to uncontrollable circumstances we have had to postpone this to next month. Instead, Bluegoblin7 takes the reigns and interviews Gwib, who kindly volunteered to keep the section in this issue. Click for his interview: Gwib's Interview File:Wikisanta.jpg Everyone at Simple News would like to wish all users at the Simple English Wikipedia a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

--GoblinBot1 (talk) 17:22, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Steven Crossin. I am warning you about the Nations cup. It will be run parallel to the Wikicup you have signed up for. It will be the same points system, but you will team up with someone. Then, all the rounds will be the same as the Wikicup. It is not obligatory to sign up for the nations cup, but it is highly recommended, as if you are knocked out of one of the cups, you can remain in the other one! Please, hurry up the entry end on the 31st of December, and team up with somebody! Remember you will also have to choose a country (it doesn't have to be the same as the Wikicup one).

I have rotated the names Steve Crossin and Samekh. The bot was also renamed and the link from the bot page corrected to the new name. The next step is all on you though. With the move of Samekh, about 4 gazillion redirects got created. The User and User talk should probable at least get a soft redirect to reflect the move, but the rest should have all the links fixed and then tagged for quick delete. While I do tend to do this many times, given the number of subpages involved, I will leave it to you to clean that part up. -- Creol(talk) 07:55, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My bot can fix double redirects, I'll get on that right away. I'll see what I can do to clean stuff up. Thanks for the rename :) Steve^Talk 07:56, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You must updated your userpage because it still says Samekh. Tharnton345 10:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thanks. Don't forget {{sofixit}} :) Steve^Talk 09:24, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're late for dinner!!!! Just kidding, seriously though, I have a question. Can your bot do a task for me? ✼ VandalFighterFR bad warning? 22:30, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you should ask what you want it to do, so then he can confirm whether it can or can't. :-) Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 22:31, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I can't believe I forgot. Anyway, the task is moving pages that don't seem encyclopedia to the right namespace that the article seems like. ✼ VandalFighterFR bad warning? 22:59, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Without any knowledge of bots, I can say that the task requires human judgement. Only humans an judge whether a page is encyclopedic, with the exception of pages created for vandalism (containing expletives, etc). A bot can't decide whether an article doesn't seem to fit into the encyclopedia. Secondly, only humans can know which namespace such an article should go into, if it was created in error. Thirdly, such pages are created very rarely, and won't require a bot to take care of the workload. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:06, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

*points to Peter's TL;DR post above* What he said :) Bots have no AI, or at least, nowhere near enough to perform a task such as this one, and it's not something that happens in such high volume that would need a bot to do it. Steve^Talk 08:15, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Steve! I remember you from over on the English Wikipedia, and I am glad to see that you are editing on this site now! This is the Wikipedia that I edit on the most and even though I was not very active in between June of 2008 and now, I can say with certainty that I am back to being a very active editor here on this site. We will probably cross paths here on the Simple English Wikipedia, and I also look forward to working with you here on this site :). See ya around the SEW! Cheers, Razorflame 23:09, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

*Push* *Prod* *Nudge* ;) Any progress on my new userpage? Don't like to hassle, but I would like to see how its going. Have you started? Any ideas on how it will look? Kind regards, Kennedy ^(talk) 13:38, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Argh, I've not started it yet. I completely forgot about it! I'll start on it in the New Year, I'll have more free time then. Sorry! Steve^Talk 23:23, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tut tut. ;) No worries really, its not important. Have a nice new year, and don't get too drunk Kennedy ^(talk) 08:42, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Simple News/Special Edition

The Wikicup has started! Good luck!

Yotbot (talk) 01:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Steven Crossin. We have come to a conclusion after dicussing the way points should be counted. You must make a page were you keep record of your edits. It should look like this and it should be called user:Steven Crossin/Wikicup Edit Count. It will be checked by our judges to make sure there is no cheating. If we find that there was a very large margin of error, you will be disqualified. Remember, any edit which does not figure on this page will not be counted in your final score. Thank you for your attention.

Yotbot (talk) 23:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see your request here. Wich username do you prefer for Steve Crossin? --vector ^_^ (talk) 09:27, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• I don't really mind. Something random would be fine :) Steve^Talk 23:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have written an apology for enWP here that I intend to present to the enWP community somehow and I would like some constructive criticism please. Please read the "letter" and comment on the "letter" here. Thank you.-- CM16 ^M_LB  07:39, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Steven Crossin. You may stop updating your wikicup edit count (unless told otherwise by a judge) as it will be done by a judge from now on. Thank you, Yotbot (talk) 21:51, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]