User talk:Romartus/Archive16
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- ArchivejusticePS
- Thanks Pup. It's featured on both sites and I am still working on the 'epic'. Odd thing is, I really wrote it for myself to see how much nonsense I could weave in an updated spirit of the classic book 1066 and All That. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 22:47, February 2, 2013 (UTC)
VFH
I've done work on the "Guy who invented soap" vhf and added a good pic. So if you have a minute grab another look. Thanks. As for VFH, I think we're close to the point where a second-way to feature a page could be thought about. My idea of a "panel" of you, Spike, and Chief - all of you hard votes on vfh - to either vote a page a feature or to show the author weak points (as you did with the Soap page) so they could fix them, would serve as another gateway for pages. It would peer review them. That would leave two routes to feature, the peer review panel of discerning voters and the minumum number of votes. I'd prefer the peer review route myself, although it would have to be even selective in pages it chooses to discuss. Aleister 14:27 3-2-'13
Skipping a Day
It looks like UnNews:Medical Cause of Unpregnancy Fetishism Discovered is being featured on the 5th. However, if we are featuring for 2 days, it should be on the 4th. --Mn-z 15:21, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. Fixed. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 17:11, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
Al Obama
Looks like a copy of Alabama. --Mn-z 17:14, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- We could delete one and leave a redirect. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 17:59, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- User Kaint@yo a month ago, presumably from the American right-wing, hit a lot of subjects, such as al-Obama, al-Gore, and al-Jazeera. Unfortunately, he came to the conclusion that a good way to make a pun is to create an article with a name that no one will ever type. The two articles are not exact copies, as he has transliterated "Alabama" to "Al Obama" throughout. However, in my opinion, no one cares. Huff it and don't leave a redirect. Spıke ¬ 18:06 3-Feb-13
- PS--I'll take this to VFD. Spıke ¬ 18:19 3-Feb-13
User:CartoonistHenning
Apparently, his page hard redirects to Free Uncyclopedia. The code [[nl:en:<pagename>]] apparently redirects to free Uncyclopedia. The code, [[nl:<pagename>]] redirects to, the Dutch Uncyclopedia. Interestingly, on Free Uncyclopedia, the code [[:it:en:<pagename>]] will redirect back here.
Here is how I think it works. [[nl:<pagename>]] redirects to the Dutch Uncyclopedia, the code [[nl:en:<pagename>]] re-redirects to Dutch Uncyclopedia's English link, which is Free Uncyclopedia. Since the Italian uncyclo still links to wikia site, such code would move the reader back here.
My point is that userpages should not hard redirect off the wiki. In fact, I might go so far as to say nothing should ever hard redirect of the wiki. --Mn-z 18:12, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- Indeed; he is using Wikia's resources to divert traffic away from Wikia. The definition of Uncyclopedia on foreign wikis, changed by an inoccuous message to a friend, like the WP:Uncyclopedia entry where Aimsplode described us as a "deprecated....sandbox," is just one more battlefield to portray the Fork as the real Uncyclopedia. They can own a copy of the database but they do not have the legal right to the term. Spıke ¬ 18:19 3-Feb-13
- Ok, have removed the redirects. The links are on the user and talk pages as per others who have moved elsewhere. Matter closed. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 21:10, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
King Rich
Ah, you beat me, I came her to write the UnNews. The angle I was going to use, if you'd like to dd it, was that the skeleton of Richard was demanding the skeleton of a horse. "A skeleton of a horse, a skeleton of a horse, my kingdom (a parking lot in Leicester) for a skeleton of a horse". I posted the story on Above Top Secret, apparantly the first there. Leverage hasn't gotten onto it yet, but I expect a masterpiece from that dodger. Aleister 12:28 4-1-'13
- I was watching it on the computer (it was a live feed on BBC 24). Feel free to do your own take! --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 12:38, February 4, 2013 (UTC)
- There's a tv show tonight. This is a pretty big deal, and Al Pacino is salivating somewhere, wanting the skull for his very own. No, but thanks, one story is enough. Maybe tomorrow I'll write up the horse skeleton one as a follow-up, but yours deserves the showcase. The pic is great, and should be in every textbook. If I knew how to load a pic onto my computer and transfer it I'd move it to my thread at Above Top Secret, but they would just remove it because of the suspicious cig in the King's mouth. Al 12:44
- The cigarette is in the painting. The one I used is by Van Gogh. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 12:50, February 4, 2013 (UTC)
- I thought it was a bit familiar, my ignorance surrounds me. The cig looks like grass, but because it isn't it could pass muster at ats. Aleister 13:25
- I have that as a framed repro at home which is why I remembered. Saw the original in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:28, February 4, 2013 (UTC)
- Nice, and it's nice to use something you like enough to hang in your home on one of your pages. I really have to learn how to load pictures, but everytime I try I'm missing something and can't do it. Maybe I should make that a New Year's goal for 2014 and start studying. The tv show tonight on Richard is on Channel 4, about a King in a parking lot or something. lol: "A handicapped parking space, a handicapped parking space, my below-ground lot for a handicapped parking space." Al 13:35
- Do you mean uploading or photoshopping? BTW, I like the Al Pacino angle. If I recall he played Richard III like a mafia boss but wasn't that him 'trying to find the role' rather than actually playing Richard III? Trying to recall info than going for a wiki click. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 14:30, February 4, 2013 (UTC)
- Pacino loves Shakespeare's Richard. He used his personal money to finance his own movie "Looking for Richard" which is very good, and if you haven't seen it, there you go. It's more of a movie and documentary. There is also a Richard III Society, who must be very happy today. The talk on the thread is about if RIII will have a state funeral, where he should be buried, nad one woman who is a racist talking about how Leicester is now Asian and no longer English. We live and learn. Aleister 18:59 4-2-'13
"Test, just a test"
Anon (not always at the same IP) seems anxious to delete the contents of User:Twinkleblue43/guestbook. I have reverted three times, and informed him via Change Summary that he is free to do so by logging on as himself. What do you reckon the "test" is? I think it's to test whether Uncyclopedia is completely deserted and undefended. I'm inclined to protect this userpage to Autoconfirmed. Another IP wants us to huff the personal pages of Mike heat; I likewise said he'd have to do so as himself. Spıke ¬ 14:57 4-Feb-13
- You could lock it and ban the IP for reverting you (3 days). I don't let IPs huff pages, personal or user ones. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 16:37, February 4, 2013 (UTC)
Done, thanks for the second opinion. Spıke ¬ 16:55 4-Feb-13
You removed the {{VFD}} from Great Library of Alexander, commenting, Removed delete template..unless that was part of the joke). It is not; the article is a VFD save and it is still listed on VFD, though the vote is now 2-0 Keep.
If you want to declare it kept, that would be fine. Never mind; this is done. Spıke ¬ 17:57 4-Feb-13
History of Great Britain, promises made, promises broken, sadness and wringing of hands
You promised me once only four footnotes in HoGB (I just invited an English history buff to look at the page), and there are seven. Seven! An unfunny amount of footnotes, whereas four broke me up one time and I laughed and laughed and laughed. I hope you never make a pact with the devil, as the devil would know you lie and would be very sad too. Dejectedly yours, Aleister 19:46
MTTB and Talk:Pizza Planet
I agree that his actions are in good faith. And the talk page is effectively an attempt and doing another version of the same article - and it's pathetic. So I've restored the page because of the concept of "don't blank", but added to VFD on the concept of "deleteable garbage", but there's no way I'd want to blank someone for what I assume is good willed ignorance rather than maliciousness or vandalism. I ummed and aahed over whether QVFD was more suitable but because it has been around for so long - and we've all missed seeing it for so long - I figured by our deletion policy this was the best way to go. Feel free to just delete it instead though - your call, and I'm not going to argue. • Puppy's talk page • 09:40 05 Feb
- Ah...MTTB had his own template? --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 10:50, February 5, 2013 (UTC)
- I use brains goodly. • Puppy's talk page • 11:11 05 Feb
my talk page
Why have you reverted my edits and protected my talk page? The message is still in the history, and I would prefer that the page be blanked. –sumone10154(talk) 07:30, February 6, 2013 (UTC)
- As much as I hate when questions are answered with questions, why do you want it deleted? Spike's message was in short why we wouldn't want to delete the page. • Puppy's talk page • 07:40 06 Feb
- The option is to put 'Retired' on your talk page with a link to your archived discussion in case anyone wants to contact you here again. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 07:41, February 6, 2013 (UTC)
User:Dannyboy1209
I believe you adopted this one? He is getting confrontational on his talk page and continuing to make overtly unfunny edits to various articles despite my best attempt to tell him what is wrong and how to learn to do better. Spıke ¬ 15:54 6-Feb-13
- Oh yes I did. I will pop over to his page. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 16:49, February 6, 2013 (UTC)
Help me fix my user page.
Yes this is just a blatent cry for help- I've been gone so long I can't remember (or did something change...?) how to fix my formatting problems on my user page- this is preventing me from being creative and writing more articles- or I'm just too lazy to try and figure it out myself using the format guide- help?--
Sir Claudius CUN VFH (carpe diem) 22:48, February 6, 2013 (UTC)
- Hail Claudius! I am no whizz with the formatting issue so I am not sure if I can help loads. Suggest you ask Mnbvcxz, Simsilikesims or PuppyOnTheRadio - say I pointed you in their general direction. I am writer/editor first, a thingy wotsit second. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 07:00, February 7, 2013 (UTC)
- When I have time I'll look at it, although I'll need to know what you want it to look like. • Puppy's talk page • 09:22 07 Feb
- Well it used to not look like shite that's for sure! Those info boxes were all spaced out and organized- now they are all bunched together....any help you can give I would appreciate- I will look into cleaning up myself today if I can figure it out.--
Sir Claudius CUN VFH (carpe diem) 17:44, February 7, 2013 (UTC)
Soap guy
Thanks for your vote on the soap guy page. Because of your initial abstain I polished, added content, and added a pic and caption. So with three votes it should be ready for featuring! (it had six at the fork last time I checked, going for the gold, ah, soap). What do you think of my idea of you, Spike, Chief, and Puppy acting as judges for features if we don't get enough votes? It'd be a way to offer suggestions without having to do a complete pee review, and would make everyone do some polishing, etc., which is what has been lacking with the feature votes. Well, what's next on your table? Thanks again. Al 20:10 7-2-'13
- Me, I think this proposed reorganization is a thinly-veiled sham to ensure that I will finally read all your stuff. Harsh and grumpy ¬ 20:22 7-Feb-13
- lol at your sig (and I only say that if I am lol. Have only FOMCROFL once in my life). You don't read my stuff? I thought everyone read my stuff, all 50,000 visitors a day. Life is unfair when you're a young African-American unwed mother living in rural Mississippi, I can tell you that. Al 20:31 same day
Welcome message
Acting on your prodding from a couple weeks ago, I adapted your welcome message to create User:SPIKE/Welcome. I am not saying you should adopt my changes, but the section on "How to post to talk pages" I based on your repeated advice to newbies to do stuff no one ever told them to do in the first place. These are scoldings for not imitating adequately!
Separately, at present I am copying and pasting on each occurrence. I dabbled with
{{subst: but found it inserted a red-link instead of the file, at least in Preview. At any rate, I'm not hitting everyone, as you and Simsie are, but only guys who have made edits, and typically appending a comment on their edits. Spıke ¬ 14:44 8-Feb-13
PS--Thanks, Puppy, for verifying that there is no malfunction. I had added a vertical bar that spoiled it. Nevertheless, I think I will stay with copypasting (despite having to pay per gigabyte) rather than depending on myself to type this correctly in the future.
Floyd
This was uploaded in one Big Gulp. I presume it is a creation from Yuky Doody Pedia for which the author wants additional eyes. I see the coherent use of a humor technique (illustrate stupidity by being stupid), but I personally do not want it, at least not from Anon. Please do whatever is consistent with what we intend to do about sporks. Spıke ¬ 15:53 8-Feb-13
- Out of curiosity, do you mean illogicopedia, or is there another silly wiki I haven't heard of. --Mn-z 16:07, February 8, 2013 (UTC)
- I meant the Fork, but I concede I don't know where Floyd comes from. Spıke ¬ 16:13 8-Feb-13
- Quick google search for the first couple of sentences picked up about a dozen or so entries, ranging from a week to two years ago (roughly). It looks like copypasta randumbo that's floated around for a while. It's unoriginal, but I can't pinpoint the original source. • Puppy's talk page • 09:26 08 Feb
- Overlooked the original. Complete copy-paste of stupid but under someone's name. Pure UN:CB. • Puppy's talk page • 09:29 08 Feb
No, under Anon's IP. Correctly filed on QVFD and now it's gone. Thanks for the research. Spıke ¬ 21:36 8-Feb-13
- Oh - the name I was referring to was Floyd. • Puppy's talk page • 06:26 10 Feb
Thanks
Thanks for nominating my article! Equilateralperil 02:32, February 9, 2013 (UTC)
- You are welcome. I enjoyed the article, a deserved feature! --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 09:05, February 10, 2013 (UTC)
History of the world. Again.
I re-read the rewrite, and your review. There are two major elements missing from that article that are really letting it down. The first is Asian history, which I deliberately glossed over due to ignorance - hard to make funny of something I know so little about. The second is history from Industrial Revolution onwards, which does read as being written hastily. The latter part I think I can do myself, as while I'm no history buff there's enough that has happened over the past couple of centuries I do know about that I can write something for. The depression and the World Wars are a definite inclusion, and I'd like to include the birth of the Information Age from Bletchley Park to Arpanet to Tim Berners-Lee. I was trying to avoid Hitler - we have too much on him already on site - but in this context it's fitting.
The problem is that'll still leave a gap on Asian history. Your knowledge on Asian history outstrips me by a mile. How do you feel about collaborating on it to fill in those gaps? If not, I can leave that part as is. The lack of detail in that article makes a decent point about how the English speaking world - in general - ignore Asian history. I might just have to make that point somewhat clearer. • Puppy's talk page • 06:24 10 Feb
- Hi Pup. Regards Asian history, you have the two great hubs of India and China, with Japan, indochina, the Mongol Empire, Timurlane, expansion of Russia eastwards, The rival empires of the Ottomans and Persia (become a Shiite state in the 16th century) etc. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 09:11, February 10, 2013 (UTC)
- OK, let me see what I can sketch in on the article. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 09:13, February 10, 2013 (UTC)
Reading, England
We have a live one on the line, with a Southampton IP (but a username too), whom I've convinced to start the above article. I'll contribute my thoughts based on pub-crawling over a seven-year period (and grammar), and perhaps you have more to add about Berkshire history. Spıke ¬ 10:38 10-Feb-13
- I thought a construction tag means "Go away" and let the author do what he does for a week. If I just started writing here, I think my Phil Ochs page was my first, and Spike was hovering over me with suggestions and rewrites and throwing widgets into my whatids, I wouldn't have stayed. Now Spike and I are being well paid by Wikia to hang around, and we're driving Hummers that can barrel though snowdrifts the size of houses, so my point is if we all start editing a new page of a first time user we can send him to the fork earlier than he would have gotten there anyway, and he won't get paid as much. Aleister 10:45 10-2-'13
That is because you are a temperamental artist. I think this one is a schoolgirl. Spıke ¬ 11:04 10-Feb-13
- I have noticed that the pages of the active users here have become the informal forums! Regards new users, I think perhaps adding a WIP tag is perhaps 'kinder' than an ICU. Certainly for new pages, we can be a bit more strict if an IP starts to adding junk to an article. Since no one has any idea if a new user will turn out to be a Sog1970 or a Gomphog, then I would lean towards leniency to start with. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 11:38, February 10, 2013 (UTC)
This one has {{Construction}}, applied by the article's creator, not by any unkind quality Nazi imposing a deadline. So "leniency" is not an issue, though the author's right to be alone with the creation might be. I asked Magicrainbowunicorn to create this, and I'm asking Romartus to flesh out the paragraph on the 8th Century so that it goes somewhere. Spıke ¬ 11:50 10-Feb-13
- I agree with Al. Let it play out. If we jump down the throat of every newcomer then we lose every newcomer we're likely to have. Admittedly Pawn shop and Care Bear were crap articles, but if I was read the riot act on starting to fiddle with them I probably wouldn't have hung around. As long as it's not UN:CM or UN:CB, it can wait out the {{construction}} tag. • Puppy's talk page • 12:03 10 Feb
It looks as though, now that we have the wiki all to ourselves, everyone wants to set policy. Instead, I went to the talk page to ask what the author prefers. Spıke ¬ 12:18 10-Feb-13
- If I set policy you'd find yourself in a heaven on earth. On this one though, the construction tag itself sets the policy, with words like "Go away". Of course when you ask a new user what they'd prefer they will probably give in to the established user, as I gave in to Puppy and RAHB when I arrived and had to do unspeakable acts before I could edit (later I found out I was taken in by the gang of two). Maybe in honor of this series of posts I'll continue to edit "Phil Ochs". Aleister 12:26 that day
- I've always tried to establish policy. Just never got around to actually writing it down. • Puppy's talk page • 12:29 10 Feb
Cumbria
Could I kick it to you on the basis of geography to review Anon's contributions to Cumbria? He contributes some interesting possible future directions, but has bad grammar, bad markup, daydreaming-in-place-of-humor, dialect-in-place-of-humor, and even nonsense numbers. Can you weave him in, or would you just revert him? Spıke ¬ 18:52 10-Feb-13
- Thanks for that. In other news today, we had a cameo appearance from VegaDark, apparently a Wikia firefighter who reverted one of those blankers who leaves high praise in place of an entire...user archive. We had Lesbian Wolf, whose first edit was to upload JavaScript that looked like an app to do automated random reverts; permabanned by me. Puppy has defended us on Wikipedia against flowery rhetoric by a Wikipedian to defend an assertion that we are "seemingly abandoned." And I have fixed up new user Nivrock with Magicrainbowunicorn on the basis of the former's volunteering for the Proofreading Force and the latter's need of it. Frosty has been doing a little sysopping, and there have been conversations you'll stumble upon in all the wrong places (including Buddy Cianci). Spıke ¬ 01:56 11-Feb-13
- Thanks for the update. I took time away from the site to read the 'Lincoln' book, Team of Rivals. A little bit heavy to start with as it talks not just about Lincoln but Seward, Chase, Bates in quite obsessive detail but now getting into the story. Hence, my limited attendance this weekend. It does contain the line from Mrs Lincoln when she notices her husband 'isn't very gay at the moment' (I paraphrase). Ha! The changes in a word usage!! Unless memory mis-serves, doesn't The Flintstones end with a song "We'll have a Gay Old Time"?? --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 08:03, February 11, 2013 (UTC)
- Vega Dark? Any relation to Zana Dark?? --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 08:08, February 11, 2013 (UTC)
- There's a song that used to be taught to school kids here that goes:
Kookaburra sits in the old guntree Merry, merry king of the bush is he Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh Gay your life must be
- I don't think they teach it any more. • Puppy's talk page • 09:55 11 Feb
Hmmph! "Catching up on your reading" seems to mean, "Give Spike the ol' Ban Stick and run away!" Again, Lesbian Wolf is permabanned, as discussed at User talk:Frosty, and didn't need to be welcomed, though {{Oh Dear}} was the way to do it. Sigh! when we let them have the word "liberal," the language was done. Still harsh and grumpy ¬ 11:54 11-Feb-13
- Hi Spike. Well I didn't run away as I was updating UnNews and the feature page. Not sure I understand the quote and context. Who is/are the 'we'? --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 12:48, February 11, 2013 (UTC)
An archetypal grumbly conservative (no one we know) lamenting that "liberal" in the U.S. has lost its association with liberty. I forgot to mention: Your protege Dannyboy was in with a change, and noted same on his talk page--a copy of a joke told elsewhere, and Snippy got to it first. And I heard that Wikia is playing hardball on the Spanish Uncyclopedia, declining to feed interwiki traffic to a site that doesn't return the favor. Spıke ¬ 12:58 11-Feb-13
PS--Looking for stuff to feature? Xedoc has a rewrite of F. Scott Fitzgerald that might be ready. Spıke ¬ 15:27 11-Feb-13
Toast Wars
Mnbvcxz has VFD'd this, in conjunction with two grade-school rants involving various Popes. However, this one has erudition, especially after I cleared away all the sequel "toast wars." You might be able to contribute more specifics from history, more puns, and perhaps a photo or two. Spıke ¬ 17:35 11-Feb-13
Content warning stuff. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:08, February 12, 2013 (UTC)
moaning
MrN
(talk to me) 02:57, Feb 15
I think the new content warning is only being seen in Australia. Thanks for your many sited votes on the soap guy article, and the backhanded backhand on the other site. MrN hates the page because it has no laughs for him, and tore me a new one on that other site too, and my new one is working fine but children point and draw pictures to sell to strangers. If wishes were horses (a fine page you did there) I'd be riding Secretariat's bones. Al 10:38 Happy Valentines Candy Buying Day '13
- I can see it but it is better than the kitties. I had wanted Oscar and the template but perhaps it was too 'navelist'. Anyway, of more importance is what we can show behind the front door. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 10:45, February 14, 2013 (UTC)
- I get blamed for everything. :( I'm told it's because I'm too stupid. MrN
Fork you! 00:57, Feb 15
- Didn't the template and the pic of Oscar win the vote, and Puppy closed the vote? So I thought that was chosen as the new warning label. MrN has stupid centered on his family crest, but he can't read it. If stupid were a colour it'd be named MrN. Every time stupid looks in the mirror, MrN is staring back (and he can't understand the concept of mirrors, and is surprised each time). When people were looking for stupid in the woods, MrN came out from behind a tree. When a UFO wants to find the stupidest man on earth, MrN will be waving at them to "Land right here!". Eating cake with pickles is MrN's favorite meal. But I digress... the warning label, yeah, serious, didn't the template win? Aleister 2:48 15-2-'13
- What Al said - about the warning template, not MrN - but I'd add the vote was close. The vote about the warning template - the vote on MrN hasn't closed yet. • Puppy's talk page • 03:04 15 Feb
I hate reading history
I'm just reading up on WWI and WWII (including the Sino-Japanese war) because of you. I've also decided Charles á Court Repington is responsible for both of them. He supported bolstering UK troops prior to 1914 (as well as being a soldier himself) and first coined the term “First World War” in 1918, stating “The history of the world is the history of war.” Given that's what it was being called, no wonder we insisted on a sequel.
Also noticed Kaiser Bill was high command of UK forces at the advent of the war, as was Hirohito 20 odd years later. Then Saddam Hussein was armed and trained by the US, (as was Iran at the same time), and so was Osama Bin Laden. We have a tendency to create our own enemies.
And then we have Bletchley Park being responsible for the advent of computers, and Arpanet being responsible for the Internet. So the military - both in war and “peace” - is responsible for the advent of the Information Age.
And I'm going to continue reading and turning this around until I have the picture drawn the way I want it to be. And it's all your bloody fault! • Puppy's talk page • 03:43 16 Feb
- Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz...--
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 15:53, February 16, 2013 (UTC)
- The sun is the same in a relative way, and I could while away the hours conversing with the flowers. • Puppy's talk page • 03:59 16 Feb
Second pair of eyes, please
- Leandro1983 has uploaded two photographs of pairs of people and has seeded several pages, including Elton John, with them. I am not sure whether there is any point other than a serious anti-gay-marriage message.
- In my conversation on User talk:Nopartablewarning, he seemed to be saying that The Cuteyhearts, an amusing page on the formation of an awful amateur girl-group, was using Uncyclopedia to promote a pre-existing hoax or maybe even an actual stage act.
- In other news, I deleted Unquotable:Steven Wright by Phrank Psinatra, after Puppy cited it as junk in alternate namespaces, on the grounds that it was copypasted humor from an external web site. Spıke ¬ 21:08 17-Feb-13
Others may feel free to comment, too. Spıke ¬ 21:08 17-Feb-13
- My comments, which are worth a bucket of warm spit. The picture is boring, if it's the one I was looking at. That's not even Elton John in it, and it means nothing except maybe to the user. - The Cuteyhearts seems light hearted and boring, so real or not it seems okay but a bit juvenile. It does have a link to The Shaggs, which is to its everlasting credit (I have a copy of The Shaggs original album, and don't know if they made more than one (not one copy, one album)). - Lots of junk around here, but that is the way of the world. Aleister 1:14 18-2
Thanks, Al; elsewhere, Puppy believes that The Cuteyhearts is intentionally a satire on The Shaggs. Spıke ¬ 01:28 18-Feb-13
- I removed the pic as the guy on the left is former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He is also married so I am finding it hard to see how that image adds to 'the funny' to either article. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 10:34, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
There were two photos, inserted into articles a total of 4 times. I have reverted YMCA and huffed both photos, which were uploaded without any description, on presumed vanity. I see you have asked Leandro for an explanation; they can be restored if he offers one. Spıke ¬ 12:38 18-Feb-13
- I see - essentially photo spamming articles. OK, we'll see if he tries to restore them or responds to my explanation but no further action for now regards this account. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 12:55, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
Users C1322978 and C1326159
I have blocked these users for 1 day "pending investigation." The first one added a page to Category:Things Retards Believe by simply editing the category and typing in the name of the page. I reverted, and listed the category on VFD on substantive grounds. Then the second one typed the same page back in, as a red-link. Apart from the fact that the user is playing with categories without learning how to, and is using categories to write a drive-by slap (at the expense of British Intelligence, if I may digress into oxymorons) rather than clever humor, these usernames are at least an effort to evade the responsibility of having an identity, and may be sockpuppets. Please advise. Spıke ¬ 12:26 18-Feb-13
- I would have just reverted without banning, depends if they repeat the actions. Can't tell if the actions are by someone who is new to the site or a sockpuppet which would require rolling out check user. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:42, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
If you aren't inclined to ask for checkuser based on the incident, I'll bring them back to life. Spıke ¬ 13:58 18-Feb-13
- I think the Chief can check use as a bureaucrat. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 14:04, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
- You might be thinking of the fork. Only staff can checkuser here, unless something changed recently. --Mn-z 14:48, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
- I think you're right. Thanks. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 15:16, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
Consultation
- I have banned Samh2012 for a week for multiple incivilities, which I explain (underneath you) on his talk page.
- Mnbvcxz asserts via QVFD that File:Pogrom.jpg is so graphic as to violate our policy. In my opinion, we have no censorship policy apart from that of Wikia, which they see to promptly. (PS--But see below.) However, several weeks back, a photo was offered up on VFD and someone made the claim that Mordillo laid down the law against "snuff pics." This JPG is in use in Final Solution, which I nominated last night for featuring (running, as usual, with images switched off). Is it too graphic to be funny, especially in context of an article that plays nicety-nice with the Holocaust? Should it be deleted outright? Spıke ¬ 19:41 19-Feb-13
- I would replace it as I recall someone did something similar about the Nanking Massacre and used some death images. I don't mind 'death in art' (David's painting of Marat) but I using photos like this is a bit too much. I suggest asking the author first if he can change it otherwise we will have to locate a different image that isn't so graphic. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 20:29, February 19, 2013 (UTC)
- OK I will ask him. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 20:29, February 19, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm glad you're looking at removing this image, I think there's a lot to say for allowing people a bit of dignity in death - especially when they didn't actually get any when they died. And there are always other images that can be used...
- But I have to rant a bit about "we have no censorship policy". Guys, you should (and did) have some limits. I know this is something I've grumped at before (always with my non-staff hat on), but I've got to do so again. Ignoring Wikia's limits for a moment, the line used to be: no shock images, no porn, and no boobs unless they were funny - that is, none that weren't in an article and an intrinsic part of the joke. That last bit got lost first, when people started piling on the nudie shots for personal collections (I never understood what that had to do with building a humor website). Sure, Wikia (or more specifically, me) will eventually remove images outside the ToU, but surely there should still be a level of self-regulation... just as there is for articles that are unfunny. I'm not asking for an child friendly site, but there are two reasons that Goatse doesn't contain the actual image. Firstly, because it's more funny that way, and secondly because no one (well, almost no one) wants to see that image as they move around uncyc.
- Again, this is all personal opinion, not staff opinion.. and maybe I'm a prude, but I honestly don't believe that this wiki needs porn or shock to be funny. There are plenty of other sites that occupy that spot already. -- sannse (talk) 22:06, February 19, 2013 (UTC)
- I stand corrected, as Special:Upload states that very policy--against "pornographic/shock/gore" and in our name not Wiki's. Separately, I agree with you that we don't need porn or shock to be funny, and those who do are for the most part recently removed. On the image in question, I agree with Romartus on giving the author the chance to correct it rather than rip a hole in his article and risk its advance to the main page (by which time the issue must be dealt with). Spıke ¬ 23:27 19-Feb-13
- Everyone has a different line where they define porn. For me it's war and violence and the kiilling of animals of any kind. That's porn. Showing that fat guy eating a hamburger is snuff porn. Eye of the beholder. Wikipedia has graphics and photos which are much much more sexually explicit than anything I've seen here, by far. Even videos on talk pages. They show the body as a natural thing. Eating a chicken leg, unnatural and porn, unless you are a coyote or something. Aleister 00:10 20-2-'13
Hea
I was hoping to e-mail you. Could I? I have an account which is mrn9k@yahoo.co.uk. If you are busy, that's cool. No biggie, I just had a few things I wanted to discuss with you off wiki. MrN
(talk to me) 20:46, Feb 19
- Ok. I will send an email to your address. --
RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 21:45, February 19, 2013 (UTC)