User talk:Ilyanep

User Talk page for: Ilyanep

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Thanks a lot! Ilyanep

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Nobody seems to be commenting on or talking to me...I have no need to archive, but I'm lonely! :( -- ilyanep 21:48 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

oh ! Say, I just picked up a beer. I'll drink it thinking of you. You know, sometimes your talk page fills up with good thoughts, sometimes it fills up with acrimony. user:anthere

Lol, I don't care, I want it to fill up! :) Ok, maybe I do care :) -- ilyanep 21:48 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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I have recently requested Sysop status, see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship for more details. -- ilyanep 21:48 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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IF anyone can find me a list or help with the variables such as {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} so I can place stuff easier, please tell me, or post here -- ilyanep 21:48 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Note from Ilyanep: This is a reply to This mailing list post (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-June/004634)

Regular users can solve edit disputes by the expedient of editing articles and talking to the parties in question. Personally, I prefer not to protect pages in such circumstances: let them exhaust each other in revert wars, and then both sides are more likely to start thinking about compromise. But then, I have sadistic tendencies... ;-) Martin

Well, I was trying to make a case of why I want to be admin...I mean if they're reverting for a whole week straight...IT's really hard to have any information there. Actually, it's when you get people commenting on your talk page is when you know you've been here enough to be a regular member :). ilyanep 21:47 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Which is another aid. People normally get in edit wars because they care deeply about some subject. When they realise they're polluting the page history of a subject they care deeply about, and stopping other people from working on it, they normally start to work things out. But hey, maybe I'm just an incurable optimist! :) Martin

Well, I could be an incurable pessimist :) -- ilyanep 22:09 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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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 signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Wikipedia:Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun! --Eloquence 23:04 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thank you very very much :) -- ilyanep 23:08 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Note from Ilyanep: This is a reply to a message I posted on Notheruser's Talk page which read:

"Notheruser,
I'm wondering what you meant by 'rm torvalds; definitely not a household name' in your edit on the Main PAge. I'm sorry if I'm new at this...I read the article about editing the front page, and don't get a lot of it. I'm wondering if you can explain to me what was wrong with having Torvalds as a link there. ilyanep 23:47 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
PS: I reccomend archiving"

Hello (I was just about to tell you why I removed it when you asked :). A few things to keep in mind about the front page: make sure the "selected articles" section displays fine on an 800x600 display (mainly, no extra line breaks), make sure the article is more than a stub before listing it, and, for the "in the news" section, make sure it's "headline" news (think cnn front page). Oh yeah, one other thing, add new items to the front not the back. Well, I think that about covers it. Regards. -- Notheruser 23:55 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

OH, well thanks for the explaination...I hope I can do better later on. ilyanep 23:59 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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I thought I should keep this for archive purposes: ilyanep 00:29 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

"Eloquence: about the message you posted on my talk page about becoming a sysop, what did you mean by "you can protect pages when asked to". Asked to by whom, I ask? (lol, that sounds weird). Please respond on My User Talk Page. ilyanep 00:06 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)" See two things above about becoming admin

"Sorry, no extras :-). See Wikipedia:Protected page for details on when to protect pages. Specifically, if another user asks you to help in an edit war, you can use your own judgment on whether you want to protect the page to enforce a "cool down" period. This should be sparingly used, because this is a wiki after all -- pages should remain as editable as possible. --Eloquence 00:09 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)"

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Yee-haw! MY first successful non-reverted Main page edit! ilyanep 15:49 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Break out the...grape juice (Lol, not old enough to drink champaine :)

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Heh. OK, what you need to know is that clicking rev changes the image to the version alongside. So click on the dated link first to see what you're reverting to, then you can click the "rev" next to it. Evercat 23:34 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Alright, sorry. ilyanep 23:35 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

That's OK, I think I did that myself once. It's totally dodgy because the revert link is where the diff link would be in a normal page history... :-) Evercat 23:56 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

That's really mostly the reason that I did that. ilyanep 23:59 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Who said, I'm a banana? Is it an original quote of your own? Deb 21:36 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, Me, I guess :) Ilyanep 01:00 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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hello i guess i am somebody so hello how are you going? G Prime 04:18 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)