User talk:TUFKAAP/Archive 1

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Lead up to Iraq war: as threats decreased, bombings increased

Hi TUFKAAP! The bone head who got off on 3 topics on this was me :) It's a long story, chopped at and other stuff. Lead up to Iraq war: as threats decreased, bombings increased Actually, KevinBass started sources on it and that was the end of his involvement. -Edbrown05 05:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Mornin', TUFKAAP!

Thanks for the publish After reading the Richmond newspaper's account on the event I decided that what had been on teevee and the AP stories were sensationalism. Granted, the event wasn't wholly nice, and certain people admitted to bad behavior, but it wasn't a riot - more likely a fracas - and the riot squad wasn't dispatched. However, free-for-all might come close, eh?

Anyway, what're your thoughts? - Regards, --Kevin L. Bardon 14:55, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Happy Birthday TUFFKAPP!

I mean Cameron, i mean Ted, i mean happy Birthday TUFKAPP! -Edbrown05 04:14, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for the support vote on commons :-). Happy Birthday! Dan100 (Talk) 10:22, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

New Main Page design proposal

I invite you and others to see Main Page Talk, where I have proposed a new Main Page for Wikinews. Best wishes, NGerda 01:54, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Kahn-Yay

Hey, just to let you know, it's Kanye West, not Kayne West. I've fixed it a few times already. Thanks for writing stories about him though. - McCart42 (talk) 13:30:49, 2005-09-10 (UTC)

logos

Could you please include a source link with the logos? Helps with checking them. - Amgine/^talk 22:51, 13 September 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. You will find more information on Wikinews: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 13:04, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

• Congrats! Glad to see you as an Admin! --Mrmiscellanious 00:35, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

RC patrolling, article tags

Wanted to say, you're doing yeoman work watching the recent changes. Great job watching for issues!

When you tag an article though, you don't need to put a whole bunch of different tags on the top of the article itself. One will do. Then explain why the tag was applied on the discussion page. If there are more issues than are covered by a single tag, add them to the discussion page, to expand on what you say there about what needs to be changed to improve the article. - Amgine/^talk 05:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

yeah, like that person said!! -Edbrown05 05:11, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Wilma

Hi ya :) How is it the Wilma is 1st storm starting with a dubya when in 1933 there were also 21 storms -68.232.153.54 18:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC) Sorry, lazy me should log on -Edbrown05 18:03, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Hassan essay

Hi! Where did you find that? -Edbrown05 05:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, I don't quite know how to respond beyond that for the momment. -Edbrown05

Jon Stewart

You certainly make a fool out of me when I said that you wouldn't write any more once you became an admin. Thanks for that informative and entertaining "Entertainment" story. -Edbrown05 10:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

As an aside to the outrageously nice stuff I've said about you, don't you ever again get two lead stories at the same time, or heaven forbid, three. :) Edbrown05 23:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Cheers ;-) i try my best! :-D Spum 13:12, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Jill Carroll image

I cannot find this image on the Christian Science Monitor website. It appears to be a licensed news image, rather than a publicity image, so I am deleting it as a violation of the fair use policy. Just wanted to let you know why. - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN} 08:39, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Response

Yeah, I plan on mentioning their rebuttals. Ral315 03:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Clarify

That was what Internation wrote in response to you on his talk page...What I said in IRC... Jason Safoutin 17:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Block of International

Hi, would you be so kind as to list the 3 RRs at the admin page where Chiacomo set up the template[1]? 3 RRs have been such a big discussion issue on the water cooler, I think that would help. Neutralizer 18:00, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm also interested in seeing this violation listed for review. There has been some discussion on listing of violation being a "should" item with only MrM dissenting on a proposed wording on the issue. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked for violating the 3RR rule. International 03:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Images

By removing those images you are breaking wikinews's archives Brian | (Talk) | ^{New Zealand Portal} 18:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I wasn't complaining just commenting. It annoys me when commons goes and delete images (Plus as you had no edit summary, how are other users/ new users to now what was going on) Apart from that thanks sparring the time to do it. Brian | (Talk) | ^{New Zealand Portal} 18:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Unblocking of MrM

The three revert rule policy page provides an exception to the three revert rule for "simple vandalism". It states "This exception does not apply to reversions of well-established users just because you consider their edits to be "vandalism." Simple vandalism is indisputable—don't confuse it with edits which you simply disagree with." I don't see how the edits that MrM reverted can be considered simple vandalism. Can you please reconsider your decision to unblock MrM in light of this? - Borofkin 04:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

"There are some who never manage to distinguish between their own political views and NPOV...like StrangerInExile"

If you are going to say things like that about me, back it up: I challenge you to find edits of mine on articles that justify such a statement. I am an activist on various fora, an editor on Wikipedia and a jounalist here. It bothers me that you would assume because I am an activist on certain fronts that this makes my commitment to NPOV somehow suspect. The fact that you went and sprung MrM from the block after a spree of blatent POV-warring on his part— under cover of administrative authority no less!— makes it hypocritical. StrangerInParadise 20:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

SIP, keep your problems about me with me. Don't bring others into the mix. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 20:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I've done the reverse: I've dragged you into my problem with him. You talked your way out of a block, on blatently specious grounds. We can squab about that, but right now I'm taking him to task for letting you do it, and suggesting what he said above. StrangerInParadise 21:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Somebody bombed a mosque, how is this not terrorism?

Say your revert in passing, had to ask... StrangerInParadise 05:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Rfda

This is a message to inform you that I have added every administrator to the Rfda section on WN:A. This is not personal and I feel as if the community, who did not have the option of voting for or against most of the administrators, should be able to choose who they want to be in charge. I also want to say that I value everyones work on this site and I know that everyone does their best. I hope that none of you will take this personally and I hope that all of us will continue to work together. Jason Safoutin 12:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Congressional edits story

Hi Tufkaap--I see you were one of the earliest editors working on this investigation. Could you tell me more about the discovery of, research concerning, and group response to anonymous edits being made to Wikipedia from a variety of government offices. For example: What was the event that brought it to your attention? Did you enlist collaborators, and if so, how? Did you come to any general conclusions about protecting Wikipedia from anonymous POV-pushers in the future? I'm giving a short talk at Wikimania about the Congressional edits, the "Swiftboating" edit war, and similar mass-arrivals of new edits. w:UserTalk:Betsythedevine65.96.127.228 18:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

New roadmap unveiled for Northern Ireland devolution

Good work on New roadmap unveiled for Northern Ireland devolution. It is nice to see a well written neutral report on Northern Ireland. --Cspurrier 02:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

User photos

Please review this discussion: Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#User_photo.27s.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

New Policy has users up in smoke

Hello. I am not sure if you check this page anymore, but I thought you might be interested as to what is going on here at Wikinews: Wikinews:Image use policy/New wikimedia policy action plan. I am outraged as well as others...do you have an opinion? DragonFire1024 09:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

OR, blog?

Just seeing you got a pic of Nic Cage filming National Treasure-- would you like access to the Wikinews original reporting blog? Adding about original reporting to this blog is a great way of promoting Wikinews to people interested in Wikimedia. -- Zanimum 15:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I've sent an invitation to your Gmail account. It's best to post directly into the blog; alternatively you can have it aggregate your content like Steven did. -- Zanimum 15:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I've sent to the MSN email now, and resent to the original addy. Fingers crossed. -- Zanimum 15:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Republican Sinn Fein protesters.jpg

May intreast you as you are original uploader of that image. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Cup Logo

That looks great. Yeah, .gif files always leave that junk all over the place. The .png file will work much better. Thanks. --wjmoore 23:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

myskin.css

I just wanted to mention, Wikinews:custom skin is a php skin. For it to be enabled, it would have to be done by developers, and it would appear in special:preferences under skins. special:mypage/myskin.css is the css when you select myskin from the special:preferences skin menu. (Myskin sort of has a lot of unstyled html in,good for modifying the apperence with css. For example I sometimes use an egyption skin i found in my user:Bawolff/myskin.css) Bawolff ☺☻ 20:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Recent archiving

When you just recently protected some pages for archiving, you used cascading protection, which also protected the infoboxes and any other templates used on the page. You probably should turn the "cascading" option off. You also didn't add the {{archive}} template to the page, so people might not know why it is protected. Just letting you know. :) —Zachary ^talk 21:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

WN:ARCHIVE says that articles have to be no less than 10 days old before archiving. You are archiving stories that are less than a week old (eg. Hawaii entertainer Don Ho dies at 76) --SVTCobra 21:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Reconfirmation

I've archived you're reconfirmation which turned out to be unanimously successful. You can read it again here: Wikinews:Administrators/Archive#TUFKAAP. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:37, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

cross wiki impersonation

q:User:TUFKAAP. –Doldrums(talk) 22:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Question Page

No, you haven't broken the rules, i've just been extremley busy in real-life. I'll go do that now, my apologies. Thunderhead - (talk) 17:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Lexington Ave steam explosion.jpg

Where did you get this image. It needs source information. --SVTCobra 01:30, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Having added the CC-BY-ND 2.0 licence tag, I would draw you're attention to the text that is part of that template. Adambro 09:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Because CC-BY-ND is not a permitted licence I've found a freely licenced similar alternative and changed the article. I understand you contacted the photographer of the image you added and so you might like to ask him to change it to CC-BY or CC-BY-SA so we can use it as it was a better image. Adambro 12:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Banhammer time

Thanks for your two infiniblocks. I noticed you unblocked this guy, and didn't re-block him...

• Mister Black (talk • contribs (logs) • block (block log))

irid:t 01:52, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. :) irid:t 01:55, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Obtaining mugshots

Hello,

I help maintain the following article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

A photo of the accused murderers was recently removed due to questionable copyright information. Fortunately criminal mug shots are public domain and thus open source and can be readily uploaded to Wikipedia. The only problem is I won't be able to obtain mug shots of the accused murderers' because I lack a reporters credential. Another wiki editor referred me to WikiNews and suggested I ask an accredited member for assistance in obtaining mugshots

The images in question can be found on this commercial news site, though they can't be copied due to copyright laws.

http://www.volunteertv.com/special/headlines/5686076.html

Would you be willing to contact the Knox County Sherriff's office to obtain these mugshots?

http://www.knoxsheriff.org/

It should be fairly easy for you, since you are an official WikiNews reporter. Graham Wellington 18:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Press pass

Sure, I'll create a pass pass for you. May I use the picture on your user page? Also, if you would like me to print and laminate it for you, could you e-mail me some kind of mailing address? messedrocker shift-2 gmail.com MessedRocker (talk) 20:29, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

69.227.151.150

In general, it isn't a good idea to block an IP address indefinitely unless it is an open proxy. I've adjusted the block time to 6 months. JoshuaZ 21:14, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Image:Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.jpg

Do you remember where you got this from? Did you do the captures yourself? Please reply at WN:DR. Cheers, --SVTCobra 21:31, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Complaint

Where can I file a complaint about your abuse of your admin powers? Please direct me to the appropriate section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.211.167 (talk) 04:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Question

Why is everybody being so mean to me? Is civility a policy here like it is on wikipedia?--Uga Man 23:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

VOA News

Although we often use VOA news stories, I don't think we want to go overboard with that... Opinions differ on the subject but I think we should focus on creating new stuff instead of becoming a VOA mirror site. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 08:47, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

VOA News multiple sources

I have noticed you have published a VOA article without a secondary source .See this quote from the style guide "Please do not publish an article until it has multiple sources, or there is agreement among editors that more sources are not available..." There is also an ongoing issue about this exact issue in the Water cooler so please comment on it there --Anonymous101 16:14, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• There is an active discussion on VOA articles in the Water cooler. You might want to check it out. --SVTCobra 17:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Wikinews-logo-election08.png

Hello TUFKAAP,

The image you created for USA 2008 presidential elections has words "ELECTIONS 2008" on it. Since there will be many elections in 2008 (e.g. in my country we will have at least 2 or 3 this year), it would be nice to add something like "USA ELECTIONS 2008" to the image, just to make Wikinews appear less US-centric. I know there is a President Seal on the image, but it's not the first thing that one sees when looks at the picture. Could you possibly fix it, or post a SVG somewhere, so I could quickly take care of it? Thanks. --89.216.185.76 13:27, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

For your contributions to Wikinews international report: "Anonymous" holds anti-Scientology protests worldwide

I hereby award you the Original Reporting Barnstar for your contributions to Wikinews international report: "Anonymous" holds anti-Scientology protests worldwide Skenmy^(t•c•w) 13:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Editorials

Hello. You asked to be included on the discussion about Wikinews Editorials. I have begun such discussion here: Please feel free to comment. --David Shankbone - (talk) 16:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:John Kerry via DVD.JPG

This is completely unacceptable. When you're able to come up with an appropriate description then upload it again. Adambro - (talk) 20:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for changing this. What is your intention with this image? Is it for a current or future article? Adambro - (talk) 20:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Clinton McCain.jpg

This doesn't look like its used (anymore?). Can it be deleted? Adambro - (talk) 11:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Portal images

I don't think you can mix gfdl images with cc-by-sa images and you can't ix cc-by-sa or gfdl imges with the Wikinews logo. By the way the images look brilliant. --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 17:23, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

claiming my pictures

you claimed my pictures on the scientology founders birthday news... i was in the rally so i couldnt say anything but i had pictures.. please credit me somehowRankun - (talk) 07:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)