User talk:Chosen One

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Welcome to Wikicities! Thanks for all your contributions here. Angela (talk) 04:54, 26 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Hi the chosen one! I'm new here, and I may not be here regularly, but i need someone to talk to. Mudbloodandproud

Group meeting
Well, I may be able to and I may not. You see, my family and I have a trip scheduled to go see my grandparents, but I may be coming down with an allergy attack, so we may not be going&hellip; anyway, that's not the best time for me &mdash; I could make it either tomorrow night at around that time or next Saturday at that time, but if I'm the only one that can't make it, don't reschedule just for me. Cheers, Hermione1980 00:19, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Never mind; I can make it. See you there. Hermione1980 16:16, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Well thanks sooooooo much for inviting me to this little party of yours. Real nice. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:00, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * You'd better thank your lucky Dark Marks I even considered inviting you. ;)    19:02, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * First you steal my Dark Mark signature, then you don't even invite me to your little meeting. How generous your almighty puniness. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:07, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Did I say that I'm not inviting you to our meeting? Curious, I must have been Obliviated.    19:09, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, everyone else got a nice little note on their talk page, and I didn't see the one in the CPortal until just now. You are still puny. And I know aaaaall about you and that little blood-traitor Weasley girl. I'm watching you. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:24, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm watching you, too, so watch out, or else. ;) Your Horcruxes will be MINE!!!    19:36, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Hi Chosen One, I would have liked to attend the meeting but unfortunately I have other commitments... I haven't done a whole lot since I started this Wiki, but hopefully I'll be able to find some time in the future. I look forward to seeing the results of the meeting. - SeanR 08:54, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Admins and tools
Hello, there isn't yet a version of Kate's tool here yet. Was there something specific you wanted from it? Vostok is able to make you an admin on this wiki, but he hasn't been around for a while. Do you have any experience of being an admin on a MediaWiki wiki? Is there anything you need adminship for yet? Angela (talk) 05:34, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * I've requested the extension be installed here, but I don't think it will work until we upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5. You will need to view your edits here and count them manually for now. I'd suggest you read the Administrators' how-to guide and wait until you have more experience with the wiki before becoming an admin. Unless there is a lot of vandalism here, which so far there isn't, there's not much of a need to have admins, but let me know if that changes. Angela (talk) 11:01, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I missed it...
Something came up at the last second. I was really looking forward to the little chat. I went back and read the discussion. I think we NEED to have at least a few more editors to make this thing even viable. I also think it wouldn't hurt to copy and paste from WP on some article, since they are so complete (some of the books and main characters and such). Then we can go take out the pointless links. I know this isn't great, but then we can go and add our own little style to them. I really think getting editors should be our number one goal at this point. It doesn't really seem that many WP editors in the WikiProject Harry Potter want to edit here, but maybe people outside the wiki world would like this project. Not really sure where or when to advertise. I guess for now just keep plugging away at the articles. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 14:05, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Admin
Hi Chosen One. I've made you an admin because of your great contributions, and you seem to have a firm grasp on the direction the Wiki should go in. If for some reason you'd prefer not to be an admin, let me know and I'll make other arrangements. - Vostok 04:53, 9 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd be glad to help in any way I can, and if being an admin is one of them, so be it.    08:38, 9 Oct 2005 (UTC)

MuggleNet
Does MuggleNet knw about this???Padme829 21:55, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)Padme829

Main Page
Why did you put "official" before "Harry Potter Wiki" on the Main Page? We're not affiliated with Warner Bros., Rowling, or anybody else involved with the series, so I don't think we're "official". Hermione1980 13:39, 23 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, we are not the "Official Harry Potter Wiki", for the reasons Hermione1980 pointed out. 11:29, 25 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Hey, will there ever be another group discussion?Padme829 02:56, 26 Nov 2005 (UTC)Padme829

Sig
Uh-oh! I think you might not have that "raw signatures" box ticked on preferences. I think that's the reason why your sig is messed up. 03:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Signature
Hey up Chosen One. How did you get your sig to be red and orange? reply on my talk page.--Daniel O 19:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey again, how do you change the colour on the sig???Daniel O 19:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars Fan?
If you dont mine me asking, are you a Star Wars Fan, (Im just wondering, be cause Star Wars has a Chosen, along with Dark Lords and Bounty Hunters). Double D 14:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the Chosen One refers to Harry, who defeated voldemort, which is oddly smiliar to the Chosen one in SW, where Anakin defeats the sith.(btw, are you a wookiepedian Double D?)Nick sponge 00:38, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Batiu-Drami
You may want to check out User talk:Batiu-Drami. I've already removed the message by 193.194.84.198. Apparently, 193.194.84.198 added warning (a long time ago...) which I suspect to be false because the non-existent Special:Sandbox was stated in the warning...--Wikipedia:User:GHe or Wikia:c:inheritance:User:GHe

Userboxes
Hi, I was wondering if this Wiki has Userboxes, like Wikipedia and Wookiepedia.Nick sponge 00:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Almost a week with no admins
This site has gone for almost a week without any admins stopping by. Luckily there was no massive vandalism attack. Eli Falk 11:51, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Please block Draco Malfoy, who seems to be coming in order to vandalize. Eli Falk 07:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Protecting your signiture
I think you should protect your signiture page, since it's being vandalized repeatedly. Eli Falk 06:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Will do. The  Chosen  One  (Choose me!) 12:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Untitled
How the frigget do you get a user description box thingy????? you know, the one with your birthday, house, occupation, and what not?????????? I can find one. rawr.yes, I'm challenged, I know. >.<--AngelicDemon92 23:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've replied to this users talk page. John Reaves 16:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Your welcome
Glad to see your back. You can probably catch up on some stuff at the community portal. I might be able to answer any other questions you have. By the way, if you have an e-mail, would you enable it at your preferences in case there is the need for off wiki contact. Why the long absence anyway? John Reaves (talk) 22:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * See my message about the "new messages" bar at the community portal. John Reaves (talk) 08:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

HP Deathly Hallows
Hi. I notice you just put a tag on this article asking for it to be de wikipediafied. Which bits are you worried about? I wrote quite a lot of the article on wikipedia, and as such, any of my own work I have included is therefore copyright to me and includeable anywhere I fancy. However, perhaps you are worried it simply looks like the one there, which it rather would since I formatted it the way I wanted there too, but while I also might prefer it to look more different, it was how I thought it best to set it out. Some of it isn't even in their article yet, since it is currently a disputed page. Sandpiper 21:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Discretion is a difficult thing, since it is rather a matter of judgement. Before I wrote anything I checked the copyright page here somewhere, and I specifically found a piece saying that if you are the author of something, then you should not tag it as coming from a different wiki, where you had already posted the same thing. It is my understanding of wiki licencing that you are granting wiki a licence to use the material whatever way it pleases, but this is not an exclusive licence. Some people specifically place tags on their user pages with multiple licensing consents for their contributions. If someone copies from wikipedia, then they have to obey the wikipedia licence. However, if they are re-posting their own material, then they are at liberty to re-licence anyway they please. (i.e, you here now own a similar licence on the same material. Anyone copying it to pedia will have to credit you). So, with regard to licencing, I havn't copied anything from wikipedia. However, while I was working on other articles too, I was updating the pedia articles in line with ones I was editing here. So they would naturally be becoming more similar.
 * As to the HP7 article, there is also some significant similarity between 'pedia and various websites. The reason I initially became involved with the page was because wiki was posting essentially a straight copy of Lexicon's page at one point. I thought it an important page, so rewrote it pretty much entirely. But all pages of this sort are pretty much a list. But while we are on the subject of copies of pedia, I have now been having a go at Sybill trelawney, which struck me as not only a copy of the 'pedia page, but a rather out of date copy. One I remember rewriting on pedia some time ago too. I do undertsand what you are saying about the importance of making articles distinctive, but there is also the question of whether a distinctive incomplete article is better than a more detailed but rather familiar one. Also, there is a big big difficulty in making articles different, in that they are being presented with the same software and styling. Every page here looks like a wiki page. Sandpiper 10:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


 * As to diclaimers, what does The opinions and theories expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of its authors or of the Winkypedian community.  mean, and where, and under what circumstances might someone want to use it? Has it been vandalised?Sandpiper
 * But I am still at a loss as to exactly when and where one might use such a tag. is there a page explaining it, or an example somewhere of it being used? I am of the faction which would argue that analysis of this general sort ought to exist on wikipedia, so perhaps there is a need to be more precise when appealing to my sense of encyclopedic information.Sandpiper 10:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It contadicts Rowling's specific explanatory statements to suggest that Hermione is the one mentioned in the prophecy, and again to argue that despite all the odds Dumbledore will turn up alive. Perfectly consistent he might turn up as portrait, pensieve, note to Harry, whatever, but he will be dead. So these two examples are arguing against Rowling. Not so much possible interpretations, but more like wildcard alternatives to her story. So I would consider them far out. (Though I am not as certain as some seem to be that Rowling would never 'lie' to questioners, but not on this, it is too specific.)


 * Now, debating points whether Snape is a good guy or a bad guy is not in the same sense controversial. Some on wikipedia get shirty about that sort of thing, but I regard it as sensible analysis. But who is going to draw a line where, here? Also, I think others might have the same reaction to the tag as I do, that it looks like nonsense. How can a speculative  article not represent the opinions of its authors? Nevery mind what a winkypedian might be. I always have a difficulty with the wikipedian notion of original research, since, at least as some people choose to interpret it, it defies the process of writing an article. To write about Snape, I read about Snape. Then I have to choose which pieces to insert, which to leave out. That is an exercise in editorial judgement, and it is, in my book, original research.  But then, I always see things differently.


 * Re Sybill, I wasn't hinting it needed a tag, but I'm not necessarily arguing it shouldn't have one, either. I aim to work on it more, but once again I have this big difficulty that if I work on this one, or 'pedias, they have what I see as the same deficiencies, so I incline towards inserting the same stuff....oh, dear. As I said, it is easier, say, for Lexicon to make an article look different because they start by using a different house style. But they also have the same content. The content is what the content has to be, because it is based on what Rowling wrote. Sandpiper 18:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Black Family Tree
The Black Family Tree article seems to be almost entirely a picture of the tree as drawn by HP-Lexicon. The image page says as much, but I was wondering exactly what your position is on that. I don't suppose lexicon mind, since in the past they have been happy to be copied so long as they are credited, but all the same. Sandpiper 23:40, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I have a family tree program, which while I would normally say produces terrible graphics, it might be coaxed into producing something without too much difficulty, so I will look into it. Sandpiper 10:34, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I've deleted it as a copyvio because it can't qualify under fairuse. I've also sent an e-mail to hp-lexicon asking for them grant us exclusive rights. John Reaves (talk) 20:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Er, I hope that wasn't exclusive rights, because at the very least I imagine they want to carry it themselves. I can no doubt create a new tree, since the information itself is not copyright, only the presentation. My difficulty is that the information seems to be changing. Lexicon are now posting thee Blacks dying in the same year, Walburga's son, her husband and her brothe Cygnus. Cygnus' new dates seem to have come from the film of OOP. Quite remarkable that 3 Blacks could have died from natural causes in the same year. Sandpiper 09:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * right, see new tree posted. I have taken the view that it is better to include all known information, rather than just what was on the donated version. (ie include the burn-offs and spouses, etc.) This is not in any real way a reproduction of Rowling's version, so it might as well be complete. Sandpiper

E-mail
I sent you an e-mail, but I didn't know if you ever got that worked out, so I figured I'd leave a message here too. John Reaves (talk) 22:19, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply
How is that suspicious? You can see any edits I made and there is a log of everything. I just wanted to test something with Special:Giverollback. I did my test and then had the rights removed as soon as I was able to contact Wikia staff. John Reaves (talk) 17:57, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

RE:Welcome

 * Thanks so much for your kind welcome. I appreciate it. :) I'll do my best to contribute to article and things to help out; at the moment I'm trying to rewrite the Harry article so it's dewikipediafied. It's fun! :D -- 17:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Question

 * hey, I've started my own wiki, and I was wondering this: How do you change the background on the message you get when you have a new message? Is it in the system messages somewhere? Thanks, -- 17:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! Also, would I be able to use Mediawiki:Edittools? Of course, you would be credited for it..... -- 06:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Possible vandalism
I was unsure about warning the user myself, but I believe that the page Tristan tzara, which was added 4/26/2007, is a case of vandalism, or at least a bad joke. Tristan Tzara was a Romaniam poet and cofounder of Dadaism. Hence the joke about him being the DADA teacher in book 7. Just wanted to let an Admin know. Thanks! --Wydok 21:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Anything you think need to be deleted, can have added to it. John Reaves (talk)

Did you hit your head?
The simple idea of another admin using a template on a fellow admin is so abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous and  beyond any realm of sanity I've ever known that I don't even know what to think. There had to be no doubt in your mind that that was mistake, so I don't understand what on Earth could possibly motivate you to do such a thing. And to say "He tends to get a little confused sometimes"?!? What a condescending little prick you must be. John Reaves (talk) 21:44, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, sorry about the harshness of that, but I'm still don't quite understand the reasoning behind many of your edits. Calling me "Johnny" and saying "He tends to get a little confused sometimes" are incredibly condescending things to say.  You've so far failed to communicate with me an any way (you haven't replied to are previous e-mail conversation nor have you made any on-wiki contact). John Reaves (talk) 02:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi there! I'd like to ask you both to work a little harder to assume good faith here -- you are both good admins who are experienced enough to work out the misunderstanding over Hermione Granger in a civil way.  It looks like it was simply a case of a quick trigger finger on the revert button -- both sides could have looked a little closer at the history and tried to communicate on the article or user talk pages, before "fixing" a page that would have done no harm if it had remained as it was for five or ten minutes.


 * ChosenOne, your recent behavior and choice of words does seem a little bizarre, and I can understand why John has gotten upset -- the tone isn't appropriate treatment for someone you trust enough to have as an admin. While you may or may not have understood that using a template on his talk page would irritate him, you would have been better off taking an extra sixty seconds to explain in your own words, as the template didn't do anything to help a fellow admin to understand where the misunderstanding was.


 * Likewise, John Reaves, your harsh language and response is equally unacceptable -- while I understand your anger, and that you have already apologized for the outburst, I'd like to ask you to be more careful in the future. I stumbled across this small dispute because a new user asked the staff if this was normal behavior for Wikia admins -- please remember that your public behavior reflects on the project as a whole.


 * I think this was a very small and temporary problem, so I don't want to make it sound more important than it is; I just want you both to remember that your words here are public and (relatively) permanent, and visible to newbies and staff alike.  Please be patient and kind to each other, and communicate to work out your issues.  Thank you!  — Catherine o' the ComTeam 22:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Sourced Quotes
I was looking over your wiki and I see that it is a well constructed wiki exept for the source on quotes. I was looking over the article Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and it seems to have a lot of quotes by J.K. Rowling. I sourced one quote on the article R.A.B., but the ones done by outwide newspapers, I do not know, nor able to find out, where they came from. I suggest that you source your quotes in the normal fashion.

In this Wiki to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: [src]

Wikipedia to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (most likely used if referencing quotes in an outside newspaper): [src] Sith Penguin Lord 01:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Deathly Hallows
go on the page right now!!!

Way Back When...
lol I remember you! You were one of the original admins! ha ha oh good times... Padme829 01:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)Padme829

Vandalism
I'm just passing through this wiki, and I found quite a lot of vandalism from User:Voldpen15. I've cleared up all the vandalism I could find however I'm not sure about your wiki's blocking policy but you may want to look into one in this case. I've cross posted this to User talk:John Reaves (As he's listed as the other active admin) in hopes that whoever gets to it first can stop before any more damage is done. Hope everything here is going well.

70.48.241.107 04:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC) -Canadian-Bacon en-wikipedia