User talk:Lradrama

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Hello, Lradrama, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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1 Toyota F1 - featured article standard
2 F1`/Alonso
3 Daniel Radcliffe
4 Edits to Acting
5 Real Zaragoza
6 Thank You
7 Assistance required
8 Cheers
9 Kevin Mitnick rv
10 hello

[edit] Toyota F1 - featured article standard

Let's get Toyota F1's Wikipedia page to featured article standard!

Toyota is my favourite F1 team, and I wish for their article to be the ultimate article. I keep up my edits, lets see what others can do.

Just for discussion matters, Toyota will always be my favourite F1 team; i think Renault, McLaren, BMW Sauber, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Super Aguri and Spyker are good; i'm wary of Williams because i don't want them to beat the works Toyota team with a Toyota engine, and i hate Ferrari and Honda. Sorry if fans of these teams are reading this page - everyone must have their favourites, and i don't want to start a rivalry argument.

Lradrama 19:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

If you want to get Toyota F1 to FA status, may I offer some suggestions for how to proceed?

It's a process you'll need to lead - Wikipedia is very 'freeform' and unless you drive the article on, it won't keep improving.
Look at the best articles out there - there is a list of featured and 'good' F1 articles on the WP:F1 page. Study those and see what others have done and consider whether you can replicate it for the Toyota page. Brabham (FA) and Fittipaldi Automotive (GA) are the most relevant to what you wish to do. (I have to declare a strong interest in both articles at this point!). See also Wikipedia:Featured_articles#Sport_and_recreational_activities for other FA sports articles.
Also check out Wikipedia:Article_development for more ideas.
It's normally useful to get views from many other people, both those familiar with Formula One, and those who are not. One way of doing this is the Peer Review process. Why not try listing Toyota F1 for a Peer Review to elicit suggestions for improving it to GA standard? Peer Review often does not bring up many responses - so try leaving a note at WP:F1 and WP:JAPAN to say that the article is up for Peer Review and why not Peer Review someone else's article from the list and leave them a note asking them (nicely!) to return the favour.
Having done that and considered whatever suggestions you get, then try listing the article for Good Article status. You may have a problem doing this during the season, since stability is one of the criteria, and the article will change quite a lot as the season goes on.
By then you should be in a good position to think about FA status, but may want another round of reviewing by other editors to confirm your thoughts.
Enjoy it! 4u1e 8 March 2007, 15:48

[edit] F1`/Alonso

Hi. You've raised a few issues, let me try and address them all.

Please don't feel "embarassed" - that certainly wasn't my intention.
Yes, it's a fact that Alonso's success has helped F1 for the reasons you mentioned, however "Alonso's success attracted millions of new Spanish fans, which was very good for Formula 1" is a very strong statement. You and I can agree it's a fact, however someone who has no knowledge of F1 will not take that as a given. This is a featured article we are talking about, and the introduction of uncited material will, if unchecked, lead to a challenge to its FA status. In summary, it needs a reference.
To be honest you made a better case on my talk page than you did with the edit in question.
Finally while I have conceded that it is a fact that Alonso's success has been good for F1, it's not up to an encyclopedia to state what is good and what isn't. The best way to go about is something like "given the success of Fernando Alonso, average F1 viewing figures in Spain have risen by X%" or "attendance at the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix was up Y%" etc. etc. That way we are making no assertion about "good" or "bad", we are presenting facts and letting the reader make up their mind. Mark83 21:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Radcliffe

Wikipedia's verifiability policy makes clear that the "threshold for inclusion ... is verifiability, not truth." You state that Radcliffe has confirmed his involvement in all Potter films; do you have a reliable source for this assertion? RadioKirk (u|t|c) 20:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Before I prove myself, there are two reasons why I would not lie on Wikipedia on this subject;

I am an honest person, and spend much of my time reverting abuse on the website, so I wouldn't mess others about...
I am an actor myself (albeit in training), and I know lots about Daniel Radcliffe, seen as he is one of those professionals who inspire me (I contributed lots of my extensive acting knowledge to the acting page.)

These are proof of my comment;

Enjoy reading... Lradrama 20:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Reply on Talk:Daniel Radcliffe. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 21:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Alright, alright, at least we've made each other clear on our views, and I now understand your intentions. Thankyou for replying. Lradrama 21:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Acting

There's really no need to apologise to Mathris for reverting his/her edits as that user's contribution was just linkspam (see WP:LINKS)--in fact, adding spam links is all that user has done. The articles Actor and Acting seem to attract a significant amount of spam and otherwise undesirable links, and, since you seem to be a prominent contributor to the latter article, you might want to keep an eye on what gets added to the "Suggested reading" section. Yesterday, that section was burdened with seven external links--rubbish every one of them. Regards, --ShelfSkewed [Talk] 13:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Real Zaragoza

That ip needs to be posted on AIV Crested Penguin 09:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Too right it (145.103.252.45) does... Lradrama 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

He has been reported Crested Penguin 10:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

That ip has now been blocked Crested Penguin 10:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

That's welcome news. Well done. Another 1 down, another few thousand to go... :-) Lradrama 11:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

Thank you for reverting my user page. I was actually on at the time he vandalized it, but I was busy looking over the history of today's featured article to make sure none of the vandals altered any other pages. That makes vandalism number two, and I didn't even provoke this one (I reverted the first vandal's edit to Uranium). --LuigiManiac | Talk 12:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

You are very welcome my friend! Happy editing... Lradrama 08:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assistance required

Hello, I was just wondering how to get the | icon up. Lradrama 13:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean this: "|"? Now that I look at the wikicode, it looks like it. Well, it actually should be on your keyboard. On my fairly standard keyboard it is on the same key as this slash: \. Just try pressing Shift + Whatever-key-you-have-\-on and you should get it. On my keyboard the key is on the same row as the numbers, immediately to the left of the backspace key. I hope this helps. --LuigiManiac | Talk 13:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

There's a thread on this at the bottom of the Help Desk at the moment; shift-\ and Alt Gr-` are the two most likely ways you might have to type it, and you can also click on the '|' in the box of symbols below the 'Save page' button (it's on the 'Wiki markup' row). --ais523 13:44, 20 March 2007 (U T C)

Ah yes! It works! Look... |! Thanks a lot - you've been very helpful to me today. Lradrama 13:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers

Dear Lradrama, Cheers! From DA Tardis! DA Tardis 18:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah! Yes! Sorry I couldn't sign my name, something wrong with the computer chaps!DA Tardis 18:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)yes cheers

[edit] Kevin Mitnick rv

I reverted back to cracker as it is the proper use in the article. Hacker and cracker are used to distinguish between legal and illegal programming techniques. I know it looks like vandalism but most law abiding professional programmers are considered hackers.--I already forgot 13:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see. That's fine. Thankyou for notifying me on the matter. Happy editing! Lradrama 13:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hello

Dear Lradrama, Hello everybody and d a tardis (dill)! From j w happy feet (jacob)!(J w happy feet 16:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC))

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