User talk:RoyBoy

Nominations

Two more ppl

I think en:User:Vsmith (awards: pet rock and crumpet) should get a counter-vandal and science barnstars; whereas en:User:SEWilco (diligence barnstar) should get at least a general barnstar, if not another one of some sort. This is getting to be quite an undertaking; our bad for not awarding these guys sooner! - RoyBoy 03:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I'd be very happy to join in with Vsmith. SEWilco - not a chance. Guettarda 03:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I've never had dealings with either, so I think I'll sit these two out. -- Ec5618 07:14, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

William M. Connolley and Vaughan we're mentioned on the Signpost, and could be deserving of a science barnstar each. Seriously these are the last two, for now. :"D - RoyBoy 04:42, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

William absolutely - he got mentioned in Nature by Jimbo; I don't know Vaughn, will have to look into his contribs. Guettarda 04:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Never had dealings with either, really, although I've seen William M. Connolley. Still, I'll sit and watch. -- Ec5618 07:15, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Count me in on WMC. FeloniousMonk 00:40, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I support WMC. 24.12.29.115 23:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

MPF is another person who comes to mind, if anyone knows him. en:User:Steinsky would deserve one if we gave awards for off-Wikipedia work, as the person behind Evo-WIki. Guettarda 14:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I personally never understood the need to have a separate wiki. I'm personally very critical of that particular effort. - Samsara 11:12, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Surely it's no different than Memory Alpha; the Star Trek wiki: there is no need to have all knowledge in one place, and Wikipedia is supposed to be encyclopedic. -- Ec5618 11:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

More importantly, Wikipedia has to be NPOV. EvoWiki has a mission to debunk creationist talking points, etc. Guettarda 13:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I've two contentions, one technical and one social, and both related. The technical point is about the fragmentation of wiki'ed material on the web. One recent donor comment in the fundraiser was that wikipedia was everything that the www had promised to be. Sadly, if every John Doe has his own wiki, that's no longer true: the beauty of [[]] goes away. I'm not convinced that wikipedia should be encouraging this fragmentation!

The second contention is a general objection to this kind of empire building. You set up your own wiki, you build a community, but ultimately, you own the content to the extent that if you pull the plug on the server, it's gone, no matter what license it was under; and then the efforts of all your contributors would be lost and wasted. And this is an unspoken threat to keep your editors and admins in line. The difference with wikipedia is that there is a democratic process in place to prevent this happening. Now, I don't know the current details of EvoWiki (perhaps it has gone through this process to establish democratic governance without my noticing?), but I know that these are the reasons why I ceased to contribute to it after a few initial edits about two years ago. - Samsara 17:08, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I think User:Steinsky is worthy. FeloniousMonk 00:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

support for Steinsky also. - Amgine / ^{talk meta} 04:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I've just seen what he does. Supporting. - Samsara 23:43, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I would like to see User:Art Carlson get some barnstars. He is a valuable contributor on modern geocentrism, nonstandard cosmology, plasma cosmology, and intrinsic redshift. --User:ScienceApologist 23:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Three more

G-Man, Sunray, Ryan Delaney are consistent long time contributors. I checked their Talk archives and have not been awarded a barnstar to my knowledge. I found them while examining WMC's user page. I will be contacting en:Mel Etitis, en:Stephan Schulz and en:User:Graft about the WMC template. - RoyBoy 02:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I would also suggest inviting Dragons flight to join in on WMC's (and Vsmith's?) unless you want to consider him an awardee separately. Also Natalinasmpf, since s/he nominated him for adminship. Guettarda 17:17, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

You and I could award him a science barnstar; I'll contact Natalinasmpf... after we award her two barnstars. - RoyBoy 22:17, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Archived Template 3

A Ghost

Um, you invited me here, but I'm kinda lost. How can I help?--A ghost 23:27, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Well there are a few things that are active right now, a nature barnstar design brainstorming for WMC and template design for VS. Also you can add your vote for any editor you think is trully outstanding; and your signature will be added to the template... and if you think ScienceApologist is deserving of an award you can add your name to his template directly as its close to being done. - RoyBoy 17:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Deployment

Signatures

Should we allow/encourage people to add their signature to an award template after its been deployed? After thinking about it... hmmmm; since the templates have a specific date that wouldn't be good. But I like the fact Ghost came up with the endorsement sub-section concept; I guess that's the better route to take. - RoyBoy 17:05, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Ghost added his sig to the award template. I moved it to the Endorse sub-section, which I added. KillerChihuahua 13:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand, and looking at FM's talk page... maybe we should go ahead and put his name in the template? - RoyBoy 18:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Bad time management

Hey RoyBoy, I just get so caught up in editing whenever I go to wikipedia, that I forget about this little project. It's a shame that I can't put it on my en:Watchlist. So, aehm... grab me by the virtual arm some time? Cheers. - Samsara 05:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Gastrich

Are you sure you would want that users on probation can't edit Meta? That seems to me to be unecessarily extreme, especially since there are many different types and levels of probation. For example, on .en Tony Sidaway is on a 1RR probation for unduing other admin's use of the admin tools. I don't think you want to disallow Tony from editing Meta. JoshuaZ 15:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)