User talk:Ghostrider2

Ghostrider2, welcome to Plane Spotting World

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Welcome

Hi Ghostrider2 and welcome to PlaneSpottingWorld. As shown in the automated welcome message above, theres plenty to do here and we really do hope you enjoy the site. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other user. Thanks. Tbo 157 21:33, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome! Good to see you over here. Email me if you want, and I'll tell you who I am on WP, and why I'm not stating it publically here or there. I'm trying to update all the aircraft articles here from WP, and adding new ones as I go along. We have a lot of of templates and cats to update. I'd like to simplify the cats here to just be the sub-topic, and not inclued the years, but that's just my preference. (Ex. "U.S. attack aircraft", not "U.S. attack aircraft 1980-89".) I'm trying to follow the basic WP:AIR guidelines on most issues, but simplifying some things too. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions, as I'm basically tho only editor working on PSW full-time. If you decide to help out, we can try to knock together a few simple guidelines. While this site has copyright restrictions (under British law), there are no notability guidelines, so we can do some things that WP:AIR hasn't been able to do, such as dedicated pop-culture pages. THis will help to keep the main aircraft articles focused on the serious side of the aircraft, while also allowing us to link to pop-culture pages, spotting reports, and the like. We have to bring the images over manually, but I haven't done any work on that as yet. I have copied over a few templtes, but we still have some bugs to work out of the Specs and Related content templates, so those are a bit of a mess. Until you get admin powers, feel free to ask me for any of that kind of help. Finally, if you'd take a look at Planes talk:Workforces, I've got some ideas and random thought posted their. Feel free to add your own ideas, and we will try to get started on a framework for how PSW is going to run. Thnaks, and again, welcome! - CraigTC 03:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Look ma, no Brewster!

Be sure to note F2A Buffalo, per your recent conversation on WP. :) - CraigTC 10:43, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

New Articles...

Hi Ghostrider,

A quick note-i think i may have mentioned it but when you bring an article over, can u add {{From Wikipedia}} to the talk page?

Thanks

BG7 22:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay! I think I should incorporate it into the welcome message...

Don't worry about tagging the pages that you've already done - if you ever come across them again, then you can do it.

Also, do you want "a mop"?

Cheers,

BG7 11:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Adminship?

I think i've asked you this, but do you want to be a sysop? I reckon you'll find the tools, and you won't abuse them. Especially for Page Protection.

Thanks,

BG7 23:40, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

{{From Wikipedia}}

Hello Ghostrider,

A few ideas on this template:

1. I think we should put it at the bottom of all pages, rather than the talk page. If you come across any would you mind doing this and adding {{speedy}} to the talk page?

1. I will redesign the temp to make it better displayed on pages. I'm thinking something like [1].

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks,

BG7 13:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

The new server ought to cure the challenges

We're also looking at some heavyweight performance enhancements over and above the new server. Good to have you back editing.

Hope you like the improved "lack of adverts for logged in users". We depend on adverts to support us, but we've found a way of removing them for those who are logged in.

Tim Trent 12:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm liking the new look (tho the ads were occasionally interesting). And I do come & go, tho the last hiatus was for a system crash... Ghostrider2 22:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I should have done this before

In view of all the work you are doing I took the unilateral decision to make you an admin. You will note that there is now a DELETE option in your normal editing portfolio.

Are you doing this massive set of file uploads manually, or have you created a bot? Tim Trent 17:32, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

That WP query

I've found, late I fear, your query on my talk page. I've dropped a note onto the WP editor's talk page. Tim Trent 20:15, 14 February 2010 (UTC)