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Your recent edits to New York State Route 1A and New York State Route 2 violate both WP:GTL and WP:NYSR. Please consult both pages for the proper layout of these articles. Thanks. -- TMF T - C 03:58, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You may have an interest, since I saw your name in the history list of the Bow tie article: There's a separate article, List of bow tie wearers and an admin is suggesting deleting it. When I looked into the Bow tie page, I found there's already a list there. I don't have an opinion on which list should remain, but one really should go. I'd appreciate your advice on the Talk:Bow tie page, if you're interested and have the time. Noroton 00:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 41 | 9 October 2006 | About the Signpost |
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It looks like most of the sources you have been citing are books or other matter not available online. Could I persuade you to migrate these to the format outlined in WP:FOOT/ M:Cite.php? This would make clear which portions of article content are supported by which sources. It is important (for various reasons) to know what goes with what, but it with a dozen books in a clunky summer reading list, it becomes difficult to verify even one statement, and impossible to do it quickly. — CharlotteWebb 16:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 42 | 16 October 2006 | About the Signpost |
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You did a "Reverted edits by 69.199.119.144 (talk) to last version by 213.42.21.75" on the Qiryat Gat article. The material added by the anonymous author 213.42.21.75 was really quite good and some parts of it are vital to any sensible account of this town. But this person has probably gone over the top and added too much. Furthermore, this anonymous account (which could be several different people) seems to have been accused of vandalism according to their talk page. WP:NPOV might be better served with a version that only covers the bare bones of the ethnic cleansing of the town. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.146.112.233 ( talk • contribs) 22:49, October 20, 2006
Hmm... You're probably right. I did not see the first edit (with the descriptive edit summary), only the second one, but incidentally I reverted both edits. I'd suggest that accidental reversion would be less likely if everybody edited with a registered account. — CharlotteWebb 00:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 43 | 23 October 2006 | About the Signpost |
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Thank you for supporting my RfA that I have passed with 73/2/1.-- Jusjih 10:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
...that I fixed your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foetry.com [1]. I wouldn't have bothered with this post to explain what I did, but I copied your signature from the above section and timestamped it, and I've know some people who have cried "impersonation" etc. (not saying that you would - this was purely precautionary :D). I would have used {{ unsigned}}, but considering it was closing an AfD, that wouldn't look too good. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 06:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Damn, thanks for catching that. Not sure what happened there. Let me know if I screwed anything else up ;). — CharlotteWebb 09:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 44 | 30 October 2006 | About the Signpost |
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I am bemused. How did you manage to find a ratio of 42.5:1? Did you misspell "yoghurt" when you typed it into Google or something? When I do a Google or Yahoo! search for the two terms, I get back a ratio of between 2:1 and 3:1. A Google fight brings back about 3:1 [2]. And Google results are not compelling evidence in any event, unless they are truly overwhelming one way, like they would have been had your 42.5:1 ratio proved correct. If the choice was based entirely on the population of people using a word, then the US English spelling would come out on top every time. But it's not, so it doesn't. - Mark 11:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I just read the talk on the discussion page for Yoghurt. I've noticed Google comes up with different results for different people, and I'm not sure why it does this, or how it reorganises links. Maybe it has something to do with that "Smart Search" function, and your past browsing history? Google tends to put Australian links at the top of my results now, even though I'm not searching google.com.au. Weird. - Mark 11:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Please be so kind and read my explanations and my evidence that genders and noun classes are two different things: Talk:Grammatical gender
Grzegorj 06:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
My name is BJ Nemeth, and we are currently involved in a discussion at Talk:Yahoo! about whether or not to use the exclamation point at the end of "Yahoo!" I'm addressing you here to clarify that we're arguing about the same issue.
I lessened my stance on the move from "Yahoo!" to "Yahoo" down from "Strong Support" to "Support." I'm still passionate, but I realized that the technical context of the discussion was the article title itself. Speaking for myself, I don't have a big problem with the exclamation point in the article title. My objection is with the punctuation showing up in the sentences inside the article. In my opinion, it creates confusing and distracting situations where a statement like "Mr. Smith bought 100 shares of Yahoo!" would be read as an exclamatory sentence, and weird punctuation combinations like "Yahoo!'s purchase of Company X." End-of-line punctuation (such as ! and ?) in the middle of a sentence is distracting and affects readability.
Here's one proposal: How would you feel about keeping the title of the article as "Yahoo!," and mentioning that as the company's own preferred usage in the introduction, before transitioning to the "alternate usage" of "Yahoo" in the rest of the article? Since you seem to be the most involved Wikipedian supporting the use of "Yahoo!," I wanted to get your input first before proposing it at Talk:Yahoo!.
Thanks. :) BJ Nemeth 07:45, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Why do you keep reverting the Neil Bush article to an obnoxious version? The third party mentioned is dominating the article with negative links, and is opposed by several editors. Attempts to moderate keep being shot down. The article should be about Neil Bush and not Boris, but apparently someone has an agenda. Another note: Story they insist to dominate article happend over a year ago. Even if it were significant, it is not timely. Please consider your reverting policy so that a fair balance may be reached. Schlotzsman 14:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm also confounded by your silent reversions. Could you please enter the talk and explain yourself? BlazinBuggles 03:14, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Please revert yourself. All but one person on the talk page agreed the new version is an improvement. The word "uses" is ambiguous and needs to be clarified for the sake of first-time google visitors. If you don't like the new version, discuss it, don't revert. — Omegatron 16:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Did you ask those questions because you wanted responsive and informative answers? If so, see above. Please tell me what your specific objection is to my statement that "other uses" could reasonably be expected to be understood by newbies to mean other uses of Wikipedia, and to my other specific objections to this obnoxious template. Michael Hardy 19:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 45 | 6 November 2006 | About the Signpost |
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Hey, you just reverted my edits on the New Orleans, LA page. Why? I live in New Orleans and I'm trying to get our page organized instead of having the info scattered all over the place. Wikiwopbop 01:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for responding to my question (some RC patrollers don't even do this). Here are my responses:
Anyway, the point is that I left my edit summary absolutely blank. Had I not done this, maybe I wouldn't have been such an obvious target for overzealous RC patrollers. Also, you guys do serve a very important role in making Wikipedia an excellent encyclopedia. Therefore, I am proud to award you the award attached below. Wikiwopbop 00:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
No, I'm using Firefox. Any idea what the problem is? P.S. Thanks for posting my award on your user page. That's cute :) Wikiwopbop 18:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you so much, CharlotteWebb, for your support in my RfA, which passed on November 11, 2006, with a final tally of 82/0/2. I am humbled by the kind support of so many fellow Wikipedians, and I vow to continue to work and improve with the help of these new tools. Should you have any request, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Hús ö nd 20:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC) |
Hi, I notice you redirected Distortion (album) to Distortion (disambiguation), and moved the original page to Distortion (Forbidden album) – however, what you may not have realised was that there were about five articles which now link to the disambiguation page instead of the Forbidden album page. I have fixed these now. Thanks. Bubba hot ep 19:48, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I was pointing out the fact that you maybe didn't check the What links here page after moving it. I have no problem whatsoever with the move, in fact I am 100% behind it. It's just 5 more edits you could have had! Bubba hot ep 08:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
That's some pretty fast vandalism reverting on my userpage there. Good catch. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 11:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for taking part in my RfA. The RfA was not successful, mostly because I did a pretty bad job of presenting myself. I'll run again sometime in the next few months, in the hopes that some will reconsider.
In the meantime, one of the projects I'm working on is A Wikimedia Administrator's Handbook. This is a wikibook how-to guide intended to help new administrators learn the ropes, as well as to simply "demystify" what adminship entails. If you are an administrator, please help out with writing it, particularly on the technical aspects of the tools. Both administrators and non-administrators are welcome to help link in and sort all of the various policies regarding the use of these tools on wikipedia in particular (as well as other projects: for example, I have almost no experience with how things work on wiktionary or wikinews). Users who are neither familiar with policy or the sysop tools could be of great help by asking questions about anything that's unclear. The goal is to get everything together in one place, with a narrative form designed to anticipate the reader's next question.
A second project, related but not entailed, is a book on wikimedia in general, with a history of how various policies evolved over time, interesting trivia (e.g., what the heck was "wikimoney" about?), and a history of how the wikimedia foundation itself came about and the larger issues that occurred during its history (such as the infamous "Spanish Fork").
Again, thanks for your input on the RfA, and thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide for the handbook. -- SB_Johnny| talk| books 13:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 46 | 13 November 2006 | About the Signpost |
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Hi, thanks for reverting "vandalism" on my userpage...added by a friend it seems in good taste, copied from a site listed in Google with a search for Gary Kirk - it isn't me though! — Gary Kirk // talk! 09:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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I noticed you have been reverting vandalism without warning the user that posted them. It is generaly a good idea to do so. I noticed that several users above have questioned why you reverted their changes. Their questions may be more specific or simply "I'm sorry" if you warn them. Warnings also allow admins to track who needs to be blocked. There is a page that you can add users to if they have a level 4 (final) warning on their talk page. Once on that page, if they have their final warning, the user gets blocked.
I don't want to be condensending, but this might help. Will ( Talk - contribs) 06:22, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I notice you've put the large numbers of redlinks, which I'd commented out, back in the above. I see your point about encouraging article creation (although I don't really see the need for articles about specific, not particularly notable songs called 'Freedom'). But the way the page was before and now is again, it gets multiple additions, from mostly anon users, of every random use of the word 'freedom', the whole time. This swamps the page with pointless redlinks. So, I'd like to put it back the way it was. Thoughts? Cheers, Sam Clark 10:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 47 | 20 November 2006 | About the Signpost |
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Hello! I see that you have removed the speedy deletion tags from a series of mall articles created by Dvac ( talk · contribs) in a spam campaign which have got him blocked. You rationale is that the articles need "cleanup not deletion". I have to say that I find this quite puzzling because I really don't know what kind of cleanup you might have in mind, except maybe complete rewrites. The articles do not conform to not a directory, nor do they meet the criteria of WP:CORP. And I really think that they are exactly the kind of articles that fall under both CSD A7 and even CSD G11. Pascal.Tesson 02:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm not convinced that every one of those shopping malls is notable, though I'm sure some are. I could go snap a free, high-resolution photo of one of them, and even add more information to the article, but it would be kind of pointless if it ultimately got deleted. I do agree that a group AFD is not the best way to handle the situation. — freak( talk) 23:06, Nov. 24, 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 48 | 27 November 2006 | About the Signpost |
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I noticed that you nominated this page for undeletion. You may want to check out my slightly earlier nomination at the bottom of the DRV page and/or User talk:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington#Ice Age (band) where it is discussed. Eluchil404 11:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for watching my back and removing the vandalism from my user page. It's much appreciated. Regards LittleOldMe 12:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
"Chrolette" - You need to see talk:Twin paradox. The removal of material by 12.30.216.138 ( talk · contribs) is in accord with the discussion on that topic! IMO, you owe 12.30.216.138 an apology! This editor has done his (or her) best to be an asset for this article. Even if you disagree with that edit, it was discussed and therefore was NOT vandalism in the least. I understand why you would be suspiscious of an anonymous editor removing that much material, but this is one time that you are just plain mistaken about it. -- EMS | Talk 22:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support with my RfA. My nomination succeeded. I appreciate your support. Thanks again! =) -- Gogo Dodo 23:11, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I am in need of your help in Cypriot refugees article. As I do not know where to turn to; I turn to you being impartial on the article and aware of the situation here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cypriot refugee. User:A.Garnet who was the nominator, now unilaterally deleted/rewrote the whole article in a way that the article does not in any way resemble the scope of the original that through the afd the result was to keep. I have disengaged after the afd, giving a chance to other editors to contribute. After Garnets major rewrite here I reverted him/her. Garnet wanting the article deleted (personal opinion) is rounding up buddies trying to find ways to achieve this. What can I do in this case? Now the article is locked in Garnets version of course.
Please have also a look at the talk page and notice Garnets reply if any in the next couple of days; to this editors question: “And all I am trying to say is why could the same not be done with the previous version? •ΚέκρωΨ• 15:44, 2 December 2006 (UTC)” Your advice would be highly appreciated. Thank you. Aristovoul0s 08:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 49 | 4 December 2006 | About the Signpost |
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Hi. Thank you for voting in my request for adminship. With your oppose vote, you asked me why I had lied in the opening sentence of my self-nomination. I have added this question below your vote but could you tell me where you think I have lied? Also, could you answer below my question. Thank you. Wikiwoohoo 21:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
You tagged Image:Grover Loening.jpg as lacking a license and a source ( diff), however your edit also removed the fair use license tag and website attribution. I have reverted your edit, since the image had a license and a source. Also please try to be more careful in the future, such edits could be considered vandalism (abuse of tags) if done in apparent bad faith. You could however add {{ subst:nrd}}, since the image lacks a detailed fair use rationale. -- Oden 22:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Some military history coordinators have developed a new toy ( discussion):
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Implemented in an article it can look like in Mongol bow (including some misunderstanding) or Indian Wars. While we (mostly me) think it is a great thing (contrary to the long frustrating negotiations for images that can not keep up with the rapid expansion of articles and new requests), it would require some people to use it and not overdo it. So any wikignome comes quite handy. You just have to google missing images and insert the url with a short description. I would really appreciate it, especially for the feedback. Thank you a lot. Greatings Wandalstouring 06:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for closing the poll. I was wondering how poll closing works. I'm asking because I made a poll. I think I two weeks would be a good length to run it to give everyone a chance to make their opinions known. I'd appreciate any help you could give me. Thank you! Jecowa 04:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
I did not see any way of changing my sig without causing more confusion, but I trust this, as suggested on my talk, will answer your objection in my RfA. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:24, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting in my RfA which at 51/20/6 unfortunately did not achieve consensus. In closing the nomination, Essjay remarked that it was one of the better discussed RfAs seen recently and I would like to thank you and all others who chose to vote for making it as such. It was extremely humbling to see the large number of support votes, and the number of oppose votes and comments will help me to become stronger. I hope to run again for adminship soon. Thank you all once more. Wikiwoohoo 20:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 50 | 11 December 2006 | About the Signpost |
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The question is, should the occupation field reflect the subject's current occupation, or should Jennings be listed under an occupation he hasn't held for several years, and a claim to fame that isn't an occupation at all? Robert K S 05:35, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
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Volume 2, Issue 52 | 26 December 2006 | About the Signpost |
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Thank you for changing the title of Clarence Leonidas Fender to Leo Fender. I thought having his spelled-out full name as the article title was silly too, but I was not sure why it was done (and maybe I was lazy, too...) so I didn't change it. Respectfully, SamBlob 22:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for the consideration you gave to my RfA. To be chosen as an administrator requires a high level of confidence by a broad section of the community. Although I received a great deal of support, at this time I do not hold the level of confidence required, and the RfA did not pass. You were one of the oppose votes, however, you did not mention any concerns. I am more than willing to discuss any concerns you may have you are interested. Please let me know. Sincerely, -- BostonMA talk 12:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)