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Thanks,-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 00:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for your copy editing on the Interstella plot summary. I've run into a lot of disputes in recent weeks and the quality of copy editing from some editors has caused me to despair - people insisting that "marks a departure from" is better than "departs from", that sort of thing - so it's nice to see someone who's got a clue in that area. Popcornduff ( talk) 23:59, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
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Great job mate, loved your article on Interstellar, couldn't understood the movie, but your explanation came in handy. Santhuwiki ( talk) 17:02, 14 November 2014 (UTC) |
Wanted to say thanks for your interstellar article, frankly speaking i couldn't understand the movie as a whole, your article helped a great deal. Thanks mate.
I'm not going to spend any more time on the Interstellar article, as it's clearly not worth it (I can tell from the edit history that all the edits I made to the plot have almost certainly been undone already). I did just want to comment to you that the reason I had changed "collapse" to "extinction" is that the plot summary said (I think) society was on the brink of collapse, which to me implies that, like, people are rioting and martial law is declared, that kind of thing. The film seemed to show a perfectly functioning society, but the problem was that everyone was about to die. Anyway, the article probably says something completely different by now, I just wanted to point out my reasoning for that change. Have a nice day. Theoldsparkle ( talk) 20:05, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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See also, Anita. I kinda wonder how you keep your head over all this...nonsense flinging stuff against a wall hoping it sticks. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 03:35, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
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Friendly question, if you don't mind — just wondering if you could help me understand the rationale for merging the two separate articles on the TV and radio stations together into one. I get that they're sister stations, but it's an unconventional approach. Thanks, Mlaffs ( talk) 17:08, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
That guy just made another Anti-Anita video and referenced how Wiki has no criticism again. Expect a torrent of these guys showing up again. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 04:39, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I would like to invite your participation at Talk:Church_of_the_East#Intro. Chrislamic.State ( talk) 23:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm confused by your close at Talk:Pottawatomie_Massacre#Requested_move. The only two opposers had absolutely nothing based in policy, guidelines, or sources to oppose with, yet you let them disrupt the clear consensus of people who respect guidelines and sources. Can you take a look, read what they wrote, and tell me if you got it wrong? Dicklyon ( talk) 21:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you assessed an earlier requested move for Wonder Pets! and was wondering if, in a week on the 17th or so, you could review the results of this next one created by me. You can view it here: Talk:Wonder Pets#Requested move 2. Thanks! Squiddaddy ( talk) 19:27, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey Cuchullain, re: your recent comment at Talk:Wonder Pets it also strikes me as odd that Momsandy has been on a 2 month hiatus from editing, but is back in time for this discussion, which she once participated in. On the other hand, she did start editing a few days before the discussion began, but I wonder if this isn't a coordinated effort. I don't have any dogs in this fight. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:07, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Momsandy has posted a reasonable explanation on my talk page. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
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I invite you to a move discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 00:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, I have written what you have asked me on the discussion page of "Excalibur".-- 151.44.138.159 ( talk) 23:34, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
The Talk page is very precise. Why your rollback?-- 151.47.223.109 ( talk) 17:35, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
WIKIPEDIA IS BASED ON SOURCES. There is a strange connection between these three actions: Entering "first = Welsh legend"; to foreground the etymology welsh; and elimination Latin etymology. All this is very very curious. Someone used wikipedia to pursue certain claims baseless. WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND NOT BLOG. EVERYTHING IS UNDER THE EYES OF ALL.-- 151.18.196.137 ( talk) 21:16, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Since you moved the page, you should probably close the RM at Talk:Take_Me_to_Church. Thanks. -- Calidum 20:54, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
As you chose to ignore the ongoing EM discussion, perhaps you'd like to close it. -- Richhoncho ( talk) 21:04, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Cooch. I hope you're doing well. When you have a few minutes to kill, I would be grateful if you would take a look at this Talk:History of Florida State University#Edit request. As someone who is openly associated with the University of Florida on-wiki, I hesitate to start making corrective edits to the FSU history article for obvious reasons. That being said, the quoted passage perpetuates several urban myths about the origins of the modern University of Florida, and its relationship to the pre-Buckman Act Florida State College, none of which can be credibly sourced. It should be corrected. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 02:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Cuchullain - I've seen your edits to articles on religion in the past. I like to read articles on religious topics such as Society of Jesus, Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola (I'm interested in the history of religion, along with general history), and as I read I make minor corrections and copy-edits. Occasionally, I come across unclear sentences or other small problems, and I need to find someone who knows the subject or can look things up and figure out what is correct. I used to ask two editors, but one has just been site-banned. Would you mind if I occasionally asked you for help with small problems I come across? I have some questions about an article I read about two weeks ago. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks so much for moving Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker. Somehow, the name has an inadvertent "t" at the end of Cheyenne Mountain Complext. If I did that in the request, I am so sorry, is is possible to have it moved to Cheyenne Mountain Complex? Thanks!-- CaroleHenson (talk) 20:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Since you seem to be collecting them.
Chess, Shira; Shaw, Adrienne (2015). "A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 59 (1): 208–220. doi: 10.1080/08838151.2014.999917.
Might be useful to talk about the harassment and "feminist conspiracy" claims around GG. I'm not sure we really need more sources for that on her biography though. Regardless, I thought I'd let you know in case you were interested. — Strongjam ( talk) 14:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Cuch,
I noticed your change to the FSU main article reference the 1905 movement of the football team and frats to what became UF. What are your sources for disputing this claim? A note of this (supposed) event appears in the official FSU history here: http://www.fsu.edu/about/history.html I agree the claim, if accurate, could be better written that what you deleted.
Thanks and cheers,
Sirberus ( talk) 15:01, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
"Dirtlawyer1 asserts college fraternities don't transfer chapters from school to school. If that is true, then how could Florida Agricultural College (FAC) (a different school in a different town) transfer their chapters from an existing Lake City school to a new school in Gainesville?"
Simple. Nothing about this makes me "squirm": I wrote 85 to 95% of the Albert A. Murphree and Andrew Sledd articles, which are 100% reliably sourced Good Articles. I know the pre-1905 history pretty damn well. In addition to the published sources cited in those articles, I also had access to the University of Florida and Emory University archives at the time. At the time of the Buckman Act in 1905, everyone treated the new University of the State of Florida as the de facto and de jure successor of Florida Agricultural College, which for its last two years of existence (1903-1905) was known as the "University of Florida" by act of the legislature. As far as the national fraternities were concerned, Florida Agricultural College in Lake City was the same entity as the University of Florida in Lake City -- which was a simple name change -- and the same entity as the post-Buckman Act University of the State of Florida. Fraternity charters are granted for the specific institution, and FAC (1884-1903), the University of Florida (1903-1905), the University of the State of Florida (1905-present), renamed the University of Florida (1909), are the same entity or the legal successor by merger. Also keep in mind that the new University of the State of Florida operated on the existing Lake City campus during the 1905-06 school year, before moving to the new Gainesville campus in September 1906.
Here are some links you may find helpful:
Please note that SAE and ATO chapters were founded at FAC in Lake City in 1884. West Florida Seminary did not award its first diplomas until 1884, and its first bachelor degrees until 1891, and would have been ineligible to host a national fraternity before then. Prior to 1884, West Florida Seminary, like East Florida Seminary wasn't really a college- or university-level institution. Both seminaries were really something more like a public high school, prep school or finishing school. Hence why both seminaries avoided calling themselves "university" or "college" -- because they weren't yet degree-granting institutions. I won't even get into the recent silliness of claiming a "new" university founding date of 1851 for what was really a secondary school that did not exist until 1857. Higher education in Florida did not really exist until the 1880s; and the University of Florida's claim of an 1853 founding date traces to the first secondary-level classes at East Florida Seminary. The honest history is that EFS and WFS were both authorized by the legislature in 1851; EFS held its first classes in 1853, and WFS in 1857. Neither was a degree-granting institution at their founding. WFS awarded its first bachelor's degree (not a diploma) in 1891, seven years after FAC opened as a degree-granting Morrill Act land-grant college in Lake City. Given the real history of the two modern institutions, the recent one-ups-man-ship regarding founding dates and claims to being the "oldest university" should be embarrassing to everyone concerned.
The PKA chapter was founded at the old University of Florida at Lake City (the renamed FAC) in 1904. SAE, ATO and PKA are the three oldest fraternity chapters at the university of Florida, all of whose foundings predate the 1905 Buckman Act. I really don't want to be facetious, but I'm pretty sure the national SAE, ATO and PKA fraternities (and the University of Florida) know their own histories better than an anonymous web guy at FSU.
So here's the question for you, Sirberus: Can you name any of these purported Greek-letter fraternity chapters that supposedly "transferred" from the old FSC to the new university in 1905? In fact, can you name any of the Greek-letter fraternities that existed at the old FSC before the Buckman Act? This is the core problem for the unsourced claims regarding FSC fraternities and its football team: there is no back-up documentation for such claims and they are contradicted by historical facts sourced to other organizations. This should not be some silly UF vs. FSU thing; frankly, I have very little patience for that kind of nonsense. If 1904 FSC football players transferred to the new university and played for its first football team in 1906, please provide their names and a reliable source. If there were FSC Greek-letter fraternities that existed at FSC in 1905 and subsequently "transferred" to the new university in 1905-06, please name them and provide a reliable source. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Sirberus and Dirtlawyer1: I see the conversation has continued at History of Florida State University. I'll head over there.-- Cúchullain t/ c 13:57, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at this edit [13] to Society of Jesus? I don't know about the "nickname", but the added sentence is already there at the beginning of that paragraph. The word "accordingly" indicates that the first sentence is the reason for everything that follows "accordingly", so I don't think it needs to be repeated. I would just undo the edit, but I don't know about the "nickname" that was removed. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:15, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
Can you just help me to bring
Prester John for FA? I found it interesting and you are the lead editor (I presume). I have made some tweaks and cleanup and some fixes in the lead.-
The Herald
the joy of the LORD
my strength 12:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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Cooch, here's a sneak peel at how the revamped infobox is going: Template:Infobox college football player/testcases#Joe Cool (typical example). What do you think of the colors, graphics, and layout and design? In particular, how do you like the "college varsity stripe graphics?" Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 17:10, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Apologies, I did not know about the RM - in fact, judging from the discussion, nobody from WP:FOOTBALL did. Why was there no notification to, and therefore input from, the relevant WikiProject? I find this especially concerning when anonymous IPs are mass-suggesting page moves against long-established community consensus and naming standards. Giant Snowman 16:22, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks,-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 00:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for your copy editing on the Interstella plot summary. I've run into a lot of disputes in recent weeks and the quality of copy editing from some editors has caused me to despair - people insisting that "marks a departure from" is better than "departs from", that sort of thing - so it's nice to see someone who's got a clue in that area. Popcornduff ( talk) 23:59, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
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Great job mate, loved your article on Interstellar, couldn't understood the movie, but your explanation came in handy. Santhuwiki ( talk) 17:02, 14 November 2014 (UTC) |
Wanted to say thanks for your interstellar article, frankly speaking i couldn't understand the movie as a whole, your article helped a great deal. Thanks mate.
I'm not going to spend any more time on the Interstellar article, as it's clearly not worth it (I can tell from the edit history that all the edits I made to the plot have almost certainly been undone already). I did just want to comment to you that the reason I had changed "collapse" to "extinction" is that the plot summary said (I think) society was on the brink of collapse, which to me implies that, like, people are rioting and martial law is declared, that kind of thing. The film seemed to show a perfectly functioning society, but the problem was that everyone was about to die. Anyway, the article probably says something completely different by now, I just wanted to point out my reasoning for that change. Have a nice day. Theoldsparkle ( talk) 20:05, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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See also, Anita. I kinda wonder how you keep your head over all this...nonsense flinging stuff against a wall hoping it sticks. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 03:35, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
The arbs are leaning toward a doubling of the usual limits on evidence for this specific case. I am still waiting for final sign-off, but it seems likely that most participants will not need to trim evidence. Three relevant points:
Friendly question, if you don't mind — just wondering if you could help me understand the rationale for merging the two separate articles on the TV and radio stations together into one. I get that they're sister stations, but it's an unconventional approach. Thanks, Mlaffs ( talk) 17:08, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
That guy just made another Anti-Anita video and referenced how Wiki has no criticism again. Expect a torrent of these guys showing up again. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 04:39, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
"evidence" has been entered about you at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate/Evidence#Cuchullain_is_involved_and_has_used_the_tools-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 05:10, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
In the interests of making this case more easily manageable, it is likely that we will prune the parties list to limit it to those against whom evidence has been submitted. Therefore, if anyone has anything to add, now is the time to do so.
See the list of parties not included in the evidence as of 8 Dec 14.
Please note that the purpose of the /Evidence page is to provide narrative, context and all the diffs. As diffs can usually be interpreted in various ways, to avoid ambiguity, they should be appended to the allegation that's being made. If the material is private and the detail has been emailed to ArbCom, add [private evidence] instead of diffs.
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Hello, I would like to invite your participation at Talk:Church_of_the_East#Intro. Chrislamic.State ( talk) 23:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm confused by your close at Talk:Pottawatomie_Massacre#Requested_move. The only two opposers had absolutely nothing based in policy, guidelines, or sources to oppose with, yet you let them disrupt the clear consensus of people who respect guidelines and sources. Can you take a look, read what they wrote, and tell me if you got it wrong? Dicklyon ( talk) 21:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you assessed an earlier requested move for Wonder Pets! and was wondering if, in a week on the 17th or so, you could review the results of this next one created by me. You can view it here: Talk:Wonder Pets#Requested move 2. Thanks! Squiddaddy ( talk) 19:27, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey Cuchullain, re: your recent comment at Talk:Wonder Pets it also strikes me as odd that Momsandy has been on a 2 month hiatus from editing, but is back in time for this discussion, which she once participated in. On the other hand, she did start editing a few days before the discussion began, but I wonder if this isn't a coordinated effort. I don't have any dogs in this fight. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:07, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Momsandy has posted a reasonable explanation on my talk page. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 19:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Cuch. Just to let you know that you have been included as a party in the following dispute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Pope_Joan You're welcome :) 177.76.41.164 ( talk) 19:19, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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I invite you to a move discussion. -- George Ho ( talk) 00:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, I have written what you have asked me on the discussion page of "Excalibur".-- 151.44.138.159 ( talk) 23:34, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
The Talk page is very precise. Why your rollback?-- 151.47.223.109 ( talk) 17:35, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
WIKIPEDIA IS BASED ON SOURCES. There is a strange connection between these three actions: Entering "first = Welsh legend"; to foreground the etymology welsh; and elimination Latin etymology. All this is very very curious. Someone used wikipedia to pursue certain claims baseless. WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND NOT BLOG. EVERYTHING IS UNDER THE EYES OF ALL.-- 151.18.196.137 ( talk) 21:16, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Since you moved the page, you should probably close the RM at Talk:Take_Me_to_Church. Thanks. -- Calidum 20:54, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
As you chose to ignore the ongoing EM discussion, perhaps you'd like to close it. -- Richhoncho ( talk) 21:04, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Cooch. I hope you're doing well. When you have a few minutes to kill, I would be grateful if you would take a look at this Talk:History of Florida State University#Edit request. As someone who is openly associated with the University of Florida on-wiki, I hesitate to start making corrective edits to the FSU history article for obvious reasons. That being said, the quoted passage perpetuates several urban myths about the origins of the modern University of Florida, and its relationship to the pre-Buckman Act Florida State College, none of which can be credibly sourced. It should be corrected. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 02:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Cuchullain - I've seen your edits to articles on religion in the past. I like to read articles on religious topics such as Society of Jesus, Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola (I'm interested in the history of religion, along with general history), and as I read I make minor corrections and copy-edits. Occasionally, I come across unclear sentences or other small problems, and I need to find someone who knows the subject or can look things up and figure out what is correct. I used to ask two editors, but one has just been site-banned. Would you mind if I occasionally asked you for help with small problems I come across? I have some questions about an article I read about two weeks ago. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks so much for moving Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker. Somehow, the name has an inadvertent "t" at the end of Cheyenne Mountain Complext. If I did that in the request, I am so sorry, is is possible to have it moved to Cheyenne Mountain Complex? Thanks!-- CaroleHenson (talk) 20:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Since you seem to be collecting them.
Chess, Shira; Shaw, Adrienne (2015). "A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 59 (1): 208–220. doi: 10.1080/08838151.2014.999917.
Might be useful to talk about the harassment and "feminist conspiracy" claims around GG. I'm not sure we really need more sources for that on her biography though. Regardless, I thought I'd let you know in case you were interested. — Strongjam ( talk) 14:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Cuch,
I noticed your change to the FSU main article reference the 1905 movement of the football team and frats to what became UF. What are your sources for disputing this claim? A note of this (supposed) event appears in the official FSU history here: http://www.fsu.edu/about/history.html I agree the claim, if accurate, could be better written that what you deleted.
Thanks and cheers,
Sirberus ( talk) 15:01, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
"Dirtlawyer1 asserts college fraternities don't transfer chapters from school to school. If that is true, then how could Florida Agricultural College (FAC) (a different school in a different town) transfer their chapters from an existing Lake City school to a new school in Gainesville?"
Simple. Nothing about this makes me "squirm": I wrote 85 to 95% of the Albert A. Murphree and Andrew Sledd articles, which are 100% reliably sourced Good Articles. I know the pre-1905 history pretty damn well. In addition to the published sources cited in those articles, I also had access to the University of Florida and Emory University archives at the time. At the time of the Buckman Act in 1905, everyone treated the new University of the State of Florida as the de facto and de jure successor of Florida Agricultural College, which for its last two years of existence (1903-1905) was known as the "University of Florida" by act of the legislature. As far as the national fraternities were concerned, Florida Agricultural College in Lake City was the same entity as the University of Florida in Lake City -- which was a simple name change -- and the same entity as the post-Buckman Act University of the State of Florida. Fraternity charters are granted for the specific institution, and FAC (1884-1903), the University of Florida (1903-1905), the University of the State of Florida (1905-present), renamed the University of Florida (1909), are the same entity or the legal successor by merger. Also keep in mind that the new University of the State of Florida operated on the existing Lake City campus during the 1905-06 school year, before moving to the new Gainesville campus in September 1906.
Here are some links you may find helpful:
Please note that SAE and ATO chapters were founded at FAC in Lake City in 1884. West Florida Seminary did not award its first diplomas until 1884, and its first bachelor degrees until 1891, and would have been ineligible to host a national fraternity before then. Prior to 1884, West Florida Seminary, like East Florida Seminary wasn't really a college- or university-level institution. Both seminaries were really something more like a public high school, prep school or finishing school. Hence why both seminaries avoided calling themselves "university" or "college" -- because they weren't yet degree-granting institutions. I won't even get into the recent silliness of claiming a "new" university founding date of 1851 for what was really a secondary school that did not exist until 1857. Higher education in Florida did not really exist until the 1880s; and the University of Florida's claim of an 1853 founding date traces to the first secondary-level classes at East Florida Seminary. The honest history is that EFS and WFS were both authorized by the legislature in 1851; EFS held its first classes in 1853, and WFS in 1857. Neither was a degree-granting institution at their founding. WFS awarded its first bachelor's degree (not a diploma) in 1891, seven years after FAC opened as a degree-granting Morrill Act land-grant college in Lake City. Given the real history of the two modern institutions, the recent one-ups-man-ship regarding founding dates and claims to being the "oldest university" should be embarrassing to everyone concerned.
The PKA chapter was founded at the old University of Florida at Lake City (the renamed FAC) in 1904. SAE, ATO and PKA are the three oldest fraternity chapters at the university of Florida, all of whose foundings predate the 1905 Buckman Act. I really don't want to be facetious, but I'm pretty sure the national SAE, ATO and PKA fraternities (and the University of Florida) know their own histories better than an anonymous web guy at FSU.
So here's the question for you, Sirberus: Can you name any of these purported Greek-letter fraternity chapters that supposedly "transferred" from the old FSC to the new university in 1905? In fact, can you name any of the Greek-letter fraternities that existed at the old FSC before the Buckman Act? This is the core problem for the unsourced claims regarding FSC fraternities and its football team: there is no back-up documentation for such claims and they are contradicted by historical facts sourced to other organizations. This should not be some silly UF vs. FSU thing; frankly, I have very little patience for that kind of nonsense. If 1904 FSC football players transferred to the new university and played for its first football team in 1906, please provide their names and a reliable source. If there were FSC Greek-letter fraternities that existed at FSC in 1905 and subsequently "transferred" to the new university in 1905-06, please name them and provide a reliable source. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Sirberus and Dirtlawyer1: I see the conversation has continued at History of Florida State University. I'll head over there.-- Cúchullain t/ c 13:57, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at this edit [13] to Society of Jesus? I don't know about the "nickname", but the added sentence is already there at the beginning of that paragraph. The word "accordingly" indicates that the first sentence is the reason for everything that follows "accordingly", so I don't think it needs to be repeated. I would just undo the edit, but I don't know about the "nickname" that was removed. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:15, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
Can you just help me to bring
Prester John for FA? I found it interesting and you are the lead editor (I presume). I have made some tweaks and cleanup and some fixes in the lead.-
The Herald
the joy of the LORD
my strength 12:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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Cooch, here's a sneak peel at how the revamped infobox is going: Template:Infobox college football player/testcases#Joe Cool (typical example). What do you think of the colors, graphics, and layout and design? In particular, how do you like the "college varsity stripe graphics?" Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 17:10, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Apologies, I did not know about the RM - in fact, judging from the discussion, nobody from WP:FOOTBALL did. Why was there no notification to, and therefore input from, the relevant WikiProject? I find this especially concerning when anonymous IPs are mass-suggesting page moves against long-established community consensus and naming standards. Giant Snowman 16:22, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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