Why are you restoring unsourced information on this article? At least put "citation needed" tags on it. There are blatant exagerrations, copyright-violating cut-and-pasted text, and outright falsehoods in most of these nominated-for-deletion articles, and without proper sources, neither you nor I (unless you're an expert on Brasfield?) know whether it's true or just plain wrong. You're also encouraging User:Lil Flip246, who is filling these articles (and has already violated 3RR) with sources that don't say anything about the matters they're supposed to be sourcing. wikipediatrix 21:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I used the *e-mail this user* in the toolbox (lower left) to write my note to you. No way would I have sync'ed into using the "+" key. All this is interesting but.......... It reminds me of using a pure text editor or WordStar. Way too much protocol involved for a newbe like myself.
I assume that you are my kinda "mentor" and keeping me from going too close to the edge of the cliff.
When you mention how my note will appear in its own "section", is that like a folder?? How does one see/move/access their various sections? I am a retired aerospace engineer and have used a wide variety of computing systems but this one appears to be very high-level in its structure.
I have been in communications with a very successful author and his name does not appear in the system (Thomas Perry, 15 novels written to date) What does he have to do to get started? Or do I (huge novice) start the page for him? I think I have a wiki url that talks to that. Are most of these author sites started by readers?
Someone....I assume you, dropped a note in My Talk about starting my own page.....wow, what would I talk about? Haha....I have absolutely no desire or need to do so. Besides, I will have to read a gazillion things now as it is. -- Ekotkie 03:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
User CovenantD has been bothering other editors the same way you claimed in his talk page.
I wrote him this: From my understanding you were blocked for 6 hours because of your 3RR violations in Clock King, please use the time to think about your actions. You've been a very inconsiderate user. the purpose of wikipedia is to make well sourced informative articles, not un sourced uninformative articles that don't ilustrate the content. If you don't like the topic, go to an article about a topic you like and provide research, tables, infoboxes and images according to guideline. Thank you-- The Judge 02:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
If you ever need me to rv his rv's or an intervention write me a comment. -- The Judge 02:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome. Big favor, could you please rv his last rv in the Clock King, the one he was blocked for. Althou he got blocked for his actions, I'm not sure I should personally revert him. -- The Judge 04:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
You summarized
Yes, an LoPbN-tree entry to a Dab always is waiting for someone to fix it, as you did. My only quibbles would be
But good work, even so! Tnx.
--
Jerzy•
t 20:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
What does the footnotes template do, exactly? And is "Footnotes" preferred over "Notes"? I've mostly seen "Notes" myself. Nareek 12:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, ok. I just knocked out a list of articles that transcude the Hndis template and are just a single word (i.e. hopefully surnames), there are 1556 of them, though a small % are first names. If you want the list then just let me know. Someone could use, for example, WP:AWB to tag them all correctly. thanks Martin 15:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the category function info. The whole gourd/melon/cucurbit deal needs some serious correction, not even including the various muskmelon variety bits. Thanks again for the heads-up. ENeville 19:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
HI, thanks for your note. The new template is "Please check ISBN" which is identical to "invalid isbn". They are invisible because they are directed to the editor, not the reader. They do however add the article to the Category "Articles with invalid ISBNs". Regards Rich Farmbrough, 21:07 8 September 2006 (GMT).
Hi! I saw that you are removing lists of people with a given name from articles on that name. I was wondering if this was based on a policy, or is it something being undertaken following consensus? It seems to me that those lists often serve as a form of disambiguation. If it is based on consensus, can you direct me to where that discussion took place? If it isn't, would you consider holding off on subsequent removals until there's been a chance to discuss pros and cons? Let me know! Jokestress 21:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Adriano is special, it is the list of given name and nickname. At least four famous footballers nickname is Adriano: Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Adriano Correia Claro, Adriano Pereira da Silva, Carlos Adriano de Souza Vieira. Matt86hk talk 12:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for directing me to the proper methods of moving a page. I do still think that, as per the rest of the supplemental classes in the class catagory, they should be moved, but I certainly don't want to lose the edit history. Again, thanks. mordicai. 17:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I am being stalked by a litter of mulattos all across wikipedia and I want to report it here. They've been talking a whole lot of **** about how they are going to take over and I am doing my best to stop them. Jhunt I would like to enlist your help cause mulattos are ****in persistant ****ers ! MulattosareBlack 23:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC) [Edited by JHunterJ 11:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)]
You're ignoring some points jokestress had, you're ignoring the comments on the mailing list, and furthermore, policy page consensus isn't the 5 people who edit the page. Post a link to your proposed changes on hte villiage pump, the help desk, and see if a consensus emerges. I'm not really against your changes per se, im against policy changes without community involvment. -
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20:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't find the reference to published works that you cite. Please check to see if your autobiography meets Wikipedia:Notability (people), and check Wikipedia:Autobiography as well. Thanks, Tangot a ngo 12:19, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Tiamat (disambiguation) [1] is not actually in keeping with the disambiguation style outlined at Wikipedia:Disambiguation. This style is intended to make it easy for users to quickly scan a list of of target pages, and select the one which they were looking for.
For this reason, I'm going to return that page to its original state, but rest assured that this is not because I dislike the look of the page after your edits. I actually prefer your version in some ways, but it simply isn't consistant with Wikipedia's Disambiguation style which is rather clear. - Harmil 23:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
JHunter, thanks for the tip on "cite news". Took a short bit but it worked out very nicely. I would not have gotten in to trouble if I had understood the editor a bit better. I'm slowly grasping these points and saving the rules. I just moved all my ISBN author data/ and Wiki tips from a 2" to a 3" binder. Have a great day. Ekotkie 17:36, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome Heavenhelllord 18:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Can I know why did you consider a link to www.kurnik.org on the Xiangqi page as a spam link? Xiangqi is one of the games which you can play on Kurnik. Kurnik is one of the very few places on the net where you can play this game with non-chinese people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.128.58.194 ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC).
Thanks for the message. Benceno 23:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't even see the part about a death. I was trying to revert other vandalism in the article. Guess I didn't rv far enough back. Fan-1967 23:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, do what you want. Someone else put "high street" in the annotation, it seemed reasonable to me to define what bookstore out of all the millions of bookstores in the world. But when reviewing the term " High Street" and the article on W H Smith I felt that it was the sense the UK's High Streets that was intended. At the bottom of the High Street article I found that there was a phrase that meant exactly that: "high-street chic". If you are going to edit-out "chic" then I feel that you must edit-out "high-street". Best regards. -- Charles Gaudette 04:34, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey. I wrote a reply to your comment a few days ago but it's on my talk page ( User talk:Galaxiaad#Tofurky/tofurkey) so I'm not sure you would have noticed. Sorry! -- Galaxiaad 17:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
This disambig page is a mess. Red links, tons of referances all to the same concept of the D&D Tiamat appearing in other video games as a dragon; these need to be on the Tiamat page.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrwuggs ( talk • contribs) 18:22, 28 September 2006 (UTC).
Wikipedia:Redirect says in bold letters on a separate line:
Most especially, there should never be a need to replace [[redirect]] with [[direct|redirect]].
This does not clearly say that it is better to link to a redirect than pipe using a direct route, but common sense says that "The link may be deliberate, may consolidate related information in one place, or may indicate possible future articles." applies to both cases. -- NE2 22:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
hndis was closest match I know of, is there some other "name list" tag I am not aware of? Zotel - the Stub Maker 13:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for putting the link piping back appropriately on the Half-life disambiguation. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) and Wikipedia:Disambiguation are far too complex to keep track of in their entirety, but given the general state of disambiguation (just a random example, and the second word I typed into a search: Fowl), I suppose there's plenty of room for improvement.
Some days I just wish we could write a template and be done with it, the way some infoboxes are. Something like:
{{dab header|name=Foo}} {{dab term|article=Foo (music)|an opera in 4/4 time}} {{dab term|article=Foo (country)|a self-contained country within the Vatican}} {{dab context|[[medical science]]}} {{dab term|article=Foo Bar, PhD (doctor)|what=a famous german doctor.}} {{dab term|article=Foo (drug)|what=a diet pill}} {{dab context|Ancient [[alien landing sites]]}} {{dab term|article=Foo (martians)|what=a corn field in Iowa}} {{dab term|article=Foo (film)|what=the last film by Foo Bar, PhD}} {{dab footer}}
That way, all of the style rules could be encoded in the template docs, and we'd never have these back-and-forths again (and the vast majority of disambiguation pages wouldn't be utter crap).
Thanks again for caring about them, and being up on the policy. Howerver, in future if you could give me a chance to read my talk page before you react to messages that others leave there, that would be great ;-) - Harmil 20:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
The bladerunner page has a list of Fan Sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#External_links
I added a link of a fan site that is a little different than the other fan sites, it's got sounds, music, information about the creators of the movie and the book it was based on and the authors other Sci-Fi books.
So why delete my fan site link?
Thanks!
Geomguy 02:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for being so inviting! It feels good to be a Wikipedian! Is there anyway I could put a good word in for you? You deserve it. There's some good karma for you. Shadyhomie 22:19, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you explain the advantages of http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=David_Morgan-Mar&diff=80294168&oldid=80293867] to me? — Ruud 22:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
.references-small
, and not manually (or in a way that cannot be overriden/changed later in a single place. See the archives at
MediaWiki talk:Common.css.) —
Ruud 23:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've noticed you contributed to Emo Music talk page, and the article overally looks great. However, tons of wiki pages about bands in any way related to Emo (The Used, FATA, SOTY, Thrice, FFAF, FFTL etc) undergo severe editing in their genre paragraphs, and it becomes malice, when one second the band is Emo, another second it's something else. I've started WikiProject On Emo Music in order to improve those wikipedia articles. If you're interested in participating, please visit the Front Page of the project. Thanks. Iceness 09:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed your overhaul. Thanks for caring enough to donate your time. However, it was a bit of a hatchet job. I admit, I might have overdone the original. However, I think you might have eliminated a bit more than necessary. Further, you lumped a bunch of stuff together that shouldn't be lumped. Finally, the link to pages starting with breaking goes on to a whole bunch of pages not even starting with breaking. There is a big difference between a line with brief detail about something that comes up in the first 5 or so pages of a breaking wiki search and just the phrase on a page of hundreds of other phrases starting with the term breaking or anything near it in the dictionary. I am pondering reverting and revising. Your comments are welcome. TonyTheTiger 19:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I am a bit curious about your techniques used to move and swap pages. It seems quite a bit of history was lost. At one point the page that was titled breaking was linked directly to the breaking (dancing) page. I then created the breaking (martial arts) page and the breaking (disambiguation) page. I then redirected breaking to the disambiguation page. Your moves have wiped out the old history of the breaking page. Also, procedurally, I think the page now titled breaking should be moved back to breaking (disambiguation) with a redirect. How do you move pages? TonyTheTiger 17:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
With respect to your format, I think that all the things listed in the section before the sections should be separated as slang refs, phrases using breaking then the other section that appears. What do you think? TonyTheTiger 17:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I probably added too many things to this page when I built it. I was just learning wikipedia dab pages and challenging myself to make it as comprehensive as possible. It is written from a google searchers perspective were closely related search terms are expected. Now, I am more wiki experienced. I would probably include many fewer terms if I were redoing it from scratch today. However, since I went through the trouble of finding them, they don't cause any problem. The page you cited essentially don't add them to a dab page, but don't remove them either if I understand it correctly. I am still fiddling around with the format of the page because I don't like seeing such an unbalanced section outline. TonyTheTiger 21:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time.
I see that you just joined the project. Thanks for helping to increase the success of removing bad links. Nehrams2020 22:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your note on my talk page. It's been quite awhile since I've done anything systematic with dab pages or the Wikipedia namespace, but I appreciate your courtesy in letting me know you've expanded a page I began in that topic area. Regards, --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 00:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
The film guy is the best-known Kevin Smith, but he's not the only one. I don't understand why you have a problem with disambiguating him from the editor of Vector (the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association), etc. Could you please revert your revert? -- Orange Mike 23:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
JHunterJ - I've tried to add additional details to the Odin Assemble page. Please let me know if you think it is more acceptable.
Odinmetatech 17:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
JHunterJ - Odin Assemble has been mentioned by Google (in their Code http://code.google.com/) section, in the Yahoo Developer Gallery area and on many blogs. It is also used by a number of notable "mash-up" development groups such as TRYNT. Unsure if this qualifies or not. (After seeing a few other free/open source PHP frameworks listed I thought it was a valid entry)
Odinmetatech 20:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, it's not supposed to affect the process if the subject requests deletion, no. If ht's notable enough to deserve an article, he should have an article. Once it's created it belongs to the Wikipedia and not the article creator. Per WP:BLP we want to be very careful about including any disparaging information about living people, but the article doesn't have any of that. On the other hand we hate to make anyone uncomfortable. But since he's published books etc. his career is hardly a secret. Do you know why he wanted the article removed? Herostratus 13:38, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
She flat out is not. She gave birth to monsters, but she is a goddess. Please do not revert the clarification of this fact in the first paragraph. Mrwuggs 18:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I see you took the disambig-cleanup tag off Todd Shipyards. So do you think an article that starts with a sentence about a NY soccer club, then has a sentence about a Seattle shipyard, and ends with the soccer club stats doesn't need help? Or that it doesn't cover unrelated topics? -- J Clear 02:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I had to move this to AfD since the PROD was contested. It looks like the article is likely to be kept. I feel that's kind of too bad, but basically my hands were tied; once an article exists, the only consideration on whether the article should be kept or deleted is supposed to the be good of the encyclopedia (subject to the contraints of WP:BLP). Maybe we should give article creators a mulligan, but we don't. If it is kept, the subject may find relief by emailing User:Jimbo Wales with a request for removal. He should point out that, besides wanting the article removed, he's really only marginally notable anyway. It's unlikely but possible that Jimbo will delete the article as a WP:OFFICE action. He's more sympathetic than the average editor to cases like this. Herostratus 17:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
You are doing some great disambig-cleanup's behind my tags. The new pages are very readable and useful. Its great to be a Wikipedian alongside someone like you. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 20:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
You mentioned "(UTC)" but I don't know what that means (and I looked in W:G and another page for editing acronyms, finding nothing). Please explain. Noroton 21:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
As you've seen, I've come to agree that as long as there's a link to the Alexander page, then we can take the names out of the Alexander (disambiguation) page. I have three questions I'm trying to wrestle with and I'd be interested in your input.
Thanks for cleaning up the Lovejoy disambiguation page that I have been working on. I always enjoy leaning new things about editing here at wikiP. User:ENeville has brought up some questions about the page in general re the MoS. If you have the time could you look at my talk page (I think that I have the whole discussion there) and let us know what you think. If this is beyond your purview my apologies for asking and again thanks for getting the page to a proper spot. MarnetteD | Talk 22:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Lovejoy (disambiguation) looks like an editing clinic. I never even knew about {{surname|yet-another-template}}. ENeville 23:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
So you are saying that Yaksha requested this against consensus? It's a little unclear what you are saying. Should Hexblade (Dungeons & Dragons) have been left as a redirect to Hexblade? If this is not what should be occurring, Yaksha should be politely asked to stop, and someone should make sure he understands what the consensus is. -- Aguerriero ( talk) 16:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The reason I added Nomad is because I'm trying to fix all the disambig links that lead to Gypsy. Most of the time it is just a vague "gypsy" reference, and no specific race is given. What do you recommend I change those links to? Cfrydj 17:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
So according to your statement, there is no way I can put my site on the external links? Does that mean I have to have a friend do it or is this not possible in any way?
Thanks,
LineRiders 05:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
You've been dedicated to the article, so I surmized you must of been a fan, why else would one keep such an eye on the page? This appplies to myself, I am a fan. A bit obsessive is you will, only the first 4 singles/EPs and the Best of Apocalyptica are not within my collection. I've also aquired a small collection of Vitamin Record's String Tribute Albums (including the two Tool Albums). -- Dryzen 15:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I wanted to get your opinion on something, since I've had contact with you on occasion previously and thought your approach rational. I had made some extensive edits to a de facto disambiguation page, Karen, changes that I felt made it substantially easier for someone who already has in mind a particular meaning of "Karen" to find the associated article. Then someone reverted all my edits, without mentioning anything to me, and indicated in their edit summary that my understanding of the WP:MOSDP was fundamentally misguided. I addressed them on their talk page, and they responded on the article's talk page. I thought that they had reasonable edit goals, even if not all were according to guidelines, but that it would have been much more appropriate to have applied their edits to the work I had done rather than completely revert. I appealed for a third opinion, and the respondent referred to how purely stylistic changes go against established policy. I have never heard of this policy, nor am I clear on how my original edits would merit complete reversion. Is my grasp of policy really so far off as these responses indicate? ENeville 20:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
So there I was chatting with User_talk:Sidp about some change or other, and I scroll up and see your username. No, it can't be. But it is. WTF, man. :-) -- Squashua 16:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello sir,
I am trying to find out why the links on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prop_replica keep getting removed. The links there provide a valuable resource to anyone who collects replica props. In fact many of the discoveries that lead to the production of these replicas have been found at these sites.
I do not want to cause a problem, so I will not revert the page again. I am just looking for an answer as to what is wrong with links that have purpose and are very much apart of replica props.
Thanks!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.13.204.194 ( talk • contribs) 17:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC).
Hello. You base your wholesale reversions of my edits on WP:MOSDAB and WP:D#Lists, but you selectively apply some parts of those guidelines, while ignoring others.
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia -- space is not at a premium. The links you have unnecessarily removed are hardly extraneous, are in no way distracting, and are certainly associated with the topic of the page. There is no harm, and much value, in including them on the page. As WP:MOSDAB states, "usefulness to the reader is the principal goal", and there is no indication that including, for example, the USS Eaton is useful, but Eaton Bray is not.
I hope that helps explain my edits. Skeezix1000 17:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
My interest was not in eliminating redirects. My interest was in making sure the article text reads 'World War II'. WHY: 1) World War II is the WP agreed upon name for the war so I think that name should be used in WP articles; 2) As time moves on, how many readers are going to immediately recognize that multiple names/links really are about the same war? To me, it is less confusing to all readers to use a single name for a single war. Hmains 19:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry to bother you. You participated in a television episode article naming poll which now lives at this location. Some feel that wording changes have compromised the results of that poll. If you don't mind, could you please take a look at what is there now and add a quick note at WT:TV-NC#Looking for anyone who objects to the last poll to say whether your feelings on the matter remain the same? Of course you can feel free to read over the entirety of both links for more information. Thanks. — Wknight94 ( talk) 02:19, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
You are asking me to cite references. I was simply pointint out that Somaya did not have any references on her page. There is no such thing as "Latino Entertainment TV" and nothing to prove that she is Myspace's #1 Latina. I was simply pointing out that she is "self-proclaimed". Why is she not required to put up proper references? Jessie620 13:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hush someone, it seems to be you, made a big mess of the hush disambiguation page by removing most of the usages of the word. The main shortcomming of wikipedia is officious editing by folk who are unfamiliar with a subject. It is seldom worth making corrections to such edits because they just get reverted. Hence wikipedia continues to get a bad name. 82.47.176.254 19:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)mikeL
Thanks for noticing my gnome-work. I noticed that disambigs (in general, but particularly for names) tend to accrue lots of random garbage. There's enough that it doesn't actually feel thankless to go through them all (there's something to do every 3rd to 5th page) but it's nice to be appreciated of course. Much of it is quite amusing as well. I'm just at the M's, though, more to do... Cheers. Dina 00:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
To resolve a dispute I had with another 'pedian, I started an advocacy request with the Wikipedia AMA. In the meantime, we have resolved our dispute. How do I cancel the advocacy request? -- algocu 02:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm going by the current AfD discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with the first name Julie. I think it makes perfect sense to avoid unreasonably long disambiguation pages and many many debates around various topics have concluded that any list of the form "famous xxx" is unwelcome. That, in my mind, certainly includes any list of the form "famous people with first name Jonathan". Pascal.Tesson 16:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Why are you restoring unsourced information on this article? At least put "citation needed" tags on it. There are blatant exagerrations, copyright-violating cut-and-pasted text, and outright falsehoods in most of these nominated-for-deletion articles, and without proper sources, neither you nor I (unless you're an expert on Brasfield?) know whether it's true or just plain wrong. You're also encouraging User:Lil Flip246, who is filling these articles (and has already violated 3RR) with sources that don't say anything about the matters they're supposed to be sourcing. wikipediatrix 21:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I used the *e-mail this user* in the toolbox (lower left) to write my note to you. No way would I have sync'ed into using the "+" key. All this is interesting but.......... It reminds me of using a pure text editor or WordStar. Way too much protocol involved for a newbe like myself.
I assume that you are my kinda "mentor" and keeping me from going too close to the edge of the cliff.
When you mention how my note will appear in its own "section", is that like a folder?? How does one see/move/access their various sections? I am a retired aerospace engineer and have used a wide variety of computing systems but this one appears to be very high-level in its structure.
I have been in communications with a very successful author and his name does not appear in the system (Thomas Perry, 15 novels written to date) What does he have to do to get started? Or do I (huge novice) start the page for him? I think I have a wiki url that talks to that. Are most of these author sites started by readers?
Someone....I assume you, dropped a note in My Talk about starting my own page.....wow, what would I talk about? Haha....I have absolutely no desire or need to do so. Besides, I will have to read a gazillion things now as it is. -- Ekotkie 03:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
User CovenantD has been bothering other editors the same way you claimed in his talk page.
I wrote him this: From my understanding you were blocked for 6 hours because of your 3RR violations in Clock King, please use the time to think about your actions. You've been a very inconsiderate user. the purpose of wikipedia is to make well sourced informative articles, not un sourced uninformative articles that don't ilustrate the content. If you don't like the topic, go to an article about a topic you like and provide research, tables, infoboxes and images according to guideline. Thank you-- The Judge 02:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
If you ever need me to rv his rv's or an intervention write me a comment. -- The Judge 02:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome. Big favor, could you please rv his last rv in the Clock King, the one he was blocked for. Althou he got blocked for his actions, I'm not sure I should personally revert him. -- The Judge 04:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
You summarized
Yes, an LoPbN-tree entry to a Dab always is waiting for someone to fix it, as you did. My only quibbles would be
But good work, even so! Tnx.
--
Jerzy•
t 20:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
What does the footnotes template do, exactly? And is "Footnotes" preferred over "Notes"? I've mostly seen "Notes" myself. Nareek 12:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, ok. I just knocked out a list of articles that transcude the Hndis template and are just a single word (i.e. hopefully surnames), there are 1556 of them, though a small % are first names. If you want the list then just let me know. Someone could use, for example, WP:AWB to tag them all correctly. thanks Martin 15:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the category function info. The whole gourd/melon/cucurbit deal needs some serious correction, not even including the various muskmelon variety bits. Thanks again for the heads-up. ENeville 19:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
HI, thanks for your note. The new template is "Please check ISBN" which is identical to "invalid isbn". They are invisible because they are directed to the editor, not the reader. They do however add the article to the Category "Articles with invalid ISBNs". Regards Rich Farmbrough, 21:07 8 September 2006 (GMT).
Hi! I saw that you are removing lists of people with a given name from articles on that name. I was wondering if this was based on a policy, or is it something being undertaken following consensus? It seems to me that those lists often serve as a form of disambiguation. If it is based on consensus, can you direct me to where that discussion took place? If it isn't, would you consider holding off on subsequent removals until there's been a chance to discuss pros and cons? Let me know! Jokestress 21:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Adriano is special, it is the list of given name and nickname. At least four famous footballers nickname is Adriano: Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Adriano Correia Claro, Adriano Pereira da Silva, Carlos Adriano de Souza Vieira. Matt86hk talk 12:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for directing me to the proper methods of moving a page. I do still think that, as per the rest of the supplemental classes in the class catagory, they should be moved, but I certainly don't want to lose the edit history. Again, thanks. mordicai. 17:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I am being stalked by a litter of mulattos all across wikipedia and I want to report it here. They've been talking a whole lot of **** about how they are going to take over and I am doing my best to stop them. Jhunt I would like to enlist your help cause mulattos are ****in persistant ****ers ! MulattosareBlack 23:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC) [Edited by JHunterJ 11:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)]
You're ignoring some points jokestress had, you're ignoring the comments on the mailing list, and furthermore, policy page consensus isn't the 5 people who edit the page. Post a link to your proposed changes on hte villiage pump, the help desk, and see if a consensus emerges. I'm not really against your changes per se, im against policy changes without community involvment. -
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I couldn't find the reference to published works that you cite. Please check to see if your autobiography meets Wikipedia:Notability (people), and check Wikipedia:Autobiography as well. Thanks, Tangot a ngo 12:19, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Tiamat (disambiguation) [1] is not actually in keeping with the disambiguation style outlined at Wikipedia:Disambiguation. This style is intended to make it easy for users to quickly scan a list of of target pages, and select the one which they were looking for.
For this reason, I'm going to return that page to its original state, but rest assured that this is not because I dislike the look of the page after your edits. I actually prefer your version in some ways, but it simply isn't consistant with Wikipedia's Disambiguation style which is rather clear. - Harmil 23:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
JHunter, thanks for the tip on "cite news". Took a short bit but it worked out very nicely. I would not have gotten in to trouble if I had understood the editor a bit better. I'm slowly grasping these points and saving the rules. I just moved all my ISBN author data/ and Wiki tips from a 2" to a 3" binder. Have a great day. Ekotkie 17:36, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome Heavenhelllord 18:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Can I know why did you consider a link to www.kurnik.org on the Xiangqi page as a spam link? Xiangqi is one of the games which you can play on Kurnik. Kurnik is one of the very few places on the net where you can play this game with non-chinese people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.128.58.194 ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC).
Thanks for the message. Benceno 23:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't even see the part about a death. I was trying to revert other vandalism in the article. Guess I didn't rv far enough back. Fan-1967 23:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, do what you want. Someone else put "high street" in the annotation, it seemed reasonable to me to define what bookstore out of all the millions of bookstores in the world. But when reviewing the term " High Street" and the article on W H Smith I felt that it was the sense the UK's High Streets that was intended. At the bottom of the High Street article I found that there was a phrase that meant exactly that: "high-street chic". If you are going to edit-out "chic" then I feel that you must edit-out "high-street". Best regards. -- Charles Gaudette 04:34, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey. I wrote a reply to your comment a few days ago but it's on my talk page ( User talk:Galaxiaad#Tofurky/tofurkey) so I'm not sure you would have noticed. Sorry! -- Galaxiaad 17:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
This disambig page is a mess. Red links, tons of referances all to the same concept of the D&D Tiamat appearing in other video games as a dragon; these need to be on the Tiamat page.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrwuggs ( talk • contribs) 18:22, 28 September 2006 (UTC).
Wikipedia:Redirect says in bold letters on a separate line:
Most especially, there should never be a need to replace [[redirect]] with [[direct|redirect]].
This does not clearly say that it is better to link to a redirect than pipe using a direct route, but common sense says that "The link may be deliberate, may consolidate related information in one place, or may indicate possible future articles." applies to both cases. -- NE2 22:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
hndis was closest match I know of, is there some other "name list" tag I am not aware of? Zotel - the Stub Maker 13:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for putting the link piping back appropriately on the Half-life disambiguation. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) and Wikipedia:Disambiguation are far too complex to keep track of in their entirety, but given the general state of disambiguation (just a random example, and the second word I typed into a search: Fowl), I suppose there's plenty of room for improvement.
Some days I just wish we could write a template and be done with it, the way some infoboxes are. Something like:
{{dab header|name=Foo}} {{dab term|article=Foo (music)|an opera in 4/4 time}} {{dab term|article=Foo (country)|a self-contained country within the Vatican}} {{dab context|[[medical science]]}} {{dab term|article=Foo Bar, PhD (doctor)|what=a famous german doctor.}} {{dab term|article=Foo (drug)|what=a diet pill}} {{dab context|Ancient [[alien landing sites]]}} {{dab term|article=Foo (martians)|what=a corn field in Iowa}} {{dab term|article=Foo (film)|what=the last film by Foo Bar, PhD}} {{dab footer}}
That way, all of the style rules could be encoded in the template docs, and we'd never have these back-and-forths again (and the vast majority of disambiguation pages wouldn't be utter crap).
Thanks again for caring about them, and being up on the policy. Howerver, in future if you could give me a chance to read my talk page before you react to messages that others leave there, that would be great ;-) - Harmil 20:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
The bladerunner page has a list of Fan Sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#External_links
I added a link of a fan site that is a little different than the other fan sites, it's got sounds, music, information about the creators of the movie and the book it was based on and the authors other Sci-Fi books.
So why delete my fan site link?
Thanks!
Geomguy 02:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for being so inviting! It feels good to be a Wikipedian! Is there anyway I could put a good word in for you? You deserve it. There's some good karma for you. Shadyhomie 22:19, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you explain the advantages of http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=David_Morgan-Mar&diff=80294168&oldid=80293867] to me? — Ruud 22:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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, and not manually (or in a way that cannot be overriden/changed later in a single place. See the archives at
MediaWiki talk:Common.css.) —
Ruud 23:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've noticed you contributed to Emo Music talk page, and the article overally looks great. However, tons of wiki pages about bands in any way related to Emo (The Used, FATA, SOTY, Thrice, FFAF, FFTL etc) undergo severe editing in their genre paragraphs, and it becomes malice, when one second the band is Emo, another second it's something else. I've started WikiProject On Emo Music in order to improve those wikipedia articles. If you're interested in participating, please visit the Front Page of the project. Thanks. Iceness 09:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed your overhaul. Thanks for caring enough to donate your time. However, it was a bit of a hatchet job. I admit, I might have overdone the original. However, I think you might have eliminated a bit more than necessary. Further, you lumped a bunch of stuff together that shouldn't be lumped. Finally, the link to pages starting with breaking goes on to a whole bunch of pages not even starting with breaking. There is a big difference between a line with brief detail about something that comes up in the first 5 or so pages of a breaking wiki search and just the phrase on a page of hundreds of other phrases starting with the term breaking or anything near it in the dictionary. I am pondering reverting and revising. Your comments are welcome. TonyTheTiger 19:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I am a bit curious about your techniques used to move and swap pages. It seems quite a bit of history was lost. At one point the page that was titled breaking was linked directly to the breaking (dancing) page. I then created the breaking (martial arts) page and the breaking (disambiguation) page. I then redirected breaking to the disambiguation page. Your moves have wiped out the old history of the breaking page. Also, procedurally, I think the page now titled breaking should be moved back to breaking (disambiguation) with a redirect. How do you move pages? TonyTheTiger 17:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
With respect to your format, I think that all the things listed in the section before the sections should be separated as slang refs, phrases using breaking then the other section that appears. What do you think? TonyTheTiger 17:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I probably added too many things to this page when I built it. I was just learning wikipedia dab pages and challenging myself to make it as comprehensive as possible. It is written from a google searchers perspective were closely related search terms are expected. Now, I am more wiki experienced. I would probably include many fewer terms if I were redoing it from scratch today. However, since I went through the trouble of finding them, they don't cause any problem. The page you cited essentially don't add them to a dab page, but don't remove them either if I understand it correctly. I am still fiddling around with the format of the page because I don't like seeing such an unbalanced section outline. TonyTheTiger 21:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time.
I see that you just joined the project. Thanks for helping to increase the success of removing bad links. Nehrams2020 22:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your note on my talk page. It's been quite awhile since I've done anything systematic with dab pages or the Wikipedia namespace, but I appreciate your courtesy in letting me know you've expanded a page I began in that topic area. Regards, --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 00:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
The film guy is the best-known Kevin Smith, but he's not the only one. I don't understand why you have a problem with disambiguating him from the editor of Vector (the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association), etc. Could you please revert your revert? -- Orange Mike 23:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
JHunterJ - I've tried to add additional details to the Odin Assemble page. Please let me know if you think it is more acceptable.
Odinmetatech 17:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
JHunterJ - Odin Assemble has been mentioned by Google (in their Code http://code.google.com/) section, in the Yahoo Developer Gallery area and on many blogs. It is also used by a number of notable "mash-up" development groups such as TRYNT. Unsure if this qualifies or not. (After seeing a few other free/open source PHP frameworks listed I thought it was a valid entry)
Odinmetatech 20:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, it's not supposed to affect the process if the subject requests deletion, no. If ht's notable enough to deserve an article, he should have an article. Once it's created it belongs to the Wikipedia and not the article creator. Per WP:BLP we want to be very careful about including any disparaging information about living people, but the article doesn't have any of that. On the other hand we hate to make anyone uncomfortable. But since he's published books etc. his career is hardly a secret. Do you know why he wanted the article removed? Herostratus 13:38, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
She flat out is not. She gave birth to monsters, but she is a goddess. Please do not revert the clarification of this fact in the first paragraph. Mrwuggs 18:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I see you took the disambig-cleanup tag off Todd Shipyards. So do you think an article that starts with a sentence about a NY soccer club, then has a sentence about a Seattle shipyard, and ends with the soccer club stats doesn't need help? Or that it doesn't cover unrelated topics? -- J Clear 02:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I had to move this to AfD since the PROD was contested. It looks like the article is likely to be kept. I feel that's kind of too bad, but basically my hands were tied; once an article exists, the only consideration on whether the article should be kept or deleted is supposed to the be good of the encyclopedia (subject to the contraints of WP:BLP). Maybe we should give article creators a mulligan, but we don't. If it is kept, the subject may find relief by emailing User:Jimbo Wales with a request for removal. He should point out that, besides wanting the article removed, he's really only marginally notable anyway. It's unlikely but possible that Jimbo will delete the article as a WP:OFFICE action. He's more sympathetic than the average editor to cases like this. Herostratus 17:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
You are doing some great disambig-cleanup's behind my tags. The new pages are very readable and useful. Its great to be a Wikipedian alongside someone like you. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 20:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
You mentioned "(UTC)" but I don't know what that means (and I looked in W:G and another page for editing acronyms, finding nothing). Please explain. Noroton 21:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
As you've seen, I've come to agree that as long as there's a link to the Alexander page, then we can take the names out of the Alexander (disambiguation) page. I have three questions I'm trying to wrestle with and I'd be interested in your input.
Thanks for cleaning up the Lovejoy disambiguation page that I have been working on. I always enjoy leaning new things about editing here at wikiP. User:ENeville has brought up some questions about the page in general re the MoS. If you have the time could you look at my talk page (I think that I have the whole discussion there) and let us know what you think. If this is beyond your purview my apologies for asking and again thanks for getting the page to a proper spot. MarnetteD | Talk 22:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Lovejoy (disambiguation) looks like an editing clinic. I never even knew about {{surname|yet-another-template}}. ENeville 23:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
So you are saying that Yaksha requested this against consensus? It's a little unclear what you are saying. Should Hexblade (Dungeons & Dragons) have been left as a redirect to Hexblade? If this is not what should be occurring, Yaksha should be politely asked to stop, and someone should make sure he understands what the consensus is. -- Aguerriero ( talk) 16:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The reason I added Nomad is because I'm trying to fix all the disambig links that lead to Gypsy. Most of the time it is just a vague "gypsy" reference, and no specific race is given. What do you recommend I change those links to? Cfrydj 17:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
So according to your statement, there is no way I can put my site on the external links? Does that mean I have to have a friend do it or is this not possible in any way?
Thanks,
LineRiders 05:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
You've been dedicated to the article, so I surmized you must of been a fan, why else would one keep such an eye on the page? This appplies to myself, I am a fan. A bit obsessive is you will, only the first 4 singles/EPs and the Best of Apocalyptica are not within my collection. I've also aquired a small collection of Vitamin Record's String Tribute Albums (including the two Tool Albums). -- Dryzen 15:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I wanted to get your opinion on something, since I've had contact with you on occasion previously and thought your approach rational. I had made some extensive edits to a de facto disambiguation page, Karen, changes that I felt made it substantially easier for someone who already has in mind a particular meaning of "Karen" to find the associated article. Then someone reverted all my edits, without mentioning anything to me, and indicated in their edit summary that my understanding of the WP:MOSDP was fundamentally misguided. I addressed them on their talk page, and they responded on the article's talk page. I thought that they had reasonable edit goals, even if not all were according to guidelines, but that it would have been much more appropriate to have applied their edits to the work I had done rather than completely revert. I appealed for a third opinion, and the respondent referred to how purely stylistic changes go against established policy. I have never heard of this policy, nor am I clear on how my original edits would merit complete reversion. Is my grasp of policy really so far off as these responses indicate? ENeville 20:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
So there I was chatting with User_talk:Sidp about some change or other, and I scroll up and see your username. No, it can't be. But it is. WTF, man. :-) -- Squashua 16:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello sir,
I am trying to find out why the links on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prop_replica keep getting removed. The links there provide a valuable resource to anyone who collects replica props. In fact many of the discoveries that lead to the production of these replicas have been found at these sites.
I do not want to cause a problem, so I will not revert the page again. I am just looking for an answer as to what is wrong with links that have purpose and are very much apart of replica props.
Thanks!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.13.204.194 ( talk • contribs) 17:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC).
Hello. You base your wholesale reversions of my edits on WP:MOSDAB and WP:D#Lists, but you selectively apply some parts of those guidelines, while ignoring others.
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia -- space is not at a premium. The links you have unnecessarily removed are hardly extraneous, are in no way distracting, and are certainly associated with the topic of the page. There is no harm, and much value, in including them on the page. As WP:MOSDAB states, "usefulness to the reader is the principal goal", and there is no indication that including, for example, the USS Eaton is useful, but Eaton Bray is not.
I hope that helps explain my edits. Skeezix1000 17:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
My interest was not in eliminating redirects. My interest was in making sure the article text reads 'World War II'. WHY: 1) World War II is the WP agreed upon name for the war so I think that name should be used in WP articles; 2) As time moves on, how many readers are going to immediately recognize that multiple names/links really are about the same war? To me, it is less confusing to all readers to use a single name for a single war. Hmains 19:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry to bother you. You participated in a television episode article naming poll which now lives at this location. Some feel that wording changes have compromised the results of that poll. If you don't mind, could you please take a look at what is there now and add a quick note at WT:TV-NC#Looking for anyone who objects to the last poll to say whether your feelings on the matter remain the same? Of course you can feel free to read over the entirety of both links for more information. Thanks. — Wknight94 ( talk) 02:19, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
You are asking me to cite references. I was simply pointint out that Somaya did not have any references on her page. There is no such thing as "Latino Entertainment TV" and nothing to prove that she is Myspace's #1 Latina. I was simply pointing out that she is "self-proclaimed". Why is she not required to put up proper references? Jessie620 13:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hush someone, it seems to be you, made a big mess of the hush disambiguation page by removing most of the usages of the word. The main shortcomming of wikipedia is officious editing by folk who are unfamiliar with a subject. It is seldom worth making corrections to such edits because they just get reverted. Hence wikipedia continues to get a bad name. 82.47.176.254 19:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)mikeL
Thanks for noticing my gnome-work. I noticed that disambigs (in general, but particularly for names) tend to accrue lots of random garbage. There's enough that it doesn't actually feel thankless to go through them all (there's something to do every 3rd to 5th page) but it's nice to be appreciated of course. Much of it is quite amusing as well. I'm just at the M's, though, more to do... Cheers. Dina 00:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
To resolve a dispute I had with another 'pedian, I started an advocacy request with the Wikipedia AMA. In the meantime, we have resolved our dispute. How do I cancel the advocacy request? -- algocu 02:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm going by the current AfD discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with the first name Julie. I think it makes perfect sense to avoid unreasonably long disambiguation pages and many many debates around various topics have concluded that any list of the form "famous xxx" is unwelcome. That, in my mind, certainly includes any list of the form "famous people with first name Jonathan". Pascal.Tesson 16:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)