Hey there, what's it like being an admin? :) Isopropyl 02:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
You'd want to know why this text was cut off unexpectedly:
* Delete per nom.--SomeStrange[[User:SomeStranger|<font
See the diff.
Are you using a Mozilla Firefox with a google toolbar? If so, I strongly recommend you to disable that toolbar, otherwise it's better that you uninstall that toolbar. Editing a very long page with it can cause the huge bottom part of text to be accidentally blanked. I'll find more details of this for you. -- ADNghiem501 23:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I found out about that problem after a broken edit on a different article and I de-installed the Google toolbar last week. I tried to go back and check all my large edits for the last few weeks, but I must have missed that one. Thanks for fixing! -- JLaTondre 22:15, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I hope you're doing well. The incident to which you kindly notified me earlier in my talk page was a result of a broken edit and a minor mistake on my part, which I later amended, and the aforementioned entry itself was moved very soon after into Absolute Boy, which was subsequent to a requested move I had authored earlier. Thanks for fixing my mistake, and notifying me - I apologize for not having contacting you sooner. ~ Ganryuu ( talk) 17:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the personal notification... my bad for not checking the file history first, glad you did. I've gone ahead and listed it at afd. -- W.marsh 00:59, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you previously voiced your opinion on a Redirects for deletion of a cross-namespace redirect that was originally deleted but then went to Deletion review and was then relisted at RFD. This is a courtesy notice so you are aware that the issue is being discussed again and is not an endorsement of any position. -- Cyde↔Weys 13:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
This page should not exist. I originated it as a redirect to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giant Raccoon's Flatulence theory. That article has been deleted.
There is no such thing as a Giant raccoon. Lou Sander 15:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
It's me your computer-challenged friend. I am trying to figure out how to archive my Talk Page. I have stared at the Guidelines - and still can't figure it out. I'm afraid of doing something in the process that will completely mess things up. What procedure did you use to create your archives?
Help!
By Guidelines, do you mean Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page? If not, I suggest you read that page. I use the move method described there. I move my current talk page to "User talk:JLaTondre/Archive#" (where # is the next number), add a {{ archive}} to the moved page, and then edit "User talk:JLaTondre" to replace the redirect with the header box and links to the archives. If that's not enough, let me know what more questions you have. -- JLaTondre 21:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Responded on your talk page. -- JLaTondre 23:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I am extremely sorry for that. It was a careless mistake to me. I felt since it was already deleted that it didn't need to be on the page. I hope that didn't count as a warning because I want to try out for vandalproof and it would harm me. - ScotchMB 01:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Something you said over at Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_policy caught my eye - is it actually kosher to delete something as a CSD without a separate party first tagging it?? That strikes me as a little TOO speedy, especially in cases of possible progressive saves... -- nae'blis (talk) 21:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I finished adding some more details to the T. Marshall Hahn article. It just takes time to get the facts together and check them. Talk to Dr. M 01:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
What should I change the {{RfD}} for? And which one is the page where I should move my comment to?-- T-man, the wise 18:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Yep, thanks again, man.-- T-man, the wise 00:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I hope the stub my friend and I wrote is sufficient? The blanked redirect was an error in my computer, and I never wished to rewrite it. Rayonne 02:39, 28 July 2006 (EST)
Hello.
It's me again. The Article "Hely Hutchison Almond" is misspelled. The Proper name of the person is "Hely Hutchinson Almond". How do you go about fixing something like that?
Wiki computer-challenged Michael David 22:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello JLaTondre, thank you for helping me. I answered your question(s) on my talk page. So please look there.
VM
11:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, for that, I was going over lots of pages and did the wrong thing there. My bad. Thanks for the repair. Lincher 02:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Re [1] - Thanks. I didn't know it was already deleted, despite contest in its talk page. — Insta ntnood 20:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, JLaTondre. I'm a contributer to the Harmonism entry which is currently being considered for deletion. I gather the main reason this is so is because there is no citing of sources, and no outside information. The reason for that shouldn't be hard to realize: as Harmonism is a discrete cult, there is no public information whatsoever aside from this Wikipedia article. We currently have no other medium of communication, beside word of mouth, and would greatly appreciate your consideration from our point of view; to expand our group, we need a home base which has information on our practice until we can successfully publish a book on the matter. We've spent much time and thought writing and organizing this article, prudent not to release too much information, and it would make sense that the only citation necessary is the simple fact that the clan (including Rayonne and I, the chief contributers) exists and have written this article on our practice. We also realize that there is much misinformation and missing citation already in the religion/philosophy field (see Darkside for an example of this) and it is hardly fair not to let our well-conceived and growing practice have a small corner of this massive reference site, when there are things like that around. Of course, it is ultimately to your judgement. All I ask is your understanding and consent to keep our information up so we can continue to draft new members and be successful; after all, every religion and spiritual practice today began with a single set of beliefs. Thank you for your time.
-- Lord Skye III 08:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I did the same mistake when I moved
Technical Analysis Software (Finance) to
technical analysis software. I'm afraid I'll mess things up again. Would you mind helping me fix that?--
Wai Wai (
talk)
03:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, again,
I really hope you don't mind my coming to you for technical questions, but I'm still trying to learn these aspects of Wikipedia.
The problem is, my Preferences keep changing on their own. Sometines, with some Articles, the font will change & the date preference keeps reverting to 'no preference'. Each time I have to go back and save them again. Is it Wikipedia or is it me. I hope you can help.
Thanks,
I'm not sure what would be causing that. I have seen issues with link formatting (underlines come back) that if I refresh the page, it returns to normal. Trying clearing your browser cache and reloading the page. If that doesn't work, it could be something with your cookies, try logging out and back in and make sure your browser cookies for this site are set to remain from session to session. If that doesn't work, try asking at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). A broader audience may give you a solution. -- JLaTondre 18:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, again.
This one's above my head. There are two Articles on the same person. One is Main Titled, 'Alexis Soyer', the other one is Main Titled, 'Alexis Benoit Soyer'. As you can see, the one Titled 'Alexis Soyer' is the most accurate & complete. How do you handle something like this?
Eager to learn,
If there is any worthwhile content in Alexis Benoît Soyer, edit Alexis Soyer and include that content. After that, or if there is no new content worth including, redirect Alexis Benoît Soyer to Alexis Soyer. Alexis Benoit Soyer (no caret over the I in Benoit) is a redirect to Alexis Benoît Soyer and it would need to be changed to Alexis Soyer. Does that make sense? There is a more detailed explanation at Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages that also includes instructions on how to tag an article for potential merging in case one doesn't have the time to do it or if discussion would be needed. -- JLaTondre 17:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Good evening. Thanks for your polite note. Please don't worry that I'm taking it personally. I do understand that reasonable people can disagree. That said, I stand by my arguments. I'll admit that it's more nuanced than can easily be fit into a one-bullet RFD discussion in many cases. You raised two specific points. Permit me to try to explain.
I hope that helps at least a bit. As I said, reasonable people can disagree, especially as these general principles apply to specific cases. Thanks for your patience. Rossami (talk) 04:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
The GFDL doesn't require us to preserve what is effectively the 'file name' of the document. The fact that there is no good record of old titles is immaterial. In the case where the redirect page has substantial unmerged history, in cases where that content exists elsewhere without the history we are already out of compliance. In such cases the history should either be merged or moved to an unobtrusive title and linked from the page's talk as well as mentioned in an edit summary (for example old_name gets blanked and moved to new_name/merge01). -- Gmaxwell 05:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
When I make a redirect to a nonexistent article, I generally create the article immediately afterward. There are dozens of places where people use alternate capitalizations of words in song titles, and your alternative of going to every article with an irregular use of capitalization and editing that article is an unreasonable use of time. Don't delete the redirect; just wait a bit and the article will appear! -- BRG 15:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2006 August 29#Various strange redirects, I thought I withdrew the requests for deletion for 〡 (Chinese numberal 1), changing the target from Vertical bar to 1 (number) and Ⓐ (circled A), changing the target to A. They were deleted anyway, and I'm bringing it up on Wikipedia:Deletion review. I'm informing you per policy, as I'm not sure which one of you deleted them. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I took out the redirect because it was creating confusion. i have updated the page. i din't have time to make a new page at the time. thanks for keeping an eye out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Randywilliams1975 ( talk • contribs) .
yes the piercings are similer, but they are really very different none the less, i am trying to help reduce confusuion and meybe give people a place were they can elaborate on the subject further, isn't that the whole reson for this site. maybe instead of deleting info on the page all together maybe we can come up an agreement. have you seen the bmezine page [4] Randywilliams1975 22:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Apologies Randywilliams1975 00:15, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I may be completely dense, or else I've been asleep for awhile, but what on earth are the new references in the Category listings that show nothing but a + sign. I used to be able to find a list of subcategories there, but now, there is just the + signs; and when I click on it all I get is the word "loading".
Help!!
Hi,
Please keep in mind that I am severly computer challenged. I use Internet Explorer, and, as far as whether Javascript is working, I need to talk with my computer person first. I'll have to get back to you on that.
Thanks for your help & patience. I'll be back in touch as soon as I can.
If a prod has been removed from an article, you cannot re-prod it. The fact that Marudubshinki removed the prod from Human World without any explanation does not matter. You cannot re-prod it and you must take it to WP:AFD instead. Please see WP:PROD or ask me if you have questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 22:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
I wrote a link to my brother who recently passed away and it was deleted as irreveleant. it was lnked to my bio. Why was it deleted? If he is my blood relation it should be linked to my bio. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JerZee ( talk • contribs) .
BAD RADAR —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.79.243.128 ( talk • contribs) .
Thanks for the heads-up. I have responded. Snottygobble 05:25, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello! Why did you mixed the interwiki links the way you did in the Euclidean algorithm article? They were sorted alphabetically by the language codes till then. -- Knakts 19:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
this guy recreated his bio ( Dormantfascist 22:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)) and Terranism its a fake organization ( Dormantfascist 22:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC))
Hello,
It's me again. I attempted to edit the Orson Welles Article & apparently somehow screwed it up. It now displays only a portion of the Article. Would you take a look at it and see where I went wrong?
Thanks,
Hi,
It's the trouble finder again. There seems to be two separate Articles on what appears to be the same person, but with different spellings of the last name: Jill Gascoine & Jill Gascoigne. The IMDB has her name as Gascoine. It looks like this needs a redirect. I'm still a bit gun shy when it comes to redirects, I always seem to screw them up somehow. Would you please take a look at this?
Thank you,
Hiya. It was a good idea to redirect GTFO to the List of Internet Slang. In the future, could you please remember to actually include the text of the article in the list if it's something like that? :) -- Kooky ( talk) 01:45, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Actually I did not nominate this. I removed the speedy tag since it appeared to be in the queue at RfD. Since it is not, I just deleted it as a speedy. Unlikely typo. Vegaswikian 18:47, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder, I've added the tags now. Mango juice talk 21:03, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing it to my attention - as you might imagine, it just managed to fall through the cracks. I'll finish the nomination today. Gavia immer ( u| t| c) 16:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- CrazyRussian talk/ email 02:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi there,
You're listed in the edit history of this article. I wonder whether you're able to help bring it up to FA standard again? Please see WP:FAR#Speech_synthesis.
Tony 06:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The talk page contains the e-mail from Mitchell Forman to me releasing the information for use on Wikipedia, and it was there prior to your tag. Please advise ASAP Tvccs 00:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Back to the root issue, here's the response to my e-mail last night I found this morning when I awakened.
<remove email details>
I hope this resolves the issue, and request you unblock the page and move the content on the temp page to the main. Thank you. Tvccs 13:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
In following your instruction, I have posted the permissions e-mail timing, etc. at the copyrightvio page and on the discussion page. Tvccs 14:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt revison. Tvccs 15:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I found another problem (what else is new?!?).
The entry for William Patterson (U.S. Politician) is actually two different people. Here is the entry from
The Political Graveyard showing both persons.
I'm not sure how to fix this. Would you please take a look at it when you have time? -- Michael David 22:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Re: [7]. The use of warning templates applied by editors on their own behalf has become a virtual epidemic in some areas. In my opinion and experience, this is most often used to irritate, bait, and annoy users involved in tense situations. I think somewhere there is a page WP:you _can_ be a dick, if you Salute Wikipedia policy while doing so. It's one thing to template a newbie, who you might actually be informing. It's another to repeatedly template someone with whom you are in dispute, particularly if it's not a clear-cut case. I'd prefer it if those templates came with guidance that they are not to be applied on your own behalf with an established editor. Nothing wrong with leaving a polite sentence on your own behalf asking the user to be civil or whatever; that has a totally different tone than repeated template spamming. Anyway, I'm just agreeing with you that it's harassment, and I'm glad to see it frowned on for once, rather than encouraged (although I do think Ben has more often been the victim of this). Derex 21:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
As a previous contributor to the article on Evergreen International Aviation, could I request your input on the talk page on whether it should contain a link to the corresponding SourceWatch article? With thanks, -- Neoconned 12:05, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Would you please take a look at the latest edits to the Walter J. Turner article. I had simply added B & D dates, etc, but the latest anonymous edits really do stray from the usual Wiki style, and have no source. I'm not sure what to do in this case.
I wanted to go ahead and revert it, saying to the editor that they needed to sight sources, but I wasn't sure if that wasn't too bold. Perhaps I need to learn to be more assertive, and less polite? I need your thoughts on this.
Thanks for your time.
Be healthy,
Hi,
The Articles on Roger Edward Collingwood Altounyan & Roger Altounyan are the same person. The latter one is more complete. This seems a rather simple redirect, but every time I try to do a redirect I still seem to screw it up. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Would you please take at look at these articles when you have time?
Thanks,
Before destroying my modest contribution, you could see what modern Latin is... Thank you for being honest and objective with our language ! alexandre.rousset@free.fr
Hi - The edit summary for this edit says "fixing links to disambig pages", but in addition it changed the star characters from ★ to the Unicode ★ character. Unless I change the script that generates this page to use the Unicode ★ character rather than ★ they'll all change back the next time I update the page. Do you have a strong preference for using the Unicode character directly? Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the refresher regarding RFD closures. I knew I'd missed something important along the way. Serpent's Choice 12:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Why should we keep this article? Why don't we also create Readin Program, Readig Program, Reading Porgram, Margorp gnidaer, and the other 8 million misspellings? (written with sarcasm) — Chris53516 ( Talk) 21:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been off dealing with real life priorities, and now that I'm getting some time again for wiki's I found this questionable decision by seeing your edit in {{
cat see also}}
. Worse, I have not the time just now to puruse your history and evaluate how many other identical pages on other sisters may have been damaged (interwiki link orphaned).
re:
this action — I'm ALWAYS a little miffed that there is no requirement to directly involve an originating editor in a discussion/deletion decision, especially one to require an attempt to email and post a talk (both should be mandantory, imho).
In this case with it's overwhelming numerical vote margin (Not! It's a tie if you automatically add one keep from the originator), no consideration seems to have been given as to how many equivilent uses on foundation sister projects may now be bad links.
Robust Interwiki link's are problematic enough amongst the nine sister's without this discussion/decision which seems to have assumed the other foundation projects are somehow second class, or that interconnnectivity of those minor sister's is unimportant.
What really bothers me here is that some of the logic deposed in the two following redirects discussed were similarly applicable to this interwiki shortcut, and it was clearly tagged as having interwiki scope, iirc. Any 'sister project' will necessarily be in the context of some other project like Wikimedia Foundation's Wiki encyclopedia, and hence is quite unlikely to have ever been used as an article title inandofitself. In sum, once I look at the impact of this over in depth (during the next week or so—I'm still awfully busy in RL), I may have to ask the matter be revisited. I would have preferred with such a narrow vote and no overwhelming urgency to clear the title line, in particular without a good understanding of what might be 'broken' elsewhere, you would have let this one stand—or at least emailed me for input. Hurry slower when you don't know! Best regards //
Fra
nkB
18:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about closing redirects and I know you have quite a bit of experience with that. When I close a redirect, am I allowed to count a vote I would have put on the subject? Or is that a conflict of interest? (Specifically, I am talking about Bt homehub for which I would vote delete because the target article contains no mention of the product.) -- Renesis ( talk) 18:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey there, what's it like being an admin? :) Isopropyl 02:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
You'd want to know why this text was cut off unexpectedly:
* Delete per nom.--SomeStrange[[User:SomeStranger|<font
See the diff.
Are you using a Mozilla Firefox with a google toolbar? If so, I strongly recommend you to disable that toolbar, otherwise it's better that you uninstall that toolbar. Editing a very long page with it can cause the huge bottom part of text to be accidentally blanked. I'll find more details of this for you. -- ADNghiem501 23:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I found out about that problem after a broken edit on a different article and I de-installed the Google toolbar last week. I tried to go back and check all my large edits for the last few weeks, but I must have missed that one. Thanks for fixing! -- JLaTondre 22:15, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I hope you're doing well. The incident to which you kindly notified me earlier in my talk page was a result of a broken edit and a minor mistake on my part, which I later amended, and the aforementioned entry itself was moved very soon after into Absolute Boy, which was subsequent to a requested move I had authored earlier. Thanks for fixing my mistake, and notifying me - I apologize for not having contacting you sooner. ~ Ganryuu ( talk) 17:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the personal notification... my bad for not checking the file history first, glad you did. I've gone ahead and listed it at afd. -- W.marsh 00:59, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you previously voiced your opinion on a Redirects for deletion of a cross-namespace redirect that was originally deleted but then went to Deletion review and was then relisted at RFD. This is a courtesy notice so you are aware that the issue is being discussed again and is not an endorsement of any position. -- Cyde↔Weys 13:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
This page should not exist. I originated it as a redirect to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giant Raccoon's Flatulence theory. That article has been deleted.
There is no such thing as a Giant raccoon. Lou Sander 15:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
It's me your computer-challenged friend. I am trying to figure out how to archive my Talk Page. I have stared at the Guidelines - and still can't figure it out. I'm afraid of doing something in the process that will completely mess things up. What procedure did you use to create your archives?
Help!
By Guidelines, do you mean Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page? If not, I suggest you read that page. I use the move method described there. I move my current talk page to "User talk:JLaTondre/Archive#" (where # is the next number), add a {{ archive}} to the moved page, and then edit "User talk:JLaTondre" to replace the redirect with the header box and links to the archives. If that's not enough, let me know what more questions you have. -- JLaTondre 21:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Responded on your talk page. -- JLaTondre 23:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I am extremely sorry for that. It was a careless mistake to me. I felt since it was already deleted that it didn't need to be on the page. I hope that didn't count as a warning because I want to try out for vandalproof and it would harm me. - ScotchMB 01:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Something you said over at Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_policy caught my eye - is it actually kosher to delete something as a CSD without a separate party first tagging it?? That strikes me as a little TOO speedy, especially in cases of possible progressive saves... -- nae'blis (talk) 21:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I finished adding some more details to the T. Marshall Hahn article. It just takes time to get the facts together and check them. Talk to Dr. M 01:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
What should I change the {{RfD}} for? And which one is the page where I should move my comment to?-- T-man, the wise 18:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Yep, thanks again, man.-- T-man, the wise 00:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I hope the stub my friend and I wrote is sufficient? The blanked redirect was an error in my computer, and I never wished to rewrite it. Rayonne 02:39, 28 July 2006 (EST)
Hello.
It's me again. The Article "Hely Hutchison Almond" is misspelled. The Proper name of the person is "Hely Hutchinson Almond". How do you go about fixing something like that?
Wiki computer-challenged Michael David 22:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello JLaTondre, thank you for helping me. I answered your question(s) on my talk page. So please look there.
VM
11:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, for that, I was going over lots of pages and did the wrong thing there. My bad. Thanks for the repair. Lincher 02:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Re [1] - Thanks. I didn't know it was already deleted, despite contest in its talk page. — Insta ntnood 20:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, JLaTondre. I'm a contributer to the Harmonism entry which is currently being considered for deletion. I gather the main reason this is so is because there is no citing of sources, and no outside information. The reason for that shouldn't be hard to realize: as Harmonism is a discrete cult, there is no public information whatsoever aside from this Wikipedia article. We currently have no other medium of communication, beside word of mouth, and would greatly appreciate your consideration from our point of view; to expand our group, we need a home base which has information on our practice until we can successfully publish a book on the matter. We've spent much time and thought writing and organizing this article, prudent not to release too much information, and it would make sense that the only citation necessary is the simple fact that the clan (including Rayonne and I, the chief contributers) exists and have written this article on our practice. We also realize that there is much misinformation and missing citation already in the religion/philosophy field (see Darkside for an example of this) and it is hardly fair not to let our well-conceived and growing practice have a small corner of this massive reference site, when there are things like that around. Of course, it is ultimately to your judgement. All I ask is your understanding and consent to keep our information up so we can continue to draft new members and be successful; after all, every religion and spiritual practice today began with a single set of beliefs. Thank you for your time.
-- Lord Skye III 08:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I did the same mistake when I moved
Technical Analysis Software (Finance) to
technical analysis software. I'm afraid I'll mess things up again. Would you mind helping me fix that?--
Wai Wai (
talk)
03:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, again,
I really hope you don't mind my coming to you for technical questions, but I'm still trying to learn these aspects of Wikipedia.
The problem is, my Preferences keep changing on their own. Sometines, with some Articles, the font will change & the date preference keeps reverting to 'no preference'. Each time I have to go back and save them again. Is it Wikipedia or is it me. I hope you can help.
Thanks,
I'm not sure what would be causing that. I have seen issues with link formatting (underlines come back) that if I refresh the page, it returns to normal. Trying clearing your browser cache and reloading the page. If that doesn't work, it could be something with your cookies, try logging out and back in and make sure your browser cookies for this site are set to remain from session to session. If that doesn't work, try asking at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). A broader audience may give you a solution. -- JLaTondre 18:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, again.
This one's above my head. There are two Articles on the same person. One is Main Titled, 'Alexis Soyer', the other one is Main Titled, 'Alexis Benoit Soyer'. As you can see, the one Titled 'Alexis Soyer' is the most accurate & complete. How do you handle something like this?
Eager to learn,
If there is any worthwhile content in Alexis Benoît Soyer, edit Alexis Soyer and include that content. After that, or if there is no new content worth including, redirect Alexis Benoît Soyer to Alexis Soyer. Alexis Benoit Soyer (no caret over the I in Benoit) is a redirect to Alexis Benoît Soyer and it would need to be changed to Alexis Soyer. Does that make sense? There is a more detailed explanation at Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages that also includes instructions on how to tag an article for potential merging in case one doesn't have the time to do it or if discussion would be needed. -- JLaTondre 17:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Good evening. Thanks for your polite note. Please don't worry that I'm taking it personally. I do understand that reasonable people can disagree. That said, I stand by my arguments. I'll admit that it's more nuanced than can easily be fit into a one-bullet RFD discussion in many cases. You raised two specific points. Permit me to try to explain.
I hope that helps at least a bit. As I said, reasonable people can disagree, especially as these general principles apply to specific cases. Thanks for your patience. Rossami (talk) 04:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
The GFDL doesn't require us to preserve what is effectively the 'file name' of the document. The fact that there is no good record of old titles is immaterial. In the case where the redirect page has substantial unmerged history, in cases where that content exists elsewhere without the history we are already out of compliance. In such cases the history should either be merged or moved to an unobtrusive title and linked from the page's talk as well as mentioned in an edit summary (for example old_name gets blanked and moved to new_name/merge01). -- Gmaxwell 05:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
When I make a redirect to a nonexistent article, I generally create the article immediately afterward. There are dozens of places where people use alternate capitalizations of words in song titles, and your alternative of going to every article with an irregular use of capitalization and editing that article is an unreasonable use of time. Don't delete the redirect; just wait a bit and the article will appear! -- BRG 15:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2006 August 29#Various strange redirects, I thought I withdrew the requests for deletion for 〡 (Chinese numberal 1), changing the target from Vertical bar to 1 (number) and Ⓐ (circled A), changing the target to A. They were deleted anyway, and I'm bringing it up on Wikipedia:Deletion review. I'm informing you per policy, as I'm not sure which one of you deleted them. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I took out the redirect because it was creating confusion. i have updated the page. i din't have time to make a new page at the time. thanks for keeping an eye out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Randywilliams1975 ( talk • contribs) .
yes the piercings are similer, but they are really very different none the less, i am trying to help reduce confusuion and meybe give people a place were they can elaborate on the subject further, isn't that the whole reson for this site. maybe instead of deleting info on the page all together maybe we can come up an agreement. have you seen the bmezine page [4] Randywilliams1975 22:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Apologies Randywilliams1975 00:15, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I may be completely dense, or else I've been asleep for awhile, but what on earth are the new references in the Category listings that show nothing but a + sign. I used to be able to find a list of subcategories there, but now, there is just the + signs; and when I click on it all I get is the word "loading".
Help!!
Hi,
Please keep in mind that I am severly computer challenged. I use Internet Explorer, and, as far as whether Javascript is working, I need to talk with my computer person first. I'll have to get back to you on that.
Thanks for your help & patience. I'll be back in touch as soon as I can.
If a prod has been removed from an article, you cannot re-prod it. The fact that Marudubshinki removed the prod from Human World without any explanation does not matter. You cannot re-prod it and you must take it to WP:AFD instead. Please see WP:PROD or ask me if you have questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 22:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
I wrote a link to my brother who recently passed away and it was deleted as irreveleant. it was lnked to my bio. Why was it deleted? If he is my blood relation it should be linked to my bio. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JerZee ( talk • contribs) .
BAD RADAR —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.79.243.128 ( talk • contribs) .
Thanks for the heads-up. I have responded. Snottygobble 05:25, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello! Why did you mixed the interwiki links the way you did in the Euclidean algorithm article? They were sorted alphabetically by the language codes till then. -- Knakts 19:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
this guy recreated his bio ( Dormantfascist 22:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)) and Terranism its a fake organization ( Dormantfascist 22:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC))
Hello,
It's me again. I attempted to edit the Orson Welles Article & apparently somehow screwed it up. It now displays only a portion of the Article. Would you take a look at it and see where I went wrong?
Thanks,
Hi,
It's the trouble finder again. There seems to be two separate Articles on what appears to be the same person, but with different spellings of the last name: Jill Gascoine & Jill Gascoigne. The IMDB has her name as Gascoine. It looks like this needs a redirect. I'm still a bit gun shy when it comes to redirects, I always seem to screw them up somehow. Would you please take a look at this?
Thank you,
Hiya. It was a good idea to redirect GTFO to the List of Internet Slang. In the future, could you please remember to actually include the text of the article in the list if it's something like that? :) -- Kooky ( talk) 01:45, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Actually I did not nominate this. I removed the speedy tag since it appeared to be in the queue at RfD. Since it is not, I just deleted it as a speedy. Unlikely typo. Vegaswikian 18:47, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder, I've added the tags now. Mango juice talk 21:03, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing it to my attention - as you might imagine, it just managed to fall through the cracks. I'll finish the nomination today. Gavia immer ( u| t| c) 16:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- CrazyRussian talk/ email 02:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi there,
You're listed in the edit history of this article. I wonder whether you're able to help bring it up to FA standard again? Please see WP:FAR#Speech_synthesis.
Tony 06:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The talk page contains the e-mail from Mitchell Forman to me releasing the information for use on Wikipedia, and it was there prior to your tag. Please advise ASAP Tvccs 00:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Back to the root issue, here's the response to my e-mail last night I found this morning when I awakened.
<remove email details>
I hope this resolves the issue, and request you unblock the page and move the content on the temp page to the main. Thank you. Tvccs 13:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
In following your instruction, I have posted the permissions e-mail timing, etc. at the copyrightvio page and on the discussion page. Tvccs 14:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt revison. Tvccs 15:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I found another problem (what else is new?!?).
The entry for William Patterson (U.S. Politician) is actually two different people. Here is the entry from
The Political Graveyard showing both persons.
I'm not sure how to fix this. Would you please take a look at it when you have time? -- Michael David 22:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Re: [7]. The use of warning templates applied by editors on their own behalf has become a virtual epidemic in some areas. In my opinion and experience, this is most often used to irritate, bait, and annoy users involved in tense situations. I think somewhere there is a page WP:you _can_ be a dick, if you Salute Wikipedia policy while doing so. It's one thing to template a newbie, who you might actually be informing. It's another to repeatedly template someone with whom you are in dispute, particularly if it's not a clear-cut case. I'd prefer it if those templates came with guidance that they are not to be applied on your own behalf with an established editor. Nothing wrong with leaving a polite sentence on your own behalf asking the user to be civil or whatever; that has a totally different tone than repeated template spamming. Anyway, I'm just agreeing with you that it's harassment, and I'm glad to see it frowned on for once, rather than encouraged (although I do think Ben has more often been the victim of this). Derex 21:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
As a previous contributor to the article on Evergreen International Aviation, could I request your input on the talk page on whether it should contain a link to the corresponding SourceWatch article? With thanks, -- Neoconned 12:05, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Would you please take a look at the latest edits to the Walter J. Turner article. I had simply added B & D dates, etc, but the latest anonymous edits really do stray from the usual Wiki style, and have no source. I'm not sure what to do in this case.
I wanted to go ahead and revert it, saying to the editor that they needed to sight sources, but I wasn't sure if that wasn't too bold. Perhaps I need to learn to be more assertive, and less polite? I need your thoughts on this.
Thanks for your time.
Be healthy,
Hi,
The Articles on Roger Edward Collingwood Altounyan & Roger Altounyan are the same person. The latter one is more complete. This seems a rather simple redirect, but every time I try to do a redirect I still seem to screw it up. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Would you please take at look at these articles when you have time?
Thanks,
Before destroying my modest contribution, you could see what modern Latin is... Thank you for being honest and objective with our language ! alexandre.rousset@free.fr
Hi - The edit summary for this edit says "fixing links to disambig pages", but in addition it changed the star characters from ★ to the Unicode ★ character. Unless I change the script that generates this page to use the Unicode ★ character rather than ★ they'll all change back the next time I update the page. Do you have a strong preference for using the Unicode character directly? Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the refresher regarding RFD closures. I knew I'd missed something important along the way. Serpent's Choice 12:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Why should we keep this article? Why don't we also create Readin Program, Readig Program, Reading Porgram, Margorp gnidaer, and the other 8 million misspellings? (written with sarcasm) — Chris53516 ( Talk) 21:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been off dealing with real life priorities, and now that I'm getting some time again for wiki's I found this questionable decision by seeing your edit in {{
cat see also}}
. Worse, I have not the time just now to puruse your history and evaluate how many other identical pages on other sisters may have been damaged (interwiki link orphaned).
re:
this action — I'm ALWAYS a little miffed that there is no requirement to directly involve an originating editor in a discussion/deletion decision, especially one to require an attempt to email and post a talk (both should be mandantory, imho).
In this case with it's overwhelming numerical vote margin (Not! It's a tie if you automatically add one keep from the originator), no consideration seems to have been given as to how many equivilent uses on foundation sister projects may now be bad links.
Robust Interwiki link's are problematic enough amongst the nine sister's without this discussion/decision which seems to have assumed the other foundation projects are somehow second class, or that interconnnectivity of those minor sister's is unimportant.
What really bothers me here is that some of the logic deposed in the two following redirects discussed were similarly applicable to this interwiki shortcut, and it was clearly tagged as having interwiki scope, iirc. Any 'sister project' will necessarily be in the context of some other project like Wikimedia Foundation's Wiki encyclopedia, and hence is quite unlikely to have ever been used as an article title inandofitself. In sum, once I look at the impact of this over in depth (during the next week or so—I'm still awfully busy in RL), I may have to ask the matter be revisited. I would have preferred with such a narrow vote and no overwhelming urgency to clear the title line, in particular without a good understanding of what might be 'broken' elsewhere, you would have let this one stand—or at least emailed me for input. Hurry slower when you don't know! Best regards //
Fra
nkB
18:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about closing redirects and I know you have quite a bit of experience with that. When I close a redirect, am I allowed to count a vote I would have put on the subject? Or is that a conflict of interest? (Specifically, I am talking about Bt homehub for which I would vote delete because the target article contains no mention of the product.) -- Renesis ( talk) 18:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)