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Hi Chris. On the OOXML talk page you're painting me as the main edit warrior with HAl. I actually haven't made that many edits to the article. A fraction of most of the other players. I reverted HAl yesterday, not because of the content, but because his edit summaries were claiming "vandalism", while the edits were changing large portions of the article. It's a basic thing in Wikipedia that editors give an honest description of the edit in the edit summary. Look back through the article history from the past few months. Is that me being a main player there? Maybe I was wrong yesterday, in reverting HAl 3 times. Maybe we all should go away and leave the article to HAl to write alone. Someone's got to challenge it sometime. I'd like to spend time on the article and add referenced content, but I can't put anything in as I know that HAl will revert it 2 minutes later. The article is currently an embarrassment to Wikipedia, as it takes an minority view far removed from the mainstream. Regards, Lester 14:33, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Comparison of e-book formats, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of e-book formats. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 00:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Why did you move this? The proper title is fruit preserves; preserves is always presented in the plural form so your move of the article was in fact incorrect. Could you please undo this and fix your changes? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 00:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I have discussed with a number of people and none of us understand why the "Barracuda Web Server SDK" page was deleted and what must be done to restore the page. In addition, we do not understand the wording and links provided in the deletion log. Please advice. Wilfrednilsen ( talk) 11:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
In this edit, you added a nbsp to the name of an image file. Since the file was then misnamed, the image no longer appeared. A quick glance at the article after you ran this script would have alerted you to that fact. Obviously, it would be best if the script did not add nbsp's to image file names! Awadewit ( talk) 19:23, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
In your edit summary on Template:Infobox card game you said that "field shadings are deprecated." Can you tell me where you read that? Daniel J Simanek ( talk) 17:58, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
Infobox}}
though and I still see them used in other infoboxes as well. To be honest, I like the two-tone style better, but if its being phased out, I can deal.
Daniel J Simanek (
talk)
19:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)Hi. I see you reverted my edit here. I don't know if you are aware of this, but the text was changed by pigsonthewing (aka Andy Mabbett) who has a history of arbcom blocks. He was banned for a year for disruptions on classical music related projects relating to this particular infobox. (I can give you lots of references, but see his block record and Composers Project infobox debates for a start). We'd like to avpid this kind of trouble in the future, hence my re-insertion of the words non-classical. Besides this, there is also the problem that this box just isn't designed for classical music, and invites irrelevant and erroneous information. Best. -- Klein zach 00:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me. I had a good think before doing that revert. I looked up the Wiki definition WP:Stub and came to the conclusion that the stubbing was not what was required, for the following reasons:
Firstly, the definition of a stub is: A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject. On the other hand, there are some subjects about which there is very little that can be written. I think the information contained in the article puts it beyond stub status. I agree completely that it could do with more information, but even Peter Kavanagh's book, which I have, does not provide more information (otherwise I would have used it to expand the article), nor does Christy Moore's or any other songbook that I possess.
Another point is that an article usually has stub status when it's new, where this article has been up for 3 years, and over that period has had many edits.
Also (as I'm a song-collector), I know that there are many articles on songs that have less information than this one has but are not stubs. Hohenloh + 16:36, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
What does style="overflow: auto"
do?
Debresser (
talk)
18:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
<pre>
lines from causing horizontal scrollbars on the viewport if the line is wider than the normal content area.
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk
18:52, 17 October 2009 (UTC)On the talk page, you recently did this [1]. I think you are entirely right to voice your opinion on the nature of the discussion, but I think you overstep the mark by folding up a discussion (even though it was quiet) which hadn't reached a conclusion. And in so doing expressly "forbidding" - The following is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. - any further contributions. The discussion page is after all for discussions. I have undone that action, and hope you do not take offence at this. Cheers. HarryAlffa ( talk) 14:40, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ User:Kww/RFAspam}}
Just so you know, there *is* a rule against using templates for signatures. It's right in WP:SIG#NT. "Forbidden" is a pretty strong choice of words; I'm not sure if it appears anywhere else in the behavioral guidelines. Horologium (talk) 23:07, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for changing the above on my talk page - I'd not even noticed that it said about threads older "than 7 days days"! -- PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 10:59, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes, it's strictly necessary, per this edit summary indicating that it was merged with another article and the GFDL. The page history is substantial, over 100 edits,, and it used to be a valid article in the past. Its only crime was that it was in the way of a page move. I don't see what harm it's doing, but I like to keep as many edits undeleted as possible. I've done similar operations before, like at Talk:Weekend/Old history, which also contains a large number of edits. Graham 87 11:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Funny you should mention that. I seriously considered " blink." :P user:J aka justen ( talk) 15:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thumperward. You added a notability tag to List of governors of Badakhshan. The page lists(will list) all the governors of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. There are 34 provinces and I am trying to create a list for all the province. So far I have added a list for 16 provinces and you can see that at List of current governors of Afghanistan. At the right of the table it says "All" and the ones that are blue have a list, but I am still working on the red ones.
Most of other countries have similar lists. ( Ketabtoon ( talk) 00:20, 24 October 2009 (UTC))
Thanks for cleaning up the above template. You are amazing! Cheers. Boghog ( talk) 11:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
No, not TPS report, but talk page stalker. I appreciate your revert of my userpage very much. Cheers, tedder ( talk) 05:07, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Regarding this edit [2] the archive search feature is nice, but now there is no way to just browse the archives without searching a particular term. Actually I just tried to use the search and I'm not really clear on how it's supposed to work either, I searched two different terms I knew would be in the archives somewhere and got no results. Is there maybe a way to have both the search and a list of the archives? Beeblebrox ( talk) 17:29, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Completely agree that the article title is very clear about which Jack it's about. There's 3-4 other Jack Thompson's in WP though. While the activist is the most likely destination, I thought keeping the reference to the disambig made sense. Feel free to toss it if you don't think it's needed. Ravensfire ( talk) 20:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thumperward, I put in the references you needed for this article, they're located at the bottom of the page. Pretty much everything I used to put it together comes from those sources. Again, just a head's up the references are now included and the article title is Golden Team, many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gallopingmajor ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Just check almost every car article, its the used size, we dont want to every article look different, you can also ask this in WP:CARS if its not documented somewhere there it should be Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Layouts is there some reason for 300px size? -- Typ932 T· C 03:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello again Thumperward. After I originated this article, I have to say this comes directly from FIFA own sources. I honestly don't see any bias or any tinge of partiality in how FIFA chooses to eulogize the on-field achievements of Ferenc Puskas. It is a soccer prize simply given every year. I have simply distilled down into basics what FIFA had stated prior to inaugurating this prize. Would you prefer reference proofs or quotes or article sources or what have you sir? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.25.208.26 ( talk) 20:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry. It had been there for a few weeks and I thought that it had already been handled. Besides, there was no objections to mine tlping it in the help channel so I thought that it was okay. Anyway, thanks for letting me know. Bejinhan Talk 06:28, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
On the public limited company article, you added a tooshort tab, but I don't see any discussion on the corresponding Talk page about why. The intro seems pretty complete to me. What is missing as far as you're concerned? Please answer on Talk:public limited company. -- macrakis ( talk) 17:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Would you please explain the rationale behind this and this edit? And I don't mean moving the bolds in the second edit. Debresser ( talk) 16:52, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
See your recent edit to Tape drive that it is always wise to check the results of such edits afterwards. Debresser ( talk) 23:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 35 | ← | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 | Archive 41 | Archive 42 | → | Archive 45 |
Hi Chris. On the OOXML talk page you're painting me as the main edit warrior with HAl. I actually haven't made that many edits to the article. A fraction of most of the other players. I reverted HAl yesterday, not because of the content, but because his edit summaries were claiming "vandalism", while the edits were changing large portions of the article. It's a basic thing in Wikipedia that editors give an honest description of the edit in the edit summary. Look back through the article history from the past few months. Is that me being a main player there? Maybe I was wrong yesterday, in reverting HAl 3 times. Maybe we all should go away and leave the article to HAl to write alone. Someone's got to challenge it sometime. I'd like to spend time on the article and add referenced content, but I can't put anything in as I know that HAl will revert it 2 minutes later. The article is currently an embarrassment to Wikipedia, as it takes an minority view far removed from the mainstream. Regards, Lester 14:33, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Comparison of e-book formats, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of e-book formats. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 00:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Why did you move this? The proper title is fruit preserves; preserves is always presented in the plural form so your move of the article was in fact incorrect. Could you please undo this and fix your changes? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 00:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I have discussed with a number of people and none of us understand why the "Barracuda Web Server SDK" page was deleted and what must be done to restore the page. In addition, we do not understand the wording and links provided in the deletion log. Please advice. Wilfrednilsen ( talk) 11:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
In this edit, you added a nbsp to the name of an image file. Since the file was then misnamed, the image no longer appeared. A quick glance at the article after you ran this script would have alerted you to that fact. Obviously, it would be best if the script did not add nbsp's to image file names! Awadewit ( talk) 19:23, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
In your edit summary on Template:Infobox card game you said that "field shadings are deprecated." Can you tell me where you read that? Daniel J Simanek ( talk) 17:58, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
Infobox}}
though and I still see them used in other infoboxes as well. To be honest, I like the two-tone style better, but if its being phased out, I can deal.
Daniel J Simanek (
talk)
19:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)Hi. I see you reverted my edit here. I don't know if you are aware of this, but the text was changed by pigsonthewing (aka Andy Mabbett) who has a history of arbcom blocks. He was banned for a year for disruptions on classical music related projects relating to this particular infobox. (I can give you lots of references, but see his block record and Composers Project infobox debates for a start). We'd like to avpid this kind of trouble in the future, hence my re-insertion of the words non-classical. Besides this, there is also the problem that this box just isn't designed for classical music, and invites irrelevant and erroneous information. Best. -- Klein zach 00:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me. I had a good think before doing that revert. I looked up the Wiki definition WP:Stub and came to the conclusion that the stubbing was not what was required, for the following reasons:
Firstly, the definition of a stub is: A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject. On the other hand, there are some subjects about which there is very little that can be written. I think the information contained in the article puts it beyond stub status. I agree completely that it could do with more information, but even Peter Kavanagh's book, which I have, does not provide more information (otherwise I would have used it to expand the article), nor does Christy Moore's or any other songbook that I possess.
Another point is that an article usually has stub status when it's new, where this article has been up for 3 years, and over that period has had many edits.
Also (as I'm a song-collector), I know that there are many articles on songs that have less information than this one has but are not stubs. Hohenloh + 16:36, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
What does style="overflow: auto"
do?
Debresser (
talk)
18:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
<pre>
lines from causing horizontal scrollbars on the viewport if the line is wider than the normal content area.
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk
18:52, 17 October 2009 (UTC)On the talk page, you recently did this [1]. I think you are entirely right to voice your opinion on the nature of the discussion, but I think you overstep the mark by folding up a discussion (even though it was quiet) which hadn't reached a conclusion. And in so doing expressly "forbidding" - The following is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. - any further contributions. The discussion page is after all for discussions. I have undone that action, and hope you do not take offence at this. Cheers. HarryAlffa ( talk) 14:40, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ User:Kww/RFAspam}}
Just so you know, there *is* a rule against using templates for signatures. It's right in WP:SIG#NT. "Forbidden" is a pretty strong choice of words; I'm not sure if it appears anywhere else in the behavioral guidelines. Horologium (talk) 23:07, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for changing the above on my talk page - I'd not even noticed that it said about threads older "than 7 days days"! -- PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 10:59, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes, it's strictly necessary, per this edit summary indicating that it was merged with another article and the GFDL. The page history is substantial, over 100 edits,, and it used to be a valid article in the past. Its only crime was that it was in the way of a page move. I don't see what harm it's doing, but I like to keep as many edits undeleted as possible. I've done similar operations before, like at Talk:Weekend/Old history, which also contains a large number of edits. Graham 87 11:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Funny you should mention that. I seriously considered " blink." :P user:J aka justen ( talk) 15:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thumperward. You added a notability tag to List of governors of Badakhshan. The page lists(will list) all the governors of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. There are 34 provinces and I am trying to create a list for all the province. So far I have added a list for 16 provinces and you can see that at List of current governors of Afghanistan. At the right of the table it says "All" and the ones that are blue have a list, but I am still working on the red ones.
Most of other countries have similar lists. ( Ketabtoon ( talk) 00:20, 24 October 2009 (UTC))
Thanks for cleaning up the above template. You are amazing! Cheers. Boghog ( talk) 11:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
No, not TPS report, but talk page stalker. I appreciate your revert of my userpage very much. Cheers, tedder ( talk) 05:07, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Regarding this edit [2] the archive search feature is nice, but now there is no way to just browse the archives without searching a particular term. Actually I just tried to use the search and I'm not really clear on how it's supposed to work either, I searched two different terms I knew would be in the archives somewhere and got no results. Is there maybe a way to have both the search and a list of the archives? Beeblebrox ( talk) 17:29, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Completely agree that the article title is very clear about which Jack it's about. There's 3-4 other Jack Thompson's in WP though. While the activist is the most likely destination, I thought keeping the reference to the disambig made sense. Feel free to toss it if you don't think it's needed. Ravensfire ( talk) 20:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thumperward, I put in the references you needed for this article, they're located at the bottom of the page. Pretty much everything I used to put it together comes from those sources. Again, just a head's up the references are now included and the article title is Golden Team, many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gallopingmajor ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Just check almost every car article, its the used size, we dont want to every article look different, you can also ask this in WP:CARS if its not documented somewhere there it should be Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Layouts is there some reason for 300px size? -- Typ932 T· C 03:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello again Thumperward. After I originated this article, I have to say this comes directly from FIFA own sources. I honestly don't see any bias or any tinge of partiality in how FIFA chooses to eulogize the on-field achievements of Ferenc Puskas. It is a soccer prize simply given every year. I have simply distilled down into basics what FIFA had stated prior to inaugurating this prize. Would you prefer reference proofs or quotes or article sources or what have you sir? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.25.208.26 ( talk) 20:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry. It had been there for a few weeks and I thought that it had already been handled. Besides, there was no objections to mine tlping it in the help channel so I thought that it was okay. Anyway, thanks for letting me know. Bejinhan Talk 06:28, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
On the public limited company article, you added a tooshort tab, but I don't see any discussion on the corresponding Talk page about why. The intro seems pretty complete to me. What is missing as far as you're concerned? Please answer on Talk:public limited company. -- macrakis ( talk) 17:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Would you please explain the rationale behind this and this edit? And I don't mean moving the bolds in the second edit. Debresser ( talk) 16:52, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
See your recent edit to Tape drive that it is always wise to check the results of such edits afterwards. Debresser ( talk) 23:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)