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Thanks for undoing that vandalism. I guess he/she took offense to me CSD-tagging Google map he/she'd just uploaded. – Fredddie ™ 01:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work in vandalism reversion. I saw your name in a few people I warned as well, and figured I'd say thanks your work. Leo 04:08, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
"your unknown user, catch me for the last time as nobody, get moving you little squirt"? Do you have any idea what he meant? I'm at a loss. Regardless, thanks for reverting it so quickly. It's good to know there's someone out there keeping tabs on things. !MNc99 ( talk) 19:25, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Wayne, you need to take more care when reverting with Huggle. Take a few more seconds to examine an edit and only revert it if you're absolutely certain that the edit was made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. I've had cause to decline a significant minority of your AIV reports and an IP editor has left a complaint on my alternate talk page. Obviously mistaken reverts and warnings can be very bitey of new editors and could drive them away so, as the heading says, please be more careful with your reverts. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:05, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Why did you revert this edit and give the editor a vandalism warning? Please add edit summaries which explain your edits, and be careful before adding warnings to editor's pages. PamD ( talk) 09:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
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template. You would enter it like thisThanks!
{{subst:uw-npa2|User talk:Alansohn}} ~~~~
— Spike Toronto 00:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
As for your name, I like them both. — Spike Toronto 00:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
We’ve had this discussion before. We can only use the top left HG button, without bothering with the pulldown menu, if and only if what is on our diff screen is clearly vandalism. If it is something else, then we have to apply the appropriate warning from the pulldown menu. Thus,
{{
Hangon}}
template on the page and providing a hangon rationale on the article’s talk page, he deletes the speedy template → select Removal of speedy deletion template from the pulldown list{{
Citation needed}}
) would not suffice → select Failing to cite verifiable reliable source from the pulldown listRemember: The purpose of the warning templates is to let the editor know what he’s done wrong so that he can develop into a productive editor. Labelling as vandalism something that is more appropriately linkspam, for example, does not help the offender become a more productive editor: labelling it as spam does. Hope this helps. Lecture over. — Spike Toronto 05:21, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
.You need to take a break from vandal fighting generally and Huggle specifically. You need to spend time actually contributing to articles/stubs to acquire more knowledge of how articles are created/expanded/edited/etc. so that you will have a better understanding of what it is you are policing when you are vandal fighting. Later, you can return in a few months from your sojourn editing articles to re-start vandal fighting. When you return to vandal fighting, I recommend you do so manually, using
RecentChanges to locate possible vandalism, then use the
Undo button
to manually revert and enter precise summaries explaining why you are reverting an edit. Then you would manually apply the appropriate template from
WP:UTM. Ultimately you would manually file reports at AIV. Believe it or not, manually dealing with vandalism is how one is supposed to learn. This is why I, personally, do not think that
rollback should be given to anyone with less than 1,000 edits. Browser-like tools such as Huggle are powerful devices that truly require editing experience to use properly.
Your talk page and talk page archives contain a litany of complaints about your vandal fighting. We must be living in a kinder, gentler Wikipedia world because a year ago, someone would have already brought a report to ANI. So, before this actually does happen, you really need to take a break from vandal fighting and become an actual Wikipedia editor. You could start as a Wikipedia gnome. There are lots of ways you can help this project that do not involve using Huggle. — Spike Toronto 20:36, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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template?
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SLAM
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How do you become a new page patroller? WAYNE SLAM 19:30, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
{{db-g10|blanked=true}}
. Most pages, however, do not fall under
speedy deletion criteria. Be careful when tagging a page for deletion under criteria A7.I know. Edit count doesn't mean anything. It matters by how good your edits are. Am I doing better now? WAYNE SLAM 21:02, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes I did select you, Dylan. WAYNE SLAM 21:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Just a note that I changed your A7 tagging to a G10. While you are correct that Enily Laskoe is not important enough for an encyclopedia entry, it is an obvious attack page that deserves a G10 tagging. One of the tricky things about newpage patrol is that you need to prioritize your taggings - you need to be able to figure out which tag is more important and should be placed on the article. Don't worry, new page patrol is tricky for everyone at first. access_denied ( talk) 21:34, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
{{db-g10|blanked=true}}
to the page.
Reaper Eternal (
talk)
21:43, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
What was the article's name and who was the user who created it? WAYNE SLAM 22:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Do you mind if I could add examples on your examples page of vandalism that users may likely make on an attack page that they created such as penis, for example? WAYNE SLAM 02:01, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I have removed your rollback privileges per consensus at [1]. Sorry Wayne, but this is for your own good as well as the community's. It was also suggested that you have a mentor to teach you what is and what is not vandalism, as well as the appropriate warning templates to use. When your mentor decides that you are ready for rollback again, you can request it at WP:PERM/R. Take care, Eagles 24/7 (C) 03:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
So, now I'm disappointed because of this. Could somebody mentor me? I'm not getting help right away and I need some help now, please. I don't want to retire because of this. WAYNE SLAM 16:26, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Dylan, confirmed. You are now my mentor. All I want to say is, I'm sorry and I won't let it happen again. Will you please forgive for what I have done wrong? I won't do it again. WAYNE SLAM 18:45, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Done if I need to ask you a question.
WAYNE
SLAM
00:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Just for future reference, I would have tagged this article for speedy deletion instead of tagging it for cleanup and no categories etc. If you read the article it doesn't explain why the person is notable and the business isn't yet set up so would qualify for speedy deletion under A7. -- 5 albert square ( talk) 01:56, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Just a quick note to let you know I removed the A7 speedy deletion tag from this article. A7 specifically only applies to articles about people, individual animals, organizations and web content. Since RBER is a communications engineering concept it is not covered by any of these. Actually, I'm quite surprised we didn't have an RBER article already, although the present article will obviously need quite a lot of work to get up to standard...
Cheers,
Thparkth ( talk) 14:13, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello Wayne
I just thought I'd drop by your talk page and find out how things are going. How are you finding new page patrolling? -- 5 albert square ( talk) 02:27, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello Wayne Slam. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Syed Abdul Rasheed Koya Thangal, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7, and Google suggests it is not a hoax. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:30, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I see you're working at NPP right now. Whenever you add an expand tag, like you did to Chris Biller, please may you explain what parts of the article needs to be expanded? You can do that on the article's talk page. I apologise for removing it so quickly, but some tags such as cleanup, POV-check, expand and other non-self explanatory tags do have to be explained. Minima c ( talk) 21:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Could you please go to the talk page and explain this edit?
Thanks Geo Swan ( talk) 01:17, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Misleading}}
says that the only parameters that work with that template are {{
misleading|article}}
and {{
misleading|section}}
. Thus, {{misleading|date=}}
will just yield the same results as plain old {{
misleading}}
. It’s odd, though, since virtually all
cleanup templates take a date=
parameter. Hope this helps. —
Spike
Toronto
18:27, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
misleading|section}}
and {{
misleading|article}}
, Spike.
WAYNE
SLAM
20:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC) That's fine with me. Done.
WAYNE
SLAM
18:38, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
I rather just do my new page patrolling until my mentors think I'm ready. |
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If you want to get your rollback rights returned, you may want to fight some vandalism manually, just to show people that you are ready for rollback to be returned. Inka 888 22:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I am, LOL. @5 albert square: Do you mind if I call you Louise, LOL, and okay?
WAYNE
SLAM
22:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
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Sorry, that's nowhere near a DYK nomination. The hook needs to be an interesting fact which occurs, and is sourced, in the nominated article. Feel free to try again, however. Rodhull andemu 19:24, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
You recently tagged Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve as having no lead. While this tag was correct, the section entitled "Background" could have been considered the lead. Make sure you look more carefully for a lead formatted as a body section before adding the {{ lead missing}} tag. Other than that you're doing a fine job. Keep it up. :) The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 00:03, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Louise. Hope you don't mind me calling you that, LOL. Have you ever copy-edited before? WAYNE SLAM 01:07, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
{{ talkheader}} is one of them. WAYNE SLAM 02:06, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
This edit is an example. It was produced by inserting the following at the top of the user’s talk page:
The welcome is like the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine of the warning templates easier to go down. Keep up the good work!
__TOC__
== Welcome ==
{{subst:Welcomeg}}<br>
== [[WP:ES|Edit Summaries]] ==
{{subst:Summary}} ~~~~
— Spike Toronto 01:47, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Also, from
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Foreign-language contributors, there is a template, {{subst:welcomeen-en|other language}}
, that one uses to let the editor know that there is another Wikipedia in their language to which they may prefer to contribute. One uses a
language code from the list
here. Unfortunately, I cannot tell for the life of me which code is for Serbo-Croatian, if there even is one! In any event, I only mention this to you for future reference.
By the way, how are you able to use Twinkle given that you were added to its blacklist? — Spike Toronto 02:19, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
( ←) I see no problem with HotCat. To remove friendly you will have to bypass your cache first. access_denied ( talk) 04:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey Wayne, you may want to consider getting rights for AutoWikiBrowser
here, you meet the requirements and it would help you copyedit. Cheers.
Usb10
Connected?
22:30, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I use Friendly to tag pages and I use HotCat to add categories since I'm allowed to use these two tools. WAYNE SLAM 22:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
But AWB works just as fast as Huggle. The issue is not that AWB isn't a counter vandalism tool, it's that it's a quick tool, and as you can remember, Wayne was reported to ANI for abusing a quick tool. The automated tools Wayne is currently using do not operate as fast as Huggle or AWB. Therefore, I think we should wait before giving Wayne the AWB tool. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 23:33, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
See the "Your tag on Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve" section above this one. Wayne has already performed a copy edit, and it was adequate, but there were still a few things that were left uncorrected. What I really want to see is some improvement in how well Wayne copy edits an article, which brings us back to the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 backlog elimination drive. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 00:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Wayne, I have to admit that when I saw AWB as a subject heading on your talk page, I almost cringed. AWB, incorrectly used, can do far more damage far more quickly than Huggle. To be honest, it is such a powerful tool, that, even though I have the privileges for it and have downloaded it to my machine, I have not had the courage to try it. I think it makes Huggle look like a walk in the park. AWB makes me think of that old adage, You have to walk, before you can run. If I were you, I’d wait until well after you’re back to using Huggle/Twinkle before you consider taking a stab at AWB.
Nascar1996, at the risk of being rude, there are several threads spread across several locations that have dealt with most of the issues you raised. You might want to read Wayne’s talkpage and talkpage archives (as well as ANI) to understand the background here. Suffice to say, Wayne has placed himself under a mentorship programme in which different mentors are mentoring him on different areas of Wikipedia. It is up to Wayne and his mentors how that programme will proceed, and that includes determining which Wikipedia tools they consider suitable for Wayne’s training and progress. — Spike Toronto 05:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
T.I. wrote for Bow Wow. He wrote Let's Get Down. [2] 98.80.133.213 ( talk) 17:32, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Wayne! I was thinking that, since you are using Friendly, why not join the Wikipedia:Welcoming committee (shortcut → WP:WC)? I notice a lot of new Wikipedians who, months after joining up, still have not received welcome messages. You could help with that! Check with the appropriate one of your mentors and see what s/he thinks. You might enjoy it. Have a happy holiday and enjoy the time off school! — Spike Toronto 19:20, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 19, 2010, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. The 300 lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Clint Bowyer, of the Richard Childress Racing team, won the race, with Denny Hamlin finishing second, and Jamie McMurray third. Pole position driver Brad Keselowski maintained his lead in the first lap, but in the second lap Tony Stewart pulled ahead. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Hamlin was the only one to recover and finish in the top five. With two laps remaining, Tony Stewart was leading the race when he ran out of fuel, giving the lead to Bowyer, who also led the most laps in the race with 176. There were eight cautions and twenty-three lead changes among eight different drivers during the race. The race was Clint Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick, but because of a penalty three days after the race, he fell to twelfth in the standings. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford, with nine races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 3.68 million watched it on television. ( More...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lol at subject heading xD. Anyway Wayne just wanted to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays (: STATic message me! 00:34, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
You've logged the Plane Crazy Down Under aviation podcast entry as needing more references. There's already reference links to a couple of aviation print-media articles on the show (admittedly on the PCDU site as the magazine in question doesn't put them online) and an online aviation news service. I've added a new reference link from the Matt Hall Racing page to confirm that he was on the show.
Can you please let me know what areas you would like to see supported with additional citations/references? I'm happy to go & hunt down additional work for the page so let me know what works for you & Wikipedia so I can get onto it (note: I've read through the citations & references entries in WP but thought the page already had sufficient to support what was happening - short of linking back to the podcast's "about us" section, etc).
Thanks heaps :) Falcon124 (Take that runway, and that, and that...) ( talk) 01:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Refimprove section}}
to the particular sections rather than adding a {{
Refimprove}}
at the top of the entire article. Have a look at the various verification templates at
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup (shortcut →
WP:TMC) in the
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup#Verifiability and sources section. —
Spike
Toronto
06:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the spelling mistakes on my drafts. Its much appretiated. STATic message me! 20:54, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I just wanted to fake-block him. I'm sorry.-- NASCAR I am ( talk) 04:20, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Wayne. Thanks for helping out on my user talk. See ya 'round Tide rolls 04:22, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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I see that you're enjoying new page patrolling and copy editing. How would you like to get back into the business of vandal fighting? If you prefer new page patrolling and copy editing, then that's fine. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 03:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for undoing that vandalism. I guess he/she took offense to me CSD-tagging Google map he/she'd just uploaded. – Fredddie ™ 01:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work in vandalism reversion. I saw your name in a few people I warned as well, and figured I'd say thanks your work. Leo 04:08, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
"your unknown user, catch me for the last time as nobody, get moving you little squirt"? Do you have any idea what he meant? I'm at a loss. Regardless, thanks for reverting it so quickly. It's good to know there's someone out there keeping tabs on things. !MNc99 ( talk) 19:25, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Wayne, you need to take more care when reverting with Huggle. Take a few more seconds to examine an edit and only revert it if you're absolutely certain that the edit was made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. I've had cause to decline a significant minority of your AIV reports and an IP editor has left a complaint on my alternate talk page. Obviously mistaken reverts and warnings can be very bitey of new editors and could drive them away so, as the heading says, please be more careful with your reverts. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:05, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Why did you revert this edit and give the editor a vandalism warning? Please add edit summaries which explain your edits, and be careful before adding warnings to editor's pages. PamD ( talk) 09:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
uw-npa2}}
template. You would enter it like thisThanks!
{{subst:uw-npa2|User talk:Alansohn}} ~~~~
— Spike Toronto 00:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
As for your name, I like them both. — Spike Toronto 00:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
We’ve had this discussion before. We can only use the top left HG button, without bothering with the pulldown menu, if and only if what is on our diff screen is clearly vandalism. If it is something else, then we have to apply the appropriate warning from the pulldown menu. Thus,
{{
Hangon}}
template on the page and providing a hangon rationale on the article’s talk page, he deletes the speedy template → select Removal of speedy deletion template from the pulldown list{{
Citation needed}}
) would not suffice → select Failing to cite verifiable reliable source from the pulldown listRemember: The purpose of the warning templates is to let the editor know what he’s done wrong so that he can develop into a productive editor. Labelling as vandalism something that is more appropriately linkspam, for example, does not help the offender become a more productive editor: labelling it as spam does. Hope this helps. Lecture over. — Spike Toronto 05:21, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
.You need to take a break from vandal fighting generally and Huggle specifically. You need to spend time actually contributing to articles/stubs to acquire more knowledge of how articles are created/expanded/edited/etc. so that you will have a better understanding of what it is you are policing when you are vandal fighting. Later, you can return in a few months from your sojourn editing articles to re-start vandal fighting. When you return to vandal fighting, I recommend you do so manually, using
RecentChanges to locate possible vandalism, then use the
Undo button
to manually revert and enter precise summaries explaining why you are reverting an edit. Then you would manually apply the appropriate template from
WP:UTM. Ultimately you would manually file reports at AIV. Believe it or not, manually dealing with vandalism is how one is supposed to learn. This is why I, personally, do not think that
rollback should be given to anyone with less than 1,000 edits. Browser-like tools such as Huggle are powerful devices that truly require editing experience to use properly.
Your talk page and talk page archives contain a litany of complaints about your vandal fighting. We must be living in a kinder, gentler Wikipedia world because a year ago, someone would have already brought a report to ANI. So, before this actually does happen, you really need to take a break from vandal fighting and become an actual Wikipedia editor. You could start as a Wikipedia gnome. There are lots of ways you can help this project that do not involve using Huggle. — Spike Toronto 20:36, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
template?
WAYNE
SLAM
20:48, 4 December 2010 (UTC)Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Eagles 24/7 (C) 20:51, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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How do you become a new page patroller? WAYNE SLAM 19:30, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
{{db-g10|blanked=true}}
. Most pages, however, do not fall under
speedy deletion criteria. Be careful when tagging a page for deletion under criteria A7.I know. Edit count doesn't mean anything. It matters by how good your edits are. Am I doing better now? WAYNE SLAM 21:02, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes I did select you, Dylan. WAYNE SLAM 21:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Just a note that I changed your A7 tagging to a G10. While you are correct that Enily Laskoe is not important enough for an encyclopedia entry, it is an obvious attack page that deserves a G10 tagging. One of the tricky things about newpage patrol is that you need to prioritize your taggings - you need to be able to figure out which tag is more important and should be placed on the article. Don't worry, new page patrol is tricky for everyone at first. access_denied ( talk) 21:34, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
{{db-g10|blanked=true}}
to the page.
Reaper Eternal (
talk)
21:43, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
What was the article's name and who was the user who created it? WAYNE SLAM 22:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Do you mind if I could add examples on your examples page of vandalism that users may likely make on an attack page that they created such as penis, for example? WAYNE SLAM 02:01, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I have removed your rollback privileges per consensus at [1]. Sorry Wayne, but this is for your own good as well as the community's. It was also suggested that you have a mentor to teach you what is and what is not vandalism, as well as the appropriate warning templates to use. When your mentor decides that you are ready for rollback again, you can request it at WP:PERM/R. Take care, Eagles 24/7 (C) 03:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
So, now I'm disappointed because of this. Could somebody mentor me? I'm not getting help right away and I need some help now, please. I don't want to retire because of this. WAYNE SLAM 16:26, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Dylan, confirmed. You are now my mentor. All I want to say is, I'm sorry and I won't let it happen again. Will you please forgive for what I have done wrong? I won't do it again. WAYNE SLAM 18:45, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Done if I need to ask you a question.
WAYNE
SLAM
00:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Just for future reference, I would have tagged this article for speedy deletion instead of tagging it for cleanup and no categories etc. If you read the article it doesn't explain why the person is notable and the business isn't yet set up so would qualify for speedy deletion under A7. -- 5 albert square ( talk) 01:56, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Just a quick note to let you know I removed the A7 speedy deletion tag from this article. A7 specifically only applies to articles about people, individual animals, organizations and web content. Since RBER is a communications engineering concept it is not covered by any of these. Actually, I'm quite surprised we didn't have an RBER article already, although the present article will obviously need quite a lot of work to get up to standard...
Cheers,
Thparkth ( talk) 14:13, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello Wayne
I just thought I'd drop by your talk page and find out how things are going. How are you finding new page patrolling? -- 5 albert square ( talk) 02:27, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello Wayne Slam. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Syed Abdul Rasheed Koya Thangal, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7, and Google suggests it is not a hoax. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:30, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I see you're working at NPP right now. Whenever you add an expand tag, like you did to Chris Biller, please may you explain what parts of the article needs to be expanded? You can do that on the article's talk page. I apologise for removing it so quickly, but some tags such as cleanup, POV-check, expand and other non-self explanatory tags do have to be explained. Minima c ( talk) 21:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Could you please go to the talk page and explain this edit?
Thanks Geo Swan ( talk) 01:17, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Misleading}}
says that the only parameters that work with that template are {{
misleading|article}}
and {{
misleading|section}}
. Thus, {{misleading|date=}}
will just yield the same results as plain old {{
misleading}}
. It’s odd, though, since virtually all
cleanup templates take a date=
parameter. Hope this helps. —
Spike
Toronto
18:27, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
misleading|section}}
and {{
misleading|article}}
, Spike.
WAYNE
SLAM
20:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC) That's fine with me. Done.
WAYNE
SLAM
18:38, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
I rather just do my new page patrolling until my mentors think I'm ready. |
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If you want to get your rollback rights returned, you may want to fight some vandalism manually, just to show people that you are ready for rollback to be returned. Inka 888 22:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I am, LOL. @5 albert square: Do you mind if I call you Louise, LOL, and okay?
WAYNE
SLAM
22:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
|
Sorry, that's nowhere near a DYK nomination. The hook needs to be an interesting fact which occurs, and is sourced, in the nominated article. Feel free to try again, however. Rodhull andemu 19:24, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
You recently tagged Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve as having no lead. While this tag was correct, the section entitled "Background" could have been considered the lead. Make sure you look more carefully for a lead formatted as a body section before adding the {{ lead missing}} tag. Other than that you're doing a fine job. Keep it up. :) The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 00:03, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Louise. Hope you don't mind me calling you that, LOL. Have you ever copy-edited before? WAYNE SLAM 01:07, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
{{ talkheader}} is one of them. WAYNE SLAM 02:06, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
This edit is an example. It was produced by inserting the following at the top of the user’s talk page:
The welcome is like the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine of the warning templates easier to go down. Keep up the good work!
__TOC__
== Welcome ==
{{subst:Welcomeg}}<br>
== [[WP:ES|Edit Summaries]] ==
{{subst:Summary}} ~~~~
— Spike Toronto 01:47, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Also, from
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Foreign-language contributors, there is a template, {{subst:welcomeen-en|other language}}
, that one uses to let the editor know that there is another Wikipedia in their language to which they may prefer to contribute. One uses a
language code from the list
here. Unfortunately, I cannot tell for the life of me which code is for Serbo-Croatian, if there even is one! In any event, I only mention this to you for future reference.
By the way, how are you able to use Twinkle given that you were added to its blacklist? — Spike Toronto 02:19, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
( ←) I see no problem with HotCat. To remove friendly you will have to bypass your cache first. access_denied ( talk) 04:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey Wayne, you may want to consider getting rights for AutoWikiBrowser
here, you meet the requirements and it would help you copyedit. Cheers.
Usb10
Connected?
22:30, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I use Friendly to tag pages and I use HotCat to add categories since I'm allowed to use these two tools. WAYNE SLAM 22:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
But AWB works just as fast as Huggle. The issue is not that AWB isn't a counter vandalism tool, it's that it's a quick tool, and as you can remember, Wayne was reported to ANI for abusing a quick tool. The automated tools Wayne is currently using do not operate as fast as Huggle or AWB. Therefore, I think we should wait before giving Wayne the AWB tool. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 23:33, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
See the "Your tag on Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve" section above this one. Wayne has already performed a copy edit, and it was adequate, but there were still a few things that were left uncorrected. What I really want to see is some improvement in how well Wayne copy edits an article, which brings us back to the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 backlog elimination drive. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 00:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Wayne, I have to admit that when I saw AWB as a subject heading on your talk page, I almost cringed. AWB, incorrectly used, can do far more damage far more quickly than Huggle. To be honest, it is such a powerful tool, that, even though I have the privileges for it and have downloaded it to my machine, I have not had the courage to try it. I think it makes Huggle look like a walk in the park. AWB makes me think of that old adage, You have to walk, before you can run. If I were you, I’d wait until well after you’re back to using Huggle/Twinkle before you consider taking a stab at AWB.
Nascar1996, at the risk of being rude, there are several threads spread across several locations that have dealt with most of the issues you raised. You might want to read Wayne’s talkpage and talkpage archives (as well as ANI) to understand the background here. Suffice to say, Wayne has placed himself under a mentorship programme in which different mentors are mentoring him on different areas of Wikipedia. It is up to Wayne and his mentors how that programme will proceed, and that includes determining which Wikipedia tools they consider suitable for Wayne’s training and progress. — Spike Toronto 05:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
T.I. wrote for Bow Wow. He wrote Let's Get Down. [2] 98.80.133.213 ( talk) 17:32, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Wayne! I was thinking that, since you are using Friendly, why not join the Wikipedia:Welcoming committee (shortcut → WP:WC)? I notice a lot of new Wikipedians who, months after joining up, still have not received welcome messages. You could help with that! Check with the appropriate one of your mentors and see what s/he thinks. You might enjoy it. Have a happy holiday and enjoy the time off school! — Spike Toronto 19:20, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 19, 2010, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. The 300 lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Clint Bowyer, of the Richard Childress Racing team, won the race, with Denny Hamlin finishing second, and Jamie McMurray third. Pole position driver Brad Keselowski maintained his lead in the first lap, but in the second lap Tony Stewart pulled ahead. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Hamlin was the only one to recover and finish in the top five. With two laps remaining, Tony Stewart was leading the race when he ran out of fuel, giving the lead to Bowyer, who also led the most laps in the race with 176. There were eight cautions and twenty-three lead changes among eight different drivers during the race. The race was Clint Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick, but because of a penalty three days after the race, he fell to twelfth in the standings. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford, with nine races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 3.68 million watched it on television. ( More...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lol at subject heading xD. Anyway Wayne just wanted to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays (: STATic message me! 00:34, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
You've logged the Plane Crazy Down Under aviation podcast entry as needing more references. There's already reference links to a couple of aviation print-media articles on the show (admittedly on the PCDU site as the magazine in question doesn't put them online) and an online aviation news service. I've added a new reference link from the Matt Hall Racing page to confirm that he was on the show.
Can you please let me know what areas you would like to see supported with additional citations/references? I'm happy to go & hunt down additional work for the page so let me know what works for you & Wikipedia so I can get onto it (note: I've read through the citations & references entries in WP but thought the page already had sufficient to support what was happening - short of linking back to the podcast's "about us" section, etc).
Thanks heaps :) Falcon124 (Take that runway, and that, and that...) ( talk) 01:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
Refimprove section}}
to the particular sections rather than adding a {{
Refimprove}}
at the top of the entire article. Have a look at the various verification templates at
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup (shortcut →
WP:TMC) in the
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup#Verifiability and sources section. —
Spike
Toronto
06:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the spelling mistakes on my drafts. Its much appretiated. STATic message me! 20:54, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I just wanted to fake-block him. I'm sorry.-- NASCAR I am ( talk) 04:20, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Wayne. Thanks for helping out on my user talk. See ya 'round Tide rolls 04:22, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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I see that you're enjoying new page patrolling and copy editing. How would you like to get back into the business of vandal fighting? If you prefer new page patrolling and copy editing, then that's fine. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 03:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)