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2010, April Information

Heh, sorry about that. [1] Still getting the hang of things. I'll make a note about what text will get to an article via the Wiki search rather than pulling directly from the web address. I may do more tweaking to the Les Misérables links though... still working to find solid supporting info, but apparently her career deals with both the musical and the "concert" versions.-- Emtigereyes ( talk) 19:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Looking into refining my reference additions, based on your suggestion. Thanks! Emtigereyes ( talk) 15:30, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

User:78.151.37.167 is changing CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's cast list and removing the section about leaving all cast members in, regardless of status. I am afraid to revert, as I could be accused of edit warring. Several IPs have done this lately, but I cannot find a close enough pattern to determine socking. Do you want to deal with this? They haven't edited enough to report to AIV. Thank you for your help. Trista (User Triste Tierra - cannot log in at work) 24.176.191.234 ( talk) 00:18, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

User Hotel5500 seems to be the same person as Hotel36000, Hotel1800 and a couple of other similar names - and the second two have been blocked. Hotel5500 threated a person with blockage after removal of uncited material at Cold Case episodes and has put up some speculative edits. I ask that you look at this a bit, before I go forward with a sock/checkuser request - as I've never done it before and don't want to wrongly accuse someone of being a sock if I'm wrong. Please let me know when you can...I know you are busy fighting the vandals. Please know I'm trying to help in that. Thank you! Trista (user Triste Tierra - cannot log in at work) 24.176.191.234 ( talk) 02:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

And Hotel4500 and Hotel3600. There are many edits to the same pages and 4500 was blocked for disruption. T. 24.176.191.234 ( talk) 01:50, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Origin (Evanescence album). We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and " What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Origin (Evanescence album). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. -- Erwin85Bot ( talk) 01:09, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Huntster, since you took part in discussing Themes in Avatar but never in the actual editing, and since you appear to be an expert and experienced editor with an interest in Avatar-related topics, may I ask for your review of the article Wikipedia:Peer_review/Themes_in_Avatar/archive1#Themes_in_Avatar here? I count on your feedback for further improving the article towards a successful GAN. Regards, Cinosaur ( talk) 15:14, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Wonder if you might look in on this article. One fellow is intent on using it to advertise his club's website. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 01:30, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I didn't intend it to escalate to a block, but sometimes that's what's required to get an editor's attention. Glad it ended satisfactorily for all. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 16:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I hope, this is how this works ..

Hello, Huntster. You have new messages at ThorX13's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

-- ThorX ( talk) 04:28, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

27-March-10: I have a rewrite for high-use template {{ CountryAbbr2}}, which needs to be installed but no one is active. It's Saturday, that template has 68,000 transclusions, and should be updated on a weekend. While Convert is used 4x more (286,111 times), CountryAbbr2 has been spawning 300-560 (sub)templates, per use (no kidding!), compared to Convert's typical 23 subtemplates per use. See counts in database report:

• WP:Database reports/Templates with the most transclusions

The edit-protected request is in Template_talk:CountryAbbr (bottom of that page). Note the update is for 2nd module "...Abbr2" (not "...Abbr" which invokes Abbr2). - Wikid77 ( talk) 22:06, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

04-April-2010: This is just an FYI that Template:Rnd is ready to update to bypass the small subtemplate {Rnd/a} and reduce Convert nesting by 1 more level, against the template-nesting limit. This change should affect nearly 307,000 pages, and drop 307,000 wikilinks to {Rnd/a}, which will become almost unused. See counts in database report:

• WP:Database reports/Templates with the most transclusions (for Rnd & Rnd/a)

The full talk-page topics are in Template_talk:Rnd:

• Template_talk:Rnd#Rnd uses too many subtemplates for Convert
• Template_talk:Rnd#Condensing Rnd by combining Rnd/a
• Template_talk:Rnd#Change Rnd to bypass Rnd/a

Those topics describe the issue & examples. I will activate the admin-edit request in a few hours. -Wikid77 16:43, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting that vandalism on my page! Ahaha! :D xD -- Homezfoo ( talk) 19:03, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Finances killed it last time. I recommend just tying EVula up, tossing him into the trunk of his car, then driving here. Make sure he's got air and some water... maybe give him a pack of crackers or trail mix? Or, ya know, you could just, like, prearrange to carpool... or something. Whatever works best. You just both need to be here for this one. That's all I'm saying. I'm not, like, condoning or encouraging felonies. Don't arrest me. JUST IDEAS! You can't arrest me for thoughts!

>_>

(What if he's the thought police?)

<_<

Ignore my psychosis. Lara 14:33, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

While I don't really have a problem with you returning the images on the above page to the right side (I just thought it looked better), I am unaware of any Wikipedia policy requiring this, it is simply the default position. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial which does not include even a statement that the right side is preferable. Wikipedia:Images states that in most cases, images should align right, but again, there is no requirement that this is done. SGT141 ( talk) 02:43, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I've left a message that may be of interest to you at User_talk:OlEnglish#Regarding Naroin. Thanks.— Machine Elf 1735 ( talk) 19:06, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Huntster. You have new messages at Machine Elf 1735's talk page.
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Machine Elf 1735 ( talk) 05:30, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

2010, May Information

Hi there,

I'm reaching out to people who I see have been previously been active in threads related to Webcitation.org.

I started the above-mentioned thread at VPM, which

1) asks how things are going with the webcitation.org bot (because i think it's SUCH A COOL idea), and

2) inquires whether WikiMedia should create its own archiving service, to avoid the risks of relying on another organization's services (e.g., the downtimes experienced now).

I hope you'll take a look. user:Agradman editing as 160.39.221.164 ( talk) 06:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

After several days of snarky comments on his talk page, Wiki Historian N OH came back today to the Marysville, Ohio page and continued his WP:OWNing of the page. Templates were removed, sections deleted, just all around BS. I reverted and warned the user with a Warn4IM template as his edits were clearly disruptive. Since you have posted on his talk page, I thought I would bring this to your attention and ask what should be done. This is clearly an editor who isn't responding to requests to comment on his talk page and feels that he OWNs the Marysville, Ohio page and has no problem with his disruptive edits. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 21:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Please see here for my reply. :) - NeutralHomer • Talk • 05:38, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the slowness of my reply (damned MyTown). New reply is up. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 06:51, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Not sure if it should be listed under his instruments, but he did contribute a mandolin to the recording of Tear the World Down by We Are the Fallen. At least that's what the album book says. =D ~ [ Scott M. Howard ]:[ Talk ] ~ 01:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Hey Huntster. I certainly agree that this book is not worthy of inclusion. There are many, many, many similar books out there that are essentially about DIY-Wicca, and we simply couldn't include them all, so there is no reason to include this one, which is not particularly notable. Thanks. ( Midnightblueowl ( talk) 08:53, 19 May 2010 (UTC))

Well, in all my years I've never been taken to AIV! :D – B.hotep • talk• 20:41, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Very simple, actually: find a teacher. That can be hard, but I haven't found any of the online instruction to be worth crap. There's probably a community college course somewhere around Nashville.— Kww( talk) 13:54, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I really don't understand this edit to File:Hanna.PNG. Why would he replace the image of a white woman with one of a black man? I've reverted, but shouldn't the non-free image be deleted from the file's history? -- AussieLegend ( talk) 03:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I was doing the same thing at the same time and your edit got me worried that i was having browser problems :) bigforrap ( talk) 16:47, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Are you alright? o_o ××× BrightBlackHeaven^{( talk)}××× 07:57, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I responded back to your note on the Infobox Curling on the Curling Porject Talk page.-- WaxonWaxov ( talk) 17:41, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

2010, June Information

I finally got around to starting a discussion about the date range issue, and I'm curious as to what the responses will be. If you're interested in chiming in or simply following along, the discussion is at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#.22.E2.80.93present.22_in_article_body – Kerαunoςcopia^◁ _galaxies 23:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

When you parent a category the contents should all be appropriate for the parents. Once you get up to the children of Category:Eponymous categories like Category:Categories named after universities and colleges, they are generally not going to have any other parents. The categories are best covered in the main articles. As an example, people have nothing to do with the accrediting associations so that is not a valid parent. Same goes for conferences and the like. If I removed a category by accident that should have been left, then you can restore it, but I suspect this will be a very small number. Vegaswikian ( talk) 00:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, I suggest that you look at Category:Eponymous categories and see how this is in most areas. I'll also note that in a few cases, we have different categories used in the article and the category that basically fit into different places in the category tree. This problem is avoided when the categories are located in one logical place. Vegaswikian ( talk) 00:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

You asked, and if most/all non-meta categories were moved into the article, it would make the categorisation system completely pointless. Why do that? Why would including articles in all appropriate categories be pointless? The goal is correct categorization. Including articles into parent categories that are not appropriate for all of the included articles is confusing and incorrect. Correctness and accuracy is what we should be striving for. Vegaswikian ( talk) 05:04, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

According to the merriam-webster online dictionary, that sneaked is not improper grammar. See here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sneaked And I have two other dictionaries that back that up. Epione218 ( talk) 05:20, 11 June 2010 (UTC)