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Sorry about my error! And thanks for assuming good faith. YoPienso ( talk) 00:11, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
...the reversion at the template discussion, unless you take your concerns about what you feel is a violation of NPA to an admin noticeboard, you might as well let it go. That particular pair of editors will stick together like glue in order to defeat what they see as an opponent. They are very experienced at playing word games, Wikilawyering, and backing each others' play, even to the point of dishonesty. Just so you know. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 23:48, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
If you can fix AWB typo problems, I am delighted to find you. Can you change Anal to not change Analy to Anal? -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
You got that right. Wikipedia editing and discussion has become a free-for-all when it comes to the "lack of good faithers" and those who believe the place is more about ramming an agenda through than what is best for all editors, especially newcomers. Territorialism runs rampant. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 02:29, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I did read your comments, but promises of improvement don't always materialise. Since you seem to mean it, I'll restore the text here shortly for you to improve. Good luck Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:00, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
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Stevie, It strikes me as ridiculous that you put a big ugly tag on the Wooton Presbyterian Center article saying it needs more links, when it is just a 2 sentence stub, with about 80 links (in the NRHP box at the bottom). Why not just do some research on the subject and improve the article yourself, rather than tell other people to improve it? Smallbones( smalltalk) 03:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. It is my feeling that contrary evidence to the citations I offered is needed to prove that Papa John's was not involved in the studies I cited, which is not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Papa_John%27s_Pizza&oldid=660235221&diff=prev — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwiikkeeppeeddiiaa ( talk • contribs) 04:15, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your response. However, I would like to point out that given there are,"...over 3,200..." papa John's in the U.S in all 50 states, I believe it would not be unsound inference to assume that papa John's workers were involved in the Berkeley study of public assistance, especially since the payouts to workers in new york, (see below), which should further affirm the other study I cited from Anzalone Liszt Grove Research. Best. http://nypost.com/2014/10/17/ag-sues-papa-johns-franchisee-for-stiffing-workers-out-of-2m/
Wwiikkeeppeeddiiaa ( talk) 03:31, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey Stevie, thanks for the edits of Bellarmine's page. I deleted Quentin Letts because I spoke to someone in the Alumni office and they have no record of him in the system, and I couldn't find a reliable source saying he went. As for Oladapo, I couldn't find a source for his accomplishments so I thought it was better to leave him off. What do you think? Dbilodeau ( talk) 18:33, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Wind power in Kentucky is new article that I would have listed on project page, but noticed that you were only really active person. Hence FYI. Djflem ( talk) 17:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
then why does it have to be removed? I simply applied formatting. Now, I'm adding a new section, and have added no spaces before "If it's useless spacing", let's see what Wikipedia does. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 01:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Stevie - Wanted to thank you for your work on the Jefferson National entry (COI disclosure, I work with them in a marketing capacity). Saw you were seeking sources and to satisfy notability and reference requirements, so I've left some information on the Talk page. If you'd like, we can always provide more news references or information. Kristen sald ( talk) 19:59, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Sounds great. Thank you very much. Kristen sald ( talk) 21:37, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for reading this article I created a few days ago. His father may be sufficiently notable to have his own page as well. His brother too, if he were a Confederate chaplain, but I am not sure. They were Baptists. I create his page because one of his sons owned Mount Holly. Zigzig20s ( talk) 20:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Per your change at Talk:Nathaniel G. S. Hart... Maybe the "DYK?" template shouldn't go at the top of article talk pages?, but should follow the Wikipedia:Talk page layout guideline that puts DYK? further down the page (in the middle of the article history templates & WIkiProject banners etc.) Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 20:26, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean by "re-prodding" in the edit summary to this edit, but if you mean that you think that I posted a PROD after one had already been removed, one was a PROD and the other a PROD-BLP. Despite the similarity of names, they are two quite different things, and the removal of one does not in any way preclude the posting of the other. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 14:00, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi i'm nocompromise16 i edited Bobby Petrino,but did not remembered to write summary, you asked, "Blanking of content including a complete section without explaining why". sorry for not writing the summary but i edited it and removedsome content because it was reason of harresmant to an indivisual, so i request to move it back to my edition-- Nocompromise16 ( talk) 12:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC).
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Could you please explain how to use the website template for Court Listener.
Also, does it work more effectively than just a [www.xyz.com Court Listener] citation?
Thx. PraeceptorIP ( talk) 15:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
@Stevie: In Thompson v. City of Louisville, the last ref was to a Court Listener tabulation of number of citations (According to Court Listener, this case has been cited approximately 16,000 times as of July 2015.). It was originally in the format
but was changed to:
The edit was: 10:00, July 18, 2015 Stevietheman (talk | contribs) . . (8,527 bytes) (+107) . . (→Subsequent developments: use cite web for ref)
PraeceptorIP ( talk) 17:26, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
OK, great. As I had prematurely removed the deprecated persondata before (I think we had a conversation about it), I was trying to undo those edits. But great if I don't have to do that now. Thanks for telling me. Quis separabit? 14:47, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
I didn't intentionally make that edit. Must've accidentally hit "rollback" on my watchlist without realizing. Sorry. – Muboshgu ( talk) 18:09, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Stevie:
Please do not re-space articles that are already consistently spaced internally: [1]. The Michael Phelps article is the fourth or fifth article on my watch list which has popped up with your re-spacing edits in the last several days . . . .
Consistent internal spacing is permitted by MOS, and permits editors to review infobox text at a glance, find the beginning and ending of sentences more quickly, and review the text and coding of templated footnotes more easily. Separating headers from the text of the following paragraph also makes for easier review. And, FYI, the infoboxes of all 660 U.S., 260 Australian, and 220 Canadian Olympic swimmers are all spaced consistently per the template's example. It's not an accident, and the remaining 2500 articles that use Infobox swimmer are targeted for clean-up in the near future. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 22:49, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Please address the problem - you cannot add unsourced content about a living person to a Wikipedia article, per WP:BLP; you shouldn't do that with any article per WP:VERIFY but it is even more important with living people. Thanks.
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Hello and thanks for trying to keep User:66.94.206.60 in check. This editor's biggest issue is usually not using the edit summaries and altering franchise histories. They also occasionally switch IPs but the style is always the same. They are always unresponsive to messages and warnings but many of their edits are very nitpicky (such as removing the inactive from the Cyclones). Although many times they do seem to be attempting for consistency since in this case Cincinnati was the only franchise history I have seen that directly states when it was inactive (also shouldn't the hiatus in the mid-2000's have had the same statement?). However I still find myself having to re-edit all of theirs. I thought I should at least explain why I left the inactive off of my re-edit since you seem concerned with it. Thanks for your effort anyways with trying to deal with the possible vandal/poor editor. Yosemiter ( talk) 02:12, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Just wanted to bring to your attention that some removal of stub tags on some Louisville articles ( example). My gut says the user is trying to make a point with their edits, but if you feel strongly that the stub templates should be on these articles (if you or someone else from the project actively works them for example) I thought I'd bring it to your attention. No action required unless you feel so compelled. Rikster2 ( talk) 16:47, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Steve. Please do not remove spaces between sentences and after section headers. Consistent internal spacing is permitted by MOS and makes it easier for editors to find the beginning and end of sentences, to quickly distinguish between paragraphs, to review footnotes, and to find and fix things that require substantive editing. Removing spaces after section headers also screws up the ability of article editors to use diffs to compare text before and after your removal of the spaces -- it turns the article into one giant addition and deletion, making it nearly impossible to compare without doing a line-by-line, character-by-character comparison.
It may seem unfair to you that I reverted your entire edit; what you fail to appreciate it is that restoring the consistent internal spacing would require the other editor to spend an inordinate amount of time to restore those edits manually, when you are doing it with the click of a button. It is extremely discourteous to your fellow editors, and presumes your time is worth more than theirs. It's not "clean-up".
Bottom line: don't re-space articles to your personal tastes. I will now be restoring the article to the status quo ante; please feel free to constructively edit the substance of the article without removing spaces. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Dirtlawyer1:, some responses... I'm sorry if it's not thorough enough, but I think they encapsulate where I come from:
Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:02, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
So, the bottom line is you're going to keep doing what you're doing -- respacing infoboxes and the entire text of to your personal preferences, using extremely minor technical fixes -- such as trading <br> for <br /> -- as the justification for respacing infoboxes and article text? How about instead you just perform the minor technical "fixes" and not re-space the articles? Does that somehow interfere with your performance of your technical "fixes"? If so, I would be grateful if you would explain that. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:38, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
(Follow-up; not a response to latest comment, as this was decided beforehand) I have decided to do a temporary moratorium on the most extensive semi-automated space reductions, but only for technical reasons - I'm trying to develop/test additional technical cleanups while resolving issues, and having to review all the additional space reductions is taking up too much time in these cycles. This should mean that after I've run through all this, the most extensive space reductions should be a lot more sporadic because all the technical issues I'm looking for in my various AWB lists will be found/fixed and thus I won't have as much pretext for additional cosmetic updates. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:11, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. The sections currently titled:
-- Timeshifter ( talk) 14:08, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Timeshifter:, I just wanted to note that I've tried very hard to keep this discussion over at AWB on-point. But so I might contest your overall complaint/accusations against me, let's review:
I would suggest that the best strategy here is to not expect some major solution for one edit disagreement while you have three workarounds available:
I think it's pretty clear that I and many others have reached out to you and have tried to help. This is even while I've had to answer your accusations. If you are complaining about all the extra time involved in this discussion, perhaps stopping the accusations and overall negativity may have helped. I know you are flabbergasted by my reverts - OK, so you're flabbergasted. Move on. Also, consider the workarounds. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:35, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
When AWB encountered this task it left a cite error remaining. I've noticed that when extended dialogue is insrted within some citations, this type of problem often happens. Regards CV9933 ( talk) 20:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
There is no rule that tabular information is to be discounted when assessing whether an article is a stub. Rathfelder ( talk) 20:02, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
There is no rule saying that words are to be counted either. The article must be judged as a whole. Rathfelder ( talk) 20:28, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the Wikipedia work and I appreciate your attentiveness to my edits. I am wondering though how one would add the Mike Huckabee response to Kim Davis and the situation surrounding her. I added it in a completely unbiased way (as all Wikipedia users ought to do). We won't to be fair and comprehensive and the Kim Davis article is seriously lacking in balanced facts. So, in order to balance out the bias, I added a viewpoint from someone on the other side (Mr. Huckabee). Please let me know how I can do this without getting removed. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Praiselightmedia ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Thank you for your help with my recent edits on the KFC - equipment paragraph.
I'm very interested in Louisville area inventors, and that's how I found out about Winston Shelton. I'm preparing a Wikipedia article about him specifically - he earned 77 patents while at GE and later on his own. He refined what has come to be known as the top-loading washing machine at GE and (for better or for worse) kicked off mass-produced fast food with his invention of the Collectramatic pressure fryer. He also charmed Norman Rockwell, getting Rockwell to paint a portrait of Colonel Sander s(for a fee of $850) when Rockwell didn't want to - and that kicked off Rockwell painting portraits which are now worth millions of dollars each.
My question -= I have an image of the Col. Sanders portrait being accepted by Shelton from Rockwell in Rockwell's studio - what kind of permission do I need to show in order to add the image to a Winston Shelton page? I'm told the Shelton family owns the portrait.
As an aside - there are so many Louisville area inventors - I created the Wikipedia entry for Ferdinand N. Kahler, who owned two automobile factories in New Albany - I am working on entries for John Colgan, a Louisville druggist who apparently created the first flavored chewing gum in 1870 and the Tway family who founded Kentucky Trailer, which started the whole national push for "tandem trailers" - they invented and refined what became the "tractor trailer" we know today. Plate glass was invented in New Albany - the list goes on and on...
I understand I'm nowhere in your league on Wikipedia (and won't be) - I greatly admire and thank you for your work, and I would appreciate your advice. Thanks! William WmArbaugh ( talk) 12:21, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey man just doing a job for someone, updating Bobby Petrino's wikipedia. No false information man and they are all relevant links. Dont re edit it please. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbaldwin93 ( talk • contribs) 13:23, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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Oh, I don't disagree that the edits were badly done, or that your reversion was proper. I just disagreed with the blanket statement about paid editing. It is a matter of some controversy at Wikipedia, and it is discouraged, but it is not disallowed. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 13:28, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I am seriously concerned about your undoing of my recent edit of my Wikipedia edit. I deleted attributions that are unverifiable (note Wikiledia rules and standards are clear that self referencing sources do not count as verification ; a rumor does not gain validity because someone reports in the fact that someone started a rumor with no basis).
You're undo of my edit violates this fundamental standard. I assume that you did in good faith.
It is just inappropriate to label a man and his father as being bought with out a proper citation and verifiable citation. The fundamental sources that started this wasn't even actually the paper so cited but rather a blog associated with one of the reporter. Hence you will note that the sources are not original but archives that have no affirmed verification .
It opens up Wikiledia to a lawsuit for libel. In addition and more importantly it violates the standard of good faith. We have to be fair and honest in our dealings with this gentleman.
I trust you therefore will agree with my chance and will take all actions within the next 48 hours . If you don't I will further assume that you want me to make all necessary and appropriate corrections
It has been an absolute pleasure. I am glad to clear up any confusion you have had. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brandonmusic ( talk • contribs) 03:20, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi thank you for your response but it was about your edit per se. My philosophy for editing is that before you make ANY EDITS of any sort you should disclaim any potential biases. You being involved with Louisville gives me concern that you made your edit merely because you favor a basketball team that he played again (Louisville Cardinals).
I commend you for being here for nearly 11.5 years, but the appearance of impropriety is a concern to me. I saw no disclaimer before you made edit. I trust you will correct this. Brandonmusic ( talk) 02:14, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm sure you have your own good reasons for your categorisation edits, but you are wrong in saying that she "wrote a famous rock and roll tune". She didn't. She rewrote some lyrics of a rock and roll song. Not the same thing. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:26, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Please AGF and remain civil. I'm well aware that maintaining a collaborative spirit is not always easy! I'm human too, and I know all about frustration. Note that I have not suggested that those who hold a POV in opposition to mine should be hampered, so please don't do that to me or others with whom you disagree. That's ownership behavior, and I know you're better than that.
Collaboration between editors who hold opposing POV is what produces the best articles and ensures that NPOV is approached as nearly as possible. I normally appreciate your comments because I can learn from them. Please keep commenting in that spirit by taking the moral high ground. -- BullRangifer ( talk) 02:59, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for jumping in and working on this article with me. The sections you marked as being awkward are quite that way. The problem is that a newer, and I mean a recently registered user when in and inserted a quasi-quotation from a recent journal article that used all that 'awkward' language. I have my hands on the source from which the awkwardness comes, but I have been waiting to here back from the editor who put it in for an explanation. It seems that the reference is not so great and since the new editor created an account for the sole purpose of editing the Stephen Foster article, I am questioning the inclusion of the 'awkward' stuff, myself. In the meantime, please feel free to improve the article as you see fit. I have some excellent secondary sources, based upon the University of Pittsburgh Library System's Stephen Foster collections. If you are interested, I can send them your way. For the next week or so I will be deleting some of the unreferenced material that I can't find references for. But thanks again for editing the article. Best Regards,
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I have seen that the article America's Got Talent (season 3) has been continuously vandalized with excessive false information about the show and the winner. Can you please protect this article and block all users who try to vandalize it? Thank you. EODos21 ( talk) 05:41, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
I added a new category to Kentucky's 7th congressional district. The category is Category:1993 disestablishments in Kentucky. While the article links to the category page, the category page shows no article belonging to it. I don't know what's wrong. Can you help me out? ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 20:48, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Per WP:SVSP - "It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines..." - Please can you point me to the policy that states you must leave two blank lines (and why this must be done). Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:34, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
The national language of India is written as none. But in India it is publicly declared that "HINDI" is our national language .So please see this make this change asap. Thank you Regards, CHANCHAL MISHRA INDIA. CHANCHAL96 ( talk) 10:20, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
There is simply no point in making edits like this, as <br> does no harm, is compact and readable, and functions exactly as the longer and uglier <br />. I'd be really grateful if you'd not do that, honestly I would. Thanks. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 15:54, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Stevietheman,
I suspect the following two accounts, Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff and Queen Emily was eliminated in the Top 20 as sockpuppets of Bobzz1133. Can you please block them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by EODos21 ( talk • contribs) 06:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
These two accounts have been creating cut and paste articles from AGT articles in season 3 and 4, with obvious hoax information. I have requested the deletion of them. EODos21 ( talk) 06:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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Deenhaja ( talk) 20:23, 20 November 2015 (UTC) All I have heard, seen are Mr. Muhammad Ali is following Islam. As a follower of Islam, I am pretty much sure there is no sect called Orthodox in Islam. If Mr. Muhammad Ali is really an orthodox of some other religion then it should be 'citation-ed' properly, where Mr. Muhammad Ali agrees himself that he denounced Islam and started following orthodox of some other religion. If you are really come to say that he is Orthodox in Islam. Then I will request and plead you there is no such thing in Islam than Islam itself. The word 'Islam' means 'Unity and peace' within the word, some ill wishers are making sects and divisions among "Islam = Unity". I don't know what you are going to understand by this comment, without the will of the creator there is no guidance for sure.
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Hello! I've completed another Louisville Inventor entry - please look at
/info/en/?search=Draft:Winston_L._Shelton
and let me know what you think - I appreciate all you do for Louisville entries. Thanks! William WmArbaugh ( talk) 16:45, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Steve, you are the man to help me! I forgot the process for moving from a User page or a Draft page to posting as an article. I'll be going to Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery for my husband's brother's funeral this week and have been terribly distracted. I goofed and the article to be called Edward Cornelius Humphrey was speedily deleted. Where is the best place to work on an article before posting it? Is the process the same for all forms of drafts, even the Sandbox? Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 01:39, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi- thanks again for your help on my Winston Shelton entry. I've been contacted by his family (they saw his entry) and they are going to upload a photo to the commons and I'll add it to his entry - another Louisville inventor!
I noticed you prepare entries for Louisville area musicians and groups on Discogs. I do as well, but do you know about www.albumartexchange.com? I collect records (LPs) and whenever I find Louisville area albums or CDs, I scan them and add the images and info to the album art exchange - thanks to John Timmons and earlier Louisville producers, there are so many deserving acts - I try to do what I can - thanks again for your help!
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Hello Stevietheman, there is an ongoing discussion about professional boxing record tables and I would appreciate if you could share your opinion or at least voice you support or opposition. It would be great if you could voice your opinion here in the "RfC: Flag icons in professional boxing record tables" and "MoS:Boxing Final call" section. Cheers!-- Fallengrademan ( talk) 19:43, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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In my adding an additional image to the article on the Kentucky artist Matthew Harris Jouett, I seem to have messed up the formatting on the page. Would you mind taking a look at the sections, e.g. external links and categories which have disappeared? I think this may have occurred when I tried to no avail to add the image to the "Gallery" section and then moved it closer to the mention of the painting in the text. Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 16:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry about my error! And thanks for assuming good faith. YoPienso ( talk) 00:11, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
...the reversion at the template discussion, unless you take your concerns about what you feel is a violation of NPA to an admin noticeboard, you might as well let it go. That particular pair of editors will stick together like glue in order to defeat what they see as an opponent. They are very experienced at playing word games, Wikilawyering, and backing each others' play, even to the point of dishonesty. Just so you know. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 23:48, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
If you can fix AWB typo problems, I am delighted to find you. Can you change Anal to not change Analy to Anal? -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
You got that right. Wikipedia editing and discussion has become a free-for-all when it comes to the "lack of good faithers" and those who believe the place is more about ramming an agenda through than what is best for all editors, especially newcomers. Territorialism runs rampant. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 02:29, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I did read your comments, but promises of improvement don't always materialise. Since you seem to mean it, I'll restore the text here shortly for you to improve. Good luck Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:00, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
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Stevie, It strikes me as ridiculous that you put a big ugly tag on the Wooton Presbyterian Center article saying it needs more links, when it is just a 2 sentence stub, with about 80 links (in the NRHP box at the bottom). Why not just do some research on the subject and improve the article yourself, rather than tell other people to improve it? Smallbones( smalltalk) 03:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. It is my feeling that contrary evidence to the citations I offered is needed to prove that Papa John's was not involved in the studies I cited, which is not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Papa_John%27s_Pizza&oldid=660235221&diff=prev — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwiikkeeppeeddiiaa ( talk • contribs) 04:15, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your response. However, I would like to point out that given there are,"...over 3,200..." papa John's in the U.S in all 50 states, I believe it would not be unsound inference to assume that papa John's workers were involved in the Berkeley study of public assistance, especially since the payouts to workers in new york, (see below), which should further affirm the other study I cited from Anzalone Liszt Grove Research. Best. http://nypost.com/2014/10/17/ag-sues-papa-johns-franchisee-for-stiffing-workers-out-of-2m/
Wwiikkeeppeeddiiaa ( talk) 03:31, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey Stevie, thanks for the edits of Bellarmine's page. I deleted Quentin Letts because I spoke to someone in the Alumni office and they have no record of him in the system, and I couldn't find a reliable source saying he went. As for Oladapo, I couldn't find a source for his accomplishments so I thought it was better to leave him off. What do you think? Dbilodeau ( talk) 18:33, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Wind power in Kentucky is new article that I would have listed on project page, but noticed that you were only really active person. Hence FYI. Djflem ( talk) 17:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
then why does it have to be removed? I simply applied formatting. Now, I'm adding a new section, and have added no spaces before "If it's useless spacing", let's see what Wikipedia does. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 01:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Stevie - Wanted to thank you for your work on the Jefferson National entry (COI disclosure, I work with them in a marketing capacity). Saw you were seeking sources and to satisfy notability and reference requirements, so I've left some information on the Talk page. If you'd like, we can always provide more news references or information. Kristen sald ( talk) 19:59, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Sounds great. Thank you very much. Kristen sald ( talk) 21:37, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for reading this article I created a few days ago. His father may be sufficiently notable to have his own page as well. His brother too, if he were a Confederate chaplain, but I am not sure. They were Baptists. I create his page because one of his sons owned Mount Holly. Zigzig20s ( talk) 20:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Per your change at Talk:Nathaniel G. S. Hart... Maybe the "DYK?" template shouldn't go at the top of article talk pages?, but should follow the Wikipedia:Talk page layout guideline that puts DYK? further down the page (in the middle of the article history templates & WIkiProject banners etc.) Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 20:26, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean by "re-prodding" in the edit summary to this edit, but if you mean that you think that I posted a PROD after one had already been removed, one was a PROD and the other a PROD-BLP. Despite the similarity of names, they are two quite different things, and the removal of one does not in any way preclude the posting of the other. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 14:00, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi i'm nocompromise16 i edited Bobby Petrino,but did not remembered to write summary, you asked, "Blanking of content including a complete section without explaining why". sorry for not writing the summary but i edited it and removedsome content because it was reason of harresmant to an indivisual, so i request to move it back to my edition-- Nocompromise16 ( talk) 12:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC).
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Could you please explain how to use the website template for Court Listener.
Also, does it work more effectively than just a [www.xyz.com Court Listener] citation?
Thx. PraeceptorIP ( talk) 15:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
@Stevie: In Thompson v. City of Louisville, the last ref was to a Court Listener tabulation of number of citations (According to Court Listener, this case has been cited approximately 16,000 times as of July 2015.). It was originally in the format
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The edit was: 10:00, July 18, 2015 Stevietheman (talk | contribs) . . (8,527 bytes) (+107) . . (→Subsequent developments: use cite web for ref)
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OK, great. As I had prematurely removed the deprecated persondata before (I think we had a conversation about it), I was trying to undo those edits. But great if I don't have to do that now. Thanks for telling me. Quis separabit? 14:47, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
I didn't intentionally make that edit. Must've accidentally hit "rollback" on my watchlist without realizing. Sorry. – Muboshgu ( talk) 18:09, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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Please do not re-space articles that are already consistently spaced internally: [1]. The Michael Phelps article is the fourth or fifth article on my watch list which has popped up with your re-spacing edits in the last several days . . . .
Consistent internal spacing is permitted by MOS, and permits editors to review infobox text at a glance, find the beginning and ending of sentences more quickly, and review the text and coding of templated footnotes more easily. Separating headers from the text of the following paragraph also makes for easier review. And, FYI, the infoboxes of all 660 U.S., 260 Australian, and 220 Canadian Olympic swimmers are all spaced consistently per the template's example. It's not an accident, and the remaining 2500 articles that use Infobox swimmer are targeted for clean-up in the near future. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 22:49, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Please address the problem - you cannot add unsourced content about a living person to a Wikipedia article, per WP:BLP; you shouldn't do that with any article per WP:VERIFY but it is even more important with living people. Thanks.
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Hello and thanks for trying to keep User:66.94.206.60 in check. This editor's biggest issue is usually not using the edit summaries and altering franchise histories. They also occasionally switch IPs but the style is always the same. They are always unresponsive to messages and warnings but many of their edits are very nitpicky (such as removing the inactive from the Cyclones). Although many times they do seem to be attempting for consistency since in this case Cincinnati was the only franchise history I have seen that directly states when it was inactive (also shouldn't the hiatus in the mid-2000's have had the same statement?). However I still find myself having to re-edit all of theirs. I thought I should at least explain why I left the inactive off of my re-edit since you seem concerned with it. Thanks for your effort anyways with trying to deal with the possible vandal/poor editor. Yosemiter ( talk) 02:12, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Just wanted to bring to your attention that some removal of stub tags on some Louisville articles ( example). My gut says the user is trying to make a point with their edits, but if you feel strongly that the stub templates should be on these articles (if you or someone else from the project actively works them for example) I thought I'd bring it to your attention. No action required unless you feel so compelled. Rikster2 ( talk) 16:47, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Steve. Please do not remove spaces between sentences and after section headers. Consistent internal spacing is permitted by MOS and makes it easier for editors to find the beginning and end of sentences, to quickly distinguish between paragraphs, to review footnotes, and to find and fix things that require substantive editing. Removing spaces after section headers also screws up the ability of article editors to use diffs to compare text before and after your removal of the spaces -- it turns the article into one giant addition and deletion, making it nearly impossible to compare without doing a line-by-line, character-by-character comparison.
It may seem unfair to you that I reverted your entire edit; what you fail to appreciate it is that restoring the consistent internal spacing would require the other editor to spend an inordinate amount of time to restore those edits manually, when you are doing it with the click of a button. It is extremely discourteous to your fellow editors, and presumes your time is worth more than theirs. It's not "clean-up".
Bottom line: don't re-space articles to your personal tastes. I will now be restoring the article to the status quo ante; please feel free to constructively edit the substance of the article without removing spaces. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
@ Dirtlawyer1:, some responses... I'm sorry if it's not thorough enough, but I think they encapsulate where I come from:
Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:02, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
So, the bottom line is you're going to keep doing what you're doing -- respacing infoboxes and the entire text of to your personal preferences, using extremely minor technical fixes -- such as trading <br> for <br /> -- as the justification for respacing infoboxes and article text? How about instead you just perform the minor technical "fixes" and not re-space the articles? Does that somehow interfere with your performance of your technical "fixes"? If so, I would be grateful if you would explain that. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:38, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
(Follow-up; not a response to latest comment, as this was decided beforehand) I have decided to do a temporary moratorium on the most extensive semi-automated space reductions, but only for technical reasons - I'm trying to develop/test additional technical cleanups while resolving issues, and having to review all the additional space reductions is taking up too much time in these cycles. This should mean that after I've run through all this, the most extensive space reductions should be a lot more sporadic because all the technical issues I'm looking for in my various AWB lists will be found/fixed and thus I won't have as much pretext for additional cosmetic updates. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:11, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
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@ Timeshifter:, I just wanted to note that I've tried very hard to keep this discussion over at AWB on-point. But so I might contest your overall complaint/accusations against me, let's review:
I would suggest that the best strategy here is to not expect some major solution for one edit disagreement while you have three workarounds available:
I think it's pretty clear that I and many others have reached out to you and have tried to help. This is even while I've had to answer your accusations. If you are complaining about all the extra time involved in this discussion, perhaps stopping the accusations and overall negativity may have helped. I know you are flabbergasted by my reverts - OK, so you're flabbergasted. Move on. Also, consider the workarounds. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:35, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
When AWB encountered this task it left a cite error remaining. I've noticed that when extended dialogue is insrted within some citations, this type of problem often happens. Regards CV9933 ( talk) 20:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
There is no rule that tabular information is to be discounted when assessing whether an article is a stub. Rathfelder ( talk) 20:02, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
There is no rule saying that words are to be counted either. The article must be judged as a whole. Rathfelder ( talk) 20:28, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the Wikipedia work and I appreciate your attentiveness to my edits. I am wondering though how one would add the Mike Huckabee response to Kim Davis and the situation surrounding her. I added it in a completely unbiased way (as all Wikipedia users ought to do). We won't to be fair and comprehensive and the Kim Davis article is seriously lacking in balanced facts. So, in order to balance out the bias, I added a viewpoint from someone on the other side (Mr. Huckabee). Please let me know how I can do this without getting removed. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Praiselightmedia ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Thank you for your help with my recent edits on the KFC - equipment paragraph.
I'm very interested in Louisville area inventors, and that's how I found out about Winston Shelton. I'm preparing a Wikipedia article about him specifically - he earned 77 patents while at GE and later on his own. He refined what has come to be known as the top-loading washing machine at GE and (for better or for worse) kicked off mass-produced fast food with his invention of the Collectramatic pressure fryer. He also charmed Norman Rockwell, getting Rockwell to paint a portrait of Colonel Sander s(for a fee of $850) when Rockwell didn't want to - and that kicked off Rockwell painting portraits which are now worth millions of dollars each.
My question -= I have an image of the Col. Sanders portrait being accepted by Shelton from Rockwell in Rockwell's studio - what kind of permission do I need to show in order to add the image to a Winston Shelton page? I'm told the Shelton family owns the portrait.
As an aside - there are so many Louisville area inventors - I created the Wikipedia entry for Ferdinand N. Kahler, who owned two automobile factories in New Albany - I am working on entries for John Colgan, a Louisville druggist who apparently created the first flavored chewing gum in 1870 and the Tway family who founded Kentucky Trailer, which started the whole national push for "tandem trailers" - they invented and refined what became the "tractor trailer" we know today. Plate glass was invented in New Albany - the list goes on and on...
I understand I'm nowhere in your league on Wikipedia (and won't be) - I greatly admire and thank you for your work, and I would appreciate your advice. Thanks! William WmArbaugh ( talk) 12:21, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey man just doing a job for someone, updating Bobby Petrino's wikipedia. No false information man and they are all relevant links. Dont re edit it please. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbaldwin93 ( talk • contribs) 13:23, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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Oh, I don't disagree that the edits were badly done, or that your reversion was proper. I just disagreed with the blanket statement about paid editing. It is a matter of some controversy at Wikipedia, and it is discouraged, but it is not disallowed. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 13:28, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I am seriously concerned about your undoing of my recent edit of my Wikipedia edit. I deleted attributions that are unverifiable (note Wikiledia rules and standards are clear that self referencing sources do not count as verification ; a rumor does not gain validity because someone reports in the fact that someone started a rumor with no basis).
You're undo of my edit violates this fundamental standard. I assume that you did in good faith.
It is just inappropriate to label a man and his father as being bought with out a proper citation and verifiable citation. The fundamental sources that started this wasn't even actually the paper so cited but rather a blog associated with one of the reporter. Hence you will note that the sources are not original but archives that have no affirmed verification .
It opens up Wikiledia to a lawsuit for libel. In addition and more importantly it violates the standard of good faith. We have to be fair and honest in our dealings with this gentleman.
I trust you therefore will agree with my chance and will take all actions within the next 48 hours . If you don't I will further assume that you want me to make all necessary and appropriate corrections
It has been an absolute pleasure. I am glad to clear up any confusion you have had. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brandonmusic ( talk • contribs) 03:20, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi thank you for your response but it was about your edit per se. My philosophy for editing is that before you make ANY EDITS of any sort you should disclaim any potential biases. You being involved with Louisville gives me concern that you made your edit merely because you favor a basketball team that he played again (Louisville Cardinals).
I commend you for being here for nearly 11.5 years, but the appearance of impropriety is a concern to me. I saw no disclaimer before you made edit. I trust you will correct this. Brandonmusic ( talk) 02:14, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm sure you have your own good reasons for your categorisation edits, but you are wrong in saying that she "wrote a famous rock and roll tune". She didn't. She rewrote some lyrics of a rock and roll song. Not the same thing. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:26, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Please AGF and remain civil. I'm well aware that maintaining a collaborative spirit is not always easy! I'm human too, and I know all about frustration. Note that I have not suggested that those who hold a POV in opposition to mine should be hampered, so please don't do that to me or others with whom you disagree. That's ownership behavior, and I know you're better than that.
Collaboration between editors who hold opposing POV is what produces the best articles and ensures that NPOV is approached as nearly as possible. I normally appreciate your comments because I can learn from them. Please keep commenting in that spirit by taking the moral high ground. -- BullRangifer ( talk) 02:59, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for jumping in and working on this article with me. The sections you marked as being awkward are quite that way. The problem is that a newer, and I mean a recently registered user when in and inserted a quasi-quotation from a recent journal article that used all that 'awkward' language. I have my hands on the source from which the awkwardness comes, but I have been waiting to here back from the editor who put it in for an explanation. It seems that the reference is not so great and since the new editor created an account for the sole purpose of editing the Stephen Foster article, I am questioning the inclusion of the 'awkward' stuff, myself. In the meantime, please feel free to improve the article as you see fit. I have some excellent secondary sources, based upon the University of Pittsburgh Library System's Stephen Foster collections. If you are interested, I can send them your way. For the next week or so I will be deleting some of the unreferenced material that I can't find references for. But thanks again for editing the article. Best Regards,
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I have seen that the article America's Got Talent (season 3) has been continuously vandalized with excessive false information about the show and the winner. Can you please protect this article and block all users who try to vandalize it? Thank you. EODos21 ( talk) 05:41, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
I added a new category to Kentucky's 7th congressional district. The category is Category:1993 disestablishments in Kentucky. While the article links to the category page, the category page shows no article belonging to it. I don't know what's wrong. Can you help me out? ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 20:48, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Per WP:SVSP - "It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines..." - Please can you point me to the policy that states you must leave two blank lines (and why this must be done). Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:34, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
The national language of India is written as none. But in India it is publicly declared that "HINDI" is our national language .So please see this make this change asap. Thank you Regards, CHANCHAL MISHRA INDIA. CHANCHAL96 ( talk) 10:20, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
There is simply no point in making edits like this, as <br> does no harm, is compact and readable, and functions exactly as the longer and uglier <br />. I'd be really grateful if you'd not do that, honestly I would. Thanks. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 15:54, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Stevietheman,
I suspect the following two accounts, Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff and Queen Emily was eliminated in the Top 20 as sockpuppets of Bobzz1133. Can you please block them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by EODos21 ( talk • contribs) 06:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
These two accounts have been creating cut and paste articles from AGT articles in season 3 and 4, with obvious hoax information. I have requested the deletion of them. EODos21 ( talk) 06:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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Deenhaja ( talk) 20:23, 20 November 2015 (UTC) All I have heard, seen are Mr. Muhammad Ali is following Islam. As a follower of Islam, I am pretty much sure there is no sect called Orthodox in Islam. If Mr. Muhammad Ali is really an orthodox of some other religion then it should be 'citation-ed' properly, where Mr. Muhammad Ali agrees himself that he denounced Islam and started following orthodox of some other religion. If you are really come to say that he is Orthodox in Islam. Then I will request and plead you there is no such thing in Islam than Islam itself. The word 'Islam' means 'Unity and peace' within the word, some ill wishers are making sects and divisions among "Islam = Unity". I don't know what you are going to understand by this comment, without the will of the creator there is no guidance for sure.
Deenhaja ( talk) 11:04, 23 November 2015 (UTC) Thanks to point out my illiterate-ness on this subject. And, further thanks to make Wikipedia a reliable source.
Hello! I've completed another Louisville Inventor entry - please look at
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and let me know what you think - I appreciate all you do for Louisville entries. Thanks! William WmArbaugh ( talk) 16:45, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Steve, you are the man to help me! I forgot the process for moving from a User page or a Draft page to posting as an article. I'll be going to Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery for my husband's brother's funeral this week and have been terribly distracted. I goofed and the article to be called Edward Cornelius Humphrey was speedily deleted. Where is the best place to work on an article before posting it? Is the process the same for all forms of drafts, even the Sandbox? Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 01:39, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi- thanks again for your help on my Winston Shelton entry. I've been contacted by his family (they saw his entry) and they are going to upload a photo to the commons and I'll add it to his entry - another Louisville inventor!
I noticed you prepare entries for Louisville area musicians and groups on Discogs. I do as well, but do you know about www.albumartexchange.com? I collect records (LPs) and whenever I find Louisville area albums or CDs, I scan them and add the images and info to the album art exchange - thanks to John Timmons and earlier Louisville producers, there are so many deserving acts - I try to do what I can - thanks again for your help!
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In my adding an additional image to the article on the Kentucky artist Matthew Harris Jouett, I seem to have messed up the formatting on the page. Would you mind taking a look at the sections, e.g. external links and categories which have disappeared? I think this may have occurred when I tried to no avail to add the image to the "Gallery" section and then moved it closer to the mention of the painting in the text. Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 16:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)