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Article move

Hello Stevietheman, I was just soliciting input for a request for an article move for Talk:The Brycc House. I found this article while making an assessment from a list of needing assessed and it needs a lot of work. This being one of the top priorities. Jahnx ( talk) 07:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Albuera
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Battle of the Gebora
  4. Constantine II of Scotland
  5. Francis Harvey
  6. Vasa (ship)
  7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions
Awards and honors
  • Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
  • Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
  • For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

1. Bedford — 7,600
2. TomStar81 — 5,500
3. Parsival74 — 5,200
4. FayssalF — 3,500
5. Roger Davies — 3,000
6. Ouro — 2600
7. Kateshortforbob — 2250
8. Cromdog — 2,200
9. BrokenSphere — 2000
9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000
9. Maralia — 2,000
12. MBK004 — 1,340
13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250
14. Sniperz11 — 1100
15. Burzmali — 1000
15. Cplakidas — 1000
15. Gimme danger — 1000
15. Raoulduke471000
15. TicketMan — 1000
15. Welsh — 1000
15. Blnguyen — 1000

Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.

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Activity survey for members of WikiProject Companies

placed on talk pages of all participants

I wanted to get a notion of the level of activity of people who are members of WikiProject Companies with respect to monitoring the WikiProject Talk page and participating in discussions of interest and/or responding to requests for input.

Could you please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Companies/Member information#2008 Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar): Talk page monitoring survey and adding yourself to one or more of the several groupings listed?

Thanks for your assistance.

--User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 03:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

rollback

Hi, I think I have given you rollback privileges. when looking at diffs, or article histories or your watchlist, you should be able to rollback edits with just one click. This should just be used with simple vandalism or obvious mistake edits; anything else and you should do a manual revert so you can explain the reason. Let me know if it didn't work... the ability to give out rollback access to non-admins is still a new feature. -- W.marsh 22:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I think you read my mind. I was going to request using it. I definitely see it, and I will only use it according to the rules you state. Cheers! Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Your Dr. Justin McCarthy edit

I fixed up a couple things on Justin McCarthy, that seemed completely biased. It seems that the Armenian propagandists are trying their best to edit the Justin McCarthy article to make him look like some "nationalistic agenda follower", which is just not right. I thought Wikipedia had policies against portraying living person biographies in a negative way. Is anyone even allowed to add "Criticism of his work"? I mean because then you can add criticism of just about anybody. Anyway, I didn't remove anything cited or referenced properly. But be aware that people with Armenian nationalistic agendas are continuously vandalizing that page and semi-vandalizing it to make it seem like Justin McCarthy is some sort of "denialist" or "liar" or "propagandist" when his work is so well supported. I also wanted to thank you for your initial edits at cleaning up that page, it was very honorable of you to help fight vandalism. Quite frankly, I'm not even sure why the heck "Armenia wikiproject" is involved in that article, but obviously not with good intentions. Arsenic99 ( talk) 04:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I did what I could when I had a lot more time to edit on Wikipedia. Keep up the good fight. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

City-Data forum

You should consider making an account at City-Data Forum. It gets a ton of hits, a lot of it from people outside the local area who want information about moving to Louisville. We currently have nice picture threads up for Louisville. Your input could be very helpful.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/louisville-area/232504-louisville-photo-sticky-2.html http://www.city-data.com/forum/louisville-area/

Angry Aspie ( talk) 18:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks interesting, but I run a competitor site on the local level, Louisville History & Issues. Obviously, I won't be helping a competitor. Even if I wasn't operating a competitor, I would be leery of a national site with regards to covering local issues. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 19:13, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Would you look at http://www.oldhamcountyhistoricalsociety.org/flash/2007_05_05_slideshow_.swf Do they mean its the only one in Kentucky, or only one in the United States?-- Bedford 01:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I can't tell... the language isn't very clear on that. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I got a clarification from the Oldham County Historical Society;it's just the state of Kentucky.-- Bedford 20:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Louisville "This Day"

I've started creating a "This Day in Louisville History" at Portal:Louisville/thisday. I don't want to put it up until its fairly full, as I don't want to endanger the portal's probably featured status. But I thought you might like to know its existance, in case there is anything you might want to add.-- Bedford 13:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a clever idea. Thanks for doing this. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! Kirill 17:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Info on Louisville Music Wikiproject

How would one go about adding to the Louisville Music Project? Bars like the Rudyard Kipling that promote local music, as well as local bands, and labels like Noise Pollution would make a nice edition to the arts and entertainment section of our city's Wiki page. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Venus Trap ( talkcontribs)

I guess I don't understand the question. Do you mean a Louisville music project on Wikipedia? I don't know of anything like that. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Kentucky Portal

Check Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates to endorse Portal:Kentucky as a featured portal.-- Bedford 00:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Valid comparison hamburger vs. cheeseburger.

Please see the talk page for Talk:cheeseburger. -- Zeamays ( talk) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Not valid at all. The article is about cheeseburgers in general, not a specific fast-food cheeseburger. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 06:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Milhist coordinators election has started

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28! -- Eurocopter tigre ( talk) 16:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong ( Ali Page)

I contact you because you seem to take great interest in the Muhammad Ali page, and trying to keep things straight there. I am dubious about the claimed full text of the quote starting as above. I also think that justifying the quote via a 1994 article ( for something supposedly said in the 1960s) is not an adequate justification. I lived through the relevant period, and remember seeing Ali say the "Ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong" line on more than one occasion, but not the "they never called me ..." . I do remember Ali speaking about not wishing to take up arms against his "brown brothers", and similar phrases. It is possible that the claimed text was spoken on some other occasion, but if so, someone needs to come up with better evidence that given at present. Messagetolove ( talk) 19:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

The full quote is based on a verifiable reference. Unless a counter-reference can be found, it probably needs to stay as-is. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 03:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

W. Marsh

What happened to W. Marsh ( talk · contribs)? Up and deleted his userpage and all :( seicer | talk | contribs 06:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I think he just got fed up with a lot of nonsense, with a lot of little things adding up to a big thing, so he up and left. I hated to see him go, especially since its nice to have an admin who's a project member.-- Bedford 06:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, Wikipedia does have a way of becoming rather consuming of one's time and sanity. W.marsh probably just let himself get too caught up in this site. There *are* other things to work on. I myself am mainly just doing maintenance and vandalism reverts on a small set of articles these days. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:03, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Further, this is definitely a loss to WikiProject Louisville, as Bedford says. He was definitely very loyal and helpful to its goals. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I wish there was a way to contact him to let him know that. seicer | talk | contribs 15:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I think he belongs to the Filson Club, so you might find him at one of their gatherings.-- Bedford 15:51, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Write me at steve@historyandissues.org and I'll give you his e-mail address. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I just got word from W.marsh that for professional reasons he needed to make his Wikipedia work anonymous. He is in law school now. He didn't leave because he was fed up or anything like that, and he will continue to make edits anonymously. So, from now on, we may get to experience the ghost of W.marsh.  :) It's cool he's not really gone. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 03:42, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

That makes sense. Good to see he will still be active on WP :) Thanks for contacting him Steve. seicer | talk | contribs 03:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Companies - Health Industry - article request for Pharma Nord

Hi Stevietheman,

I can see that you are a member of the WikiProject Companies subgroup on Health Industry. I've written a draft for an article on Pharma Nord, a Danish pharmaceutical company. As I am employed by the company, I'm contacting you to request having it published as an article, as outlined in the WP:BFAQ. Since Pharma Nord is a Danish company, this could also fall into the area of WikiProject Denmark, but I thought I'd contact you first.

The draft is posted on my talk page. Thank you in advance. ( JTrier ( talk) 15:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC))

Horse race stubs

Category:Unassessed Louisville articles I listed a bunch of horse racing articles I found in the List of graded stakes at Churchill Downs while I was working on copy editing on Kentucky Oaks. Most of them are stubs and flirt with deleting. Any ideas on what to do?

Also wanted your consensus on the list of winners on the Kentuck Oaks and other horse races. Shouldn't they be listed in a seperate article for the large races like the Oaks and the Kentucky Derby? Then just do a see also tag in the section for the Winners.

Thanks for your help, - Jahnx ( talk) 10:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding stubs, it's a matter of improving them, or they risk deletion, the same as for any other article. I wouldn't sweat it, though, as they are very minor subjects. Regarding lists of winners in the Oaks and Derby articles, I would keep it as-is, as the articles aren't very long and it makes sense to keep access to the winner list convenient. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 13:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
We need to organize a stub improvement promotion like a Imrpove stubs month or something. - Jahnx ( talk) 10:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you for the Barnstar, - Jahnx ( talk) 04:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Ever wonder how many people you run off, Stevie?

I realize you're just a geek with zero life and a computer in front of you and your business revenue must be laughable given your troll-like obsession with guarding the Wikipedia bridge. But I wonder have you ever considered how much damage you cause to this page by preventing other points of view?

Like other victims I've seen you summarily dismiss with your eminent domain philosophy, I too had something relevant, germaine and well written to share.

But if it doesn't jibe with Geek MaGruder's view of the Wikipedia World, then too bad for the rest of us.

So, maybe you got here first and you've got your white knuckles around the proverbial information pipe but know that you've done more harm than good and that even the other sycophants on this page know at heart that you're a petty and unpaid security guard at best.

Congrats!!! Perhaps that will make you feel as important as you often dream of being.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.39.74 ( talkcontribs)

Interesting accusations. Have any examples? I am just trying to ensure that Wikipedia operates as an encyclopedia and covers subjects as an encyclopedia would. I am not surprised that there would be detractors to my or other responsible Wikipedians' efforts. The reality is that I spend very little time here, with only a few articles that I regularly watch. Perhaps one could argue that with the time you spent writing the above diatribe, perhaps it's you without a life? Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Upon further research, this complainer is the person who tried to add junk content to Muhammad Ali and was stopped in his tracks. This is all about one article, folks, and this anonymous coward's panties are in a twist. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 19:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Just one article, eh?

Steve,

I realize you have to defend the fort to maintain your one purpose in life... but is it really about one article?

I gave up offering content when I saw that Wikipedia is really just a me-first message board and like many projects on the web, has hit it's zenith in enthusiasm and is no longer taken seriously. In fact, it's taken with great suspicion.

And self-centered, mediocre people like you have contributed greatly to that perceptual demise. You think it's Steviepedia.

What's funny about your 'one article' defense is that you know you've had repeated issues with many others. One example was the fact that your beloved, life-sustaining Ali page (which is incomplete, superfluous and poorly written) was locked because of wars that you caused.

I don't have the time in my normal life to survey all that you've done on the Wikipedia site to see where else your petty self-appointed authority has chased others off but we both know it's probably a lot.

You're just a desperate lonely guy who probably lives in his mom's basement who has taken this cause du jour under the fervent hope he gets a barnstar he can tell the other Wizards of Warcraft buddies about.

Maybe try having a girlfriend, a beer, or a life. You might like it.

The fact that you had to 'research' my IP to figure out who else thinks you're a useless moron tells you how important all this is to you, how many people you've pissed off, and how desperate your cyber self image is too.

So, go ahead, delete this quickly, or make another political grade defense of your honor. I don't care. My note has upset you far more than I intended already. And you know I'm right.

Otherwise, be well, Captain Louisville!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.39.74 ( talk) 18:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not deleting your baseless diatribe at all. It will remain from now until the end of time. Have fun. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Riverwalk/ City of Parks merger

The articles for Riverwalk (Louisville) and City of Parks should be merged, IMO Angry Aspie ( talk) 22:15, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'm not sure. The Riverwalk is its own entity, and City of Parks is a project name, not necessarily the name of the entity that remains. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

If the Beter accusations are to remain in the article at all, I think we need to include a note to show what kind of source these theories came from. I'd say strike the idea entirely (not a good move; the claim is out there), or retain the "but Beter is a nutbar" aside; both, or neither, but not just "some vaguely reputable guy named Beter said...". -- Orange Mike | Talk 20:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Why can't readers look up the reference and decide for themselves? Of course, a short description of who Beter is should go in the regular text, but the aside looks weird. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Riverwalk

Should a new page be created just for the Metro Bike Loop, with the Riverwalk page's contents being moved into it?

Angry Aspie ( talk) 02:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Once it's completed, that would probably be a good idea. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 05:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
What should its title be? I think its official name is simply "The Loop". Would "Louisville Metro Loop" be a better name for the article? Angry Aspie ( talk) 20:12, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
It's going to be called the Louisville Loop. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 11:02, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

The contents of the Levee Trail & Riverwalk have been moved into Louisville Loop and those pages now need to be deleted. Censusdata ( talk) 01:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Done. seicer | talk | contribs 01:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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County categories

I've explained to you twice already: it's short because the explanation is short, and it's simple because the explanation is simple. Do not disrupt the process followed nationwide. Nyttend ( talk) 20:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to have to revert then, since there is no explanation. Templates simply do not belong in article categories. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Please refer to Help:Category#Categorizing_templates_themselves. The very fact that there are guidelines on how to do this tells us something about the presence of templates in categories. Categories are not just for articles; they are for pages generally, and templates are pages. A category is useful not only to a person reading articles, but also to people who maintain groups of articles. Thus, having a county navigational template categorized along with all the related articles for that county does indeed serve a useful purpose, and I don't see a negative side to this for the casual reader. This practice has been pretty widely accepted for some time... Omnedon ( talk) 14:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I've been a Wikipedian since March 2004, and this is new on me. It doesn't make any sense. Regular users are not looking up templates in categories. I am going to oppose this for these particular categories because they are not useful in this regard. Just because it's technically allowed doesn't mean it's warranted. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Let me clarify: What's new on me is not that templates can be categorized -- it's that placing templates into article categories as a standard practice is new on me. A template is not an article, and regular users aren't perusing categories to look for templates. Templates are normally organized into categories developed especially for templates, so that editors can still find them. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I have stated how it is useful. I'm not simply saying it should be done because it can be done or because it has been done. I'm saying it serves a purpose, because the template is directly related to the county that it helps describe. It may be primarily of use to those people who do a lot of county-level editing, but I don't see any down-side for any other groups. Omnedon ( talk) 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Further, a template is not a "group of articles"... it's a organizational/navigational construct. A portal is a group of articles, or portions of articles and it can reasonably go into article categories. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I never said that a template was a group of articles; I said that having the template categorized along with the articles is useful to those who maintain that group of articles. It keeps everything together. Omnedon ( talk) 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

The method to get your beliefs on this subject passed is to bring it up for discussion in some relevant place (perhaps Template talk:US county navigation box, perhaps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. counties). The way to do it is not to change a few typical templates from the usual way to an unusual one. It's not a big issue, and surely there would be no standards violated if consensus decided to go with your position (in which case I would seek to enforce your position), but right now the standard is otherwise. And by the way, note that I provided reasons several times: don't say that I never answered you. Nyttend ( talk) 16:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You have not provided one rationale for it. Not one. This is madness. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 18:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I honestly don't know what you mean by that. Rationale has been provided. Here it is in a nutshell: county navigational templates are naturally related to the counties that they help describe. Therefore each county navigational template has been included in that county's category, along with all of the other pages relating to that county. Omnedon ( talk) 19:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
You obviously have read my talk page, since you posted on it. You cannot have read it without having noticed that I have provided reasons multiple times, as well as what is said on your own talk page. Stop deleting useful information without consensus, for it is considered vandalism, and repeated vandalism is blockable. Nyttend ( talk) 19:43, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
A dispute is *not* considered vandalism, and you know it (or should know it). You have not provided one rationale as of yet, except to say something like "that's the way they're all done" or "it's vaguely useful" -- those are *not* reasons. And to top it all off, you and I both have rollback privileges -- but only you are abusing them. I obviously will not violate 3RR. I would advise you to stop playing games and pony up a real rationale for this ridiculous practice of placing templates into article categories. I'm waiting. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Louisville in the French Wikipédia

Hello Stevie is the man!. Just to tell you that we are working on the french wikipédia to do a Featured Article by translation of the english one. I hope that you will be please with the result. I hope that I didn't forget a big and important subject (article) that is important for Louisville. We have still to download the pictures on Commons (from wikipedia EN) because it is impossible at this time to use it on the others wikipédia... Maybe, it should be better in the future that you put your picture directly on Commons. Have a nice day ! Bye bye. (And sorry for the qualty of my English) :) Sylfred1977 from Belgium ( talk) 13:00, 31 March 2008 (CET)

Thank you for your excellent work. It is very appreciated. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Just to say that the Courier Journal's references that you have used in the Louisville's article are no more accessible. Maybe it is necessary to replace them... May be it is better to use references that will be accessible for a long time... Sylfred1977 ( talk) 21:22, 13 April 2008 (CET)
That's why we have access dates -- so that is a way of saying that the articles supported the content on that access date. They probably shouldn't be eliminated unless there is a replacement. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 01:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

A symptom of why History of Louisville, Kentucky has been delisted from GA

Says you in History of Louisville: In 1848, Zachary Taylor, resident of Jefferson County from childhood through early adulthood, and a hero of the Mexican-American War, was elected as the 12th President of the United States. He only served sixteen months in office before dying in 1850 from acute gastroenteritis. He is buried in Louisville at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery on Brownsboro Road.

It's wrong to assert that the cause of Zachary Taylor's death was gastroenteritis. The cause of his death, which occurred in far away Washington, D.C., is uncertain. I regard it as a certainty that whatever the cause was, it is irrelevant to the history of Louisville. You may be aware that Taylor's father and Taylor's brothers were big in the cotton industry around Louisville. Cotton agriculture in Louisville's hinterlands was an important driver of Louisville's city economy at that time. Yet Wikipedia's History of Louisville effectively says nothing about this (the word 'cotton' only appears once, and only in a reference to New Orleans not Louisville). Louisville was one of the biggest cotton-bagging cities in the world in Taylor's day. Why? One won't find the answer in Wikipedia's history of Louisville. Instead of developing substance like that, you prefer to make allusion to the fact that Zachary Taylor was catapulted to the presidency from his prominence in the military, a fact that is beside the point for a history of Louisville especially since Zachary Taylor had almost no connection to Louisville in his adult life. As a minor other point, Zachary Taylor National Cemetery being located on Brownsboro Road is too trivial; it properly belongs in the Wikipedia entry for Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, not History of Louisville, imho.

Please assist with bringing this article up to the latest GA standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.147.180.175 ( talk) 00:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The article is incomplete, no question. No one person owns it. If there's material missing, then add it. As for Taylor, the article about him says he died of acute gastroenteritis. I was going by that. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Further, if you want me to assist with bringing it up to GA standards, will you agree to pay me for the time it would take to do that? I'm serious. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Project watchlist

I've set it up on the Kentucky and Louisville projects. I'll be doing a run over the weekend. josh ( talk) 20:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! This is very much appreciated. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 04:00, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Lou. neighborhood data

I was able to fix the link for Community Resource Network's detailed profile of all Louisville neighborhoods. They moved the page from 'crndata.org' to crnky.org'. I will try to fix as many links as quickly as I can Censusdata ( talk) 14:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Can you address the discussion page for Fort Knox

Is there a better way for the article to have one of those lines under the gold-hoard-room (or whatever its called) like "main article... ".

Some articles, have very clear styles such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida

Every section of the article which has an expansion (its own seperate article covering it in mmore depth) says right outspoken "main article..." and I don't know the code to put it in. Could you help us out on the fort knox page? or just tell me how to do it on my talk page. Thanks 20:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I created an article on Bivouac of the Dead, but I think it needs better categories? As its related to the War, I thought you may be interested. Any ideas? Just go ahead and apply them; I'm sure you know how.  ;) -- Bedford 07:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Kentucky CLean-up

Thanks for this clean-up. I'm not too familiar with KY or its geography so I figured that tossing it to the Kentucky project would get it in the right place TravellingCari the Busy Bee 22:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. My pleasure. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:50, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Something in that was causing it to appear in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. It didn't seem that you wanted it deleted and I couldn't see what was causing it. I used the nowiki templates to ensure that it didn't get deleted until you could check it out. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 05:11, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I meant to delete that too. Thanks. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 06:53, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

LanternLight

Yes, it is obnoxious what LanternLight is doing, but I don't think there is an official policy that states that you cannot remove other people's comments from your own talk page (correct me if I'm wrong). The fact that he is removing yours and my comments is proof enough that he has read them. I reverted him on Rick Barry and I left a comment on his talk page. Even though he removed my comment, he did not re-revert me on the article. I think this edit war on his talk page is pretty pointless. Yes he is being rude, but I don't see any major violation of Wikipedia rules here. Bash Kash ( talk) 20:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree regarding the rules, but that doesn't stop me from trying to impress upon him that what he is doing is wrong, for human social reasons. What he doesn't violate in rules, he is violating in community. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 01:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Ok, but I guarantee you that he will revert again the next time he logs on, and then what? You respond with an additional revert, and this becomes one of the lamest edit wars - all for the sake of "human social reasons." Please think for a second how utterly pointless this is. Bash Kash ( talk) 02:25, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I would advise not blowing this up out of proportion. I stopped after a couple reverts and this is old news to me at this point. On top of that, my position is correct and this individual needed to know the score. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 05:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:ChurchillDownsSpires.jpg

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Speedy deletion of Image:EarXtacy.jpg

A tag has been placed on Image:EarXtacy.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{ hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:Image:EarXtacy.jpg|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kelly hi! 03:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:EarXtacy.jpg

I've gone ahead and speedied Image:EarXtacy.jpg despite your recent changes to the image description page. I've deleted the image because while you have indicated a change in license, the source image still indicates that it is under a noncommercial-only license, which is incompatible with Wikipedia.

If you are the copyright holder of the image, and have access to the Flickr account, change it there to a Wikipedia-compatible license and then you shouldn't have any problems re-uploading. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

What recent changes? Stevie is the man! TalkWork 04:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Don't worry, I took care of taking another picture. Image:EarXtacy.JPG should suffice (it's the better of two pics I took of it.)-- Bedford Pray 23:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Warning vandals

Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Cheeseburger: You may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. -- AW ( talk) 19:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Already know about this. I really don't have the time to look up templates for each case. I just revert the vandalism and move on -- all I have time for. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "Bush's War"

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Article move

Hello Stevietheman, I was just soliciting input for a request for an article move for Talk:The Brycc House. I found this article while making an assessment from a list of needing assessed and it needs a lot of work. This being one of the top priorities. Jahnx ( talk) 07:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Albuera
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Battle of the Gebora
  4. Constantine II of Scotland
  5. Francis Harvey
  6. Vasa (ship)
  7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions
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Tag & Assess 2007

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Activity survey for members of WikiProject Companies

placed on talk pages of all participants

I wanted to get a notion of the level of activity of people who are members of WikiProject Companies with respect to monitoring the WikiProject Talk page and participating in discussions of interest and/or responding to requests for input.

Could you please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Companies/Member information#2008 Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar): Talk page monitoring survey and adding yourself to one or more of the several groupings listed?

Thanks for your assistance.

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rollback

Hi, I think I have given you rollback privileges. when looking at diffs, or article histories or your watchlist, you should be able to rollback edits with just one click. This should just be used with simple vandalism or obvious mistake edits; anything else and you should do a manual revert so you can explain the reason. Let me know if it didn't work... the ability to give out rollback access to non-admins is still a new feature. -- W.marsh 22:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I think you read my mind. I was going to request using it. I definitely see it, and I will only use it according to the rules you state. Cheers! Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Your Dr. Justin McCarthy edit

I fixed up a couple things on Justin McCarthy, that seemed completely biased. It seems that the Armenian propagandists are trying their best to edit the Justin McCarthy article to make him look like some "nationalistic agenda follower", which is just not right. I thought Wikipedia had policies against portraying living person biographies in a negative way. Is anyone even allowed to add "Criticism of his work"? I mean because then you can add criticism of just about anybody. Anyway, I didn't remove anything cited or referenced properly. But be aware that people with Armenian nationalistic agendas are continuously vandalizing that page and semi-vandalizing it to make it seem like Justin McCarthy is some sort of "denialist" or "liar" or "propagandist" when his work is so well supported. I also wanted to thank you for your initial edits at cleaning up that page, it was very honorable of you to help fight vandalism. Quite frankly, I'm not even sure why the heck "Armenia wikiproject" is involved in that article, but obviously not with good intentions. Arsenic99 ( talk) 04:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I did what I could when I had a lot more time to edit on Wikipedia. Keep up the good fight. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

City-Data forum

You should consider making an account at City-Data Forum. It gets a ton of hits, a lot of it from people outside the local area who want information about moving to Louisville. We currently have nice picture threads up for Louisville. Your input could be very helpful.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/louisville-area/232504-louisville-photo-sticky-2.html http://www.city-data.com/forum/louisville-area/

Angry Aspie ( talk) 18:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks interesting, but I run a competitor site on the local level, Louisville History & Issues. Obviously, I won't be helping a competitor. Even if I wasn't operating a competitor, I would be leery of a national site with regards to covering local issues. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 19:13, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Would you look at http://www.oldhamcountyhistoricalsociety.org/flash/2007_05_05_slideshow_.swf Do they mean its the only one in Kentucky, or only one in the United States?-- Bedford 01:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I can't tell... the language isn't very clear on that. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I got a clarification from the Oldham County Historical Society;it's just the state of Kentucky.-- Bedford 20:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Louisville "This Day"

I've started creating a "This Day in Louisville History" at Portal:Louisville/thisday. I don't want to put it up until its fairly full, as I don't want to endanger the portal's probably featured status. But I thought you might like to know its existance, in case there is anything you might want to add.-- Bedford 13:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a clever idea. Thanks for doing this. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! Kirill 17:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Info on Louisville Music Wikiproject

How would one go about adding to the Louisville Music Project? Bars like the Rudyard Kipling that promote local music, as well as local bands, and labels like Noise Pollution would make a nice edition to the arts and entertainment section of our city's Wiki page. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Venus Trap ( talkcontribs)

I guess I don't understand the question. Do you mean a Louisville music project on Wikipedia? I don't know of anything like that. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Kentucky Portal

Check Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates to endorse Portal:Kentucky as a featured portal.-- Bedford 00:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Valid comparison hamburger vs. cheeseburger.

Please see the talk page for Talk:cheeseburger. -- Zeamays ( talk) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Not valid at all. The article is about cheeseburgers in general, not a specific fast-food cheeseburger. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 06:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Milhist coordinators election has started

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28! -- Eurocopter tigre ( talk) 16:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong ( Ali Page)

I contact you because you seem to take great interest in the Muhammad Ali page, and trying to keep things straight there. I am dubious about the claimed full text of the quote starting as above. I also think that justifying the quote via a 1994 article ( for something supposedly said in the 1960s) is not an adequate justification. I lived through the relevant period, and remember seeing Ali say the "Ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong" line on more than one occasion, but not the "they never called me ..." . I do remember Ali speaking about not wishing to take up arms against his "brown brothers", and similar phrases. It is possible that the claimed text was spoken on some other occasion, but if so, someone needs to come up with better evidence that given at present. Messagetolove ( talk) 19:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

The full quote is based on a verifiable reference. Unless a counter-reference can be found, it probably needs to stay as-is. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 03:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

W. Marsh

What happened to W. Marsh ( talk · contribs)? Up and deleted his userpage and all :( seicer | talk | contribs 06:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I think he just got fed up with a lot of nonsense, with a lot of little things adding up to a big thing, so he up and left. I hated to see him go, especially since its nice to have an admin who's a project member.-- Bedford 06:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, Wikipedia does have a way of becoming rather consuming of one's time and sanity. W.marsh probably just let himself get too caught up in this site. There *are* other things to work on. I myself am mainly just doing maintenance and vandalism reverts on a small set of articles these days. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:03, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Further, this is definitely a loss to WikiProject Louisville, as Bedford says. He was definitely very loyal and helpful to its goals. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I wish there was a way to contact him to let him know that. seicer | talk | contribs 15:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I think he belongs to the Filson Club, so you might find him at one of their gatherings.-- Bedford 15:51, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Write me at steve@historyandissues.org and I'll give you his e-mail address. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I just got word from W.marsh that for professional reasons he needed to make his Wikipedia work anonymous. He is in law school now. He didn't leave because he was fed up or anything like that, and he will continue to make edits anonymously. So, from now on, we may get to experience the ghost of W.marsh.  :) It's cool he's not really gone. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 03:42, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

That makes sense. Good to see he will still be active on WP :) Thanks for contacting him Steve. seicer | talk | contribs 03:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Companies - Health Industry - article request for Pharma Nord

Hi Stevietheman,

I can see that you are a member of the WikiProject Companies subgroup on Health Industry. I've written a draft for an article on Pharma Nord, a Danish pharmaceutical company. As I am employed by the company, I'm contacting you to request having it published as an article, as outlined in the WP:BFAQ. Since Pharma Nord is a Danish company, this could also fall into the area of WikiProject Denmark, but I thought I'd contact you first.

The draft is posted on my talk page. Thank you in advance. ( JTrier ( talk) 15:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC))

Horse race stubs

Category:Unassessed Louisville articles I listed a bunch of horse racing articles I found in the List of graded stakes at Churchill Downs while I was working on copy editing on Kentucky Oaks. Most of them are stubs and flirt with deleting. Any ideas on what to do?

Also wanted your consensus on the list of winners on the Kentuck Oaks and other horse races. Shouldn't they be listed in a seperate article for the large races like the Oaks and the Kentucky Derby? Then just do a see also tag in the section for the Winners.

Thanks for your help, - Jahnx ( talk) 10:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding stubs, it's a matter of improving them, or they risk deletion, the same as for any other article. I wouldn't sweat it, though, as they are very minor subjects. Regarding lists of winners in the Oaks and Derby articles, I would keep it as-is, as the articles aren't very long and it makes sense to keep access to the winner list convenient. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 13:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
We need to organize a stub improvement promotion like a Imrpove stubs month or something. - Jahnx ( talk) 10:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you for the Barnstar, - Jahnx ( talk) 04:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Ever wonder how many people you run off, Stevie?

I realize you're just a geek with zero life and a computer in front of you and your business revenue must be laughable given your troll-like obsession with guarding the Wikipedia bridge. But I wonder have you ever considered how much damage you cause to this page by preventing other points of view?

Like other victims I've seen you summarily dismiss with your eminent domain philosophy, I too had something relevant, germaine and well written to share.

But if it doesn't jibe with Geek MaGruder's view of the Wikipedia World, then too bad for the rest of us.

So, maybe you got here first and you've got your white knuckles around the proverbial information pipe but know that you've done more harm than good and that even the other sycophants on this page know at heart that you're a petty and unpaid security guard at best.

Congrats!!! Perhaps that will make you feel as important as you often dream of being.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.39.74 ( talkcontribs)

Interesting accusations. Have any examples? I am just trying to ensure that Wikipedia operates as an encyclopedia and covers subjects as an encyclopedia would. I am not surprised that there would be detractors to my or other responsible Wikipedians' efforts. The reality is that I spend very little time here, with only a few articles that I regularly watch. Perhaps one could argue that with the time you spent writing the above diatribe, perhaps it's you without a life? Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Upon further research, this complainer is the person who tried to add junk content to Muhammad Ali and was stopped in his tracks. This is all about one article, folks, and this anonymous coward's panties are in a twist. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 19:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Just one article, eh?

Steve,

I realize you have to defend the fort to maintain your one purpose in life... but is it really about one article?

I gave up offering content when I saw that Wikipedia is really just a me-first message board and like many projects on the web, has hit it's zenith in enthusiasm and is no longer taken seriously. In fact, it's taken with great suspicion.

And self-centered, mediocre people like you have contributed greatly to that perceptual demise. You think it's Steviepedia.

What's funny about your 'one article' defense is that you know you've had repeated issues with many others. One example was the fact that your beloved, life-sustaining Ali page (which is incomplete, superfluous and poorly written) was locked because of wars that you caused.

I don't have the time in my normal life to survey all that you've done on the Wikipedia site to see where else your petty self-appointed authority has chased others off but we both know it's probably a lot.

You're just a desperate lonely guy who probably lives in his mom's basement who has taken this cause du jour under the fervent hope he gets a barnstar he can tell the other Wizards of Warcraft buddies about.

Maybe try having a girlfriend, a beer, or a life. You might like it.

The fact that you had to 'research' my IP to figure out who else thinks you're a useless moron tells you how important all this is to you, how many people you've pissed off, and how desperate your cyber self image is too.

So, go ahead, delete this quickly, or make another political grade defense of your honor. I don't care. My note has upset you far more than I intended already. And you know I'm right.

Otherwise, be well, Captain Louisville!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.39.74 ( talk) 18:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not deleting your baseless diatribe at all. It will remain from now until the end of time. Have fun. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Riverwalk/ City of Parks merger

The articles for Riverwalk (Louisville) and City of Parks should be merged, IMO Angry Aspie ( talk) 22:15, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'm not sure. The Riverwalk is its own entity, and City of Parks is a project name, not necessarily the name of the entity that remains. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

If the Beter accusations are to remain in the article at all, I think we need to include a note to show what kind of source these theories came from. I'd say strike the idea entirely (not a good move; the claim is out there), or retain the "but Beter is a nutbar" aside; both, or neither, but not just "some vaguely reputable guy named Beter said...". -- Orange Mike | Talk 20:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Why can't readers look up the reference and decide for themselves? Of course, a short description of who Beter is should go in the regular text, but the aside looks weird. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Riverwalk

Should a new page be created just for the Metro Bike Loop, with the Riverwalk page's contents being moved into it?

Angry Aspie ( talk) 02:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Once it's completed, that would probably be a good idea. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 05:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
What should its title be? I think its official name is simply "The Loop". Would "Louisville Metro Loop" be a better name for the article? Angry Aspie ( talk) 20:12, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
It's going to be called the Louisville Loop. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 11:02, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

The contents of the Levee Trail & Riverwalk have been moved into Louisville Loop and those pages now need to be deleted. Censusdata ( talk) 01:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Done. seicer | talk | contribs 01:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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County categories

I've explained to you twice already: it's short because the explanation is short, and it's simple because the explanation is simple. Do not disrupt the process followed nationwide. Nyttend ( talk) 20:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to have to revert then, since there is no explanation. Templates simply do not belong in article categories. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Please refer to Help:Category#Categorizing_templates_themselves. The very fact that there are guidelines on how to do this tells us something about the presence of templates in categories. Categories are not just for articles; they are for pages generally, and templates are pages. A category is useful not only to a person reading articles, but also to people who maintain groups of articles. Thus, having a county navigational template categorized along with all the related articles for that county does indeed serve a useful purpose, and I don't see a negative side to this for the casual reader. This practice has been pretty widely accepted for some time... Omnedon ( talk) 14:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I've been a Wikipedian since March 2004, and this is new on me. It doesn't make any sense. Regular users are not looking up templates in categories. I am going to oppose this for these particular categories because they are not useful in this regard. Just because it's technically allowed doesn't mean it's warranted. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Let me clarify: What's new on me is not that templates can be categorized -- it's that placing templates into article categories as a standard practice is new on me. A template is not an article, and regular users aren't perusing categories to look for templates. Templates are normally organized into categories developed especially for templates, so that editors can still find them. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I have stated how it is useful. I'm not simply saying it should be done because it can be done or because it has been done. I'm saying it serves a purpose, because the template is directly related to the county that it helps describe. It may be primarily of use to those people who do a lot of county-level editing, but I don't see any down-side for any other groups. Omnedon ( talk) 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Further, a template is not a "group of articles"... it's a organizational/navigational construct. A portal is a group of articles, or portions of articles and it can reasonably go into article categories. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 14:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I never said that a template was a group of articles; I said that having the template categorized along with the articles is useful to those who maintain that group of articles. It keeps everything together. Omnedon ( talk) 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

The method to get your beliefs on this subject passed is to bring it up for discussion in some relevant place (perhaps Template talk:US county navigation box, perhaps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. counties). The way to do it is not to change a few typical templates from the usual way to an unusual one. It's not a big issue, and surely there would be no standards violated if consensus decided to go with your position (in which case I would seek to enforce your position), but right now the standard is otherwise. And by the way, note that I provided reasons several times: don't say that I never answered you. Nyttend ( talk) 16:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You have not provided one rationale for it. Not one. This is madness. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 18:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I honestly don't know what you mean by that. Rationale has been provided. Here it is in a nutshell: county navigational templates are naturally related to the counties that they help describe. Therefore each county navigational template has been included in that county's category, along with all of the other pages relating to that county. Omnedon ( talk) 19:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
You obviously have read my talk page, since you posted on it. You cannot have read it without having noticed that I have provided reasons multiple times, as well as what is said on your own talk page. Stop deleting useful information without consensus, for it is considered vandalism, and repeated vandalism is blockable. Nyttend ( talk) 19:43, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
A dispute is *not* considered vandalism, and you know it (or should know it). You have not provided one rationale as of yet, except to say something like "that's the way they're all done" or "it's vaguely useful" -- those are *not* reasons. And to top it all off, you and I both have rollback privileges -- but only you are abusing them. I obviously will not violate 3RR. I would advise you to stop playing games and pony up a real rationale for this ridiculous practice of placing templates into article categories. I'm waiting. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Louisville in the French Wikipédia

Hello Stevie is the man!. Just to tell you that we are working on the french wikipédia to do a Featured Article by translation of the english one. I hope that you will be please with the result. I hope that I didn't forget a big and important subject (article) that is important for Louisville. We have still to download the pictures on Commons (from wikipedia EN) because it is impossible at this time to use it on the others wikipédia... Maybe, it should be better in the future that you put your picture directly on Commons. Have a nice day ! Bye bye. (And sorry for the qualty of my English) :) Sylfred1977 from Belgium ( talk) 13:00, 31 March 2008 (CET)

Thank you for your excellent work. It is very appreciated. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 15:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Just to say that the Courier Journal's references that you have used in the Louisville's article are no more accessible. Maybe it is necessary to replace them... May be it is better to use references that will be accessible for a long time... Sylfred1977 ( talk) 21:22, 13 April 2008 (CET)
That's why we have access dates -- so that is a way of saying that the articles supported the content on that access date. They probably shouldn't be eliminated unless there is a replacement. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 01:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

A symptom of why History of Louisville, Kentucky has been delisted from GA

Says you in History of Louisville: In 1848, Zachary Taylor, resident of Jefferson County from childhood through early adulthood, and a hero of the Mexican-American War, was elected as the 12th President of the United States. He only served sixteen months in office before dying in 1850 from acute gastroenteritis. He is buried in Louisville at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery on Brownsboro Road.

It's wrong to assert that the cause of Zachary Taylor's death was gastroenteritis. The cause of his death, which occurred in far away Washington, D.C., is uncertain. I regard it as a certainty that whatever the cause was, it is irrelevant to the history of Louisville. You may be aware that Taylor's father and Taylor's brothers were big in the cotton industry around Louisville. Cotton agriculture in Louisville's hinterlands was an important driver of Louisville's city economy at that time. Yet Wikipedia's History of Louisville effectively says nothing about this (the word 'cotton' only appears once, and only in a reference to New Orleans not Louisville). Louisville was one of the biggest cotton-bagging cities in the world in Taylor's day. Why? One won't find the answer in Wikipedia's history of Louisville. Instead of developing substance like that, you prefer to make allusion to the fact that Zachary Taylor was catapulted to the presidency from his prominence in the military, a fact that is beside the point for a history of Louisville especially since Zachary Taylor had almost no connection to Louisville in his adult life. As a minor other point, Zachary Taylor National Cemetery being located on Brownsboro Road is too trivial; it properly belongs in the Wikipedia entry for Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, not History of Louisville, imho.

Please assist with bringing this article up to the latest GA standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.147.180.175 ( talk) 00:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The article is incomplete, no question. No one person owns it. If there's material missing, then add it. As for Taylor, the article about him says he died of acute gastroenteritis. I was going by that. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Further, if you want me to assist with bringing it up to GA standards, will you agree to pay me for the time it would take to do that? I'm serious. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Project watchlist

I've set it up on the Kentucky and Louisville projects. I'll be doing a run over the weekend. josh ( talk) 20:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! This is very much appreciated. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 04:00, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Lou. neighborhood data

I was able to fix the link for Community Resource Network's detailed profile of all Louisville neighborhoods. They moved the page from 'crndata.org' to crnky.org'. I will try to fix as many links as quickly as I can Censusdata ( talk) 14:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Can you address the discussion page for Fort Knox

Is there a better way for the article to have one of those lines under the gold-hoard-room (or whatever its called) like "main article... ".

Some articles, have very clear styles such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida

Every section of the article which has an expansion (its own seperate article covering it in mmore depth) says right outspoken "main article..." and I don't know the code to put it in. Could you help us out on the fort knox page? or just tell me how to do it on my talk page. Thanks 20:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I created an article on Bivouac of the Dead, but I think it needs better categories? As its related to the War, I thought you may be interested. Any ideas? Just go ahead and apply them; I'm sure you know how.  ;) -- Bedford 07:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Kentucky CLean-up

Thanks for this clean-up. I'm not too familiar with KY or its geography so I figured that tossing it to the Kentucky project would get it in the right place TravellingCari the Busy Bee 22:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. My pleasure. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 02:50, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Something in that was causing it to appear in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. It didn't seem that you wanted it deleted and I couldn't see what was causing it. I used the nowiki templates to ensure that it didn't get deleted until you could check it out. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 05:11, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I meant to delete that too. Thanks. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 06:53, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

LanternLight

Yes, it is obnoxious what LanternLight is doing, but I don't think there is an official policy that states that you cannot remove other people's comments from your own talk page (correct me if I'm wrong). The fact that he is removing yours and my comments is proof enough that he has read them. I reverted him on Rick Barry and I left a comment on his talk page. Even though he removed my comment, he did not re-revert me on the article. I think this edit war on his talk page is pretty pointless. Yes he is being rude, but I don't see any major violation of Wikipedia rules here. Bash Kash ( talk) 20:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree regarding the rules, but that doesn't stop me from trying to impress upon him that what he is doing is wrong, for human social reasons. What he doesn't violate in rules, he is violating in community. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 01:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Ok, but I guarantee you that he will revert again the next time he logs on, and then what? You respond with an additional revert, and this becomes one of the lamest edit wars - all for the sake of "human social reasons." Please think for a second how utterly pointless this is. Bash Kash ( talk) 02:25, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I would advise not blowing this up out of proportion. I stopped after a couple reverts and this is old news to me at this point. On top of that, my position is correct and this individual needed to know the score. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 05:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:ChurchillDownsSpires.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:ChurchillDownsSpires.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly hi! 03:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:EarXtacy.jpg

A tag has been placed on Image:EarXtacy.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{ hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:Image:EarXtacy.jpg|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kelly hi! 03:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:EarXtacy.jpg

I've gone ahead and speedied Image:EarXtacy.jpg despite your recent changes to the image description page. I've deleted the image because while you have indicated a change in license, the source image still indicates that it is under a noncommercial-only license, which is incompatible with Wikipedia.

If you are the copyright holder of the image, and have access to the Flickr account, change it there to a Wikipedia-compatible license and then you shouldn't have any problems re-uploading. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

What recent changes? Stevie is the man! TalkWork 04:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Don't worry, I took care of taking another picture. Image:EarXtacy.JPG should suffice (it's the better of two pics I took of it.)-- Bedford Pray 23:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Warning vandals

Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Cheeseburger: You may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. -- AW ( talk) 19:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Already know about this. I really don't have the time to look up templates for each case. I just revert the vandalism and move on -- all I have time for. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 22:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "Bush's War"

A page you created, Bush's War, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it has no content, other than external links, categories, "see also" sections, rephrasing of the title, and/or chat-like comments.

You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thanks. ♣ẼгíćЏ89♣ ( talk) 23:41, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


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