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WikiProject Illinois 2007 Census

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IvoShandor 10:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Illinois Post Census Report

IvoShandor 06:02, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Aerosmith Assessment

Thanks for your hard work. It's very nice to have collaborators. Janadore 03:42, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I second that. IvoShandor 03:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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Illinois assessments

Yep, that was what I was talking about. :) Thanks. Your scale looks good to me, obviously, as you noted there are exceptions, and stuff like this is easily switched around if some people reasonably disagree. You may want to get with User:Kranar drogin if you haven't already, he did all of the backlog clearing in quality assessments, you two might make quite the team, and I think he has some sort of plan for some mass importance tagging too, for obvious articles, or categories, you'd have to talk to him. IvoShandor 04:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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Van Halen

I saw your comment on the talk page. I think information on the Roth era 74-85 features too much information on albums and needs a little trimming. But your comment on the Hagar era album coverage...I see your point. It needs reshaping so we can add some details without making the page any more bloated than it already is.

It's now a HUGE 59kb long. When I started working on it months ago it was about 70kb. I trimmed it to 54, but keep finding more details to add. (The Elfoid 01:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC))

The basic problem is it goes into specifics on the post-Cherone stuff and could possibly be generalised a bit more.

However, I think it's worth considering the fact that half the interesting stuff relating to Van Halen is the music, half is the social side. Controversy, fighting etc.

The Hagar tour and delays to the new Roth tour can be cut down I agree. But a lot happened in that period between those events and before them that everyone was scratching their head over. In the Hagar era, it did reach a point where a new Van Halen album was 'just another Van Halen album' and each one lost noteworthiness. Did F.U.C.K show any major changes in the band or affect their career? I don't think so personally.

Hagar Reunion tour is the one to trim down. We can say Eddie was drunk, Sammy ruled, promoters sometimes lost money, tickets were overpriced and it was a fairly-long 80 dates. What else NEEDS saying, really? (The Elfoid 10:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC))

After some serious consideration, I think the reunion tours should be trimmed down. Not erased, just had a lot of the information ported into the tour articles. Could possibly do this with Gary Cherone era too, though I'm not so keen on that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Elfoid (talkcontribs) 20:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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Swing State

Your opinion does not decide which state is a swing state and which is not. "But I'm sorry...Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas...these places are not going to go Democrat in 2008", that is clearly speculation and POV. An Indiana poll shows a Democrat leading a Republican so at this time Indiana should be listed a swing state. Just for reference Texas is not listed as a swing state on the article. Until you get some references that Indiana is NOT a swing state please stop reverting it. TheHoosierState89 (talk) 21:51, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I have nominated Category:Shopping centers in Schaumburg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Shopping malls in Illinois (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer(Broken clamshellsOtter chirps) 17:35, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Grandview Commons

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I have nominated Category:Shopping centers in Algonquin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Shopping malls in Illinois (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer(Broken clamshellsOtter chirps) 17:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Aerosmith articles

Could you guys discuss some issues on Wikipedia talk:AERO. The edit war on the Aerosmith articles ain't nice. Janadore (talk) 05:42, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


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Apology

My sincere apology. I misread the history on what you reverted, and have removed. Nevertheless, my removal of the song was not vandalism, and I don't appreciate it being called that. I hope we've both learned to be more careful from this incident. Again, my apologies. - BillCJ (talk) 08:28, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I see now that the user I reverted was an IP, and since he made two edits to add that item, the undo feature doesn't work. Instead I used the new Rollback feature to revert him, but this doesn't allow for edit summaries. I almost never use rollbacks on registered users, but on IPs it's usually OK. This is a case where it wasn't vandalism, so I should have manually reverted, and left an explanjatory edit summary. I'll have to be more careful with the Rollback in the future - I know I have hit it by accident before, but I don't think this was such a case. Well, I am glad we could get this settled on our own, even if it started out badly. Thanks for accepting the apology. - BillCJ (talk) 08:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks (regarding Duke Ellington)

Thank you so much for swiftly catching my horrible attempt at removing vandalism while actually re-adding vandalism at the same time. I don't know what went wrong, but it pains me that this befoulment of an article on one of my personal heros is now forever part of my edit history. ---Sluzzelin talk 05:14, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I go to the college where he played his last concert, and just happened to be browsing his article when I saw a blank spot in the infobox that needed to be filled. Abog (talk) 05:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi! I noticed that you restored a removed list from this article. Would you like to comment on my request for comment on this subject here? --Tony Sidaway 04:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


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