User talk:Pleather

(At the moment, I blank discussions when they're no longer relevant, since hey, the history button creates a perfectly good archive.) P L E A T H E R _talk 01:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

J. Bryan Scott

I have just completed the nomintaion for you. Next time, could you follow the procedure set out in WP:AFD? Use {{afd2}} to create the subpage and then use {{afd3}} to list it in the AFD log. hbdragon88 05:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

John Manjiro Page

I wanted to send a quick thanks for undoing the "undo" for the link for the John Manjiro article link. I was the one who posted that and thought that it was very relevant to the subject and useful to the public. So thank you and I hope you enjoy the article. We also have a whole page dedicated to him and the link is http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPECIAL02 Please enjoy this.

Thanks, --Tracys49 17:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

fingerpicking

Hi, you were in a disscussion on the fingerpicking and fingerstyle merger thingy and as it's been almost a year now since anything's been done(!) and I think there's no logical reason to keep them seperate so i'm gonna merge it with the fingerpicking article on tuesday bearing your's and anon's views in context, would you mind giving your opinion once it's done?--Mikeoman 20:55, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Pleather- right- i'f thought i'd explain what i've done as I've noticed your talk on Stemonitis' page. as the fingerpicking article was a lot better than the 'fingerstyle guitar article' I put all the stuff there (it all refers to the same concept) I plan on renaming the fingerpicking article to fingerstyle (or fingerstyle/fingerpicking- i'm having a discussion with Richard, at the moment your views would be appreciated) as all the content's in fingerpicking would you object if I undid your undo? --Mikeoman 14:18, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi- let me clear something up- I'm indifferent what the article name is so long as it's merged together, the term fingerpicking was used because I presumed the consensus was just to merge it together and the name didn't matter- next time I merge something i'll read it a lot more carefully. Richard did a very good bit on classical guitar in the last article and i'd like to put that in the article, can you teach me how to look at the old one?--Mikeoman 13:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Okay- one more thing then i'll leave you alone! most of the discussion page is themed around the merger which has already happened, can we archive it, so we can bring up new things for discussion in the talk page without being bogged down with the merger stuff, (I have some critique for the article that needs to be brought up.) If yes then can you teach me how to do it?--Mikeoman 14:16, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Brian J. Ford page vandal

You set off people oin na good direction about this page a year back, now we have had one user (Andy Farell) deleting sections of text, for instance, removing all the university connections, and also all the authors comments on Ford. He then went onto put in some comments of his own about Fords motives. He is now adding tags to the page, and I have put a locked tag at the top, which is really just as bad in its own way. Can you advise on how deletion of text etc can be stopped? This page has come on well since you intervened and is now a valualbe source, and I know that students wisely use it. Bugeyewoodchuck 16:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Best answer to Farell problem

Students are saying that starting a page would be best idea. It could put down the fully sourced details to let wikipedians learn from what happens. It could show the blanking history etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.179.124.161 (talk) 15:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Rich Wilkes

I strike Rich Wilkes from a list of notables for not being notable enough to have his own Wikipedia entry. Your solution: create the Wikipedia entry and re-add to the list of notables. That's totally the spirit of a collaborative encyclopedia. Nice job! —  X  S  G  00:39, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

List of Santa Cruzans citations

I guess it wasn't so obvious; none of the references you added were removed from Wikipedia. I removed all citations from the List of Santa Cruzans article, putting them on the subject's main pages.

I notice that you deleted the two folks (Dale Mills, Frank DeRemer) that I added to the list of notable Santa Cruzans because they don't have their own pages. That's unfortunate, since Frank is referenced from other pages in WP, and is also sometimes known as "Franklin L. DeRemer", and co-founded a notable compiler development company (MetaWare) that was based in Santa Cruz for many years. The father of modern compiler development (see LALR parser generator) really should be listed in Wikipedia, IMHO. LALR parser generator refers to "Frank DeRemer" without a link to a stub page for him, which should be created. It is unlikely that wikipedia could exist if LALR Parser Generators had not been invented.

As for Dale Mills, he is a member of the Nuclear Whales as listed on their website at Nuclear Whales, but he is not listed within the Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra page here, which is tagged as a stub. As such, additional content should be desired, and a list of band members certainly seems like good candidate material for such expansion. Dale is a former member of the Cool Jerks which was also based in Santa Cruz, but disbanded many years ago. I do not believe they have (or ever had) a web site. Still, this seems like useful historical information that should find its way into Wikipedia. I could ask Dale for more reference material since it is unlikely he would enter this information for himself, and it would probably then be deleted anyway for being "self-promotional".

On that note, I didn't add anything about myself, even though Wikipedia has articles about most of our competitors for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Since our Team is a leading contender, open source, using mediawiki for much of our work, and based in Santa Cruz, perhaps that might be worthy of mention? You decide and let me know. I'd be happy to fill in the details there if so.

--Fjb3 (talk) 02:12, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Typo

Thanks for picking up my typo on "William Demarest". I think I've fixed the other articles it appears in. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 15:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the "like". Do you know any Wikipedians at or near this college? Women in Red are interested in creating an editathon there. Victuallers (talk) 08:52, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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