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I-29 stub
Is there a specific reason you de-stubbed I-29 without expanding and/or improving the article? Metallic 95   User Page | Talk 03:05, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello Metallic95. I started writing a response to your inquiry when I realized it might be more useful to make a more general response, since other people may come here in the future, wondering the same. Please read what I wrote at User:S Arthena about stubs, especially the third paragraph. Arthena 10:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You have a point, but one could add some important info (exit list, route description) with simple research. Frankly, I don't care that much.
 * Metallic 95   User Page | Talk 13:50, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, I have restubbed it. Arthena 14:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I would have de-stubbed the article also. Review of the WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment guidelines clearly shows Interstate 29 is start class not stub class as it not only contains a particularly useful picture or graphic it also has multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic and multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article having three of the four puts it border line on being B class per Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. So it is at or close to two levels above stub.   Jeepday (talk) 01:54, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, nice find. Back then I didn't know about checking with the wikiproject yet, but its very useful, as it gives some concrete guidelines and, if followed consistently, creates consistency. Arthena 09:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Stubsensor cleanup project; you can help! :) Jeepday (talk) 02:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Arthena 15:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hello, thank you very much for your advice. I do get a little sloppy sometimes :P, thanks for pointing that out! Neranei 13:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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I am so sorry; I didn't realize it until just now. Thank you so much, I hope my apology is sufficient :). Neranei 02:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course, it doesn't matter. Arthena 08:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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Sorry, I was in "revert mode" when I did that in addition to being logged onto #vandalism-en-wp. The bot on that channel only gave me one diff, and it wasn't the one with the now-restored sections. Glad to hear that you restored it, of course :-) ~ Magnus animuM &#8776; &#8730;&#8734;  15:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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That comment wasn't aimed at you. It was more that I had to go back to a 14 day old revision to find a non-vandalised version, on a page that has plenty of traffic and other edits, which seems to be happening more and more often. &mdash;Xezbeth 21:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks!! Will try the new link now!!!!

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“Independent” is sometimes affiliated with the Independent Party where as unaffiliated strives not to have any affiliation. In an ideal world there would not be such a semantic distinction. My definition was in NO way meant to dishonor the independent candidates. Can we work a compromise? Co

Biography Page
Hello Arthena,

Thank you for your help with the Biography page. There is another link to the 'By Name' that needs to be amended, but I do not know how to do it. If you open the 'By People' page, you will see an infobox on the right hand side. The link to 'By Name' no longer works. Are you able to fix this?

Many thanks

MaryLou71 19:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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As you can see, I haven't mastered the 'reply' function, but wanted to say thank you for your message. I have to say that it all seems a bit complicated at the moment. I thought I could just help out with tidying up, but every function I look at seems more complicated than the previous one! Do you need to be a programmer/developer to be of any real use?

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Well, thanks anyway and it was nice of you to welcome me, makes me feel part of the community :-) MaryLou71 19:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry, but I was on an article and organ(anatomy) was in red so I was surprised that it was in red. I thought Wikipedia did not make this article. --Jorge 22:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Unaffiliated(politician)
Looks like it was speedily deleted after all. Cheers! -- Kimon talk 01:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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Can you show me an archive of the discusion of AIC, I was gone that few days and didn't see the end of it. §→Nikro 00:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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It is my final revert, as a user is constantly vandalising the same page despite several warnings. He has been reported for abuse, and no more reversions shall take place. - Gazdakka Gizbang 7:34PM, 5th June 2007 (EST)

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Re: category
Thanks. I was wondering why it wouldn't work. -- Hot Dog  Wolf  -- What's your beef?  22:34, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Good question -- Emperor Uda of Japan
Your heading was: genealogy; and you wrote'': ''There is something wrong with the text in this paragraph:
 * "Emperor Uda was the third son of Emperor Kōkō. His mother was Empress Dowager Hanshi, a daughter of Prince Nakano (who was himself a son of Emperor Kamu). by Princess Madarako whose grandfather was Emperor Kammu)."

''Note the ".by". I don't understand what is meant so I can't fix it.'' Arthena(talk) 14:16, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, you have caught an interesting glitch. My explanation/answer has two parts.


 * (1) My edit of the pre-existing text incorporates source citations from Jinnō Shōtōki, Gukanshō, and Nihon Ōdai Ichiran. The "extra" words in this revised sentene could have been removed (as I have done with the line-out of the words above), but what appears to be the personal name of Uda's mother caught my attention ....  Thanks for helping remind me to revisit this sentence fragment.  At first I thought my ear was wanting to hear a missing fricative -- the possible sign of a spelling or romjai/transcription error; but then I had a second thought.  Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife was named Kita-no Mandokoro; ergo, it could well have been that Uda's mother's name was one of those curious similarity which crop up across time.  I'd planned to transfer the sentence fragment here to the Talk page, hoping someone else might just happen to know a little bit more.  Now -- that belated follow-through is here ....


 * (2) The second part of your question is implied. You don't understand the word "by" as it has been used here.  The original text was posted in 2005:

Emperor Uda [Revision as of 23:53, 1 May 2005] (edit) (undo) Aphaia (Talk | contribs)

Newer edit → Line 1: 	Line 1: - 	 Emperor Uda (&#23431;&#22810;&#22825;&#30343;) (867-931) was the 59th imperial ruler of Japan. He reigned from 887 to 897. + 	Emperor Uda (&#23431;&#22810;&#22825;&#30343;) (867-931) was the 59th imperial ruler of Japan. He reigned from November 7, 887 to July 3, 897. His name in birth was Sadami (&#23450;&#30465;). + 	 	 Uda was the seventh son of the Emperor Emperor Koko of Japan by Princess Madarako whose grandfather was the Emperor Emperor Kammu of Japan. His father Koko degraded once his sons from the rank of imperial royals to the rank of subjects in purpose of reducing the state expenses and their political influence. Then Sadami was given the clan name of Minamot and named Minamoto no Sadami. Later in 887 Koko needed to appoint his successor, Sadami was upgraded to the imperial prince rank with support of Kampaku region Fujiwara no Mototsune, since Sadami was adopted to a half-sister of Mototsune.


 * You might think that there is a certain sense of "lèse majesté" in describing the genealogy of royals with the language used in breeding thoroughbred horses, but the conventional pattern is easy to grasp ... :

[FOAL: filly or colt name] out of [MARE] by [STALLION]


 * I suspect that this would have been the general intention that Aphaia had in mind, but it seems likely that the precise genesis of something written in 2005 will be forgotten by now. Out of curiousity, I turned to the dictionary to find the word "by" ... and I didn't find an explicit meaning.  When I turned to the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary (the OED), I found that the word "by" occupied several pages of small print. I decided that I didn't want pursue it any further -- at least not just now.


 * Yes, yours was a good question in several ways; and the response turned out to be altogether more complicted that you might have anticipated. --Ooperhoofd 19:38, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

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