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Alpha Phi Alpha
Thank you for your assistance withthe French version of the Alpha Phi Alpha article. Ccson 13:06, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Roman Clothing
Thanks for popping in those references matey. Spite &amp; Malice 10:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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Ikip (talk) 01:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Salut Deans !
ça a marché ! Mais bon va falloir que je travaille mon anglais ! Je viens te demander un truc sais-tu ou se trouve la page avec les boites de Babel ici ! D'autre part je vis à fr:Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne), pourrais tu me bricoler une boite avec juste le nom de Coulommiers, c'est la patrie du bon vin et du fromage de Coulommiers (il y a une Foire au Fromage et aux vins internationale), sinon comme j'ai vécu à paris (que je connais comme ma poche), j'ai mis Paris, mais ce n'est pas la réalité, j'aimerais vraiment indiquer cette petite ville de Coulommiers. Bon, merci encore pour la page Compte Unifié c'est cool! Super bonne journée -Mikeread (talk) 09:03, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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Deprod of List of movie theatres in Latur
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Trust
I was going to post to your page too! I started it yesterday off-line. What a coincidence. The citations you had in the article helped: I was going to state they began as a group in 2011. I forgot that I heard "Candy Walls" on the radio. Deletionists! Don't get me started! Your English seems fine. It's a lot better than my French. I'll confess a small giggle at the et instead of and. You included five citations so it would not qualify for Speedy deletion. The protection I try to use is to add the article to the Canada music project. There's more to add to the article; later. Argolin (talk) 08:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
Regarding this edit summary: in contrast to you, I gave an extensive policy-based justification for my edit in the edit summary. Perhaps you don't agree with it, that doesn't make it vandalism. --Randykitty (talk) 20:55, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * An attempt to delete the article, followed by an edit-war on the French version of the article when I tried to insert some sources, followed by a syntax error insert in the article, are clearly vandalism. And now you start to attack me because I simply revert one of your mistake. Sorry but I don't have time for your obsessions. --DeansFA (talk) 21:53, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Urchin Software Corporation for deletion
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June 2013
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 * I do my best! Thanks. --DeansFA (talk) 23:38, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Moved to talk
I've moved your VOA comments to Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Urchin Software Corporation as they were not related to the AFD discussion. The question is probably more appropriate for User_talk:Tyros1972, but I'll leave that to you.

I agree with you that that was an unfair characterization of your actions. However, it was that AIV report that I followed to Angelfish and Urchin. Toddst1 (talk) 20:46, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think moving it back was at all constructive. Toddst1 (talk) 20:50, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * I don't know what AIV means but I am speaking in the message you removed about my experience related to the notability of the subject. As you can see, he tried to make me blocked after having voted. I find extremely mean from him and now you to constantly trying to accusing me of having a link with this company (I started to clean the stuff, adding some sources, so why do you include the COI template??). The guy is blocked and I started to clean his stuff!! --DeansFA (talk) 21:02, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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We wait until he actually starts the game before adding it to the infobox and adding the category, otherwise crystal ball is being violated. Not sure what is so hard to understand about that...--Yankees10 06:09, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * crystal ball is being violated? I like your humour. --Deansfa (talk) 03:52, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

May 2014
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on 2014 FIFA World Cup Group G. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement. Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing.''The consensus is no listing. It's time to start talking, somewhere other than in the edit summaries.'' Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:35, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
 * Also, WP:NPA states that you should discuss the content and not the contributors. Don't talk about me and what you preconceive to be a POV. It's rude and misguided. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:38, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * POV = Point of View. What's wrong with having a point of view, and what's wrong with using abbreviations instead of words and expressions? It's what you're doing in all of your messages! BTW (hope this abbreviation won't be used against me), You did start the edit war without knowing what I was planning to do. Sorry but speaking about the context, the reaction and the history of this group, when it is referenced with newspapers and media as USA Today or HuffPo, is absolutely the goal of Wikipedia. In the page you mentioned in your reverts, some people said:
 * Whether a group can be considered a group of death or not, this should probably not be included in the main page, since it is already long enough and should include more important matters. I have created the group subpages: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and information about each group should go to those subpages. Ciao.
 * It's widely accepted that Group G is the "Group of Death." Every year one group is decided to be the strongest one and given this title, I definitely agree that this should be mentioned. Here are some sources that state this claim! [1] [2] [3] [4]. Adamh4 (talk) 20:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not here to disorganize. I'm here to contribute, improve, add interesting and referenced content to some article I'm interested in. That's it. --Deansfa (talk) 18:17, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

MOSNUM
"7" should be "seven" per WP:MOSNUM and you still have not discussed the addition. See WP:BRD. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:46, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the help. I updated the article with your suggestion. --Deansfa (talk) 17:52, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

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looks like we were both doing the same thing. I'll pull out of the article for now. Additional sources The Guardian and NBC News. Mjroots (talk) 21:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey Mjroots. Yes, I just removed the duplicate Infobox. The one you added have more info so it was better. Don't hesitate to edit, I'm not planning to add more info for the moment. --Deansfa (talk) 21:10, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Thank you TheMasterGuru, will take a look. --Deansfa (talk) 17:45, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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AFC Feedback
Hey Deansfa, I see you created an article for The Hype House. I have been doing some research in the digital creator/TikTok space and tried my hand at a draft for a media brand that seemed notable enough. Here is the draft. It's been in the queue for a few weeks now and just wanted to get your feedback on it since The Hype House is of similar notability. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you! Grimothy29 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:16, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you for cleaning up my article! Do you have any advice on how to get it published like your article or should I just wait? I've read on Wikipedia it is best to just move on after drafting and someone will eventually get to it which is fine as I'm in no rush. Grimothy29 (talk) 19:30, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Hi Julietdeltalima and Toddst1 and thank you for the informative messages. I'm not sure what three violation rule is, I was fixing an article (on both French and English Wikipedia BTW, the French version being even worst, stating that he grew up in a 20-room apartment in the Upper East Side) by removing some statements I consider biased. Every public records seems to refer to "Pierre Fraiture" as "Pierre-Henri Fraiture" as well as this. I find the introduction contradictory and problematic in the sense that it describes Nikolai Fraiture as a blue collar family son, while living in the UES and going to the Lycée français de New York (which has one the most expensive tuition in New York (in the $40k/year today, and an equivalent expensive tuition back then)). And Pierre-Henri has a very "bourgeois" connotation (in France at least), so it makes total sense to drop it to look more middle class I guess. I will let the article as is then, since it seems it needs this "working class" je-ne-sais-quoi. --Deansfa (talk) 23:27, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

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Template
Hello, Deansfa. Can you describe what the Infobox display looked like on the Eagle lunar module article? I can't see what you saw, now that the parameter is removed from the template, and I don't want to go back and forth reverting. When I first looked at the Ingenuity (helicopter) article, the parameter showed in both bold, per normal, and in {{{braces_showing_the_full_name))), like that. I edited the infobox in the article to cut the value from the parameter "Distance_traveled" (km/mi) and pasted it to the new parameter; the display then looked normal. I was in the process of checking and fixing a few other articles (about 5 or 6) that used the infobox to be sure they would look normal, but I didn't get a chance to finish. I'm admittedly not too experienced with templates; I think there's a way to automatically suppress display of a parameter if it has no value, but my modification evidently did not do it. I would like to restore the new parameter (and make sure it displays normally in all its articles). If I'm not able to do that, then the original version can be restored again. Would you be willing to work with me on this, to see if we can get an acceptable result? Or, do you feel the revised parameter is not an improvement? I'll look for your response here on your talk page, if that's convenient. DonFB (talk) 00:35, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

I checked futher and see that quite a few more than 5 or 6 articles use the infobox, so I think I'll need to learn how to suppress unwanted text in the infobox. I'm still interested in your opinion about the idea of "flown/driven" instead of "traveled". DonFB (talk) 00:48, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi {{ping|DonFB}}, thanks for your message. I unfortunately didn't take a screenshot but I can explain how it looked like: below the field Total hours, the infobox was showing this piece of code in plain text:.
 * Now that I'm looking closely to your edit, I think I see where is the mistake: this line  should be replaced by  . I will make a try and let you know. --Deansfa (talk) 14:09, 26 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for looking at this. I'm still mystified by the template's behavior when I try to edit and Preview. I did omit a pipe, but now, with the pipe included, the parameter does not show up in the template itself, along with all the other parameters, and seems not available for inclusion in an article. I think I must have deliberately omitted the pipe, because that looked like the only way to make the parameter visible and available for giving it a value. When it has a value, the {{{text_in_the_braces}}} disappears. I just now looked at the Ingenuity helicopter article in edit mode, typed in the flown/driven param with a value, and it is visible with no unwanted text in Preview. I plan to re-edit the template to give it two separate new parameters: one for "flown" and one for "driven". I still don't understand why a new parameter, with the pipe included, does not appear in the rendered version of the template. DonFB (talk) 05:50, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * Amazing, thank you for sharing. --Deansfa (talk) 17:02, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Why use the the Cite Q template?
Hello! I saw some of your edits on Pacific Gas and Electric Company which changed the references to use the CiteQ citation. When I looked at that template, I couldn't find any reason/explanation on why this would be preferable to the standard Wikipedia (not Wikidata) cite. Can you provide some insight? Thanks! --- Avatar317 (talk) 23:44, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . For the background, I'm not planning to change every reference with this template, I'm carefully experimenting since Wikidata has lots of references that are used in Wikipedia (in English Wikipedia, as well as other Wikipedias). You're totally welcome to revert my changes if you think it's not ok. To answer your question, this template provides several advantages:
 * the main one (IMO) is that a given reference is defined in one single place (a Wikidata item, if it exists), and it can be called as is in an article. For example, the WSJ article is being called in the PG&E article and in the Camp Fire article. Any update, correction or fix to the reference (like adding a archive url for example) will be updated in every template call.
 * an other advantage is that the template automatically adds the link to the author if the author has an article on Wikipedia. For example, in the Camp Fire (2018) article, the link to the journalist Russell Gold was automatically added to this reference; in the article Agent Orange, the link to Gretchen Morgenson was automatically added to this reference.
 * one advantage that is maybe more a personal opinion: it makes the reference call way shorter. I've always found that editing the source code is more and more difficult mostly because of the references in the article. By reducing the size of the reference, I find that it makes the source code easier to read (and edit).
 * I hope it answers your questions. There's a good article about the template here. --Deansfa (talk) 00:26, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Wow, Thanks!!! I had no problem with your edits, this just seemed like a new format that I couldn't find an explanation for. Those are some good reasons; it does in my opinion have the disadvantage of obscuring the source in the article.  To make the article less cluttered, sometimes I use the WP:Reflist parameter and list all the references with names in that section. (If you open the References section of the California housing shortage article in the editor, you can see an example of that.)
 * (I did find and read the article you linked above: "Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q" after reading your first points; thanks for pointing to this.)
 * This CiteQ seems like it would be very worthwhile for academic journal sources which might be cited sometimes multiple times with accidental duplication in a single article, as well as across multiple articles, but I wonder how useful it will be for newspaper sources...I see you created the WSJ article entry that you linked...maybe I'll try and see how hard it is to create entries on Wikidata like that and then use the CiteQ rather than just a direct citation for comparison...I guess the more articles the reference is used in, the more valuable it is to have it stored centrally in Wikidata?...at least that's my take so far.
 * Thanks for your explanations!! --- Avatar317 (talk) 05:10, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

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Nomination of Jack Teixeira for deletion
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May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia
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Coordinates
I had to make a change to your otherwise very good Summer Streets article; rounding the coordinates per WP:OPCOORD (tldr: use DD°MM'SS" for everything). Google has taken to providing 16-digit coordinates in what is believed to be a copyright trap scheme. That level of precision is in the 1/100th of a micrometre range. Abductive  (reasoning) 18:03, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the change ! I have to be more careful when I take coordinates and probably use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps. --Deansfa (talk) 21:53, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Summer Streets
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Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday
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Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC
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WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer
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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)
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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night
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May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director
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Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Asharq News


A tag has been placed on Category:Asharq News indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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 * Thank you, this category was a mistake, I believed I was on Commons. --Deansfa (talk) 19:20, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

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